Talk:Super Chief

Informal peer review

At first glance, this does look like a good candidate for moving up through the FA process, but it's not ready yet. The timeline needs to be converted to prose and the equipment section makes the article a bit list heavy (maybe the equipment information should be split off to a subpage, keeping only the equipment from the inaugural runs here?). Slambo (Speak) 03:23, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Good Article Review

This article has been nominated for delisting as a Good Article. Please provide commentary and feedback on the review page. ChicagoPimp 17:50, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Delisted as it was never reviewed. Merely tagged by the article creator. --LaraLove^Talk/_Contribs 19:06, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 17:29, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

It seems to me that we should be able to get a free image to replace this. I'll look around at the railroadiana shows that I attend. Slambo (Speak) 18:12, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

It's been nearly two years since Slambo's remark, and we still don't have a free image of the Mimbreno. While I have no original pieces, I do have a set of the authorized reproduction pieces that I could take a picture of at any time. Does anyone feel that this would be a worthwhile addition to the article, or do you want to keep it to the authentic originals only? Ehbowen (talk) 18:42, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

-1? -2?

Is there a citation for the use of Super Chief-1 or Super Chief-2? --plaws (talk) 02:12, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

I've never heard that terminology used before in any reference. I suggest we replace it with the adjectives "heavyweight" and "streamlined", respectively. Ehbowen (talk) 03:36, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Article scope

As I see it there are four somewhat distinct periods that this article could cover:

1. Super Chief (ATSF): 1935-1971
2. Super Chief (Amtrak): 1971-1974
3. Southwest Limited (Amtrak): 1974-1984
4. Southwest Chief (Amtrak): 1984-present

My sense is that this article should cover the first only, with a brief discussion of the last three. Southwest Chief needs an expanded history section but should cover all the Amtrak history. Practically speaking this would mean eventually trimming some of the history currently in the timeline section. Mackensen (talk) 20:58, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Paging Pi.1415926535 (talk · contribs) in light of the California Zephyr split. Mackensen (talk) 02:00, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Seems reasonable to me. The 1972 operation of the Chief should be covered (about two sentences...) in #2 regardless. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 02:08, 31 October 2018 (UTC)