The 1948 Davis wasn't all that weird except for its tricycle wheel pattern and rocket-like shape. This one just got painted at Duco Bill's in Southern California; date unknown.
Up until about 1971, passenger service was provided by individual railroads, such as Santa Fe, Union Pacific, Southern Pacific, etc., all across the nation. The problem was that revenue for the railroads was much lower for passenger service than freight service, and started to cancel passenger train service. In the early 1970's, the U.S. government created Amtrak, to handle passenger service in this country. Passenger service on Amtrak doesn't cover the costs, so Amtrak runs as a federal government service provided by the taxpayers, and covers the overages in the cost of running a railroad. The Santa Fe Railroad (originally known as the Atcheson Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad) ran several trains between Los Angeles and Chiacago; the Super Chief, the Chief, and the El Capitan. They all started out from Union Station in downtown L.A., and ran north, through Pasadena, before turning east, running along the Foothill communites (Arcadia, Monrovia, etc.). All these trains had to cross Colorado Blvd, in downtown Pasadena, going to and from Chicago, which impacted traffic. Amtrak runs on the same tracks that the Santa Fe ran on (Santa Fe owns the tracks). However, the Amtrak equivelent train (the Southwest Chief) going to and from Chicago from L.A.s Union Station no longer goes through Pasadena. When it leaves L.A, it heads directly east instead. This is a view of the Santa Fe Chief returning from Chicago, crossing Colorado Blvd heading back to L.A. Here is the same path today, no more trains going through Pasadena. Light rail today provides transportation to and from Pasadena and the other Foothill communities to Union Station, where passengers can board Amtrak trains going north (to Seattle) or east (to Chicago) or south (to San Diego). I'm a train nut, I have been traveling by train since I was just a kid, all over this nation...
According to https://trailersfromhell.com/trailers/ The great Roy Orbison’s movie career goes down in a blaze of bullets in this ill-advised wild west stinkaroo, his first and last “acting” appearance. Roy doesn’t even get a single line reading into this trailer, which is probably for the best. But he did just fine without the movies, thank you very much!
The Jalopy Journal
