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G&I train arrives in Port Bolivar--three years late!
On this day in 1903, a Gulf and Inter-State Railway passenger train from
Beaumont pulled into Port Bolivar slightly more than three years behind
schedule. The Galveston hurricane of September 8, 1900, had destroyed
the G&I's tracks and trapped a G&I train near Port Bolivar; damage from
the storm forced the company into receivership, though it was
subsequently returned to its owners. It took three years, however, for
the company to finance and complete the repairs to its track. The G&I
had been chartered in 1894 and acquired in 1898 by two contractors
interested in developing a new port on the upper Texas coast. In
conjunction with their plan, the Santa Fe Railway organized the Santa Fe
Dock and Channel Company to build docks and rail arteries at Port
Bolivar. The railroad operated daily passenger service until 1930, when
operations were reduced to a tri-weekly train between Port Bolivar and
Beaumont. A number of cattle-shipping pens and flag stops made the
train's schedule "highly irregular." By 1994, the line's last remaining
track had been absorbed by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- GULF AND INTER-STATE RAILWAY
- GALVESTON HURRICANE OF 1900
- PORT BOLIVAR, TX
- ATCHISON, TOPEKA AND SANTA FE RAILWAY SYSTEM
- RAILROADS
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