FRIENDS OF AMTRAK PHOTO GALLERY - Page Sixteen

These two late-60s shots caught two venerable trains approaching their last days. Santa Fe's Grand Canyon, here photographed in Albuquerque, was the workaday third train on a route featuring the Chief and Super Chief. Nonetheless, it carried a full complement of lounge, sleeping, dining and chair cars between Chicago and Los Angeles, and sleeping and chair cars which connected to and from Dallas. Easy transfers could be made to secondary runs to Santa Fe, NM, and El Paso, Texas. It was heavy with mail and express. Spokane, Portland and Seattle Train #2, shot in Vancouver, Washington, on its way between Portland and Spokane, carried sundry coach and sleeper equipment for Northern Pacific's North Coast Limited and Great Northern's Empire Builder. I recall both trains as being full, with good doses of the spit and polish all the carriers were known for.