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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]
The line between A&C Junction, AZ, and Parker opened by June 1907. The Colorado River bridge near Parker was completed in June 1908 and the track connection in Cadiz, California was made on June 10, 1910; service to Cadiz commenced on July 1. [4] In 1909, the Arizona and Swansea Railroad that connected Swansea from Bouse was completed.
The tourist train has been active since at least 2009. [11] The train's operations were suspended from 2020 to 2023, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [10] However, in December 2023, Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda, the Governor of Baja California, announced that the tourist train would return on January 27, 2024.
The railroad interchanges with the BNSF Railway in San Diego and the Baja California Railroad in San Ysidro and the railroad's main source of traffic is moving railcars between the two other railroads. The primary commodities hauled are petroleum products, agricultural products, and wood pulp. The SD&IY hauled around 6,500 carloads in 2008. [6]
Fallen Southern Pacific Railroad cars in Carrizo Gorge, 2010.. The San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway traces its origins back to December 14, 1906, when entrepreneur John D. Spreckels announced he would form the San Diego and Arizona (SD&A) Railway and build a railroad to provide San Diego with a direct rail link to the east by connecting with the Southern Pacific (SP) lines in El Centro ...
CZRY discontinued operations of the Tijuana-Tecate segment in the end of 2011. The contract was renewed in favor of Baja California Railroad, Inc. by the government of Baja California. In December 2012, SD&AE, owner of the line, entered into a 50-year operating lease with the Pacific Imperial Railroad company for freight trains. The lease ...
The California, Arizona and Santa Fe Railway was a non-operating subsidiary (paper railroad) of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF). It was incorporated in 1911, and was merged into the ATSF in 1963. [1] California, Arizona and Santa Fe would ultimately be absorbed by Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway.
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