Oct 25, 2018 - Sale 2490

Sale 2490 - Lot 215

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
BERN HILL (1911-1977) SANTA FE - THE CHIEF WAY. 1951.
23 3/4x18 inches, 60 1/2x45 3/4 cm.
Condition A-: minor abrasions and airbrushing in upper image.
"The luxurious Super Chief has been powered since its birth in 1936 with General Motors Diesel locomotives on its 39 3/4 hour run between Chicago and Los Angeles. With 769 units in freight and passenger service - and 52 more on order - the growing fleet of GM Diesels on the Santa Fe has rolled up a total of almost half a billion unit miles" (Railway Age, cover August 27, 1951).