I am interested in name passenger trains. I have the MR Dec. 1991 issue featuring the Empire Builder, MR aug. 1993 issue featuring the Super Chief and the issue featuring the 20th Century Limited. I would like to know if there were other issues that featured Named Passenger Trains.
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This is a periodic series of articles in MR that you may be interested in as a starting place of a passenger fleet:
7 Pike Size Passenger Trains, MR June 2007 8 Pike Size Passenger Trains, MR March 20068 Pike Size Passenger Trains, MR May 2003
They are actual trains with 2 to 8 cars,
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
I have a 17-page list of published information on Santa Fe named passenger trains. It is nearly all in specialized publications of the old Santa Fe Modelers Assn and the present Santa Fe Rwy Historical and Modeling Association.
I will edit those out and see that is left...
Santa Fe Passenger Trains
ANGELO
ANTELOPE
at Sanger TX 1938 _Trains_ Feb87 p.22
CALIFORNIA LIMITED
Nelson Arixona,1941, _Steel,Steam & Limiteds_ p.302
scene aboard, _Mr. Pullman's Elegant Palace Car_ p.522
on Canyon Diablo arch bridge
"400,000 Miles by Rail" by Blanton p.28
curve near Blanchard 1947 Calif Ltd. _New Mexico's Railroads_ p.7
pulled by steam at Holliday KS America's Colorful Railroads (Ball) p.172
westbound at Lawrence KS 1954, PA diesels
America's Colorful Railroads (Ball) p.175
CALIFORNIA SPECIAL
at Houston with PA/PB, May64. small color pix _ModRRer_ Feb99 p.133
_Route of the Eagles: MoPac in the Streamline Era_, Greg Stout
Mail storage Texas & Pacific Express box 1700-1725 pix #1709
reportedly sometimes used on California Special
HO kitbash (1937 AAR 10' int) _ModRRer_ May94 p.100
CAVERN
CENTENNIEL STATE
out of Denver in steam, _Mr. Pullman's Elegant Palace Car_ p.177
Centenniel State _Trains_ May72 p.40
CENTRAL TEXAS EXPRESS see South Plains Express
CHICAGO EXPRESS see Fast Fifteen
CHICAGOAN Dallas-KC-Chicago aka "KANSAS CITYAN" Chicago-KC-Dallas
CHIEF
extensive coverage, cars, _Steel,Steam & Limiteds_ p.303-304
pix, _Mr. Pullman's Elegant Palace Car_ p.525,543
platform shot at Lamy, NMex _Mr. Pullman's Elegant Palace Car_ p.60
departs Chicago 1941 w doubledhead steam
America's Colorful Railroads (Ball) p.139
Chief at Cajon Pass, 1951 _Trains_ Sept98 p. 52
_Chief_ eastbound near Keota ca 1940 _New Mexico's Railroads_ Myrick p.33
Eastbound & westbound _Chief_s meet at Arriba
_New Mexico's Railroads_ Myrick p.35
#86 on the Chief at Joliet 1965 Mod RR Planning 2005 p.28
DALLAS CHIEF
DENVER TRAINS
EASTERN EXPRESS (Lubbock-Amarillo) aka WEST TEXAS EXPRESS (Am-Lubb)
N model of consist, prototype photo at Lubbock? Model Railroader May03 p.48
EL CAPITAN conventional train (pre-high level)
"Night ride on the _El Cap_" _Trains_ March51 p.36
El Cap Ridemaster coach interior _Trains_ March51 p.39
El Cap full-length lounge, interior _Trains_ March51 p.39
EL CAPITAN high-level
publicity showing of new El Cap eqpt,1956, _RMC_ Jan93 p.62
San Francisco Chief and El Cap at Barstow, night hi-angle 1968
Classic Trains Summer 02 p.28
detail N hi-level El Capitan Model Railroader July06 p.50
shades for ATSF passenger cars Model Railroader July06 p.54
ATSF pass train- trucks & couplers for ATSF hi-level cars
Model Railroader July06 p.55
El Capitan N model trainset by Kato review Model Railroader Apr2010 p.76
EL PASO EXPRESS
EL PASOAN
EL TOVAR
pix, _Steel,Steam & Limiteds_ p.309
FAST FIFTEEN/CHICAGO EXPRESS (forerunner of Texas Chief)
FAST MAIL EXPRESS (#7 & 8)
extensive article, _Pacific Rail News_ Oct96 p.32-41.
"Fast Mail" at Wingate, NMex 1965 _Trains_ March70 p.50
Fast Mail at Eagles Nest,AZ _Trains_ Sept98 p.52
GOLDEN GATE
passing through Fresno, Cal 1939 _Walt Disney's Railroad Story_ p.375
GRAND CANYON
color at Joliet,Ill 1964, _Railfan_ Nov94 p.68
"Pike sized passenger trains" 1968, ModRRer Nov80 p.87
multi pix, _Steel,Steam & Limiteds_ p.307
on Cajon Pass, _All Aboard! the Golden Age of American Rail Travel_ ed.Yenne 1989 p.70
"Grand Canyon" EB passes frt in Cajon Pass, 1951
"400,000 Miles by Rail" by Blanton p.30
at Joliet, 1968. "modeling pike-size trains"._Model RRer_ Nov80 p.67
pix Victorville, _Mr. Pullman's Elegant Palace Car_ p.526
"Grand Canyon" in Raton Pass, 9 F-units 23 cars Sept 1960
"400,000 Miles by Rail" by Blanton p.32
Northern Section June 1950 near Wagon Mound NM EB
America's Colorful Railroads (Ball) p.186
entering LAUPT past Mission Tower America's Colorful Railroads (Ball) p.196
1st 23 Grand Canyon EB at Victorville 1962 Classic Trains Summer 02 p.29
2nd 123 (Grand Canyon) at Blue Cut, Classic Trains Summer 02 p.27
KANSAS CITIAN (SB equivalent of "Chicagoan"
entering Dallas over T&P Trinity bridge, steam heavywt
"400,000 Miles by Rail" by Blanton p.62
w #1 and 1A at Chicago past 21st Street, 1941
EB at Kansas City, 1954, E-6 #13
America's Colorful Railroads (Ball) p.169
at Holliday, 1946 with regular lashup, E-6 #14 and E-6B w
#1A (1st ATSF passenger diesel)
America's Colorful Railroads (Ball) p.173
NAVAJO
pix, _Steel,Steam & Limiteds_ p.307
pix w four-poster observation,
_All Aboard! the Golden Age of American Rail Travel_ p.44
pix, _Mr. Pullman's Elegant Palace Car_ p.523
RANGER
Ranger? ATSF train #6 NP in suburbs Chicago 1932
"400,000 Miles by Rail" by Blanton p.10
1939 pix, _Steel,Steam & Limiteds_ p.369
drumhead _The Trains We Rode_ Beebe & Clegg p.92
SAN DIEGAN
using Valley Flyer trainset,1940, _Steel,Steam & Limiteds_ p.383
"San Diegan" at DelMar, 1951 _Trains_ June99 p.38
San Diegan at San Diego Union Depot ca.1940 _Mod RR Planning_ 2001 p.58
at SD Electric Rwy overpass p.61
SF E unit #4 on San Diegan 1940? Model Railroader Aug04 p.63
San Diegan at San Clemente, round-end obs Model Railroader Aug04 p.64
At San Clemente and San Diego,
Modeling RRs of the 1950s special MR issue 2005 p.29,31,32
SAN FRANCISCO CHIEF
SCOUT
pix, _Steel,Steam & Limiteds_ p.308
SOUTH PLAINS EXPRESS
SPECIAL TRAINS
GOP convention train, _Pacific Rail News_ Oct96 pix p.9, story p.51
Super Bowl special on BNSF _PacificRailNews_ Mar96 p.11
SUPER CHIEF
double page photo, article with indiv car pix & plans
Mod RRer Aug93 p.74-87
hi angle in desert _Railway Annual #3_ (1954, Kalmbach) p.67
near New Mexico-Arizona border c.1955 F3
_Walt Disney's Railroad Story_ p.60
Super Chief arrival w movie star, copy of 1948 ATSF ad
_Trains_ May72 p.1
aerial view of cars on display at Chicago RR Fair of 1948,9
_Trains_ Aug88 p.59
Super Chief 1940 being refueled from tank truck at unk location
(Albuquerque?) _Conoco, the First 100 Years_ p.147
Super Chief "Conductor to the Stars" on Super Chief Classic Trains Summer 02 p.34
FT158 w Super Chief at Pasadena Classic Trains Summer 02 p.37
SUPER CHIEF-EL CAPITAN COMBINED
TEXAS CHIEF
Tx Chief hi-angle at Gainesville 1953
"400,000 Miles by Rail" by Blanton p.40
"Texas Chief" near Washita Canyon OK
"400,000 Miles by Rail" by Blanton p.172
TULSAN
VALLEY FLYER
pix "North American Steam",(Crescent,1991) p.158
3/4 view "History of ATSF"(Bonanza,1988) p.80
pix, _Mr. Pullman's Elegant Palace Car_ p.553
WEST TEXAS EXPRESS
PASSENGER TRAIN OPERATION
trains at Newton KS Feb1948 RR Mod Craftsman Apr89 p.50
KHoltI am interested in name passenger trains. I have the MR Dec. 1991 issue featuring the Empire Builder, MR aug. 1993 issue featuring the Super Chief and the issue featuring the 20th Century Limited. I would like to know if there were other issues that featured Named Passenger Trains.
Also the 1939 Milwaukee Road Hiawatha in January 1996.
I do not see the LIRR "Cannonball" in there. It runs Fridays May to September.
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