Railroads were begun in Texas in the 1850s with railheads on the Gulf Coast running inland. As the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos & Colorado Railroad completed its track-laying near Columbus, Texas, investors formed a company to extend tracks into the interior of Texas. William Harbert, Andrew M. Campbell, George W. Smith Stein, Bill. Consider the Lily: The Ungilded History of Colorado County, Texas. Nesbitt Memorial Library, Columbus, Texas. and Gustav SchleicherHandbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association intended to extend the railroad from the Colorado River to San Antonio and beyond.
