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

A 1950's publicity film from the Santa Fe RailRoad about "the Super Chief" luxury passenger train which ran between Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles, California.

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF aka "Santa Fe") was one of the larger railroads in the United States.

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[ChiHyunExpress]

is this train before amtrak?

[PoathTV]

@ChiHyunExpress

Many many years before Amtrak

[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)

[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.

[DoubleMrE]

I rode on the Superchief in 1965 when I was a little kid (my family took the "El Capitan" from LA to Chicago, and then the Superchief on the way back). It wasn't nearly as nice when I rode it as it was in the film, but it was still a great experience and I'm glad I had the chance to have a cross-country train trip before passenger travel died out in the late 60's-early 70's.

[captainmorgan757]

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

[ChiHyunExpress]

the train is better than a hotel

[MrCzechers]

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

[CultofAdonis]

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

[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.