Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company photo album
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: Between 1870 and 1913
Level of Description: Series
Material Type: Photograph
Call Number:
ATSF Series 5, #14.303-14.318; 15.004-15.023
Unit ID: 214587
Summary: This photograph album created by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company includes photos of the Wootton Ranch in Wootton, New Mexico; the construction of Raton Pass; and various unknown persons and places. A mountain pass on the Santa Fe Trail between Trinidad, Colorado, and Raton, New Mexico, Raton Pass was developed into a road by Richard Wootton and later became a route on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. Photos 1, 7, and 23 are missing from the album. Photos 27-36 are unidentified and their relationship to the Wootton and Raton Pass photos is unclear.
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Title (Main title): Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company photo album
Scope and Content
Portions of Collection Separately Described:
- Construction camp at Lynn, New Mexico, of the second tunnel over Raton Pass, 1907-1908. Photo No. 22
- Construction camp for construction of the second tunnel over Raton Pass, 1907-1908. Photo No. 18
- Construction camp of the second tunnel over Raton Pass, Lynn, New Mexico, 1907-1908. Photo No. 6
- Construction of second tunnel over Raton Pass constructed between 1907 and 1908. Photo No. 8
- Construction of the second tunnel over Raton Pass, 1907-1908. Photo No. 15
- Construction of the second tunnel over Raton Pass, 1907-1908. Photo No. 16
- Construction of the second tunnel over Raton Pass constructed between 1907 and 1908. Photo No. 5
- Construction of the second tunnel over Raton Pass, New Mexico. The tunnel on the left is the original tunnel completed in 1878. The old tunnel was reworked between 1913 and 1937 and taken out of service in 1949. It was plugged in 1953. Photo No. 4
- East portal of the second tunnel over Raton Pass, 1912-1913. Photo No. 21
- Foreman?s house at construction camp of second tunnel at Raton Pass, 1907-1908. Photo No. 24
More separate components
Portions of Collection Not Separately Described:
- Wootton Ranch near Raton, New Mexico, was at first a one-story adobe structure which was added on to. About 1870. Photo No. 2
- Raton Pass, New Mexico. Photo No. 3
- Construction of the second tunnel over Raton Pass, New Mexico. The tunnel on the left is the original tunnel completed in 1878. The old tunnel was reworked between 1913 and 1937 and taken out of service in 1949. It was plugged in 1953. Photo No. 4
- Construction of the second tunnel over Raton Pass constructed between 1907 and 1908. Photo No. 5
- Construction camp of the second tunnel over Raton Pass, Lynn, New Mexico, 1907-1908. Photo No. 6
- Construction of second tunnel over Raton Pass constructed between 1907 and 1908. Photo No. 8
- Railroad employees getting ready to descend into the second tunnel over Raton Pass, 1907-1908. Photo No. 9
- Railrond employees drilling the second tunnel over Raton Pass, 1907-1908. Photo No. 10
- Railroad employess drilling the second tunnel over Raton Pass, 1907-1908. Photo No. 11
- Railroad employees constructing the second tunnell over Raton Pass with picks and wheebarrow, 1907-1908. Photo No. 12
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