Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway
Overview | |
---|---|
Headquarters | Amarillo, Texas |
Locale | New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas |
Dates of operation | 1886–1965 |
Predecessor | Southern Kansas Railway Company of Texas |
Successor | Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway |
Technical | |
Track gauge | 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge |
Other | |
Website | Handbook of Texas |
The Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway is a now-defunct railroad company that was a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
History[]
The railway was originally named the Southern Kansas Railway Company of Texas, and was chartered on November 2, 1886. In June 1914, the railway was renamed the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway.[1]
Operations[]
In 1931, the Panhandle and Santa Fe leased two separate companies: the Clinton and Oklahoma Western Railroad Company (COW) and the Clinton-Oklahoma-Western Railroad Company of Texas (COW-T), which together serviced the track from Clinton, Oklahoma, west to Hemphill County, Texas, and southwest to Pampa in Gray County, Texas, located northeast of the headquarters city of Amarillo. The P&SF purchased both the COW and the COW-T in December 1948.[2]
The P&SF was merged into the parent AT&SF on August 1, 1965.[3]
References[]
- ^ "Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway". Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved August 4, 2012.
- ^ "Clinton-Oklahoma-Western Railroad". tshaonline.org. Retrieved April 27, 2013.
- ^ Werner, George C. "Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway". Handbook of Texas. Texas State Historical Society. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
External links[]
- Oklahoma Historical Society
- Texas State Historical Association
- Oklahoma Digital Maps: Digital Collections of Oklahoma and Indian Territory
- Photos of West Texas and the Llano Estacado
- Predecessors of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
- Defunct Texas railroads
- Former Class I railroads in the United States
- Railway companies established in 1914
- Railway companies disestablished in 1965
- Defunct Oklahoma railroads
- Amarillo, Texas
- Hemphill County, Texas
- Gray County, Texas
- United States Class I railroad stubs