St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas Railway

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St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas
Overview
Headquarters Springfield, Missouri
Reporting mark SLSF
Locale Texas
Successor Burlington Northern Railroad
Technical
Track gauge 4 ft 8+12 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge

The St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas Railway( reporting mark SLSF) was a subsidiary railway to the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway (Frisco) operating 159 miles of railway line in Texas. The Frisco, including the subsidiary, formed a large X-shaped system across the states of Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama. It merged into SLSF at the beginning of 1964; [1] SLSF merged into the Burlington Northern Railroad in 1980.

References

  1. Lennon, J. Establishing Trails on Rights-of-Way. Washington, D.C.: United States Department of the Interior. p. 51.