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[10]: 184 In 1977 the Port of Houston opened the Barbours Cut Terminal, Texas' first cargo container terminal, at Morgan's Point. This new terminal, in the Bay Area, quickly became the port's most important terminal. [11] The opening of the Bayport Terminal in 2006 further extended the port authority's reach outside the city of Houston. [12]
The Texas Department of Transportation intended to "charge public and private concerns for utility, commodity or data transmission" within the corridor, [14] in essence creating a toll road for services such as water, electricity, natural gas, petroleum, fiber optic lines, and other telecommunications services.
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 .
Texas & Pacific station and office building in Fort Worth, Texas Several parts of the Texas and Pacific remain to this day, mainly two towering buildings, which help define the southern side of Fort Worth's skyline— the original station and office tower and a warehouse located immediately to the west.
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 ...
The Port of Texas City is a major deepwater port in Texas City, Texas at Galveston Bay, United States. [6] Its location on the bay, which is used by the Port of Houston and the Port of Galveston , puts Texas City in the heart of one of the world's most important shipping hubs.
The importance of the T&SL to the land it crossed was demonstrated by the fact that mere notice the railway was coming through the town of Brinkley, Arkansas was enough for the owners of the Cotton Plant Railroad, which originated in Brinkley, to convert to the T&SL's 3-foot gauge in order to be compatible. [11]
The Port of Beaumont is a deep-water port located in Beaumont, Texas near the mouth of the Neches River.. It is the fourth busiest port in the United States according to the American Association of Port Authorities U.S. Port Ranking by Cargo Tonnage, 2018 report, [3] and the forty-seventh busiest in the world in terms of tonnage, according to the American Association of Port Authorities World ...