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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 ...
1871 map showing the Houston Tap and Brazoria Railway in Texas, along with other railroads. In 1850 the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railroad was chartered and in 1852 the company started construction. In 1853 the line reached Stafford and by January 1, 1856 the railroad ran from Harrisburg to Richmond. Worried that their city was being ...
Route map of the railroad, circa 1950s (bold lines are T&P; thin lines denote connecting service for Eagle passenger trains) From 1873 to 1881 the Texas and Pacific built a total of 972 miles (1,560 km) of track; as a result it was entitled to land grants totalling 12,441,600 acres (50,349 km 2 ).
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.
Railroads soon replaced many canals and turnpikes and by the 1870s had significantly displaced steamboats as well. [25] The railroads were superior to these alternative modes of transportation, particularly water routes because they lowered costs in two ways.
1880 map of the Houston and Texas Central Railway. Ebenezer Allen of Galveston, Texas obtained the charter to establish a railroad company on March 11, 1848. Other investors included Paul Bremond, Thomas William House, Sr., William J. Hutchins, Francis Moore, Benjamin A. Shepherd, James H. Stevens, William Marsh Rice, and William Van Alstyne. [2]
In 1881, C. P. Huntington, acting for the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, bought the Texas and New Orleans as well as many other railroads in the southern United States. As a result of this acquiring of railroads by Southern Pacific, The Texas and New Orleans Railroad found itself as part of a major transcontinental route. In 1882, The T&NO ...
Map of central Dallas c. 1871. In 1871, railroads were beginning to approach the area and Dallas city leaders did not intend to stand idly and be left out. They paid the Houston and Central Texas Railroad US$5,000 to shift its route 20 miles (32 km) to the west and build its north–south tracks through Dallas, rather than through Corsicana as