The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad was a U.S. railroad that owned or operated two individual segments, one connecting St. Louis, Missouri with Tulsa, Oklahoma , and the other connecting Albuquerque, New Mexico with Needles in 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 .
26-597: 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 City across the center of the state. In response to an 1852 federal law granting public lands to Missouri to aid in constructing two cross-state railroads, the state approved an amendment to the 1849 Pacific Railroad law in December 1852, adding
52-560: A Southwest Branch that would receive the grants. The new branch, defined by state law to lie south of the Osage River , began at Franklin, Missouri,(now Pacific ) on the main line and headed west-southwesterly across the state. Construction on 71 miles (114 km) from Franklin to Dillon was completed in 1860, and a further 6 miles (9.7 km) to Rolla were opened in 1861. The company graded 12 miles (19 km) more to Arlington . After it defaulted on bonds that had been issued for
78-651: A branch to connect to the A&;P near the eastern border of that state. The A&P purchased the Southwest Pacific in January 1867, and that year rails were laid on the grade to Arlington. That company defaulted on its payments, and the state of Missouri seized the property in June 1867, selling it to a new South Pacific Railroad in July 1868. Ownership of the A&P was also transferred to
104-553: A household in the CDP was $ 20,268, and the median income for a family was $ 20,000. Males had a median income of $ 25,000 versus $ 31,538 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $ 9,804. About 36.2% of families and 38.5% of the population were below the poverty line , including 53.0% of those under age 18 and 45.7% of those age 65 or over. It is zoned to Albuquerque Public Schools . The Bureau of Indian Education operates Isleta Elementary School in an unincorporated area west of
130-617: A law incorporating the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad under control of Frémont and associates. The company was given the power to build near the 35th parallel from Springfield, Missouri west to the Pacific, with a branch from Van Buren, Arkansas . In exchange for its completion by 1878, the railroad would receive land grants along its route. The same conditions were applied to the Southern Pacific Railroad of California, which could build
156-582: The BNSF Railway , and remains a main line. Pacific Railroad The Pacific Railroad (not to be confused with Union Pacific Railroad ) was a railroad based in Missouri . It was a predecessor of both the Missouri Pacific Railroad and St. Louis-San Francisco Railway . The Pacific was chartered by Missouri in 1849 to extend "from St. Louis to the western boundary of Missouri and thence to
182-612: The Gasconade Bridge train disaster . Later that year, the line reached Jefferson City , the state capital. By July 1858 the Pacific Railroad reached Tipton , the eastern terminus for the Butterfield Overland Mail , an overland mail service to San Francisco . The combined rail/coach service reduced mail delivery times between St. Louis and San Francisco from about 35 days to less than 25 days. In 1865, it became
208-569: The Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District , can divert all water from the Rio Grande along a 110-mile (177 km) stretch of the river. As of the census of 2000, there were 496 people, 190 households, and 125 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 1,839.4 inhabitants per square mile (710.2/km ). There were 278 housing units at an average density of 1,031.0 per square mile (398.1/km ). The racial makeup of
234-534: The Mill Creek Valley , to Cheltenham in about ten minutes. By the following May, it had reached Kirkwood ; within months tunnels west of Kirkwood were completed, allowing the line to reach Franklin . The Southwest Branch of the Pacific Railroad was authorized in 1852 and split off at Franklin (renamed Pacific, Missouri, in 1859), as the Southwest Pacific Railroad (later the main line of
260-611: The Pacific Ocean ." Due to a cholera epidemic in St. Louis in 1849 and other delays, groundbreaking did not occur until July 4, 1851. The railroad purchased its first steam locomotive from a manufacturer in Taunton, Massachusetts ; it arrived at St. Louis by river in August 1852. On December 9, 1852, the Pacific Railroad had its inaugural run, traveling from its depot on Fourteenth Street, along
286-515: The St. Louis-San Francisco Railway ) in 1866. Financial difficulties meant that Pacific Railroad did not reach Washington , eighteen miles away, until February 1855. On November 1, 1855, an excursion train carrying 600 passengers from St. Louis to celebrate the opening of the railroad to Jefferson City crashed through a temporary bridge over the Gasconade River killing at least 30. This became known as
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#1732852455904312-782: The A&P's existence. Through the Santa Fe Pacific, the AT&;SF acquired trackage rights in January 1899 over the SP's Tehachapi Pass line, giving it access to the Central Valley of California and San Francisco Bay Area . The Santa Fe Pacific left the SP at Kern Junction , where the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway - another AT&SF subsidiary - began, and operated into Bakersfield via SF&SJV trackage. The AT&SF bought
338-473: The AT&SF, leased the line from the SP in August 1884, and in November 1885 the AT&SF-owned California Southern Railroad completed its line over Cajon Pass to the SP's Needles branch at Barstow , giving the AT&SF access to the coast. In addition to its lease of the SP to Mojave, the A&P operated via trackage rights over the AT&SF from Isleta to Albuquerque . The AT&SF gained control of
364-525: The AT&SF. The gap across Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico was eventually filled in 1904, when the Arkansas Valley and Western Railway , an SL&SF subsidiary, completed its line from Tulsa to Avard, Oklahoma , on the AT&SF's line through the Texas Panhandle . The line was joined under one company in 1995, when the AT&SF merged with SL&SF successor Burlington Northern Railroad to form
390-514: The CDP was 0.60% White , 97.98% Native American , 0.40% Asian , 0.40% from other races , and 0.60% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4.23% of the population. There were 190 households, out of which 31.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 30.0% were married couples living together, 26.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 34.2% were non-families. 30.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 16.3% had someone living alone who
416-535: The Central division, and a new Western division would begin on the AT&SF at Isleta, New Mexico and head west to meet the Southern Pacific at Needles, California . Construction began that year, and reached Kingman, Arizona in 1882. The SP began building a branch from Mojave, California that same year, east to Needles, where the two met on August 9, 1883. The A&P, then essentially an operating subsidiary of
442-414: The Pacific (later Missouri Pacific) Railroad, which operated a line to Kansas City and branches, including several into Kansas . The A&P's only branch, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to a mine near Granby, Missouri , was built in 1875. But this incarnation had similar financial problems; its Missouri division (Franklin to Seneca) was placed under receivership in November 1875, and the Pacific Railroad lease
468-533: The SL&;SF in 1890, but both companies entered receivership in December 1893 after the Panic of 1893 , and the A&P followed in January 1894. That road's Western division was sold to the newly created AT&SF subsidiary Santa Fe Pacific Railroad in June 1897, and the remaining Central division was sold under foreclosure to the reorganized SL&SF, which was again independent of the AT&SF, in December 1897, ending
494-515: The branch, the state seized the road from Franklin to Rolla and incomplete roadbed to Arlington in March 1866. The property was sold in June for $ 1.3 million to explorer and politician John C. Frémont , who reorganized it as the Southwest Pacific Railroad in September. (The main line of the Pacific Railroad was not sold, and would later become the Missouri Pacific Railroad .) In July 1866, Congress passed
520-528: The first railroad to serve Kansas City , after construction was interrupted by the American Civil War . In 1872, the Pacific Railroad was reorganized as the Missouri Pacific Railroad by new investors after a railroad debt crisis. Isleta, New Mexico Isleta Village Proper or Isleta is a census-designated place (CDP) in Bernalillo County , New Mexico , United States. The population
546-521: The lease. The SL&SF also constructed a direct line into St. Louis in 1883, ending its dependence on the Missouri Pacific for access to that city. In January 1880, the SL&SF came to an agreement with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad , which had recently entered New Mexico from the north, whereby the two companies would jointly control the A&P. The SL&SF would continue to operate
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#1732852455904572-509: The new owners, which included Clinton B. Fisk of St. Louis. Another 164 miles (264 km) to Pierce City and 39 miles (63 km) of grading to Seneca on the state line were completed in 1870, when, in October, the South Pacific sold its property to the A&P. That company laid rails to Neosho that year and to Seneca, and beyond to Vinita, Oklahoma , in 1871, and in June 1872 it leased
598-589: The railroad property of the Santa Fe Pacific in July 1902, and its non-operating subsidiary California, Arizona and Santa Fe Railway bought the leased Southern Pacific line between Mojave and Needles in December 1911, but the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad continued to own its land grants from the A&P,. As of 2007 the Santa Fe Pacific continued to exist as a subsidiary of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation , successor to
624-771: Was 491 at the 2010 census . It is part of the Albuquerque Metropolitan Statistical Area . According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 0.27 square miles (0.7 km ), all land. The village lies in the Rio Grande Valley of the Albuquerque Basin on the west bank of the Rio Grande . When the river is low, the nearby Isleta Diversion Dam and the downstream San Acacia Diversion Dam , both managed by
650-449: Was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.61 and the average family size was 3.26. In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 27.4% under the age of 18, 10.9% from 18 to 24, 24.6% from 25 to 44, 18.8% from 45 to 64, and 18.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 92.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 76.5 males. The median income for
676-462: Was canceled. The owners of the A&P incorporated the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway in September 1876, and immediately acquired the property of the Missouri division, and a lease on the Central division (Seneca to Vinita). Extensions beyond Vinita for 64 miles (103 km) to Tulsa (1882), 4 miles (6.4 km) to Red Fork (1885), and 10 miles (16 km) to Sapulpa (1886) were included in
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