Can anyone kindly point me to a website where I can find the typical order/sequence of cars within the Santa Fe "Super Chief" passenger consist during its heyday? Thanks for any help you can provide. email: maxxdixiecleo@live.com
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I just bought some Kato F7's for my N-scale collection and there is a diagram on the side of the box that depicts trains numbered 17 and 18 in summer of 1953. It shows this order; baggage/express, (RPO, 10-6 sleeper; these two between LA and Kansas City only), 10-6 sleeper, 4-4-2 sleeper, dome, diner, dormitory/lounge, 4-4-2 sleeper, 4-4-2 sleeper, 10-6 sleeper and sleeper/lounge/observation.
As Mike just mentioned his models were N scale, so to is the information found at this website... http://www.trainweb.org/fredatsf/sc51.htm. It gives some history and other useful tidbits about "The Chief."
C
My wife rode the super chief from Kansas City, MO to Sacramento, CA in 1959. The Sacramento train museum has the diner car which was used in 1959.
If you assume heyday = 1950-1553
It really changed a little from day to day but generally
Baggage/mail storage
RPO
Pine/Palm 10-6
Regal 4-4-2
Regal 4-4-2
Dorm/Lounge
500 series Dome/Lounge
600 series Diner
Regal 4-4-2
Regal 4-4-2
Pine/Palm 10-6
Vista Sleeper Observation
If you assume prewar, which would really have been it's hayday then
Baggage Dorm lounge
17 roomette these were all P-S
8-2-2
4-4-2
lounge
diner
4-4-2
8-2-2
4-1 sleeper observation
Super 2 ( the first streamlined SC) was all Budd until the arrival of the 17 roomette sleeper Tuba within about 9 months of starting in 1938. Super 3 was a mix with P-S sleepers and Budd for the remainder.
The prewar and 1950 Supers have zero cars in common. All the prewar cars were delegated to other roles by 1950.
Richard
Thanks for all the good info about the sequence of a typical Santa Fe "Super Chief" passenger consist. I think I'm all set now.
