Re: [CBQ] Photo caption help request: FW&D E-5 set

["William Hirt" <whirt@fastmail.com>]

It was Texas law until circa 1955-1960 that any railroad operating in Texas had to be headquartered in Texas. For example, the MKT had the MKT of Texas. The Santa Fe had the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway along with the Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe Railway. The MP had several Texas subsidiaries. The largest Texas headquartered railroad was the Texas and New Orleans which was owned by the SP. After World War II, the subsidiaries increasingly looked like their parent roads. I'm not sure what event occurred to cause Texas to change the state law finally eliminate the requirement for a Texas Headquarters.

Bill Hirt

On 6/7/2023 10:02 AM, Jerold Crawford wrote:

I was always curious why all the railroad lines changed names when the lines crossed the FW&D for Burlington, Chicago, Rock Island & Southern for Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; and Quanah, Acme & Pacific for the Frisco.  Someone told me that in order for a railroad to operate in Texas, it had to be incorporated in Texas or some similar business reason.  Can anyone tell me if this is true or not and expound on this?

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