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The trail's life began when the Union Pacific Railroad, which had bought the Katy, donated the abandoned lines to the city in 1993.The train tracks that are now the location of the Katy Trail, formed the major eastbound route through Dallas of the former Missouri-Kansas-Texas (MKT or "Katy") Railroad, which shut down this segment of its network in the late 1980s.
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Technical. Track gauge. 4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. Other. Website. Handbook of Texas. The Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway (P&SF) was an American rail transport company that was a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (AT&SF), operating primarily in the Texas Panhandle.
4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. Length. 50 miles (80 km) The Houston Tap and Brazoria Railway was chartered in September 1856 to extend southward from Houston to West Columbia in Brazoria County. The railroad's nicknames were the Columbia Tap and the Sugar Road. The railway absorbed track from an earlier short-lived line and ...
Track gauge. 4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. The San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway first began operation in the U.S. state of Texas in 1886. It was developed by Uriah Lott and businessmen of San Antonio as a direct route from the city to Aransas Bay on the Texas Gulf coast. [1] It was eventually absorbed in the 20th century by ...
The St. Louis–San Francisco Railway (reporting mark SLSF), commonly known as the " Frisco ", was a railroad that operated in the Midwest and South Central United States from 1876 to November 21, 1980. At the end of 1970, it operated 4,547 miles (7,318 km) of road on 6,574 miles (10,580 km) of track, not including subsidiaries Quanah, Acme and ...
Central of Tennessee Railway and Navigation Company. Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. Chicago, Rock Island and Gulf Railway. Choctaw, Oklahoma and Texas Railroad. Clinton and Oklahoma Western Railroad. Columbus, San Antonio and Rio Grande Railroad. Corpus Christi, San Diego and Rio Grande Narrow Gauge Railroad.
4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. Previous gauge. 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) The Houston and Texas Central Railway (H&TC) was an 872-mile (1403-km) railway system chartered in Texas in 1848, with construction beginning in 1856. The line eventually stretched from Houston northward to Dallas and Denison, Texas, with branches to Austin and Waco.
Blacklands Railroad (BLR) The St. Louis, Arkansas, & Texas Railroad was built through Sulphur Springs, Texas, in 1887 on its way to Commerce and Sherman. [3] The next year the line was completed to Fort Worth. In 1891, the bankrupt railroad was sold to Jay Gould Interests and renamed the St. Louis Southwestern Railway, also known as the Cotton ...