Tag Archives: El Capitan Hi-level lounge

Travel the Santa Fe Way

Posted on September 15, 2015 by Gary Garth McCann

This black-and-white brochure issued during the ‘sixties includes a few photos I haven’t seen elsewhere, including the one above of the lounge car on El Capitan.  (Today these cars are Pacific Parlor Cars–diner-lounges, really–on Amtrak’s Coast Starlight, an interesting transition … Continue reading →

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Santa Fe El Capitan lounge lives on as Coast Starlight Pacific Parlour Car

Posted on August 1, 2014 by Gary Garth McCann

Other than baggage cars, only a few cars now operating on Amtrak operated on the streamliners of the 1950s: Amtrak diners on the Silver Meteor, Silver Star, Crescent, and Lake Shore Limited, and the Coast Starlight’s “Pacific Parlour Cars,” pictured … Continue reading →

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