Simply a very neat looking train! Thanks for sharing the shot.
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They way PAs were meant to look! Great shot. (And PAs pulling containers, too!)
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So, I would guess that Flexi-van cars were fitted with lines to deliver HEP/steam to the following passenger cars?
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The PA-1 is my favorite diesel of all time, and the AT&SF warbonnet scheme is the one that seems made for it. Those are beautiful locomotives! Apparently engine crews didn't share my infatuation with them, and railroads couldn't wait to get them to the scrapper's torch. Only a tiny handful survive, and those were mostly dilapidated until rebuilt.
This is a classic photo of a classic train, keeping up appearances even after the future of passenger railroading was evident and most railroads had discarded their trains, or at least were treating them like discards. Santa Fe kept their passenger trains in the condition of the heyday of streamliners, right up to the end. I rode them nearly every summer to my grandparents' ranch, and it was always the highlight of my year as a rail fan and as a kid. Even after Amtrak took over, Santa Fe kept a say in how their trains were managed. The high-level coaches stayed with the Amtrak trains on AT&SF rails, as did some version of the "Chief" name.
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