Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/ICC valuations/Dallas Terminal Railway and Union Depot Company

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Location and general description of property.—The railroad of Dallas Terminal Railway & Union Depot Company, herein called the Dallas Terminal, is all situated in the State of Texas. The property consists of 3.772 miles of main line and 7.207 miles of sidings, or 10.979 miles of all tracks; a freight station and a passenger station, all located in Dallas. The tracks are laid to a considerable extent in streets of Dallas under city ordinances. The Dallas Terminal has trackage rights over somewhat less than a mile of the tracks of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Company. The property is used jointly by the Dallas Terminal and the Southwestern of Texas.

Corporate history.—The Dallas Terminal was incorporated December 10, 1884, under the general laws of Texas to construct and operate a railroad from Dallas, Tex., to a connection with the Southwestern of Texas, between Plano and Fort Worth, Tex., about 20 miles, with the right to construct a branch or belt line in the city of Dallas. The charter was amended January 10, 1899, and the name changed to the Dallas, Fort Worth and Gulf Railroad[sic] Company, an extension of the line to the city of Fort Worth being contemplated. This plan, however, was abandoned, and a second charter amendment December 16, 1901, provided for a change of name of the corporation to the name originally given it—that of the present company. No books of record of the Dallas Terminal are obtainable previous to 1901, when the carrier acquired control of all the capital stock of this company, which control it still holds. Such data as are given in regard to the Dallas Terminal before 1901 are taken not from the records of the Dallas Terminal but from the records of the carrier. The principal office is at Dallas, Tex.