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It is located near Kingsland, Texas and runs roughly along railroad tracks from Fairland to Llano. It also was known as Southern Pacific Railroad—Fairland to Llano branch. The historic district is generally a linear 30-mile (48 km) strip along the railroad with a 100 ft (30 m) width of the right-of-way for the tracks.
Llano: Recorded Texas Historic Landmark 7: State Highway 29 Bridge at the Colorado River: State Highway 29 Bridge at the Colorado River: October 10, 1996 : TX 29 at the Llano County line: Buchanan Dam
The railroad was originally built as a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge line with plans to connect to the Texas and Pacific Railway at Abilene. Construction reached Burnet, Texas , by 1882 and the line was later extended to Granite Mountain by 1885 - when the railroad was contracted to haul pink granite for the new Texas State Capitol building in Austin.
St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railroad, San Benito and Rio Grande Valley Railroad: Quanah, Acme and Pacific Railway: QA&P, QAP SLSF: 1909 1981 Burlington Northern Railroad: Red River and Southwestern Railway: 1890 Southwestern Railway: Red River, Texas and Southern Railway: SLSF: 1901 1904 St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas Railway: Rio ...
The Austin Western Railroad (reporting mark AWRR) is a Class III short-line railroad headquartered in Round Rock, Texas. [1] AWRR is a subsidiary of Watco . It is the contracted operator of 126 miles (203 km) of ex-Southern Pacific trackage, now owned by Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority .
Kingsland is located in eastern Llano County at the confluence of the Colorado and the Llano rivers, which combine to form Lake Lyndon B. Johnson.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 9.8 square miles (25.4 km 2), of which 9.0 square miles (23.4 km 2) are land and 0.8 square miles (2.0 km 2), or 7.96%, are water.
In Mason County, US 377 passes through Streeter before forming a concurrency with SH 29 near Grit. In Mason , SH 29 splits off to its own alignment while US 377 turns north to join U.S. Route 87 . US 87/377 head north together into Brady , where they meet US 190 , the southern terminus of US 283 , and SH 71 .
The Antlers Hotel is a hotel and resort built in 1901 by the Austin and Northwestern Railroad on the Colorado River in Kingsland in Llano County in Central Texas. After a brief heyday, The Antlers closed in 1923 and fell into disrepair. It was eventually resurrected by a couple from Austin and reopened in 1996.