Santa Fe - All The Way
by Darin Volpe
Title
Santa Fe - All The Way
Artist
Darin Volpe
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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This retired Santa Fe Railway boxcar sits on a ranch in central California. It's 1960's era paint scheme reminds us that before Amtrak was formed in 1970, railroads used their freight cars as traveling billboards for their passenger service. Here, we're told "Ship and Travel Santa Fe - All The Way."
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway was chartered in 1859. It was one of the larger railroads in the United States, formed to join Atchison and Topeka, Kansas, with Santa Fe, New Mexico. However, the terrain was too difficult to build a railroad into Santa Fe and it only reached as close as Lamy. To create demand for its services, the railroad set up real estate offices and sold farm land from the land grants that it was awarded by Congress. In 1995, the AT&SF merged with Burlington Northern Railroad. The new Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway became the second largest freight railroad in North America.
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April 30th, 2013
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