Coyote Special Los Angeles to Chicago by railroad artist Ted Blaylock available from Snow Goose Gallery.

 

At one o'clock in the afternoon of Sunday, July 9, 1905, a special train, chartered by Mr. Walter Scott, pulled out of LaGrande Station of the Santa Fe System at Los Angeles. The train consisted of engine number 442, baggage car number 210, dining car 1407, and the standard Pullman car Muskegon, the three cars weighing exactly 170 tons. This was the train which came to be known as the Death Valley Coyote or the Scott Special or, as Blaylock calls it, Coyote Special.

At 11:45 on the forenoon of July 11th, it came to a stop in the Dearborn Street Station, Chicago, having made the run of 2265 miles in 44 hours and 54 minutes. The record stands unparalleled in railroad history.