Author: Jim Vollmar
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439639701
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Fort Bend County was formed in the early 1820s by members of Stephen F. Austins Old 300. Traders utilized barges and steamboats running along the Brazos River to transport cotton and other products from the lower Brazos Valley to the port at Galveston. In 1853, railroads began to play a larger role in the countys transportation system. Transportation facilities were greatly improved when the first railroad in Texas, the Buffalo, Brazos, and Colorado Railroad Company, completed its first 20-mile segment to Staffords Point in Fort Bend County from Harrisburg (Houston). As many as eight separate railroads were chartered and operated in Fort Bend County by 1900. Today some of the names have changed but most of the original rail lines remain in operation. The Union Pacific, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, and Kansas City Southern rail companies have picked up where their predecessors left off and are keeping Fort Bend County one of the busiest and fastest-growing counties in the United States.
Railroads of Fort Bend County
Author: Jim Vollmar
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738579016
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Fort Bend County was formed in the early 1820s by members of Stephen F. Austin's "Old 300." Traders utilized barges and steamboats running along the Brazos River to transport cotton and other products from the lower Brazos Valley to the port at Galveston. In 1853, railroads began to play a larger role in the county's transportation system. Transportation facilities were greatly improved when the first railroad in Texas, the Buffalo, Brazos, and Colorado Railroad Company, completed its first 20-mile segment to Stafford's Point in Fort Bend County from Harrisburg (Houston). As many as eight separate railroads were chartered and operated in Fort Bend County by 1900. Today some of the names have changed but most of the original rail lines remain in operation. The Union Pacific, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, and Kansas City Southern rail companies have picked up where their predecessors left off and are keeping Fort Bend County one of the busiest and fastest-growing counties in the United States.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738579016
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Fort Bend County was formed in the early 1820s by members of Stephen F. Austin's "Old 300." Traders utilized barges and steamboats running along the Brazos River to transport cotton and other products from the lower Brazos Valley to the port at Galveston. In 1853, railroads began to play a larger role in the county's transportation system. Transportation facilities were greatly improved when the first railroad in Texas, the Buffalo, Brazos, and Colorado Railroad Company, completed its first 20-mile segment to Stafford's Point in Fort Bend County from Harrisburg (Houston). As many as eight separate railroads were chartered and operated in Fort Bend County by 1900. Today some of the names have changed but most of the original rail lines remain in operation. The Union Pacific, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, and Kansas City Southern rail companies have picked up where their predecessors left off and are keeping Fort Bend County one of the busiest and fastest-growing counties in the United States.
Historic Fort Bend County
Author: Andrea Guy-Halat
Publisher: HPN Books
ISBN: 1935377248
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
An illustrated history of Fort Bend County, Texas, paired with histories of the local companies.
Publisher: HPN Books
ISBN: 1935377248
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
An illustrated history of Fort Bend County, Texas, paired with histories of the local companies.
Prospectus of the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway from Galveston to Interior of Texas
Author: Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe Railroad
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Soil Survey, Fort Bend County, Texas
Author: Irvin C. Mowery
Publisher:
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Category : Fort Bend County (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fort Bend County (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Report
... Annual Report of the Railroad Commission of the State of Texas
Author: Railroad Commission of Texas
Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
... Annual Report of the Railroad Commission of the State of Texas
Author: Texas. Railroad Commission
Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Journal of the House of Representatives
Author: Texas. Legislature. House
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 2150
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 2150
Book Description