Here are four more comic blotters from the Quanah, Acme and Pacific whose scans were donated by a Streamliner Memories reader. Two of them emphasize that the QA&P was completely Dieselized by 1954, ahead of many class I railroads. Of course, the QA&P probably didn’t need many Diesels to keep it running.
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There is some historic irony to the QA&P’s being a bridge between the Frisco and Santa Fe, as both were originally part of the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad. When that road went bankrupt in the late 1870s, the Santa Fe took over the western part while the eastern part became the Frisco.
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A hundred years would pass before both were merged back into BNSF, and that road soon decided to abandon much what had once been the QA&P. This suggests that the QA&P might not have been the best route after all as BNSF now takes a more northerly route between St. Louis and California.
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QA&P once had a passenger train called the Plainsman. The main artifact that remains today is the railroad’s beautiful Quanah depot, now serving as a museum.
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