Classy Train Travel of the Yesteryear, The Super Cheap. 1940s. | Stock Footage
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I remember the last of the smoking car trains on amtrak which if I'm correct ended in the early 90s. It was usually the car next to the cafe. I was a young boy travelling with my mom from DC to New York. I always ordered that round cheese pizza with the cardboard which was served on a tray with those folded out cupholders. I would put down my plastic tray from the seat in front of me while I would eat my special Amtrak meal I would only get a taste of once a year for that 4 hour journey. I would sip on my ice cold coke, eat my microwave plastic cheese pizza and munch on some ruffles and peanuts. I was around 10 years old. This was from mid to late 80's. We always would go during Christmas to see my Aunt and cousins in Manhattan. I remember the dark maroon seats with the multicolor brown stripes. I remember the distinct smells of the train car and the soothing sound of the tracks that would put me in a trance as I would stare out the window at every single rotten American ghetto from DC as it would pass through all the ghettos of baltimore, wilmington delaware, philadelphia, trenton NJ and so on to New York Penn Station. It was a different world that I never really got a chance to see as a middle class white boy. The grafitti was absolutely beautiful and the burned down boarded up houses with piles of garbage was picturesque and nostalgic. I remember before boarding, I would get a glimpse of a sleeper car on the platform and I would wish that one day, I would be able to travel by sleeper car. I remember arriving at New York's Penn station after the Mets had won the 1986 world Series. I was about 8 years old. The platform is all dark and I remember going up the escalator with my mom and then walking into the big bright lights of Penn station waiting area. It was filled with crazed homeless people sleeping on every bench and chair with a million bags. The smell of cigarette smoke filled the air and I miss those smells of cigarette smoke in a big open marble floor indoor public area. Then we would go up another escalator to outside to catch a cab to the Upper East Side to see my Aunt and cousins. It was always the week of Christmas when we used to do this yearly trip. I remember there would be these random guys that would walk by us in the taxi line and ask us if we needed a ride. We would always ignore them and I remember a cop came up to us and said never to go with those fake cabs because they would rob us instead and take all our money and luggage.
Super CHEAP?! It's super CHIEF ~
When America had class
America still alive and stil class even in 2020 (:
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when America was the AI world
@@patrickrancourt4782 yeah but China is trying USA madd the future
Fascinating look back on train travel. Thank you for posting it.
Fun to see everyone dressed up, and the woman's hats aboard the train! A luxury for sure! Loved this very much!
I just love how the filmmakers at 41:04 insert an O gauge Lionel Santa Fe F3 coupled to a set of AMT die cast sliver passenger cars to flash past the camera during the night time shot. The AMT cars were modeled off of actual Santa Fe prototype passenger cars. So it’s almost convincing. I love it.
When American railroads were the best in the world
It truly looks tolerable. How nice to have the suite. Guessing not cheap.
this lasted until Amtrak was created & replaced with the Southwest Chief
Wonderful classic video..👍
Did anyone else notice that there is not a spot of turquoise in the Turquoise Room?
Great video, but didn't really need the creepy stalker guy! lol.
Suits, ties, and cigarettes...
4:13 best forever trains friends for life with each bed
Him:Goodnight Missie Nightrain !!!!
Her : Goodnight Mr Brownston !!!!
Light out & night begin LOL
4:38 by his look the chef seem does not want to be there.
Nasty smokers.
That was the culture of those times. As late as the 1960s in NYC, my old hometown when I was a boy, we went to Times Square and men and women smoked cigarettes and cigars and pipe tobacco were being smoked too.
hey, smokers are people too. Nicotine works as a preventive measure for Koof virus
You are absolutely right but do you know when you crank up your car you expel more emissions and nasty smoke than a cigarette does oh if you just so have to drive a Tesla don't forget about the dirty coal that made millions of emissions to power your wonderful car
I think you meant Super Chief.