Compared to the likes of the Southern Pacific and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, the Western Pacific Railroad can be considered the "runt of the litter" for Class I U.S. railroading in the Far West.

Starting in the late 1800s, this historic railroad was originally used to transport ore from the Anita mines, which sit just north of Williams, Arizona. In 1901, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe ...

Then we started to think of other railroad names ... fans of both iterations of the Ann Arbor RR Atchison – for all the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe fans Chessie or Chester – for the Chesapeake ...