February 14, 2009
what happen to the santa fe railroad?
Waldo S asked: reesemurphytx asked:
what happen to the train from albquerque to santa fe? any to do with the santa fe rail road.
what happen to the train from albquerque to santa fe? any to do with the santa fe rail road.
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Santa Fe is now BNSF
Burlington Northern & Santa Fe
Check the Amtrak website to see if they have any trains in your local area and what thier schedule may be.
The AT&SF Railroad merged with the Burlington Northern Railroad, and now operates as the Burlington Northern Santa Fe.
Passenger service between Albuquerque and Santa Fe is operated by Amtrak. Train transportation on the “Southwest Chief” from Albuquerque to Lamy, and Amtrak bus from Lamy to Santa Fe. The fare is $43.00 each way.
As a locomotive engineer no it has nothing to do with Santa Fe RR. Santa fe is now longer independant it has merged to form one railroad with Burlington Northern RR and is now known as BNSF ( Burlington Northern Santa Fe) wich is not a passenger railroad it is freight and it sounds like you are looking for a passenger train . so check out Amtrak…. Jason
If you are perhaps thinking of the Santa Fe’s famous Chief/Super Chief passenger train than yes, indeed, it is now part of Amtrak.
The Santa Fe is alive and well. They merged with the Burlington Northern, whose view of things is “Our railroad is big enough for 2 paint schemes.” So, blue and yellow Santa Fe diesels tear down the Transcon at 80 mph to this very day!
The Transcon (LA-Chicago) is mostly double track, but a bunch through Kansas was always single track. Since 2003 they’ve been double tracking it all, should be done this year. 2006 is the heaviest traffic year in the history of railroads, they need the track. Trains magazine asked them if they have any plans to triple-track. “Are you kidding? We’ve already started!”
When I worked for the UP in the early 80’s the Santa Fe was almost a done deal merging with “Uncle Pete”, they had even gone so far as design a paint scheme and had stationery printed, then the ICC said uhhh, wait a minute, we dont like that idea.
So, the “Santa Flush” went shopping again and found the BN to merge with.
They had been struggling for quite some time and needed to merge with a company with more route connections. It has been a good merger for both.
The passenger service you asked about is no longer operated by the RR companies, it is part of Amtrak which runs trains over exixting freight routes.