AT&SF Hi-Level Exhibition Train (1956)

Overview

This page depicts the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe's Hi-Level exhibition train which toured the system in early 1956 to introduce the new El Capitan equipment Five full train sets were required for regular service, and enough equipment was finally received from Budd to begin Hi-Level El Capitan service on 8 July 1956.

Consist

	ATSF 307 & 307A (300 class EMD F7A & F7B), two-thirds of an ABB "bobtail" set of F7s built in December 1952 with 100-MPH gearing. These numbers were originally assigned to a dual-service F7 set, with 80-MPH gearing, delivered in May 1950. When the 306 class became the 325 class, the earlier 307 set was renumbered 326.
	ATSF 3479, with the shorter 3480 standing in for it in this depiction.
	ATSF 536, Hi-Level step-down chair car.
	ATSF 577, Hi-Level lounge car.
	ATSF 651, Hi-Level dining car.
	ATSF 709, Hi-Level chair car.

Bibliography

• Berglund, Lee. "Forty Years of Santa Fe Covered Wagons." Sante Fe Modeler, Third Quarter 1991. Also available online from The Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society and transcribed by Russell Crump.
• Bruce, John. Santa Fe Warbonnet F7s. WWW page.
• Clough, Brian. The 1956 El Capitan Hi-Level cars. WWW site.
• Flick, Michael W. and Dennis Kogan. "Santa Fe's Hi-Level Passenger Cars." The Warbonnet, Third Quarter 1999, pp. 8-24.
• Fuhrman, Jim. EMD F2/F3/F5 Phase Chart. WWW page.
• Fuhrman, Jim. EMD F7 & F9 phases. WWW page.
• Jolpin, Loren B. "The 325 Class -Sante Fe's Dual-Service Workhorses." The Warbonnet, Third Quarter 2000, pp. 22-28.
• Kogan, Flick. "The Characteristics of Fluting." Southwestern Prototype Modeler, Jan-Feb 1976, pp. 6-10. Also available online.
• McMillan, Joe. Santa Fe's Diesel Fleet. Burlingame, California: Chatham Publishing, 1975.
• Priest, Dr. Cinthia. The Santa Fe Diesel - Volume One: Dieselization - 1960. Paired Rail Railroad Publications, 1997.
• Randall, W. David and Alan R. Lind. From Zephyr to Amtrak. Park Forest, Illinois: Prototype Publications, 1972.
• Zimmerman, Karl. Santa Fe Streamliners - The Chiefs and Their Tribesmen. New York: Quadrant Press, 1987.
• -. Santa Fe Links: Passenger Cars. WWW page: The Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society.
• -. Overland Mail, Issue #128, April-June 2000. Muncie, Indiana: Overland Models, 1570-1571.

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