Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway facts for kids
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ATSF system (shown in blue) at the time
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| Overview | |
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| Headquarters | Chicago, Illinois |
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| Dates of operation | 1859–1996 |
| Successor | Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway (later BNSF Railway) |
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (reporting mark ATSF) (often referred to as the Santa Fe or AT&SF) was a large railroad in the United States. Created in February 1859, the railroad reached the Kansas-Colorado border in 1873 and Pueblo, Colorado, in 1876. To create a demand for its services, the railroad set up real estate offices and sold farm land. Despite the name, its main railroad never served Santa Fe, New Mexico. This was because the terrain was too rough. A branch line from Lamy reached Santa Fe instead.
The railroad officially ended on December 31, 1996, when it merged with the Burlington Northern Railroad to form the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (AT&SF) was created on February 11, 1859, to join Atchison and Topeka, Kansas, with Santa Fe, New Mexico. In its early years, the railroad helped people settle in Kansas. A lot of its revenue came from wheat grown there and from cattle driven north from Texas to Wichita and Dodge City by September 1872.
AT&SF reached Albuquerque in 1880. Santa Fe (the original goal of the railroad) was on a short branch from Lamy, New Mexico.
Burlington Northern merger
On September 22, 1995, AT&SF merged with Burlington Northern Railroad to form the Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway (BNSF). The two lines kept separate operations until December 31, 1996 when it officially became BNSF.
| 1870 | 1945 | |
| Gross operating revenue | $182,580 | $528,080,530 |
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| Total track length | 62 miles (100 km) | 13,115 miles (21,107 km) |
| Freight carried | 98,920 tons | 59,565,100 tons |
| Passengers carried | 33,630 | 11,264,000 |
| Locomotives owned | 6 | 1,759 |
| Unpowered rolling stock owned | 141 | 81,974 freight cars 1,436 passenger cars |
- Source: Santa Fe Railroad (1945), Along Your Way, Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.
| ATSF/GC&SF/P&SF | Oklahoma City-Ada-Atoka | FtWorth & Rio Grande | KCM&O/KCM&O of Texas | Clinton & Oklahoma Western | New Mexico Central | |
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| 1925 | 13862 | 14 | 42 | 330 | 2 | 1 |
| 1933 | 8712 | 12 | 18 | (incl P&SF) | (incl P&SF) | (incl ATSF) |
| 1944 | 37603 | 45 | (incl GC&SF) | |||
| 1960 | 36635 | 20 | ||||
| 1970 | 48328 | (merged) |
| ATSF/GC&SF/P&SF | Oklahoma City-Ada-Atoka | FtWorth & Rio Grande | KCM&O/KCM&O of Texas | Clinton & Oklahoma Western | New Mexico Central | |
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| 1925 | 1410 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| 1933 | 555 | 0.1 | 0.8 | (incl P&SF) | (incl P&SF) | (incl ATSF) |
| 1944 | 6250 | 0.2 | (incl GC&SF) | |||
| 1960 | 1689 | 0 | ||||
| 1970 | 727 | (merged) |
- The Cosmopolitan (February 1893), The Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe. Retrieved May 10, 2005.
- Duke, Donald. Fred Harvey, civilizer of the American Southwest (Pregel Press, 1995); The passenger trains stopped for meals at Fred Harvey restaurants.
- Dye, Victoria E. All Aboard for Santa Fe: Railway Promotion of the Southwest, 1890s to 1930s (University of New Mexico Press, 2007).
- Frailey, Fred W. (1998). Twilight of the Great Trains, p. 108. Waukesha, Wisconsin: Kalmbach Publishing. ISBN: 0 89024 178 3.
- Richard H. Frost, The Railroad and the Pueblo Indians: The Impact of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa fe on the Pueblos of the Rio Grande, 1880-1930. 2016, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. ISBN: 978-1-607-81440-5
- Glischinski, Steve (1997). Santa Fe Railway. Osceola, WI: Motorbooks International. ISBN 978-0-7603-0380-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=lBKFXZC-_ZYC.
- Goen, Steve Allen (2000). Santa Fe in the Lone Star State
- Marshall, James Leslie. Santa Fe: the railroad that built an empire (1945).
- Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University (2004), Alumni Profiles: W. John Swartz. Retrieved May 11, 2005.
- Santa Fe Railroad (1945), Along Your Way, Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.
- Santa Fe Railroad (November 29, 1942), Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway System Time Tables, Rand McNally and Company, Chicago, Illinois.
- Solomon, Brian. Santa Fe Railway (Voyageur Press, 2003).
- Snell, Joseph W. and Don W. Wilson, "The Birth of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad," (Part One) Kansas Historical Quarterly (1968) 34#2 pp 113–142. online
- Snell, Joseph W. and Don W. Wilson, "The Birth of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad," (Part Two) Kansas Historical Quarterly (1968) 34#3 pp 325–356 online
- James William Steele. Rand, McNally & Co.'s new overland guide to the Pacific Coast. Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1888. Illustrated guide to the Santa Fe trip circa 1888.
Images for kids
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AT&SF trademark in the late 19th century incorporated the British lion out of respect for the country's financial assistance in building the railroad to California.
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D&RGW through Royal Gorge in 1881
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Gold bond of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company, issued October 1, 1889
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A map of "The Santa Fé Route" and subsidiary lines, as published in an 1891 issue of the Grain Dealers and Shippers Gazetteer
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A comparison map prepared by the Santa Fe Railroad in 1921, showing the "Old Santa Fé Trail" (top) and the AT&SF and its connections (bottom)
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AT&SF and SP Railroad trains meet at Walong siding on the Tehachapi Loop in the late 1980s.
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AT&SF passenger train, c. 1895
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A map depicting the "Grand Canyon Route", c. 1901
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AT&SF pass from 1923
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Scene from the filming of The Harvey Girls (1946)
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The San Francisco Chief in the 1950s
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The exterior of a Hi-Level lounge on the El Capitan soon after completion in 1956
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ATSF EMD F7 in classic Warbonnet livery, leading the San Diegan, heading south near Miramar, California, in 1973
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A promotional brochure for the Santa Fe Railway's Scott Special passenger train
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AT&SF#1129, a 1902 Baldwin 2-6-2 Prairie locomotive, preserved at Las Vegas, New Mexico, since 1956
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AT&SF No. 870, a 1906-built 2-8-0 from Burnham, Williams & Co. on static display at park in Santa Fe Springs
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EMC 1800 hp B-B in the original Golden Olive scheme (1935)
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EMC E1 in Warbonnet (1938)
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Santa Fe#103, an EMD FT unit decorated in the "Cat Whiskers" scheme, receives service during World War II.
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A museum restoration of Kennecott Copper Corporation #103 (an Alco model RS-2) now bears the #2098 and the ATSF Zebra Stripe paint scheme.
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Santa Fe #2378, an Alco S-2 switcher in the Billboard scheme (1966)
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ATSF 108 at Southern California Railway Museum
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Warbonnet roof details
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ATSF San Diegan EMD F7 (1968), displaying the "SANTA FE" in black Railroad Roman letters along each side
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Santa Fe #98, an EMD FP45 decked out in Warbonnet colors, including the traditional "cigar band" nose emblem
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Santa Fe #681 in Sealy Texas, June 2001
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The L.A.-bound Super Chief gets its 5-minute pit-stop service in Albuquerque, 1943
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ATSF 9542 in Kodachrome leads other locomotives in Freightbonnet (1990)
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See also
In Spanish: Ferrocarril de Atchison, Topeka y Santa Fe para niños
