Anyone who has read about passenger rail service in the United States during the first half of the 1900’s knows that it was a very competitive business. Passenger railroads serviced towns and cities of all sizes. If you lived in a small town in the 1920’s or 1930’s there was a very good chance you …
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Southwest Chief
Most history buffs who have researched passenger train service in the United States learned that, for most intents and purposes, private passenger railroads ended in 1971 with the establishment of Amtrak. The famous old passenger railroads such as the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe, the Union Pacific, the Northern Pacific and others all succumbed to …