The colonists planned on taking all their household goods, farm tools and implements, livestock, mules and horses from Mangum to Escandon[9]  in Tamaulipas, Mexico, by rail and then overland by wagon to Chamal. This process required much effort and great expense. The railroad companies recognized that some line was going to make good money hauling the colonists into Mexico. As a result, many companies sent representatives to Mangum to court the Blalock Mexico Colony transportation committee. The Mexican Railroad sent Mr. G. R. Hackley, and Mr. E. M. Duncan and Mr. George Fir represented the Rock Island Railroad. All the rail representatives who had come to Mangum to sell their rail line had set high rates on colonist passage and on their possessions as well. One rail line offer set the price of shipping a single freight car at $87.50 gold.[10]

In order to find the best fares, the Blalock Mexico Colony transportation committee decided to send Mr. Joe Miller and Mr. George Moore to the various railroad company headquarters that were located in Ft. Worth, Texas, to negotiate for lower rates. On Thursday, December 25, 1902, Christmas Day, these men left on the transportation assignment.[11]

The colonists met again on Tuesday, January 6, 1903. The focus of this meeting was railroad transportation and the best route to take to travel from Mangum in Oklahoma Territory to Chamal, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Representatives of ten different railroads were in attendance and anxious to garner significant business for their company.

The decision was made to travel on the Rock Island Line to Ft. Worth, Texas. There, the colonists would switch to the Houston and Texas Central Line and take it through Houston on to San Antonio, Texas. In San Antonio, they would switch to the Southern Pacific Line and continue on to Eagle Pass, Texas, on the Rio Grande River. From Piedras Negras or Ciudad Porfirio Diaz, the city across from Eagle Pass and named for the president of Mexico, they would take the Mexican International Line to Monterey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. There they would switch to the Mexican Central Line for the last train lap of the journey to Escondon, the train station nearest to Chamal. The total mileage of the trip was about 1,500 miles.[12]

The total cost of one adult ticket all the way through was $15.40. The cost for transporting the freight was 75¢ for each one hundred pounds. It was anticipated that there would be about 100 full tickets purchased, and it would require about fifteen freight cars to move all of the colonists’ possessions.