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In 1891, a typical rate was 1.403 cents per ton mile. By 1907, the rate was 1.039 cents—a decline of 25%. However, the railroads did not have rates high enough for them to upgrade their equipment and lower costs in the face of competition from pipelines, cars, and trucks, and the Texas railway system began a slow decline. [9]
The Houston East and West Texas Railway Company managed an interstate railway line that ran through Dallas and Marshall, Texas (on the eastern border of Texas), and Shreveport, Louisiana. The freight shipping rates "on wagons" from Marshall to Dallas, a distance of 148 miles, was 36.8 cents, and the rate from Marshall to Shreveport, a distance ...
BNSF Railway is suing the North Texas city of Gunter for blocking its plans to build a large industrial logicistics center. The Fort Worth-based railroad filed its lawsuit in District Court in ...
Low sale price, lack of transparency among reasons voters should reject Issue 22.
The Central Texas & Colorado River Railway (reporting mark CTXR) is a short-line railroad headquartered in Brady, Texas. Formerly known as the Heart of Texas Railroad , the railroad operates a portion of the former Santa Fe branch line to Eden , between Brady and an interchange with the BNSF Railway at Lometa .
The Gulf Coast Lines were projected originally by B. F. Yoakum, chairman of the board of the Rock Island and Frisco Lines.Yoakum's plan envisioned using the Rock Island and Frisco, together with several railroads to be built in Texas and Louisiana and now known as the Gulf Coast Lines, to form a continuous line of railroad extending from Chicago, St. Louis and Memphis to Baton Rouge, Houston ...
Blackwell, Enid and Texas Railway: SLSF: 1901 1904 St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas Railway: Board of Trustees of the Galveston Wharves: GWF 1940 Still exists as a lessor of the Galveston Railroad: Bois d'Arc and Southern Railway: BDS 1934 1946 N/A Bowers and Piney Creek Railway: 1889 1891 N/A Brazos, Santiago and Rio Grande Railroad: 1865 ...
TM - Texas Midland Railroad, Texas Mexican Railway; Kansas City Southern Railway; TMAX - Tennessee River Pulp and Paper Company; TMBL - Tacoma Municipal Belt Line Railway; TMER&L - The Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company; TMLX - Thunder Mountain Line; TMO - Vitebsk Seaway and Continental Railway; Lincoln Pacific Railway; TMPX - Texas ...