American Passenger Coach - 1

     C&NW's most famous passenger coaches are this kind of Yellow and Green painted trains. Not only were its coaches painted in this color, but also locomotives were done by the same way. Its most wellknown passenger trains are the 400 series. That's why we called C&NW "Route of 400"! If you want more information about C&NW, welcome to visit my C&NW page.

          Left: Union Pacific Dome car. Minneapolis , MN
          Right: Southern Pacific coach but painted in Union Pacific armour yellow. Boone, IA

      Union Pacific's armour yellow is one of the most famous painting scheme in America. Its armour yellow has been used since 1930s, and never changed. Today, Union Pacific still preserved a lot of passenger fleets for bussiness use. It is not too difficult to see them running in the US. However, those 2 photos I show you are not owned by Union Pacific now. The right one is ex-Southern Pacific sleeper, and used in City of San Francisco. It was  a joined train between Union Pacific and Southern Pacific, so it did paint like that way before. Union Pacific had many wellknown passenger trains. Most of them were named as City of XXXX, Such as City of Los Angeles, City of San Francisco ......etc.

 

 
 
      Santa Fe's famous painting is beautiful red and silver Warbonnet, but its passenger coaches were often not painted and remain original silver color. This is a common streamliner owned by Santa Fe before. Santa Fe's famous trains is a seires Chief trains such as The Chief, Super Chief, Texas Chief......etc.

 

 
 
     Although the title here is Burlington Northern (It was formed in 1970), the coach I want to introduce is ex-Burlington Route  (CB&Q)'s dome car. Burlington Northern introduced the first dome car to American railroad in 1945. This kind of dome car or you can say Domeliner, Vista Dome is a very American style passenger trains.The CB&Q's famous trains is a series "Zephyr"s such as Afternoon Zephyr, American Royal Zephyr and the photo shown here, "California Zephyr"!

 

 
 
 
      Great Northern was a famous railroad company in America before; however, its builder, James J. Hill is the same wellknown as his company. Not only was GN's passenger trains named Empire Builder, but also people calles James J. Hill "Empire Builder",too. The above photo is the traditional Empire Builder painting.

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