On May 12th the all-Pullman consist debuted carrying heavyweight cars that were powered by a pair of Electro-Motive boxcab diesels nicknamed "Amos & Andy." What really caught everyone's attention was its lightning fast schedule of 39 3/4-hours, easily besting anything the competition had ...
Santa Fe Scale: O Scale Product Type: Passenger Car Product Line: Premier Delivery Status: Delivered JUN 2007 Overview The lightweight, streamlined passenger car was a product of the Great Depression. While the heavyweight steel cars built in the teens and 1920s were dependable and often luxuriou...
It was also the Super Chief that inspired Santa Fe’s classic “Warbonnet” livery that is arguably the most beautiful paint scheme ever to be applied to a passenger train. Today, the Super Chief carriers on under the Amtrak banner although its one-of-a-kind paint scheme and interior desig...