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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]
Friedman et al. v. Rogers et al., 440 U.S. 1 (1979) was a Supreme Court case in which the Court held that a Texas law, the Texas Optometry Act, which prohibited optometrists from using trade names for commercial purposes and which requires that 4/6 of the members of the Texas Optometry Board be members of the Texas Optometric Association is constitutional.
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 ...
The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) was a regulatory agency in the United States created by the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887.The agency's original purpose was to regulate railroads (and later trucking) to ensure fair rates, to eliminate rate discrimination, and to regulate other aspects of common carriers, including interstate bus lines and telephone companies.
St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railway: SSW: 1886 1891 St. Louis Southwestern Railway of Texas, Tyler Southeastern Railway: St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway: SB&M, SBM MP: 1903 1956 Missouri Pacific Railroad: St. Louis – San Francisco Railway: SLSF SLSF: 1964 1980 Burlington Northern Inc. St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas Railway ...
Burlington Northern would merge with the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe in 1996 to form Ft. Worth-based BNSF Railway. In 1940 B-RI reported 78 million net ton-miles of revenue freight and 16 million passenger miles; at the end of that year it operated 255 miles of railroad.
Texas Central or Texas Central Partners, LLC, is a private company that is proposing to build a high-speed rail line between Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston. [3] It plans to use technology based on that used by the Central Japan Railway Company and trains based on the N700S Series Shinkansen .