We’ve previously seen an elegant booklet introducing the Santa Fe’s first Super Chief, a rather ugly train consisting of heavyweight Pullmans towed by flat-faced Diesels known as 1 and 1A (but sometimes called Mutt & Jeff). That train was introduced … Continue reading
Category Archives: Super Chief
This 3″x5″ booklet says it was a souvenir of the Turquoise Room, the private dining room that formed a part of the dome car on the Super Chief. This car was introduced in 1950, so the booklet dates to that … Continue reading
The Super Chief was inaugurated as a Diesel-powered, heavyweight train in 1936, and as a streamliner in 1937. But Santa Fe was unable to acquire enough equipment to make it a daily train until 1948. Describing that daily train, this … Continue reading
We’ve seen this painting before on the cover of what was probably a lunch menu from the Texas Chief. This one is clearly a dinner menu for the Super Chief, and includes both a wider variety and slightly higher-class items, … Continue reading
Now that I am finished with the somewhat distasteful task of posting what Bronze Age (Amtrak & VIA) memorabilia I have in my collection, I can get back to what is left of my Silver and Golden Age collection. Today, … Continue reading
If the PDF of this booklet looks repetitious, it is because most of the 6-1/4-inch-wide pages of color photos are interspersed with 2-1/2″-wide pages of text. Even more confusing is that most of the photos are oriented at 90 degrees … Continue reading
Louis Benton Akin (1868-1913) was born in Corvallis and and raised in Portland, Oregon and studied painting in New York. In 1903, the Santa Fe paid his way to Arizona so he could paint images of Hopi Indians to use … Continue reading
The Super Chief welcome-aboard brochures had one less panel than the brochures for Santa Fe’s other streamlined trains. Apparently, the railway didn’t think that sleeping car passengers needed as much instruction about how their rooms worked as coach passengers needed … Continue reading
These blotters each advertise one of Santa Fe’s leading trains. The first is for the Super Chief and notes that passengers from St. Joseph, Missouri can take a Burlington train to Kansas City, arriving at 9:25 pm, and then occupy … Continue reading
Here, complete with tassel, is the menu for the champagne dinner on Santa Fe’s Super Chief. A postcard showing a couple enjoying this dinner was posted here a few days ago. Click image to download a 1.2-MB PDF of this … Continue reading