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    locomotive located in Houston, Texas. 1518 (EMD SD7), former EMD demonstrator 990 and first SD7 built, located at the Illinois Railway Museum, Union, Illinois...
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    was founded in 1884 and named for Abraham P. Lufkin. It originally served as a stop on the Houston, East and West Texas Railway. It was officially incorporated...
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  • Pacific. October 1899: Southern Pacific gains control of the Houston East and West Texas Railway. 1901: Frank Norris' novel, The Octopus: A California Story...
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  • the Houston, East and West Texas Railway. At that time it was 10 miles (16 km) away from Houston. A post office opened in 1910. In 1914 Mount Houston had...
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  • Houston East & West Texas Railway Co. v. United States, 234 U.S. 342 (1914), also known as the Shreveport Rate Case, was a decision of the United States...
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    Interstate 10 (I-10) is the major eastwest Interstate Highway in the Southern United States. In the U.S. state of Texas, it runs east from Anthony, at the border...
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    the Southern Pacific Railroad, the Houston and Texas Central Railroad, and the Houston, East and West Texas Railway. Three years later, there were ten...
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    emerged when the Houston East and West Texas Railway was completed in 1881; however, the area had seen some establishment of mills and farms prior to the...
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    "splendor of its floral environment." In the late 1800s, The Houston, East and West Texas Railway (now the Union Pacific Railroad), at the suggestion of Charles...
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    and San Antonio Railway Houston and Shreveport Railroad Houston and Texas Central Railway Houston East and West Texas Railway Iberia and Vermilion Railroad...
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    seat in 1854, Homer in 1858, and Lufkin in 1892. Lufkin was favored by the route of the Houston, East and West Texas Railway (now the Southern Pacific)...
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  • List of Class I railroads (category United States railway-related lists)
    and Ohio Railroad Gulf and Ship Island Railroad Hocking Valley Railway Houston East and West Texas Railway Houston and Texas Central Railroad Illinois...
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    0 km2) are land and 0.43% is covered by water. The site was founded in 1885 for a station for the Houston, East and West Texas Railway. The land was donated...
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  • Railway of Texas Southern Pacific Company: Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway, Houston East and West Texas Railway, Houston and Texas Central...
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    engineer. Timpson was founded in 1885 upon the arrival of the Houston, East and West Texas Railway. It reached its maximum population in 1925 when it was important...
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  • of Houston, Texas, United States. The community is located east of downtown Houston, south of the Brays Bayou and Buffalo Bayou junction, and west of...
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    down around 1935. The Houston, East and West Texas Railway reached the town in 1880 followed by the seven-mile long Moscow, Camden and San Augustine Railroad...
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    local judge, donated 63.6 acres (257,000 m2) of land to the Houston East & West Texas Railway (now part of the Union Pacific Railroad) for use as a stop...
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    West University Place, often called West University or West U for short, is a city located in the U.S. state of Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land metropolitan...
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  • The Houston Tap and Brazoria Railway was chartered in September 1856 to extend southward from Houston to West Columbia in Brazoria County. The railroad's...
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  • 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...
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  • Sherman Railway Eastern Texas Electric Company Fort Worth Southern Traction Company Galveston–Houston Electric Railway Houston North Shore Railway Jefferson...
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    centered west of Texas; the Mississippian culture, also known as Mound Builders, which extended along the Mississippi River Valley east of Texas; and the civilizations...
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    the largest central business district in the city of Houston and the largest in the state of Texas, located near the geographic center of the metropolitan...
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    (now Houston) to Stafford's Point (now Stafford). It was the first railroad to begin operating in Texas, and the first standard gauge railroad west of the...
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    METRORail (redirect from Houston Light Rail)
    the Texas State Fair;: 36 : 68  the area was subsequently developed and is now Midtown, Houston. A competing service, the Bayou City Street Railway, was...
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    County, Texas, United States. The population was 737 at the 2010 census. Burke was founded in 1881 when construction of the Houston, East and West Texas Railway...
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    East Bernard is a city in Wharton County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,218 at the 2020 census. U.S. Highway 90 Alternate (US 90A) and Texas...
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  • Almeda to Genoa). The east end of the community was the Old Galveston Road (Texas State Highway 3) and the Galveston, Houston, Henderson Railroad. The...
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    the Texas City Junction south of town, where it connected to two other rail lines: Galveston, Houston and San Antonio and Galveston-Houston and Henderson...
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