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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.
Pecos and Northern Texas Railway: Longhorn Railway: LHRR 1996 2000 Austin Area Terminal Railroad: Longview and Sabine Valley Railway: ATSF: 1877 1886 Galveston, Sabine and St. Louis Railway: Louisiana Railway and Navigation Company of Texas: KCS: 1923 1930 Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas Railway: Louisiana and Arkansas Railway: L&A, LA KCS: 1939 1992
May 2, 1872 - an Act of Congress changes the name to Texas and Pacific Railway Company; June 12, 1873 - Memphis, El Paso and Pacific Railroad Company purchased. July 1, 1873 - First rail line opened between Longview, Texas, and Dallas, Texas; December 28, 1873 - Rail line from Marshall, Texas, to Texarkana, Texas, placed in service.
1795–96 & 1799–1804 or '05 — In 1795, Charles Bulfinch, the architect of Boston's famed State House first employed a temporary funicular railway with specially designed dumper cars to decapitate 'the Tremont's' Beacon Hill summit and begin the decades long land reclamation projects which created most of the real estate in Boston's lower elevations of today from broad mud flats, such as ...
Schenectady built three 4-4-0s and nine 4-6-0s for the Texas Midland in 1897. Two 2-8-0s were purchased from Alco in 1913. In 1921 the Texas Midland built its own 14 mile line between Greenville and Commerce. A 1923 report in Poor's Railroads showed the Texas Midland owned 16 locomotives, 16 passenger cars and 183 freight cars.
Map of the Colorado and Southern Railway lines, including the Fort Worth and Denver City lines in Texas. The FW&DC was the first rail line to penetrate the northwest part of Texas, which contributed greatly to the growth of Texas cities such as Wichita Falls, Childress, Amarillo, and Dalhart. In addition, the railroad actively promoted ...
The Texas Electric Railway was a historic interurban railroad that operated from Dallas, Texas, to Denison, Corsicana, and Waco. It began operation in 1908 and through the merger of several companies became the largest interurban railway operator in the South before its demise in 1948.
The restored depot of the former International-Great Northern Railroad in Rockdale, Texas I-GN station in San Antonio, Texas, built in 1908. It was bought in 1988 and restored by the San Antonio City Employees Federal Credit Union. In 2015 it was adapted for use as the headquarters of VIA Metropolitan Transit.