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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.
El Paso and Southwestern Railroad: El Paso and Southwestern Railroad: SP: 1902 1955 Southern Pacific Company: Fort Worth and Denver Railway: FWD CB&Q: 1981 1982 Burlington Northern Railroad: Hanover Railroad: ATSF: 1899 1900 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: Lordsburg and Hachita Railroad: SP: 1901 1911 Arizona and New Mexico Railway ...
The El Paso and Southwestern and the New Cornelia Copper Company jointly control through equal ownership of its entire capital stock, the Tucson, Cornelia and Gila Bend Railroad Company, which operates its own property. The El Paso and Southwestern owns no railroad property other than equipment, roadway machines, and certain telephone equipment.
In 1990 Southwestern acquired AT&SF trackage north and west of Whitewater, New Mexico serving the Phelps Dodge open-pit copper mines at Chino and Tyrone, and the smelter at Hurley. In 1994 an additional 27 miles of line from Whitewater to Peruhill was acquired from the A&TSF, and the Santa Fe’s former Deming Subdivision (60 miles from Rincon ...
The railroad of the Burro Mountain Railroad Company, hereinafter called the Burro Mountain Railroad, which is leased to and operated by the El Paso & Southwestern Railroad, is a single-track line located in New Mexico and extending from Burro Mountain Junction to Tyrone, a distance of 13.088 miles.
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.
Arizona and New Mexico Railway: Dragoon Mountain and Northern Railroad: SP: 1906 1907 Johnson, Dragoon Mountain and Northern Railway: El Paso and Southwestern Company: SP: 1908 1912 N/A Leased the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad: El Paso and Southwestern Railroad: SP: 1901 1955 Southern Pacific Company: Gila Valley, Globe and Northern Railway ...
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