Santa Fe’s Eastern Division: Where It All Began

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By Robert D. Walz.  [SHIPPING EXPECTED LATE OCTOBER 2021]

The next volume in Bob Walz’s divisional history series, this volume covers the history of Santa Fe’s Eastern Division as well as the Kansas City Terminal Division and the Southern Kansas Division from 1869 to 1995. The Eastern Division, because of its heavy traffic, attracted many well-known photographers such as Otto Perry, Preston George, Bill Gibson, Art Gibson, Ray Hilner, Wes Kranbeck, Lee Berglund, Imre Quastler, Lynn Aldrich and Lance Garrels, all of whom provided photographs for the book.  256 pages., 256 photographs, tables of data and appendices.

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Table of Contents

Dedication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . .  . . . . . . .7

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9

Chapter 1 The Beginnings and Growth: 1868-1905 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11

Chapter 2 Consolidation through the Roaring Twenties: 1905-1930 . . . 57

Chapter 3 The Depression and World War II: 1930-1946 . . . . . . . . . . . ..  109

Chapter 4 Post-War to Amtrak: 1946-1971 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . .  .  161

Chapter 5 The Latter-Day Santa Fe: 1971-1995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . .  205

Epilogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . 231

Appendices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . 240

Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  254

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