Atlantic and Pacific Railroad |Atlantic and Pacific Railroad|
Map of the railroad in 1883 |Locale||Missouri to Oklahoma; New
Mexico to California| |Dates of operation||1867–1897|
|Successor||Frisco; Santa Fe| |Track gauge||4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435
mm) standard gauge| The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad was a U.S.
railroad that owned or operated two disjointed segments, one
connecting St. Louis, Missouri with Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the
other connecting Albuquerque, New Mexico with Southern
California. It was incorporated by the U.S. Congress in 1866 as
a transcontinental railroad connecting Springfield, Missouri and
Van Buren, Arkansas with California. The central portion was
never constructed, and the two halves later became parts of the
St. Louis-San Francisco Railway and Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe Railway systems, now both merged into the BNSF Railway. The
A&P's earliest predecessor was the Pacific Railroad,
incorporated by the Missouri General Assembly in 1849 to connect
St. Louis and a point south of Kansas Ci