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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.
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 ...
Stevens Pass, located in the Cascade Range. The U.S. state of Washington, located in the Pacific Northwest, has several major mountain ranges that are traversed various passes. The state is divided by the Cascade Range, which have the highest passes, and is also home to the Olympic Mountains, Selkirk Mountains, and Blue Mountains.
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 ...
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 ...
ATSF: 1897 1902 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: 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 ...