AT&SF El Capitan (8 July 1956)

Overview

This page depicts the typical consist of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe's El Capitan when the Hi-Level equipment entered service on 8 July 1956.

Consist

	ATSF 331 (325 class EMD F7A).
	ATSF 19LABC (16 class EMD F3A). Santa Fe's initial six sets of passenger F3s (16LABC - 21LABC), built by EMD in 1946, had a longer warbonnet, which persisted even after the early three-porthole side panels were upgraded to later F-unit designs to improve airflow. They also had aluminum-painted side panels, rather than the stainless steels panels used on later Santa Fe passenger Fs.
	ATSF 3440 (3432 class), baggage-express car, one of 21 built by Budd in 1942 for general service.
	ATSF 3453 (3453 class), baggage-express car, one of 14 built by American Car & Foundry (ACF) in 1950 for service on the Super Chief, El Capitan, and Kansas City Chief.
	ATSF 3480, transition car, one of two built by Budd in 1938 as baggage-dormitory-chair cars for the original El Capitan and converted at Topeka for assingment to the Hi-Level El Capitan. The other car, ATST 3481, looked slightly different as it retained its skirting.
	ATSF 528-class Hi-Level step-down chair car.
	ATSF 700-class Hi-Level chair cars.
	ATSF 650-class Hi-Level dining car.
	ATSF 575-class Hi-Level lounge car.
	ATSF 700-class Hi-Level chair cars.
	ATSF 528-class Hi-Level step-down 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, January-February 1976, pp. 6-10. Also available online.
• McMillan, Joe. Santa Fe's Diesel Fleet. Burlingame, California: Chatham Publishing, 1975.
• O'Connor, Tim. ATSF 2-door Budd baggage car 1967 Colorado Springs. WWW site: Railfan.net ABPR Archive.
• 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.
• Sandifer, Steve. Concor and Athearn LWT Baggage. WWW page.
• 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, pp. 1570-1571.

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