Chicagoan and Kansas Cityan


The Chicagoan and Kansas Cityan were a pair of American named passenger trains operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. They ran from Chicago, Illinois to Wichita, Kansas, with a later extension to Oklahoma City.

History

On April 17, 1938, the Santa Fe introduced a pair of day trains using lightweight, streamlined cars from the Budd Company, and numbered trains 11 and 12. These two, seven-car, lightweight, streamlined trains operated the route in 12 3/4 hours between end points. In December of 1939, the train's western terminal would be moved to Oklahoma City, extending running times by three hours. At the same time, The Tulsan, streamlined diesel train 211 and 212, was introduced, carrying through chair cars taken off 11 to and from Tulsa, Oklahoma, and adding through Tulsa-Chicago cars to train 12. This allowed the service to compete with the new Frisco Firefly.
The inaugural runs of the two lightweight streamliners were operated with Electro-Motive Corporation E1A units numbered 8 and 9, but within a month Santa Fe rebuilt the old Santa Fe Box Cab Diesel passenger units 1A and 1B as single-cab units for the new trains, assigning them the road numbers 1 and 10. After being rebuilt in Santa Fe's Topeka shops with an elevated cab over a new snub nose and new AAR 1B drop-equalizer trucks, and painted in the Santa Fe "war bonnet" paint scheme, they replaced the newer E-units. After new equipment arrived in 1939 and 1940, these units saw only infrequent service on this train.
The Chicagoan and Kansas Cityan received new full-length "Big Dome" lounges in 1954. after the war, trains 111 and 112 carried a portion of the train to Dallas via Ft. Worth and Cleburne. This extension disappeared in 1957, and reappeared in 1960. The trains were discontinued in their entirety in 1968.

Train consists

At the train's inception, each of the two trainsets consisted of the following units: