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I wanted this set so bad when i was kid. I got one of the engines, but no cars.

Mine has no manual how to build

I thought the red windscreen was also used in Lego 3677 a Lego city cargo train

Very nice! My only suggestion to get the right "look" would be to move the Super Chief's baggage car to the front of the train when combining the Super Chief and El Capitan. Also, whenever the 2 trains were combined they left out the observation car and had a standard sleeper as the last car, the Super Chief herald being placed on the outside of the last vestibule on the last car. Alternatively, you could also replace the observation car with a baggage car as that variation ran sometimes as well. The combined Super Chief-El Capitan originally ran during the off-season (probably during the late fall and winter months) when ridership for both trains would be lower and it made sense to combine them, the rest of the year (through the spring and summer) they ran as separate trains. By the end of passenger service on the Santa Fe and the start of Amtrak, though, the combination had been made permanent due to overall lower ridership because of the airlines and interstate road system. The train would operate in this combined configuration like this for several years under Amtrak until Amtrak refitted the whole train with new Superliner cars which are still in use today on the Southwest Chief. The name remained as the Super Chief-El Capitan under Amtrak until Santa Fe requested Amtrak change the name due to a decline in the quality of service which the Santa Fe thought unfitting of the Chief name, so in response Amtrak changed the name to the Southwest Limited. Once the train had been refitted with Superliners and the quality of service had sufficiently improved Amtrak was given permission to revive the Chief name and so renamed the train to the Southwest Chief as it is known today.

just a tip- im not a train person so this title and thumbnail were like a foreign language to me, the train is so small on the thumbnail its hard to tell its a train. im a lego person and i enjoy this video but you might get more engagement from not train folks if you mentioned that it was a train somewhere in the title. without that its gibberish.

This belongs into a Lego museum! Wow

Such a beautiful train, shame we probably won’t get anything like it again, at least not for a while.

what are the pieces?

Do you have instructions for the B unit? I wasn't able to find them on Mathis' old site

12:36 a dorm car is for employees to sleep. As you pointed out, these train journeys are more than a day long. Employees cannot be expected to stay awake and functional the entire trip so dorm cars are provided for their rest periods. Some larger trains might have more than one dorm car depending on the number of employees needed to staff the train. On smaller trains employees do not need an entire car so the function could be combined with, in this case, the baggage car.

I remember badly wanting the Super Chief sets when I was a kid. Thanks for the effort of bringing this all together and showing it to us

17:02 my mind just blew away, when i saw this🤯 incredible!

Thank you for sharing this with the community. Cant wait to see Bricktsar finish the B unit.

Are those 3rd party magnets at 8:45?

It's a good thing that I own one

Nice!

I really want the El Capitan coaches. You need to make the instructions public, or redo them.

This has answered some of the obscure coaches I've been looking for. Thx!

I learned a lot with this video. Thanks for taking the time.

Firstly awesome video I love these designs. I agree with brickzar make a video about that James Mathis book. Thanks for sharing

Super cool and expensive 😮

Fantastic video and overview.

Is there any way to get hold of that book by James , google didnt help me much??

Very impressive!

I wish I had got more stuff from James when he was active with Lego trains - nice to see these actually running and not just a render. Impressive

The limited edition ones were all originally shipped with a separate bag with the correct bars. Most resellers don’t realize this and some people that bought these and never opened them either forgot or didn’t pay attention to why a bag of parts was included in the box with the order

Awesome work! Amazing to see it all come together, I loved the history overview as well 👍

Excellent stuff, you did a lot of good work here. 😍

I guess, the render kept your house more than warm enough, great build!

Good job bruh!

Nice review 👍

I would have loved this as a kid ❤️

Did you also feel, that the video was way too short, when you got to the end ?

Ensure, that you guys read the description. A full parts list and PDF instructions for the build are available to download.

Sørg for at I checker beskrivelsen. Der findes en komplet liste af dele og PDF instruktioner.

Seht zu, das Ihr in die Beschreibung schaut. Die Teileliste und eine PDF Anleitung sind auch vorhanden.

Your content is well thought out. I like how comprehensive it is. We build up to 10 wide trains, so this arrangement may not work entirely well for us. I’ll have to see what I can do to modify this design and others elsewhere. Overall, I am impressed how well that switch works. Good job. 👍

came for the bricks, stayed for the Butt's.