SANTA FE SUPER CHIEF 1950s RAILROAD PROMOTIONAL FILM LUXURY PASSENGER TRAIN MD86574z

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This 1950’s travelogue profiles the Santa Fe Super Chief, the most luxurious way to travel across the country. The film begins by showing how train’s now offer all of the comforts of home. (00:00:20:00) Then, the new flagship of Santa Fe’s fleet is introduced, the Super Chief. (00:00:40:00). Our narrator then cuts to a beautiful actress, who is planning a train trip to Southern California. (00:01:10:00) The narrator convinces her to try the new Super Chief for her trip. The narrator then goes on to cover different features of the train, such as the observation lounge (00:01:50:00), and 100% private rooms such as a roomette for one (00:02:10:00), the new type bedroom (00:02:52:00), and the new Super Chief compartment (00:03:05:00). Drawing rooms are also offered (00:03:27:00). Beautiful footage of buttes is seen at (00:03:21:00), (00:03:38:00) and (00:06:53:00). Next, the Super Chief’s kitchen (00:04:35:00) and dining car (00:05:00:00) are shown. We are then introduced to the main lounge (00:05:32:00) of the pleasure dome car. Here, one can play cards (00:05:38:00), use a writing desk (00:05:47:00), or even go to the barber for a haircut (00:05:58:00). Next, the lower lounge (00:06:07:00) is shown where you can have a cocktail. This is followed by the turquoise room (00:07:06:00), the first and only private dining room on rails! The train then stops at Albuquerque (00:08:10:00) on its way to Los Angeles. Finally, we arrive in California, the Golden State! (00:09:20:00) A vintage shot of the LA train station can be seen at (00:09:42:00). At the conclusion of her trip, the beautiful actress from the beginning of the film tells us she is convinced the Super Chief is not just another train. (00:10:10:00) Then, an animated map of the train’s route from Chicago to Los Angeles is shown. (00:10:35:00)
Various vintage shots of the Super Chief traveling are shown at (00:01:42:00), (00:05:16:00), (00:06:59:00), (00:08:00:00), (00:09:00:00), (00:09:33:00), (00:09:52:00) and (00:11:05:00). A wonderful shot of the train traveling at night is shown as well. (00:04:22:00)
The Super Chief was one of the named passenger trains and the flagship of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. It claimed to be "The Train of the Stars" because of the celebrities it carried between Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California.
The Super Chief (Nos. 17 and 18) was the first Diesel-powered, all-Pullman sleeping car train in America, and it eclipsed the Chief as Santa Fe's standard bearer. The extra-fare ($10) Super Chief left Dearborn Station in Chicago for its first trip on May 12, 1936. Before starting scheduled service in May 1937, the lightweight version of the Super Chief ran 2,227 miles (3,584 km) from Los Angeles over recently upgraded tracks in 36 hours and 49 minutes, averaging 60 mph (97 km/h) overall and reaching 100 mph (160 km/h).
With one set of equipment, the train initially operated once a week from both Chicago and Los Angeles. After more cars had been delivered the Super Chief ran twice weekly beginning in 1938 and daily after 1948. Adding to the train's mystique were its gourmet meals and Hollywood clientele.
Competitors to the Super Chief were the City of Los Angeles on the Chicago and North Western Railway and the Union Pacific Railroad, and (to a lesser extent) the Golden State on the Rock Island and Southern Pacific. The Santa Fe Super Chief was one of the last passenger trains in the United States to carry an all-Pullman consist; only the Pennsylvania Railroad's Broadway Limited and the Illinois Central's Panama Limited survived longer. The train maintained its high level of service until the end of Santa Fe passenger operations on May 1, 1971.
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[@charleshettrick2408]

My grandmother took me on the Super Chief when I was 9. What a thrill and what a train! Nothing anywhere like it today. We boarded mid morning. A half hour later I was in the dome. Except dinner, there I was till 12:30AM. Back early next AM to watch sunrise in Colorado. What a spectacle against my first ever view of the Rockies as we split the green semaphores and their arms swung to red as the dome silently sped on. Then we snaked through the canyons, the dry washes, Raton, Lamy and into Albuquerque. Departing that great station, the Santa Fe had enormous shops. My head almost unscrewed trying to soak in all the shop activity as we glided by. Pity it's almost all gone. My grandmother was well known among the Santa Fe family. Her husband had worked on the railroad since 1909. She had worked on and off for the ATSF since 1910. So we got extra special treatment. Plus, my grandmother insisted we treat the porters with extra care and extra tips. She said they were union and deserved our allegiance. It was years later I found grandmother was a huge labor organizer in the 1920s.

[@laserbeam002]

What a wonderful story. Thank you for sharing.

[@pkramerable]

Thank you for sharing these memories, and hooray for your grandmother. Union YES!

[@voxer99]

Approximately what year would that have been?

[@youchris67]

Your grandmother was an awesome liberal for that time! Bravo to her!

[@gilbertzimmerman2173]

This was shortly after the end of WWII and the sky was the limit for the United States! All was well. Thank you!

[@ssherwood7245]

When you realize that a train in 1950 was faster and better than a US train in 2022.

[@RivetGardener]

And better in more ways than imaginable.

[@harrisonofcolorado8886]

You can definitely blame the faster part on the Naperville train crash.

[@chewybunz]

The Super Chief only shaved FOUR hours off the Southwest Chief's service between LA and Chicago, despite the Super's advantage of dedicated tracks.

[@Mrcharles.]

Automobile lobbyists and Americans love for the car, killed any chances of building high speed rail in the United States.

[@LinnyUwU]

​@@Mrcharles.Brightline??

[@bobwitkowski6410]

People today don't know what they are missing. Films like this are a good reminder.

[@jamesyers1975]

Not missing the smokey cars lol

[@vintagethrifter2114]

Only if you had the money. If you could afford the Super Chief, you rode the Greyhound on rails like everyone else.

[@artjs9]

When I was six my father took me to Union station. When we got to the platform my father lifted me up to the cab of the Super Chief. Inside the engineer showed me the how the controls worked. A great memory for me...

[@JETZcorp]

I like the way the narrator says "Los Angalis"

[@douglasschliewen4302]

During the first half of the twentieth century and into the 50s, many people pronounced LA with a hard G.

[@wesmcgee1648]

I rode a passenger train in 1969 with my grandmother from Louisiana to Chicago. I loved the dining car and the observation deck on top. I remember my grandmother befriended another old lady who turned out to be a Titanic survivor!

[@andyrob3259]

Geez that looked fantastic. And they say we've progressed. I'd do that over any plane trip.

[@JF-lt5zc]

Sadly, Amtrak is nowhere as nice and is outrageously expensive.

[@Cal90208]

@@JF-lt5zc Well when the public doesn't like supporting it they don't have much of a choice, it's a miracle we still have Amtrak at all.

[@JF-lt5zc]

@@Cal90208 I guess my point is, if they want to stay competitive against air and personal vehicle travel, they need to incentivize people to want to go with them. It takes many hours or even days to get from point A to point B by train. If they had roomier rooms and better food it would be worth it to more people. But instead its cramped quarters, lousy food, and twice to triple the cost of flying. It's a hard sell...

[@Cal90208]

@@JF-lt5zc The food on western trains is diner quality which isn’t bad by any means, but it could be better of course. The rooms are actually very similar to the size of the ones on the Chief, and many who have tried both prefer amtraks. They’re pretty good for public transportation and a lot roomier than any plane

[@MikeSmithEnterprises]

@@Cal90208 The condition of today's cross-country Amtrak trains is nowhere near that of the Super Chief.

[@johnp139]

Ahhh, the days when California was actually a nice place.

[@shyman9023]

5% illegals instead of 50%.

[@fyremanbill]

Just thinking the same thing. Man I miss those days!

[@michaelward9880]

Man, that's THE way to travel! Beds, great food, drink, haircuts, private restrooms, scenery....... I wish time travel was possible?

[@chewybunz]

Amtrak still offers that, more or less.

[@munteacher]

My greatest memory of the Super Chief was sitting up in the dome at 9 years of age. A porter was walking down the length of the train with chimes, sounding out the call that the dining car was now opened. I asked the porter if I could try the chimes. He handed them to me and I got the tune perfectly right off the bat! Good times.

[@alcopower5710]

Awesome memory

[@mackdog3270]

Even today, two days from Chicago to LA is pretty awesome. You couldn't do that distance by car in the same time, unless you're an insomniac.

[@mackdog3270]

@MusicMaster1987 I tend to think in trucking time :) It's an odd coincidence, but I live about 25 miles from Kennewick and I went to college in Portland.

[@HiroNguy]

I go NJ to Arizona in 2 days. And I stick around the speed limit. Maybe you need a more comfortable car.

[@pacz8114]

​@@HiroNguy Phoenix to Camden is 2,300 miles. To make it within 48 hrs you'd have to have an itinerary similar to the following: drive 18hr, sleep 6, drive another 18, which would put you at 42hr. It's doubtful anyone can drive two consecutive 18hr shifts (devoid of chemical help).

[@HiroNguy]

@@pacz8114 When I drove trucks and had to abide by DOT rules a crosscountry PRK to NYSR was a 4 day trip solo. Obviously with a codriver the wheels are turning more in one day which is why there are so many transport companies that prefer driver teams. When I did motorcycle road trips the most I covered in one day was 700 miles but more typical would be 500 miles. In a comfy car my schedule is 20+ hours in motion, stopping only for fuel, and then off for 12. That's how I do NYC metro area to Phoenix in 2.5 days. And the only chemical aid I've ever taken on these trips is caffeine. Now, the old timers at the transport company I drove for, they told all kinds of stories about the bad old days of the 1970s and '80s. There were so many bad crashes due to that kind of stuff that it's no wonder people got fed up with it and let loose the powers of big government on that industry.

[@michaelfisher7170]

My jaw just about fell open when I saw the clip of the family being served their meal in the dining car. That food was piled ON! I've never travelled Amtrak, though I still hope to take one of their routes in the future. I know from friends who have done so that the kind of meal shown in this video is a thing of the past. BTW...it made me grin an evil grin to learn the observation car was called the "Pleasure Dome." No wonder the trip was popular. ;)

[@dinocracchiolo996]

It is hard to believe a time like that actually existed in America. Thank you for preserving America history.

[@COIcultist]

When and over what period of time did the pronunciation of Los Angeles change!

[@朱瞻基先生]

👍

[@robertnessful]

I grew up in Southern California and my understanding is that the hard G was a railroad thing. Supposedly, it was easier for passengers to understand announcements by conductors and station agents over the sound of the trains. They did this for a few Spanish place names, for example Santa Ana was "Santee Anna."

[@johnvrabec9747]

Lots of TV shows in the 50s like Perry Mason had some people pronounce it that way.

[@henerygreen578]

dude gets jilted in the end.......LOL!!!!!

[@Evelynshere]

It was a memorable experience...I took those rides for granted

[@jimlogan2329]

Well, this video cheered me up on a drab, cold day in Scotland.

[@patrickvillers6454]

Back in the day when we were the wonderland the rest of the world was in awe at what we could do and achieve.

[@richmanwisco]

You took that from a railroad promotional film for a train service that only existed for a few years and couldn't compete with the rapidly growing airline industry?

[@jsat5609]

@@richmanwisco Cynic.

[@stevenk9094]

@@patrickvillers6454 yes now look at US rail travel, what's left of it, versus the rest of the worlds leading economic countries.

[@cvcoco]

The good old days. Today, you wont even get a bag of peanuts unless you bring it yourself. Look how everyone is dressed up and nice manners, not like the Southwest videos! I wish Amtrak could be supported better and we bring this back, i never want to fly again.

[@richmanwisco]

You know that was a staged promotional film, right? For a style of travel accessible to only the wealthy, right?

[@cvcoco]

​@@richmanwisco I know it was a promo film and I also knew someone was going to say it. But in those times, look at street films, people were better dressed, better mannered. I rode trains as a kid and there werent half-naked, foulmouthed drunks making travel difficult like in the airline vids in YT. Things HAVE changed. I notice that car and train travel has picked up a lot, people dont like flying like they did once. I wish that Trump supported Amtrak more to upgrade and attract more people, and to even build high speed trains. Anyway, in the end its not the train or the plane, its the people and their personal class has declined in US. Everything has declined, our speech, dress, manners, edu level, ways. There was a time it was better, why is it worse today?

[@saleendriver]

Show this to the goofs at AMTRAK.....home of packaged "food", lousy service, and terrible seats and beds. Guess that's the difference between government run vs. have to make money to survive.

[@manhoot]

Gee this sure was swell

[@maplemanz]

It was great if you were white!

[@chewybunz]

Indeed!

[@plasmaboy2265]

6:50 that’s so awesome they featured pyramid rock outside of Gallup

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

Peri - you've done it again!! FABULOUS video!!!

[@markjosephbudgieridgard]

Wow that was excellent no one does these promotional films quite like the USA.... Everyone is so smiley and immaculately turned out.... Great stuff 👍

[@keithdukes5990]

Yes, America at it's Zenith!!! 👍😊 Unfortunately that is not longer the case as it slides further & further away from those days!!!😒😔😞

[@keithdukes5990]

Ahhhh, You're a Racist then!🧐🤔

[@dfgall]

Silver streak

[@michaelwhalen2442]

Does anybody remember when this country ninety percent White?

[@mjrodriguez8670]

The Santa Fe Super Chief was created and designed NOT for the general public, but for millionaires, movie and radio stars and businessmen. Only higher-income passengers could ride this luxury, extra-fare passenger train!

[@suppylarue220]

hardly.

[@jeffmcdonald4225]

I took the Santa Fe from Kansas to California. I still remember it. I was only 4 years old. It inspired my parents to move to California in the late 50s. I rode trains a lot. I really miss it!

[@whaheydelee]

Seems like a very cool thing to do, like the Trans-Canada Railway. Was it a requirement that every dude had to smoke two packs of butts every day?

[@edsmith6504]

The good folks over at Mystery Science Theatre 3000 would have us rolling on the floor with laughter! Especially the part at the end when she introduces her new friend at the station (he looks less than thrilled). Then off to the car where he looks equally enthused about picking her up. I'd love to be a fly on the wall for that ride home!

[@yuckyool]

"Oh honey, that was Jim. We spent several hours in the 'Pleasure Dome' together."

[@JackieontheTrunk]

"We did so many tunnels!"

[@RivetGardener]

@@yuckyool "Where nobody is a stranger"

[@vlepore760]

The guy stalked her during the entire trip!😅😅

[@huskerhank9896]

All the way on the Santa Fe...and she comes off with a huge smile on her face. If she's smart she will use that shower to rid herself of any unwanted odors.

[@azmike1]

Yeah I watched this.

[@dlanodsknib]

Brought back memories. I travelled on this train in June 1958. Now, instead of superb railways we have the shemozzle of travel in aeroplanes. Pity America hasn't gone in for very fast trains.

[@shyman9023]

We could do it, but liberals have to buy votes wasting money.

[@Mrcharles.]

I blame the automobile lobbyists and americas love for the car that killed any chances of building any high speed rail in the United States.

[@Paul-in-Missouri]

Great film, but why did they call the private dining room the "Turquoise Room" when it is pastel rose colored?

[@alternateself1244]

Turquoise is a huge thing in NM. and Santa Fe is also a place there... Probably just another NM/culture reference.

[@JuanSanchezGuerra]

There was a large turquoise medallion on one of the walls.

[@laserbeam002]

I bet Amtrak doesn't have anything like this today.

[@bsteven885]

Yeah, the bedrooms are most certainly NOT the same... kzbin.info/www/bejne/iWibk5mff6mqjaM

[@SkySim]

Now you can take the Amtrak Southwest Chief.

[@A350flyernyc]

@@SkySim the southwest chief, while having the same accommodations in theory, doesn’t hold a candle to this train.

[@edculle]

Sign me up! It really sounds like a fun way to travel. Of course the trip takes longer but isn't moving people by train less polluting than by airplane?

[@ronaldfazekas6492]

It breaks your heart to see this film--I was lucky enough to take the Zephyr out of Denver--just before it was cancelled--the last long-distance non-Amtrak train--still using the old equipment similar to that in the film

[@billboettcher1673]

While this was the pinnacle of travel at the time, remember this was also first class travel for the wealthy. Not everyone traveled this way

[@Richard-t7q1f]

The Super Chief was the ultimate luxury train with the east coast equivalent being the 20th Century Limited from New York to Chicago. The railroads could not cut prices but could offer extra-fare luxury service. I road the train from New York to Miami when I was a little kid, have no idea which railroads but the second half was a steam train. One does not open windows behind a steam locomotive.

[@vlepore760]

I don’t get the guy dumping his wife To have dinner with the stalker dude in the Turquoise room!😂

[@Super_Chief]

Took the combined Super Chief/El Capitan from Pasadena to Chicago in 1964. They might as well have put a hook in my mouth and pulled on that pole, because they have had me hooked ever since! 😉

[@macadelic2492]

So nostalgic

[@Cobra-ky9bt]

Route of the Zephyrs is my old stomping grounds, but I always had an affinity for the Chief. Great video.

[@PeriscopeFilm]

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[@pbear6251]

it would have been nice to have a better copy of this vdeo and way better sound than what is here

[@NickKaminski1980]

My Dad used to work for the Santa Fe in the early '60s out of Corwith yard, Chicago. Occasionally, he'd pull the coach yard job (head end brakeman) at Dearborn St. station, where they would pull the Super Chief into the train shed with their switch engine after the road power was cut off at the service tracks. He got a kick out of the kids marveling at the locomotive as they passed by, not knowing it only pulled them a half mile and not all the way from Los Angeles.

[@W7DSY]

I've traveled by Amtrak Bedroom several times in the past 20 years, and they don't hold a patch to the Super Chief or any other trains of that era. The bedrooms are cramped, and the meals are so-so. Still, they are better than nothing.

[@richmanwisco]

Would you pay double for that level of luxury? Turns out not many did back the day, either. Which is why we don't see trains like this any more.

[@MikeSmithEnterprises]

@@richmanwisco That's not exactly true. Airline travel in the 60's and 70's was LUXURIOUS. So, it was far better than what the railroads were offering. Today, airline travel is the pits. I do everything I can to avoid it. I have often wondered if a "Super Chief"-quality train departed twice/day from Chicago to LA how it would do.

[@chewybunz]

The Amtrak bedrooms are no smaller than in the past. There's only so much space on a train.

[@W7DSY]

@@chewybunz I was not referring to Amtrak bedrooms. The Super Chief was a Santa Fe train.

[@chewybunz]

@@W7DSY I think you misunderstood. I meant that the Amtrak bedrooms were not necessarily smaller than those of the Chief. Trains are cramped, period.

[@jamesroets800]

I remember seeing the Super Chief when we were traveling. I wanted to be an engineer - I thought that would be so cool.

[@Garlic227]

Super Chief, She was a Grand Passenger train Diesel

[@markp5762]

When America was King and not on it's way to a 3rd world Country.

[@MarkRockwell-d3u]

dang it i was born to late for this. it looks awesome.

[@saw1898]

So cool! I want to travel back in time and take that same train.

[@davenone7312]

And don't forget your Porter, Rufus "Yessum Boss" Washington!

[@suppylarue220]

😆

[@glhx2112]

Made that run via AMTRAK back in 1996. Actually spent the night in the dome from Somewhere in Colorado to Kansas City.

[@YoshiAngemon]

Daffy "I could sure go for some liquid refreshment. (Walks up to cupboard) Say, lady, where do you keep your glasses?" Melissa "They're in the cupboard. " (Daffy opens the cupboard to see the Super Chief rushing towards the camera, he closes it)

[@coreliving63]

Does anyone know if these discontinued train cars can be purchased anywhere?

[@suppylarue220]

most were scrapped. a few exist in private collections. You can track 100% of them down by using a roster.

[@Catalyst-du3cp]

Damn!! Modern day service is trash!!! 💯

[@dw.7655]

It’s to bad the glory of that time of train travel is pretty much gone. Amtrak Management take note! Wishful thinking. It’s to bad the host railroads for Amtrak offer better assistance t

[@dw.7655]

To Amtrak , and Amtrak offer better service to private rail car owners. Just think if on special occasions and certain times of the year, invite private cars to enhance the overall service experience, at an extra fare of course, to give the current traveling public an upscale experience. Again, wish full thinking.

[@robertheidler5315]

What a unique idea! Making travel a positive experience for the traveler! Today it’s more like a cattle car, whether you are taking a train or a plane. Those truly were the “good old days!”

[@yuckyool]

Actually, the Amtrak Chief (that takes a very similar route over a similar schedule) offers roommette and bedroom accommodations as well. Fares for those accommodations, adj. for inflation, aren't that different. We are taking multiple long-distance trains for our "cruise across America" in June.

[@richmanwisco]

You think that it was affordable for any but the wealthy at the time?

[@yuckyool]

@@richmanwisco Valid question and it's all relative. They showed a number of different kinds of sleeping accommodations (as there are on AmTrak). And Santa Fe (and Union Pacific and other passenger trains) also accommodated coach passengers . . . as AmTrak does . . at a much lower cost. Not unlike cruises, which is a luxury good . . .available at different price points . . . that caters to various middle-income folks (super-wealthy have their own yachts).

[@randygravel2057]

Took this route last month. We had a 1.5 hr stop in Albuquerque. Conductor said “I advise you use the buddy system, this IS Albuquerque” after getting out I knew why.

[@bboucharde]

Randy, You NAILED it! So true.

[@shyman9023]

Heck, thats the whole country now. With all the illegals roaming around and the wide open Biden border. Just waiting for a suitcase nuke or dirty bomb to go off.

[@bboucharde]

@@shyman9023 Hyman, I share your concerns. However, there are massive differences in crime rates among US cities. Albuquerque suffers from much higher robbery, assault, and homicide rates than the US national average.

[@shyman9023]

@@bboucharde Well, I'm about 20 miles north of Baltimore and I don't go there at all.

[@bboucharde]

@@shyman9023 Hyman, I am not surprised. Central Baltimore has some bad crime statistics, compared to the suburban ring. By some measures, however, Albuquerque is still worse.

[@peterunnels3311]

Does anyone know if the narrator is Don Wilson of Jack Benny fame?

[@ShelleeGraham]

8:08 Loved seeing the Fred Harvey Indian Building at the Alvarado Hotel, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

[@chegeny]

It's Santa Fe All the Way!

[@J_Calvin_Hobbes]

👍

[@phreshone1]

Just think, with that level of service, you too could get to LA in 2 days for 4 grand one way

[@dknowles60]

not near 4k

[@HoboHeaven]

And today? 2 hrs Flight? But Train is much more Fun.

[@chewybunz]

At least three hours by air.

[@truckerkevthepaidtourist]

Everybody smoked back then LOL

[@stevenk9094]

Road this train several times and remember timing the train between Dodge City KS and Trinidad CO and it would run 100mph+ through most of that territory especially LaJunta to Trinidad where I timed it at 105mph. We've lost so much in the US.

[@suppylarue220]

it's 100mph vs 700mph. simple.

[@stevenk9094]

@@suppylarue220 life is about the journey not the destination. We all know what the final destination is but it's the experiences during the journey that make life enjoyable. There is nothing enjoyable about a cramped crowded, noisy, airplane with disrespectful people and the misery of just getting to your seat from your home. Sadly people don't seem to understand what quality of life means anymore its all about how fast you live it and how many things you do. You can't replace life's quality experiences with fast cheap quantity experiences. The difference between sit down fine dining in a nice restaurant versus fast food at the drive through eaten at a traffic light. I'll take 100mph or less of a quality experience versus 700mph of misery. It's about the journey not the destination.

[@suppylarue220]

@@stevenk9094 what's all your gibberish? trains put stage coaches out of business, jets put passenger trains out of business. plain and simple. nostalgia has no place in it.

[@newdefsys]

The actress is Virginia Leith

[@jamesroberts2115]

When the U.S. was civilized and before the animals were let out of their cages by LBJ, MLK and other sociopaths.

[@chewybunz]

What an asinine and racist comment!

[@voidjavelin23]

Ok black whipping clown

[@danf321]

If you ever get to Napa Valley, schedule a trip on the Napa Valley Wine Train. Same locomotive, Dome cars and 5-star meals while you take the train through vineyards.

[@bluefj-wc3vz]

Other than the second hand smoke, that was an unbelievably nice train.

[@rexoliver7780]

Fine-I will drive !

[@Retired88M]

Maybe it’s because I grew up in a smoker’s house that I didn’t mind it but in the fifties, sixties and most of the seventies smoking was allowed everywhere even in hospitals. But I think when the AMA outlawed smoking in all public places and the tobacco companies started losing revenue they added more nicotine to keep people hooked but in return made them smell really bad. Back in the sixties the smell of a freshly lit Lucky Strike or a Marlboro was a real nice aroma. Nowadays keep me away. Haven’t lit one up for 22 years after smoking for 33

[@bluefj-wc3vz]

Lol, oh I hear ya. Started smoking when we were probably 13 growing up in early 70’s. Everyone smoked everywhere back then. Quit 20 years ago. Just funny when you see these old films and such how everyone just chain smoked. 😂

[@dennisbehselich3747]

@@rexoliver7780 good stay in your car

[@rexoliver7780]

Didn’t they have non smoking cars for non smokers at that time?

[@mattkramer4132]

I’m pretty sure at the 4:20 mark, the nighttime shot looks a Lionel O gauge toy train instead of the real thing.😂. The radius on the turn is just too sharp for a real locomotive to navigate.

[@StuartAxe]

Yeah you're right. That's been a secret for 60 years.. ;-)

[@whitedovetail]

This is one mode of travel that I think should be brought back. I live in Texas and I would love to be able to travel west at a nice leisurely pace in total comfort. I rode the train system in Europe 2 different times and really enjoyed it. Plus the cost was very reasonable. And no, I have no desire to travel at 200 mph or higher in a train. Like I said, a nice leisurely pace in total comfort. I love this films!

[@richmanwisco]

How much do you want to pay for it?

[@georgewilson1184]

I like that diesel locomotive

[@TheC1kabar]

Now it’s AmTrak, which is run by the government, and it’s abhorrent.

[@michaeltaylor-lo4xx]

Anyone recognise who the actress is? Awesome scenery. A really interesting film.

[@bas1010]

I was wondering too, she looks so familiar!

[@JCELP]

I’m thinking that’s Virginia Leith.

[@williamstrecker1548]

I checked Google and that was Virginia Leith. Good detective work.😊

[@johnvrabec9747]

I thought was her. Good sleuthing. Her voice gave her away.

[@erickrobertson7089]

Americans are short sighted as a people. Once we had miles of aging track which eventually got pulled up. It connected nearly every small to medium sized and up town with its neighbor. Now we can't spend enough money on commuter rail.

[@richmanwisco]

Free market capitalism at work. That's what this country is all about.

[@erickrobertson7089]

@@richmanwisco Except that... *Commuter rail is massively subsidized. *Initial land and right of way was granted to the railroads by the US government. *The Interstate system became the preferred mode of transportation of people and freight over rail. We can't forget about air travel either. Both I'm sure have received some subsidy in one form or another. *Of all of AmTrak's routes that I know of, only one is actually profitable. I get your drift but I really don't think Free Market Capitalism has existed for awhile. I could be wrong but everything seems to be regulated (regulation not necessarily being a bad thing) and contracts or success in business seems to be more networking and influence then talent or skill. Your point is taken though.

[@1978garfield]

@@richmanwisco It was the US government that taxed the railroads on all their equipment, trackage, land & stations while building airports, radar and air traffic control with tax payer money. Also the government set the rates and fares the railroads could charge and forced them to keep routes that lost money. That doesn't sound like "free market capitalism" to me.

[@ksman19532009ify]

1111

[@junglefever49]

Where's the smoking car? They're all smoking cars says 1950.

[@MtnBoar]

I’m hoping they bring back decent rail cars Roanoke has sat idle for much to long.

[@Highland_Moo]

4.55......that beef was raw 🤢

[@jsboening]

I thought it was salmon

[@alcopower5710]

Simply outstanding 👍👍

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[@jeffreycoulter4095]

I wish I could have traveled by train, like the super chief.

[@Spookieham]

Still can in Australia and Canada and in the US but in the first two they are luxury trains and not cheap.

[@toomanyhobbies2011]

Is that Virginia Leith? From "The Brain that Wouldn't Die?"

[@williamstrecker1548]

Yes it is.

[@marblox9300]

He says - the last observation car is good if you like people. Well, I hate people so I guess that's not for me.

[@rexremedy1733]

Thats nice. Luxury travel or no travel! That has always been my motto.

[@Oliver-kv2mm]

Interesting everyone dressed to the 9s, no sweatpants or flip flops.

[@RTD3]

This makes me want to visit Los Angeles and explore her charms!!!

[@santafewarbonnetproductions]

SANTA FE ALL THE WAY!!!

[@Shaddowbanned]

I'm sorry that I missed it.

[@InFltSvc]

Sadly today in 2024 it’s AMTRASH!

[@ChristopherBrown-mq1lg]

Santa Fe - all the way

[@wanderlust451]

Stock reports, wow!

[@LuettgenIncorporated]

Don't mind me just tryna go Hither to Yawn

[@jayjay60]

I love how Hugh Hefner Light keeps pestering and hitting on Train Girl in every scene. Then when they get to Los Angle Leez her boyfriend picks her up and Hugh's body language says "Who the Hell is this?"

[@78Rudys]

Question: why do people pronúnciate “Los Angeles” so strangely?

[@suppylarue220]

that's the way it was pronounced by several generations of native born of mostly European heritage peoples.

[@leninmercedes6567]

No microwave food. Like they have now.

[@kathleenevans1201]

I miss those days. 😢

[@BillyAlabama]

I note that there is not a speck of turquoise in the Turquoise Room.

[@derrickwong5337]

Marvelous!! Santa Fe Super Chief history of Chicago to Los Angeles like future of Amtrak Southwest Chief in 52 years.

[@Surfercurtis]

Life seemed so perfect in 50’s America.