Railroads of Texas - for tracklayer

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Mark,

Awhile back, you wanted to know about the railroads in Texas. from the Gulf Coast Railroad Historical Society here are the following railroads that made it into the Houston area or were in some way connected to Houston by consolidation.

first railroad - Buffalo, Brazos,& Colorado - 1851

Galveston & Red River - 1853

Houston & Texas Central - 1856

Houston Tap- 1856

Houston Tap & Brazoria - 1858

Galveston, Houston & Henderson - 1856

Texas & New Orleans - 1861

Galveston, Harrisburg, & San Antonio - 1868

Houston & Great Northern - 1871

Western Narrow Gauge - 1871 (Texas Western Narrow Gauge) - 1874

International & Great Northern - 1876

St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern - 1879

Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe - 1880

Houston & Brazos Valley - 188?

Burlington - Rock Island - 188?

San Antonio & Aransas Pass - 1893

Houston, East and West Texas - 1894

Houston Belt & Terminal -192?

Port Terminal Railroad Association - 192?

Public Harbor Belt 1924

Galveston - Houston Electric - 1911

Houston North Shore - 1927

Ft. Worth & Denver - 1965

class 1 railroads in Texas consolidated the above railroads by 1920 - present

Santa Fe

Burlington Northern

Southern Pacific

Rock Island

Union Pacific

Missouri, Kansas & Texas

Missouri Pacific

Kansas City Southern

Texas Mexican Railroad

hope this helps, …chuck

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Hi Chuck. I had forgotten about asking you about this. I s

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Everything’s good on this end. Got out the hot glue gun, cardboard strips, plaster, plaster cloth, and blue foam and building some West Texas mountains right now depicting the Marfa / Ft. Davis area around Highway 90 and Texas 118 - Alpine to be exact. they are hard to get right because I have to carve out the granite rock in long perpendicular strips and plaster then near the mountain tops and do so without breaking the blue foam. I’ll be posting them on my webshots page in about a month to show the step by step building process.

You don’t owe me. I copied that stuff from the historical society when i had a “dull moment” at work. Sometimes working at the plant can be a very boring job…Like they say, when the operators are humping…the plant is losing money. In other words, when we work, there is something wrong with the plant and we’re jumping out of our skin to get the product right again. I’t’s called hour upon hour of extreme bordom with those moments of sheer terror…chuck