Railroad Research
Major Railroad Collections at the Kansas State Historical Society
Records of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, 1859-1995
Manuscript collection no. 789
This collection contains approximately 3000 boxes of the railway company's own records.
- Selected AT&SF materials online
- Brief box list of AT&SF Railway Company records
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Santa Fe Magazine - KSHS has a complete run of the Santa Fe employees magazine from 1906 to 1983 and a consolidated index. The issues of the magazine that are copyright free are available online at the Hathi Trust website:
Volumes 1-4 Full Text: http://www.worldcat.org/title/santa-fe-employes-magazine/oclc/565337409&referer=brief_results
Volumes 8-17 Full Text; volumes 18-57 search only:
http://www.worldcat.org/title/santa-fe-magazine/oclc/565328285&referer=brief_results - AT&SF Prior Service Records - files were created to document prior service for each employee who was working for the railroad on August 29, 1935 for retirement credit. See an example of a prior service file. Note: The index to the Prior Service Records are available online through our partnership with Ancestry.com. Kansans may access it for free by verifying your Kansas driver's license.
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Microfilm of selected Santa Fe records is available on interlibrary loan:
- Splinters index and magazine, 1859-1940 MS 757-MS 765.01
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Records, 1879-1906, MS 372-MS 373
- Circulars, time tables, train robbery correspondence, Meade's history of the Santa Fe, and advertisements of railroad oriented companies
- Rate schedules, 1870-1879, MS 405.01
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Records and correspondence, 1869-1880, MS 653-MS 659
- Court cases and treasurer's records
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Correspondence, 1873-1893, MS 706-MS 727
- 1884 list of Santa Fe buildings
- List of buildings and leased lines, 18---19-- , MS 1213
- Payroll records, 18---19-- , MS 1500-MS 1517
- Daily construction journal, 1887, MS 297.02
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Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company records, 1896-1950 MS 1253-MS 1254
- Includes Fred Harvey Company materials
Other AT&SF Collections:
- Fred Harvey System Business Records, 1937-1946
- Cyrus K. Holliday papers, 1854-1896, MS 146
- C. K. Holliday scrapbook and letters, 1864-1875 [i.e. 1927] (bulk 1864-1883), MS 70.01
- Cyrus K. Holliday papers of his estate, 1900-1908, MS 273.02
- Cyrus K. Holliday papers, 18-- , MS 1320-MS 1321
- Santa Fé train robberies, 1890-1895, MS 373.02
- Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe Railroad records, 1878-1944, MS 1131-MS 1132
Other Railroad Collections at KSHS
- Across the Continent on the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division, by Alexander Gardner
- Kansas Rock Island Railroad - KSHS has scanned maps of all of the Rock Island Line in Kansas and the accompanying land deeds. Please contact the reference staff for assistance.
- Major Railroad Manuscript Collections at KSHS
- Online Railroad Pamphlets for Immigrants
- Barnes Railroad Collection, 1963 – [ca.1971], MS 1312–MS 1313B
Online Articles:
- The Building of the First Kansas Railroad South of the Kaw River, by Harold J. Henderson, August 1947
- Kansas Conflict: Populist Versus Railroader in the 1890's, by Donald E. Press, Autumn, 1977
- Thomas Ewing, Jr., and the Origins of the Kansas Pacific Railway Company, by David G. Taylor, Summer 1976
- Joseph W. Snell and Don W. Wilson, "The Birth of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad," (2 pts)
- D. Lane Hartsock, "The Impact of the Railroads on Coal Mining in Osage County, 1869-1910,"
- Fred Harvey (Kansapedia)
- Railroads and Immigration exhibit online
Other Railroad Websites:
