The
Atlantic and Pacific Railroad was a
U.S. railroad that owned or operated two disjointed segments, one connecting
St. Louis, Missouri with
Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the other connecting
Albuquerque, New Mexico with
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.