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St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas Railway

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St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas
Overview
HeadquartersSpringfield, Missouri
Reporting markSLSF
LocaleTexas
SuccessorBurlington Northern Railroad
Technical
Track gauge4 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

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  1. ^ Lennon, J. Establishing Trails on Rights-of-Way. Washington, D.C.: United States Department of the Interior. p. 51.
  • Lewis, Robert G. Handbook of American Railroads. New York: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, 1951, pp. 19–5.
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