Texas & Pacific Railway Roster
The Texas & Pacific was chartered in 1871 and came under the control of Jay Gould and the Missouri Pacific in 1881. It played center stage in a dramatic battle between Gould and C.P. Huntington as the T&P and Southern Pacific fought to control the southern transcontinental railroad route. Gould and Huntington reached a historic agreement in 1881 and the San Diego ambitions of the Texas & Pacific ended with trackage rights from Sierra Blanca, Texas, into El Paso, and traffic arrangements with the Southern Pacific. The Missouri Pacific leased the Texas & Pacific from 1881 to 1885 and continued with a cooperative agreement after that. In 1928 Missouri Pacific bought enough Texas & Pacific stock to have a controlling interest, but only acquired a seventy percent interest four decades later. For complicated reasons involving Missouri Pacific's own stock, Texas & Pacific remained a separate corporation until 1976. The Missouri Pacific general renumbering of Januar