Steel Trails to Santa Fe By L L Waters  Hard Cover
Steel Trails to Santa Fe By L L Waters  Hard Cover
Steel Trails to Santa Fe By L L Waters  Hard Cover
Steel Trails to Santa Fe By L L Waters  Hard Cover
Steel Trails to Santa Fe By L L Waters  Hard Cover
Steel Trails to Santa Fe By L L Waters  Hard Cover
Steel Trails to Santa Fe By L L Waters  Hard Cover
Steel Trails to Santa Fe By L L Waters  Hard Cover
Steel Trails to Santa Fe By L L Waters  Hard Cover

Steel Trails to Santa Fe By L L Waters Hard Cover

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Steel Trails to Santa Fe By L L Waters Hard Cover
 
Steel Trails to Santa Fe by LL Waters
Hard Cover
500 pages
Copyright 1950

First Title page has from and date written on it.
CONTENTS
FOREWORD  v
PREFACE  vii
ILLUSTRATIONS  xiii
INTRODUCTION  3
I. PREPARING THE SEEDBED  9
The "Forty-niners"  9
Slavery and Western Railroads  10
Political Factors  11
The Santa Fe Trail and Its Commerce 13
Western Needs  20
II. TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF AN ACORN 23
III. BRANCHING OUT 38
Ground-Breaking  38
Financial Troubles  42
Across Kansas into Colorado  44
To Kansas City  51
Toward Santa Fe 54
Extensions in Colorado and Kansas  57
A Second Transcontinental Line  59
The 35th-Parallel Route of the A&P 64
Union in Southern California  71
New Branches  74
Salt Water in the Gulf   76
More Branches  83
Another Goal  84
New Additions  90
In Retrospect  91
IV. WARS OF THE SANTA FE 93
The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe is Born 94
D&RG War I 97
D&RG War II  100
The Southern Pacific, a Larger Foe  127
V. ALL ABOARD I  143
The First Train  143
Early Years  145
Cattle Drives, Buffaloes, and the West 146
Equipment in 1881  152
Buildings and Offices  155
Traffic in the 'Seventies  157
Tales of the West 159
Improvement in the 'Eighties  163
Traffic to 'Ninety-Six  171
Special Trains  175
Competition and Pools  176
VI. TREMBLINGLY CLIPPING COUPONS 178
The First Financing  179
Money at Twelve Per Cent 184
The Record of the 'Seventies  185
Solidarity in the Early 'Eighties  186
Encounters with Bears  191
Overexpansion  193
Voluntary and Involuntary Reorganizations  197
The New Company  216
VII. PEOPLING THE PRAIRIES  218
Pottawatomie Lands  219
The Land Grant in Kansas  220
A&P Holdings  248
Colonization after 1900 in Texas and Kansas 251
Land-Grant Rates  254
VIII. MEALS BY FRED HARVEY 261
Hash before Harvey  261
A Harvey Lunchroom in 1876  264
A Harvey House in 1877  266
Civilizing the West  268
Operating Methods and Agreements  271
After 1900  278
World War II  283
IX. LABOR RELATIONS  286
The Original Force  287
Wages in the 'Seventies  290
The Railroad Y.M.C.A.  292
Hospital Associations  294
Reading Rooms  296
Apprentice System  299
Santa Fe Magazine  301
The Brown System  302
Pensions and Death Benefits  302
Wages and Controversies  313
Uncle Sam in Labor Relations  322
Growth and Changes in the Family 325
Recent Wage Disputes  329
Pros and Cons of Featherbedding and Seniority  333
In Retrospect  337
X. PRUNING AND CONTROLLED GROWTH 338
Efficiency after Reorganization  338
Intensive Development of Lines  341
Purchase of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway 344
Short Lines  346
Belen Cutoff  353
More Short Lines  356
Across Texas Again  358
Still More Short Lines 363
Purchase of the Orient  366
Recent Changes  370
Efforts to Enter St. Louis  371
Abandonments, Double-Tracking, Yards, Rails, Ties, Ballast, and Bridges  373
XI. STEAMLINE TO STREAMLINE  384
Growth in Traffic  384
Equipment  385
Special Trains, Including the Coyote Special  389
Shop Improvements, Block Signals, Stations, and Offices  393
Traffic Gain to 1917  396
Ardmore Disaster and Claims  403
World War I Operation 406
The Roaring 'Twenties  410
Freight Development  416
Progress during Depression  420
The Shift to Diesels, Streamlining, and Air Conditioning  421
New Stations  424
Traffic in the 'Thirties  425
Bus and Truck Lines 427
Operations during and after World War II  430
Improved Efficiency  439
Santa Fe Skyway  440
Post-war Plans  442
XII. CONFIDENTLY CLIPPING COUPONS  445
Conservative Financing  445
Ripley's Epistles to Kansas  452
Federal Control  454
Prosperity and Depression  455
Financing in World War II   461
Taxes are Higher  466
Ownership of the Santa Fe  468
Subsidiaries and Simplification  469
XIII. STEEL TRAILS TO SANTA FE   473
Holliday's Vision  473
Development of the Company 474
The Empire Today  476
They Made Each Other  479
Signs Ahead  480
APPENDIX A. CHARTER OF THE ATCHISON AND TOPEKA RAILROAD                         COMPANY  484
APPENDIX B. COPY OF THE PRESENT CHARTER OF THE ATCHISON, TOPEKA AND SANTA FE RAILWAY COMPANY 487
REFERENCES  492
INDEX  495


ILLUSTRATIONS
PLATESOPPOSITE PAGE
Birthplace of the Santa Fe, Atchison, Kansas  34
Cyrus K. Holliday, founder and president 1863-1864  34
Thomas Nickerson, president 1874-1880  35
William B. Strong, president 1881-1889  35
Fred Harvey  35
"Out of the woods into Kansas"  50
Paycar, 1884  51
Streamlining began in 1911  51
Payload on the Santa Fe, Cajon Pass, California  51
E. P. Ripley, president 1896-1920  354
W. B. Storey, president 1920-1933  354
S. T. Bledsoe, president 1933-1939  354
Edward J. Engel, president 1939-1944  355
Fred G. Gurley, president 1944-  355
Topeka station, 1880  370
Topeka station, 1900  370
New Topeka station  371
MAPS AND GRAPHS
Santa Fe, Topeka to Burlingame 39
Kansas City-Topeka and Vicinity  52
Sonora Railway in Relation to Southern Pacific Ry. and Santa Fe Ry. 63
The Atlantic and Pacific R. R. with its Connections, 1888  70
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe, 1892  78
Kansas City to Chicago  87
Galveston-Houston and Vicinity  96
Denver & Rio Grande, Santa Fe  101
California Southern Ry.  132
The San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Ry., 1900  139
Increase of Equipment, 1880-1895  166
Operating Revenue, 1881 to 1895  172
Financial Record, 1870 to 1880  185
Financial Record, 1880 to 1888  188
Frisco Railroad, 1891  200
Colorado Midland R. R., 1890  202
Santa Fe Land Grant and Pottawatomie Reserve 220
Sales of Land Grant Lands, 1875 to 1887  246
Santa Fe Payroll Tax Payments to Unemployment Insurance Funds, 1937 to                   1948  311
Number of Employees and Compensation, AT&SF Ry., 1900 to 1948  326
The Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Ry.  350
Belen Cutoff Constructed 1908  355
Coleman-Sweetwater Constructed 1911-1914  360
Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Ry., 1928  368
Proposed Kansas City-St. Louis Line  373
Distribution of Weights of Rail in Main Lines, 1896  376
Distribution of Weights of Rail in Main Lines, 1916  376
Distribution of Weights of Rail in Main Lines, 1926  377
Distribution of Weights of Rail in Main Lines, 1942  379
Increase of Equipment, 1896 to 1916  387
Operating Revenue, 1896 to 1917  397
Classification of Freight Tonnage  400
Passenger Traffic  408
Freight Traffic  409
Operating Revenue, 1920 to 1929  415
Operating Revenue, 1930 to 1939  426
Operating Revenue, 1940 to 1948  432
Financial Record, 1897 to 1917  447
Financial Record, 1917 to 1920  455
Financial Record, 1921 to 1929  456
Financial Record, 1930 to 1939  459
Financial Record, 1940 to 1948  462
Range and Earnings per Share of Stock, 1940 to 1948 465
Comparison of Total Taxes to Net Income, 1897 to 1948  467
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
Few enterprises had so many barriers to hurdle as the young Santa Fe. In attaining a pre-eminent position among American railroads and becoming an integral part of the national economy, the Company pioneered in a manner not widely realized. Many pioneers settled on treeless but not trackless prairies, finding that the Santa Fe had already arrived. Railroads and settlers together transformed the "great American desert."
STEEL TRAILS TO SANTA FE chronicles no Indian massacres, since railroaders figured in none; but countless exciting stories vied for inclusion. The book differs from many histories of railroads. It does not stop at an early date or deal merely with construction but brings the story down to 1950 and looks toward the future. The early struggles and "wars," the peopling of the prairies, the role of Fred Harvey, operations, financing, and other aspects of business are a part of this vivid success story. Here, in short, is an absorbing case study of one of the forces which have made America.

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