The Fort Worth and Denver Railway, nicknamed the Denver Road, was a Class I American railroad company that operated in northern Texas from 1881 to 1982 and had a profound influence on the early settlement and economic development of the region. It was chartered by the Texas Legislature on May 26, 1873 as the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway Company and took its later name in 1951. Its main line ran from Fort Worth through Wichita Falls, Childress, Amarillo and Dalhart to Texline, connecting with its parent company, the Colorado and Southern Railway, both of which became subsidiaries of the Burlington Route in 1908; at the end of 1970 it operated over 1,200 miles of road and reported nearly 1.5 billion ton miles of revenue freight that year.
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