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The Southern Pacific Railroad of Mexico (reporting mark SPM) [1] was a railroad subsidiary of the Southern Pacific Railroad in Mexico, operating from Nogales, Sonora, to Mazatlán, Sinaloa. The Sonora Railway was constructed by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway between 1879 and 1882. In 1898 the Santa Fe leased the Sonora Railway to the ...
May 22, 1907: The Coast Line Limited of the Southern Pacific Railroad is derailed west of Glendale, California. The accident causes several deaths and injuries, and its cause linked to anarchists. 1909: The Southern Pacific of Mexico, the railroad's subsidiary south of the U.S. border, is incorporated. The Dumbarton Rail Bridge
The Southern Pacific Railroad was replaced by the Southern Pacific Company and assumed the railroad operations of the Southern Pacific Railroad. In 1929, Southern Pacific/Texas and New Orleans operated 13,848 route-miles not including Cotton Belt, whose purchase of the Golden State Route circa 1980 nearly doubled its size to 3,085 miles (4,965 ...
operated from 1927 until 1949 as an international train under the subsidiary Southern Pacific Railroad of Mexico between Tucson, Arizona and Guadalajara in Mexico featuring through sleepers on the Argonaut from Los Angeles, California to Mexico City in Mexico [7] Jarocho: Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México
The Inter-California Railway was incorporated on 15 June 1904, as a subsidiary of Southern Pacific Railroads. [1] [2] In 1929, the Mexicali and Gulf Railway was reorganized as the southern line of Inter-Cal. Inter-Cal's lines in Mexico became the Ferrocarril Sonora-Baja California in 1960. Souther Pacific was later acquired by Union Pacific.
It was built at a connection point between the Tijuana and Tecate Railway and the Inter-California Railway. This route was part of the Southern Pacific rail network that crossed Mexican territory at Tijuana passing through Tecate, leaving Mexico at a point near Campo, California; re-entering Mexican territory in Mexicali to leave Mexico at ...
Among the Southern Pacific passenger trains running from Arizona to southern California, it was distinctive for stopping in Mexico and for having an international branch running into Mexico a second time, stopping between Calexico and San Diego. In most of the Arizona section, it passes through an area acquired by the Gadsden Purchase.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY—AND SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY (OF 1898)—PREDECESSOR OF THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD INTRODUCTORY. The Southern Pacific Railroad is a corporation of California, Arizona, and New Mexico, having its principal office at San Francisco, Calif.