The Denton Branch Rail Trail is now under re-construction as part of a major construction project by the Denton County Transportation Authority(DCTA) to place a rail commuter line back on the original rail bed and build a new trail along side the railroad. Information and construction updates ...
I had high hopes when the Hwy was widened as it included some funding to upgrade the old railroad track bed into a bike trail. I was incredibly disappointed. I don't know if the highway construction ran out of money or it was poorly designed but it fell way short of expectations. The...
Scale ca. 1:3,200,000.doi:http://www.loc.gov/item/98688680/G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co
Map shows railroad lands for Ector, Midland, Crane, Upton, Tom Green, Glasscock, Coke, and Sterling counties West Texas; block and tract numbers, lease numbers, ownership, and lots sold. Includes list of leased properties and leasees in Coke and Sterling Counties. Scale [1:133,334].收藏...
This was a stop along the Texas Central Railroad. The depot was established in 1881 and was lost to a fire in 1918, but quickly rebuilt that same year. The 200 foot long depot is one of the longest wood frame depots still standing in Texas. The depot has been left to slowly deteriorat...
A new railroad was to be the lifeline to markets for their produce, but as it happened, the price of shipping from their remote location to markets in the Midwest was greater than the money their crops would bring. It quickly became evident that produce was going to be a losing propositio...
When the Austin and Northwestern Railroad bypassed Liberty Hill in 1882, the settlement shifted again. Its population began to grow, and the 1884 chartering of Liberty Normal and Business College there soon added a student population as well. Nevertheless, the town remained small, never (through ...
Jester Railroad Commissioner Campaign Recordings and Transcripts, 1942Creator: Jester, Beauford Halbert, 1893-1949 Title: Beauford H. Jester Railroad Commissioner campaign recordings and transcripts Dates: 1942 Abstract: Beauford H. Jester campaigned for a Texas Railroad Commissioner position in 1942, and...
Marker Texas - On the evening of March 2, 1913, an explosion destroyed the Houston, East & West Texas Railroad depot at this site, disrupting the town's vital source of transportation and trade. Although a body was not discovered, it was presumed a railroad employee had been killed in the...
southern rail commission chairman knox ross said in a statement. the amtrak agreement would also allow for service between new orleans and baton rouge, louisiana. the passenger railroad is in the final stages of planning another new route between new orleans and mobile, alaba...