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Chicagoan and Kansas Cityan
The Chicagoan at Wichita Union Station in 1967
Overview
Service typeInter-city rail
StatusDiscontinued
LocaleMidwestern United States/Southwestern United States
First serviceApril 10, 1938; 86 years ago (April 10, 1938)
Last serviceApril 18, 1968; 56 years ago (April 18, 1968)[1]
Former operator(s)Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
Route
TerminiChicago
StopsOklahoma City; to Dallas (1950s, 1960s)
On-board services
Seating arrangementsChair cars
Sleeping arrangementsPullman cars: sections, compartments and double bedrooms from Kansas City to Dallas and sections, compartments and a drawing room Oklahoma City to Dallas (1954)
Catering facilitiesLunch counter-dining car
Observation facilitiesDome lounge car

The Chicagoan and Kansas Cityan were a pair of American named passenger trains operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. They ran from Chicago, Illinois to Wichita, Kansas, with a later extension to Oklahoma City.

History

On April 17, 1938, the Santa Fe introduced a pair of day trains using lightweight, streamlined cars from the Budd Company, and numbered trains 11 and 12.[2] These two, seven-car, lightweight, streamlined trains operated the 663-mile (1,067 km) route in 12 3/4 hours between endpoints. In December of 1939, the train's western terminal would be moved to Oklahoma City, extending running times by three hours. At the same time, The Tulsan, streamlined diesel train 211 and 212, was introduced, carrying through chair cars taken off 11 to and from Tulsa, Oklahoma, and adding through Tulsa-Chicago cars to train 12. This allowed the service to compete with the new Frisco Firefly.

The inaugural runs of the two lightweight streamliners were operated with Electro-Motive Corporation E1A units numbered 8 and 9. However, within a month, Santa Fe rebuilt the old Santa Fe Box Cab Diesel passenger units 1A and 1B as single-cab units for the new trains, and assigned them the road numbers 1 and 10. After being rebuilt in Santa Fe's Topeka shops with an elevated cab over a new snub nose and new AAR 1B drop-equalizer trucks, and painted in the Santa Fe "war bonnet" paint scheme, they replaced the newer E-units.

The Chicagoan and Kansas Cityan received new full-length "Big Dome" lounges in 1954.[3] after the war, trains 111 and 112 carried a portion of the train (including a new sleeping car) to Dallas via Ft. Worth and Cleburne.[4] This extension disappeared in 1957, and reappeared in 1960. The trains were discontinued in their entirety in 1968.[5]

Train consists

At the train's inception, each of the two trainsets consisted of the following units:

Notes

  1. ^ Bartels, Michael (April 2008). "Great Plains Dispatcher" (PDF). Newsletter. Great Plains Transportation Museum and the Wichita Chapter National Railway Historical Society. p. 4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-02-19. Retrieved 2009-10-03.
  2. ^ Reed 1975, p. 109
  3. ^ Wayner 1972, p. 196
  4. ^ Official Guide of the Railways, 1953, Santa Fe section, Table D http://streamlinermemories.info/SF/SF53TTocr.pdf
  5. ^ "Passenger Train Consist Assignment".

References

  • Reed, Robert C. (1975). The Streamline Era. San Marino, California: Golden West Books. ISBN 0-87095-053-3.
  • Wayner, Robert J., ed. (1972). Car Names, Numbers and Consists. New York: Wayner Publications. OCLC 8848690.
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