Yet on that score, too, it fell short, leaving the job of unifying the country to the second transcontinental, the Santa Fe, started in Kansas in 1863. Whereas the Pacific Railway relied heavily ...

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.

In 1885, Colladay arrived in Hutchinson on the Santa Fe Railroad. He was heading to California, but after stepping off the train car, he decided to remain in Kansas and establish a company.

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Wichita’s Great Plains Transportation Museum (GPTM) is kicking off a fundraising effort to perform a full cosmetic restoration of historic Santa Fe Railway diesel-electric ...

(Photograph Courtesy of BNSF) It’s not known exactly how many of these bands were organized by railroads, but Anderson’s research found nearly a dozen across the network of BNSF predecessor Atchison, ...