The Super-C; A Failed Marvel Of Transportation!

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As soon as you said “Penn Central” I knew this was doomed to fail.

In Germany these days we've got the so-called 'parcel intercity', which is a very similar concept to the Super C, albeit exclusively for parcels. It's an intermodal train that runs non-stop from north to south across the country in one night at around 100 mph, and at both ends the containers are loaded directly onto trucks and sent to distribution centres. The introduction of this train has made next-day shipping possible from anywhere to anywhere within the entire country.

The true purpose of those short SUPER-C trains was to give us model railroaders something that will fit and still be realistic!! 😏 (New subscriber. Great video informative and eye-catching!👍)

The Super C is one of my favorite named freight trains, despite its failure.

It's worth saying at the time the Super C ran, there was still a lot of single track on the LA-Chicago line.

The history presented in this video is absolutely accurate! I'm a NS railroad retired road conductor

I’ve known about about the Super-C for a long time, but never actually learned much about it. This video helped a lot, so thanks!

It got canceled in name only. Better to say it got a suspended...for a short while as they reorganized their marketing strategy. It got resurrected under different train symbols and has evolved over the decades since. it fumbled on and off throught the 70's and 80's under several different incarnations, but after deregulation and a UPS contract, it really took off solid.

Great video. The Super C did help the Santa Fe learn how to run ~40 hour freights on the southern transcon, as regular service later.

Williams Jct. was as close to Phoenix as the Super C ever got.

Funniest part is bnsf can't even come close 50 years later even with all the double tracking that's been done

4:00 Has the vibe of a model train starter set. 😂

Enjoy your channel, my dad was a train master for Santa Fe from the early 60s until the 90s in LaJunta Colorado

The 60s was a time of railroad financial difficulty, as I seem to remember. The railroads were frantically trying to find new models to regain profitability.

As a teenager growing up in Northwest Missouri, use to love making the trip down to Henrietta to catch the westbound Super C at 90mph. My brother and I tried to pace it west from WB Jct, it was doing all of 90mph. Too afraid of meeting a highway patrolman, we didn't pace for very long. 😂

Great video as usual. The Z train before the Z train basically. They still treat most Z trains in the same fashion as the Super C meaning anything in the way is getting dumped in the siding no matter what and they want the train out on time even if it means leaving cars behind that didnt make it on time for the interchange. Pretty much the only thing that went away was the guaranteed delivery and the 90mph speeds(for obvious reasons) everything else is mostly the same in relation of the Super C to the Z train haha.

The Santa Fe was and is still an icon! BNSF should bring this iconic name and image back.

Excellent Job with the Video and Audio. Very Interesting Freight Service. Thanks! 👍🙏

Some great history about a train I haven't even heard before. I love it!