The streamlined Super Chief (trains 17 & 18) ran once a week each way between Chicago and Los Angeles in this 1937 timetable. Otherwise, Santa Fe trains were all heavyweights, most notably including: Trains 1 & 2, the all-coach Scout, … Continue reading
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Pullman’s exhibit at the 1948-1949 Chicago Railroad Fair may have been a dull repeat of its previous fair exhibits, but Santa Fe’s was stunningly daring and original. To advertise its association with the Southwest, the railway recreated a variety of … Continue reading
This 1969 brochure is much like the 1968 one for the Chief. Were they all pink in 1964, like the San Francisco Chief brochure, or was pink reserved for San Francisco? PC users have largely cialis 10 mg started to … Continue reading
In 1968, when this brochure was published, Santa Fe operated the Chief as a sort of counterpoint to the Super Chief: where the latter left Chicago and Los Angeles in the evenings, the Chief left in the mornings. The Chief … Continue reading
Unlike the San Francisco Chief welcome-aboard brochure, which has four panels on each side, the Super Chief one only has three, mainly because–not having any coaches–they didn’t need to spend nearly two whole panels instructing coach passengers how to adjust … Continue reading
Here’s a brochure dated April, 1963, given to passengers on the San Francisco Chief. The four-panel brochure has the train’s schedule, highlights along the way, and what seems to be an overly lengthy description of how to adjust the coach … Continue reading
Instead of General Motors locomotives, this blotter features Alco PAs. Santa Fe first acquired these locomotives in 1946, so the blotter probably dates to that year or a year or two later. http://icks.org/n/data/ijks/1482457047_add_file_4.pdf buying viagra in australia The Federal authorities … Continue reading
What color is silver, anyway? What color is a mirror? The railroads frequently attempted to evoke stainless steel trains in print, with varying degrees of success and failure. Most often, the result was a muddy grey. Over the course of … Continue reading
This 1967 Santa Fe brochure offers an American plan, of sorts, for rail travel: for just one fare, get transportation, all meals, and optional sleeping rooms. From Los Angeles to Chicago, the one-price round-trip fare on the Super Chief was … Continue reading
The Hi-Level El Capitan was just three years away when Santa Fe printed this colorful brochure advertising the streamliner of that name. Despite the fact that the streamliner had been in service for 15 years, not a single photo is … Continue reading