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Texas Chief
The Dallas section of the Texas Chief in 1964
Overview
Service typeInter-city rail
First serviceApril 3, 1948
Last serviceMay 19, 1974
SuccessorLone Star
Former operator(s)
Route
TerminiChicago, Illinois
Galveston, Texas
Distance travelled1,410 miles (2,270 km)
Service frequencyDaily
Train number(s)15 (west), 16 (east)
On-board services
Seating arrangementsChair cars (also: ladies lounge and men's dressing room) (1950)
Sleeping arrangementsSections, roomettes, double bedroom, drawing rooms, compartment
Catering facilitiesDining car
Observation facilitiesLounge car
Route map
Chicago
Joliet
Streator
Chillicothe
Galesburg
Fort Madison
Fort Madison
closed
1968
Shopton
La Plata
Marceline
Kansas City
Emporia
Newton
Wichita
Winfield
Arkansas City
Ponca City
Perry
Guthrie
Oklahoma City
Norman
Purcell
Pauls Valley
Ardmore
Marietta
Gainesville
Fort Worth
Cleburne
McGregor
Temple
Bellville Yard
Houston
Galveston

The Texas Chief was a passenger train operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway between Chicago, Illinois, and Galveston, Texas. It was the first Santa Fe "Chief" outside the Chicago–Los Angeles routes. The Santa Fe conveyed the Texas Chief to Amtrak in 1971, which renamed it the Lone Star in 1974. The train was discontinued in 1979.

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History

Santa Fe

The Santa Fe introduced the Texas Chief on April 3, 1948.[1] The train competed with the Texas Eagle (Missouri Pacific Railroad) and the Texas Special (Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad/St. Louis–San Francisco Railway). The journey from Chicago to Galveston required 26 hours 15 minutes, ten hours faster the previous service on the route.[2] Service to Dallas, Texas, began on December 5, 1955. Patronage was strong; historian Keith L. Bryant Jr. credited the Texas Chief with causing the withdrawal of the Texas Special.[3] The Texas Chief was the first major train outside the Chicago–Los Angeles route to carry the "Chief" moniker popularized by the Chief and Super Chief.[4]

Amtrak

The general decline in passenger traffic in the 1960s led to cutbacks on the Texas Chief. Service south of Houston, Texas, ended in April 1967. The Dallas section ended on August 4, 1968.[5]

Amtrak retained the Texas Chief between Chicago and Houston.[5] Santa Fe was planning to discontinue the service unless it was included in the new national system.[6] In 1973 Amtrak proposed re-routing the Texas Chief to serve Dallas. This new route would use the Southern Pacific between Dallas and Houston.[7][8][9] Opposition from the SP killed the plan.[10] In 1974 the Santa Fe withdrew permission to use the name due to a perceived decline in service, so Amtrak renamed it the Lone Star.[11]

Rolling stock

The Texas Chief debuted with new equipment, including coaches, Pullman sleeping cars, a dining car, and a lounge.[1][3] In 1966 the Santa Fe assigned its 10 new GE U28CG diesel locomotives to the Texas Chief.[12] After 1968 excess Hi-Level coaches from the El Capitan and San Francisco Chief could be found on the Texas Chief, along with Big Dome full-length dome lounges from the discontinued Chief.[13][14]

The Texas Chief featured a wide variety of equipment during its short Amtrak tenure. In addition to ex-Santa Fe equipment such as Hi-Level coaches and Big Domes, Amtrak assigned Vista-Dome dormitory-buffet-lounge-observation cars from the former California Zephyr.[15]

References

Footnotes
  1. ^ a b Santa Fe Railroad (April 2, 1948). "New Schedules (advertisement)". The Atchison Daily Globe. Atchison, Kansas. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  2. ^ "New Texas Chief Due Here Sunday On Its First Trip". The Ponca City News. Ponca City, Oklahoma. April 2, 1948. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  3. ^ a b Bryant 1974, p. 350
  4. ^ Yenne 2005, p. 93
  5. ^ a b Sanders 2006, p. 107
  6. ^ "Need of Texas Chief in System Stressed". The Corpus Christi Caller-Times. Corpus Christi, Texas. Associated Press. December 2, 1970. p. 55 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  7. ^ "No Sense Switching Chief's Path". Waco Tribune-Herald. Waco, Texas. June 16, 1973. p. 1C – via Newspapers.com. open access
  8. ^ "Dallas Included in Rerouting Of Amtrak Railroad Service". Austin American-Statesman. Austin, Texas. Associated Press. February 24, 1973. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  9. ^ "No Decision on Texas Chief Route". The Waco News-Tribune. Waco, Texas. June 8, 1973. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  10. ^ Smith 1974, p. 83
  11. ^ Sanders 2006, p. 109
  12. ^ EuDaly 2009, p. 218
  13. ^ Flick & Kogan 1999, p. 22
  14. ^ Wayner 1972, p. 196
  15. ^ Sanders 2006, p. 119
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