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Texas Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2 ...

Common freight carriers

Class I

BNSF Railway BNSF Railway is one of the largest freight railroads in North America. One of seven North American Class I railroads, BNSF has 35,000 employees, of track in 28 states, and nearly 8,000 locomotives. It has three transcontinental routes that ...

(BNSF) *

Kansas City Southern Railway The Kansas City Southern Railway Company is an American Class I railroad. Founded in 1887, it operates in 10 midwestern and southeastern U.S. states: Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and ...

(KCS) *

Union Pacific Railroad The Union Pacific Railroad , legally Union Pacific Railroad Company and often called simply Union Pacific, is a freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Paci ...

(UP)

Class II

There are no Class II Railroads in Texas.

Class III

Alamo Gulf Coast Railroad The Alamo Gulf Coast Railroad is a short-line railroad headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It is a subsidiary of Martin Marietta Materials, a spinoff of Lockheed Martin., and began operation in 1996. The AGCR operates on about of trackage ...

(AGCR) - ( Martin Marietta Inc.) * Angelina and Neches River Railroad (ANR) *

Austin Western Railroad The Austin Western Railroad is a short-line railroad headquartered in Round Rock, Texas. AWRR is a subsidiary of Watco. AWRR operates a 103 mile (166 km) line from Fairland, Texas to an interchange with the Union Pacific at Elgin. Tracks als ...

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Watco Watco Companies, L.L.C. (Watco) is a transportation company based in Pittsburg, Kansas, formed in 1983 by Charles R. Webb. Watco was composed of four divisions: transportation, mechanical, terminal and port services, and compliance. Watco is t ...

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Big Spring Rail (BSR)
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Blacklands Railroad The Blacklands Railroad is a class III short-line railroad headquartered in Sulphur Springs, Texas. History The Blacklands Railroad began operations in 1999 on an abandoned Southern Pacific Transportation Company, Southern Pacific rail line tha ...

(BLR) *

Border Pacific Railroad The Border Pacific Railroad is a short-line railroad headquartered in Rio Grande City, Texas, United States. BOP operates a line from Rio Grande City to an interchange with Union Pacific (via Rio Valley Switching Company) at Mission, Texas. BOP ...

(BOP) *

Brownsville and Rio Grande International Railroad The Brownsville and Rio Grande International Railroad (Brownsville & Rio Grande International Railroad) is a terminal switching railroad headquartered in Brownsville, Texas Brownsville () is a city in Cameron County in the U.S. state of Texas ...

(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, United Kingdom and formerly Australia. It operates ...

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Dallas, Garland and Northeastern Railroad The Dallas, Garland and Northeastern Railroad (Dallas, Garland & Northeastern Railroad) is a short-line railroad headquartered in Richardson, Texas. The company is a subsidiary of Genesee & Wyoming, having been acquired when GWRR purchased RailAme ...

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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. ...

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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 1,574 at the ...

(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 approximately 10 mile dista ...

(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. Farmrail Corporation has acted since 1981 as a lessee-operato ...

(GNBC) *

GT Logistics GT, Gt or G-T may refer to: Arts and entertainment Games * GT Interactive, an American video game developer * GameTrailers, a video game website * '' Golden Tee Golf'', golf video game * ''Gran Turismo'' (series), a series of racing video games ...

Gulf Coast Switching A gulf is a large inlet from the ocean into the landmass, typically with a narrower opening than a bay, but that is not observable in all geographic areas so named. The term gulf was traditionally used for large highly-indented navigable bodie ...

(GCS) *

Hondo Railway The Hondo Railway is a Class III shortline railroad that operates about of trackage to the west of San Antonio, Texas. Roughly half of the railroad's track () is terminal trackage leased from Texas Liquid Terminal, Inc. It was formed in 2006, an ...

(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 ...

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La Salle Railway LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States. 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 Smith on ''Figure ...

(LSRY) *

Live Oak Railroad Live may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Live!'' (2007 film), 2007 American film * ''Live'' (2014 film), a 2014 Japanese film *'' ''Live'' (Apocalyptica DVD) Music *Live (band), American alternative rock band * List of albums ...

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

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Moscow, Camden and San Augustine Railroad The Moscow, Camden & San Augustine Railroad Company is a Class III short line railroad headquartered in Camden, Texas. It is a subsidiary of Georgia-Pacific. The MCSA operates a 6.9 mi (11.1 km) line from Camden to an interchange ...

(MCSA) - (

Georgia-Pacific Georgia-Pacific LLC is an American pulp and paper company based in Atlanta, Georgia, and is one of the world's largest manufacturers and distributors of tissue, pulp, paper, toilet and paper towel dispensers, packaging, building products and r ...

) * Oak Grove Railroad * Orange Port Terminal Railway (OPT) * Panhandle Northern Railroad (PNR) * Pecos Valley Southern Railway (PVS) - (

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

) * Port Terminal Railroad Association (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 Vulcan Materials Company () is an American company based in Birmingham, Alabama. It is principally engaged in the production, distribution and sale of construction materials. Vulcan is the largest producer of construction materials, primarily gra ...

) * Temple and Central Texas Railway (TC) * Texas Central Business Lines (TCB) *

Texas City Terminal Railway The Texas City Terminal Railway is an American terminal railroad that operates of track at the Port of Texas City in Texas City, Texas. Established in 1921, the TCTR is jointly owned by the Union Pacific Railroad The Union Pacific Railroad ...

(TCT) - (

BNSF BNSF Railway is one of the largest freight railroads in North America. One of seven North American Class I railroads, BNSF has 35,000 employees, of track in 28 states, and nearly 8,000 locomotives. It has three transcontinental routes that ...

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

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Texas and Northern Railway The Texas and Northern Railway is an eight-mile (13 km) railroad connecting Lone Star, Texas, to the former Louisiana and Arkansas Railway at Veals Switch between Daingerfield and Hughes Springs Hughes Springs is a city in Cass and Morris ...

(TN) * Texas North Western Railway (TXNW) * Texas and Oklahoma Railroad (TXOR) *

Texas Pacifico Transportation Texas Pacifico Transportation Ltd. is a Class III railroad operating company in West Texas owned by Grupo México. The company operates over the South Orient Rail Line under a lease and operating agreement with the Texas Department of Transpor ...

(TXPF) - (

Grupo México Grupo México is a Mexican conglomerate that operates through the following divisions: Mining (Minera Mexico), Transportation ( GMxT), Infrastructure and Fundacion Grupo Mexico. Its mining Division is the leading Copper producer in Mexico and t ...

) **Operator for the Texas state-owned South Orient Rail Line * Texas Rock Crusher Railway (TXR) *

Texas South-Eastern Railroad Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by bo ...

(TSE) *

Timber Rock Railroad The Timber Rock Railroad (TIBR) is a shortline rail carrier operating in the states of Texas and Louisiana. Its single line runs from Kirbyville, Texas to DeRidder, Louisiana, about 41.5 miles. It is owned by the Watco Companies. History The ...

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Western Rail Road The Western Rail Road is a shortline railroad owned by Cemex that connects a Cemex quarry and cement plant at Dittlinger, Texas (just south of New Braunfels), to the Austin Subdivision of the Union Pacific Railroad (UP). The company was incorp ...

(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, Oklahom ...

(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 inter-city 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 begins ...

Texas Eagle The ''Texas Eagle'' is a daily passenger train route operated by Amtrak between Chicago and San Antonio in the central and western United States. Prior to 1988, the train was known as the ''Eagle''. Trains #21 (southbound) and 22 (northbound) ...

Sunset Limited The ''Sunset Limited'' is an Amtrak passenger train that for most of its history has operated between New Orleans and Los Angeles, over the nation's second transcontinental route. However, up until Hurricane Katrina in 2005, it operated betwe ...

Commuter Rail

A-train (Denton County Transportation Authority) The A-train is a hybrid rail (light rail with some features similar to commuter rail) line in Denton County, Texas, United States. It is the fourth-busiest commuter rail line in Texas and thirty-first in the United States. It runs parallel to ...

(DCTA) *

Capital MetroRail Capital MetroRail is a hybrid rail (light rail with some features similar to commuter rail) line that serves the Greater Austin area in Texas, and which is owned by Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Capital Metro. The Red Line, Capi ...

**operates the Austin and Northwestern Railroad *

Trinity Railway Express The Trinity Railway Express (TRE) is a commuter rail line in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. It was established by an interlocal agreement between Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) and Trinity Metro. Each transit authority owns a 50% stake in ...

(TREX) (DART and Trinity Metro) *

TEXRail TEXRail is a hybrid rail (light rail with some features similar to commuter rail) line in Tarrant County, Texas, United States that provides service between downtown Fort Worth and Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport via Grapevine and other ...

(Trinity Metro)

High Speed Rail

Texas Central Railway Texas Central or Texas Central Partners, LLC, is a private railroad company that is proposing a high-speed rail line between Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston. It plans to use technology based on that used by the Central Japan Railway Company an ...

(Proposed; in

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Light Rail

* DART Rail * Houston METRORail

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,''Tra ...

(DART) * El Paso Street Car (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. ...

* McKinney Avenue Trolley

Tourism Rail

* Austin and Texas Central Railroad (ATCR) (Austin Steam Train Association) *

Grapevine Vintage Railroad The Grapevine Vintage Railroad (GVRR) is an excursion and special event railroad in Grapevine, Texas, USA, that runs from the Main Street station in Grapevine to the Fort Worth Stockyards. GVRR is owned and operated by the City of Grapevine. His ...

(operated on TEXRail) * Historic Jefferson Railway *

Six Flags & Texas Railroad The Six Flags & Texas Railroad is an amusement park heritage railroad and the only attraction still operating from the inaugural 1961 season of Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington, Texas. Two steam locomotives transport guests on a journey around ...

Texas State Railroad The Texas State Railroad is a historic heritage railroad between Rusk and Palestine, Texas. Built by inmates, it was founded in 1883 by the state of Texas to haul raw materials for a smelter at the prison at Rusk. Regular service on the line was ...

* 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 Dallas () is the third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people. It is the largest city in and seat of Dallas County wit ...

* Denison and Sherman Railway * Eastern Texas Electric Company *

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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., Texas State Historical Association. Route The ...

* Houston North Shore Railway * Jefferson County Traction Company *

Northern Texas Traction Company The Northern Texas Traction Company was a subsidiary of Stone & Webster that operated the streetcar system and interurban lines in Fort Worth, Texas. The Northern Texas Traction Company began with the purchase of the City Railway of Fort Worth b ...

Rio Grande Valley Traction Company Rio or Río is the Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and Maltese word for "river". When spoken on its own, the word often means Rio de Janeiro, a major city in Brazil. Rio or Río may also refer to: Geography Brazil * Rio de Janeiro * Rio do Sul, a ...

* Roby and Northern Railroad *

Southern Traction Company Southern may refer to: Businesses * China Southern Airlines, airline based in Guangzhou, China * Southern Airways, defunct US airline * Southern Air, air cargo transportation company based in Norwalk, Connecticut, US * Southern Airways Express, M ...

* Southwestern Traction Company * Tarrant County Traction Company *

Texas Electric Railway The Texas Electric Railway is a historic interurban railroad that operated from Dallas, Texas, to Denison, Corsicana, and Waco. It began operation in 1908 and through the merger of several companies became the largest interurban railway operator i ...

(TER) *

Texas Interurban Railway The Texas Interurban Railway was an electric interurban railroad that operated from Dallas, Texas, to Terrell and Denton from 1923 to 1932. The Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad (Katy) line was electrified between Dallas and Denton and services ...

Texas Traction Company Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2 ...

;Not completed * Brazos and Galveston Railroad * Columbus, San Antonio and Rio Grande Railroad * Enid, Ochiltree and Western Railroad * Gulf and West Texas Railway * Harrisburg Railroad and Trading Company * Houston, Trinity and Tyler Railroad * Pan American Railway * Temple–Northwestern Railway * Winnsboro and Gilmer Railroad

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) *Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS) *Union Pacific Railroad (UP) Class II There are no Class II Railroads in Texas. Class III *Ala ...

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