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 booklet has color illustrations of the interiors of the sleeping cars and feature cars — three lounges and a diner — that made up the train.

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As romantic as the Super Chief, the “train of the stars,” must have been, the strong impression that comes from this booklet is how ordinary it was in 1948. The 1937 streamliner, built by Budd with interior decoration by the Paul Cret/John Harbeson architectural firm, lined the interiors of all of the cars with a wide variety of exotic woods: bubinga, prima vera, macassar ebony, avodire, zinqana, Brazilian rosewood, ebonized maple, holly, redwood burl, teak, and satinwood, to name a few listed by Stan Repp’s excellent book about the train. Much of the upholstery and window curtains were patterned after Navaho rugs, and Indian-inspired wall decorations were scattered throughout the train.
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By comparison, the sleeping car interiors shown in this booklet are all painted in one solid color or another. Upholstery and window shades throughout the train are also plain and, while there are some reproductions of Santa Fe-owned paintings on some of the lounge and dining car bulk heads, overall the interior decoration was, as Repp generously puts it, “conservative.”

Part of the difference is that the cars were built by Pullman, possibly because Pullman had threatened Santa Fe that it would refuse to provide sleeping car services in cars built by Budd (which was moot after Pullman lost an antitrust lawsuit in 1943) but more likely because Pullman simply had submitted a lower bid. The exteriors of the cars looked as nice as the Budd cars, but the fluted stainless steel was fake, being simply panels bolted on the ordinary steel cars.