El Capitan/Gallery

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A collection of images about El Capitan.
  • © Photo: Los Angeles Times Santa Fe #19L, leading the combined Super Chief / El Capitan, comes to rest after smashing through a concrete barrier at Los Angeles Union Station in January, 1948.

    © Photo: Los Angeles Times
    Santa Fe #19L, leading the combined Super Chief / El Capitan, comes to rest after smashing through a concrete barrier at Los Angeles Union Station in January, 1948.

  • © Photo: Otto Perry Train #21, El Capitan, rolls down the Raton Pass near Lynn, New Mexico. Four EMD F3 units, led by engine #20, power the 11-car consist. The debut of the line's signature "Big Dome" and "Hi-Level" passenger cars is still four years off.

    © Photo: Otto Perry
    Train #21, El Capitan, rolls down the Raton Pass near Lynn, New Mexico. Four EMD F3 units, led by engine #20, power the 11-car consist. The debut of the line's signature "Big Dome" and "Hi-Level" passenger cars is still four years off.

  • (PD) Photo: Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway An interior photo of one of the "Big Dome" cars which the Santa Fe introduced on its El Capitan and San Francisco Chief trains in 1954. The dome extended over the roof of the entire car, as opposed to standard domed cars whose domes occupied only a portion of the car's roof.

    (PD) Photo: Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
    An interior photo of one of the "Big Dome" cars which the Santa Fe introduced on its El Capitan and San Francisco Chief trains in 1954. The dome extended over the roof of the entire car, as opposed to standard domed cars whose domes occupied only a portion of the car's roof.

  • (CC) Photo: Phil Dohmen / DaveVarilek / TrainWeb.com One of Santa Fe's "Big Dome"-Lounge cars originally built by the Budd Company for El Capitan; eventually, these cars would find their way into consists on nearly every main line. Unit #506 (shown above) was the only unit retained by the Santa Fe after 1971 (its designation changed to #60); all the rest had been sold to Auto-Train. The car "lives" today as a member of the BNSF Railway roster as BNSF31, the Bay View.

    (CC) Photo: Phil Dohmen / DaveVarilek / TrainWeb.com
    One of Santa Fe's "Big Dome"-Lounge cars originally built by the Budd Company for El Capitan; eventually, these cars would find their way into consists on nearly every main line. Unit #506 (shown above) was the only unit retained by the Santa Fe after 1971 (its designation changed to #60); all the rest had been sold to Auto-Train. The car "lives" today as a member of the BNSF Railway roster as BNSF31, the Bay View.

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