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Continued as a tourist railroad: Texas Transportation Company: TXTC 1897 2000 N/A ... Warren Central Railroad: SP: 1930 1934 Texas and New Orleans Railroad:
July – The Atlantic City Railroad (a predecessor of the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines) purchases the Wildwood and Delaware Bay Short Line Railroad. July 8 – A demonstration Bennie Railplane monorail line is opened over an existing railway line at Milngavie near Glasgow in Scotland.
July 1: The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad of Texas merges into parent Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad. [105] October 17: The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad and Erie Railroad merge to form the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad. [106] November 1: The Chicago and North Western Railway acquires the property of the Minneapolis and St. Louis ...
The Texas Interurban Railway was an electric interurban railroad that operated from Dallas, Texas, to Terrell and Denton from 1923 to 1932. The Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad (Katy) line was electrified between Dallas and Denton and services were withdrawn after the Dallas Union Trust Company foreclosed .
A comparison map prepared by the Santa Fe Railroad in 1921, showing the "Old Santa Fé Trail" (top) and the AT&SF and its connections (bottom)On March 29, 1955, the railway was one of many companies that sponsored attractions in Disneyland with its five-year sponsorship of all Disneyland trains and stations until 1974.
Despite its name, it ceased regulating railroads in 2005, when the last of the rail functions were transferred to the Texas Department of Transportation. [ 1 ] Established by the Texas Legislature in 1891, it is the state's oldest regulatory agency, and began as part of the Efficiency Movement of the Progressive Era .
The Galveston–Houston Electric Railway was an interurban railway between Galveston and Houston, Texas from 1911 to 1936. The railway was recognized as the fastest interurban line in 1925 and 1926. The railway was recognized as the fastest interurban line in 1925 and 1926.
Uriah Lott, a transportation entrepreneur, engaged his friends Richard King and contractor Mifflin Kenedy in development of three railroad lines in Texas to improve connections from major cities to smaller ones, and to trading areas in Mexico. The Corpus Christi, San Diego and Rio Grande Narrow Gauge Railroad connected Corpus Christi and Laredo.