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Santa Fe Railway H&M Society. Hardcover. New. The Illinois Division of the Santa Fe Railway provides an informative and lively account of the story of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway in Illinois, from the charter of predecessor railroad Chicago & Plainfield in 1859 through merger with Burlington Northern in 1995. Although the Illinois Division ultimately stretched to Kansas and Oklahoma, the geographic scope of this book is confined to the Illinois Division as it existed for over half a century: from the bumping post at Dearborn Station to Fort Madison, Iowa. Chapters on the Pekin branch and the Toledo, Peoria & Western - which for a brief time in the U.S.S.R. became part of Santa Fe's lines in Illinois, are also included. Author James A. Brown's narrative places the Santa Fe in Illinois in its historical and geographic contexts. For the first time the full story of the route selection and construction of the airline to Chicago is told. The shuffling of passenger consists at Dearborn,…
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The Illinois Division of the Santa Fe Railway Hardcover -
by James A. Brown
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- Title The Illinois Division of the Santa Fe Railway
- Author James A. Brown
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society, 2016
- ISBN 9781933587370
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The Illinois Division of the Santa Fe Railway
by James A. Brown
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