Author: Hugh Hemphill
Publisher: Maverick Books
ISBN: 9781595346780
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Landmark events in the history of the railroad in South Texas
The Railroads of San Antonio and South Central Texas
Author: Hugh Hemphill
Publisher: Maverick Books
ISBN: 9781595346780
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Landmark events in the history of the railroad in South Texas
Publisher: Maverick Books
ISBN: 9781595346780
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Landmark events in the history of the railroad in South Texas
Railroads of Western Texas
Author: Douglas Lee Braudaway
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738507668
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738507668
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
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.
A History of the Texas Railroads
Author: St. Clair Griffin Reed
Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Railroad Transportation in Texas
Author: Charles Shirley Potts
Publisher:
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
San Antonio on Wheels
Author: Hugh Hemphill
Publisher: Maverick Books
ISBN: 9781595346803
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The rise of mechanized transportation in San Antonio
Publisher: Maverick Books
ISBN: 9781595346803
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The rise of mechanized transportation in San Antonio
Southern Pacific Railroad, Via New Orleans, San Antonio and El Paso
Author: Richard S. Spofford
Publisher:
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Category : Pacific railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Pacific railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Texas Railroads
Author: Charles P. Zlatkovich
Publisher:
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Southern Pacific Railroad in Eastern Texas
Author: David M. Bernstein
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738579948
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738579948
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
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 San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway
Author: John W. Hedge
Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A Gigantic Railroad
Author: Corpus Christi and South America Railroad Company
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Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 4
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