Post by fr8kar on Dec 29, 2021 17:12:44 GMT -8
This came up in the discussion of the ExactRail woodchip gondola based on a Southern Pacific prototype so I thought it would be fun to share. I think most people's first thoughts about Southern Pacific tend toward the Pacific and not the Southern, but SP and subsidiary Cotton Belt were a significant presence east of El Paso, Texas on into Louisiana, Arkansas and Missouri.
Here are some screenshots of a 1985 ETT showing the Lafayette, Houston and San Antonio Divisions of the SP and the Pine Bluff Division of the Cotton Belt. The key map in the Lafayette Division map shows the Eastern Lines in relation to the rest of the system. The dashed line from Tucumcari, New Mexico to Kansas City, Kansas is the former Rock Island purchased by Cotton Belt, affectionately known as the Cotton Rock. The dashed lines in Texas, Arkansas and Missouri are the original portion of the Cotton Belt.
Quite a bit of this territory is still operated today by Union Pacific, which itself already had a large presence in Texas via Missouri Pacific predecessors International & Great Northern (the Ginnie) and Texas & Pacific as well as the Missouri-Kansas-Texas and subsidiary Oklahoma-Kansas-Texas.
Here are some screenshots of a 1985 ETT showing the Lafayette, Houston and San Antonio Divisions of the SP and the Pine Bluff Division of the Cotton Belt. The key map in the Lafayette Division map shows the Eastern Lines in relation to the rest of the system. The dashed line from Tucumcari, New Mexico to Kansas City, Kansas is the former Rock Island purchased by Cotton Belt, affectionately known as the Cotton Rock. The dashed lines in Texas, Arkansas and Missouri are the original portion of the Cotton Belt.
Quite a bit of this territory is still operated today by Union Pacific, which itself already had a large presence in Texas via Missouri Pacific predecessors International & Great Northern (the Ginnie) and Texas & Pacific as well as the Missouri-Kansas-Texas and subsidiary Oklahoma-Kansas-Texas.
