Object Type: Folder
In Folder: AF Subjects
Media documenting the Austin Steam Train Association from the Austin Files collection
Photographs documenting the Amtrak railway from the Austin Files collection. The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak, is a passenger railroad service that provides medium and long-distance intercity service in the contiguous United States and to nine Canadian cities. The Austin, Texas station is served by Amtrak's Texas Eagle route, which runs north to Chicago and west to Los Angeles.
Photographs documenting the Austin Dam and Suburban railway from the Austin Files collection. What later became the Austin Dam and Suburban Railway was originally built by the city of Austin in 1891 and ran from the city to the site of Austin Dam, a distance of 4.75 miles. The Austin Dam and Suburban was chartered on July 16, 1895, and purchased the line from the city of Austin for $43,500. The railroad was electrified and operated as a streetcar line through Austin to a pleasure park near the dam. In the spring of 1899 an additional 1.5 miles of track was constructed. After the destruction of Austin Dam by a flood in April 1900, the railroad ceased operations until May 1904. The company was sold at foreclosure on June 7, 1902, and acquired by George J. Gould three days later. Under the provisions of an ordinance approved June 10, 1903, the company abandoned and removed its tracks from certain streets and acquired the right to operate what remained as a steam railroad. Service over the Austin Dam and Suburban was provided by the International and Great Northern Railroad Company, whose successor acquired the line in 1923. On March 1, 1956, the company, along with its parent, was merged into the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company.
Photographs documenting the Houston and Texas Central railway from the Austin Files collection. The Houston and Texas Central Railway (H&TC), a predecessor of today's Union Pacific Railroad, was an 872-mile railway system chartered in Texas in 1848, with construction beginning in 1856. The line eventually stretched from Houston northward to Dallas and Denison, Texas.
Photographs documenting the International and Great Northern railway that was a railroad that operated in the U.S. state of Texas. It was created on September 30, 1873, when the International Railroad and the Houston and Great Northern Railroad merged.
Photographs documenting the Southern Pacific Railroad from the Austin Files collection. The Southern Pacific was an American Class I railroad network that existed from 1865 to 1996 and operated largely in the Western United States.
