Just as the Scout disappeared from the January 1954, timetable, the California Limited is gone from this one. It’s actual last run was June 15, 1955, 9 days after this timetable went into effect. In its place was the San … Continue reading
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Santa Fe had two transcontinental routes, one through Raton Pass and one through Amarillo. As mentioned yesterday, the Scout was discontinued as a Chicago-Los Angeles train in 1948, but the name continued to be applied to what amounts to the … Continue reading
The Scout was Santa Fe’s economy train, competing with the Challenger between Chicago and Los Angeles. According to one web site, the Scout was discontinued in 1948, while Wikipedia says it survived until 1954 — which someone marked as “dubious.” … Continue reading
A couple of days ago, I mentioned the complicated, six-train routing of Santa Fe passengers between New Orleans and California. Another complicated route was trains between Denver and just about anywhere else. Contrary to what you might think, Santa Fe … Continue reading
The traveler’s timetable format presented yesterday must have been popular as Santa Fe expanded it from 28 to 36 pages in 1950. The only new train is a Raton Pass section of the Grand Canyon, which previously had taken the … Continue reading
Yesterday, I noted that the 1948 Santa Fe timetable eliminated 12 pages of condensed schedules that had been in earlier editions. In their place, Santa Fe published this “traveler’s edition” that consisted of individual timetables for each of 23 different … Continue reading
Sometime between 1946 and 1948, Santa Fe replaced its blue-and-white cover featuring the Grand Canyon with this more colorful but less scenic picture featuring “Chico,” the little boy adopted as a mascot by Santa Fe after the war. The exuberant … Continue reading
As an outspoken member of the Communist Party, Diego Rivera and his art became controversial in the United States. But in September 1946, when Fred Harvey issued this menu for its restaurant at St. Louis Union Station, the Cold War … Continue reading
At 68 pages, this is the largest Santa Fe timetable I’ve seen. Compared with the 64-page, pre-war timetables, the extra pages include advertisements, “miscellaneous information,” and one more page of sample fares. Click image to download a 45.7-MB PDF of … Continue reading
After the Grand Canyon, California must have been Santa Fe’s leading tourist destination, yet we’ve previously seen only one Santa Fe booklet dedicated to that state, from 1938. This one is from two years later, and other than the cover … Continue reading