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Online Archives of California: Southern Pacific Railroad Company Records.Archives West: Southern Pacific Railroad Collection, circa 1868-1987.There are no known passenger lists for the Southern Pacific Railroad. Louis, Missouri, and the Atcheson, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway link to Chicago, Illinois many people using the Southern Pacific Railroad to settle in New Mexico, Arizona, and California could also have come fromВ Midwestern states as well. However, via the Texas and Pacific Railway link to St. Settlers who made their way west on the Southern Pacific were likely to be from the southern states, especially Louisiana and Texas. Routes in Oregon and the old Central Pacific tracksВ through Nevada to Ogden, Utah also were controlled at various times by the Southern Pacific Company. ДЇrom east to west some of the most signficant towns on a typical route were: This viaduct was replaced with a new railroad bridge including all concrete piers in 1944.

In 1892 Southern Pacific eliminated 11 miles of steep and curvy grades on its Sunset Route in Texas by building a new Pecos Viaduct (high bridge) 5 mile further north near Langtry, Texas, for many years the highest bridge in America. Fourteen months later in February 1883 the Southern Pacific completed an expensive low bridge over the Pecos River in Texas linking New Orleans, Louisiana to Los Angeles, California entirely on its own tracks (fourth transcontinental line). A few months later, in December 1881 the Southern Pacific linked with the Texas and Pacfic Railway at Sierra Blanca, Texas to form the third 'transcontinental' railroad. In March 1881 the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway connected with Southern Pacific lines at Deming, New Mexco to form the second transcontinental line. By 1877 they were building track east into Yuma, Arizona and headed for New Mexico and Texas. The Southern Pacific Company was formed in 1865 to link San Francisco and San Diego, California by rail. The Butterfield Overland Mail ( History Wells Fargo) stage coach route), and later the Southern Pacific Railroad both made use of Gadsden land. The United States bought the Gadsden Purchase, portion forming the southern parts of ( Arizona and New Mexico south of the Gila River) from Mexico in 1853 to have a snow-free route between California and the rest of the United States.

KKRR #70 -ex GETY 70, ex NW 2870, ex NKP 870- idle at the K&K's Kane facility.Historical Background I remember riding over this bridge with my grandparents when I was younger.ДЄ K&K railroad employee makes preparations for the tourist line's departure out of Kane,PA. Kinzua Bridge, one of the oldest and tallest railroad structures in the world, was felled by a tornado.

Personnel have moved all 4 of the involved pieces from the engine house in which the vandal(s) broke into and did their destruction. #38 fell victim to arson on March 16, 2008. #58 fell victim to arson on March 16, 2008. HereГўв‚¬в„ўs a close up nose shot of Knox and Kane #39 that was involved in the engine house arson fire on March 16th, 2008 that put the nail in the coffin for the Knox and Kane. This 1890s D&H Dining Car is the last of the 4 victims involved in the March 16th, 2008 arson fire that destroyed the engine house that housed this car, GP9 #39, 2-8-2 #58, and 2-8-0 #38. The K&K is now abandoned and the ex-WM GP9 has been scrapped.

The southbound K&K train crosses a wooden trestle near Kane. ( more)ДЇormer Knox and Kane #39 is on rails that it once ran daily while in service with the Johnsonburg, Kane, Warren and Irvine RR, a lesser known Cornell owned railroad. In one last closing moment while B&P crews run air tests, the Rail Gods shed tears from the skyГўв‚¬В¦maybe tears of sorrow for one final chapter in the history of the Knox & Kane, or maybe tears of j. An annulled WAJO the night before allowed this daylight run to happen. Here are photosДў002 grinds uphill towards Kane on the A&E Subdivision having just burst through a snow drift.

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