Border Pacific Railroad

The Border Pacific Railroad (reporting mark BOP) is a short-line railroad headquartered in Rio Grande City, Texas, United States.

BOP operates a 31.6 miles (50.9 km) line from Rio Grande City to an interchange with Union Pacific (via Rio Valley Switching Company) at Mission, Texas.

BOP traffic includes silica sand, ballast, crushed stone, asphalt, scrap paper, and feed grains.

The line was opened in 1925 and became part of Missouri Pacific in 1956. Short line service started in 1984.

External links

Link to Union Pacific Website with BOP Details

Common carrier railroads of Texas

Current	AGCR ANR ATR AWRR BLR BNSF BOP BRG CCPN CMC DGNO FWDB FWDR FWWR GNBC GRR GVSR HRR HTR KCS KRR MCSA OPT PCN PNR PTC PTRA PVS RSS RVSC SLAL SRN SSC TC TCB TCT TIBR TM TN TNER TNMR TSE TXGN TXNW TXOR TXPF TXR UP WTLC WRRC WTJR

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, April 14, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.