It was the artery that flowed into and out of Dodge City's beating economic heart. Cyrus K. Holliday, a Topeka lawyer, founded the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway which grew to one of the largest ...

The old Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe (AT&SF) trestle bridge structure spans 1,000 feet in the Dallas Floodway -- acting as a sieve, says the Army Corps of Engineers, collecting debris and exacerbating ...

Trains were once the main mode of long distance transportation in America. Whether traveling out West or shipping huge orders of just about anything, odds are it was done via train. Among the railway ...

The long-running dispute over Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway No. 3463 — the old steam locomotive that has stood quietly near the Kansas Expocentre for more than 60 years — came to an end this ...

Topeka - Robert Edward Atchison, Jr., 65, of Topeka, KS died Sunday, October 24, 2021 at his home. He was born November 26, 1955 in Topeka, KS the son of Robert Edward Atchison, Sr. and Shirley ...

Amarillo’s history includes pioneers, cattle and barbed wire. But the city itself began with railroads. It arose as a cattle shipping market where two railroads met south of the Canadian River. One of ...

To anyone unfamiliar with the U.S. Southwest, “Santa Fe Industries” may sound like an overextended name for a New Mexico manufacturer of Navajo Indian blankets. When the name begins to appear on stock ...

Uniquely KC is a Star series exploring what makes Kansas City special. Are you feeling nostalgic for a Kansas City area restaurant that closed years ago? Share your memories, and we may write about ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Oscar-winning song, “On the ...