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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.
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.
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.
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Fort Worth and Denver Railway: Stephenville North and South Texas Railway: SSW: 1907 1941 N/A Sugar Land Railway: SL MP: 1893 1956 Missouri Pacific Railroad: Taylor, Bastrop and Houston Railway: MKT: 1886 1886 Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway: Texarkana and Fort Smith Railway: KCS: 1889 1943 Kansas City Southern Railway: Texarkana and ...
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 ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Friday reopened two rail crossings between Texas and Mexico vital for exports, five days after their closure in response to increased migrant traffic ...
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 ...