Southern Pacific Railroad Company of Mexico collection
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Title: Southern Pacific Railroad Company of Mexico collection
Dates: 1909-1932
Collection Number: MS 153
Creator/Collector:
Southern Pacific Railroad of Mexico
Extent: 3 volumes + 1 half-box
Repository:
California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Sacramento, California 95814
Abstract: Business records of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company of Mexico.
Language of Material: English
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Southern Pacific Railroad Company of Mexico collection. California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Gift of Southern Pacific Transportation Company, San Francisco, 1987.
Biography/Administrative History
The Southern Pacific Railroad of Mexico was incorporated on June 24, 1909 as the successor to the Cananea, Yaqui River and
Pacific Railroad, as well as other concessions granted by the Mexican government to the Southern Pacific. It was originally
to run from Empalme in the State of Sonora to Guadalajara. Work began on this line, but was interrupted by the Mexican Revolution
of 1910-1920. In 1912 the Sonora Railway was consolidated with the company to form a line which extended north to the United
States / Mexico boundary at Nogales, Arizona.
•During the 1920s, work on the line south of Empalme progressed, and through trains between Nogales and Guadalajara began
running in April 1927. In 1951 the Southern Pacific Railroad of Mexico was sold to the Mexican government and the name changed
to the Ferrocarril del Pacifico.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Southern Pacific Railroad Company of Mexico collection consists of three volumes of carbon copies of typewritten documents
and mimeographs. The volumes contain minutes of meetings of the Board of Directors, Executive Committee, and stockholders,
leases and acquisitions, resolutions passed by the Board of Directors, concessions granted by the Mexican government, approvals
of requests for expenditures for equipment and construction, as well as for abandonment of trackage, results of Board elections,
appointment of company officers; and assignments of powers of attorney.