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By late 1880, the Rio Grande, Mexico and Pacific Railroad (an AT&SF subsidiary) was building a line down the Rio Grande valley toward El Paso.At Rincon the line was split, with a branch going southwest toward Deming, with the goal of joining to the Southern Pacific, which was under construction from the west.
Rio Grande Eastern Railway: 1923 1931 Served Hagan from near San Felipe [2] Rio Grande, Mexico and Pacific Railroad: ATSF: 1880 1899 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: Rio Grande, Mexico and Pacific Railroad Extension Company: ATSF: 1881 1881 Rio Grande, Mexico and Pacific Railroad: Rio Grande and Pagosa Springs Railroad: 1895 1914 N/A
The Rio Grande silvery minnow or Rio Grande minnow (Hybognathus amarus) is a small herbivorous North American fish. It is one of the seven North American members of the genus Hybognathus, in the cyprinid family. The Rio Grande silvery minnow is one of the most endangered fish in North America, according to the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...
Rio Grande Industries, Inc. (RGI) was a name of two holding companies that were involved in the railroading industry. The original and second company took part in the operations of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad and the Southern Pacific Transportation Company .
The Isleta Diversion Dam is a structure on the Rio Grande in the Albuquerque Basin near Isleta Village Proper, New Mexico, United States, that diverts water from the river into irrigation canals. There have been some negative environmental impacts due to changes in the river flow that affect the native fish and drying of the riverside land.
Galloping Goose, Telluride, Colorado, 1952. Galloping Goose is the popular name given to a series of seven railcars (officially designated as "motors" by the railroad), built in the 1930s by the Rio Grande Southern Railroad (RGS) and operated until the end of service on the line in the early 1950s.
Aug. 14—South of Rio Bravo, through a gate, across a metal bridge over a ditch full of running water and up a soft dirt route in the bosque, a stream of visitors found the fifth-largest ...
They were Rio Grande's last purchase of compound locomotives. They pulled freight, passenger and mixed trains on the D&RGW in and over the Colorado Rocky Mountains, traversing the entire length of the railroad. They were built with their main structural frames outside the driving wheels, with the counterweights and rods attached outside the frames.