No disability or lack of qualification prevented Taylor and Fillmore from taking office, and as they had been duly certified to take office that day as president-elect and vice president-elect, if Taylor was not president because he had not been sworn in as such, then Atchison, who had not been sworn in either, certainly was not President either.

Eastern Oklahoma Railway built two lines in Payne County between 1900 and 1902, then immediately leased them to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway reorganized Fortuna's railroad as the San Francisco and Northwestern Railway in 1903 and then completed the Northwestern Pacific Railroad to San Francisco in 1914.

A few months later, in October, Mr. Frank Kimbal of San Diego signed an agreement with the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad to build a rail line past the lake from San Diego to Barstow, then known as Waterman.

This railroad, usually called just the " Santa Fe ," was originally planned to run from Atchison, Kansas, on the Missouri River, to Santa Fe, the capital city of New Mexico, and then points west.

This new holding company then purchased the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway ( often called the " Santa Fe ") and Burlington Northern Railroad, and formally merged the railways into the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway on 31 December 1996.

It then passes Joseph City and crosses the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, now winding north into Coconino County.

It then continues the rest of its length along a route chosen by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, and close to the Mountain Branch of the Santa Fe Trail.

In Kansas he attended Immaculata High School in Leavenworth, then transferred to St. Benedict High School in Atchison.

Scofield apprenticed in the law office of his brother-in-law and then worked in the St. Louis assessor's office before moving to Atchison, Kansas in late 1869.

In 1871, Scofield was elected to the Kansas House of Representatives, first from Atchison for one year and then from Nemaha County for a second.

Newmont then merged with Santa Fe Pacific Gold Corporation ( a former Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway subsidiary, sold in preparation for the merger that produced the BNSF Railway ) to form North America's largest gold producer.

; Michael Atchison: Atchison has stated that he did not review the book at all, but spent 10 minutes on the phone receiving a brief overview of the book which he then endorsed without ever seeing the text.

Still following Preston and the Dallas North Tollway, the creek crosses West Plano Parkway, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway tracks, President George Bush Turnpike, Frankford Road, runs through Preston Trail Golf Course, crosses under Keller Springs Road, Southern Pacific Railroad tracks, runs through Prestonwood Country Club where it is joined by McKamy Brook, then crosses Arapaho Road and Belt Line Road.

The core team that developed the technology was driven by Barclay Tullis, who held most of the patents, with Dave Thrasher who later joined the Silicon Valley Group, and Thomas Atchison a member of the technical staff under direction of Barclay Tullis .. Mihir later provided the technology to SEMI, and then licensed a copy for himself, and spun out Asyst Technologies to provide the technology commercially.

In 1996, Burlington Northern SD60M # 9297 ( renumbered 8197 in 2008 ) was jokingly dubbed the " Great Pumpkin " by employees because of its bold orange paint scheme, one of many prototype paint designs created by the then newly-formed Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway ( BNSF ), a merger of Burlington Northern and the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway ( Santa Fe ).

David Rice Atchison ( August 11, 1807January 26, 1886 ) was a mid-19th century Democratic United States Senator from Missouri.

Douglas ( and Atchison ) had assumed that Nebraska would be settled by Free-State men from Iowa and Illinois, and Kansas by pro-slavery Missourians and other Southerners, thus preserving the numerical balance between free states and slave states.

When the First Transcontinental Railroad was proposed in the 1850s, Atchison called for it to be built along the central route ( from St. Louis through Missouri, Kansas, and Utah ), rather the southern route ( from New Orleans through Texas and New Mexico ).

Missouri Sen. David Atchison announced that he would support the Nebraska proposal only if slaveholders were not banned from the new territory.

The H & SJ was to be allowed to build a feeder line from Atchison, Kansas, while the LP & W could build a feeder line out of Kansas City, Kansas.

In 1887, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway built a branch line from Neva ( 3 miles west of Strong City ) to Superior, Nebraska.

The two sisters, Amelia and Muriel ( she went by her middle name from her teens on ), remained with their grandparents in Atchison, while their parents moved into new, smaller quarters in Des Moines.

Category: People from Atchison, Kansas

In 1900, Phoenix Oil Company built a pipeline from Osage County to Bartlesville's Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway depot, where there was an oil loading facility.

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway opened a line from Owen to Owasso, Oklahoma in 1899.

Before 1889, the Kansas Southern Railway ( later the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway ) had built a line from the Kansas-Oklahoma border to Purcell in Indian Territory.

The Denver, Enid and Gulf Railroad ( later the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe ) ran from Guthrie to Enid, Oklahoma.

In 1881, the county seat was moved from Cimarron to Springer, located on the former Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad, since 1996 part of the Burlington Northern Railroad.

In 1887, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway built a branch line from Neva ( 3 miles west of Strong City ) to Superior, Nebraska.

The county was organized February 14, 1845 and named for U. S. Senator David Rice Atchison from Missouri.

In 1878, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and parties from Marion County and McPherson County chartered the Marion and McPherson Railway Company.

In 1887, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway built a branch line from Neva ( 3 miles west of Strong City ) to Superior, Nebraska.

In 1887, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway built a branch line from Neva ( 3 miles west of Strong City ) to Superior, Nebraska.

In 1878, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and parties from Marion County and McPherson County chartered the Marion and McPherson Railway Company.

In 1887, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway built a branch line from Neva ( 3 miles west of Strong City ) to Superior, Nebraska.

In 1878, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and parties from Marion County and McPherson County chartered the Marion and McPherson Railway Company.

In 1871, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway extended a main line from Emporia to Newton.

When the Democrats took control of the Senate in December 1845, they chose Atchison as President pro tempore, placing him third in succession for the Presidency, and also giving him the duty of presiding over the Senate when the Vice President was absent.

Atchison and A. W. Doniphan would fall out over the politics proceeding the Civil War and on which direction Missouri should proceed.

Feverish, competitive construction plans provoked the 1877 – 1880 war over right of way with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.

Since 1998 the West Isle Line has operated over the " Alpaugh Branch " of the former Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.

Belen is Spanish for Bethlehem, and over time has gained the nickname " Hub City " because of the Belen Cutoff of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway took over and completed the line.

Its parent company, the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company, took over the line and property.

Virgil joined in the frog war as the Southern Pacific attempted to stop the California Southern Railroad, a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, from installing a crossing over the Southern Pacific tracks in Colton to gain access to California.

The Southwest Chief is the successor to the Super Chief, a train operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway ( Santa Fe ) until 1971 and later by Amtrak until March 1974 when the Santa Fe forced Amtrak to stop using the name because of a perceived decline in quality after Amtrak took over the Santa Fe's passenger trains.

The east end was truncated to Wayland in 1926, when US 61 was designated over the part east to Iowa, and later that decade Route 4 absorbed the former Route 52 from St. Joseph southwest to Atchison, Kansas.

All lines operating into Dearborn Station, except for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway | Santa Fe, travelled over the Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad | C & WI's

* March 27 – The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and Union Pacific Railroad reach an agreement to end hostilities over track construction in Colorado ; in the, the D & RG agreed that it would not build tracks south of Española, New Mexico, the Santa Fe agreed that it would not build tracks into either Denver or Leadville for ten years, and the Union Pacific agreed not to build any track in the Colorado Rockies.

* May 31 – The first Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway train over the newly constructed San Bernardino and Los Angeles Railroad line arrives in Los Angeles.

The line became part of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad's transcontinental rail line in 1885 via an extension of the California Southern from Colton north over Cajon Pass to Barstow.

In 1911, aged 23, he became one of the youngest newspaper editors in the nation when he took over operation of the Atchison Champion.