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I thought I would chime in on the Houston topic.... When you guys mentioned Houston Railroads you omitted the Galveston-Houston Electric that terminated near the Rice Hotel. It entered Galveston via the old causeway and ran underneath the palms on Broadway. The power lines that run south to Galveston and parallel Texas 3 through the NASA area were built on the old right of way. Also, on a more obscure note, there was the Houston Street Railways (not to be confused with the local trolley lines). They operated a very short industrial line to a factory district in the Heights. You can still see the right of way along Ashland St. next to the Houston Heights Water Works. The one thing that amazes me is that with all of the visible remains of what must have been a massive industrial switching infrastucture all over the Commerce St. and warehouse districts near downtown, very few readily available historical photos of these areas seem to exist. I have many times in the past few years seen construction crews pulling switch frogs out form underneath old asphalt during the street rebuilding in these areas (not to mention where the trolleys ran). Many signs of the old rights-of-way are still visible, particularly on Commerce St. and in the vicinity of St. Emmanuel, Polk and Leeland Streets.
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