Of the three railroads that made Amarillo the metropolis of the Panhandle, only the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe is represented by a surviving passenger station. This is fitting, as the Santa Fe’s aggressive building program and settlement promotion were seminal to the region’s twentieth-century development. The station is a standard linear plan often repeated by Harrison, the Santa Fe’s Chicago-based corporate architect, with a central waiting room, baggage rooms, and offices to the south, and a restaurant and dormitory to the north. The regional idiom is rendered in stuccoed walls and red tile roofs and represents one of the railroad’s regional designs for its corporate image (see p. 9). Behind the station is a “Texas” type Locomotive No. 5000 (1930, Baldwin Locomotive Works), nicknamed Madame Queen, on display. After 1.75 million miles of service, the locomotive was retired in 1953 and donated in 1957 to the City of Amarillo.