March 1950 Texas and Pacific Timetable

Thanks for posting that, Griff!

You can see clear evidence of the slow but inexorable slide under the MoPac aegis.

Oops sorry the route map is upside down:

Thanks, Griff!  I always enjoyed when we "went to town" in Midland as a kid growing up there!  Take in the Saturday matinee at the Yucca theater, and best of all, visit Wilcox hardware.  Wilcox was the Lionel dealer in Midland and had two layouts in the front windows, plus three larger layouts in the store.  The biggest was a West Texas scene layout with several 455 oil wells and plenty of 2555 and the like tankers in the consists.  Sad day when it caught fire and burned down in 1967...….   I was born and raised in Midland, family moved to Houston in 1967.

Note:  It was on the Amtrak Texas Eagle that my wife and I met in Dec. of 2003.  I boarded in Chicago, she got on in St.Louis.  Both took Texas Eagle back North on the Dec. 30th by fate and that was when we met and talked all night on the train.  Well, in Dec. 2006 we married and have never been happier.  All thanks to the Texas Eagle....!!

Again, thank you, sir.....

Jesse   TCA  

Grif, thanks for posting this.  Santa Fe assigned me to Sweetwater, which also had a T&P station in 1993.  By that time, the T&P had been merged into MP and then UP, but it still had the 115 pound 1948 jointed rail that the Eagle had once raced across.

Jesse, thanks for posting the interesting first-person information.

Thanks to everyone for the likes and kind comments!