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Scarce map illustrating the routes of the Southern Pacific Railroad of Mexico, between the Southwestern United States and the Pacific Coast of Mexico, extending south to Guadalajara.
The present map was prepared in the Office of the Chief Engineer in 1910 and updated periodically thereafter, between 1911 and 1923, as noted at the bottom right.
The Southern Pacific Railroad of Mexico was a railroad subsidiary of the Southern Pacific Company in Mexico, operating from Nogales, Sonora, to Mazatlán, Sinaloa.
The Sonora Railway was constructed by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway between 1879 and 1882. In 1898, the Santa Fe leased the Sonora Railway to the Southern Pacific in return for the latter railroad's line from Needles to Mojave, California. This arrangement continued until December 1911, when the Southern Pacific purchased both the Sonora Railway and the New Mexico and Arizona. The following June, the Sonora Railway became part of the Southern Pacific Railroad in Mexico.
The main line ran 260 miles from the Sonoran town of Nogales, just across the border from Arizona, to the city of Guadalajara, stopping at several northwestern cities and port towns along the way. Owned by the Southern Pacific Company, which operated a highly profitable railroad system north of the border, the SP de Mex transported millions of passengers as well as millions of tons of freight over the years, both within Mexico and across its northern border.
It was sold to the Mexican government in 1951, becoming the Ferrocarril del Pacifico.
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