• The Houston and Texas Central Railway (H&TC) was an 872-mile (1403-km) railway system chartered in Texas in 1848, with construction beginning in 1856....
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  • between Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston. It plans to use technology based on that used by the Central Japan Railway Company and trains based on the N700S Series...
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  • Houston is the planned southern terminus of the Texas Central Railway high-speed line. The station is located in the Lazybrook/Timbergrove neighborhood...
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  • track in Houston in 1855. Track laying began in earnest in 1856 and on 1 September 1856, GRR was renamed the Houston and Texas Central Railway (H&TC)....
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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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    The city of Houston in the U.S. state of Texas was founded in 1837 after Augustus and John Allen had acquired land to establish a new town at the junction...
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    Houston station is an Amtrak intercity train station in Houston, Texas. The present Houston station, which opened on October 26, 1959, was built by the...
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    cemetery and was followed by a second store in 1869. In late 1871 as the Houston and Texas Central Railway constructed the first railroad link to the Texas capital...
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    Ennis is home to the annual National Polka Festival. In 1871 the Houston and Texas Central Railroad (H&TC) arrived at the spot that would become Ennis as...
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    in 1873, for settlers to be near the railroad stop of the Houston and Texas Central Railway. The town was named for either William A. Van Alstyne, a civil...
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    who planned the route of Houston and Texas Central Railway. Paige was created in 1872 near the Houston and Texas Central Railway. The post office of Paige...
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    trustee of the Houston and Texas Central Townsite Company, which offered lots for sale in 1871, as the Houston and Texas Central Railway was completed...
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    Science Foundation, and the Office of Naval Research. College Station's origins date from 1860, when the Houston and Texas Central Railway began to build through...
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    Downtown is 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...
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    office, and the Houston and Texas Central railway station, were wrecked. The Waldon Hotel was lifted by the winds, turned halfway around, and thrown up...
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    (ISBN 9781799137610), a collection of stories and pictures of early Anna, Texas. The Houston and Texas Central Railway extended its track in a north–south route...
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    planned route of the Houston and Texas Central Railway (H&TC) which was being constructed to link Houston to Dallas, Denison and the Red River. The H&TC...
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    gins, and gristmills. The population stood at 109 by 1890. Between 1906 and 1907 both the Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway and the Houston and Texas Central...
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  • Timeline of historical events of Houston, Texas, United States: August 26, 1836 - Elizabeth and T. F. L. Parrott sell the southern half of the eastern...
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    terminus of Houston and Texas Central Railway. Peebles named Hempstead after Dr. G. S. B. Hempstead, Peebles's brother-in-law. Peebles and Mary Ann Groce...
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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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  • 1873 and 1874. In 1873 the Houston and Texas Central Railway line reached Red River City, where it connected with the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad...
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    1881, the Houston and Texas Central Railway crossed the Texas and Pacific, which had come through the year before, at a point near Red Gap, and the settlement's...
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    operated the Texas Special from St. Louis to Dallas, Ft. Worth, and San Antonio. It sported rail cars with names including Sam Houston, Stephen F. Austin...
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    Spanish Texas, and later became part of the Robertson Colony. The city itself was founded in 1871 when the Houston and Texas Central Railway came to the...
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    between 1854 and 1878. Residents of Chappell Hill met in 1852 to urge Houston businesses to build the Houston and Texas Central Railway so they could...
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    September 1859, when the Houston and Texas Central Railway built rails through the town, Navasota became an important shipping and marketing center for the...
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    coming of the Houston and Texas Central Railway, Austin's first railroad connection. By becoming the westernmost railroad terminus in Texas and the only railroad...
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    spring. The Houston and Texas Central Railway became the first railroad through the county around 1870. The Waco Division of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass...
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  • Mexia-Nelleva Cutoff (category Geography of Grimes County, Texas)
    Nelleva and Mexia, in eastern Texas. It has not been used since 1933, when it was abandoned by its owner, the Houston and Texas Central Railway (H&TC)...
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