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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 ...
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.
Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway of Texas: KCM&O ATSF: 1905 1965 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: Kansas and Gulf Short Line Railroad: SSW: 1880 1887 St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railway in Texas: Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway: KOG MP: 1948 1964 Texas and Pacific Railway: Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway Company of Texas: MP ...
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]
May 20: South Orient Railroad affiliate Cen-Tex Rail Link (not Class I) begins operating most of the former Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway, bought from successor Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, between Fort Worth and Ricker, Texas. [76] The Fort Worth and Western Railroad will take over in 1998.
The remainder of the former FW&RG from Belt Junction in Fort Worth to Ricker, six miles (9.7 km) east of Brownwood, [5] was bought by Cen-Tex Rail Link, an affiliate of the South Orient Railroad on May 20, 1994. [1] South Orient sold the Cen-Tex line to the Fort Worth and Western Railroad in 1999. [6]
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
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.
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