![]() The Santa Fe continued to promote the Super Chief until Amtrak took over in 1971. This early-1960’s publicity photo could be a scene right out of Mad Men. The Pullman Porter and Pullman Conductor are seen with passengers as they leave the Super Chief at Lamy, New Mexico. At times, during the trains history, there were barbers, maids and valets. Onboard crews included train engineers, conductors and brakemen, Pullman conductors, Pullman porters, dining car stewards, waiters, cooks, bartenders, lounge attendants, along with cleaning crews at both ends of the line and maintenance crews en route. It was one of fastest trains in the world. The total load for all four sections in operation at the same time was about 500 passengers. At the height of its deluxe service, from the late 1940s until the mid-1950s, equipment included a diner, the Pleasure Dome Lounge car, an observation lounge, and a third lounge, along with sleeping cars. When the train became a daily operation, Santa Fe needed five complete sets of trains. Passenger for passenger, the Super Chief was one of the most costly trains on earth. The streamliner became an “extra-fare, extra-exclusive, super deluxe commuter special that made Toot Shor’s handy to Romanoff’s, that connects Broadway with Sunset Boulevard.” A cold winter night in Chicago, as passengers head for their accommodations aboard the Super Chief. The Super Chief is ready for its evening departure from Chicago’s Dearborn Station. The Chief was Santa Fe’s other express extra all-Pullman fare train.īut for Hollywood royalty – the Super Chief beat the Chief. The Super Chief was Santa Fe’s premiere all room Pullman sleeping car train that use to run daily from Chicago to Los Angeles. ![]() But the Super Chief is an exclusive club for New York – Hollywood commuters.” In MGM’s The Hucksters, a brutal satire on the ad industry, Clark Gable says to another character: “Only talent agents and kept woman ride the Chief. From the late 1930s to the 1950s, Hollywood adopted the Super Chief as the primary mode of travel as well as the subject of novels and motion pictures.
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