Chicagoan and Kansas Cityan
The Chicagoan and Kansas Cityan were a pair of American named passenger trains operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. They ran from Chicago, Illinois to Wichita, Kansas, with a later extension to Oklahoma City.
.jpg.webp) The Chicagoan at Wichita in 1967 | |
| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Service type | Inter-city rail |
| Status | Discontinued |
| Locale | Midwestern United States/Southwestern United States |
| First service | April 10, 1938 |
| Last service | April 18, 1968[1] |
| Former operator(s) | Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway |
| Route | |
| Start | Chicago |
| Stops | Oklahoma City; to Dallas (1950s, 1960s) |
| On-board services | |
| Seating arrangements | Chair cars |
| Sleeping arrangements | Pullman cars: sections, compartments and double bedrooms from Kansas City to Dallas and sections, compartments and a drawing room Oklahoma City to Dallas (1954) |
| Catering facilities | Lunch counter-dining car |
| Observation facilities | Dome lounge car |
History
On April 17, 1938, the Santa Fe introduced a pair of day trains using lightweight, streamlined cars from the Budd Company, and numbered trains 11 and 12.[2] These two, seven-car, lightweight, streamlined trains operated the 663-mile (1,067 km) route in 12 3/4 hours between endpoints. In December of 1939, the train's western terminal would be moved to Oklahoma City, extending running times by three hours. At the same time, The Tulsan, streamlined diesel train 211 and 212, was introduced, carrying through chair cars taken off 11 to and from Tulsa, Oklahoma, and adding through Tulsa-Chicago cars to train 12. This allowed the service to compete with the new Frisco Firefly.
The inaugural runs of the two lightweight streamliners were operated with Electro-Motive Corporation E1A units numbered 8 and 9. However, within a month, Santa Fe rebuilt the old Santa Fe Box Cab Diesel passenger units 1A and 1B as single-cab units for the new trains, and assigned them the road numbers 1 and 10. After being rebuilt in Santa Fe's Topeka shops with an elevated cab over a new snub nose and new AAR 1B drop-equalizer trucks, and painted in the Santa Fe "war bonnet" paint scheme, they replaced the newer E-units.
The Chicagoan and Kansas Cityan received new full-length "Big Dome" lounges in 1954.[3] after the war, trains 111 and 112 carried a portion of the train (including a new sleeping car) to Dallas via Ft. Worth and Cleburne.[4] This extension disappeared in 1957, and reappeared in 1960. The trains were discontinued in their entirety in 1968.[5]
Train consists
At the train's inception, each of the two trainsets consisted of the following units:
- One EMC E1A 1,800 hp (1.3 MW) Diesel locomotive
- One Baggage 30-foot (9.1 m) or Railway Post Office car
- Three 52 seat coaches
- One 26 seat coach or 30-seat club lounge car
- One 48 seat dining car
- One 32 seat parlor observation
Notes
- Bartels, Michael (April 2008). "Great Plains Dispatcher" (PDF). Newsletter. Great Plains Transportation Museum and the Wichita Chapter National Railway Historical Society. p. 4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-02-19. Retrieved 2009-10-03.
- Reed 1975, p. 109
- Wayner 1972, p. 196
- Official Guide of the Railways, 1953, Santa Fe section, Table D http://streamlinermemories.info/SF/SF53TTocr.pdf
- http://santafe.gmbus.com/11-12Chicagoan-KansasCityan/Consist11-12.htm