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THE CHIEF – SANTA FE promotional film on the famed train from the 1950s…

Santa Fe promotional video on the streamliner the CHIEF (not the SUPER CHIEF as stated in the youtube video).


Here’s the Chief about to depart from Pasadena, CA., in the 1960s with Pullman sleepers, chair cars, dining car, lunch-counter car and Dome Lounge.

Social and travel history: the Santa Fe Chief…

The Chief was one of the named passenger trains of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Its route ran from Chicago, Illinois to Los Angeles, California. The Chief was inaugurated as an all-Pullman limited train to supplement the road’s California Limited, with a surcharge of USD $10.00 for an end-to-end trip. The heavyweight began its inaugural run from both ends of the line, simultaneously, on November 14, 1926, making the cross-country trip in the advertised 63 hours, five hours faster than the California Limited. (The same day, the Overland Limited began its extra-fare 63-hour schedule between Chicago and San Francisco.)

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PASADENA SANTA FE STATION – GATEWAY TO HOLLYWOOD

The Santa Fe Station in Pasadena is now La Grande Orange Café.  This was the depot’s main waiting room.

Click here to visit the La Grande Orange Café website.

The depot’s waiting room just after it closed as the Santa Fe/Amtrak Station.

The orignal Santa Fe Station in Pasadena.

The Santa Fe Station in Pasadena was home to the Super Chief, the Chief, El Capitan and other major streamliners.

The Super Chief leaving Pasadena in the early 1940s.

The Metro Gold Line Del Mar Station was originally the Santa Fe Depot of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway.

(Left) The original Pasadena Santa Fe Depot. (Right) The La Grande Orange Cafe.

Santa Fe Chief passes Los Angeles streetcar just south of the Pasadena Station.

The Santa Fe Railway’s Mission Revival-style passenger station on Raymond Ave. in Pasadena, CA, opened in 1935.

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