Photos and Artwork: Colorful Passenger Trains--updated 2/27

As the thread's starter, I don't see the triangle in my posts on this thread.

EDIT:  Problem with page one has been fixed.

Nope. When I desire to emphasize a particular word, I capitalize it for emphasis, and get your attention. I tend to speak to folks face-to-face the same way. 

The Atlantic Coast Line "Champion":

The Illinois Central's "City of New Orleans" has been immortalized by the song--wonder how many listen to it and DON'T know it's about a train?  It certainly was a colorful train and well-promoted by IC:

Thanks for the most recent photos. 

If you haven't visited the first page of this thread in a couple of days, I've edited the first post to name every member who supplied an image, photo or artwork, in this thread.  To each of you, THANK YOU!  (And if I have overlooked anyone, let me know.)

Let's keep it going; there's plenty more photos and artwork to share here.

To "keep it going," let's add to the first post's N&W Powhatan Arrow with more photos and artwork:

Carl - Thanks for the City of New Orleans pictures.  I didn't realize they had a dome on that train?  It looks like it was a first class train in it's day.  Now I have to listen to the song again while I'm in the mood.

Art

Mill City (Jon) is that the Bluebird?

It is, Carl. Identifying photo added above. Here's another...

Not from the railroad, but a personal favorite nonetheless . . .

looks like somebodies went back in time and robbed a travel agency!!! All the cool ephemera. Awesome thread!!!!

Art, I saw your post in the thread about what "name" trains should be made, and I recalled my years as a student in NO (and riding the trolley from campus to Lee circle for a summer job), and did a quick and dirty Google search to come up with the images in the above reply.  I lack the savy to put the Arlo Guthrie tune to the reply, but it was playing on a loop (in my head) when I searched the web and posted the reply.  Perhaps one of the forum members has a LIONEL IC set, I know of at least one, who can make a video--run the set with the music!

Glad you enoyed the reply. 

Fantastic images, Mill City--post a link to the website that holds these treasures.

The thread just turned 4 pages which is quite a lot.  Thanks to all who have posted images, especially; and, to all who have commented and viewed it--OGR forum is terrific.

Certainly one of the brightest spots in American, or anybody's, history !

The Southern Pacific Coast Daylight images are among the most colorful and abundant.  Here's a link to the website, Cruising the Past, that includes the photos here and a period film/video 3 minutes in duration of the Daylight under steam power:

http://cruiselinehistory.com/t...lass-and-not-amtrak/

The 3+ minutes period film/video of the Coast Daylight is here.

Note:  The first picture is a painting titled "Chasing the Daylight" by William Phillips. 

If trains and services were like this today, I would only travel by rail, forego car and planes.

If trains were like this today ,but updated with wifi,  flat screens,  and food. I could get my kids to travel in a relaxing manner!  Shut up and sit Down!, Don'nt  make ME stop this Train!!!...., Or so help me. Could you do this every day every way sans your car ? We drove in the car.... Too the station an took the train!! It was a bullet , TGV, Maglev, or  Hyper diesel an BAM!! We.was There..  Seems Completely Doable...SO WHAT GIVES????

What? And give up this...

and this...

adding this...

for something like this?

Howard posted this image of the Wabash/UP City of St. Louis heading westbound out of St. Louis and passing through Forest Park.

I thought it cool that the locomotive had the Wabash Flag and the UP Shield on the nose, did any Wabash locomotive ever have that nose?

Dan

Dan, really like the picture, but can't answer the question.  Here's the City of St. Louis with UP E8's:

The Santa Fe El Capitan was the all-coach counterpart to the Super Chief, and was heavily marketed by Santa Fe, especially with the introduction of the Hi-Level cars in 1956.