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Texas Pacifico Transportation Ltd. (reporting mark TXPF) is a Class III railroad operating company in West Texas owned by Grupo México. [3] [4] The company operates over the South Orient Rail Line under a lease and operating agreement with the Texas Department of Transportation and Texas Pacifico Transportation, Ltd.
March 3, 1871 - United States Congress grants a charter to the Texas Pacific Railroad Company; 1871 - Texas legislature charters the company and grant permission to purchase the Southern Trans-Continental Railway Company and the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Note: This is a different Southern Pacific Railroad company from the one referred ...
Texas Northeastern Railroad (TNER) - (Genesee & Wyoming) Texas and Northern Railway (TN) Texas North Western Railway (TXNW) Texas and Oklahoma Railroad (TXOR) Texas Pacifico Transportation (TXPF) - (Grupo México) Operator for the Texas state-owned South Orient Rail Line [1] Texas Rock Crusher Railway (TXR) Texas South-Eastern Railroad (TSE)
TVRR - Tulare Valley Railroad, Tanana Valley Railroad; TWGX - Tidewater Grain Company; TWRY - Tradewater Railway; TXIX - Texas Industries; TXN - Texas & New Mexico Railway; TXNW - Texas North Western Railway; TXOR - Texas and Oklahoma Railroad; TXPF - Texas Pacifico Transportation; TXR - Texas Rock Crusher Railroad; TXRC - Texas Export Railroad
Railroad History Bibliography by Richard Jensen, Montana State University; Primary sources on 19th century and early 20th century American railways – DigitalBookIndex.com; Booknotes interview with Sarah Gordon on Passage to Union: How the Railroads Transformed American Life, 1829–1929, March 9, 1997. Railroad History, An Overview Of The Past
Other railroads, such as the Santa Fe and Rock Island Lines, stopped at the nearby Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad Passenger Station. [5] The Texas & Pacific ran the Louisiana Eagle from New Orleans to Fort Worth, until 1963. [6] A successor night train and a successor day train ran on the route to New Orleans as late as 1968. [7]
Marshall station is a railroad station in Marshall, Texas. It is served by Amtrak, the national railroad passenger system, which operates the Texas Eagle through Marshall each day, with service north to Chicago and west-southwest to Dallas, San Antonio and Los Angeles. The station also houses the Texas and Pacific Railway Depot & Museum.
The Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway, chartered under the laws of Texas on June 1, 1885, was part of a plan conceived by Buckley Burton Paddock and other Fort Worth civic leaders to create a transcontinental route linking New York, Fort Worth, and the Pacific port of Topolobampo, which they believed would stimulate the growth and development of southwest Texas in general, and the economy of ...