Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe passenger train, Topeka, Kansas
Date: October 11, 1903
A photograph showing an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway passenger train departing from Topeka, Kansas.

Train wreck, Selkirk, Kansas
Date: July 23, 1896
These two black and white photographs show the wreckage from a Missouri Pacific passenger train near Selkirk, Kansas. The incident happened four miles west of Leoti, Kansas, when the east bound passenger train #202 derailed due to washouted tracks. One death resulted from the accident.

Train wreck, Selkirk, Kansas
Date: July 23, 1896
These three black and white photographs show the wreckage from a Missouri Pacific passenger train near Selkirk, Kansas. The incident happened four miles west of Leoti, Kansas, when the east bound passenger train #202 derailed due to washed out tracks. One death resulted from the accident.

Snow bound in Kinsley, Kansas
Date: February 25, 1912
A postcard showing a passenger train snow bound in Kinsley, Kansas.

"City of Kansas City" plate
Creator: Sterling China Company
Date: between 1965 and 1970
This plate in the Winged Streamliner pattern was part of a complete place setting given to the Kansas Historical Society by the Union Pacific Railroad. The setting was presented in 1971 to commemorate the last run across Kansas of the streamliner "City of Kansas City." From 1968 to 1971 the "City of Kansas City" ran passenger service to Cheyenne, Wyoming. This plate was made by the Sterling China Company in East Liverpool, Ohio.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's Texas Chief, Chicago, Illinois
Date: Between 1940s and 1950s
This hand colored photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's passenger train the " Texas Chief" departing from Dearborn Station in Chicago, Illinois.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's Super Chief menu
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: May 16, 1936
These three black and white photographs show the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's "Super Chief" menu for its inaugural departure from Chicago, Illinois, to Los Angeles, California.

Colorado train service via Rock Island Lines, Summer 1912
Creator: Rock Island Railroad Company
Date: 1912
This brochure advertises the services of four trains of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. Two of the trains are from Chicago and Omaha and the other two are from St. Louis and Kansas City. The trains from Chicago and Omaha are the "Rocky Mountain Limited" and the "Colorado and California Express" The two trains from St. Louis and Kansas City are the "Colorado-Pacific Coast Express" and the "Colorado Flyer." The daily schedules for each train are included. Such features as electric lighted cars; a buffet-library-observation car with barber, valet and Victrola recitals; and telegraphic bulletins.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's "The Chief" in Joliet, Illinois
Creator: Erb, Don
Date: Between 1950 and 1959
This black and white photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's passenger train the "Chief" approaching Union Station in Joliet, Illinois.

Delma Frasser, Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe, courier nurse
Date: Between 1950 and 1959
This black and white photograph shows Chief Santa Fe Courier Nurse Delma Fraser. The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company assigned registered nurses, known as couriers, to their passenger trains during the 1930s and 1960s to attend to the medical needs of their passengers. During their cross country travels, the nurses also assisted with certain administrative duties or errands that required attention.

French toast being served on an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway passenger train
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: Between 1955 and 1959
A photograph showing a waiter serving French toast to travelers on an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway passenger train.

Passengers traveling on the El Capitan
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: Between 1955 and 1959
An interior view showing people traveling on Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's El Capitan passenger train.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's Golden Gate diner car
Date: Between 1950 and 1959
An interior view of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's "Golden Gate" diner car.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's Golden Gate, Oakland, California
Date: Between 1950 and 1959
A black and white photograph of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's passenger train the "Golden Gate" near Oakland, California.

Eastbound Super Chief passenger train, Winona, Arizona
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: June 6, 1936
This photo shows an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Super Chief passenger train east bound at Winona, Arizona, near Flagstaff.

Westbound passenger train In Cajon Pass, California
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: 1940
This photo shows a westbound Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway passenger train in Cajon Pass, California, at mile post 71.2, 1st District, Los Angeles Division. The steam engine is passing under a railroad signal.

Passenger train crossing the Missouri River, Atchison, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1910
A photograph showing a passenger train crossing the Missouri River at Atchison, Kansas.

Only one night, Chicago to Denver, Colorado summer service on the Colorado Flyer
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: May 31, 1905
This advertisement promotes the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe trains that ran between Chicago and Denver, eastbound and westbound. In addition to schedules for the Colorado Flyer, the equipment, i.e. types of cars; services, e.g., Pullman cars, reclining chairs, dining cars, Harvey meal services, and tourist cars are listed. Other Colorado trains are listed, as well as additional services and connections to California.

The Arkansas Valley Route from the Missouri River to Colorado and New Mexico
Date: Between 1870 and 1890
These Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway maps encourage travel on the ATSF lines along a scenic route from eastern Kansas to the base of the Rocky Mountains. The maps claim this to be the only direct route to the famous San Juan Mines and the shortest route to Colorado Springs, Pikes Peak and Manitou. Lovely scenery, sublime views, wildlife, recreation, and pure mountain air are some of the reasons given for making this journey.

Silas Smith's second wife: a popular story complete in one volume. Souvenir edition
Creator: Cobb, E.M.
Date: 1908
Promotional pamphlet produced by the Union Pacific Railroad highlighting the beauty and picturesque scenery of the Butte Valley in California.

Fishing in Colorado and Wyoming
Creator: Union Pacific Railway Company
Date: 1912
This Union Pacific Railroad Company promotional advertisement describes the beautiful and rustic scenery enjoyed in camp life and fishing as experienced in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and Wyoming.

Interior view of the Santa Fe ACOMA lounge
Date: Between 1937 and 1957
A interior view of the ACOMA lounge with its thunderbird symbol, the curved couches, coffe tables, writing desk, light fixtures,and art-deco metal work. The ACOMA was the first full sized "streamlined" lounge car designed by the Santa Fe and built by the Budd company in 1936 for the Santa Fe Super chief train.

"Drumhead" of the Santa Fe Super Chief
Creator: Richie, Robert Yarnall
Date: Between 1937 and 1957
A exterior view of the Santa Fe Super Chief "Drumhead" with a tribal member of the Navajo Nation standing nearby. The logo of the "Drumhead" often adorned the ends of the observation cars on the Super Chief. The streamlined train built by the Budd company in late 1936 traveled once a week on a round trip between Chicago Illinois and Los Angeles, California. The Super Chief comprised of eight cars that included: a baggage car, a dining car called the "Cochiti", a lounge car know as the "Acoma", and sleeping cars know as the "Orabi", "Taos", "Laguna", "Isleta" and the "Navajo".

Dining car on the Santa Fe Chief
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company
Date: Between 1945 and 1949
People eating in the dining car on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Chief passenger train.

San Francisco Chief lunch counter
Creator: Meitz, Frank
Date: Between 1945 and 1949
Passengers eating at the San Francisco Chief lunch counter diner which offered Santa Fe's famous Fred Harvey meals.