• The Buffalo Bayou, Brazos, and Colorado Railway (B.B.B.C. or B.B.B. & C.), also called the Harrisburg Road or Harrisburg Railroad, was the first operating...
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    Texas (category States and territories established in 1845)
    livestock to railroads and markets. The first railroad to operate in Texas was the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway, opening in August 1853...
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  • chief engineer of the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos, and Colorado Railway (B.B.B. & C.), surveyed the route between Harrisburg and the Brazos River. It began operations...
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  • to another SP-owned railroad, the Texas and New Orleans Railroad. The Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway (BBB&C), was chartered in Texas on 11 February...
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    days as part of the United States. In August 1853, the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway (BBB&C), began operating its first 20 miles (32 km) of...
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    Settlement was slow until 1859 and the arrival of the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway. A bridge was built, and the depot, Bernard Station, though...
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  • Railroad system, the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway begins construction between Houston, Texas, and Alleyton, Texas. The Mohawk and Hudson Railroad...
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    000 acres (16 km2) of land near Harrisburg and began promoting the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos, and Colorado Railway (later part of the Southern Pacific system)...
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    Ridge Point High School (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
    honor area history, specific the Blue Ridge Oil Field and the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway reaching Stafford's Point in 1853. Ridge Point High...
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    participated in the building of Texas's first railroad, the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos, and Colorado Railway. With his business partner William F. Kyle, Terry bought...
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    However, the first railroad to operate in Texas was the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway, which terminated at Harrisburg, Houston's rival to the...
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    plantation; it became a townsite in August 1853, when the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway began stopping there. Stafford's Point had a post office...
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    In 1854 he invested in the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway, which gained him acres of land in northwestern and western Texas. Swenson's greatest...
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  • Houston and Texas Central Railway. August, 1856 - Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway completed from Harrisburg, Texas to the Brazos River. April...
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  • Civil War of 1861–65. He served as President of the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos, and Colorado Railway during the Civil War, a railroad with eighty miles of...
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    as the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway Company built the first Seguin depot. It became part of the Southern Pacific Railroad, and now the...
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  • 1854 Svenson invested in the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway, which gained him acres of land in northwestern and western Texas. SMS Ranches eventually...
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    Houston and Texas Central Railway to compete with the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos, and Colorado Railway, which located its eastern terminus in the rival town...
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  • Houston metropolitan area. Despite the completion of the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway through the region in 1859, it wasn't until 1878 that...
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    Houston Navigation Company; the Buffalo Bayou Ship Channel Company; and the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos, and Colorado Railway—the first railroad to operate in...
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    Robert Harris (railroad manager) (category Northern Pacific Railway people)
    Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railroad. From November 1860 to June 1861 he was superintendent of the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway. During the...
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  • Hondo Railway (HRR) Kiamichi Railroad (KRR) - (Genesee & Wyoming) La Salle Railway (LSRY) Live Oak Railroad (LOR) Lubbock and Western Railway (LBWR)...
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    station on the site in 2016. The area was served by the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway since 1859, when the land was used as free range for cattle...
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  • Houston and Arcola was still in service and the section between Arcola and West Columbia was abandoned. In 1850 the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railroad...
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  • the City of Houston to run a railroad to tap into the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos & Colorado Railway at Pierce Junction. The city invested $130,000 to lay seven...
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  • "GALVESTON, BRAZOS AND COLORADO RAILWAY". Retrieved 9 March 2020. "Greenville Northwestern Railway". Retrieved 8 March 2020. "Gulf and Brazos Valley Railway". Retrieved...
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  • List of defunct railroads of North America (category Railway companies of Canada)
    Boston and Maine Corporation (BM) Buffalo Bayou, Brazos & Colorado Railway Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway (BCR&N) Burlington Northern Railroad...
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  • 1850s with railheads on the Gulf Coast running inland. As the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos & Colorado Railroad completed its track-laying near Columbus, Texas, investors...
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  • List of railroads of the Confederate States of America (category United States railway-related lists)
    Carolina Brunswick and Albany Railroad Brunswick and Florida Railroad Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railroad Cahaba, Marion and Greensboro Railroad...
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  • Wisconsin, Oconto County, Wisconsin Brazos, New Mexico, a census-designated place in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico Brazos, Texas, an unincorporated community...
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