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Santa Fe Railway H&M Society. Softcover. New. On August 1, 1899, the Santa Fe and the Colorado & Southern began operating the Santa Fe's line between Denver and Pueblo in a truly joint and integrated fashion. The two companies envisioned that the employees of the line, whether from the ATSF or the C&S would be employees of the new Joint Line. In 1918 the USRA nationalized the nation's railroad and brought another player to the Join Line, the Denver & Rio Grande Western. The Santa Fe's and Rio Grande's main lines basically paralleled each other between Denver and Pueblo, the USRA forced the two to operate as a single double-track railroad. When the USRA handed the railroads back to private ownership, the ATSF and D&RGW decided to continue to operate the two lines as if they were a single double-track railroad shared with the C&S. From that time until the BNSF merger in 1995 the three involved railroads both cooperated and competed with one another. Author Robert Walz explores the fascinating history…
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- Title The Joint Line: 1880 - 1995
- Author Robert D. Walz
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Publisher Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society, 2013, Midwest City, OK
- Date 2013
- ISBN 9781933587295
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The Joint Line:1880-1995 A History of the Unique Cooperation of Three Railroads Serving Denver and Pueblo, Colorado
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