We’ve previously seen a 1941 booklet advertising the Exposition Flyer. Today’s brochure was published in 1939 to announce the inauguration of that train on June 10. The train, said the brochure, would offer “fast new thru train service” between Chicago and California.
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“Fast” was always relative in railroad advertising. The Exposition Flyer required about 60 hours to get from Chicago to Oakland. That was competitive with the San Francisco Overland Limited and Challenger, but not the sub-40-hour City of San Francisco or 50-hour 49er — but both of those trains only went five times a month.
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This brochure also notes that the Expo Flyer out of Chicago also carried Pullman and tourist sleepers that would go on the Royal Gorge route from Denver to Salt Lake City. This, said the brochure, “allows a day stopover in Salt Lake City.” In other words, Western Pacific had only one train per day so the longer route added 24 hours to the trip.
People wanting to eastbound via the Royal Gorge would find themselves on Burlington’s Aristocrat, not the Expo Flyer, between Denver and Chicago. This would avoid the long layover in Salt Lake. For passengers who wanted to maximize scenery but didn’t want a tour of Salt Lake City, the logical thing to do would be to take the Moffat Tunnel route westbound and the Royal Gorge route eastbound.
History tells us that the “Flyer” was somewhat jinxed and some railroaders called it the “Explosion Flyer” after a number of incidents. Nevertheless, as noted above, it did pave the way for one of the world’s great trains, the “California Zephyr”.
I thought the train was called the “Explosion Flyer” because of the volume of passengers that it carried.