Santa Fe Industries was the diversified parent company, headquartered in
Chicago
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, of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway , often referred to as the Santa Fe or AT&SF, was one of the larger railroads in the United States. The railroad was chartered in February 1859 to serve the cities of Atchison, Kansas, Atchison and Top ...
. Formed in 1968, its non-railroad operations included construction, real estate, and energy units. In the early 1980s, after longtime head
John Shedd Reed
John Shedd Reed (1917 in Chicago, Illinois – March 16, 2008 in Lake Forest, Illinois) was president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and then its parent Santa Fe Industries from 1967 until 1986. The rail transport industry jour ...
had been succeeded by
John J. Schmidt
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, they arranged a merger with the
Southern Pacific
The Southern Pacific (or Espee from the railroad initials- SP) was an American Class I railroad network that existed from 1865 to 1996 and operated largely in the Western United States. The system was operated by various companies under the ...
, where new head
Robert Krebs
Robert D. Krebs is an American railroad executive who has headed three major United States railroads in succession, leading the Southern Pacific (SP) when it was acquired by Santa Fe Industries, rising to lead the resulting Santa Fe Pacific Corpo ...
had recently succeeded
Benjamin Biaggini.
When the
Interstate Commerce Commission
The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) was a regulatory agency in the United States created by the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. The agency's original purpose was to regulate railroads (and later trucking) to ensure fair rates, to eliminat ...
denied permission to merge the respective companies' railroad subsidiaries as the
Southern Pacific Santa Fe Railroad
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, the merged holding company, which retained both companies' non-rail interests while being forced to sell the Southern Pacific, changed its name to
Santa Fe Pacific Corporation
The Santa Fe Pacific Corporation was formed as the Santa Fe Southern Pacific Corporation on by the merger of Santa Fe Industries, which owned the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, with the Southern Pacific Company, which owned the Souther ...
.
It has also been linked to controversies in the book titled American House of Saud by Steven Emerson.
United States railroad holding companies
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
Defunct companies based in Chicago
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