Enjoyed the video,If Im not mistaken its the Chief, AT &SF also ran the Super Chief and The Capitan,
It is a mix, to be expected of a film of this nature.
The Chief was a two day one night out train from Chicago to Los Angeles departing Chicago around 9AM and arriving LA around 11PM the second day. Compared to the Super Chief and EL Capitain which left Chicago around 7PM and arrive LA around 8:30AM the third day. I lived in Peoria, Il in the 1950s and we would often go to North Chillicothe which was about 15 miles north of Peoria to watch the parade of Santa Fe Streamliners. We also rode the Pekin Express which is shown on the Dearborn Station Train Board. It was a local motor car that ran on the SF mainline to fom Dearborn Station to Streator and then down the Pekin branch to the city of Pekin which is 15 miles south of Peoria. Dearborn was the neatest Chicago Station with a diversity of passenger trains. You had from the Santa Fe, Wabash and C&EI Streamliners to ancient C&WI Indiana commuter trains, the weary old Erie that had some older equipment, the Monon uniqued streamlined passenger cars converted from Army Hospital cars to the Grand Trunk's Canadian National cars that were pulled by steam locomotives for longer than most American Railroads. Its interesting that the young man in the film gets out of the cab at Chicago Union Station to board the Chief at Dearborn. That was quite a walk!
Thanks but actually it was Amtrak 839 who posted.That was a great video. Thanks for posting, Bill.
I'm going to bet you that this was Amtrak's El Capitan and not the Santa Fe's.My parents took the El Capitan from Phoenix in the early 70's. They were stuck near Williams Junction without air conditioning and electrical power forseveral hours in the dead of summer. As I recall from my father, within a couple of hours, all of the drinks were exhausted and the coaches were hot
boxes. I don't think he ever rode a train again!!
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