They had started west from Las Animas in late summer 1875, led by teams of “tie men” who ascended the Arkansas River into the ...

Visionary executive William Barstow Strong led the second transcontinental line, the Santa Fe, in the 1880s, paving the way for thousands of miles of track. Illustration by Matthew Richardson When the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Santa Fe 4-6-2 No. 3415 ambles along former Rock Island trackage at the Abilene & Smoky Valley Railroad near Abilene, Kansas, in ...

A complete cosmetic restoration of the Santa Fe Railway diesel-electric locomotive No. 93 is well under way and expected to wrap up by spring or early summer, Wichita, Kans.-based Great Plains ...

Cyrus K. Holliday was the founder of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (Santa Fe)—one of BNSF’s major predecessors—and took a leading part in founding the city of Topeka, Kansas on Dec. 5, 1854.

Pearland's Santa Fa Railroad Depot played a prominent role in the community for decades. Although now unused and in disrepair, it regained the spotlight in recent years as the city considered measures ...

Outside the little northern Texas town of Krum last week, a platoon of railroad workers spaced gft. ties along a new track bed, spotted rails over tie plates and pounded home the spikes. This was no ...