Valley Flyer (ATSF train)

The Valley Flyer was a short-lived named passenger train of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in the United States.

The train left Bakersfield daily at 6:30 a.m. PST and arrived in Oakland at 12:35 p.m., then returned at 1:55 p.m., pulling into Bakersfield at 8:00 p.m. Beginning on October 27, 1941, the Flyer cars (save for the lounge car) were used to transport troops as a section of the San Diegan on the Santa Fe's "Surf Line" between Los Angeles and San Diego.

The locomotives had metal skirting along the sides, painted aluminum (as were the nose and smokestack) with red and yellow stripes, these being outlined by black pinstripes; the tenders were similarly decorated.

The air-conditioned rolling stock was painted aluminum with red and yellow stripes along their sills, bordered with black pinstripes (somewhat like Santa Fe's passenger diesel locomotives).

The sides of the passenger cars bore "SANTA FE" in black, extra extended Railroad Roman letters.

The platform at San Diego in the early days of World War II. The Valley Flyer cars, on train 70, the northbound San Diegan , are at right