A. C. Davis & Co. grain elevator, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1915
A view of men and horse-drawn wagons in line at the A. C. Davis grain elevator in, possibly, Pratt or Almena, Kansas. A steam locomotive is visible in the background.

ATSF 3460, Blue Goose steam engine
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: 1937
This photo shows Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway "Blue Goose" steam engine No. 3460.

ATSF operation of steam and diesel locomotives
Date: Between 1940 and 1950
Video clips of an ATSF engineer demonstrating the operation of steam and diesel locomotives. The video contains some captions.

A hold up on the Kansas Pacific 1869
Creator: Standard Photogravure Company, New York
Date: Between 1913 and 1914
This ink on paper drawing by M.S. Garretson depicts the artist's conception of a herd of buffalo descending onto railroad tracks as hunters attempt to kill the animals. In the background, a steam locomotive has been stopped as the killings take place.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's Cyrus K. Holliday locomotive #1
Creator: Warner Studio
Date: June 1954
This is a photograph showing Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's Cyrus K. Holliday steam locomotive #1 in Atchison, Kansas. It was driven from the Argentine yards near Kansas City, Kansas to Atchison for the city's centennial, June 20-26, 1954. John (Jack) Flanagan, engineer, is standing at the far right.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's Blue Goose
Date: Between 1937 and 1956
This black and white photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's steam locomotive #3460 the "Blue Goose" pulling the passenger train the "Super Chief" at an unidentified location. The "Hudson" type locomotive built in 1937 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania had a 4-6-4 wheel arrangement. It was scrapped for metal in 1956.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's Blue Goose
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: 1939
This black and white photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's Blue Goose #3460 pulling a train of passenger cars.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's Blue Goose
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: 1939
The photograph shows an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company engine # 3460, also known as a Blue Goose, making a switch move. The shot is from behind or "going away" from the steam locomotive.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's Canyon Diablo bridge
Creator: Jackson, W. H. & Co.
Date: Between 1883 and 1903
This sepia colored photograph shows a steam locomotive with rail cars and a caboose on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's Canyon Diablo bridge in northern Arizona. Construction on the trestle bridge began in 1880 when the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company laid the first set of tracks from Winslow, Arizona to Canyon Diablo. Due to construction and financial difficulties, the project was temporarily put on hold until the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company took over the task of completing the structure in 1882.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's Chief
Creator: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: Between 1939 and 1949
This black and white photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's Chief passing through the Cajon Pass in California.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's Chief
Date: Between 1930s and 1940s
This black and white photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's Chief #19 leaving Las Vegas, New Mexico.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's Chief
Date: Between 1939 and 1949
This black and white photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's Chief rounding Sullivan's curve at Cajon Pass, California.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's El Capitan
Date: Between 1930s and 1940s
This black and white photograph shows steam engines #3873 and #3811 from the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company assisting the No. 21 El Capitan up Raton Pass near Wooten, Colorado.

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's Green Fruit Express (GFX)
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: 1939
This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's eastbound Green Fruit Express rounding Sullivan's curve at Cajon Pass, California.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's "Madam Queen"
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: Between 1930 and 1945
This black and white photograph shows a view of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's steam-powered "Madam Queen" F #5000. The locomotive was a 2-10-4, Texas type, purchased from Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1930.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's Ranger train, Ardmore, Oklahoma
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: Between 1935 and 1949
This black and white photograph shows the northbound Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's "Ranger" train #6, at the depot in Ardmore, Oklahoma. It consisted of a steam powered locomotive and passenger cars.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's Super Chief, Wooten, Colorado
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: Between 1930s and 1940s
This black and white photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's steam locomotive 5000, 2-10-4, helping the 13 D.E.P. take the eastbound Super Chief up Raton Pass below Wooten, Colorado.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's Wm B. Strong #2 locomotive
Date: Between 1890 and 1899
This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's Wm B. Strong #2 locomotive. The steam engine was named after the president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company William Barstow Strong. He served from 1881 to 1889 and developed the Santa Fe into a major transcontinental railway company with the expansion of over 7,000 miles of right-of-way.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's advertisement
Creator: Villa, Hernando Gonzallo, 1881-1952
Date: Between 1948 and 1949
This photograph shows a Native American greeting a steam locomotive. The illustration is a preliminary sketch created by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company for an advertisement poster called "The Meeting of the Chiefs". In the 1949 poster a diesel locomotive is featured instead of a steam locomotive.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's arch bridge
Date: Between 1890s and 1900s
This black and white photograph shows an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's arch bridge and steam locomotive #718 at a unidentified location.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's diesel and steam locomotives
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: 1940s
This black and white photograph shows two Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company E 5 diesel engines and the 3460 Blue Goose steam engine.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's diesel and steam locomotives, Chicago, Illinois
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: February 14, 1938
This black and white photograph shows an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's diesel and steam locomotives at the 18th Street coach yard in Chicago, Illinois. The steam locomotive ,in the middle, is "Blue Goose" No. 3460.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's engine #3131
Creator: Swan, Fletcher H.
Date: October 23, 1949
This photograph shows the remains of engine #3131 of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company near Ono, California.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's engine # 3710 Alray Cajon Pass, California
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: 1930s
This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's steam engine # 3710 pulling a heavyweight passenger train at Alray in Cajon Pass, California.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's engine # 3744, Blue Cut, Cajon Pass, California
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: 1930s
This black and white photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's steam engine # 3744 leading a Pullman heavyweight passenger train up Cajon Pass at Blue Cut, California.