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The Snead family founded several businesses in Georgetown, Texas, including the limestone quarry Texas Crushed Stone and a railroad. Edwin Brazelton Snead founded the quarry in the 1940s, and then the railroad with his sons Ned and Bill to haul the limestone from Georgetown to Austin. Ned Snead founded the Georgetown Rail Equipment Company in 1993.
1880–1881 Texas Trunk Railroad; 1881–1961 Texas and New Orleans Railroad (acquired the TT) 1901–1904 Red River, Texas and Southern Railroad; 1902–1964 Saint Louis, San Francisco and Texas Railroad (nickname Frisco, absorbed the RRT&S) 1903–1932 St. Louis Southwestern Railway; 1903–1980 Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
As of 2023, the company is still covered by the Railroad Retirement Act. [6] The company's archives from 1905 to 1936 are held by History Colorado. [7] A dispute among railways involving the HB&T was decided by the United States Supreme Court. [8] [9]
The automobile and America's love affair with it brought the end to the small-town rail lines. In 1969, the line was abandoned with the exception of a small stretch near Wichita Falls. In 1971, the tracks were removed and sold for scrap metal. Many of the towns that developed along the line vanished long before the railroad, but others continue ...
The St. Louis, Arkansas, & Texas Railroad was built through Sulphur Springs, Texas, in 1887 on its way to Commerce and Sherman. [3] The next year the line was completed to Fort Worth. In 1891, the bankrupt railroad was sold to Jay Gould Interests and renamed the St. Louis Southwestern Railway, also known as the Cotton Belt. This line became the ...
Congress approved $66 billion for rail as part of the 2021 massive infrastructure bill, with Amtrak receiving $22 billion. US railroad Amtrak exploring high-speed rail service in Texas Skip to ...
The federal government on Friday reopened two cross-border railroad crossings in Texas, five days after the shuttering of rail operations there disrupted trade and sparked outrage from U.S. and ...
The Texas and Northern Railway (reporting mark TN) is an eight-mile (13 km) railroad connecting Lone Star, Texas, to the former Louisiana and Arkansas Railway at Veals Switch between Daingerfield and Hughes Springs. A number of branches have been removed over the years as mining of ore is no longer done.