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The Texas Transportation Company ( reporting mark TXTC) was an electrified, Class III, short-line railroad in San Antonio, Texas, that operated from 1897 [1] until 2001. It served the Pearl Brewery and several other businesses, moving carloads between those businesses and the Southern Pacific yard. Service ended on June 30, 2000, shortly before ...
Continued as a tourist railroad: Texas Transportation Company: TXTC 1897 2000 N/A Texas Transportation Company: SP: 1866 1896 Texas and New Orleans Railroad: Texas Trunk Railroad: SP: 1879 1895 Texas and New Orleans Railroad: Texas Western Railroad: MP: 1852 1856 Southern Pacific Railroad: Texas Western Railway: 1879 1896 N/A
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is a governmental agency and its purpose is to "provide safe, effective, and efficient movement of people and goods" throughout the state. [1] Though the public face of the agency is generally associated with maintenance of the state's immense highway system, the agency is also responsible for ...
The Texas Transportation Museum (TTM) is a transportation museum located in San Antonio, Texas . It was created in 1964 to help preserve artifacts and information about San Antonio's transportation history. TTM operates as much of its collection as possible, including many railroad vehicles on its own heritage railroad, the Longhorn and Western ...
The museum is operating an exhibit adjacent to historic 1857 locomotive No.1 of the El Paso & Southwestern located in the Union Plaza Transit Terminal, just south of the Civic Center. Displays demonstrate how transportation enhanced the development of business and industry in this region. In addition to an education program, the museum will ...
Texas Central Railway. Texas Central or Texas Central Partners, LLC, is a private company that is proposing to build a high-speed rail line between Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston. [3] It plans to use technology based on that used by the Central Japan Railway Company and trains based on the N700S Series Shinkansen.
The Texas and Pacific Railway Company (known as the T&P) was created by federal charter in 1871 with the purpose of building a southern transcontinental railroad between Marshall, Texas, and San Diego, California .
Route map. The Austin Western Railroad ( reporting mark AWRR) is a Class III short-line railroad headquartered in Round Rock, Texas. AWRR is a subsidiary of Watco. It is the contracted operator of 126 miles (203 km) of ex-Southern Pacific trackage, now owned by Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority. AWRR operates the line from Fairland ...