Year

Notable Events
1946 La Grande Station in Los Angeles is demolished after service as office space since the transition to LAUPT in 1939.
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1953 The original Raton pass line and tunnel is abandoned.
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1981 The old COW line between Clinton and Pampa is abandoned.
1991 The old KCM&O line from Maryneal, Texas, to Cherokee, Oklahoma, is sold to the Texas & Oklahoma Railroad.
1992 The KCM&O line from San Angelo, Texas, to Presidio, Texas, on the Mexican border is sold to South Orient Railroad Company.  The Fort Worth-Menard track purchased in 1937 is dropped when it starts using a Fort Worth-Sweetwater, Texas, line that is 19 miles shorter.
 
Resources:
 
"Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company." Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, 2004.
BNSF.  "BNSF History."  BNSF Official Website, 2004.
Bryant, Keith L., Jr.  History of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway.  Omaha, NE: Univ. of Nebraska, 1982.
Glischinski, Steve.  Santa Fe Railway.  Osceola, WI: Andover Junction Publications, 1997.
 
 
 
Note that this is merely a compilation of material found in the above resources and is not meant to be construed as an original work.  For the best reference on Santa Fe history, purchase the book by Glischinski.

Last edited 06/12/2004 by Edwin Alexander (edwin@theeds.net).