Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
Pages in category "Passenger trains of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Chief was an American long-distance named passenger train of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway that ran between Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles, California.The Santa Fe initiated the Chief in 1926 to supplement the California Limited.
Both the passenger depot and the Railway Express Office were designed in the Mission Revival style, however, they were designed separately by different individuals. The depot was designed as a combination passenger and freight station by C.F. Morse, Chief Engineer for the Santa Fe. It is an adaptation of the brick depot standard they called the ...
A passenger-carrying steam, diesel or electric powered freight train with open gondolas fitted with benches and at least two cabooses runs on the 1.5-mile (2.4 km) long, standard gauge mainline that was once a part of the transcontinental main line of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (to San Diego).
In the summer of 1974, a Santa Fe works train traversed the rails, removing track equipment and demolishing many lineside structures. [12] It was the last train to run on the line for fifteen years. The station building at Williams Depot fell into disuse. Steam locomotive No. 539 on display while a passenger train is waiting to depart, 2017.
An Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway freight train led by locomotive number 9542 in the short-lived Southern Pacific Santa Fe Railroad "Kodachrome" paint scheme, descends the grade from the Tehachapi Loop into Caliente in August 1990. Recently selected: Effretikon station - Southern 35028 Clan Line - locomotive driver in Hungary
The San Francisco Chief was the last new streamliner introduced by the Santa Fe, its first full train between Chicago and the Bay, the only Chicago–Bay Area train running over just one railroad, and at 2,555 miles (4,112 km) the longest run in the country on one railroad.