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s operate in the

U.S. state In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its sove ...

Texas 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 ...

Common freight carriers

Class I

* BNSF Railway (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 ...

(AWRR) - (

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 ...

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

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

) *

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 (GVSR) - (

) * Gardendale Railroad (GDR) * Georgetown Railroad (GRR) * Grainbelt Corporation (GNBC) * GT Logistics * Gulf Coast Switching (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 (KRR) - (

) * La Salle Railway (LSRY) * Live Oak Railroad (LOR) * Lubbock and Western Railway (LBWR) - (

) * Moscow, Camden and San Augustine Railroad (MCSA) - ( Georgia-Pacific) * 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) * Temple and Central Texas Railway (TC) * Texas Central Business Lines (TCB) * Texas City Terminal Railway (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) - (

) * Texas Northeastern Railroad (TNER) - (

) *

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 (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 (TSE) * Timber Rock Railroad (TIBR) - (

) *

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 (WTJR)

Passenger carriers

Intercity Passenger Rail

Amtrak The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak () , is the national passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates inter-city rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous U.S. States and nine cities in Canada ...

(AMTK) ** Heartland Flyer **

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

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 **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 (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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-acquisition phase)

Light Rail

* DART Rail * Houston METRORail

Trolley and Streetcar

* Dallas Streetcar (DART) * El Paso Street Car (Sun Metro) * Galveston Island Trolley * McKinney Avenue Trolley

Tourism Rail

* Austin and Texas Central Railroad (ATCR) (Austin Steam Train Association) * Grapevine Vintage Railroad (operated on TEXRail) * Historic Jefferson Railway * Six Flags & Texas Railroad *

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 * 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., 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 * Roby and Northern Railroad * Southern Traction Company * 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 ...

(TER) * Texas Interurban Railway * Texas Traction Company ;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
' ( PDF). Retrieved May 19, 2005. * Handbook of Texas Online {{Texas Texas railroads

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