What does TEX Rail mean?
What does TEX Rail mean?
TEX Rail (Tarrant Express Rail), formerly known as the Southwest-to-Northeast Rail Corridor, is a 37-mile long proposed commuter rail line in the Tarrant County of Texas, US. TEX Rail will be a part of the Dallas / Fort Worth passenger railway network in Texas connecting south-west Fort Worth with Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFWIA).
What is the history of the Texas Mexican Railway?
The Texas Mexican Railway was chartered as the Corpus Christi, San Diego & Rio Grande Narrow Gauge Railroad Company of March, 1875 to construct a three-foot, narrow-gauge route from Corpus Christi (along the Gulf of Mexico) westward to San Diego, Texas.
What is the Texas and Pacific Railway Company?
A Vast and Great Empire. The Texas and Pacific Railway Company was the only railroad in Texas, and one of the few in the United States, to operate under a federal charter. Congress granted a charter to the Texas Pacific Railroad Company on March 3, 1871; by an Act of Congress the name was changed to the Te xas and Pacific Railway Company on…
Who owns the Texas Railroad?
The company started out as a narrow-gauge route but later switched to standard gauge. For much of its existence the railroad was owned by the Mexican government despite the fact that it was almost exclusively located in Texas between Laredo and Corpus Christi.
