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The main offices of the Railroad Commission of Texas are located in the William B. Travis State Office Building. The agency is headquartered in the William B. Travis State Office Building at 1701 North Congress Avenue in Austin. [29] In addition, the Texas Railroad Commission has twelve oil and gas district offices located throughout the state.
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 State Railroad, also referred to as the Lone Star and Eastern Railroad, is a historic 25 mi (40 km) heritage railroad between Rusk and Palestine, Texas. Built by inmates, it was founded in 1883 by the state of Texas to haul raw materials for a smelter at the prison at Rusk. Regular service on the line was ended in 1921.
Sabine River and Northern Railroad (reporting mark SRN) operates freight service 32 miles (51 km) from Bessmay to Echo, Texas, and over an 8-mile (13 km) branch line from Buna to Evadale. SRN has connections with Union Pacific Railroad at Echo and Mauriceville, with CPKC at Lemonville, and with BNSF Railway at Bessmay and Evadale, TX. Traffic ...
TENN - Tennessee Railway; TER - Texas & Eastern Railroad, Texas Electric Railway; TEXC - Texas Central Railroad; TFM - Grupo Transportación Ferroviaria Mexicana; TFS - Texarkana and Fort Smith Railway; Kansas City Southern Railway; TG - Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad, Tremont and Gulf Railway; TGAX - Texasgulf; TGCX - PolyOne Company
Whitaker, a lumberman and railroad contractor in Texarkana, was chartered by the state of Texas, and built a ten-mile line from Texarkana north to Whitaker's timber lands along the Red River. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] On July 9, 1889, the charter was amended, changing the name to Texarkana and Fort Smith Railway, and granting authority to extend the line all ...
The company operates 107 miles of two ex-Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway lines, extending to Whiteface and Seagraves parallel to State Highway 114 and U.S. Highway 62. The primary commodities hauled are fertilizer, construction aggregates, grain, cotton, chemicals, peanuts and plastics.
Proposed railway lines in Texas (1 C, 12 P) D. Dallas Area Rapid Transit (3 C, 21 P) ... Golden State (train) Grand Canyon Limited; Green Line (CapMetro) Green Line ...