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The Brownsville and Rio Grande International Railroad (reporting mark BRG) is a terminal switching railroad headquartered in Brownsville, Texas. BRG operates 42 mi (68 km) of line at the Port of Brownsville, and interchanges with Union Pacific and TFM. BRG traffic includes steel, agricultural products, food products, and general commodities.
The Texas City Terminal Railway is an American terminal railroad that operates 32 miles (51 km) of track at the Port of Texas City in Texas City, Texas. [1] Established in 1921, [ 2 ] the TCTR is jointly owned by the Union Pacific Railroad and BNSF Railway .
Yoakum's planned extensions of the GCL from Brownsville to Tampico and Mexico City, as well as from Baton Rouge to Memphis, never materialized. In 1913, the Frisco and the GCL roads fell into bankruptcy, which was terminated in 1916 when Frisco's receivers were ordered by a court to sell the Texas-Louisiana lines. The StLB&M and the BSL&W were ...
Texas City finished with records 70–84, 64–90 and 87–57, playing in the Gulf Coast League from 1951 to 1953. The Texas City teams finished with records of 71–67 and 59–81, playing as members of the Big States League in 1955 and 1956. The Texas City Texans captured the final Gulf Coast League Championship in 1953. [3] [4]
The Port of Texas City, operated by the Port of Texas City / Texas City Terminal Railway, is the eighth-largest port in the United States and the third-largest in Texas, with waterborne tonnage exceeding 78 million net tons. The Texas City Terminal Railway Company provides an important land link to the port, handling over 25,000 carloads per year.
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 .
The Galveston Bay Refinery is an oil refinery located in the Texas City, Texas Industrial Complex on the edge of Galveston Bay.It is the largest oil refinery in North America with a capacity of 631,000 barrels per day [1] and has been owned and operated by Marathon Petroleum Corporation since 2013.