Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Buffalo Bayou, Brazos, and Colorado Railway was the first operating railroad in Texas. The Colorado in its name is the Colorado River of Texas, not Colorado state. In the line's early days, it was often called the Harrisburg Railroad. In 1868, it changed owners and became the Galveston, Harrisburg, & San Antonio Railroad. Today, it is the oldest component of the Southern Pacific system. The line was the creation of Texian General Sidney Sherman, a hero of the Battle of San Jacinto, who in 1847 purchased from the Harrisburg Town Company the unused town lots previously allocated to the failed Harrisburg and Brazos Railroad. After finding northern investors, he succeeded in chartering the company by act of the Texas legislature on February 11, 1850, and organizing it on June 1 of that year.