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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 ...
May – James J. Hill forms the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway from the assets of the bankrupt St. Paul and Pacific. May 17 – The Texas and St. Louis Railway, a predecessor of St. Louis Southwestern Railway, is organized as a way to ship cotton south to Texas. [3] May 31 – The first electric railway opens at the Berlin Trades ...
Oklahoma City and Texas Railroad: SLSF: 1903 1907 St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas Railway: Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad: OKKT MKT: 1980 1989 Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad: Oklahoma, Red River and Texas Railway: 1910 1912 N/A Operated Blossom to Deport, 11 miles Orange and Northwestern Railroad: MP: 1901 1956 Missouri Pacific ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Central Texas and Colorado River Railway; History of the Union Pacific Railroad ... Texas and Oklahoma Railroad (1991) Texas ...
A Most Magnificent Machine: America Adopts the Railroad, 1825–1862 (University Press of Kansas; 2010) 325 pages; Documents the enthusiasm that accompanied the advent of the railroad system; Nice, David C. Amtrak: The History and Politics of a National Railroad (1998) online edition Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine
Representatives of the T&SL and the Toledo, Cincinnati & St. Louis announced in January 1881 their agreement to form such a linking railroad, to be called the Toledo, Texas and Rio Grande. [9] While a company of that name was chartered in Illinois on June 8, 1882, financial issues with both sponsor railroads starting around the Fall of 1882 ...
1838 – The world's first railroad junction is formed in Branchville, South Carolina. The railroad company extended its existing rail that ran between Charleston and the Savannah River to the north toward Orangeburg and Columbia. Both rail lines closely paralleled old Native American trails. 1838 – Edmondson railway ticket introduced.
The Waco and Northwestern Division remained in receivership until it was sold on September 5, 1895. It was acquired by the Houston and Texas Central Railroad on June 30, 1898. [4] The H&TC Railroad continued to operate independently until 1927, when it was leased to the Texas and New Orleans Railroad, a subsidiary of the Southern Pacific ...