|
Southern Pacific |
| After several name and charter
changes, the road was finally chartered in 1856 to build from the
Louisiana line to El Paso, as part of a road from the Mississippi River
to the Pacific. Construction started in
1857. Grading was
almost complete when the purchased rail to fill the gap was seized by
the Confederate government to construct gunboats and shore defense
casements at Gordon's Landing, near Shreveport. In August 1863, 14 miles
of the road's rail from Jonesville
to Swanson's Landing was
removed and re-laid from Jonesville to Greenwood, Louisiana (completed
by May 1864) in an effort
to connect Marshall, Texas to Shreveport, Louisiana
to support the Confederate Army's defense of the region. It appears that
rail from the Red River RR was planed to be used to go west out of Shreveport,
but the new road was still 14 (11?) miles from Shreveport when the war ended. |
| Black's Number |
109 (map)
(map) (map) |
| Track |
27 miles of T-rail, 5 foot 6 inch gauge and
58# per yard |
| Locomotives |
3; 3 names |
| Cars |
6 |
| Stations |
8 |
| Officers |
Many |
| Status |
1857 |
| Significant Documents |
| NP, TR 1-5-61 |
| NP, TR 1-5A-61 |
| NP, DH 1-9B-61 |
| NP, RD 1-9-61 |
| NP, TR 1-12-61 |
| NP, TR 1-19-61 |
| NP, DH 2-6-61 |
| NP, TR 2-9-61 |
| NP, BB 2-19A-61 |
| NP, GN 3-5-61 |
| NP, NODC 3-25-61 |
| NP, NODC 3-25A-61 |
| NP, NODC 3-26-61 |
| NP, NODC 3-28-61 |
| NP, NODC 4-3-61 |
| NP, RD 4-4-61 |
| NP, AE 4-5-61 |
| NP, NODC 4-9-61 |
| NP, MAP 4-10-61 |
| NP, NODC 4-10-61 |
| NP, MA 4-16-61 |
| NP, MA 4-16A-61 |
| NP, NODC 4-16-61 |
| NP, STD 4-20-61 |
| NP, NODC 4-22-61 |
| NP, DH 5-1-61 |
| NP, MRT 5-4-61 |
| NP, HT 5-7-61 |
| NP, DAC 5-10-61 |
| NP, RD 5-13B-61 |
| NP, DAC 5-31-61 |
| TX, SP 8-31-61 |
| MISC, SP 9-7-61 |
| NP, SN 9-13-61 |
| NP, SN 9-19-61 |
| MISC, SP 9-26-61 |
| NP, RD 11-19B-61 |
| NP, NODC 11-25-61 |
| NP, DH 11-27-61 |
| NP, RD 1-13-62 |
|
NP, NP
1-24B-62 |
| TX, SP 1-25-62 |
|
NP, TR
2-1-62 |
| NP, ASCY 2-2-62 |
| TX, SP 2-14-62 |
| TX, SP 4-2-62 |
| TX, SP 4-5-62 |
| TX, SP 6-12-62 |
| NP, SN 10-3-62 |
| NP, TR 1-29-63 |
| NP, MAP 2-7-63 |
| TX, SP 2-17-63 |
|
B21,
VS&T 2-28-63 |
| TX, SP 6-1-63 |
|
NA, DTM
8-15-63 |
|
NA, DTM
11-11-63 |
|
NA, DTM
11-12-63 |
|
NA, DTM
11-17-63 |
|
NA, DTM
11-20-63 |
|
NA, DTM
11-28-63 |
| NP, SN 1-12-64 |
|
NA, DTM
1-17-64 |
|
NA, DTM
1-26-64 |
|
NA, DTM
2-24-64 |
|
NA, DTM
3-4-64 |
|
NA, DTM
4-11-64 |
| NP, SN 5-31-64 |
| TX, SP 6-1-64 |
| NA,
SP 6-3-64 |
|
NA, DTM
6-15-64 |
|
NA, DTM
7-30-64 |
|
NP, TR
9-23-64 |
|
NP, DH
11-5-64 |
| NP, SN 4-8-65 |
|
NA, DTM 4-12-65 |
| TX, SP 6-1-65 |
|
NP, ARJ
8-26-65 |
|
NP, SW
8-1-66 |
|