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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. [ 1 ] The Santa Fe was a pioneer in intermodal freight transport ; at various times, it operated an airline, the short-lived Santa Fe Skyway, and the ...
The Valley Flyer was a short-lived named passenger train of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in the United States.The all-heavyweight, "semi-streamlined" train ran between Bakersfield and Oakland, California (through California's San Joaquin Valley on the railway's Valley Division, hence the name) during the 1939–1940 Golden Gate International Exposition on Treasure Island in San ...
A map of the "Grand Canyon Route" of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway c. 1901 The Chief in 1929 at the Dodge City, Kansas depot ATSF President Ernest S. Marsh (right) aboard the Chief in 1966 In 1926 the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway inaugurated the all- Pullman , extra-fare Chief as a supplement to the California Limited between ...
Much of the line south to Bakersfield was constructed in the 1890s as part of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad. Passenger service between Richmond and Oakland began in June 1904. [3] Passenger service on that segment ended in the 1950s. [4] The Valley Division and Los Angeles Division were merged into the "California Division ...
The El Capitan was a streamlined passenger train operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway ("Santa Fe") between Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California.It operated from 1938 to 1971; Amtrak retained the name until 1973.
The Santa Fe introduced the Texas Chief on April 3, 1948. [1] The train competed with the Texas Eagle (Missouri Pacific Railroad) and the Texas Special (Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad/St. Louis–San Francisco Railway). The journey from Chicago to Galveston took 26 hours 15 minutes, ten hours faster the previous service on the route. [2]
The Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railway (SFP&P) was a common carrier railroad that later became an operating subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in Arizona. At Ash Fork, Arizona , the SFP&P connected with Santa Fe's operating subsidiary, the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad mainline, that ran from California to Chicago .
Santa Fe San Diegan at the San Diego depot (1945 postcard) In the late 1930s streamlined trains were in transition. While fixed consists such as the Union Pacific Railroad 's M-10000 were out (the last, the Illinois Central 121 , had been built in 1936), [ 4 ] railroads still ordered sets of equipment with the intention that those sets stay ...