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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.
South Galveston and Gulf Shore Railroad: 1891 1895 N/A South Orient Railroad: SO 1992 2001 Texas Pacifico Transportation: South Plains and Santa Fe Railway: ATSF: 1916 1948 Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway: Southern Kansas Railway of Texas: ATSF: 1886 1914 Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway: Southern Pacific Company: SP SP 1934 1969 Southern Pacific ...
The Santa Fe sold the line to an affiliate of the South Orient Railroad in 1994. The FWWR began operations in 1988, with 6.25 miles (10.06 km) of track that it had bought from the Burlington Northern. [2] By the mid-1990s, the railroad operated 10.75 miles (17.30 km) of track, the result of numerous minor acquisitions. [2]
St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas Railway; San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway; San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad; Seagraves, Whiteface and Lubbock Railroad; South Orient Railroad; Southern Pacific Company; Southern Pacific Transportation Company; Stephenville North and South Texas Railway
It was popularly called The Orient railroad. [ 3 ] At the end of 1925, KCM&O and KCM&O of Texas (the portions of interstate railroads in Texas were required to be under unique charters) together operated 859 miles (1,382 km) of track over 738 miles (1,188 km) of right of way ; they reported a total of 330 million net ton-miles of revenue ...
January 2: The South Orient Railroad (not Class I) begins operating portions of the former Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway and Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway of Texas, bought from successor Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, between Santa Anna, Texas and the Mexican border. [67]
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Barnhart was founded by Willam E. Barnhart in 1910, when the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway was constructed through West Texas, passing through the area. A post office opened in Barnhart in 1912, and a school operated in the community from 1912 to 1969. The population was estimated to be approximately 50 in 1915.