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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.
The Santa Fe then sold the Mexican portions. The railway reached Presidio in 1930 and the Presidio–Ojinaga International Rail Bridge was built. Operating rights on the portion from San Angelo Junction (65 miles [105 km] NEE of San Angelo) to Presidio (known as South Orient Rail Line) later were awarded to Texas Pacifico Transportation.
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 ...
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December 1: The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad merges into parent Missouri Pacific Railroad. December 31: The Boston and Maine Corporation and Delaware and Hudson Railway are demoted from Class I; combined with the demise of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, this drops the number of Class I railroads to 15. [citation needed] 1990
The TXOR was incorporated April 22, 1991 as a Delaware corporation. [1] It purchased two disconnected segments of track from the AT&SF, about 351 miles in total. [1] The trackage was part of a line that had originally been laid around 1908 as part of the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway, an attempt to link Kansas City, Missouri to its closest Pacific Ocean port, Topolobampo, Mexico.
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]
Enrique Creel's Chihuahua al Pacífico railroad completed the Chihuahua-Creel section. [8] In 1940, Mexico acquired the rights from Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway. [8] In May 1952, Mexico took possession of a line operated by Mexican Northwestern Railway. [8] In 1955, Mexico merged them as Ferrocarril Chihuahua al Pacifico, S.A. de C.V. [8]