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The H&TC Railroad continued to operate independently until 1927, when it was leased to the Texas and New Orleans Railroad, a subsidiary of the Southern Pacific Railroad. [1] The HT&C was merged into the T&NO in 1934. The T&NO was merged into the SP in 1961, and the SP into the Union Pacific in 1996. [5] U.S. Route 75 was built on the H&TC right ...
The Texas Railroad Commission: Understanding Regulation in America to the Mid-Twentieth Century. (2005). 323 pp. the standard history; online review; Childs, William R. "Origins of the Texas Railroad Commission's Power to Control Production of Petroleum: Regulatory Strategies in the 1920s." Journal of Policy History 1990 2(4): 353–387. ISSN ...
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 .
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 ...
The following is a list of railroad companies that serve(d) Dallas. The first year is the year service began; the last is the year service was halted. 1872–1934 Houston and Texas Central Railroad (absorbed into the TNO) 1873–1976 Texas and Pacific Railway; 1878–1880 Dallas and Wichita Railroad; 1878 Dallas, Cleburne and Rio Grande Railroad
Adams, Cyrus C. (January 1906). "The World's Great Railroad Enterprises: Big Schemes on Every Continent". The World's Work: A History of Our Time. XIII: 8423–8436 Describes status of railways worldwide, includes numerous photos as well as c. 1906 continent diagrams of railways; History of Railroad Unions in the U.S.
A Most Magnificent Machine: America Adopts the Railroad, 1825–1862 (University Press of Kansas; 2010) 325 pages; Documents the enthusiasm that accompanied the advent of the railroad system; Nice, David C. Amtrak: The History and Politics of a National Railroad (1998) online edition Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine
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 ...