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Rio Grande Pacific Corp. history
Rio Grande Pacific Corp. company history timeline
June 21, 1861 "Central Pacific Rail Road of California" incorporated.
October 8, 1864 Name is changed to "Central Pacific Railroad of California," following passage of the amendment to the Pacific Railroad Act.
June 23, 1870 -- Central Pacific is consolidated with the Western Pacific and San Francisco Bay Railroad Co. to form the "Central Pacific Railroad Co." (of June, 1870).
August 14, 1884 Southern Pacific Company was incorporated in Kentucky; approved by an act of the Kentucky General Assembly on March 17, 1884.
California & Oregon built north to Redding and above, and subsequently was merged into the CPRR – but the line never reached Oregon until 1887.
August 1, 1899 Central Pacific was reorganized as the "Central Pacific Railway". The new company was organized and incorporated in Utah on July 26, 1899.
A check of online newspapers shows that the OSL took over management of the SP east of Wadsworth in mid-April 1904, which coincides with the opening of the Lucin Cutoff in March 1904 for freight trains, and September 1904 for passenger trains.
February 1, 1908 U. S. government filed suit contending that Union Pacific control of Southern Pacific by majority ownership of SP stock was illegal under the Sherman Antitrust law.
December 2, 1912 U. S. Supreme Court agreed that UP control of SP was illegal.
May 29, 1922 -- U. S. Supreme Court found in favor of U. S. government.
For its part, SPRR was finally merged into SPCo in 1955.
Approved by ICC Finance Docket 28779, effective on July 10, 1980; agreement signed between SP, SSW, and CRI&P on March 4, 1980.
D&RGW had been operating direct into Kansas City from Pueblo, Colorado, since January 1983 through trackage rights from the UP-MP merger.
March 23, 1984 Santa Fe Southern Pacific Corp. (the AT&SF parent company) applied to the ICC for approval to merge with and control the Southern Pacific Transportation Co.
June 30, 1987 The SPSF merger appeal was denied by the ICC, again by a 4-1 vote.
December 28, 1987 Santa Fe Pacific Corp., announced its intention to sell the Southern Pacific Transportation Co., to Rio Grande Industries.
The new combined D&RGW and SP system would be 15,000 miles in 15 states, and would be the fifth largest railroad in the United States (Wall Street Journal, August 10, 1988; Pacific Rail News, Issue 299, October 1988, page 7)
September 29, 1989 -- Sale of St Louis to Chicago line to SP approved by ICC. (Pacific Rail News, Issue 313, December 1989, page 4)
Its first short line, the Wichita, Tillman & Jackson Railway (WTJR), was acquired from Union Pacific Railroad (UP) in 1990.
April 30, 1993 Rio Grande Industries changed its name to Southern Pacific Rail Corporation (SPRC), with an effective date of May 4, 1993. (Railroad Retirement Board Employer Status Determination) Ed Moyers was named as president of the new SP in July 1993.
The ICC was terminated as a federal agency on January 1, 1996, and the application was transferred to the new Surface Transportation Board. (Federal Register, Volume 61, Number 72, April 12, 1996, pages 16282-16284)
The vote was by 85 percent (or 132.5 million shares) of SP's outstanding share. (Pacific RailNews, Issue388, March 1996, page 20)
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific employees, under the guidance of their supervisors, may begin implementing integration plans." (Update Line, Union Pacific Communications Department, September 11, 1996)
All of the SSW locomotive fleet, including 273 freight units and 23 switching units, was combined with Union Pacific's locomotive fleet on August 1, 1997. (Union Pacific Mechanical Department records)
September 30, 1997 St Louis Southwestern Railway (SSW) was formally merged with Union Pacific Railroad. (Railroad Retirement Employer Status Determination)
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