Along a brick road between Mineral Wells and Weatherford, Texas in the 1930s. That looks to be a US Department of Agriculture car if the license plate has anything to do with it.
Wow, who'd they get to lay all them bricks?! Wonder if it's still there, just paved over with 70 years of asphalt?
Well as this thread is about the Texas & Pacific, here is another photo. No steamer but I bet one was pulling this. The Cannon Ball Express wreck on the Sabine River Bridge near Silver Lake (Mineola) on July 30, 1902.
8000 block US 180 east. As a firefighter, I worked several vehicle wrecks under of near that trestle. It's now a two-lane divided highway. No idea if the bricks are still there but I doubt it.
If the road goes under the same bridge, then the bricks almost certainly are. Bricks make an excellent foundation for pavement, they help it keep from shifting and cracking. At least Roger Penske feels that way about the million bricks under the pavement of his Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway has ben paved several times before it came into Penske's hands. The original bricks are the foundation to all the layers of pavement at the speedway. The paving has been done such that a yard of bricks is visible at the Start/Finish line. The transition between pavement and the bricks is such that you don't feel the transition when you drive over them