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Corsicana and the Ennis Sub by Robert Olmsted w/Dust Jacket SP/SSW Texas
Corsicana and the Ennis Sub by Robert Olmsted
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket Has plastic protective cover
Copyright 1983
120 Pages
TABLE OF CONTENTS
KERENS-CORSICANASSW, 14.1 miles 4
Built in 1881 by the Texas & St. Louis, becoming part of the St. Louis Southwestern of Texas in 1891. Although the rails are geographically almost east-west here, SSW trains are considered as northward or southward by timetable. Corsicana-bound trains are southward.
CORSICANASP/SSW, Population 20,000 8
SP rails, actually the Houston & Texas Central, reached Corsicana from the south in 1871, ten years prior to the arrival of the SSW from the east.
CORSICANA-GROESBECK .... SP, 39.5 miles 32
Built in 1871 by the Houston & Texas Central as part of the rail line from Hearne to Dallas. Geographically a north-south railroad, trains are considered as eastward or westward by SP timetable. Trains headed north (toward Corsicana, Dallas or Fort Worth) are westward trains.
WACO BRANCHSSW, Corsicana-Hubbard portion 26.9 miles .... 54
Built in 1881 as part of the westward expansion of the Texas & St. Louis of Texas. Trains bound for Waco are southward by timetable.
CORSICANA-ENNIS SP, 22.0 miles 68
Built in 1872 as the Houston & Texas Central progressed northward toward Dallas. SP trains on this nearly north-south route are considered as eastward or westward.
FORT WORTH BRANCHSP, Garrett-Fort Worth 52.4 miles 78
Built in 1879 from Garrett to Waxahachie by the Waxahachie Tap Railroad (which became the Central Texas & Northwestern in 1881), and in 1886 from Fort Worth to Waxahachie by the Fort Worth & New Orleans. Both companies became part of the Houston & Texas Central in 1902. Fort Worth-bound trains are westward.
ENNIS-DALLASSP, Ennis-Garrett-Miller Yard 26.3 miles104
Built in 1872 by the Houston & Texas Central. In 1934 the H&TC was merged into the Texas & New Orleans, the SP-affiliate incorporated in Texas. Dallas-bound trains are timetable westward.
SP trackage from Hearne through Groesbeck, Corsicana and Ennis to Dallas, and also the Forth Worth Branch, is all part of the Ennis Subdivision of the San Antonio Division in the 1980's.
SSW trackage into Corsicana from the east, and also the Waco Branch, is part of the Corsicana Subdivision of the Pine Bluff Division in the 1980's.
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION:
For many years, Cotton Belt traffic moving south from the St. Louis and Memphis gateways has been funneled onto the Southern Pacific at Corsicana, Texas, by the Blue Streak Merchandise and other hotshots. Also, SP's share of the Dallas/Fort Worth freight is handled through Ennis Yard and Corsicana. Tunnel motors and GP40-2's, B23-7's and U33C's, most everything on the Cotton Belt roster of road units worked Corsicana and the Ennis Subdivision in the 1980's. In addition, solid Cascade green Burlington Northern engine consists wheeled the 100-plus cars of SATX coal trains down the Ennis Sub from Fort Worth toward San Antonio. Add to this the leisurely, backwoods wandering of the afternoon freight on the Cotton Belt to Waco, normally operated with power built in 1965 or earlier, and you have some interesting Texas railroading. Have a good look at an overlooked area of the American rails!
On the cover... Nearly twelve thousand Southern Pacific and Cotton Belt horses are grinding upgrade into Midlothian, Texas, at something around 20 miles per hour, bound for Ennis with a Fort Worth Turn. The three General Electric B23-7's and the two Electro-Motive GP35's have less than a mile to go to reach the crest of this particular grade, which occurs at the Espee's crossing of the Santa Fe's Dallas-Cleburne line. February 1983.
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