On 12/27/2014 9:38 AM, John McCoy wrote:
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Double track ends at El Paso because the UP splits three ways
there - the Rock Island line thru Amarillo to Chicago, the
Missouri Pacific line to Dallas, and the SP line to Houston
and New Orleans.
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As noted earlier, we're on the old Rock Island line--in fact, town
exists where it does as this was the terminus for a number of years
before opening Indian Territory (Oklahoma) to let them continue building
across it.

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