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RailroadTreasures offers the following item: Santa Fe Passenger Train Consists 1937 January 10 Soft Cover Santa Fe Passenger Train Consists 1937 January 10 Soft Cover 42 Pages Copyright 1971Among the rare documents of railroad literature are the consist lists of passenger trains published by railroads for their employees, containing more information about types and movements of cars than are found in public timetables. These are almost always discarded when superseded by newer editions, and few old lists survive. This book, based on a Santa Fe list dated January 10, 1937, describes the makeup of all passenger trains except motor-car runs, mixed trains, and a few locals having coaches only.The consequences of the great Depression were visible on the American scene in 1937, but the Santa Fe was still able to field three all-Pullman transcontinental trains, two of them extra-fare. The fleet leader was the SUPER CHIEF, inaugurated the year before as a once-a-week flyer. Second in importance was the CHIEF, which, like the SUPER, featured three lounge cars for a complement of less than a hundred passengers. Actually, the advent of the SUPER CHIEF had not diminished the CHIEF\'s prestige, for on six days of the week the CHIEF was still Chief, to quote an old Santa Fe slogan.Fastest of the three-night-out trains was the venerable CALIFORNIA LIMITED, whose consist included Pullmans serving Denver, San Diego and St. Louis. Also running over the northern route via La Junta was the GRAND CANYON LIMITED, which made a regular or flag stop at nearly every city, town, switchman\'s shack and water tank on the Santa Fe trail.The southern route (via Amarillo) was served by a pair of trains timed so that one or the other provided daytime service to every stopping-point along the route. The evening train from Chicago and Los Angeles was the SCOUT, primarily for coach and tourist car patrons. The morning service from both terminals was the NAVAJO, which was a through train but picked up or set out most of its cars at intermediate points and did not have through dining car service. Passengers ate some meals in Fred Harvey dining rooms or coffee shops in train depots enroute.Not strictly a passenger train, the FAST MAIL EXPRESS did perform useful services for Santa Fe travelers. A smoker-chair car went the whole distance for those who found this run convenient for short distances. The eastbound consist carried a tourist car from Los Angeles to Denver, and at Kansas City picked up several cars from the GRAND CANYON LIMITED to get them into Chicago sooner than the latter train would have.Serving Oklahoma and Texas were the HANGER, ANTELOPE and OIL FLYER, plus Number 15, nicknamed the FAST FIFTEEN. The roll call of named trains ends with the CALIFORNIA SPECIAL and the TEXAN. These were \"bridge\" trains between Clovis, New Mexico and Temple, Texas, carrying through Pullmans between California and the Gulf coast in connection with the NAVAJO west of Clovis and the RANGER south of Temple.An abbreviated timetable precedes each consist. Times at which trains passed through Junction points such as La Junta, Newton and Temple were carefully planned for transfers of cars with a variety of routes. During the early morning hours at Temple, the northbound and southbound RANGER trains each exchanged cars with both the eastbound TEXAN and the westbound CALIFORNIA SPECIAL, involving movements to and from New Orleans, Houston, Dallas, San Angelo, Clovis, Los Angeles and Oakland.Many cars had irregular cycles of operation. That is, not all the cars in the westbound SCOUT came back in the eastbound SCOUT. More than forty of these cycles are outlined in the \"notes\" section beginning on page 39. The individual note references in the consists refer to this section.One type of Santa Fe operation will be new to readers: that of the Harvey refrigerator and baggage cars. These cars hauled milk and food to replenish the stocks of Fred Harvey restaurants along the railroad, and often returned with soiled linen and uniforms for the central laundry at Newton, Kansas.This is not a publication of the Santa Fe Railway, but the Santa Fe did provide us with photographs for this book, and for these and other favors we thank Robert Gehrt of that railway\'s Public Relations Department. Our gratitude also to Bill Kingston for sending us the consist list which made this book possible.
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