San Francisco Chief
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The San Francisco Chief was a named passenger train operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway as Nos. 1 & 2 from 1954 to 1971. Its route traversed the entire Santa Fe line from San Francisco, California south to Los Angeles, then east to Chicago, Illinois. The San Francisco Chief was one of the very last new streamliners introduced to the traveling public in the post World War II era. The train was reequipped with Budd Hilevel cars in 1964.
[edit] See also
- Passenger train service on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
[edit] External links
- Passenger trains operating on the eve of Amtrak
- San Francisco Chief information from the Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society.
- Several photos of the San Francisco Chief
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