The Lone Star Steel Companywas a company based in Lone Star, Texas

Lone Star, Texas

Lone Star is a city in Morris County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,631 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Lone Star is located at ....

. It specialized in making tubular steel with outer diameters ranging from 16 inches to 1.415 inches.

The founder and first president of the company was John W. Carpenter

John W. Carpenter

John William Carpenter was an American businessman and agriculturist.-Early life:Carpenter was born to Thomas Wirt Carpenter and Ellen Isaphene Dickson in Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas. He was raised on the family's farm, which had been established after the Civil War...

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The wholly owned Texas and Northern Railway

Texas and Northern Railway

The Texas and Northern Railway is an eight-mile railroad connecting Lone Star, Texas, to the former Louisiana and Arkansas Railway, now a line of the Kansas City Southern Railway, between Daingerfield and Hughes Springs...

 connected the steel plant at Lone Star to the Kansas City Southern Railway

Kansas City Southern Railway

The Kansas City Southern Railway , owned by Kansas City Southern Industries, is the smallest and second-oldest Class I railroad company still in operation. KCS was founded in 1887 and is currently operating in a region consisting of ten central U.S. states...

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Lone Star Steel was sold to US Steel on March 29 2007.

External links

• Lone Star Steel Company