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Passenger Trains > If The Super Chief Had Grandchildren.....Date: 07/27/17 22:45 If The Super Chief Had Grandchildren..... Author: walstib If the Super Chief had grandchildren, its train cars might look like this eight-car BNSF business train parked in Seattle this evening.
 Date: 07/28/17 02:34 Re: If The Super Chief Had Grandchildren..... Author: mp51w Well, the William Barstow Strong car is almost as old as the original Super Chief! I imagine a couple of those Regal series sleepers found their way into some Super Chief consists as well.
Date: 07/28/17 03:29 Re: If The Super Chief Had Grandchildren..... Author: slangist except the santa fe would never have used those little, tiny malspaced sans-serif letters for car names & railroad name...
Jamie Yeager Santa Fe, NM Date: 07/28/17 07:39 Re: If The Super Chief Had Grandchildren..... Author: hotrail And back in the day, when the Super Chief consist was designed and built, designers and engineers had a sense of style. Unlike whomever designed the hideous mods to create that "theater car". That guy is a hack and based on that car, I wouldn't let him work on an AMC Pacer.
Date: 07/28/17 09:06 Re: If The Super Chief Had Grandchildren..... Author: MojaveBill The Strong car was designed to do a job which it does very well, like all the other theater cars in the US, some of which I have ridden....
Bill Deaver Tehachapi, CA Date: 07/28/17 09:13 Re: If The Super Chief Had Grandchildren..... Author: WP-M2051 slangist Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > except the santa fe would never have used those > little, tiny malspaced sans-serif letters for car > names & railroad name... With the car names on the letter board no less. Date: 07/28/17 09:16 Re: If The Super Chief Had Grandchildren..... Author: bmarti7 Actually, after riding on the platform of a private car for days looking backward, I rather would enjoy sitting in a theater car with tiered seats. Too bad the railroads didn't think of it "back in the days"
BB Date: 07/28/17 09:49 Re: If The Super Chief Had Grandchildren..... Author: hotrail I'm sure its a nice ride. My point is that they obviously finished it off by hanging a roll-up garage door on the back. Clearly the designer was not up to the task.
Date: 07/28/17 17:36 Re: If The Super Chief Had Grandchildren..... Author: PHall hotrail Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > I'm sure its a nice ride. My point is that they > obviously finished it off by hanging a roll-up > garage door on the back. Clearly the designer was > not up to the task. It didn't have the roll up door when it first came out. A couple of rock throwers later they decided some protection was needed. Date: 07/28/17 22:45 Re: If The Super Chief Had Grandchildren..... Author: jointauthority They have the ugliest business train of all the class 1 railroads, IMO.
Very sad given the great potential they had given the history of the ATSF....they should have kept a pair of FP45s for business train service. But then they would have to be in warbonnet paint. Posted from Android |