Santa Fe RailRoad "The Super Chief" - 1950's Passenger Trains in the USA

[captainmorgan757]

Art Gilmore's voice is epic! One for the ages!

[ChiHyunExpress]

the train is better than a hotel

[ChiHyunExpress]

is this train before amtrak?

[PoathTV]

@ChiHyunExpress

Many many years before Amtrak

[MrCzechers]

Beautiful! But those cars must have STUNK with everyone smoking in them.

[CultofAdonis]

"Know your dope fiend," oh wait different video.

[WDI2008]

When was the all Pullman Super Chief combined with the all Coach El Capitan ?

[PoathTV]

@WDI2008

January 12, 1958: The Super Chief and El Capitan are combined into one train during the off-peak travel season on a 39½-hour schedule (courtesy wikipedia)

[WDI2008]

9:44 Isn't the Pasadena Subdivision now part of the Metro Gold Line ?

[Rdrake1413]

Air travel doomed the passenger trains. Look at all the fine luxury on these trains. Can't even get a meal on airlines anymore. No such thing as traveling in style anymore.

[jenflights]

Amazing and so wonderful. I had read and heard about the Santa Fe Super Chief and had relatives tell me about it. I wish this travel option was available again. What a fine example of how luxury and refinement made traveling a pleasure. Seems like our train system was way ahead of the times. What happened. Would love to see the Super Chief and similar lines return. What a lovely and graceful alternative. Thanks again and best, " J "

[kerryincolumbus]

she's DRUNK!! she's slurring her words and can't hardly keep her eyes open (at least at the beginning of the video, by the end though, looks like she's sobered up a bit) !!

[DaftStrings]

I love the perfect historical irony @ 8:49.

[9919run8]

I remember seeing TV commercials in the early 60's for Santa Fe streamliners. When others were trying to get out of the passenger train business, the Santa Fe was trying to keep it going. Amtrak is doing its best to keep the named trains in service. Thanks for the look back at the probably the most popular train of all time.

[trainzguy101]

what happend to the super chief f7s?

[PoathTV]

@trainzguy101

The F7's operated on this train from 1951 to the late 1960's, when they were replaced by FP45's. The F7's were close to 20yrs old by then and probably relegated to lesser duties, sold to other railroads or simply scrapped. Wikipedia has an article on the superchief that mentions the specific loco numbers used on this train, you could use that info to find other references to the history of each loco to see what really became of them.

[TheEldoradoKid]

@trainzguy101 Besides being sold outright or repainted for freight duty, a large majority of the F7s were rebuilt to a freight cab configuration similar to the EMD GP 9s and 18s. In other words, they were converted to "CF7s", and then slowly used up, traded or scrapped over the years. The last original F7 A-B set still in Warbonnet paint (#347) can be seen at the California State Railroad museum in Sacramento. It was stored for decades in Albuquerque along with many other historic locomotives.

[choirboyfromhell1]

Make sure you buy your soggy overpriced sub sandwich before standing in line to get on your crowded South West flight (with complementary crying babies) and make sure you call it progress...

[kerryincolumbus]

@choirboyfromhell1 ... Hallelujah to that, choirboy!! Couldn't agree more!

[choirboyfromhell1]

02:28 "George! Bring me a Gin & Tonic please!"



[btomimatsucunard]

hopefully they can bring back this train and run it like they run the orient express in europe by offering ( a somewhat) fast la to chicago run.

[456looky]

Hopefully with High Speed Rail the glory days will be back again. I see the Govenor of Wisconsin has stopped it in Wisconsin. When the people RECALL Walker and railroad him out of office High Speed Rail should be back on track.

[MrCzechers]

Still love the lady @ 1:22 & throughout the film.

[RyanWehr]

any kid who had a starter train set knows this locomotive really well.

[grizzleybearz282004]

@RyanWehr i love the postwar era of lionel trains i dont have a santa fe f3 set but i do have a postwar 2354 NYC A-A f3 diesel freight set from 1954 there great & powerful model engines to own i have one modern lionel santa fe A-B-A FT diesel passenger set and thats one of two modern era set that i got for myself all the other modern lionel sets i got for my kids i realy injoy collecting prewar & postwar sets all o gauge with set boxes my oldest set is a 1936 lionel JR 1689E passenger set

[MrCzechers]

@RyanWehr Yup. Mine was Tyco #4015. It was cool, but growing up in Florida I was nowhere near ATSF's service area.

[gibb1991]

Too bad government regulation killed the passenger rail industry in America with speed restrictions and price cielings, and their stranglehold on the passenger sector of the industry and the government monopoly of Amtrak now is keeping private companies out, even though the demand is there. Freight is deregulated in the US, but not passenger. We had the 10 fastest trains in the world before the government took over.

[kerryincolumbus]

gibb1991 ..... Imagine that.. the gov't takes over something great and runs it right out of business, gosh, I'm SO shocked to read that... N O T ! Thanks for posting the truth, I couldn't agree more !

[RELeeOnTraveller]

I took Amtrak from LA to Chicago 1st class. Left Bakersfield 4.5 hours late arrived 45 minutes early. Food was very good. Scenery was great until we got to the plains and then, well, the plains. LOL

[loufalce]

Beautiful train, just awesome.

[SouthwestChief]

@pavelka8

Yeah, but when this was made (likely 1951) the Super Chief was still a separate consist. And when the Super was combined with the El Cap in 1958, both trains essentially were still separate. You could not walk through from the coach El Cap portion into the first class Super portion without having to go through a gate.

[llanamejia]

What a wonderful movie. What a shame that nowadays we are so busy and business time is so important that we can no longer afford to travel like this. I once took an Amtrak train New Orleans to LA. First class. That was in 1986 and I still remember every detail of it

[OldsVistaCruiser]

Smoking in every car is quite a thing of the past! If I remember correctly, ALL of Amtrak's trains are smoke-free except for the Auto Train.

[MrCzechers]

@SweetJaneofGoth TMI (lol), but not a bad idea.

[idahopioneer]

America's Oreinted Express.

[MrCzechers]

The lady beginning @ 1:25 is beautiful!

@ 8:36 the Native Americans, whose ancestors roamed the vast territorry before the white man F*cked up everything! (My skin is white, but my heart is Seminole)

[MrCzechers]

The lady beginning @ 1:25 is beautiful!

[MaoistBanker]

RACIAL SUBJUGATION IN MOTION!

[micmac99]

Amtrak needs to bring this back.

[ourDC888]

Beautiful! Thank you!