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The first railroad in Texas completed in 1872, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, diminished the need for these drives. The desire for the benefits of railroads was so strong that Dallasites paid $5,000 for the Houston and Central Texas Railroad to shift its route through its location, rather than Corsicana as planned. [ 5 ]
Continued as a tourist railroad: Texas Transportation Company: TXTC 1897 2000 N/A Texas Transportation Company: SP: 1866 1896 Texas and New Orleans Railroad: Texas Trunk Railroad: SP: 1879 1895 Texas and New Orleans Railroad: Texas Western Railroad: MP: 1852 1856 Southern Pacific Railroad: Texas Western Railway: 1879 1896 N/A
The Longhorn and Western Railroad is the Texas Transportation Museum's standard gauge heritage railroad that operates on its property with no connection to the general rail system. The L&W consists of approximately 5 ⁄ 8 -mile (1.0 km) of trackage in total, with its mainline that runs 1 ⁄ 3 -mile (0.54 km) from the east and west ends of the ...
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 ...
Pages in category "Texas railroads" ... History of the Union Pacific Railroad; ... Texas Transportation Company (1866–1896)
In 1966, Congress created the Federal Railroad Administration, to issue and enforce rail safety regulations, administer railroad assistance programs, and conduct research and development in support of improved railroad safety and national rail transportation policy. The safety functions were transferred from the ICC.
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.
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 ...