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Ratón Pass is a 7,834 ft (2,388 m) elevation mountain pass on the Colorado–New Mexico border in the western United States.It is located on the eastern side of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains between Trinidad, Colorado and Raton, New Mexico, approximately 180 miles (290 km) northeast of Santa Fe.
AT&SF passenger train, c. 1895 A map depicting the "Grand Canyon Route", c. 1901 AT&SF pass from 1923 Scene from the filming of The Harvey Girls (1946) The San Francisco Chief crossing the Muir Trestle in the 1950s The exterior of a Hi-Level lounge on the El Capitan soon after completion in 1956 ATSF EMD F7 in classic Warbonnet livery, leading ...
The byway follows the Santa Fe National Historic Trail through southeastern Colorado and connects to the 381-mile (613 km) Santa Fe Trail Scenic Byway in New Mexico at Raton Pass, a National Historic Landmark at elevation 7,834 feet (2,388 m).
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 ...
The Southern Transcon is a main line of the BNSF Railway comprising 11 subdivisions between Southern California and Chicago, Illinois.Completed in its current alignment in 1908 by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, when it opened the Belen Cutoff in New Mexico (going through eastern New Mexico, northwestern Texas, briefly part of western Oklahoma and to Kansas) and bypassed the steep ...
Santa Fe, Raton and Des Moines Railroad: 1906 1914 N/A Operated by Santa Fe, Raton and Eastern Railroad: Santa Fe, Raton and Eastern Railroad: ATSF: 1906 1924 Rocky Mountain and Santa Fe Railway: Santa Fe, San Juan and Northern Railroad: 1928 1941 N/A Santa Fe Southern Railway (19th-century "Chili Line") DRGW: 1889 1895 Rio Grande and Santa Fe ...
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The railroad, primarily used to facilitate the trade of buffalo hides and cattle, expanded south over Raton Pass and Glorieta Pass, reaching Santa Fe and Albuquerque in 1880. [ 1 ] In the early 20th century, the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad wished to find an alternative route to its existing mainline over Raton and Glorieta Passes, to ...