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  2. Texas and Pacific Railway - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway - Wikipedia

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    The Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway, chartered under the laws of Texas on June 1, 1885, was part of a plan conceived by Buckley Burton Paddock and other Fort Worth civic leaders to create a transcontinental route linking New York, Fort Worth, and the Pacific port of Topolobampo, which they believed would stimulate the growth and development of southwest Texas in general, and the economy of ...

  5. List of Texas railroads - Wikipedia

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    Eastern Texas Railroad: Midland and Northwestern Railway: 1916 1920 N/A Mineral Wells and Eastern Railway: MWRY 1989 1992 N/A Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad: MKT MKT 1960 1989 Missouri Pacific Railroad: Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad of Texas: MKTT MKT: 1923 1960 Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad: Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway ...

  6. Texas and St. Louis Railway - Wikipedia

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    The original charter of the Tyler Tap Railroad, enacted by a special act of the Twelfth Texas Legislature on December 1, 1871, provided merely for “…a single or double track, from Tyler to such a point, not exceeding forty miles from the above town on either the Southern Pacific, Houston and Great Northern or the International Railroad, as ...

  7. History of the Southern Pacific Railroad - Wikipedia

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    [1] [5] BBB&C was the first railroad to commence operation in Texas and the first component of SP to commence operation. Surveying of the route alignment commenced at Harrisburg, Texas, in 1851 and construction between Houston and Alleyton, Texas, commenced later that year. The first 20 miles (32 km) of track opened in August 1853.

  8. 50 years after Railway Express closed, its building remains ...

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    In 1917, President Woodrow Wilson nationalized U.S. railroads. Part of the change-over was consolidating seven railway express companies into a single entity, the American Railway Express Agency ...

  9. Timeline of railway history - Wikipedia

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    1946 – U.S. railroads begin rapidly replacing their rolling stock with diesel-electric units—not completing the process until the mid 1960s. 1948, 1 January – British Railways formed by nationalising the assets of the 'Big Four' railway companies (GWR, LMS, LNER and SR).

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