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by dhogan
Sat Sep 17, 2011 7:45 am
Forum: Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway
Topic: T&P "high bridge"
Replies: 1
Views: 10091

Re: T&P "high bridge"

A November 1916 article in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram relates that the iron bridge was built in 1881. It was second in height (in the Southwest) to the Pecos River High Bridge on the Southern Pacific's Sunset Route. The T&P deemed its bridge too expensive to disassemble so they spent nearly a ...
by dhogan
Sun Sep 11, 2011 11:24 am
Forum: Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway
Topic: T&P "high bridge"
Replies: 1
Views: 10091

T&P "high bridge"

Don't recall if I brought this topic up before on this forum. I don't see it in the archived discussions. Anyway... There was a tall iron bridge in Stephens County, Texas called the Canyon Bridge (but with "Canyon" spelled the Spanish way with a tilde). The bridge must have dated from the ...
by dhogan
Sun Sep 11, 2011 10:03 am
Forum: Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway
Topic: T&P wool train at Midland TX
Replies: 0
Views: 8389

T&P wool train at Midland TX

I found this digitized old photograph in the Lawrence T. Jones III Collection at SMU's DeGolyer Library:
http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm4/ ... OX=1&REC=8

Hope the link works!
by dhogan
Sun Sep 11, 2011 9:32 am
Forum: Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway
Topic: Pics or information on T&P track in streets
Replies: 1
Views: 10355

Re: Pics or information on T&P track in streets

I have seen photos of Pacific Ave. with tracks down the middle of it--both with and without trains. Try the downtown Dallas Public Library up on the 6th or 7th floor in their historical archives section. I bought a photo on eBay a few years ago showing a rather smoke-billowing train hauling down Pac...
by dhogan
Sun Sep 11, 2011 9:25 am
Forum: Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway
Topic: T&P Passenger Trains 1936
Replies: 0
Views: 8116

T&P Passenger Trains 1936

Here are the name T&P trains using the Union Terminal in Dallas in June, 1936:
Sunshine Special Nos. 1, 11, & 12
Fast Mail Nos. 3 & 4
Texas Ranger Nos. 6 & 7
Southerner No. 7
The Texan Nos. 15 & 16
Texas Triangle Nos. 17 & 18
Louisiana Limited No. 26
by dhogan
Sun Sep 11, 2011 9:14 am
Forum: Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway
Topic: T&P Passenger Trains 1942
Replies: 0
Views: 8456

T&P Passenger Trains 1942

Here are the name T&P trains using the Union Terminal in Dallas in February, 1932:
Texas Sunshine Special No.1
California Sunshine Special No.2 & 11
Fast Mail No.4
Texas Ranger Nos. 6 & 7
Southerner No.7
The Texan Nos. 15 & 16
by dhogan
Sun Sep 11, 2011 9:08 am
Forum: Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway
Topic: T&P Passenger Trains 1932
Replies: 0
Views: 8418

T&P Passenger Trains 1932

Here are the name T&P trains using the Union Terminal in Dallas in August, 1932:
Sunshine Special Nos. 1 & 2
Fast Mail Nos. 3 & 4
Texas Ranger Nos. 6 & 7
Southerner
The Texan Nos. 15 & 16

[At the same time, Nos. 67 & 68 on the Santa Fe were The Ranger.]
by dhogan
Sun Sep 11, 2011 8:58 am
Forum: Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway
Topic: Train "Names"
Replies: 2
Views: 12706

Re: Train "Names"

The "Ranger" was a Santa Fe train. The "Texas Ranger" was a T&P train (No. 6 & 7) from at least 1933 to 1942---perhaps even earlier and later than those years.
by dhogan
Thu Oct 22, 2009 10:41 am
Forum: Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway
Topic: First T-NM Ry train to Kermit
Replies: 0
Views: 51545

First T-NM Ry train to Kermit

The 2009 edition of the Texas Pecos Trail tourism brochure has a couple of curious photos. One shows the first passenger train by the Kermit depot. The other shows the same train with (leased) T&P locomotive #420. This line of course was the Texas-New Mexico Railway. Here's the pdf version of th...
by dhogan
Thu Oct 22, 2009 10:41 am
Forum: Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway
Topic: Hotel El Capitan (Van Horn)
Replies: 0
Views: 48801

Hotel El Capitan (Van Horn)

This classic hotel in Van Horn, TX by the noted El Paso architectural firm of Trost & Trost is open again as a hotel. It had been a bank in recent years. http://www.hotelelcapitan.net/pages/elcapitan01.html Sounds like a good place to overnight while railfanning the former T&P in West Texas....