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Texas Pacifico Transportation Ltd. (reporting mark TXPF) is a Class III railroad operating company in West Texas owned by Grupo México. [3] [4] The company operates over the South Orient Rail Line under a lease and operating agreement with the Texas Department of Transportation and Texas Pacifico Transportation, Ltd. The Texas Pacifico company ...
St. Louis Southwestern Railway of Texas; St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway; St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas Railway; San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway; San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad; Seagraves, Whiteface and Lubbock Railroad; South Orient Railroad; Southern Pacific Company; Southern Pacific Railroad; Stephenville North and ...
The Gillespie County Historical Society is a historical society founded in 1934 serving Gillespie County, Texas. It operates The Pioneer Museum of Fredericksburg, Texas, intended as "a memorial to celebrate a unique community that was created by early settlers to the Texas Hill Country." [1] [2] [3]
The Santa Fe then sold the Mexican portions. The railway reached Presidio in 1930 and the Presidio–Ojinaga International Rail Bridge was built. Operating rights on the portion from San Angelo Junction (65 miles [105 km] NEE of San Angelo) to Presidio (known as South Orient Rail Line) later were awarded to Texas Pacifico Transportation.
Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway of Texas: Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway: ATSF: 1914 1965 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: Paris, Choctaw and Little Rock Railway: 1888 N/A Paris and Great Northern Railroad: SLSF: 1888 1928 St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas Railway: Paris, Marshall and Sabine Pass Railway: 1888 1892 Texas Southern ...
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Much of the company's route originally belonged to the Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway, which began construction from Fort Worth in 1886 and reached Brownwood in 1891. In 1901, the FW&RG was bought by the Frisco Railway, which sold it to the Santa Fe Railway in 1937. The Santa Fe sold the line to an affiliate of the South Orient Railroad in 1994.
Originally Fort Worth and Denver City Railway 410. It was sold to the Texas and Pacific Railway in 1958 to help pull freight trains through the flooded waters of the Red River. The locomotive suffered a mechanical breakdown and was donated to Marshall, Texas in 1963. The locomotive was unfortunately vandalized, and many of the original hardware ...