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The Southern Pacific Railroad was replaced by the Southern Pacific Company and assumed the railroad operations of the Southern Pacific Railroad. In 1929, Southern Pacific/Texas and New Orleans operated 13,848 route-miles not including Cotton Belt, whose purchase of the Golden State Route circa 1980 nearly doubled its size to 3,085 miles (4,965 ...
Kansas Pacific Railway: UP: 1869 1880 Union Pacific Railway: Kansas and Southeastern Railroad: ATSF: 1897 1899 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: Kansas Southern Railroad: ATSF: 1883 1884 Kansas Southern Railway: Kansas Southern Railway: 2000 2002 N/A Operated the V&S Railway: Kansas Southern Railway: ATSF: 1884 1885 Southern Kansas Railway ...
The Kansas Pacific began in 1855 as the Leavenworth, Pawnee and Western Railroad, and was later reorganized in 1863 as the Union Pacific Eastern Division. The UP Eastern was authorized by the United States Congress as part of the Pacific Railway Act , in order to create a second southerly branch of the transcontinental railroad , alongside the ...
Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited, doing business as CPKC (known as Canadian Pacific Railway Limited until 2023), is a Canadian railway holding company.Through its primary operating railroad subsidiaries, Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) and Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS), it operates about 32,000 kilometres (20,000 mi) of rail in Canada, Mexico, and the United States, and is the only ...
Kansas City Southern (KCS) was a transportation holding company with railroad investments in the United States, Mexico, and Panama and operated from 1887 to 2023. The KCS rail network included about 7,299 miles (11,747 km) of track in the U.S. and Mexico.
The Kansas City Southern Railway Company (reporting mark KCS) was an American Class I railroad.Founded in 1887, it operated in 10 Midwestern and Southeastern U.S. states: Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.
Southern Pacific Company [1] 1911 1941 East Bay Electric Lines, earlier Interurban Electric Railway: Tidewater Southern Railway [2] 1913 1932 Visalia Electric Railroad [2] 1906 1924 Watsonville Traction Company [2] 1910 1917
The Southern Pacific Santa Fe Railroad (SPSF) was a proposed merger between the parent companies of the Southern Pacific and AT&SF announced on December 23, 1983. As part of the joining of the two firms, all rail and non-rail assets owned by Santa Fe Industries and the Southern Pacific Transportation Company were placed under the control of a ...