- Source: Texas Pacifico Transportation
Texas Pacifico Transportation Ltd. (reporting mark TXPF) is a Class III railroad operating company in West Texas owned by Grupo México. 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 began service in March 2001.
The South Orient Rail Line runs from San Angelo Junction (near Coleman, Texas) to the Mexican border town of Presidio, Texas. Texas Pacifico interchanges with BNSF Railway and Fort Worth and Western Railroad at San Angelo Junction and Union Pacific Railroad at Alpine.
The line initially was rehabilitated from San Angelo Junction through San Angelo to Alpine. A $7 million federal FASTLANE grant funded rehabilitation of the remaining 72 miles to Presidio.
Traffic had been interchanged into Mexico with Ferromex at Presidio over the Presidio–Ojinaga International Rail Bridge, but the bridge has been out of service following fire damage on 29 February 2008. Service over the repaired bridge awaits installation of a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) inspection facility. It was reported in March 2024 that the Texas Transportation Commission had approved letting of a $33 million project for the inspection facility. However, in late 2023 the Big Bend Sentinel had reported that delays in obtaining an X-Ray inspection machine would push the bridge reopening into mid-2025.
See also
Ferromex the rail line in Mexico that Texas Pacifico Transportation connects with at Presidio
Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway original builder of the line on which Texas Pacifico Transportation operates
Further reading
Frailey, Fred W. (October 2014). "The Orient Line REBORN". Trains. Kalmbach. pp. 25–33.
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Texas Pacifico Transportation
- Ferrocarril Chihuahua al Pacífico
- Big Lake, Texas
- List of Texas railroads
- Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway
- List of reporting marks: T
- La Entrada al Pacífico
- Interstate 20 in Texas
- U.S. Route 67 in Texas
- List of common carrier freight railroads in the United States
