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Pending tasks for Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway:
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What was the railroad's original charter?- Who was involved in creating the railroad?
- What were the railroad's principal routes?
- Describe the railroad's relationships with the Indian cultures along its route
- Describe the railroad's relationship with the Harvey House chain of restaurants/hotels
- The song On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, made famous by Judy Garland in the movie The Harvey Girls.
The Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific Railroad were part of a failed merger in the 1980s, the SPSF (which has since come to stand for Shouldnt Paint So Fast).- There are many interesting stories of railbuilding competition through the Rockies between the Santa Fe, Southern Pacific, Union Pacific Railroad and Rio Grande railroads.
- The Santa Fe has been a leader in intermodal transportation between Southern California ports and the Midwest
- Significant acquisitions such as the Toledo, Peoria & Western and the San Francisco & San Joaquin Valley.
- Named passenger trains, such as the Super Chief, have become a part of American culture
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[edit] Paint schemes & markings
Not sure my experiment (displaying the names of colors in color, i.e. dark blue, yellow, etc.) works. Is there any way to make the lighter colors render so that they are readable?--Lordkinbote 09:25, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
- I was just thinking that yellow is a little hard to read against a white background. I'm tempted to say that we shouldn't use colors on the text, but let me mull over the idea a little more first. B-) slambo 15:20, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
- The fact that there are color photos and/or links that depicts each of the color schemes ("worth a thousand words") does make the use of colored text in this instance less necessary.--Lordkinbote 17:39, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Links removed due to blacklisting
I've removed two items from the References list that I originally added there last year. The site where the information came from has been blacklisted due to spamming. We should easily be able to verify information from the other numerous references listed here (aside: we need to work on adding inline citations to this article anyway). See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam#Suite101 dot com for more information. Slambo (Speak) 17:58, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
