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Topic: Southern Pacific Railroad

Related:
  Southern    Railroad  
  Pacific    Union Pacific Railroad  
  Norfolk Southern Railroad    Canadian Pacific Railroad  

 
 
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Most admires:James Watt,  Thomas Edison,  Alexander Bell
Personality:Nostalgic
Favorite artist(s):Pablo Picasso
Favorite board game(s):Monopoly
Favorite era(s):1800s,  1900s,  1930s
Favorite book(s):"Around the World in Eighty Days" by Jules Verne
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Favorite royal(s):Catherina the Great
Favorite great thinker(s):Samuel Morse
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Favorite political figure(s):Cecil Rhodes
Favorite quote(s):"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt." - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
 
 
 Expert Talk
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Miguel Cortez,
Small Business Owner

It was built to serve the Santa Fe, Colorado and Southern, Denver and Rio Grande Western, and Missouri Pacific railroads.
John Fielding,
CEO

Southern Pacific and Santa Fe Railroads report halting previously announced merger.
Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant

Southern Pacific Transportation Company (SP), McCloud River and Yreka Western Railroads jointly serve Enterprise Zone businesses and communities throughout Siskiyou County.
Railways Kansas City Southern, Union Pacific, and the Arkansas & Louisiana Missouri Railroads all have rail lines throughout the parish and region.
The Feasibility Study will investigate grade separations between Sampson Street and the Union Pacific and Kansas City Southern Railroads.
Jake Farley,
Truck Driver

I'm going to specialize in suing the railroads, and particularly the Southern Pacific for injured railroad men who are hurt on the job.
Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran

But the wily Edward Harriman, who owned the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads, took control of the OR&N and denied Hill access to that route.
The Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads had separate tracks through Sunol until 1984 when the Southern Pacific right-of-way was abandoned.
Most railroads, Southern Pacific included, had not fully recovered by the time they entered the Great Depression.
Astrid Schuhmann,
Backpacker

Los Angeles River Railroads - About the Southern Pacific, Union Pacific and the Santa Fe Railways that ran their tracks over and beside this river of concrete.
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe and Southern Pacific railroads serve the valley area and Amtrak stops in Madera.
Josh Hogan,
Commander

Huntington, and in 1884 the great Southern Pacific Company was formed, which acquired stock control of the entire aggregation of railroads in the South and Southwest.
 
 
 User Talk
Comments from our users:
From:
Walter Stuart
2005-03-18 11:14:37
Who owns the right of ways where the trains have stopped running and the tracks have been taken up between San Antonio, Texas and Corpus Christi, Texas ? Is there an email address of the offices in charge of these right of ways?
From:
mark self
2005-07-28 00:45:21
i have an 1890s to 1920 s.p. smoke consumer cast iron stove out of a caboose that i aquired in the 1940s whats it worth if i were to sell it its in fair condition
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