Descriptive Summary
Access
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Acquisition Information
Biography/Administrative History
Scope and Content of Collection
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Burro Mountain Railroad Co. records
Dates: 1913-1935
Collection Number: MS 110
Creator/Collector:
Burro Mountain Railroad Company
Extent: 1 half-box + 1 volume
Repository:
California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Sacramento, California 95814
Abstract: Accounting records from the Burro Mountain Railroad Company.
Language of Material: English
Access
This collection is open for research at our off-site storage facility with one week's notice. Contact Library & Archives
staff to arrange for access.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the California State Railroad Museum. All requests for permission to publish or quote
from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the District Collections Manager. Permission for publication is given on
behalf of the CSRM as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright
holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
Preferred Citation
Burro Mountain Railroad Co. records. California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Acquisition Information
Gift of the Southern Pacific Railroad, New York Collection
Biography/Administrative History
The Burro Mountain Railroad Company, 13.09 miles between Burro Mountain Junction and Tyrone, New Mexico, was incorporated
on April 12, 1909 and was partly constructed by its own company prior to 1912. It was completed by the El Paso & Southwestern
Railroad on February 5, 1914 and leased to that road on July 1, 1914. In September, 1914, the El Paso & Southwestern Railroad
secured trackage rights over the Santa Fe from Deming to Burro Mountain Junction, 33.20 miles thus affording a connection
between its own and leased line. (The Southern Pacific had a similar arrangement.) The line was abandoned by the Southern
Pacific in 1934 and trackage rights were surrendered the same year. The Burro Mountain Company was dissolved in 1935. [Guy
Dunscomb, A CENTURY OF SOUTHERN PACIFIC STEAM LOCOMOTIVES, 1862-1962 (Modesto, California: 1967), p. 382]
Scope and Content of Collection
Accounting records for the Burro Mountain Railroad Company include typescript of annual reports submitted to the Interstate
Commerce Commission, journal entries, vouchers, and a balance sheet of general ledgers (Form 141).
Contact Library Staff for additional financial records.
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