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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.
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 ...
Texas and Oklahoma Railroad (1991) Texas and St. Louis Railway; Texas City Terminal Railway; Texas Mexican Railway; Texas & New Mexico Railway; Texas North Western Railway; Texas and Northern Railway; Texas Pacifico Transportation; Texas Transportation Company (1866–1896) Texas, Gonzales and Northern Railway; Timber Rock Railroad; Trinity ...
July 1: The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad of Texas merges into parent Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad. [105] October 17: The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad and Erie Railroad merge to form the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad. [106] November 1: The Chicago and North Western Railway acquires the property of the Minneapolis and St. Louis ...
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 ...
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 ...
September 15 – The Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad (the 'Katy') conveys 40,000 people to Crush, Texas to witness a staged train wreck as a publicity stunt arranged by its general passenger agent, William George Crush. Three spectators are accidentally killed.
December 1: The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad merges into parent Missouri Pacific Railroad. December 31: The Boston and Maine Corporation and Delaware and Hudson Railway are demoted from Class I; combined with the demise of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, this drops the number of Class I railroads to 15. [citation needed] 1990