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A company was later Chartered under the identical name by an act of Congress on July 27 , 1866 . The railroad built the line that is today's BNSF Railway's northern Arizona/New Mexico mainline between Albuquerque, New Mexico and Needles, California . The Arizona/New Mexico route was constructed between 1880-1883. On August 20, 1884 , the Atlantic & Pacific leased 242 miles of track from Southern Pacific Railroad that ran west from Needles, California to Mojave via Barstow , and later all the way to Bakersfield . The A&P was an Operating Subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railway (ATSF). On June 24 , 1897 , the A&P was sold to the ATSF under Foreclosure and was operated from 1897-1902 under ATSF's subsidiary, the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad . In 1902 the Santa Fe Pacific was merged under the ATSF. Although the Atlantic and Pacific was chartered by Congress in 1866 to build a transcontinental railroad, it was not the first. The First Transcontintental Railroad was completed on May 10 1869 by the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad at Promontory, Utah . REFERENCES |
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