Does anyone recall the cost of a ticket on one of these and the total cost to ride from Chicago to Los Angles?
One of the best, if not most memorable, steaks I ever had was on the train bound for Los Angles when I was a kid.
The reduction in smoking is one thing that has been an improvement from the 50’s and 60’s and even 70’s. The blue-gray haze was everywhere. So many people smoked everywhere and at all hours. It could not have been good for us. They were stained and the walls were stained with nicotine. Ashtrays were everywhere and they of course smelled terrible. People who smoked had downright yellow teeth and fingers.
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The Super Chief was a very deluxe loss leader. The Concorde of its day.