The Joint Line: 1880 - 1995 Tapa blanda - 2013

Midwest City, OK: Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society Inc., 2013. First edition, first printing . Oblong softcover. A photo album of the Joint Line between Denver and Pueblo, Colorado. 169 pages of photographs, some in color, tables, maps, diagrams, A fine and bright, as new copy.

Midwest City, OK: Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society Inc., 2013. First edition, first printing . Oblong softcover. A photo album of the Joint Line between Denver and Pueblo, Colorado. 169 pages of photographs, some in color, tables, maps, diagrams, A fine and bright, as new copy.

Santa Fe Railway H&M Society. Softcover. New. On August 1, 1899, the Santa Fe and the Colorado & Southern began operating the Santa Fe's line between Denver and Pueblo in a truly joint and integrated fashion. The two companies envisioned that the employees of the line, whether from the ATSF or the C&S would be employees of the new Joint Line. In 1918 the USRA nationalized the nation's railroad and brought another player to the Join Line, the Denver & Rio Grande Western. The Santa Fe's and Rio Grande's main lines basically paralleled each other between Denver and Pueblo, the USRA forced the two to operate as a single double-track railroad. When the USRA handed the railroads back to private ownership, the ATSF and D&RGW decided to continue to operate the two lines as if they were a single double-track railroad shared with the C&S. From that time until the BNSF merger in 1995 the three involved railroads both cooperated and competed with one another. Author Robert Walz explores the fascinating history… Leer más