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    locomotive located in Houston, Texas. 1518 (EMD SD7), former EMD demonstrator 990 and first SD7 built, located at the Illinois Railway Museum, Union, Illinois...
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    was founded in 1884 and named for Abraham P. Lufkin. It originally served as a stop on the Houston, East and West Texas Railway. It was officially incorporated...
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  • Pacific. October 1899: Southern Pacific gains control of the Houston East and West Texas Railway. 1901: Frank Norris' novel, The Octopus: A California Story...
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  • Houston East & West Texas Railway Co. v. United States, 234 U.S. 342 (1914), also known as the Shreveport Rate Case, was a decision of the United States...
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  • the Houston, East and West Texas Railway. At that time it was 10 miles (16 km) away from Houston. A post office opened in 1910. In 1914 Mount Houston had...
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    the Southern Pacific Railroad, the Houston and Texas Central Railroad, and the Houston, East and West Texas Railway. Three years later, there were ten...
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    Interstate 10 (I-10) is the major eastwest Interstate Highway in the Southern United States. In the U.S. state of Texas, it runs east from Anthony, at the border...
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    and San Antonio Railway Houston and Shreveport Railroad Houston and Texas Central Railway Houston East and West Texas Railway Iberia and Vermilion Railroad...
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    emerged when the Houston East and West Texas Railway was completed in 1881; however, the area had seen some establishment of mills and farms prior to the...
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    "splendor of its floral environment." In the late 1800s, The Houston, East and West Texas Railway (now the Union Pacific Railroad), at the suggestion of Charles...
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