There was just one problem when railroad executive Cyrus K. Holliday came up with the idea to build the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway back in the 1800s. The train, which originated in the ...

Compared to the likes of the Southern Pacific and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, the Western Pacific Railroad can be considered the "runt of the litter" for Class I U.S. railroading in the Far West.

The first confrontation in the Royal Gorge Railroad War occurred not in the Royal Gorge, but near the top of Raton Pass in February 1878. No shots were fired that day, but there may have been some ...

Starting in the late 1800s, this historic railroad was originally used to transport ore from the Anita mines, which sit just north of Williams, Arizona. In 1901, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe ...