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San Antonio & Mexican Gulf Track |
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| Ties | |
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Type |
Yellow Pine, White Oak, Live Oak |
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Width |
8 inches |
| Thickness | 6 inches |
| Iron | |
| Number (American manufacture) | |
| Chairs (wrought iron) | at the meeting of the rails |
| Embankments | |
| 14 feet wide with a slope of 1 1/2 feet horizontally to one foot vertically. The average height of the embankments is less than 2 feet; the maximum height is 5 feet. | |
| Grade | |
| The location of the road is through the level coast prairie and the grade not exceeding 10 feet per mile at any point. | |