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Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. The railroad was chartered in February 1859 to serve the cities of Atchison and Topeka, Kansas, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. The railroad reached the Kansas – Colorado border in 1873 and Pueblo, Colorado, in 1876.
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Santa Fe Depot is the northern terminus of the New Mexico Rail Runner Express commuter rail line. The station was originally built by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, and until 2014 served as the northern terminus, offices, and gift shop of the Santa Fe Southern Railway, a tourist and freight carrying short line railroad.
History. New Mexico railroads date back to 1881 when the second transcontinental system was completed between the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (building west) and Southern Pacific (building east) at Deming. These two railroads came to define the West.
John Sedgwick. July 2021. Visionary executive William Barstow Strong led the second transcontinental line, the Santa Fe, in the 1880s, paving the way for thousands of miles of track....
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History. Links. Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad. Chartered in Kansas by its founder Cyrus K. Holliday as the Atchison and Topeka Railroad Company in 1859, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad was originally organized to connect Atchison and Topeka, Kansas with Santa Fe, New Mexico.
[1] AT&SF reached Albuquerque in 1880. Santa Fe (the original goal of the railroad) was on a short branch from Lamy, New Mexico. [2] Burlington Northern merger. On September 22, 1995, AT&SF merged with Burlington Northern Railroad to form the Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway (BNSF).
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