While we’re on the subject of the Santa Fe Super Chief, can anyone tell me about the Santa Fe’s entry into Dearborn Station in Chicago. Once the Santa Fe reached 21st Street in Chicago, were the tracks at ground level so that the tracks passed under the Rock Island tracks at 16th Street. I have some detailed maps of the Santa Fe tracks (and C&WI tracks) between 21st Street and Dearborn Station at Polk Street, but I am trying to determine whether and where the tracks were at ground level when they “crossed” the St. Charles Air Line and Rock Island Line at 16th Street.
Don Gibson
There was an article in the Model Railroad Craftsman mag about 10 years ago that was a very good construction piece about making a “B” unit for the P2K E8. Life-Like had said they were not going to produce and “B” units for the E8s. (good thing they didn’t stick to it.)
It was basically buying a spare A shell and a powered A unit, sawing off the nose of both bodies and joining them for a “B” unit. The finished product was very nice.
I would guess that you could use the same method on any engine. If I run across the magazine, I’ll post it or maybe email MRC mag.
That is interesting, never head of any other diesel pulling the Chief.
Couple of nice shots of The streamlined GE U30CGs on www.railpictures.net hauling Santa Fe passenger trains in the 1960s. Unfortunately the captions don’t say which “Chiefs” they’re hauling. However, the U30CGs and the red Warbonnet U28s did see Super Chief / El Capitan service.
In the 1965 Book “Iron Horses of the Santa Fe Trail”,it showed a couople of pitcures of DL109/110’s towards the end of their careers on the KC-Tulsa "Tulsan"as well Fairbanks "Erie Builts"on “The Tulsan”.Steve Allen Goen’s Book About The ATSF Operations in Texas and Oklahoma(GC&SF/P&SF)Shows Some Pitcures of GE U28CG’s and U30CG’s on some Santa Fe Trains in the Late '60’s as well as FP45’s*.(*Most of the photos are of The Texas Chief,but there are a few photos of such little known Trains as "The Angelo"from Ft.Worth to Brownwood to San Angelo and "The California Special"from Houston to Clovis,New Mexico.)
I always thought “The Angelo” would be a great train to model. The depot in Brownwood (which is still there) contained a Harvey House. Didn’t “The Angelo” connect with a doodlebug that continued on down to old KCM&O? For some reason I think that it made it all the way to Presidio.