Santa Fe Chiefs (Great Passenger Trains)

Santa Fe Chiefs (Great Passenger Trains)
Author: Bill Yenne
Publisher: Motorbooks International (November 15, 2005)
Description: Hardcover: 160 pages
ISBN: 0760318484

Like lightning flashing across the desert sky, the Chief streaks by, resplendent in its warbonnet livery. This splendid illustrated history of the Santa Fe Railroad?s flagship passenger trains carries readers back to an era of luxury travel on America?s rails?when movie stars and moguls booked their places on the Chief for the 40-hour trip from Chicago to Los Angeles?faster even than Amtrak?s Southwest Chief today.

The story of America?s most celebrated passenger train, the nation?s first diesel-powered streamliner?from its first run in 1936 to its takeover by Amtrak in 1971?also includes coverage of the Santa Fe?s other Chiefs, including the Texas and San Francisco. A wealth of photographs accompany Bill Yenne?s authoritative account?pictures of the powerful engines and Pullman sleepers, the famous Turquoise Room and Pleasure Dome lounge cars, the terminals and stations, uniforms and dinnerware, advertisements, menus, and route maps?all coming together to create a dramatic visual account of train travel at its height.

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