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H&TC absorbs four other rail lines
On this day in 1901, the Houston and Texas Central Railway acquired the
Austin and Northwestern, Central Texas and Northwestern, Fort Worth and
New Orleans, and Granite Mountain and Marble Falls City lines. The H&TC
was originally chartered in 1848 as the Galveston and Red River Railway
and was renamed in 1856; Paul Bremond and Thomas W. House were involved
in the line's early development. It was sold in 1877 to Charles Morgan,
and then came under the control of the Southern Pacific when that
corporation began to take over Morgan's properties in 1883. However, the
H&TC continued to be operated by its own organization until 1927, when
it was leased to the Texas and New Orleans. It merged with the T&NO in
1934.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- HOUSTON AND TEXAS CENTRAL RAILWAY
- RAILROADS
- SOUTHERN PACIFIC SYSTEM
- HOUSE, THOMAS WILLIAM
- BREMOND, PAUL
- GRANITE MOUNTAIN AND MARBLE FALLS CITY RAIL ROAD
- FORT WORTH AND NEW ORLEANS RAILWAY
- CENTRAL TEXAS AND NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY
- AUSTIN AND NORTHWESTERN RAILROAD
- URBANIZATION
- Other Texas Day by Day Articles for This Date
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