News

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 ...
The bidding war for Santa Fe Pacific Corp. could result in the scrapping of another merger involving a Chicago-based railroad. Southern Pacific Transportation Co. said Tuesday it has asked the ...
Review of Walter Borneman's "Rival Rails," which is about the spread of railroad tracks from Kansas and Texas westward, with a particular focus on the triumph of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe.
The Santa Fe railway is slapping on gallons of war paint to do battle with its trucking and rail competitors. The striking red, silver and yellow war bonnet paint scheme that formerly adorned the ...
The Super Chief was in direct competition with other “named passenger trains” such as the Pacific Limited (operated by the Milwaukee Road, Union Pacific Railroad, and Southern Pacific) and the ...
The inside of the Santa Fe Southern Railway on Monday, September 29, 2014. According to the company’s website The Santa Fe Southern Railway has suspended its services.
The diesel units arrived in San Bernardino on Sept. 14, 1935, and were immediately put to the test hauling a set of Pullman cars and a dynamometer car over the Cajon Pass.