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Few railroads, or companies of any kind, can boast as rich or interesting a heritage as the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company. Born of the desire of one man, Cyrus K. Holliday, to link his adopted home of Kansas with the romantic reaches of the Southwest, Santa Fe blanketed the southwestern quadrant of the nation with more than ...
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (reporting mark ATSF) (often referred to as the Santa Fe or AT&SF) was a large railroad in the United States.Created in February 1859, the railroad reached the Kansas-Colorado border in 1873 and Pueblo, Colorado, in 1876.
Map of the southwestern states from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean; indicates in table form miles of lines in Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, and Mexico; shows relief by hachures, drainage, state boundaries, and cities and towns.
Dec 31, 1996 · The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (reporting mark ATSF), often referred to as the Santa Fe or AT&SF, was one of the larger railroads in the United States. 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 ...
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (reporting mark ATSF), often referred to as the Santa Fe or AT&SF, was one of the largest Class 1 railroads in the United States between 1859 and 1996.
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe 3751 is a class "3751" 4-8-4 "Heavy Mountain" type steam locomotive built in May 1927 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Eddystone (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (ATSF). No. 3751 was the first 4-8-4 steam locomotive built for the Santa Fe and was referenced in documentation ...
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (the AT&SF, generally known as "the Santa Fe") looms large in the railroad history of the Southwest. The AT&SF and its many subsidiaries served a wide area of the Southwest, from its being chartered in 1859 to its merger to form the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway in 1996.
