Super C (freight train)

The Super C was an American high-speed intermodal freight train on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway from 1968 to 1976.

By year's end, passenger-geared GE U28CG locomotives was able to transport 19 piggyback cars from Los Angeles' Hobart Yard to Chicago in 61 hours.

The Super C carried high-priority items such as auto parts and electronic components; the United States Post Office soon became a consistent customer.

In the end, too few shippers chose to pay for 40-hour delivery, especially considering that a standard TOFC load arrived in 15 hours more.

The final blow came in 1976 when the Santa Fe lost its mail contract to a joint venture of the Chicago and North Western Railway and the Union Pacific Railroad that could deliver at lower cost on a 50-hour schedule.