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Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway of Texas: East Line and Red River Railroad: MKT: 1871 1881 Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway: East Texas Railway: SP: 1880 1881 Sabine and East Texas Railway: East Texas Central Railroad: ETC 1996 1998 Blacklands Railroad: East Texas and Gulf Railway: 1917 1934 N/A Eastern Texas Railroad: SSW: 1900 1921 N/A ...
1880 map of the Houston and Texas Central Railway. Ebenezer Allen of Galveston, Texas obtained the charter to establish a railroad company on March 11, 1848. Other investors included Paul Bremond, Thomas William House, Sr., William J. Hutchins, Francis Moore, Benjamin A. Shepherd, James H. Stevens, William Marsh Rice, and William Van Alstyne. [2]
Route map of the railroad, circa 1950s (bold lines are T&P; thin lines denote connecting service for Eagle passenger trains) From 1873 to 1881 the Texas and Pacific built a total of 972 miles (1,560 km) of track; as a result it was entitled to land grants totalling 12,441,600 acres (50,349 km 2 ).
The Texas and New Orleans Railroad (TNO) was an American rail company in Texas and Louisiana. It operated 3,713 miles (5,975 km) of railroad in 1934; by 1961, 3,385 miles (5,448 km) remained when it merged with parent company Southern Pacific .
Fort Worth & Denver Alco 2-8-0 No. 304 at the Wichita Falls Railroad Museum FW&D Engine 501 in Childress, Texas. At the railroad's peak in 1944, during the World War II economic boom, the Texas Railroad Commission reported that the FW&DC earned $12,132,515 in freight revenue, $5,839,399 in passenger revenue, and $1,488,095 in other revenue ...
Texas and Oklahoma Railroad (1991) Texas and St. Louis Railway; Texas City Terminal Railway; Texas Mexican Railway; Texas & New Mexico Railway; Texas North Western Railway; Texas and Northern Railway; Texas Pacifico Transportation; Texas Transportation Company (1866–1896) Texas, Gonzales and Northern Railway; Timber Rock Railroad; Trinity ...
Railroad AAR rep. mark Alamo Gulf Coast Railroad: AGCR Alliance Terminal Railroad: ATR Angelina and Neches River Railroad: ANR Austin Western Railroad: AWRR Blacklands Railroad: BLR Central Texas and Colorado River Railway: CTXR Dallas, Garland & Northeastern Railroad: DGNO Fort Worth & Western Railroad: FWWR Galveston Railroad: GVSR Georgetown ...
The Buffalo Bayou, Brazos, and Colorado Railway (B.B.B.C. or B.B.B. & C.), also called the Harrisburg Road or Harrisburg Railroad, was the first operating railroad in Texas. It completed its first segment of track between Harrisburg, Texas (now a neighborhood of Houston) and Stafford's Point, Texas in 1853.