Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway
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fort-worth-and-rio-grande-railway-234-17489381
title:
Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway
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The Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway, chartered under the laws of Texas on June 1, 1885, was part of a plan conceived by Buckley Burton Paddock and other Fort Worth civic leaders to create a transcontinental route linking New York, Fort Worth, and the Pacific port of Topolobampo, which they believed would stimulate the growth and development of southwest Texas in general, and the economy of Fort Worth in particular. With financial backing from the Vanderbilt railroad syndicate, construction of
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American railway company
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Worth_and_Rio_Grande_Railway
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date modified:
2024-03-20T09:52:10Z
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