The mainline of the Texas and Pacific from Shreveport, Louisiana did not reach Ft. Worth until the summer of 1876. It covered 222 miles. In all, the T. & P, had 444 miles of road.  The T. & P. would have 20 sections a mile through Texas and California and 40 sections a mile through Arizona and New Mexico.

C. Vann Woodward, Reaction and Reunion,: the Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction (Boston, Little, Brown, 1951), 73-77.

For Texas and Pacific and South, see Mark W. Summers, Railroads, Reconstruction and the Gospel of Prosperity: Aid Under the Radical Republicans, 1865-77 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984), 168-73.

James Arthur Ward, J. Edgar Thomson: Master of the Pennsylvania (Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1980), 205-208.

For description of progress, Dodge to Scott, Jan. 12, 1874, MS 98, Box 160, Letterbooks, Texas Pacific Railroad, Dodge Papers.

For an older overview, S.G. Reed, A History of the Texas Railroads and of Transportation Conditions under Spain and Mexico and The Republic and The State (Houston, Texas: The St. Clair Publishing Company, 1941), 364, 556-365.

Poor, Manual of Railroads, 1876-77, 344-45.