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The station was built by B. Lantry & Sons in Spanish Revival style, and is one of only three buildings of this style built by the Santa Fe Railway. [2]Notably it served long distance Chicago to California trains that took the route through Wichita, Kansas; northwest Oklahoma and Amarillo in northern Texas.
The Southwestern Railroad (reporting mark SW) is an American Class III railroad operating since 1990, and until 2017 consisted of two unconnected railroad sections in New Mexico, with no shared functions. These and a third section in the Texas panhandle and Oklahoma, now closed, all operated separately.
All Aboard for Santa Fe: Railway Promotion of the Southwest, 1890s to 1930s (University of New Mexico Press, 2007). Glischinski, Steve (1997). Santa Fe Railway. Osceola, WI: Motorbooks International. ISBN 978-0-7603-0380-1. Goen, Steve Allen (2000). Santa Fe in the Lone Star State; Marshall, James Leslie. Santa Fe: the railroad that built an ...
Clovis is located in the New Mexico portion of the Llano Estacado, in the eastern part of the state. A largely agricultural community, closely bordering Texas, it is noted for its role in early rock music history and for nearby Cannon Air Force Base, current home to the 27th Special Operations Wing which is also known as "The Steadfast Line". [8]
New Mexico Central Railroad: ATSF: 1908 1918 New Mexico Central Railway: New Mexico Central Railway: ATSF: 1918 1972 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: New Mexico Gateway Railroad: NMGR 2001 2006 N/A New Mexico Midland Railway: 1904 1931 none, route abandoned [1] hauled coal from Carthage to San Antonio, NM [1] New Mexico and Southern ...
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 history of New Mexico is based on archaeological evidence, ... Clovis: 11,000 to 9200 BCE [2] ... The Santa Fe Railroad reached New Mexico in 1878, ...
In 1930, Santa Fe looked at the contemporary heavy-duty motive power policies of other railroads and decided that its own needed substantial reappraisal. [2] Additional locomotives were ordered as a result of this study, including the 5000. Santa Fe 5000 was placed in service between Clovis and Vaughn, New Mexico for observation. The result was ...