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Re: SP & Amtrak
Author: Hot Water
Date: 06-18-2018 - 17:40

jst3751 Wrote:
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> Sgt. Joe Friday Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > And for all the bad publicity SP received (some
> of
> > it deserved, I think) about their attitude
> toward
> > passenger trains pre-Amtrak, the SP equipment
> that
> > went to Amtrak was generally in good condition.
> > Maybe not to the same standard as the ATSF
> rolling
> > stock, but a high percentage of Amtrak's
> starting
> > fleet came from SP, UP, ATSF, and BN.
>
> ATSF? Didn't ATSF continue to operate their own
> passenger trains for several years, "selling" them
> to Amtrak at a later date?

Nope. What Santa Fe DID do, however, was to allow Amtrak to continue to use the name "Super Chief" until the level of customer service deteriorated to the point that AT&SF President John Reed took the name "super Chief" back, and refused to allow Amtrak to use it. Thus, we now have the "Southwest Chief".

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