California, Arizona and Santa Fe Railway

The California, Arizona and Santa Fe Railway was a non-operating subsidiary (paper railroad) of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF).

It was incorporated in 1911, and was merged into the ATSF in 1963.

[1] California, Arizona and Santa Fe would ultimately be absorbed by Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway.

It owned the ATSF lines between Phoenix–Ash Fork and Phoenix–Mojave.

It leased/purchased the tracks built by the Southern Pacific Railroad across the Mojave Desert between Needles and Mojave in Southern California.