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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 ...
1853 – Indianapolis Union Station, the first union station, opened by the Terre Haute and Richmond Railroad, Madison and Indianapolis Railroad, and Bellefontaine Railroad in the United States. 1854 – The first railway in Brazil , inaugurated by Pedro II of Brazil on 30 April in Rio de Janeiro , built by the Viscount of Maua .
Track-laying of the 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) [3] gauge railroad began in early 1856. By July 26 tracks had reached the 25-mile (40 km) point, at Cypress. The railroad company name was changed from G&RR to H&TC on September 1, 1856. By April 22, 1861, railroad construction had reached the 81-mile (130 km) point at Millican.
As the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos & Colorado Railroad completed its track-laying near Columbus, Texas, investors formed a company to extend tracks into the interior of Texas. William Harbert, Andrew M. Campbell, George W. Smith [ 2 ] and Gustav Schleicher [ 3 ] intended to extend the railroad from the Colorado River to San Antonio and beyond.
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 ...
4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge The San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway first began operation in the U.S. state of Texas in 1886. It was developed by Uriah Lott and businessmen of San Antonio as a direct route from the city to Aransas Bay on the Texas Gulf coast. [ 1 ]
The physical assets of that entity were sold June 30, 1904 to the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company. [1] In subsequent history, while the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company was merged into the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railway (Katy) in 1922, the trackage between Oklahoma City and Coalgate was not part of the reorganized company.