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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.
Cen-Tex Rail Link: CTE 1994 1996 South Orient Railroad: Central and Montgomery Railway: ATSF: 1877 1882 Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway: Central Texas and Northwestern Railway: SP: 1881 1901 Houston and Texas Central Railroad: Chicago, Rock Island and Gulf Railway: RI&G, RIG RI: 1902 1948 Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
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.
Much of the company's route originally belonged to the Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway, which began construction from Fort Worth in 1886 and reached Brownwood in 1891. In 1901, the FW&RG was bought by the Frisco Railway, which sold it to the Santa Fe Railway in 1937. The Santa Fe sold the line to an affiliate of the South Orient Railroad in 1994.
Leavenworth and Topeka Railroad: Leavenworth, Topeka and South Western Railway: ATSF/ UP: 1879 1899 Leavenworth and Topeka Railway: Leavenworth, Topeka and Western Railroad: 1931 1932 N/A Leroy and Caney Valley Air Line Railroad: MP: 1885 1909 Missouri Pacific Railway: Leroy and Western Railway: ATSF: 1885 1886 Chicago, Kansas and Western Railroad
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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.
Southeast Kansas Railroad: SEKR 1994 1999 South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad: Southern Kansas Railway: ATSF: 1884 1899 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: Southwestern Railroad: SW 1990 2007 Abandoned its route west out of Shattuck, Oklahoma: Sulphur Springs Railway: SLSF: 1902 1907 St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad: Tecumseh Railway: RI ...