Santa Fe Railroad Collection 1897-1968

Born Titusville, Pennsylvania, 1912; educated Westminster School, 1925-1928; read Zoology at University College London, 1929-1933; MSc, University College London; PhD on locusts, including fieldwork in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, awarded 1939; Rockefeller Foundation Malaria Research Laboratory at Tirana, Albania, 1939; Research Officer in the Colonial Office's Middle East Anti-Locust Unit, 1942-1944, organising both Soviet and RAF crop-dusting aircraft; joined Vincent Brian Wiggleswor...

Interstate Commerce Commission

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Texas and New Orleans

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Pecos and Northern Texas Railway Company

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W. E. Whitfield & Sons

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Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks

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Abe Ross

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Pecos & Northern Texas Railway Company

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J. E. Mabee

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Transmarine Corporation

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American Asphalt Roof Corp.

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Growers & Shippers Cooperative League, Edinburg, Texas

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Ball Brothers Trucking Company, Inc.

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Texas & Pacific Motor Transportation Company

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Riss & Company

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Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe

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Frisco Lines

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Coline Oil Co.

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Texas Pacific

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North Plains & Santa Fe Railway

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Edgar M. Linkenhoger

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Cane Belt Railroad Company

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North Texas Transfer & Warehouse Co.

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Texas & New Orleans

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Rainbow Truck Lines

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Coline Oil Corp.

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Commodity Credit Corporation

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Ferguson - Steere Motor Co.

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Bridge Brothers

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Pecos & Northern Texas Railway Company Mortgages

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V. D. Cleage

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Kirby Lumber Corp.

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Kansas City, Orient, and Mexico Railway Company of Texas

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Kingsmill Development Co.

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J. E. Hill Investment Company

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Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe

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L. C. Jones Trucking Co.

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R.W. Byram & Co.

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Texas & New Orleans Railroad Co.

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Heavy Haulers, Inc.

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Terminal Building Corp.

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Southern Steamship Co.

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Frozen Food Express

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Wichita Falls & Southern Railway Company

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W. L. Edmundson

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Eugene Brown

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Washington National Life Inc.

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Clinton, Oklahoma, Western Railroad Company of Texas

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Ballinger Mills

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Texas Railroad Assocation

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Combs Truck Line

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Squaw Transit Co.

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Eli Morgan

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W. F. Morris

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Central Freight Lines, Inc.

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Santa Fe Railroad

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Agricultural Credit Corp.

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Rio Grande, El Paso & Santa Fe Railroad

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Pecos River Railroad Co.

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John Tarleton Agricultural College

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"For the last one hundred years, Tarleton State University, a public coeducational institution, has provided a broad-based education. Established by a $100,000 bequest of John Tarleton, an Erath County pioneer, John Tarleton College opened in 1899 as a private preparatory school and college for the youth of the surrounding rural region. During the next decade students could earn a baccalaureate degree. But in 1908, to compensate for declining enrollment and inadequate funding, colle...

Petroleum Iron Works

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Southwestern Lumber Co.

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Defense Plant Corporation

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The Defense Plant Corporation was organized as a subsidiary of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. In the months before the United States entered World War II, the crucial problem facing the government was expanding the industrial base of the country to meet military needs. In June 1940, Congress authorized for formation of subsidiaries of the RFC to meet the need for capital to build the industrial base. Under this act the Defense Plant Corporation was formed in August of that year. The Cor...

Delta Land & Timber Co.

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Industrial Labor Commission of Texas

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Imperial Sugar Co.

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St. Louis, Santa Fe & Texas

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Gulf Coast Agricultural Credit Corp.

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Santa Fe Trail Transportation Co.

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Fort Worth Stock Yards Co.

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Rio Grande & El Paso Railroad

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Lower Colorado River Authority

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Established in 1934 by the Texas Legislature, the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) is a public agency and conservation and reclamation district in the ten Texas counties through which the Colorado River flows. Between 1935 and 1951 LCRA built six dams along the river above Austin to help control flooding and create a reliable water supply. Charged with the operation of energy services, water and wastewater services, parks and land, and economic and community development since 1...

Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Company

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Calcasieu Sulphate Paper Co., Inc.

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Navajo Freight Lines, Inc.

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Rogers Truck Line

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War Manpower Commission

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Centennial School District

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Kellogg

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Committee on Internal Improvements of Texas House of Representatives

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C. B. Greer Jr.

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Wesley B. Young & Sons

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Southern Pacific (Musical group)

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Whitfield Transportation

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Gulf & West Texas Railway Company

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Louisiana Public Service Commission

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Humble Pipe Line Company

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South Texas Cottonseed Products Association

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Texas Railroad Association

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Citizens Committee of Abilene, Texas

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Stanolind Oil & Gas Co.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jr7hm9 (corporateBody)

Pecos River Railroad Company

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Association of American railroads

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The Association of American Railroads formed in 1934 primarily to represent the freight railroad industry. The East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company was a short-line narrow gauge railroad, chartered in 1856 and built in 1872-1874 to service the coal fields of the remote Broad Top Mountain area of south-central Pennsylvania and to haul that product to the Pennsylvania Railroad at Mount Union or to on-line iron furnaces. The East Broad Top ceased operations in 1956 but ...

Royce T. Nix

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Service Driveaway Corporation

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Terminal Building Corporation of Dallas

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W. A. Johnson

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Herrin Transportation Co.

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Jasper & Eastern Railway Company

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Houston Compress Company

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Houston Compress Company was a cotton storage and baling firm located in Houston, Texas. The company was a subsidiary of Anderson, Clayton & Co., a Houston-based cotton merchant firm. Houston Compress Company's warehouse complex was built in 1917. Cotton purchased from Texas and Oklahoma was delivered by railroad to the plant, where it was stored and protected in fire-resistant concrete warehouses. The company's high-density compress machines were used to decrease the size of the cotton bale...

Joe Peters

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Land A Motor Lines

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L. G. Phares

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Kirby Lumber Company

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Organized in 1901; founder John Henry Kirby continued as president of the enterprise until his death in 1940; during the Great Depression control passed into the hands of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company which continues to own and operate it. From the description of Records, 1885-1985. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70925766 John Henry Kirby, lawyer, lumberman, and financier, formed the Kirby Lumber Company in 1901 in his native East Texas. With the discov...

Industrial Lumber Company

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Steel Transportation Co.

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Burlington-Rock Island Railroad Company

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Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe

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East Texas Refining Co.

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T. E. Mercer Teaming & Trucking Contractor

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Alwin J. Koym

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Railroad Commission of Texas

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See the online finding aid for the agency history. From the description of Railroad Commission minutes, 1891-2004. (Texas State Library & Archives Commission). WorldCat record id: 320549398 From the description of Arkansas-White-Red River Basins Inter-Agency records, 1954-1956 bulk 1955 (Texas State Library & Archives Commission). WorldCat record id: 320551070 See online finding aid for agency history. From the description of Railroad Commission ...

Dan Damis Transport Co.

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International and Great Northern

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F. A. Finberg

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Johnson Motor Lines

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Alton Leander McAlister

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I&GN

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Clinton, Oklahoma, Western Railroad Company

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Houston Belt & Terminal Railway Co.

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Fort Worth Joint Car Association

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Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railway Company

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Originally chartered in Illinois in 1847 as the Rock Island and LaSalle Railroad Company, the road was renamed Chicago and Rock Island Railroad Company in 1851, the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad Company in 1866, and the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railway Company in 1880. In Texas, three main Rock Island routes crossed the state through Fort Worth, Dallas, Houston, Galveston, Dalhart, Memphis, and Amarillo. From the guide to the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Ra...

Louisiana, Arkansas & Texas

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Wesley Corbett

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Red Bluff Water Power Control District

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Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway Company

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Los Angeles - By-Products Co.

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Transport Company of Texas

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Brenham Cotton Compress

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A & W Motor Freight Lines

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Southwestern Lumber Co. of N.J.

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E. B. Law & Son

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Long-Bell Lumber Co.

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Ferguson Seed Farms, Inc.

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Robertson Transport Co.

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Danciger Oil Co.

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Denver - Albuquerque Transport, Inc.

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Santa Fe Land Trust & Title Co.

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Johnson Transportation Co.

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J. L. Querner

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Transport Company, Inc.

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Railroad Retirement Board

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North Texas & Santa Fe Railway Company

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Dallas Car Interchange and Inspection Bureau

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Panhandle & Santa Fe Railroad

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East Texas Construction Co., Inc.

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Oil Development Co. of Texas

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Paul Warren

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American bar association

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED In 1971 the American Bar Association formed a committee to prepare a study "...on the respective powers under the Constitution of the President and of the Congress to enter into and conduct war." The committee was chaired by Lyman M. Tondel, Jr. and the project was funded by the Association's Fund for Public Education which in turn contracted with Columbia University to carry out the study. The staff included Abraham D. Sofaer, Project Director and Adjunct Professor of Law at C...

L. T. Pate Reliable Service Co.

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Charles M. Fry

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Kirby Lumber Co.

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Texas City Terminal Railway

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Panhandle & Santa Fe

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Eastern Electric Company

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Brown & Root, Inc.

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Brothers-in-law Dan Root and Herman Brown founded Brown and Root, Inc. in 1919 as a road-building company by brothers-in-law Dan Root and Herman Brown. In the following decades the company expanded into larger industrial construction projects including offshore oil platforms and dams. In the 1960s Brown and Root, Inc. was purchased by the Haliburton Company. Haliburton merged Brown and Root with the M.W. Kellogg Company in the 1990s to form Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR). KBR became a stand-alo...

Dealers Transport Co.

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Strickland Transportation Co., Inc.

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C. J. Simpson

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Sam Lee Garland

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Farmers & Merchants Transportation Co.

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Roy Murray

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Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.

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Merchant's Fast Motor Lines

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Port Terminal Railroad Association

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Texas & Pacific Railway

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Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway

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Fort Worth Belt Railway

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Gulf Coast Lines

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Humble Oil & Refining Co.

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Santa Fe

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McCulloch County Electric Cooperative, Inc.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dm1z7v (corporateBody)

Texas Pipe Line Co.

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M & D Motor Freight Lines, Inc.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ct29zj (corporateBody)

Lone Star Townsite Co.

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Texas Co.

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Dallas Car Interchange & Inspection Bureau

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Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway

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Truman

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Rio Grande Truck Line

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Texas Northern Railway Co.

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Pacific & Santa Fe

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Cleveland Lumber Co.

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Texas City Terminal Railway Co.

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Kansas City, Mexico, and Orient Railway Company of Texas

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Mrs. K. S. Hull

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Younger Brothers, Inc.

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Chicago, Rock Island and Gulf Railway Company

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Miller & Miller Motor Freight Lines

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Reserve Gas Pipe Line Co.

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City of Beaumont

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Port of Beaumont

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Central Texas Bus Line

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H. H. Boethel

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Tarrant County

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Southwest Transport Company

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North Plains and Santa Fe Railway

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Earl B. Law & Son

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Sterling Truck Line

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Husky Oil Co.

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Acme Fast Freight Lines, Inc.

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Pecos River Railroad

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Ray Smith

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Galveston Wharf Co.

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Fort Worth and Denver City Railway Company

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Chartered by the Texas Legislature on May 26, 1873, to build from Fort Worth to the Texas-New Mexico State line and connect with a line to Denver, Colorado. Came under control of General Grenville Dodge in 1881 and began construction that year. First rail line to cross the Texas Panhandle. Served area hauling cattle from the ranches to market. Later branch lines were built across the South Plains, including one to Lubbock, Texas, in 1928, to tap the cotton market. From the descriptio...

J. R. Rose Truck Lines, Inc.

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Pecos and Northern Texas Railway

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H. P. Jones

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Louisiana Railroad Association

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Kansas City Southern Transport Co.

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Roscoe Wilson

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Texas and Pacific Railway Company

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The Texas and Pacific Railway Company was the only railroad in Texas, and one of the few in the United States, to operate under a federal charter. Congress granted the charter March 3, 1871. With the end of the Civil War, the project to construct a southern transcontinental railroad was revived, and the Texas Pacific was given the right to build from Marshall, Texas, to San Diego, California. The company was granted a federal land grant of twenty sections of land per mile through Ca...