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The Texas Legislature created the Texas Highway Department in 1916 to administer federal highway construction and maintenance. In 1975, its responsibilities increased when the agency merged with the Texas Mass Transportation Commission, [3] resulting in the formation of the State Department of Highways and Public Transportation. [4] [5] [6]
The Texas Department of Transportation intended to "charge public and private concerns for utility, commodity or data transmission" within the corridor, [14] in essence creating a toll road for services such as water, electricity, natural gas, petroleum, fiber optic lines, and other telecommunications services.
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 ...
The main building was opened on 2 August 1969 [3] [4] and three months later the museum had 26 cars. [5] The museum received the minesweeper USS Admiral Vosseller (MSB-5) on loan from the U.S. Navy in 1973. [6] The following year it opened an exhibition about lighter-than-air aircraft. [7]
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Transportation companies based in Texas (2 C, 11 P) Transportation on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas (4 C) Texas transportation-related lists (3 C, 10 P)
The History of Texas License Plates – 80th Anniversary Edition (PDF). Austin, Texas: Texas Department of Transportation. March 1999. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 October 2012 An extensive history and catalog of Texas license plates.
The automobile in American history and culture: a reference guide (Greenwood, 2001). Condit, Carl W. The railroad and the city: a technological and urbanistic history of Cincinnati (The Ohio State University Press, 1977) online. Eckermann, Erik. World history of the automobile (SAE International, 2001). Gkoumas, Konstantinos, and Anastasios ...