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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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