Although this brochure was published by Santa Fe and mentions the California Limited, it was really an ad for Pullman. One side of the brochure has five large interior photos (plus the cover photo) showing Pullman accommodations. The other side … Continue reading
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On November 14, 1926, after eight winters of not running the de Luxe, Santa Fe inaugurated the Chief. Significantly, the railway didn’t include the word “limited” in the name, hinting that this train, like the de Luxe, was even better … Continue reading
On December 12, 1911, just one week after the Southern Pacific reinaugurated the Sunset Limited, Santa Fe threw down the gauntlet in the Chicago-Los Angeles market by introducing a train that may have been the poshest, most exclusive passenger train … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen booklets for the 1900-1901, 1904-1905, and 1906-1907 winter seasons. The one here, for the 1908-1909 season, says it is the “Fourteenth Season.” That suggests that the train didn’t operate for three seasons between 1892 and 1904 (which … Continue reading
For nearly 70 years — roughly 1902 through 1971 — the competition for passenger business between Chicago and Los Angeles was nearly as intense as that in the New York-Chicago corridor. When Santa Fe arrived in southern California in 1887, … Continue reading
This is the last of the Santa Fe timetables whose scans were contributed by a Streamliner Memories reader. This is the same reader who also contributed most of the Union Pacific timetables presented here in October and all of the … Continue reading
One of Santa Fe’s busiest passenger corridors was between Chicago and Kansas City. The 1953 timetable showed nine departures a day. By 1960, it was down to six. Click image to download a 29.0-MB PDF of this 48-page timetable. The … Continue reading
Sometime between yesterday’s 1957 timetable and this one, the Grand Canyon lost its Amarillo section. The left the San Francisco Chief as the only train to serve Santa Fe’s southern corridor. Click image to download a 12.1-MB PDF of this … Continue reading
While trains like the Scout and California Limited had disappeared from Santa Fe timetables in the late 1950s, the railway still had an amazing number of trains serving branch lines. A Texas city of about 55,000 people (in 1957) called … Continue reading
This timetable is for May 14 to October 28, and the big news during that time period was the introduction of the hi-level El Capitan on July 15. Although this is noted in the listings of equipment on page 7, … Continue reading