{"id":4206,"date":"2019-02-18T14:36:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/?page_id=4206"},"modified":"2019-02-18T14:36:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:36:55","slug":"southern-pacific-challenger","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/things\/southern-pacific-challenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Pacific Challenger"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photo of the diesel-powered, streamlined version of the Union Pacific train The Challenger as it prepared to return to the rails. The train had been discontinued during World War II and was brought back into service January 10, 1954.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The\u00a0Challengers<\/b>\u00a0were\u00a0named<\/a>\u00a0passenger trains on the\u00a0Union Pacific Railroad<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Chicago and North Western Railway<\/a>\u00a0(which was replaced in 1955 by\u00a0the Milwaukee Road<\/a>). The economy service ran between\u00a0Chicago<\/a>,\u00a0Illinois<\/a>, and the West Coast of the United States. The trains had full Pullman service and coach seating and were an attempt to draw\u00a0Depression<\/a>-Era riders back to the rails. Food service was advertised as “three meals for under a dollar a day.”[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n

During the late 1930s the\u00a0Challenger\u00a0fleet was among the highest-patronized of American trains, and the best revenue producers of the UP passenger fleet. <\/em><\/p>\n

In May 1936 the train commenced operation between Chicago and\u00a0Los Angeles<\/a>,\u00a0California<\/a>, on its own schedule. 1937 saw the UP partnering with the\u00a0Southern Pacific Railroad<\/a>\u00a0to add a train from Chicago to\u00a0Oakland, California<\/a>, a line that would take the name\u00a0San Francisco Challenger\u00a0(the original then became the\u00a0Los Angeles Challenger).<\/em><\/p>\n

Discontinued in 1947, the\u00a0Challenger\u00a0name reappeared in 1954 on a streamliner. When\u00a0Amtrak<\/a>\u00a0took over the nation’s passenger service in 1971, it ended the\u00a0Challenger\u00a0once and for all.[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Excerpt from Wikipedia: The\u00a0Challengers\u00a0were\u00a0named\u00a0passenger trains on the\u00a0Union Pacific Railroad\u00a0and the\u00a0Chicago and North Western Railway\u00a0(which was replaced in 1955 by\u00a0the Milwaukee Road). The economy service ran between\u00a0Chicago,\u00a0Illinois, and the West Coast of the United States. The trains had full Pullman service and coach seating and were an attempt to draw\u00a0Depression-Era riders back to the rails. Food … Continue reading Southern Pacific Challenger<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":57,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4206","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4208,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4206\/revisions\/4208"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}