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Trinity and Bravos Valley Railway and Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway depots in 1910. For many years, Cleburne was the site of a major locomotive backshop of the Santa Fe Railroad, and many shop buildings can be seen on the east side of the track.
Texas Central Railway MKT, SP: 1879 1891 Texas Central Railroad, Texas Midland Railroad: Not to be confused with the Texas Central Railway high speed rail project. Texas City Terminal Company: 1898 1921 Texas City Terminal Railway: Texas City Terminal Railway: 1893 1897 Texas City Terminal Company: Texas City Transportation Company: 1904 1920
Picatinny rail: A bracket used on some firearms to provide a standardized mounting platform. Pinfire : An obsolete type of brass cartridge in which the priming compound is ignited by striking a small pin that protrudes radially from just above the base of the cartridge.
During the year, the company contracted with the State Fair of Texas for an expanded project at Fair Park in Dallas. Originally envisioned to be 4,000 feet (1,200 m) long with terminals at the Automobile Building and Pennsylvania Avenue (with a midway station at Cotton Bowl Plaza), the line was later reduced to 1,600 feet (490 m) terminating at ...
Texas Central or Texas Central Partners, LLC, is a private company that is proposing to build a high-speed rail line between Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston. [3] It plans to use technology based on that used by the Central Japan Railway Company and trains based on the N700S Series Shinkansen. [4] [5] The proposed route would take 90 minutes. [6 ...
The Central Texas & Colorado River Railway (reporting mark CTXR) is a short-line railroad headquartered in Brady, Texas. Formerly known as the Heart of Texas Railroad , the railroad operates a portion of the former Santa Fe branch line to Eden , between Brady and an interchange with the BNSF Railway at Lometa .
The Snead family founded several businesses in Georgetown, Texas, including the limestone quarry Texas Crushed Stone and a railroad. Edwin Brazelton Snead founded the quarry in the 1940s, and then the railroad with his sons Ned and Bill to haul the limestone from Georgetown to Austin. Ned Snead founded the Georgetown Rail Equipment Company in 1993.
The Santa Fe Terminal Complex is an 18-acre (73,000 m 2) complex of historic buildings in the Government District of downtown Dallas, Texas ().Constructed in 1924 as the headquarters for the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway and the Southwest's largest merchandising center, three of the original four buildings remain today and have been renovated into various uses.