page_title: Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
section_title: Company officers
hierarchical_section_title: Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway / Company officers
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait drawing of William Barstow Strong published in the February 1893 issue of The Cosmopolitan. Category:Barstow Category:Strong City
context_page_description: The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, often referred to as the Santa Fe or AT&SF, was one of the larger railroads in the United States. The railroad was chartered in February 1859 to serve the cities of Atchison, Kansas, Topeka, Kansas, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. The railroad reached the Kansas–Colorado border in 1873 and Pueblo, Colorado, in 1876. To create a demand for its services, the railroad set up real estate offices and sold farmland from the land grants that it was awarded by Congress.
  Despite being chartered to serve the city, the railroad chose to bypass Santa Fe, due to the engineering challenges of the mountainous terrain. Eventually a branch line from Lamy, New Mexico brought the Santa Fe railroad to its namesake city.
  The Santa Fe was a pioneer in intermodal freight transport, an enterprise that included a tugboat fleet and an airline, the short-lived Santa Fe Skyway. Its bus line extended passenger transportation to areas not accessible by rail, and ferryboats on the San Francisco Bay allowed travelers to complete their westward journeys to the Pacific Ocean.
context_section_description: Cyrus K. Holliday: 1860–1863
  Samuel C. Pomeroy: 1863–1868
  William F. Nast: September 1868
  Henry C. Lord: 1868–1869
  Henry Keyes: 1869–1870
  Ginery Twichell: 1870–1873
  Henry Strong: 1873–1874
  Thomas Nickerson: 1874–1880
  T. Jefferson Coolidge: 1880–1881
  William Barstow Strong: 1881–1889
  Allen Manvel: 1889–1893
  Joseph Reinhart: 1893–1894
  Aldace F. Walker: 1894–1895
  Edward Payson Ripley: 1896–1920
  William Benson Storey: 1920–1933
  Samuel T. Bledsoe: 1933–1939
  Edward J. Engel: 1939–1944
  Fred G. Gurley: 1944–1958
  Ernest S. Marsh: 1958–1967
  John Shedd Reed: 1967–1978
  Lawrence Cena; 1978-1985
  W. John Swartz: 1985–1988
  Mike Haverty: 1989–1991
  Robert Krebs: 1991–1995
  Alfred W. Nickerson
caption: William Barstow Strong, president 1881–1889
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