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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 Texas Pacifico company ...
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 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.
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]
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Tyler, Texas, had been a railroad hub since the Houston and Great Northern first came through the town in 1873. [2] The depot was opened in 1905. The passenger service ceased in April 1956 and it has been used for different purposes until it was donated to the City of Tyler in 1988.
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]
R. D. Moses Texas & Pacific Model Railroad Jefferson Marion Located in the depot building behind the Jefferson Museum, 1950s period HO model train layout of the Texas & Pacific Railroad in West Texas. Model railroad by R.D. Moses and Jack Luck over three decades [90] Durst-Taylor Historic House and Gardens: Nacogdoches: Nacogdoches