SANTA FE LIVE STOCK OPERATIONS, HISTORY, EQUIPMENT, FACILITIES AND MODELING/Sandifer Frac Sand We’ll visit the shops

We’ll visit the shops

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Townsend Street Station

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SANTA FE LIVE STOCK OPERATIONS, HISTORY, EQUIPMENT, FACILITIES AND MODELING/Sandifer Frac Sand We’ll visit the shopsIN STOCK AND SHIPPING By J. Stephen Sandifer. Before The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe drove its first spike, it was understood that livestock shipping would be critical to its success. One of the first actions was to intercept the Chisholm Trail, 65 miles south of Abilene near Newton, where over 40,000 head were shipped in 1871. By the end of 1872, most of the rail cars owned by Santa Fe were stock cars. As Santa Fe continued to move west, it caught