User:RalphOnTheRailroad/Sandbox/My Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway/My Wakarusa Creek Picnic Special

"On April 26, 1869, the Santa Fe's first train-the Wakarusa Picnic Special-rolled out of Topeka, Kas. It was destined for a picnic in Wakarusa, but the tracks extended only seven miles to Pauline. Company officials and other dignitaries traveled the remaining five miles in buggies and wagons."

See also

Warman, Cy (1906). Hitchcock, Ripley series (ed.). The Story of the Railroad. The Story of the West Series. New York: D. Appleton. pp. 86–92. Retrieved 11 September 2009.