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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.
March 3, 1871 - United States Congress grants a charter to the Texas Pacific Railroad Company; 1871 - Texas legislature charters the company and grant permission to purchase the Southern Trans-Continental Railway Company and the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Note: This is a different Southern Pacific Railroad company from the one referred ...
Business History Review 1975 49(1): 37–59. in JSTOR; White, Richard. Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (2011) excerpt and text search; Wolmar, Christian. The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America (2012), survey to 2012; emphasis on 19th century; 448pp excerpt and text search
1825 John Stevens of Hoboken, New Jersey built a 1/2 mile circular test railroad track and also built a steam locomotive, the first in America. The locomotive had a pinion and the track had a rack. 1826, January – The first section of the Springwell Colliery Railway, later to be known as the Bowes Railway, opened.
Eastern Texas Railroad: SSW: 1900 1921 N/A Eastern Texas Railroad: 1860 1863 N/A Eastland, Wichita Falls and Gulf Railroad: 1918 1944 N/A El Paso and Northeastern Railroad: SP: 1896 1937 El Paso and Southwestern Railroad of Texas: El Paso Northern Railway: SP: 1894 1897 El Paso and Northeastern Railroad: El Paso Southern Railway: SP: 1897 1961 ...
[3] [5] The reenergized T&SL built 107 miles of track between Big Sandy and Texarkana by July 12, 1880, [5] completed another 37 miles between Tyler and Athens by the end of that year, and reached Waco on September 11, 1881. [5] The following year the company laid even more track, running an additional 46 miles west from Waco to Gatesville.
From September 11 the same year, the road was operating from Abilene to Ballinger, Texas, a total of 54.75 miles (88.11 km), where a connection to a branch line of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway was established. Finally, on October 1, 1910, a railroad from Anson, Texas to Hamlin, Texas (17.41 miles (28.02
Texas Midland Railroad; In 1934, all of these were merged into T&NO, making it the largest Texas railroad with 3,713 miles (5,975 km) of road (not all in Texas). On November 1, 1961, the remaining 3,385 miles (5,448 km) merged into the Southern Pacific and the T&NO ceased to exist. [3]