Quanah, Acme and Pacific Railway (QA&P) was a freight railroad that operated between the Red River and Floydada, Texas, from 1902 until it was merged into the

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in 1981.

History

On May 3, 1902, the line was incorporated as the Acme, Red River and Northern Railway. The founders' original, never-realized plans were to extend the line from the Red River to

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. On January 28, 1909, the railroad assumed the name of the Quanah, Acme and Pacific. One of the largest shareholders was Harry Koch. In 1911, the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway assumed control of the QA&P. On June 8, 1981, the QA&P was merged into the Burlington Northern Railroad, which had merged the QA&P's corporate parent, the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway, on November 21, 1980. The Burlington Northern Railroad abandoned the former QA&P line west of Paducah in 1982.

Traffic

Freight stops on the QA&P were Red River, Carnes, Quanah,

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, Lazare, Swearingen, Paducah, Narcisso, Summit (Motley County), Russellville, Roaring Springs, MacBain, Dougherty, Boothe Spur, and Floydada. In 1925, QA&P reported 8 million ton-miles of revenue freight on 91 miles of line; in 1944, it had 51 million and in 1967, 130 million, both on 120 route-miles. However, QA&P's traffic mostly was overhead freight — between the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway at the Red River and the

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at Floydada. Starting in the 1960s, the QLA freight train via Floydada was scheduled to arrive in

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38½-to-40 hours after leaving Tulsa. The railroad's traffic diminished after 1973 when overhead trade took a shorter route via Avard, OK.''

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Quanah Acme Pacific Railway Defunct Texas railroads Railway companies established in 1909 Railway companies disestablished in 1981 Predecessors of the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway Former Class I railroads in the United States