| Posted by mmi16 on June 3, 2025 | |
Not enough head end traffic to be the Grand Canyon
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Look at the class operation Santa Fe was running, even up to the advent of Amtrak. Clean, streamlined and probably on-time, all the way. This was the last gasp of passenger service as we once knew it. Highball!
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I think if you lookup Grand Canyon after mail reductions of October 1967 you will find something similar esp 69-71. Santa Fe wanted to Drop train but had to keep it on till end.
As an example; https://www.railpictures.net/photo/246989/
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| Posted by XE-50W on June 4, 2025 | |
Aside-of "typo" for year under "Date of Photo" (should be "1970" account ATK began operations on May 1, 1971), the head-end traffic had vanished following then-USPO's cancellation of mail contracts three years earlier.
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