I had high hopes when the Hwy was widened as it included some funding to upgrade the old railroad track bed into a bike trail. I was incredibly disappointed. I don't know if the highway construction ran out of money or it was poorly designed but it fell way short of expectations. The...
Worse are crossings where you can get wheels stuck in railroad track as the trail crosses from one side of the tracks to another. A series of small trails divided by high-speed traffic and train crossings. Can't get up to a reasonable pace before you have to stop again, look both ways...
Map shows railroad lands for Ector, Midland, Crane, Upton, Tom Green, Glasscock, Coke, and Sterling counties West Texas; block and tract numbers, lease numbers, ownership, and lots sold. Includes list of leased properties and leasees in Coke and Sterling Counties. Scale [1:133,334].收藏...
Scale ca. 1:3,200,000.doi:http://www.loc.gov/item/98688680/G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co
By the late 1870s, a handful of Syrian immigrants had moved into Texas, navigating the rapidly expanding railroad system to seek economic opportunity (9). Over the next few decades, individuals were joined by kin and small Syrian communities began to form. Like spokes on a wheel, merchants ...
The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, better known as The Katy, was a large granger that maintained an unconventional north-south network within a region dominated by the Santa Fe, Missouri Pacific, and Southern Pacific/St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt). ...
A new railroad was to be the lifeline to markets for their produce, but as it happened, the price of shipping from their remote location to markets in the Midwest was greater than the money their crops would bring. It quickly became evident that produce was going to be a losing propositio...
The Rock Island Railroad depot closed in 1955, and the opening of Interstate 40 in 1975 further accelerated the demise of Glenrio.Map showing the location of Glenrio on U.S. Route 66 Glenrio TodayToday it includes the Glenrio Historic District listed on the National Register of Historic Places...
This was a stop along the Texas Central Railroad. The depot was established in 1881 and was lost to a fire in 1918, but quickly rebuilt that same year. The 200 foot long depot is one of the longest wood frame depots still standing in Texas. The depot has been left to slowly deteriorat...
View Trail Map Send to App The Trail de Paris runs for just over 3 miles from the town of Paris east into the countryside. The paved route follows a lovely corridor of shade trees, crossing bridges as it heads along a former railroad right-of-way. The trail includes benches, viewing ...