Hot Water posted:Dominic Mazoch posted:With the Big Dome, is that not the CHIEF, not the. SC?
But that curve seems to have been used for many PR pictures.
Since that view is along the ocean, it might actually be on the line south to SanDiego, thus not either the "Chief" nor the "Super Chief".
Well, fellows, I agree that it is not the Chief, nor the Super Chief. All the passenger cars are chair cars except for the Big Dome lounge, and the dining car behind it, as well as the lunch counter diner two cars ahead of the dome car, so this train is El Capitan, between 1953 and 1956. The Big Dome was added to the consist in 1953, and the entire passenger consist of El Capitan was replaced with Hi-Level chair cars, lounge, and dining car in 1956. The deluxe chair cars with the window shade dividers were also built in 1953, by Budd, and were the finest conventional chair cars ever built.
The location looks like Blanchard, NM, to me, as evidenced by the piñon trees and the "bob wahr" ranch fence. That would be way up in northeast New Mexico ranch country, 2-lane and dirt road territory.
Engine 36 was the last F3 consist purchased by Santa Fe, early in 1949.
