While Dallas got its first railway in 1872, a just-as-notable arrival happened the next year, when the Texas and Pacific railway connected to Dallas and intersected the Texas and Houston Central.

Texas’ history with railroad building somewhat mirrored that of the rest of the nation, and by 1911, Texas had become the state with the most railroad mileage in the nation, a position it continues to ...

Educators in Texas may be eager to include the southbound underground railroad into their classrooms, if Alaine Hutson is a barometer. She's a history professor at Huston-Tillotson University, a ...

MARFA, Texas — What remains of the Chinese immigrants who built the Southern Pacific Railroad through Seminole Canyon in the 1880s are the objects they left behind — opium pipes, rice bowls ...

For decades the museum was located at Fair Park, but a few years ago, they rolled north to Collin County and set up shop in Frisco. It's a place with a railroad history.

Railroad History Rolls Into Fort Worth January 6, 2012 / 10:13 AM CST / CBS Texas FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) - Train lovers, a rolling history museum is coming to Fort Worth this weekend.

The turning point for Brownwood — as with so many Texas towns and cities — was the arrival of the railroad. The first to push through in 1885 was the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad, a ...

LUFKIN, Texas (KTRE) - This week’s Mark in Texas History takes a look at the power of transportation, especially by train. The Angelina and Neches River Railroad was a key part of developing the ...

Not everyone is destined to win all the races they race or the fights that they fight. And on some special select occasions, some of those daring souls are recognized ...