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Scott Special
The ''Scott Special'', also known as the ''Coyote Special'', the ''Death Valley Coyote'' or the ''Death Valley Scotty Special'', was a one-time, record-breaking (and the best-known) passenger train operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (Santa Fe) from Los Angeles, California, to Chicago, Illinois, at the request of "Death Valley Scotty". At the time of its transit in 1905, the ''Scott Special'' made the trip〔Armitage, p. 87〕 between the two cities at the fastest speed recorded to date; in doing so, it established the Santa Fe as the leader in high-speed travel between Chicago and the West Coast. The ''Scott Special'' made the trip in 44 hours and 54 minutes〔Signor, p 24〕 breaking the previous records, set in 1900 by the ''Peacock Special'', by 13 hours and 2 minutes,〔Signor, p 18〕 and in 1903 by the ''Lowe Special'', by 7 hours and 55 minutes.〔Waters, p 389〕 Santa Fe's regular passenger service from Los Angeles to Chicago at the time was handled on a 2½-day schedule by the ''California Limited''. It was not until the 1936 introduction of the ''Super Chief'' that Santa Fe trains would regularly exceed the speeds seen on the ''Scott Special''.
== Background ==
Death Valley Scotty (born September 20, 1872, as Walter Edward Scott) had used some ore samples he collected near Cripple Creek, Colorado, as a ruse to convince some bankers in 1902 that he had a claim on a high-grade ore mine in Death Valley, California. By 1905 he had conned the banks out of nearly $10,000. Another con he ran in 1905 earned Scott an additional $4,000. It was then that he met E. Burdon Gaylord, the owner of the Big Bell mine. Gaylord needed a flashy way to promote his mine and Scott sought the money behind the mine; the two formed a partnership in which Gaylord would finance Scott and Scott would promote the mine like no other.
After a few high-priced and newsworthy train trips around the southwest, Scott met with the Santa Fe's General Passenger Agent, J. J. Byrne, at the railroad's office in Los Angeles on July 8, 1905. Once Scott (who had already travelled cross-country on the Santa Fe some thirty-two times) got in to talk to Byrne, the arrangements were made, thanks to a deposit from Scott of $5,500 in cash.〔Bryant, p 213〕 The two agreed on a 46-hour schedule from Los Angeles to Chicago that would begin the following day.〔Signor, pp 17-18〕〔Waters, p 390〕
The passenger list for the train was a mere four people: Scott himself, his wife, F. N. Holman, and Charles E. Van Loan, a writer for the Los Angeles Examiner (and one who was adept at helping Scotty create his "miner" persona, inflating the amounts Scotty really spent while "promoting" his "mine"). The schedule involved operating a three car train across the system, led by no less than 19 different locomotives. The engineers of these locomotives came to be known as the "Nervy Nineteen".〔
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