The is an eight-mile (13 km)
Railroad connecting
Lone Star, Texas , to the former
Louisiana And Arkansas Railway , now a line of the
Kansas City Southern Railway , between
Daingerfield and
Hughes Springs . When it started operations in
1948 to serve the
Lone Star Steel Company (), of which it is a wholly-owned subsidiary, the
Revenue cutoff for a
Class I Railroad was $1 million, and the Texas and Northern made just more than that per year. Thus, until
1956 , when the cutoff was raised to $3 million, the Texas and Northern was an eight-mile railroad in the same class as giants like the
New York Central Railroad and
Pennsylvania Railroad . Operations have continued to the present day, as Lone Star Steel is still in operation.
