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Rio Grande, El Paso, and Santa Fe Railroad

The Rio Grande, El Paso, and Santa Fe Railroad was a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railroad that operated wholly within the state of Texas. Though the line was only responsible for the construction of 20 miles of railroad from La Tuna, Texas (near the New Mexico territorial border) to El Paso, the completion of that stretch of rail in 1881 gave the Santa Fe its own line into El Paso, and made possible a connection between the Santa Fe and the Mexican Central Railroad, which ran south and west to ports on the Pacific coast of Mexico.

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