Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company (BSNF) was formed December 31, 1996 when Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and Burlington Northern Railroad merged as one. It is the second largest railroad system in the United States behind the Union Pacific. It owns and operates tracks in 27 states, mostly in the West and Midwest states, and a small amount of track located in Canada. Due to the complexity of the company, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway is broken down into 14 different divisions
Visionaries and deep thinkers have walked the earth since the beginning of recorded time. Their guiding principles concerned evolution of consciousness toward wisdom. Increasing wisdom consciousness defeats the abstract societal label known as "average". Simply stated, we are all born with potential to become smart people. Smart people are generally great achievers, successful in business and family, and positive of mind. They have trained themselves to squeeze every drop of brain juice within
was created; named after the successful mine. In 1876 Huchason leased out the Juanita mine and sold both the Graphic and Kelly mines (Harris, 97). With the mining came the railroads. In December of 1878 the first train came to New Mexico, the Atchison, Topeka, and S... ... middle of paper ... ...n all night” (Harris, 98). To meet the demand for space, hotels started limiting customers to one eight-hour shift a night. (Harris, 98). The smelter went through many changes during its run, many being
Angle of Geese and Other Poems MOMADAY had been writing poetry since his college days at University of New Mexico, and this volume incorporates many of his earlier efforts. Momaday admired the poetry of Hart Crane as an undergraduate, and early poems like "Los Alamos" show Crane's influence. Under the tutelage of Yvor Winters at Stanford Momaday developed an ability to provide clear, precise details and images in his verse. As a graduate student at Stanford, Momaday absorbed the influence
coinage that had already been passed, but it was too late. As concern about the America’s economy grew, people began frantically pulling their money out of banks causing a depression. To add to this, the Northern Pacific Railway, the Union Pacific Railroad and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad went out of business. This was followed by the bankruptcy of many other companies. In total nearly 15,000 companies and 500 banks
The poll tax was an annual tax that had to be paid before qualifying to vote. Southern states added the grandfather clause to their constitutions. This clause stated that even if a man failed the literacy test or could not afford the poll tax, he was still entitled to vote if he, his father, or his grandfather had been eligible to vote before January 1, 1867. ) The Nineteenth Amendment, adopted by Congress on June 4, 1919, is finally ratified by the states and becomes national law, giving women the
During the eastern expansion of the Southern Pacific, there was yet another gold spike ceremony when the railroad reached Tucson, Arizona in 1880. In the following year of 1881, the Southern Pacific Railroad joined the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe, better known as the Santa Fe, in Deming, New Mexico to complete the second transcontinental railroad. A few years later, in 1885, the Southern Pacific railroad leased all track and equipment from the Central Pacific, although the official merge
conceived an idea that was to change the landscape of the south west more rapidly than the ongoing railway construction would ever achieve. His idea was to open eating points for travelers along the railway lines and especially at the depots where the travelers would alight. The idea was embraced by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railway, which were then struggling to finance the construction of the railway (Southern Methodist University). The eating points were bound to attract other new businesses