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1838 – The world's first railroad junction is formed in Branchville, South Carolina. The railroad company extended its existing rail that ran between Charleston and the Savannah River to the north toward Orangeburg and Columbia. Both rail lines closely paralleled old Native American trails. 1838 – Edmondson railway ticket introduced.
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
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.
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 ...
The Waco and Northwestern Division remained in receivership until it was sold on September 5, 1895. It was acquired by the Houston and Texas Central Railroad on June 30, 1898. [4] 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 ...
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 ...
July 1: The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad of Texas merges into parent Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad. [105] October 17: The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad and Erie Railroad merge to form the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad. [106] November 1: The Chicago and North Western Railway acquires the property of the Minneapolis and St. Louis ...
From September 11 the same year, the road was operating from Abilene to Ballinger, Texas, a total of 54.75 miles (88.11 km), where a connection to a branch line of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway was established. Finally, on October 1, 1910, a railroad from Anson, Texas to Hamlin, Texas (17.41 miles (28.02