Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway • Signal systems

2020-12-05T20:39:56-05:00

Hello all, was wondering if anyone could tell me which subdivisions on the T&P were equipped with CTC and which were simply ABS and dispatched via timetable and train orders. Thanks in advance!
GJF

Statistics: Posted by SantaFeDS — Sat Dec 05, 2020 7:39 pm

Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway • Information on 2-10-2s and 4-8-2s

2020-08-15T21:50:33-05:00

Hey all,

As this is my first post, I am looking for info on the T&P 2-10-2s and 4-8-2. Information includes any records of last runs, retirement dates, or, if possible, the date of their scrapping.

Any info would be appreciated.

Alec Butler

Statistics: Posted by Steamalec10 — Sat Aug 15, 2020 9:50 pm

Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway • Re: Time on the T&P

2020-03-15T11:20:13-05:00

I’ve been looking around the Google-sphere and this is just about the only reference I can find. User says it was on West Vickery. I am hoping to find a picture of it. I’d like to see it.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/3862887 ... 3255717773

The user says it was next to Bill Weaver’s Sporting Goods which was at 3515 W. Vickery, 1 block off Montgomery St.

Statistics: Posted by Ted — Sun Mar 15, 2020 11:20 am

People of the T&P • Re: Memories of Life with The Texas & Pacific Railway

2013-11-15T10:03:44-05:00

Reading your story was very interesting. I live in Louisiana and grew up near the Meeker Sugar Refinery, Meeker, LA. This mill was owned by the CrackerJack folks of Chicago. Most of the sugar cane that supplied the mill came by rail from the early 1920s to 1940-50s. There was a T&P depot here and one of the executives of CrackerJack would travel by rail from Chicago to Meeker which is about 14 miles south of Alexandria on U.S. Highway 71. He would stay in an apartment attached to the mill office from October to mid-January. The depot was torn down sometime in the 1950-60 area after the mill received no more sugar cane by rail. I have been looking for pictures of this old depot but have had no success. Would you happen to be aware of any place where I might continue my search?

Statistics: Posted by eeboniol — Fri Nov 15, 2013 9:03 am

General Railroad Discussion • Correct color for T&P step stool

2013-09-03T12:04:31-05:00

I recently acquired a T&P stool and would like to repaint it in correct colors. What color combinations would I have to choose from. Thanks, Roy

Statistics: Posted by toysbyroy — Tue Sep 03, 2013 12:04 pm

People of the T&P • Bill Watson- Master Carpenter (my grandfather)

2013-08-02T12:28:58-05:00

I rember as a kid we could hear the lunch horn blow & my grandfather would show uo 5 min later,

Statistics: Posted by sbass94501 — Fri Aug 02, 2013 12:28 pm

Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway • Six Flags of Texas

2013-07-24T12:34:47-05:00

I seem to remember possibly between 1975 and 1990, there was an article about the steam locomotive engineer at Six Flags of Texas, at Arlington,Texas, and he was a retired T&P locomotive engineer.
I found his name C.J. Patton, who hired out on the T&P 12/24/1908.
perhaps, the article would be a good one to post .
hmhoxie

Statistics: Posted by hmhoxie — Wed Jul 24, 2013 12:34 pm

Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway • Re: T&P 2-10-4 #638

2013-07-02T20:58:27-05:00

Gruess aus Texas! [I lived and worked for a German company, Siemens, in Munich from 1986-88.]
From what I've managed to piece together, T&P 638 was not fenced off soon enough and not supervised properly by the State Fair management after its donation. I don't think anything major was removed except some appliances, cab hardware, and possibly the bell and whistle. It could have been restored but the T&P was so disgusted by the neglect it forced the State Fair folks to fix it up or scrap it. Fair Park management chose the latter.
To its credit, T&P found a second steam locomotive from the New York Central (a 4-8-2 this time), customized it a bit, and donated it as a replacement for 638.
Strike two against the new caretakers (Age of Steam Museum) when they traded it for a Pennsylvania RR GG-1 in the 1980s!

Statistics: Posted by dhogan — Tue Jul 02, 2013 8:58 pm

Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway • T&P 2-10-4 #638

2013-06-30T08:42:24-05:00

Howdy Folks, I currently live in Bavaria in Germany. I was born in Dallas, July 4, 1946. I retired in 2010 after a 43 year transportaion career. I served three years with the US Army Transportation Corps and was employed in train service as a switchman in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area with both the Cotton Belt and ATSF as well as here in Germany with the German Federal Railways. When I was knee high to a Texas grasshopper my grandfather took me down to Fair Park and let me craw all over T&P #638. Sadly, due to the blindness (or down right stupidity?) of the Fair management she fell onto bad times resulting in some vandalism which resulted in her being scrapped.

Does any member know the real story behind this "vandal" act by the management at Fair Park? I have heard several versions including the fact that the T&P would have taken her back for restoration but their offer was too late.

Thanks,

Joe Toth

Statistics: Posted by Joseph Toth — Sun Jun 30, 2013 8:42 am

Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway • Dallas Morning News train

2013-06-14T07:24:22-05:00

The description for this classic photograph suggests this train is the Houston and Texas Central's version of the Dallas Morning News train called the "Comet." It's not!
http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/s ... /71/rec/39

It's actually the T&P Dallas Morning News train. H&TC had no locomotive No. 95. The script lettering on the engineer's side spells out Texas & Pacific. There's a T&P diamond on the headlight. Finally the eagle on one of the domes is a typical T&P touch.

Statistics: Posted by dhogan — Fri Jun 14, 2013 7:24 am

General Railroad Discussion • Timetable Mar 11, 1919, Cisco to New Orleans

2013-06-11T12:22:37-05:00

I'm researching a Texas writer, Robert E. Howard, who's family may have traveled to New Orleans from Cisco TX on March 11, 1919. It appears the T&P would have served their transportation needs. Do you have in your archives, or any information, concerning a timetable for such a trip within that period.

Statistics: Posted by rehrrrp — Tue Jun 11, 2013 12:22 pm

Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway • Writer in DFW (Q: T&P Passenger West)

2013-06-08T20:01:33-05:00

Hello. Great to find this form. I am a former television producer and radio personality of the Odessa, Midland, El Paso and Dallas Fort Worth markets. Now into my 50s I'm writing romance novels for a global publisher in the Christian Fiction/Historical Genre. Also a member of the American Christian Fiction Writers organization.

I've been crafting a series set in 1925-1933 of Aspermont Texas and my characters traveling by train from Aspermont to Abilene then Abilene to Los Angeles California.

My father was from Aspermont growing there from 1927-49. My grand parents talked often about a train station and line that ran through the area. What little I can find is in the Stonewall Historical book published in 1978 and a few online articles. One reads the following:

"Aspermont was incorporated in 1909 with a population of 700; construction of a lake and water-supply facilities began in 1914. Local businessmen made donations to encourage railroad construction, and the Stamford and Northwestern Railway line was extended from Stamford in 1909 and leased to the Wichita Valley Railway Company."

Does anyone have any knowledge or information about a line that ran from Aspermont to Stamford to perhaps a T&P station in their East/West Route?

What too might a configuration of a train include in say 1925 to about 1935? Engine (Steam), Coal car, mail car, and coaches, sleepers, and/or both (pullman) with a dining car and what else?

What might the fare be to go say Abilene to LA one way (and round trip)?

What would be the menu? And price of food?

From what maps I have found I see a route from Fort Worth to Abilene, Big Spring, Midland, Odessa, Monahans, Pecos, Toyah, Van Horn, then I believe in Sierra Blanca the T&P joined the SP lines to El Paso.

I took Amtrack several times in the 1990s from El Paso to Alpine and then from El Paso to LA (the Sunset Limited). What an adventure! Then commuters out of LA to Del Mar where I spent Christmas with my brother in law school. So glad I did and did not drive. The Depot in LA was still beautiful as is El Paso's.

Look forward to whatever can be learned - especially the side tracks that are throughout North Central Texas as the lines / companies mentioned. Thanks for the opportunity to post.

Steve
DFW, Texas

Statistics: Posted by tvproducersm — Sat Jun 08, 2013 8:01 pm

Reminiscing about the Texas & Pacific Railway • Texas & Pacific Railway - Possible Passenger re-instatement

2013-04-23T17:28:41-05:00

I've moved to the Abilene area in the past four years and travel to Dallas on a regular basis. I've used bus, car and air on different occasions and found them all inconvenient or uncomfortable. I believe that, given the traffic volumes in and around El Paso, Abilene, Fort Worth and Dallas, there is a need for a new passenger rail connection between these cities. Does anyone feel likewise? If so, I would appreciate any comments via the discussion group. I too appreciate the history of the line. And, after all, Abilene was a main railway center in the past, and helped to establish this city.

Statistics: Posted by limeyone — Tue Apr 23, 2013 5:28 pm

General Railroad Discussion • Possible Rail Re-opening Fort Worth/Dallas - Abilene/El Paso

2013-04-23T17:22:48-05:00

Statistics: Posted by limeyone — Tue Apr 23, 2013 5:22 pm

General Railroad Discussion • Greetings from England

2012-11-10T11:41:07-05:00

Hello all,
My name is John Edge and I have been a fan of US railroads for over twenty years! I acquired a lovely model of a Broadway T&P SW7 in H0 a couple of years ago, recently overhauled it to make it work and have rather fallen in love with this line.
As an Englishman, I am intrigued that it is called the Texas & Pacific Railway, does anyone know why this is so, please?
I have a good friend who used to live alongside the T&P main-line and we have swapped some stories - I am keen to find out more about this line as it doesn't seem very well known in the UK.
I have now ordered the forthcoming Athearn Genesis GP7 and am thinking of starting a layout based upon the T&P, I wish I could afford steam locos but it will still be fun collecting diesels, I love their colors anyway!
Cheers,
John E.

Statistics: Posted by allegheny1600 — Sat Nov 10, 2012 10:41 am