Nostalgia & History > Santa Fe People-1969

Two part message here, four crew members on a San Francisco Chief trip from Belen to KC and back in 1969.
Pardon the quality, I was 13 and took these with an old Instamatic!
Enjoy and happy Saturday,
Chico

1. Sleeping car porter Salem Miller - Train #1
2. Dining car steward Ralph Bennett - Train #2

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3. Waiter Oscar Brown - Train #2
4. Sleeping car porter Benjamin Lyman and fellow passenger Herman U. Prater- Train #2
Chico

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Rare images of some of the personel that made Santa Fe passenger trains so excellent.
Wow - you still had their names after all these years.
Great shots !
Gary

1937 Budd diner with "George Orwell" ceiling light fixtures in picture #2.

Aisle of a Pine-series 10-6 in picture #4.

My steel trap mind at work, ok maybe not!  Actually somehow I had presentience of mind to write the names down on a timetable.
Chico

gcm Wrote:
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> Wow - you still had their names after all these
> years.
 

Also, note the sleeping car porter in picture #4 is wearing a hat with a hat badge that says "Santa Fe".  This was after the Pullman Company ceased operation, so Santa Fe (and other railroads still running sleepers) took over operation of their own sleeping cars.

That was the Pine Crest, our car westbound was the Blue Gem.
Chico

Topfuel Wrote:
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> Aisle of a Pine-series 10-6 in picture #4.

Very good job to have noted the car names, especially as a young man  Did you take a consist of all the cars and locomotives on each train?

Topfuel Wrote:
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>Did you take a consist
> of all the cars and locomotives on each train?

Unfortunately no, wasn't quite that smart back then, wish I had been!
Chico

Good job and thanks for the post.Writing the names down.I wish I would had that kind of foresight.Bill Webb

Excellent post. I consistently find that people are the most interesting thing in my train photos.

Great photos--- the faces and names breathe life into everything. 

Chico56 Wrote:
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> Topfuel Wrote:
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> >Did you take a consist
> > of all the cars and locomotives on each train?
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> Unfortunately no, wasn't quite that smart back
> then, wish I had been!
> Chico

Maybe, but you were smart enough to get shots of the people that made the trains great, which was more than I was.  

Nick Tharalson,
Marion, IA

Thanks Nick!