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Another large system is
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, which constitutes
one of the principal links between Chicago and the coasts
of the Pacific and the Mexican Gulf. There are over
9,500 miles of track, and it is over the lines of this
company that the famous express the Santa Fe "Chief"
makes its daily journey.
In the Southern States is the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad,
with over 5,100 miles of track, 840 locomotives, over
500 cars and some 31,000 freight wagons of all descriptions.
An important railway in the Eastern States that serves
the coal-fields of West Virginia and Kentucky is the
Chesapeake and Ohio, which also provides a direct route
from Chicago, Toledo, and Louisville to the Atlantic
coast and to Washington. This line comprises over 3,100
miles of track, over 1,000 locomotives, and more than
60,000 freight and passenger cars. The line also owns
five steamships, and a number of lighters for the transport
of freight.
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