urn:taro:ttu.swcpc.00121 Fort Worth and Denver Railway Company: An Inventory of Photographs, undated, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library A. Ramirez The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
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Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, April 23, 2002. Finding aid written inEnglish. Tue Jul 22 14:55:28 CDT 2003 urn:taro:ttu.swcpc.00121 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (20030505). Inventory for the Fort Worth and Denver Railway Company Photograph Collection, undated A. Ramirez The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, 2002 Descriptive Summary Fort Worth and Denver Railway Company Fort Worth and Denver Railway Company Photograph Collection, undated The Fort Worth and Denver Railway Company Photograph Collection was donated by Dr. Paul Carlson, history professor at Texas Tech University. SWCPC 121 E10-E11 Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University 4 b/w photo prints and 4 copy negatives English. Biographical Sketch

The Fort Worth and Denver Railway Company was chartered in 1873 as the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway Company. The name was changed in 1951. In 1895, Grenville M. Dodge became president of the company. As the first rail line to penetrate Northwest Texas, the Fort Worth and Denver greatly influenced the area's growth. It actively promoted the growth of towns and farming to increase traffic for the line. The railway merged with the Burlington Northern in 1982 and in 1989 most of the line was abandoned in favor of trackage rights over the Santa Fe.

 Scope and Contents

This collection consists of photographs of trains and scenes of railway stations and images of Fort Worth and Denver Railroad promotional material from near Amarillo, Texas.

 Index Terms

The subject headings used by the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library are derived from the Library of Congress and/or locally developed.

Places Amarillo (Tex.) Subjects (Organizations) Fort Worth and Denver Railway Company Subjects Railroads--Trains--Photographs Railroad stations--Photographs Railroads--Photographs Cattle--Photographs Locomotives--Photographs Advertising--Real estate business--Photographs Acquisition

Gift, undated

 Access Restrictions

Open for research

 Processed by

A. Ramirez

 Preferred Citation

Fort Worth and Denver Railway Company Photograph Collection, undated, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas