I think the Best Texas railroad wis frisco's west
Texas QA&P. The Quanah, Acme & pacific. My people
think the name is made up.
Will
--- Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...> wrote:
>
> We're sure wandering off the Burlington Route
> subject,
> but the Missouri Pacific had something like 20 Texas
> subsidiaries (not including the T&P), of which the
> I-GN
> was only one. Others included the New Orleans,
> Texas
> and Mexico; the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico;
> San
> Antonio, Uvalde and Gulf; The Beaumont, Sour Lake
> and
> Western; the Houston and Brazos Valley; The Sugar
> Land
> Railway Company; and many others.
>
> As you correctly note, they owned a majority of
> the T&P, but by no means all of it; perhaps a
> smaller
> proportion than the CB&Q did of the C&S/FW&DC.
>
>
> Wes Leatherock
> wleath@s...
>
>
> On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, John Mitchell
> <cbqrr47@y...> wrote:
> > It was the reason they continued so long. Also the
> MP
> > only owned a slight majority of T&P stock. Their
> Texas
> > company was the International- Great Northern!
> > John D. Mitchell
> > --- Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Such a law did exist, but is probably not
> the
> > > reason that
> > > either the FW&DC or the T&P were originally
> > > incorporated in
> > > Texas. They were originally Texas promotions
> and
> > > incorporated
> > > in Texas just because that's where they began.
> > >
> > >
> > > Wes Leatherock
> > > wleath@s...
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, M. Thayer wrote:
> > > > As I understand it, at the time the Fort
> > > Worth-Denver line was built, Texas
> > > > had a law requiring any railroad operating in
> the
> > > state to have corporate
> > > > offices within Texas. This was also the
> reason
> > > why the Texas & Pacific was
> > > > separate from the MoPac.
> > > >
> > > > Marshall
>
>
=====
Will
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