Texas and Pacific Railway - Timeline

Timeline

• March 3, 1871 - United States Congress grants a charter to the Texas Pacific Railroad Company
• 1871 - Texas legislature charters the company and grant permission to purchase the Southern Trans-Continental Railway Company and the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Note: This is a different Southern Pacific Railroad company from the one referred to above.
• March 21, 1872 - The Southern Pacific is purchased.
• March 30 - Southern Trans-Continental Railway Company is purchased.
• 1872 - Thomas A. Scott, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, becomes president of the Texas & Pacific.
• May 2, 1872 - an Act of Congress changes the name to Texas and Pacific Railway Company
• June 12, 1873 - Memphis, El Paso and Pacific Railroad Company purchased.
• July 1, 1873 - First rail line opened between Longview, Texas, and Dallas, Texas
• December 28, 1873 - Rail line from Marshall, Texas, to Texarkana, Texas, placed in service.
• 1925 - Lima Locomotive Works delivers 2-10-4 locomotives to the T&P. The type is nicknamed "Texas" as a result.
• October 15, 1976 - merged with the Missouri Pacific

"T&P" includes its subsidiary roads (A&S, D&PS, T-NM etc.); operated route-miles totalled 2259 at the end of 1929 (after C&NE, PVS and TSL had become subsidiaries) and 2033 at the end of 1960.