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Super Chief

By Angela Cotey | July 20, 2019

| Last updated on August 8, 2025


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The Super Chief was the first scheduled Santa Fe passenger train to beat the running time of the famous special that the railroad operated for Walter E. Scott, better known as “Death Valley Scotty,” in 1905. Here, the eight-car Chief is led by an A-B set of EMD diesels.
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  1. Remember that until the late mid-1950s, Hollywood celebrities frequently rode the super fashionable Super Chief, making it known as “The Train of The Stars”.

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