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Iron Horse Imperialism by Daniel Lewis Southern Pacific of Mexico 1880-1951 w/DJ
Iron Horse Imperialism by Daniel Lewis Southern Pacific of Mexico 1880-1951
Iron Horse Imperialism
The Southern Pacific of Mexico , 1880-1951
Daniel Lweis
Hard Cover w/dust jacket
179 Pages
Copyright 2007
Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xvii
1 Nationbuilding Versus Foreign Penetration: The Question of Why Southern Pacific of Mexico Operations Failed 3
2 "Ungrateful Yankees and the Means to Combat Them": Mexican Governmental Treatment of Railroads (1837-1920) 15
3 The Revolution, Reparations, and the Railroad
(1909-1923) 41
4 "Get Out if You Can": The Salsipuedes Gorge, Taxes, and
Completion of the Line (1923-1929) 70
5 Multicultural Mosaic: The Impacts of Otherness
(1923-1929) 93
6 An Island upon the Land: Labor Law, Tariffs, and the Isolation of the Southern Pacific of Mexico (1930-1939) in
7 Hard Freight: The Impossible as Inevitable 144
Notes 151
Bibliography 165
Index 173
ILLUSTRATIONS
1.1 Map of SP de Mex route from Nogales to Guadalajara 2
1.2 SP de Mex train entering Mexico at Nogales 9
2.1 Total kilometers of SP de Mex track constructed by year 19
3.1 SP Consolidation train climbing 3 percent grade near
Hidalgo, Sonora 42
3.2 Loading baggage onto a Ferrocarril de Nacozari
passenger car 61
4.1 Paul Shoup, president, Southern Pacific Company 8o
4.2 Engine crossing a "shoofly" across Mocorito River 81
4.3 Vendors at a stop selling food to SP de Mex passengers 86
5.1 SP Car 3423 in the shop for maintenance 107
5.2 Pacific Fruit Express and SP de Mex company buildings in
Empalme 108
6.1 Engineer inspecting locomotive wheels 112
6.2 Car stopped at Esqueda 120
6.3 Railroad employee posed at the front of Engine No. 3406 141
Inside dust jacket
The Southern Pacific of Mexico was a U.S.owned railroad that operated between 1898 and 1951, running 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. However, as Daniel Lewis discloses in this thoroughly researched investigation of the railroad, it rarely turned a profit. So why, Lewis wonders, did a savvy, money-minded U.S. corporation continue to operate the railroad until it was nationalized by the Mexican government more than a half-century after it was constructed?
Iron Horse Imperialism reveals that the relationship between the Mexican government and the Southern Pacific Company was a complex one, complicated by Mexico's defeat by U.S. forces in the mid-nineteenth century and by SP's failure to understand that it was conducting business in a country whose leaders were ambivalent about its presence. Lewis contends that SP executives, urged on by the media of the day, operated with a reflexive imperialism
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