THE HISTORY OF SANTA FE RAIL TESTING AND RAIL TEST CARS/Lowman Ski Train Washington

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While focusing on the final four decades prior to Southern Pacific’s merger with the Union Pacific Railroad in 1996

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THE HISTORY OF SANTA FE RAIL TESTING AND RAIL TEST CARS/Lowman Ski Train WashingtonIN STOCK AND SHIPPING At its peak, the Santa Fe system comprised about 11,000 miles of rail stretching from Chicago in the east to Los Angeles in the west, serving 11 states. At the insistence of the U. S. Bureau of Safety following increasing numbers of sudden, sometimes catastrophic, rail failures, Americas railroads, including the Santa Fe, endeavored to develop effective and efficient methods of detecting defects in rail before they caused further