I was so lucky to ride the "El Capitan" from Kansas City to LA in 959 and the "Chief" from LA to Chicagp in 1960. I was only 14 and 15 years old traveling solo but it was an exciting experience I will always cherish.:face-blue-smiling::hand-pink-waving:

The Santa Fe War Bonnet  F-7 is the best paint scheme of all time.

In the desert areas, one of every 10 trains was a water delivery train for the steamers. Santa Fe had good reason to invest in diesels, they proved the viability of these .

My first train ride was in 1967.
From Caney Kansas to Kansas City Union Station. Unforgettable!

I was born in 1952. My father's company had conventions every year that we went to. Three of them involved long train rides leaving from Richmond, VA. One was in 1957 to Quebec. We had a private room with separate toilet and sink! It had a pullman type over/under set up that stowed away to a couch seat during the day, and had it's own window, of course. The trip took many hours and I remember looking out that window from my upper berth with my sister below as we were passing through Grand Central Station in New York around midnight, while my old man and mother drank champaign and whiskey sours with the other office swells in the dining car. And that dining car! Heavy silver plate flatware on white linen tablecloths! Black men in white gloves and black jackets serving me shrimp cocktails and Shirley Temples! I consider myself very lucky to have glimpsed that life.
A year or three later we rode from Richmond to Sea Island, Georgia in a similar set up, though shorter ride, and in '65 we took the train to the New York World's Fair. By that time my parents had split and mother took us up to Northern Virginia. She'd put us on the train every month from Alexandria to Richmond to visit our Dad. That was almost 100 miles each way, a 200 mile round trip in a weekend. I travelled that stretch of rail probably 50 times each way, conservatively! When there weren't many people riding we learned how to spin the seats so two faced each other and you had scads of room. I got to ride on all kinds trains, high rollers and mailbag haulers. The express trains didn't stop for 2 of the 3 stops between the two cities. Once I asked my sister why we weren't stopping in Ashland, a small town north of Richmond that fancies itself "The Center of the Universe" while we were riding a very nice express train that was bound for Florida, and she informed me that the nicest trains didn't stop there. So next time we rode a train and it stopped there, as passengers were climbing on and getting off, I said to her, loud enough so that everybody could hear, (completely oblivious, as only a kid can be) "This must not be a very nice train since it stopped here!"
My older sister was mortified.

Towns that had water tanks for the steam engines were refered to as thank towns

Flipping left to right, showing freight trains, and that damn AI Bullshit , shut it off.

When Disneyland opened, Walt got Santa Fe to sponsor the Disney Railroad.

Excellent presentation!  🎉 🔥 🚂

If AI is so smart, why can't it say "bonnet" ?

This video could be interesting, but it’s a lot of AI slop mixed in with it.  Lots of the images are backwards. The announcer is clearly AI because they are mispronouncing common words.  For gosh sakes why don’t you just use real pictures and videos and do this thing right?

At 12:00 you said the Bud company. Is that the same as the Bud plant in Gary Indiana?

What is it with half the photography being flipped from right to left?

Was the Super Chief more glamorous than the Twentieth Century Limited?

Written and recited by A/I.

Pictures do not match the video text

AI slop

KI IST ERTRÄGLICH!

I don’t know what’s worse, the backwards pictures or the mangled pronunciation of the AI speaker.

My uncle Jack Freeburg was the conductor for the super chief for his entire run. My family’s always had trains in our past and future my uncle retired so did the supercheap my grandfather worked as head of engineering for all refrigeration and coolers coolant. They’re both have passed up by now, but as a little girl, I loved riding the trains. I have letters and stories for my grandparents or my grandfather would be working on the train and my grandmother would come to visit him in the various places that he worked on the train is a great piece of history my uncle, my grandfather, both said the disaster rule of train era now is when Amtrak took over. They both retired within five years of Amtrak just to get their retirement in. There’s no luxury there’s no fun part about rising the train. It’s overpriced and very uncomfortable, which is very very sad.