Santa Fe The Illinois Division

The Illinois Division of the Santa Fe Railway provides an informative and lively account of the story of The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway in Illinois, from the charter of the predecessor road, Chicago & Plainfield in 1859 through the merger with Burlington Northern in 1995.

Although the Illinois Division ultimately stretched to Kansas and Oklahoma, the geographic scope of this publication is confined to the Illinois Division as it existed for over half a century: from the bumping post at Dearborn Station to Fort Madison, Iowa.