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The Texas Pacifico company began service in March 2001. [5] The South Orient Rail Line runs from San Angelo Junction (near Coleman, Texas) to the Mexican border town of Presidio, Texas. [6] Texas Pacifico interchanges with BNSF Railway and Fort Worth and Western Railroad at San Angelo Junction and Union Pacific Railroad at Alpine. The line ...
March 1, 1927: Various Texas and Louisiana SP subsidiaries are leased to the SP-controlled Texas and New Orleans Railroad, including the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway, the Houston and Texas Central Railway, the Houston East and West Texas Railway, the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway, and the Southern Pacific Terminal Company.
Granger, Georgetown, Austin and San Antonio Railway: Gonzales Branch Railroad: SP: 1881 1905 Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway: Granger, Georgetown, Austin and San Antonio Railway: MKT: 1902 1903 Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway of Texas: Granite Mountain and Marble Falls Railroad: SP: 1888 1901 Houston and Texas Central Railroad
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.
The Texas and Pacific was unable to finance construction to San Diego, and as a result the Southern Pacific was able to build from California to Sierra Blanca, Texas. In doing so, Southern Pacific used land designated for, and surveyed by Texas and Pacific, in its rail line from Yuma, Arizona , to El Paso, Texas .
The San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway first began operation in the U.S. state of Texas in 1886. It was developed by Uriah Lott and businessmen of San Antonio as a direct route from the city to Aransas Bay on the Texas Gulf coast. [1] It was eventually absorbed in the 20th century by Southern Pacific.
Harvard Business School, Lehman Brothers Collection: "History of the Southern Pacific Transportation Company" Union Pacific Railroad.com: Union Pacific History "Across the Great Salt Lake, The Lucin Cutoff" – 1937 article. Abandoned Rails.com: History of the Santa Ana and Newport Railroad. This Is My Railroad (1946 film)
The Old San Antonio Road was a historic roadway located in the U.S. states of Texas and Louisiana.Parts of it were based on traditional Native American trails. Its Texas terminus was about 35 miles (56 km) southeast of Eagle Pass at the Rio Grande in Maverick County, and its northern terminus was at Natchitoches, Louisiana.