Southern Pacific Railroad in Eastern Texas
Title | Southern Pacific Railroad in Eastern Texas PDF eBook |
Author | David M. Bernstein |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2011-03-14 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN | 1439639981 |
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 Texass 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.
A History of the Texas Railroads
Title | A History of the Texas Railroads PDF eBook |
Author | St. Clair Griffin Reed |
Publisher | |
Pages | 840 |
Release | 1941 |
Genre | Railroads |
ISBN |
Southern Pacific Railroad in Eastern Texas
Title | Southern Pacific Railroad in Eastern Texas PDF eBook |
Author | David M. Bernstein |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN | 9780738579948 |
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.
The Texas and Pacific Railway : Its Route, Progress, and Land Grants
Title | The Texas and Pacific Railway : Its Route, Progress, and Land Grants PDF eBook |
Author | Texas & Pacific Railway |
Publisher | |
Pages | 42 |
Release | 1872 |
Genre | Texas |
ISBN |
The True Southern Pacific Railroad Versus the Texas Pacific Railroad
Title | The True Southern Pacific Railroad Versus the Texas Pacific Railroad PDF eBook |
Author | John Warfield Johnston |
Publisher | |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 1878 |
Genre | Railroads |
ISBN |
Agreement Between the Southern Pacific Lines in Texas and Louisiana (Texas and New Orleans Railroad Company), Lines of the Houston East and West Texas Railway Company, Houston and Shreveport Railroad Company
Title | Agreement Between the Southern Pacific Lines in Texas and Louisiana (Texas and New Orleans Railroad Company), Lines of the Houston East and West Texas Railway Company, Houston and Shreveport Railroad Company PDF eBook |
Author | Southern Pacific Company |
Publisher | |
Pages | 94 |
Release | 1953 |
Genre | Collective labor agreements |
ISBN |
Whistle in the Piney Woods
Title | Whistle in the Piney Woods PDF eBook |
Author | Robert S. Maxwell |
Publisher | University of North Texas Press |
Pages | 154 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781574410617 |
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.