Southern Pacific Railroad In Eastern Texas

Author : David M. Bernstein
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781531652838
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southern Pacific Railroad in Eastern Texas written by David M. Bernstein and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Southern Pacific Railroad and its predecessors served Texas from 1853 to 1996. Stretching from El Paso to the Louisiana border and from the Rio Grande Valley to the Red River, Southern Pacific opened up vast areas of the state to settlement by transporting people, building materials, and livestock. The railroad fueled Texas's economy by moving oil, timber, agricultural commodities, coal, automobiles, petrochemicals, cement, steel, consumer goods, and myriad other products. It hauled the marble that built the state capitol in Austin and the materials to build the massive seawall in Galveston. Southern Pacific also played an important role in developing the ports of Beaumont, Galveston, Houston, and Corpus Christi. This book is a photographic record of Southern Pacific in eastern Texas during the 50-year period following World War II to the 1996 merger with the Union Pacific Railroad.

Author : David M. Bernstein
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439639981
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southern Pacific Railroad in Eastern Texas written by David M. Bernstein and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-14 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Southern Pacific Railroad and its predecessors served Texas from 1853 to 1996. Stretching from El Paso to the Louisiana border and from the Rio Grande Valley to the Red River, Southern Pacific opened up vast areas of the state to settlement by transporting people, building materials, and livestock. The railroad fueled Texas’s economy by moving oil, timber, agricultural commodities, coal, automobiles, petrochemicals, cement, steel, consumer goods, and myriad other products. It hauled the marble that built the state capitol in Austin and the materials to build the massive seawall in Galveston. Southern Pacific also played an important role in developing the ports of Beaumont, Galveston, Houston, and Corpus Christi. This book is a photographic record of Southern Pacific in eastern Texas during the 50-year period following World War II to the 1996 merger with the Union Pacific Railroad.

Author : St. Clair Griffin Reed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Texas Railroads written by St. Clair Griffin Reed and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David M. Bernstein
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738579948
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southern Pacific Railroad in Eastern Texas written by David M. Bernstein and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Southern Pacific Railroad and its predecessors served Texas from 1853 to 1996. Stretching from El Paso to the Louisiana border and from the Rio Grande Valley to the Red River, Southern Pacific opened up vast areas of the state to settlement by transporting people, building materials, and livestock. The railroad fueled Texas's economy by moving oil, timber, agricultural commodities, coal, automobiles, petrochemicals, cement, steel, consumer goods, and myriad other products. It hauled the marble that built the state capitol in Austin and the materials to build the massive seawall in Galveston. Southern Pacific also played an important role in developing the ports of Beaumont, Galveston, Houston, and Corpus Christi. This book is a photographic record of Southern Pacific in eastern Texas during the 50-year period following World War II to the 1996 merger with the Union Pacific Railroad.

Author : Robert S. Maxwell
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781574410617
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whistle in the Piney Woods written by Robert S. Maxwell and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of the founding of the Houston, East and West Texas Railroad, its symbiotic relationship with forests and the lumber industry and its role in the development of East Texas.

Author : John Warfield Johnston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The True Southern Pacific Railroad Versus the Texas Pacific Railroad written by John Warfield Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donovan L. Hofsommer
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781603441278
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Southern Pacific, 1901-1985 written by Donovan L. Hofsommer and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don Hofsommer chronicles the twentieth-century history of a transportation giant. Here is a story of divestiture and merger, Sunset Route, and Prosperity Special. " . . . a treasure house of information about the Southern Pacific Company . . . . This book is a joy to read."--Richard C. Overton, from the Foreword

Author : Jennie Grace Dixon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Construction of the Southern Pacific Railroad written by Jennie Grace Dixon and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Southern Pacific Company
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Statistical Report of the Southern Pacific Company written by Southern Pacific Company and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Douglas Lee Braudaway
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738507668
Total Pages : 132 pages
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Download or read book Railroads of Western Texas written by Douglas Lee Braudaway and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Southern Pacific Railroad was the second transcontinental line built in America, and the first that was open year-round. Railroads of Western Texas brings to life the days of frontier towns, the open range, and the building of the state of Texas. This part of the state's railroad history includes politicians and movie stars, train wrecks and robberies, shoot-outs and gun-running. Railroads of Western Texas reveals engaging stories of San Antonio and El Paso during their boomtown years. It tells of the creation of communities out of whole cloth including Hondo, Sanderson, Marfa, and Sierra Blanca. Other towns-villages really-blossomed when the iron rails came through: Uvalde, Del Rio, Alpine, Valentine, and Judge Roy Bean's town Langtry (the man known as "The Law West of the Pecos"). The railroad featured the third highest bridge in the world (the High Bridge over the Pecos River), and the fourth largest man-made lake in the United States (Medina Lake). These rails carried men and munitions during the Spanish American War and the Punitive Expedition, and many more\ during the First and Second World Wars.