Santa Fe Hi-Level step-down coach
A passenger ascends the central stairway into the upper level of one of the Santa Fe’s 1956 double-deck Hi-Level coaches. The low window beyond the man standing shows that this is one of the “step-down” cars with an end stairway for access to standard-height cars.
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Amtrak should have used these blueprints instead of cranking out the Superliner
design. Plus these HI-LEVEL car have a superior ride characteristics. I had the pleasure of rising in one of the former parlour cars in the Coast Daylight consist
and amazed at the smother ride and less swaying.
Bill Grant
Cols, OH