. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . 10 Continued Improvements on the Santa Fe Railroad It would be idle to begin making com-parisons between the various railroadtrains between Chiciago and San Fran-cisco, but the Santa Fe de Luxe. of theAtchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe, struckus as containing all that is known in ele-gance and comfort in railroad the difficult character of the prob- Fort Madison, the maximum grade west-ward being feet per mile. The 200miles to Kansas City is almost similar ingrade except at one
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . 10 Continued Improvements on the Santa Fe Railroad It would be idle to begin making com-parisons between the various railroadtrains between Chiciago and San Fran-cisco, but the Santa Fe de Luxe. of theAtchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe, struckus as containing all that is known in ele-gance and comfort in railroad the difficult character of the prob- Fort Madison, the maximum grade west-ward being feet per mile. The 200miles to Kansas City is almost similar ingrade except at one point, where there isa rise of feet per mile. KansasCity is at an elevation of 750 feet abovethe sea, but within the next 640 miles thetrain has to climb 7,608 feet, the summit in level occurring within 200 miles. Thencomes another heavy drop of 2,307 feet toAlbuquerque in the course of 60 miles,followed immediately by another heavypull up 2,309 feet in 160 miles to the sum-mit of the Continental Divide. There is afurther heavy fall to Winslow of 4,848feet in the next 160 miles, followed im-. PASSENGER TRAIN DE LUXE BETWEEN CHICAGO AND SAN FRANCISCO ON THE SANTA FE lems that has been overcome in the runfrom Chicago to Los Angeles, embracingas it does six separate mountain rangeswhere the grades are staggering, one con-cludes that they surely were heroic menthat first ventured on such an undertak-ing. After leaving Chicago the line hasa practically level run of 240 miles, to of the first range at Raton. For the lastsixteen miles to this summit the trainhas to struggle against a rise varyingfrom 106 to 185 feet per mile. PassingRaton, the line drops 1,858 feet, climbs980, falls again 500 feet, and once morestruggles to 7,421 feet at Glorieta, thesecond summit, these violent fluctuations mediately by a stiff ascent to the ArizonaDivide at 7,300 feet in the course of 80miles. The railway falls away from an altitudeof 7,300 feet at the Arizona Divide to 578feet at Needles, the
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