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The company also operates the Grapevine Vintage Railroad, ... Texas Southern 1008, 1009, 1010 AC4400CW General Electric 2000 GP38-3 EMD Miss Molly 2001 GP38-3
Texas City Terminal Company: 1898 1921 Texas City Terminal Railway: Texas City Terminal Railway: 1893 1897 Texas City Terminal Company: Texas City Transportation Company: 1904 1920 Texas City Terminal Railway: Texas Export Railroad: TXRC 1972 1976 N/A Texas and Gulf Railway: ATSF: 1904 1948 Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway: Texas and ...
The Port Terminal Railroad Association is an American terminal railroad that operates 185 miles (298 km) of track at the Port of Houston in Houston, Texas. [1] It is an independent association comprising Port of Houston Authority , the Houston Belt & Terminal Railway , Union Pacific Railroad , BNSF Railway and Kansas City Southern Railway .
The Galveston Railroad (reporting mark GVSR) is a Class III terminal switching railroad headquartered in Galveston, Texas. It primarily serves the transportation of cargo to and from the Port of Galveston. [1] GVSR operates 32 miles (51 km) of yard track at Galveston, over a 50-acre (200,000 m 2) facility.
Against that background, the TXNW was formed on January 28, 1982, to purchase the Rock Island line running north-northwest from Stinnett, Texas to Hardesty, Oklahoma, about 97 miles. [1] [3] The railway additionally picked up a branch off this line which ran west from Morse Junction (just south of Morse) though Sunray to Etter, Texas.
The origin of the two lines that make up today’s WTLC is the Crosbyton-Southplains Railroad Company (CSRC) which was chartered in 1910 to build a line from Lubbock to Crosbyton. In 1915, the CSRC was purchased by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (ATSF) which changed its name to the South Plains and Santa Fe Railway.
The Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway, chartered under the laws of Texas on June 1, 1885, was part of a plan conceived by Buckley Burton Paddock and other Fort Worth civic leaders to create a transcontinental route linking New York, Fort Worth, and the Pacific port of Topolobampo, which they believed would stimulate the growth and development of southwest Texas in general, and the economy of ...
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 .