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Ferrocarril Mexicali y Golfo was a railroad line in Baja California, Mexico, established in 1901. [1] [2] Within a few years a controlling interest in the railroad was bought by the American Southern Pacific Railroad company. [1] The line eventually built was a predecessor to the Ferrocarril Sonora – Baja California.
operated from 1927 until 1949 as an international train under the subsidiary Southern Pacific Railroad of Mexico between Tucson, Arizona and Guadalajara in Mexico featuring through sleepers on the Argonaut from Los Angeles, California to Mexico City in Mexico [7] Jarocho: Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México
At Calexico, California, the Inter-Cal crossed the United States-Mexico border into Mexicali, Baja California. [3] [4] It then continued through the Mexicali Valley, before crossing the border again at Los Algodones, Baja California and finally terminating at Araz Junction in Andrade, California, where the line reconnected to the Sunset line. [3]
Baja California Railroad, Inc. (BJRR) is a class III railroad operating in the northwest of Baja California, interchanging with San Diego and Imperial Valley Railroad in San Ysidro, California. After rehabilitation efforts are completed on the Desert Line portion of the railroad, an interchange is also planned with the Union Pacific Railroad in ...
This is a list of Mexican railroads, common carrier railroads operating as part of rail transport in Mexico. This transport-related list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items . ( August 2008 )
In 1932, financial difficulties forced Spreckels' heirs to sell their interests in the firm for $2.8 million to the Southern Pacific, which renamed the railroad the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway (SD&AE). In 2012 the Mexican government allowed the company Baja Rail to restore and use the track between Tijuana and Tecate.
On July 12, 2006, the attorneys for the Sonora–Arizona International LLC re-filed with the STB that they were withdrawing their OFA and that the SAI would no longer be purchasing the railroad line. The San Pedro Railroad Operating Company then refiled on July 13 to ask for approval to immediately abandon the line. The STB's decision is pending.
The Southern Pacific Railroad of Mexico (reporting mark SPM) [1] was a railroad subsidiary of the Southern Pacific Railroad in Mexico, operating from Nogales, Sonora, to Mazatlán, Sinaloa. The Sonora Railway was constructed by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway between 1879 and 1882. In 1898 the Santa Fe leased the Sonora Railway to the ...