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Sprint also traces its roots back to the Southern Pacific Railroad (SPR), which was founded in the 1860s as a subsidiary of the Southern Pacific Company (SPC). The company operated thousands of miles of track as well as telegraph wire that ran along those tracks.
Southern Pacific routes on the Pacific Coast, 1885 A Southern Pacific train at Los Angeles' Arcade Depot, 1891 The Southern Pacific depot located in Burlingame, California, c. 1900; completed in 1894 and still in use, it was the first permanent Southern Pacific structure to be constructed in the Mission Revival Style.
This category contains railroad companies that were spun off of the Southern Pacific Transportation Company system. Pages in category "Spin-offs of the Southern Pacific Transportation Company" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
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The Southern Pacific Transportation Company was acquired in 1996 by the Union Pacific Corporation and merged with their Union Pacific Railroad. The Southern Pacific legacy founded hospitals in San Francisco, Tucson, and Houston. In the 1970s, it also founded a telecommunications network with a state-of-the-art microwave and fiber optic backbone.
Sprint is reportedly close to obtaining the $45 billion in financing needed to acquire the long-anticipated 67% stake in T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom . While Sprint's stock is soaring higher by ...