Austin Western Railroad

The Austin Western Railroad is a short-line railroad headquartered in Round Rock, Texas.
AWRR operates a 103 mile (166 km) line from Fairland, Texas, to an interchange with Union Pacific Railroad at Elgin, Texas. AWRR has rights to operate on 28 more miles (45 km) of track from Fairland to Llano, Texas, from Elgin to an interchange with UPRR at Giddings, Texas, and a 6.4 mile (10.3 km) branch from Fairland, to Marble Falls, Texas, but these tracks have not seen revenue service in decades, and the roadbed has been washed out approximately four miles from Llano. There is an additional interchange with the UPRR at McNeil, Texas. The line was originally part of the Houston and Texas Central Railway, and later part of the Texas and New Orleans Railroad followed by the Southern Pacific Railroad. It is now owned by Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority, with whom AWRR has had the contract to operate freight service on the railroad from September 2007. AWRR traffic includes aggregates, crushed limestone, calcium bicarbonate, lumber, beer, chemicals, plastics, and paper.
AWRR is a subsidiary of the Watco Companies.
In addition, the Austin Steam Train Association operates an excursion train between Austin, Texas, Cedar Park, Texas, and Burnet, Texas.