ATLANTIC & PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY
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Short History: The Atantic & Pacific RR Company July 27, 1866 - Incorporated and framchised by Congress to construct from Springfield, Missouri southwest into the Indian Territory (Oaklahoma) and then along the 35th parallel to the Colorado River at "The Needles". There it was to meet the Southern Pacific who building south from San Francisco via Mojave. By 1872 both companies had filed route maps with the Interior Department. In 1873 a national financial panic put railroad building on hold. In 1875 the Atlantic & Pacific was forced to declare bankrupsty. From 1875 until 1881 lots of infighting and gamesmenship went on between the managements of the AT&SF in Kansas, the St.Louis & and San Francisco, the Southern Pacific-Central Pacific, and the Texas & Pacific. The AT&SF was finally able to pick up the Atlantic & Pacific and finish It to the Colorado River. Once there, It went over the Southern Pacific Mojave Division to its subsidiary line, the Santa Fe Pacific, into San Diego. To meet certain legal conditions it was built under the Atlantic & Pacific Name. In October of 1884 The Atlantic & Pacific acquired the SP 242-mile Mojave Division and trackage rights over SP to San Francisco. Through trains began from Kansas City to San Francisco and San Diego over A&P. Because of the group of railroads comprising six divisions between the east and west, and the A&P not being completed in the time alloted by Congress and, thereby, land grants being lost, The Atlantic & Pacific was dissolved in June of 1897. All six divisions were incorporated intoe the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.
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A&P 4-4-0 #31
Image, Atlantic & Pacific 4-4-0 Loco #31 Order No. A&P31I An early Atlantic & Pacific 4-4-0 locomotive #31 pauses for this photograph at "The Needles". Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11" Image, Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------A&P 4-6-0 #83
Image, Atlantic & Pacific 4-6-0 Loco #83 Order No. A&P83I Built by Pittsburg in June of 1888, this Atlantic & Pacific ten-wheeler would go on to become Santa Fe Pacific #83. In 1900 it became AT&SF #383. It was scrapped July 14, 1929. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11" Image, Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------A&P 4-6-0 #592
Image, A&P/AT&SF 4-6-0 #592/7-car train Order No. SF592I An early A.T. & S.F. 4-6-0 and its 7-car train pause, along with many folk, while a photographer captures this stunning piece of history at Peach Springs, Arizona 1891. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11" Image, Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------
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