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Originally chartered on May 15, 1908, as the Texas Northern Railway Company, it changed its name on August 17, 1908. On December 1, 1908, the GL&N purchased the 21-mile (34 km) private logging railroad between Groveton and Vair from the Trinity County Lumber Company, its corporate parent; the rail line had been built in 1900 by lumber company ...
[1] [2] [3] It was incorporated on August 31, 1905 [4] and was initially owned by four line-haul railway companies that it connected with, Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway Company, the Beaumont, Sour Lake and Western Railway Company, the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway Company and the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Company. [1]
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is a governmental agency and its purpose is to "provide safe, effective, and efficient movement of people and goods" throughout the state. [1] Though the public face of the agency is generally associated with maintenance of the state's immense highway system, the agency is also responsible for ...
The Rockdale, Sandow and Southern Railroad (reporting mark RSS) was a Class III railroad operating in the United States state of Texas. It consisted of 5 miles (8.0 km) [1] of track between Rockdale and Marjorie, Texas. In 2005, the holding company RailAmerica purchased the railroad. [1] It ultimately became part of Genesee & Wyoming's holdings.
The history of rail transportation dates back nearly 500 years and includes systems with man or horsepower and rails of wood (or occasionally stone). This was usually for moving coal from the mine down to a river, from where it could continue by boat, with a flanged wheel running on a rail.
The Port Terminal Railroad Association is an American terminal railroad that operates 185 miles (298 km) of track at the Port of Houston in Houston, Texas. [1] It is an independent association comprising Port of Houston Authority, the Houston Belt & Terminal Railway, Union Pacific Railroad, BNSF Railway and Kansas City Southern Railway. [2]
In June 1926 it took 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours each way, leaving Houston at noon and Dallas at 1:25 p.m.; in August 1937 it scheduled fifteen regular and flag stops in the 6 + 1 ⁄ 2-hour run. The Sunbeam was re-equipped on September 19, 1937, as a streamlined train in the Daylight paint scheme .
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