Atchison, Kansas
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Atchison is a city in and the county seat of Atchison County, Kansas, United States, along the Missouri River. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 10,885. The city is named in honor
Commercial Street in downtown Atchison (2006)
Commercial Street, 1860
Looking north at the rail yard beneath the lower Sixth Street viaduct, circa 1880-1900
Pedestrian mall on Commercial Street in downtown Atchison (2006)
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, often referred to as the Santa Fe or AT&SF, was one of the largest Class 1 railroads in the United States between 1859 and 1996.
Atchison, Kansas
…population of the city was 10,885. The city is named in honor of US Senator David Rice Atchison from Missouri and was the original eastern terminus of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Atchison is also the home of Benedictine College, a Catholic liberal arts university. Atchison was founded in 1854 and named in honor of Missouri…
ATSF #5051, an EMD SD40-2, leads a train through Marceline, Missouri, in August 1983.
Buda No. 619 rail bus used on the route from Harvey, Illinois, to Topeka
Gold bond of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company, issued October 1, 1889
AT&SF and SP freight trains meet at Walong on the Tehachapi Loop in the late 1980s.