Houston and Texas Central Railway

The line eventually stretched from Houston northward to Dallas and Denison, Texas, with branches to Austin and Waco.

[1] Ebenezer Allen of Galveston, Texas obtained the charter to establish a railroad company on March 11, 1848.

This formed the first all-railroad route from Houston to St. Louis, Missouri, and the Eastern United States for freight and passengers.

Dallas Area Rapid Transit purchased the track from Elsworth Avenue to Plano in 2012[7] for commuter-train service.

North of Plano's Parker Road Station, the abandoned right-of-way continues to McKinney, Texas.