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The Galveston Railroad Museum is a railroad museum housed in the former Santa Fe Railroad station, at 25th and Strand in Galveston, Texas. The Museum is owned and operated by the Center for Transportation and Commerce, a non-profit organization. [2] The museum was established with funds from Galveston businesswoman and philanthropist Mary Moody ...
The Galveston Railroad (reporting mark GVSR) is a Class III terminal switching railroad headquartered in Galveston, Texas. It primarily serves the transportation of cargo to and from the Port of Galveston. [1] GVSR operates 32 miles (51 km) of yard track at Galveston, over a 50-acre (200,000 m 2) facility.
The railway remained mostly under control of the Confederate States of America (CSA) during the American Civil War. [1] More recently, most of original Galveston, Houston and Henderson right-of-way running between the Island and Bayou cities has been a property of the Union Pacific Railroad known as the Galveston Subdivision. This legacy rail ...
AT&SF Union Station in Galveston, Texas. GC&SF also participated in Galveston's efforts to raise the city after the 1900 Galveston hurricane.In 1904, the board granted Goedhart and Bates a five-year lease to a strip of land on the east end of the Gulf Company in Galveston, which would be used for canal purposes in connection with the grade-raising of the city.
A train ticket is a transit pass ticket issued by a railway operator that enables the bearer to travel on the operator's network or a partner's network. Tickets can authorize the bearer to travel a set itinerary at a specific time (common for long-distance railroads), a set itinerary at any time (common for commuter railroads ), a set itinerary ...
Location of Galveston County in Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Galveston County, Texas. There are 10 districts, 73 individual properties, and four former properties listed on the National Register in the county.
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Galveston and Red River Railway: SP: 1848 1856 Houston and Texas Central Railway: Galveston, Sabine and St. Louis Railway: ATSF: 1882 1888 Texas, Sabine Valley and Northwestern Railway: Galveston Terminal Railway: CB&Q/ RI: 1905 1985 Burlington Northern Railroad: Galveston and Western Railway: ATSF: 1887 1923 Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway ...