| Railroad Name: | Santa Fe Central Railway |
| Locale: | New Mexico |
| Length: | 116miles |
| Start Year: | 1900 |
| End Year: | 1908 |
| Hq City: | Santa Fe |
Originally chartered December 7, 1900, as the Santa Fe, Albuquerque and Pacific Railway Company, this line became the Santa Fe Central Railway in July 1901.[1] [2] Its 116-mile route was completed in 1903 between a rail junction at Torrance, New Mexico and Santa Fe, New Mexico.[2] The Governor of the New Mexico Territory called it “(o)ne of the most important railway projects for New Mexico in recent years….”[3] The principals behind the line also intended a branch called the Albuquerque Eastern Railway running 43 miles west from Moriarty, New Mexico through the Tijeras Pass to Albuquerque.[2] However, construction on that line was halted in 1905 after only the first 8 miles of track out of Moriarty had been built, due to the Comptroller of the Currency closing the doors of the bank financing these railroad construction projects.[2] [4]
The Santa Fe Central was consolidated with the Albuquerque Eastern in 1908 to form the New Mexico Central Railroad.[2]