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  Santa Fe Motel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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Southern Pacific Santa Fe Railroad - The Southern Pacific Santa Fe Railroad (SPSF) was intended to be formed as part of the merger between the parent companies of the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe railroads announced on December 23, 1983.
Santa Fe Trail - The Santa Fe Trail was a historic 19th century transportation route across southwestern North America connecting Missouri with Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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 Southern Pacific Santa Fe Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Southern Pacific Santa Fe Railroad (SPSF) was intended to be formed as part of the merger between the parent companies of the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe railroads announced on December 23, 1983.
The holding company, ordered to operate the Southern Pacific at arm's length until it sold it, disposed of it on October 13, 1988 to Rio Grande Industries for $1.02 billion and the assumption of SP's debt, which consolidated the SP with its Denver and Rio Grande Western railroad under the Southern Pacific name.
In 1995, the Santa Fe railroad merged with the Burlington Northern Railroad to form the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway (BNSF), and the SP merged with the Union Pacific Railroad the following year.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Southern_Pacific_Santa_Fe_Railroad   (711 words)

  
 The Northwestern Pacific Railroad (NWP) in Northern Calfornia.
The Northwestern Pacific Railroad (NWP) in Northern Calfornia.
The first railroads on the western coast were built in 1854 and for the next century, railroads played a vital role in a thriving lumber industry.
The Northwestern Pacific Railroad, one of Northern California's historic entities, survived as a Southern Pacific wholly-owned subsidiary.
www.sunnyfortuna.com /railroad   (727 words)

  
 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway at AllExperts
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway at AllExperts
The railroad's charter, written single-handedly by Cyrus K. Holliday in January 1859, was approved by the state's governor on February 11 of that year as the Atchison and Topeka Railroad Company for the purpose of building a rail line from Topeka, Kansas, to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and then on to the Gulf of Mexico.
Santa Fe discontinued ferry service in 1933 due to the effects of the Great Depression; the construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge initiated the slow decline in demand for SP's ferry service, which was eventually discontinued as well.
en.allexperts.com /e/a/at/atchison,_topeka_and_santa_fe_railway.htm   (4745 words)

  
 CF7 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Santa Fe #2509, a rounded-cab CF7, pauses in front of the depot at Santa Ana, California in 1976.
The Santa Fe had planned in the mid-1980s to renumber its CF7 fleet from 2649–2417 to 1131–1000 and repaint the units in the new "Kodachrome" paint scheme, all in preparation for the upcoming Southern Pacific Santa Fe Railroad (SPSF) merger.
The majority of the locomotives were sold for as little as $20,000 to short-line and regional railroads such as the Commonwealth Railway and the Maryland and Delaware Railroad (6 were involved in wrecks and 3 others sent directly to the scrap yards), though Amtrak and GE Transportation Systems were among the major initial purchasers.
www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/CF7   (1438 words)

  
 Estimating Revenue and Cost Changes Resulting from the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe Merger
A railroad on a waybill is not shown in the network to serve the junction or station on the waybill.
In the case of the Southern Pacific Santa Fe merger, five sequential diversion studies were performed to show the effects of other mergers and line acquisitions that had occurred, or would occur, between the time of the data sample and the time when the benefits of the merger would be realized.
This comparison strongly confirmed in the aggregate what the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe traffic evaluators had been observing in detail; the model was implementing diversion decisions and calculating their associated revenue change in a reasonable and appropriate manner.
www.muten.com /trf.html   (4753 words)

  
 PNWC-NRHS Regional Railroad History
Below is a partial list of Oregon railroads, some long-gone but many living-on as part of the current network of mainline and short-line railroads the link the towns and industries of Oregon to the rest of the world.
In 1933 it was reorganized as The Dalles and Southern and ceased operations in 1936.
The Southern Pacific built their new Natron Cutoff from Eugene to Klamath Falls over Willamette Pass, giving them access to the southern end of central Oregon, and were involved with a line to Lakeview.
www.pnwc-nrhs.org /oregon-rr-history.html   (1552 words)

  
 History of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
He dreamt of a railroad that ran along the old 19th century trading route called the Santa Fe trail that ran from Independence, Missouri, to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and on to the west coast of California.
In the early 1880s and 1890s the railroad was expanded to over 9,000 miles of track, some of which was lost in a reorganization stemming from a financial crisis that hit the company in 1893.
The railroad continued to operate into the 1980s, when in 1983 the Santa Fe holding company attempted a merger with Southern Pacific which was tied up in the courts until 1987, when the ICC rejected the merger.
edwin.theeds.net /Trains/ATSF   (443 words)

  
 Global Santa Fe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
New global santa fe and faster technology, redefined values, global santa fe and shifting customer demands are changing the way businesses operate in the twenty-first century.
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www.grayline-abq.com /globalsantafe.html   (911 words)

  
 Southern Pacific History
Southern Pacific Santa Fe: The railroad that never was.
Rio Grande Merger: A close call for the SP
Modern History The Union Pacific buyout.(I'm aware of the oxymoron)
members.aol.com /traingod/history.htm   (28 words)

  
 Santa Fe Railroad. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The railroad acquired several small lines, and further construction followed; by the early 1890s the Santa Fe, with its 9,000 mi (14,480 km) of track and connections to Chicago and Los Angeles, became one of the world’s longest railroad systems.
Poor management and a reckless dividend policy combined with the depression of 1893, however, to bankrupt the railroad company, which in 1895 was reorganized as the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company.
In 1995 the Santa Fe Pacific Corporation merged with the Burlington Northern RR to become the Burlington Northern Sante Fe Railway.
www.bartleby.com /65/sn/SntFeR.html   (249 words)

  
 Archives: News - www.explorernews.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Steve Schmollinger, 49, feeds off the power of a railroad locomotive and the life and death struggles of those who have driven them across the mountains and deserts of the West.
For his first book, "Tehachapi: Railroading on a Desert Mountain," published in 1993, Schmollinger focused on Southern Pacific and Santa Fe railroad freight trains chugging at a mile a minute pace across the flatlands of California's San Joaquin Valley south of Bakersfield on the northwestern edge of the Mojave Desert.
Here, the railroads climb 3,628 feet in a 50-mile stretch on the northern slope and 1,278 feet in 18 miles on the southern slope.
www.explorernews.com /articles/2002/10/09/news/export607.txt   (754 words)

  
 Santa Fe Review
The railroads' expansion is restricted to these pathways, and each city is marked with a value from two to seven.
The bonuses for bringing specific railroads into certain cities are Alan's concession to historical accuracy, providing incentives for players to build the rails along routes roughly parallel to their real-life namesakes.
But one of the beauties of Santa Fe is that, since you don't own any of the railroads themselves, other players can't team up to hose the progress of "your" railroad.
www.gamereport.com /tgr5/santafe.html   (2095 words)

  
 California Southern Railway History
In 1879 the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rail road was set to build west and, due to the indefatigable energy of Frank Kimball of National City, a deal was carried to a conclusion with the backers of the Santa Fe, investment bankers and capitalists of Boston, Massachusetts.
For a large consideration, known as a subsidy, these railroad builders agreed to construct a railway from San Diego to Yuma, Territory of Arizona, and the Santa Fe would be extended south-westerly from Albuquerque to connect with it.
On August 15, Colton was reached, meeting the Southern Pacific Railroad and San Diego was joined by rail with all parts of the country.
www.sdrm.org /history/cs/calsouth.html   (1916 words)

  
 Southern Pacific Railroad
The Southern Pacific Railroad was founded in 1865 by a group of businessmen led by Timothy Phelps.
After taking control of the Southern Pacific and a long debate of what to do with it, it was decided that they would maintain the name Southern Pacific for the railroad operations.
Southern Pacific Railroad in the Cascades of Oregon, By Joel Ashcroft
www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1817.html   (905 words)

  
 Whitier Museum, California
With the Southern Pacific Railroad serving nearby Downey an agreement was reached to build a 6 mile spur to Whittier along with depot facilities at a cost of about $43,000, to be paid by the city's businessmen.
By 1938 passenger traffic on the Pacific Electric had decreased to such an extent as a result of competition from the automobile, that service to Whittier was dropped, though the tracks remained in place.
Among 30th Street's previous depot projects are the Claremont Transit Facility at the former Santa Fe Depot in Claremont, and the Fullerton Transportation Center in Fullerton which involved the relocation of the abandoned Union Pacific depot and the renovation of the existing AMTRAK depot in the former Santa Fe depot.
www.whittiermuseum.org /railroad.html   (1383 words)

  
 Santa Fe Pacific Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Santa Fe Pacific Railroad was an operating subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (AAR reporting mark ATSF) that operated from July 1, 1897 until its merger into the Santa Fe Railway 5 years later on July 1, 1902.
The Santa Fe Pacific had 101 locomotives and operated on track the ATSF acquired through its subsidiary, the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad.
The first transcontintental railroad was completed on May 10, 1869 by the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad at Promontory, Utah.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Santa_Fe_Pacific_Railroad   (464 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online:
These two railroads along with the lines comprising the Sunset Route in Texas all had their roots in the antebellum period and include the oldest components of the Southern Pacific system.
The Southern Pacific system in Texas was expanded by the acquisition of a number of additional companies as well as new construction.
The Southern Pacific also owned several railroads in Mexico, the longest of which was the Southern Pacific Railroad of Mexico, which ran from Nogales on the Arizona-Sonora border to Guadalajara.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/SS/eqs35.html   (1938 words)

  
 Railroad Collectibles, Santa Fe, BN&SF, Union Pacific - Soares Antiques
Agreement between The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company and the Brotherhood of Railway, Airline, and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employees June 1, 1981.
All of the railroad patches below are of standard shirt patch size approximately 3" X 3" some are a little bigger and some are a little smaller, if you would like to know the exact size of any patch, just send us an info request and I will give you the precise dimensions.
It is a 1 1/2" honor award medal to the Santa Fe employees for outstanding railroad safety two years in a row, 1970 and 1971.
www.soaresantiques.com /transportation.htm   (2111 words)

  
 Southern Pacific Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
When the Southern Pacific Santa Fe merger was denied by the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Kodachrome units were not when it came to paint, some even lasted up to the days of Sounthern Pacific's end as an independant company.
The Southern Pacific, starting in the 1970s, employed cab air conditioning on all new locomotives, and the air conditioning unit on top of the locomotive cab is quite visible.
The Southern Pacific also placed very large snowplows on the pilots of their road switchers, primarily for the heavy winter snowfall encountered on the Donner Pass route.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Southern_Pacific_Railroad   (2879 words)

  
 Peter J. McClosky's Southern Pacific Railroad Web Resources Page
Northwestern Pacific #113, as a helper on the Sausalito ferry pier.
Northwestern Pacific #182, on the Scotia Bluffs trestle.
Nikita Krushchev at the Southern Pacific Railroad Depot in Glendale, 9-20-1959.
www.sphts.org /Resources/spwebresources.html   (5717 words)

  
 1881 Railroad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In the spring of 1881, the Southern Pacific was heading east past Deming and toward El Paso.
The Southern Pacific was west of the Rio Grande when the Santa Fe train entered Dona Ana and Las Cruces on April 19.
Time had run out for the Santa Fe because the Southern Pacific was bringing El Paso their first train carefully across a high wooden bridge on May 19, 1881.
austin.episd.org /ephistory/quadrr1881.htm   (489 words)

  
 California State Railroad Museum Foundation - Prints & Posters
In 1999 we continued the tradition of the great railroad fairs by holding the largest gathering of heritage railroad equipment for the past fifty years....
Produced by the Union Pacific Railroad, this print features a striking and attractive contrast between old and new locomotives.
Among the Southern Pacific's most famous "name trains" is the Sunset Limited.
www.csrmf.org /store/?parentid=9   (117 words)

  
 Southern Pacific Railroad, Big Four, Gilded Age, American West
Southern Pacific Railroad assistant chief engineer was William Hood who devised the ingenious method of eighteen tunnels in twenty eight miles of track climbing down from the Tehachapi Mountains to the San Joaquin Valley below.
Southern Pacific Railroad tracks in March of 1880 reached Tucson and a celebration with a Golden spike was held.
March 1881, the Southern Pacific Railroad joined the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad at Deming in New Mexico territory to become the second transcontinental railroad.
www.linecamp.com /museums/americanwest/western_clubs/southern_pacific_railroad/southern_pacific_railroad.html   (843 words)

  
 Railroad Collectibles Soares Antiques, Railroad, Airline, Transportation
Santa Fe List of Numbers Assigned to Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Stations 1979.
This print is from a Santa Fe Calendar, I got from the estate of a life time rail guy.
Santa Fe Federal Credit Union Maricopa Coin Pouch in fl.
soaresantiques.com /transportation1.htm   (1836 words)

  
 Santa Fe
Santa Fe Santa Fe The war bonnet scheme was one of the most famous in the United States.
Started in the 1930's for the railroad's fleet of premier passenger trains it was also used in modified form for freight in a blue and yellow scheme and finally was revived in the late 1980's for the railroad's premier freight trains.
The BNSF storage track showing a mixture of former BN and Santa Fe units in storage during the Summer of 2000.
www.umcycling.com /santa_fe1.htm   (650 words)

  
 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Depot
hile the pioneering railroad in the Littleton area was the Denver and Rio Grande, which arrived in 1871, the behemoth would become the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe.
The Santa Fe held a similar agreement with the Colorado and Southern railroad (formerly the Denver, South Park and Pacific) whose tracks ran on the west side of the South Platte River from Denver to Leadville.
In 1979, an 1898-vintage railroad caboose was donated to the city and placed on rails next to the depot.
www.littletongov.org /history/histlandmarks/atchisondepot.asp   (612 words)

  
 Union Pacific is back - Apr. 23, 1999
But Union Pacific Corp.'s first-quarter earnings, which outstripped expectations by 7 cents a share Thursday, show signs the sector finally is back on track.
Union Pacific's rebound is good news even for Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., which came in slightly lower than Wall Street estimates Tuesday.
The next-largest U.S. railroads, CSX Corp. (CSX) and Norfolk Southern Corp. (NSC), are set to take possession of Conrail's tracks June 1, with 42 percent and 58 percent stakes, respectively.
money.cnn.com /1999/04/23/companies/railroads   (881 words)

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