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The El Paso and Southwestern Railroad began in 1888 as the Arizona and South Eastern Railroad, a short line serving copper mines in southern Arizona. Over the next few decades, it grew into a 1200-mile system that stretched from Tucumcari, New Mexico, southward to El Paso, Texas, and westward to Tucson, Arizona, with several branch lines, including one to Nacozari, Mexico.
The Southwestern Railroad started a 5 ft (1,524 mm) gauge spur line from Sparta, Tennessee to McMinnville, Tennessee to connect with the McMinnville and Manchester Railroad. The Southwestern Railroad Company was chartered in 1851–52 to build a railroad from Danville, Kentucky to McMinnville in less than ten years.
The company indirectly controls, through direct control stated above, common-carrier corporations as follows: Entire outstanding capital stock owned by the El Paso & Southwestern Railroad Company, the El Paso & Southwestern Railroad Company of Texas.
On the other hand, the El Paso & Southwestern Railroad controls, through stock ownership, The El Paso & Southwestern Railroad Company of Texas, whose property is operated by its own organization. The El Paso & Southwestern Railroad operated its own property from July 1, 1901, to March 31, 1908, and from July 1, 1912, to date of valuation.
The line became part of the Phelps Dodge El Paso and Southwestern Railroad in 1905 and was leased by Southern Pacific Railroad in 1924. Summer excursions from El Paso were discontinued in 1930 and passenger and mail service ended in 1938.
Tennessee Central Railroad: Tennessee Southern Railroad: IC: 1881 1884 Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railway: Tennessee State Line Railroad: SOU: 1882 1886 East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad: Tennessee Valley Railroad: SOU: 1887 1888 East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway: Tennessee Western Railroad: L&N: 1912 1939 N/A ...