Chief (train) - Equipment Used

Equipment Used

A typical heavyweight Chief consist in Winter, 1937:

  • 4-6-4 "Hudson"-type Steam Locomotive #3451
  • Express Mail #2041
  • Railway Post Office #63
  • Baggage-Club-Lounge #1304 Chief Manakaja
  • Lounge General Carr (10 sections, likely utilized as crew Dormitory space)
  • Fred Harvey Company Diner #1472
  • Sleeper Glen Ewen (6 compartments, 3 drawing rooms)
  • Sleeper Laurel Wood (8 sections, 2 compartments, 1 drawing room)
  • Sleeper-Observation-Lounge Crystal Bay (3 compartments, 2 drawing rooms)

A typical "mixed" Chief consist as of January 31, 1938 (the Chief regularly included heavyweight head-end cars in its consist, even into the late 1940s):

  • 4-6-4 "Hudson"-type Steam Locomotive #3460 (also known as the "Blue Goose")
  • Railway Post Office #79 (heavyweight)
  • Baggage #1894 (heavyweight)
  • Baggage-Buffet-Lounge #1380 San Miguel (also included a barber shop)
  • Sleeper Otowi (17 roomettes)
  • Sleeper Ganado (14 sections)
  • Sleeper Toreva (8 sections, 2 compartments, 2 double bedrooms)
  • Sleeper Mankoweap (4 compartments, 2 drawing rooms, 4 Dbl. Bdrm.)
  • Dormitory-Club-Lounge #1373 Tesuque
  • Fred Harvey Company Diner #1477
  • Sleeper Mohave (4 compartments, 2 drawing rooms, 4 double bedrooms)
  • Sleeper Sinyala (8 sections, 2 compartments, 2 double bedrooms)
  • Sleeper-Observation-Lounge Betahtakin (4 drawing rooms, 1 double bedroom)

Transcontinental Sleeping Car Service was inaugurated in Spring 1946, and the Chief began regularly carrying three such cars in its consist: two originating in New York City, and the other in Washington, DC (most often these were smooth-sided cars painted two-tone Pullman grey). By the following summer, the Chief had retired all of its steam-driven motive power and was usually pulled behind A-B-B-A sets of EMD FT locomotives or A-B-A sets of the new ALCO PAs).

The following is a typical all-lightweight Chief consist as of late 1947:

  • ALCO PA Locomotive #53L
  • ALCO PB Locomotive #53A
  • ALCO PA Locomotive #53B
  • Baggage #3452
  • Railway Post Office #88
  • Baggage #3438
  • Baggage-Buffet-Lounge #1381 San Marcial (also included a barber shop)
  • Sleeper Maito (17 roomettes)
  • Sleeper Verde Valley (6 sections, 6 roomettes, 4 double bedrooms)
  • Sleeper Imperial Park (4 compartments, 2 drawing rooms, 4 double bedrooms)
  • Sleeper Tapacipa (4 compartments, 2 drawing rooms, 4 double bedrooms)
  • Dormitory-Club-Lounge #1372 Picuris
  • Fred Harvey Company Diner #1497
  • Sleeper Kayenta (4 compartments, 2 drawing rooms, 4 double bedrooms)
  • Sleeper Sinyala (8 sections, 2 compartments, 2 double bedrooms)
  • Sleeper Tolani (8 sections, 2 compartments, 2 double bedrooms)
  • Sleeper-Observation-Lounge Biltabito (4 drawing rooms, 1 double bedroom)

A typical Chief consist in the mid-1950s (note the absence of an observation car, which was eliminated as per Santa Fe policy):

  • EMD F7A Locomotive #46C
  • EMD F7B Locomotive #46B
  • EMD F3B Locomotive #19B
  • EMD F7B Locomotive #301A
  • EMD F7A Locomotive #301L
  • Baggage #3657
  • Baggage #3442
  • Baggage-Dormitory #1381
  • "Chair" car / Coach (44 "leg-rest" seats) #2938
  • "Chair" car / Coach (44 "leg-rest" seats) #2883
  • "Chair" car / Coach (44 "leg-rest" seats) #2909
  • Lunch Counter-Diner #1568
  • "Chair" car / Coach (44 "leg-rest" seats) #2848
  • "Chair" car / Coach (44 "leg-rest" seats) #2831
  • "Big Dome"-Lounge #509
  • Fred Harvey Company Diner #1491
  • Sleeper Blue Island (10 roomettes, 2 compartments, 3 double bedrooms)*
  • Sleeper Pine Dale (10 roomettes, 6 double bedrooms)
  • Sleeper Palm Star (10 roomettes, 6 double bedrooms)
  • Sleeper Citrus Valley (6 sections, 6 roomettes, 4 double bedrooms) (ran from Chicago, Illinois — Denver, Colorado; switched out at La Junta, Colorado).
  • Sleeper Estancia Valley (6 sections, 6 roomettes, 4 double bedrooms) (ran from Denver, Colorado — Los Angeles, California; switched in at La Junta, Colorado).
*NOTE: The nineteen "10-2-3" sleepers in the Blue series had a floorplan configuration unique to the Santa Fe.

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