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Old 11-16-2013, 05:50 PM   #58
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Originally Posted by ciaomichael View Post
The UP gets a lot of the glory, but it was the Santa Fe railway (Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe or ATS&F) that was most instrumental in development of the economy in the prairie, especially right around Kansas City. They did a lot of things, like recruiting a bunch of Mennonites from Russia to farm in Kansas. I remember riding one of their passenger trains, the "Super Chief" back in the 1960's when my grandfather was the conductor.



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