Nostalgia & History > Didn't make it to the ocean.

I was musing about something that might be fun. How many railroads over the years had "Pacific" in their name but never reached the Pacific? Go!

Allen Greer
Frontier Motel & Cafe, Truxton, AZ

Texas and Pacific
Missouri Pacific
Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific
and a bouns: Saint Louis-San Francisco
 

Quanah, Acme & Pacific

I beleive there were two Atlantic & Pacifics--one that was a Missouri Pacific predecessor and the other the Santa Fe.

Oregon Pacific

Ironically on the flip side, Iowa Pacific.

Definitely
Butte, Anaconda & Pacific
Cincinnati, New Orleans, & Texas Pacific
ALLEN  
 

A couple more "Pacifics":

Oregon, Pacific & Eastern
Roscoe, Snyder & Pacific

In the other direction:

Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic
 



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Denver South Park & Pacific.
Cincinatti New Orleans & Texas Pacific



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Chicago, Central and Pacific, Duluth, Winnepeg and Pacific, Denver, Northwest and Pacific, Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific, Georgia Pacific, Kansas Pacific.  AA

Stanford White
Carmel Valley, CA



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St. Louis, Rocky Mountain & Pacific

Besides A&P, any other RRs that didn't reach
any part of their name?

timz Wrote:
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> Besides A&P, any other RRs that didn't reach
> any part of their name?


Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway (SP&S).

The answer I would like to know is "which railroad missed the Pacific part by the most distance? Maybe CNO&TP?

Jay

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F40PHR231 Wrote:
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> timz Wrote:
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> > Besides A&P, any other RRs that didn't reach
> > any part of their name?
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> Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway (SP&S).                                                                                                       Timz, Perhaps the Erie RR, which I don't think ever reached Erie, PA.  Regards the SP&S, both Portland and Spokane were reached.  AA

Stanford White
Carmel Valley, CA

agentatascadero Wrote:
> Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway (SP&S).  
> Regards the SP&S, both Portland and Spokane were reached.  AA


Ooops, I read the question as "didn't reach a part of their name" and was thinking of the Seattle part of SP&S.

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,1042784

The Tonopah and Tidewater never reaches its namesake locations directly.  It was never even close to getting to "Tidewater" at San Diego or so somewhere close as planned.  They did reach Tonopah by operating over another railroad (Las Vegas and Tonoaph) that they acquirred late in the company's history.

I used to keep snapshots of everywhere I found Espee actually came within view of its namesake ocean. There were several but most were novelties. All in an envelope buried in back of one of my file drawers, now.

Steve Donaldson
Pacific Grove, CA

How about Duluth Winnipeg &Pacific

GRS

> ... Georgia Pacific... 

which made it only to the east bank of the Mississippi.