The Santa Fe’s arrival sparked a frenzied rate competition with the Southern Pacific, each side trying to undercut the other, that ultimately dropped the price of a $125 ticket from Chicago to ...

Although the Santa Fe’s 1954 gross of $532 million made it the No. 4 railroad in revenues (after the Pennsylvania, New York Central and Southern Pacific), its $66 million net, helped by ...

Coupling the citrus boom with the arrival of the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1875 and the California Southern, later known as the Santa Fe and now BNSF, in 1883, San Bernardino County came to life.