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Common freight carriers

Class I

BNSF Railway BNSF Railway is the largest freight railroad in the United States. One of six North American Class I railroads, BNSF has 36,000 employees, of track in 28 states, and over 8,000 locomotives. It has three Transcontinental railroad, transcontine ...

(BNSF) *

Canadian Pacific Kansas City Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited, Trade name, doing business as CPKC (known as Canadian Pacific Railway Limited until 2023), is a Canadian railway holding company. Through its primary operating railroad subsidiaries, Canadian Pacific Railw ...

(CPKC) *

Union Pacific Railroad The Union Pacific Railroad is a Railroad classes, Class I freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Pacific is the second largest railroad in the United Stat ...

(UP)

Class II

There are no Class II Railroads in Texas.

Class III

* Alamo Gulf Coast Railroad (AGCR) - ( Martin Marietta Inc.) * Angelina and Neches River Railroad (ANR) * Austin Western Railroad (AWRR) - (

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Big Spring Rail (BSR)
* Blacklands Railroad (BLR) * Border Pacific Railroad (BOP) * Brownsville and Rio Grande International Railroad (BRG) * CMC Railroad (CMC) * Corpus Christi Terminal Railroad (CCPN) - (

Genesee & Wyoming Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (G&W) is an American short line railroad holding company, that owns or maintains an interest in 122 railroads in the United States, Canada, Belgium, Netherlands, Poland, and the United Kingdom; and formerly in Australia. ...

) * Dallas, Garland and Northeastern Railroad (DGNO) - (

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Fort Worth and Western Railroad The Fort Worth and Western Railroad is a Class III short-line railroad headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. Operating only within the state of Texas, its main freight service route is between Carrollton, Fort Worth and Brownwood. History Much ...

(FWWR) :*Operates the Fort Worth & Dallas Belt Railroad (FWDB) and the Fort Worth and Dallas Railroad (FWDR) *

Galveston Railroad The Galveston Railroad is a Class III terminal switching railroad headquartered in Galveston, Texas. It primarily serves the transportation of cargo to and from the Port of Galveston. GVSR operates of yard track at Galveston, over a facility. ...

(GVSR) - (

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Gardendale Railroad Gardendale is the name of several places in the United States: * Gardendale, Alabama *Gardendale, Texas Gardendale is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in Ector County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,020 at t ...

(GDR) *

Georgetown Railroad The Georgetown Railroad is a class III short-line railroad headquartered in Georgetown, Texas. History The original Georgetown Railroad Company was chartered on May 31, 1878, with a commitment to build a railroad the approximate distance betwe ...

(GRR) *

Grainbelt Corporation Farmrail System, Inc. is an employee-owned holding company for two Class III common-carrier railroads comprising "Western Oklahoma’s Regional Railroad" based in Clinton, Oklahoma, Clinton, Oklahoma. Farmrail Corporation has acted since 1981 as ...

(GNBC) *

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(GCS) *

Hondo Railway Hondo Railway is a Class III shortline railroad formed in 2006 that operates about of trackage near Hondo, Texas, about 30 miles west of San Antonio, Texas. It entered into a definitive agreement on August 20, 2024, subject to regulatory appro ...

(HRR) *

Kiamichi Railroad The Kiamichi Railroad Company is a Class III short-line railroad headquartered in Hugo, Oklahoma. KRR operates two lines totaling which intersect in Hugo, as well as maintaining trackage rights on an additional of track. The main line (1 ...

(KRR) - (

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La Salle Railway LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second most populous city in the United States of America. La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * La (musical note), or A, the sixth note *"L.A.", a song by Elliott Smi ...

(LSRY) *

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(LOR) * Lubbock and Western Railway (LBWR) - (

) * Moscow, Camden and San Augustine Railroad (MCSA) - (

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) * Oak Grove Railroad * Orange Port Terminal Railway (OPT) * Panhandle Northern Railroad (PNR) *

Pecos Valley Southern Railway The Pecos Valley Southern Railway is a short-line railroad headquartered in Pecos, Texas, United States. PVS operates a line from Saragosa to an interchange with Union Pacific at Pecos. The line generally parallels State Highway 17. The ...

(PVS) - (

) * Plainsman Switching Company (PSC) **Operates South Plains Switching, Ltd * Plainview Terminal Company (PTC) * Point Comfort and Northern Railway (PCN) - (

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Port Terminal Railroad Association The Port Terminal Railroad Association is an American terminal railroad that operates of track at the Port of Houston in Houston, Texas. It is an independent association comprising Port of Houston Authority, the Houston Belt & Terminal Railway, ...

(PTRA) * Rail Logix ( Frontier Logistics LP) * Rio Valley Switching Company (RVSC) operates the Rio Valley Railroad (RVRR) * RJ Corman Texas Line (RJCD) * Sabine River and Northern Railroad (SRN) * San Antonio Central Railway (SAC) - (

) * San Jacinto Transportation (SJCT) * South Plains Lamesa Railroad (SLAL) * Southern Switching Company (SSC) operates the Lone Star Railroad (LSRR) * Southwest Gulf Railroad (SWG) - ( Vulcan Materials Company) * Temple and Central Texas Railway (TC) * Texas Central Business Lines (TCB) * Texas City Terminal Railway (TCT) - (

BNSF BNSF Railway is the largest freight railroad in the United States. One of six North American Class I railroads, BNSF has 36,000 employees, of track in 28 states, and over 8,000 locomotives. It has three transcontinental routes that provide ...

and UP) * Texas, Gonzales and Northern Railway (TXGN) * Texas & Eastern Railroad * Texas & New Mexico Railway (TXN) - (

) * Texas Northeastern Railroad (TNER) - (

) * Texas and Northern Railway (TN) * Texas North Western Railway (TXNW) * Texas and Oklahoma Railroad (TXOR) * Texas Pacifico Transportation (TXPF) - (

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) **Operator for the Texas state-owned South Orient Rail Line * Texas Rock Crusher Railway (TXR) * Texas South-Eastern Railroad (TSE) * Timber Rock Railroad (TIBR) - (

) * Western Rail Road (WRRC) *

Wichita, Tillman and Jackson Railway The Wichita, Tillman and Jackson Railway is a shortline railroad subsidiary of the Rio Grande Pacific Corporation that operates in Oklahoma and Texas. The line for which it is named extends from Wichita Falls, Texas to just north of Altus, Okla ...

(WTJR)

Passenger carriers

Intercity passenger rail

Amtrak The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Trade name, doing business as Amtrak (; ), is the national Passenger train, passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates intercity rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous United Stat ...

(AMTK) **

Heartland Flyer The ''Heartland Flyer'' is a daily passenger train that follows a route between Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Fort Worth, Texas. It is operated by Amtrak and jointly funded by the states of Oklahoma and Texas. The train's daily round-trip begin ...

Texas Eagle The ''Texas Eagle'' is a long-distance passenger train operated daily by Amtrak on a route between Chicago, Illinois, and San Antonio, Texas, with major stops in St. Louis, Little Rock, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Austin. Three days per week, t ...

Sunset Limited The ''Sunset Limited'' is a long-distance passenger train run by Amtrak, operating on a route between New Orleans and Los Angeles. Major stops include Houston, San Antonio and El Paso in Texas, as well as Tucson, Arizona. Opening in 1894 thr ...

Commuter rail

* A-train - (

DCTA The Denton County Transportation Authority (DCTA) is the transit authority that operates in Denton County, Texas. It operates transit service in three cities within Denton County, as well as the A-train (Denton County), A-train, a regional Commut ...

) * CapMetro Rail - ( CapMetro) *

Trinity Railway Express The Trinity Railway Express (TRE) is a commuter rail service in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, Texas, United States. It was established by an interlocal agreement between Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) and Trinity Metro. Each transit auth ...

(TRE) - ( DART and

Trinity Metro Trinity Metro is a transit agency located in and serving the city of Fort Worth, Texas and its suburbs in surrounding Tarrant County, part of the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area. Since 1983, it was previously known officially as the Fort W ...

) * TEXRail - (

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High speed rail

* Texas Central Railway (Proposed; in ROW-acquisition phase)

Light rail

DART light rail The DART light rail system serves the metropolitan area of Dallas, Texas. It is owned and operated by Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART). The system opened June 14, 1996 and serves 65 stations and four lines, covering : the , the , the , and th ...

- ( DART) *

METRORail METRORail is the light rail system in Houston, Texas (United States). In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of . METRORail ranks as the second most-traveled light rail system in the Southern United States and the List ...

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Houston METRO The Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO) is a major public transportation agency based in Houston, Texas, United States. It operates bus, light rail, bus rapid transit, HOV and HOT lanes, and paratransit service (under the nam ...

)

Trolley and streetcar

Dallas Streetcar The Dallas Streetcar is a modern streetcar line in Dallas, Texas. It is owned by the city of Dallas and operated by Dallas Area Rapid Transit, which also operates Dallas's DART light rail system. Construction on the line began in May 2013,'' T ...

- ( DART) * El Paso Streetcar - ( Sun Metro) *

Galveston Island Trolley The Galveston Island Trolley is a heritage streetcar network in Galveston, Texas, United States. As of late 2006, the total network length was 6.8 miles (10.9 km) with 22 stations. The Galveston Island Trolley is operated by Island Transit ...

- ( Island Transit) * M-Line Trolley - (MATA)

Tourist and heritage

* Austin and Texas Central Railroad (ATCR) - (Austin Steam Train Association) * Grapevine Vintage Railroad (GVRX) * Hermann Park Railroad - ( Hermann Park Conservancy) * Historic Jefferson Railway (JCB) * Six Flags & Texas Railroad - (

Six Flags Over Texas "Six flags over Texas" is the slogan used to describe the six sovereign countries that have had control over some or all of the current territory of the U.S. state of Texas: Spain (1519–1685; 1690–1821), France (1685–1690), Mexico (1821� ...

) * Texas State Railroad (TSR) *Longhorn and Western Railroad - ( Texas Transportation Museum)

Defunct railroads

Electric

* Austin Dam and Suburban Railway * Belton–Temple Traction Company * Bryan and Central Texas Interurban Railway * Bryan and College Interurban Railway * Bryan–College Traction Company * Dallas Southern Traction Company * Denison and Sherman Railway * Eastern Texas Electric Company * Fort Worth Southern Traction Company *

Galveston–Houston Electric Railway The Galveston–Houston Electric Railway was an interurban railway between Galveston and Houston, Texas from 1911 to 1936. The railway was recognized as the fastest interurban line in 1925 and 1926. Route The Interurban ran the from downtown ...

* Houston North Shore Railway * Jefferson County Traction Company * Northern Texas Traction Company * Rio Grande Valley Traction Company * Roby and Northern Railroad * Southern Traction Company * Southwestern Traction Company * Tarrant County Traction Company * Texas Electric Railway (TER) * Texas Interurban Railway * Texas Traction Company

Railroads not completed

Notes

References

* Association of American Railroads (2003),
Railroad Service in Texas
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Texas railroads The following railroads operate in the U.S. state of Texas. Common freight carriers Class I *BNSF Railway (BNSF) *Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) *Union Pacific Railroad (UP) Class II There are no Class II Railroads in Texas. Class III * ...

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