St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas Railway
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Overview | |
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Headquarters | Springfield, Missouri |
Reporting mark | SLSF |
Locale | Texas |
Successor | Burlington Northern Railroad |
Technical | |
Track gauge | 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge |
The St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas Railway (reporting mark SLSF) was a subsidiary railway to the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway (Frisco) operating 159 miles of railway line in Texas. The Frisco, including the subsidiary, formed a large X-shaped system across the states of Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama. It merged into SLSF at the beginning of 1964; SLSF merged into the Burlington Northern Railroad in 1980.
References[]
- Lewis, Robert G. Handbook of American Railroads. New York: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, 1951, pp. 19–5.
External links[]
- Minor, David. "St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas Railway," Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association.
- History of the Frisco, St. Louis-San Francisco Railway, circa 1962. The Frisco: A Look Back at the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway, Springfield-Greene County (Missouri) Library.
Categories:
- Defunct Texas railroads
- Former Class I railroads in the United States
- Texas transportation stubs
- United States Class I railroad stubs