A Master Plan for Dallas, Texas, Report 6: Transportation Facilities, Rail-Air-Highways-Water Page: 12
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PART I.
RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION
Railroads ServingDallas.
1. The Texas and Pacific Railway. The main line of the Texas
and Pacific provides Dallas with both freight and passenger service to
the east and west. To the west it extends through Fort Worth to El
Paso. To the east it furnishes direct service to New Orleans and
intermediate points and connects with the Missouri Pacific at Texarkana
over which through cars are operated to Memphis and St. Louis.
2. The Southern Pacific System. The Southern Pacific Lines in
Texas and Louisiana are owned by the Texas and New Orleans Railroad
Company0 Its north-and-south line through Dallas, the original Houston
and Texas Central Railroads, extends from Denison to Houston where it
connects with the main line of the Southern Pacific between New Orleans
and the west coast. Freight and passenger service is operated between
Dallas and Houston and freight service only to Denison. The T.&N.O,
also owns a line between Dallas and Beaumont, over which freight and
passenger service is operated.
3. The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Lines0 The main line of the M-K-T,
commonly known as the "Katy", extends to the northeast through Greenville
and Denison to Kansas City and St. Louis and extends southwardly through
Waco to San Antonio, Houston and Galveston. Freight and passenger
service is operated over these lines except between Houston and Galveston
where passenger service is handled via connecting lines. In addition,
a joint passenger service is operated to St. Louis via the Frisco Lines
from Vinita,Oklahomao The Katy also operates freight service over a
branch line between Dallas and Denton.
4. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe System. The line of the
Atchison., Topeka and Santa Fe Railway System, commonly known as the
"Santa Fe", owned by the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Company,
extends through Dallas from Paris on the northeast to Cleburne on the
southwest where it connects with the main line of the Santa Fe from
Galveston and Houston north through Fort Worth and Oklahoma City to a
connection with the Chicago-California line at Newton, Kansas. Passenger
and freight service is operated between Dallas and Paris, freight service
only to Cleburne. Passenger service to Fort Worth is operated over
the Texas and Pacific line.
5. The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway. The GRI&P,
commonly known as the "Rock Island", owns a line extending from Dallas to
Fort Worth, thence northwardly to Minneapolis, St Paul and Chicago. It
carries both freight and passenger service. The Rock Island also
operates freight and passenger service jointly with the Fort Worth and
Denver City Railway southwardly from Dallas to Houston over the Burlington-
Rock Island Railroad. Between Dallas and Waxahachie these trains
operate over the M-K-T line0- 12 -
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Harland Bartholomew and Associates. A Master Plan for Dallas, Texas, Report 6: Transportation Facilities, Rail-Air-Highways-Water, report, July 1944; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth803747/m1/14/?q=+date%3A1941-1945: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Municipal Archives.