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Technical. Track gauge. 4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. Length. 13,115 miles (21,107 km) 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 ...
A map depicting the "Grand Canyon Route" of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway c. 1901. Santa Fe's marketing advantage for the Super Chief lay in the geography of the route as well as its ownership. The Santa Fe began as a rail line along the old Santa Fe and Spanish Trails, from the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas rivers (at ...
Chief. (train) 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. In 1936 the Super Chief was introduced, after the Super Chief was relaunched in ...
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 El Capitan was the only all-coach or "chair car" (non- Pullman sleeper) to operate on the Santa Fe ...
The Santa Fe Southern Railway (reporting mark SFSR) is a short line railroad in New Mexico, United States. In addition to carrying freight on occasion, it also operates as a tourist railroad called Sky Railway that carries passengers between Lamy and Santa Fe: a distance of 18.1 miles (29.1 km). [1] The Santa Fe Rail Trail, a multi-use trail ...
4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge, The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway (GC&SF) was chartered in Texas in 1873 to build a railroad from Galveston, Texas, to Santa Fe, New Mexico. By 1886, it had built from Galveston to a junction in Temple, Texas, which was founded by the company. From Temple, one line went north to Dallas and Fort ...
California State Railway Museum; Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society; San Diego Model Railroad Museum Archived February 9, 2007, at the Wayback Machine has HO scale and N scale models of the station. "Enroute aboard the San Diegan" — a Santa Fe Railway company brochure from the early 1950s.
Originally chartered December 7, 1900, as the Santa Fe, Albuquerque and Pacific Railway Company, this line became the Santa Fe Central Railway in July 1901. [1][2] Its 116-mile route was completed in 1903 between a rail junction at Torrance, New Mexico and Santa Fe, New Mexico. [2] The Governor of the New Mexico Territory called it “ (o)ne of ...