| 词条 | California Limited |
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| box_width = | name = California Limited | logo = ATSF California Limited combined.png | logo_width = 200px | image = ATSF California Limited at Los Angeles circa 1899 William Henry Jackson photo.jpg | image_width = 300px | caption = California Limited in Los Angeles, California with engine No. 53 at the La Grande Station circa 1899 | type = | status = | locale = | predecessor = | first = November 27, 1892 | last = June 15, 1954 | successor = | operator = | formeroperator = Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway | ridership = | website = | start = | stops = | end = | distance = | journeytime = | frequency = | trainnumber = | line_used = | class = | access = | seating = | sleeping = | autorack = | catering = | observation = | entertainment = | baggage = | otherfacilities = | stock = | gauge = | el = | speed = | owners = | routenumber = | map = | map_state = }} The California Limited was one of the named passenger trains of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. It carried train Nos. 3 & 4 and ran between Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles, California. The line was conceived by company president Allen Manvel as a means to "signify completion of the basic Santa Fe system." Manvel felt he could attract business and enhance the prestige of the railroad with daily first-class service from Chicago to the West Coast. The California Limited, billed as the "Finest Train West of Chicago," made its first run on November 27, 1892. The California Limited was the first Santa Fe train with Fred Harvey Company meal service. The later trains also offered air conditioning, a barber, beautician, steam-operated clothing press, even a shower-bath. The Limited was the first Santa Fe train with illuminated drumhead on its observation cars, with the train's name over the company logo. The California Limited was withdrawn on June 15, 1954, giving it the longest tenure of any train on the Chicago-Los Angeles run of the Santa Fe. HistoryThe Santa Fe introduced the California Limited on November 27, 1892. The journey took 83 hours and 50 minutes and required fifteen locomotive changes. During the summer multiple sections were necessary to accommodate demand; reportedly 23 sections once operated from Chicago on one day. The train carried just Pullman sleeping cars (no coaches) until 1938.[1]{{rp|35–36}} The Santa Fe re-equipped the California Limited in 1910 with a club-lounge, a twin-unit dining car, and new 7-2 (7 compartments, 2 drawing rooms) sleeping cars from Pullman.[2]{{rp|73}}{{rp|41}} The weekly extra-fare Santa Fe de Luxe in 1911 overshadowed the California Limited, but it remained a popular train. The introduction of the Chief in 1926 eclipsed the California Limited, although the train ran for another three decades.{{rp|17}} In October 1953 it was scheduled to leave Los Angeles at 1815 with coaches and sleepers-- no diner and no lounge. Breakfast stop at Seligman, lunch stop at Winslow, dinner stop at Albuquerque; next morning at La Junta it would add a diner for the rest of the run to Chicago (scheduled arrival 0830). It ran via Pasadena, Great Bend and Topeka. Timeline
EquipmentA variety of steam and diesel locomotives pulled the California Limited. In 1892 the California Limited consisted of heavyweight cars built by Pullman-Standard. Each train had:
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References1. ^{{Yenne-Chiefs}} 2. ^{{cite book | title=The Cars of Pullman | first=Joe | last=Welsh |author2=Bill Howes |author3=Kevin J Holland | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GhEwO0dn__AC | year=2010 | publisher=Voyageur Press}} }}{{refbegin}}
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