A carload of cucumbers
Creator: Elite Post Card Company
Date: Between 1905 and 1915
A fictitious or exaggerated postcard showing a Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad car loaded with gigantic cucumbers.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway freight train
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: June 1970
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway west bound freight train arriving at Barstow, California.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway freight train pulled by engine 8501
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: July 1969
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway frieght train pulled by disel powered locomotive engine #8501. The train is near Flagstaff, Arizona.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway freight train
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: Aug. 1971
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway freight train pulled by diesel powered locomotive engine #3429. The train is near Mountainair, New Mexico.

Waycar, Argentine, Kansas
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: February 7, 1970
View of an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe waycar at the hump crest rolling into the Argentine Yard bowl in Argentine, Kansas.

Ten-pack fuel foiler, Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: April 7, 1978
View of a ten-pack fuel foiler car at the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's car shops in Topeka, Kansas. Also visible are rail equipment, utility power poles and lines, and houses in the background.

Ten-pack fuel foiler, Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: April 7, 1978
View of a ten-pack fuel foiler at the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's car shops in Topeka, Kansas. The freshly-built car's hitches are being painted black by AT&SF shop personnel.

Building a ten-pack fuel foiler, Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: June 6, 1980
View of workmen welding frame members to form a fishbelly skeletal frame to build a ten-pack fuel foiler in the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's car shops in Topeka, Kansas.

Building a ten-pack fuel foiler, Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: June 6, 1980
View of a worker welding frame members to form a fishbelly skeletal frame to build a ten-pack fuel foiler in the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's car shops in Topeka, Kansas.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's switch engine
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: 1956
This black and white photograph shows a view of an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's FM switch engine as it shoves against a cut of piggyback cars loaded with a variety of trailers. Also visible is a switchman riding point to #F3202 trailer

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's piggyback car
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: 1956
This black and white photograph shows a switchman riding point next to an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's #F3202 trailer on a cut of piggyback cars.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's piggyback trailers
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: 1956
This black and white photograph shows two men checking the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company trailers SFTC #1007 and SFTC #1043 on piggyback car #92759.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's piggyback trailers
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: 1956
This black and white photograph shows an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's circus style loading and unloading operations for piggyback trailers.

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe flat cars carrying rolling stock
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: Between 1950 and 1973
This photo shows the Piggy-Back Service offered by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. In most instances, truck trailers were loaded and taken to a point where they were loaded on flat rail cars. They were shipped by rail for part of their route and then by road until they reached their final destination. This service is also known as intermodal transport, which means it involves more than one form of transportation.

Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railway Company Tehachipi, CA tunnel 9.
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: Between 1950 and 1975
This Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railway Company piggy-back train is exiting Tehachipi, CA tunnel 9 at the loop.

Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railway Company Truck Trailers
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: Between 1950 and 1985
This photograph shows a Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railway Company flat car, 90151, loaded with two 40' truck trailers. It illustrates ATSF Railway Company's trailer on flat car (TOFC) or piggy-back services. It is also called intermodal transportation, because it combined railroad and trucking services to get freight to its destination as quickly as possible.

Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railway Company Circus Loading
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: Between 1950 and 1985
This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railway Company intermodal transportation services. The description for this photograph called this type of loading of trailers "circus loading." It is a term used to describe an older method of loading highway trailers on flatcars (TOFC), whereby a tractor backs the trailer up to a ramp placed at one end of a cut of cars. Circus loading requires bridge plates at each end of all cars to enable the trailer and tractor to pass from car to car.

Steel coil car with covers
Date: 1967
View of an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's steet coil FT-62 car with covers (which carry a small ATSF logo on all four sides). Car ATSF #91906 was assigned to Chicago, Illinois. It was painted "Indian Red," but without Super Shock Control lettering on the side of the car.

General Dynamics Convair 89' Strato-Box car
Date: September, 1967
A three-quarter view of an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's General Dynamics Convair 89' Strato-Box car (ATSF #90428) built to carry airplane parts.

General Dynamics Convair 89' Strato-Box car
Date: 1967
Side view of an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's General Dynamics Convair 89' Strato-Box car (ATSF #90428) built to carry airplane parts.

Lockheed Aircraft wing assembly car
Date: April, 1966
View of an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's 53'-6" Lockheed Aircraft wing assembly car (ATSF #90431) for transporting C-130 aircraft parts.

Lockheed Aircraft wing assembly car
Date: 1966
View of an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's 53'-6" Lockheed Aircraft wing assembly car (ATSF #90431) for transporting C-130 aircraft parts.

FT-10 bulkhead flat car
Date: 1964
View of an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's FT-10 car (ATSF #91434) with bulkheads added to carry gypsum (sheetrock) products.

GSC flat car with automobile frames
Date: 1950
Side view of an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's GSC flat car (ATSF #90246) loaded with automobile frames.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's bi-level autorack car
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: 1965
This black and white photograph shows a home-built Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's bi-level auto rack car loaded with mail jeeps.