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The Border Pacific Railroad is a
short-line railroad A shortline railroad is a small or mid-sized railroad company that operates over a relatively short distance relative to larger, national railroad networks. The term is used primarily in the United States and Canada. In the former, railroads are ...
headquartered in
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, United States. BOP operates a line from Rio Grande City to an interchange with
Union Pacific The Union Pacific Railroad is a Class I freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Pacific is the second largest railroad in the United States after BNSF, ...
(via Rio Valley Switching Company) at
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. BOP traffic includes
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, ballast, crushed stone, asphalt, scrap paper, and feed grains. The line was opened in 1925 and became part of
Missouri Pacific The Missouri Pacific Railroad , commonly abbreviated as MoPac, was one of the first railroads in the United States west of the Mississippi River. MoPac was a Class I railroad growing from dozens of predecessors and mergers. In 1967, the railroad ...
in 1956. Short-line service started in 1984. The BOP went idle for a while in 2013 after a bridge fire but once the bridge was repaired it has been running ever since.


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Link to Union Pacific Website with BOP Details
Texas railroads Spin-offs of the Union Pacific Railroad {{Texas-transport-stub