The Chicago, Rock Island and Gulf Railway was a Texas subsidiary of the

Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (CRI&P RW, sometimes called ''Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway'') was an American Class I railroad. It was also known as the Rock Island Line, or, in its final years, The Rock. At the end ...

. The railroad was chartered in 1902 with intention to construct a railway from

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{{Authority control Predecessors of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Defunct Texas railroads Railway companies established in 1902 Railway companies disestablished in 1948