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2 NOVEMBER, 1977 No. 193 Pacific NOVEMBER, 1977 Ne s VOLUME 17 NO. 11

KARL R. KOENIG • EDITOR

HARRE W.DEMORO ...... EDITORIAL STAFF TOM GRAY ...... PRODUCTION STAFF HAROLD C.KOENIG ...... EDITORIAL STAFF I JOHN PARSON ...... OFFICE STAFF D.S.RICHTER ...... EDITORIAL STAFF GARY VIELBAUM ...... STAFF LIBRARIAN

Inside Chatham • • • Kenneth M.Ardinger ...... Contributing Shiff This will be our last issue into the mails in l977.bringing to a close an Edward M.Berntsen ...... Contributing Staff exciting yea r in this railroading West of ours even as more railroad news George R.Cockle ...... •...... Contributing Staff == events are taking place in a race toward New Years Day. Our next issue = Doug E. Cummings ...... Contributing Staff I ...... •...... will be in the mails just as 1978 gets started . Tom Eikerenkotter Contributing Staff Robert Hogan ...... Contributing Staff Railroading events of major importance were, of course, taking place L. Don Jewell ...... •...... Contributing Staff nearly continuously during 1977 but most certainly the most widely Joe McM illan ...... •..•...... •...... Contributing Staff == watched train was the homeward-bound run of the Southern Pacific's Ken Meeker ...... Contributing Staff former 4-8-4 number 4449 as it returned from the end of its American I§ Peter J. Replinger ...... Contributing Staff == Freedom Train assignment. At year's end there's ta lk, and hope, and = Virgil C.Staff ...... •...... •..•...... Contributing Staff == dedicated work, but no plans to run her again. Also at year's end train = F. Hoi Wagner, Jr ...... Contributing Staff == J.Harlen Wilson ...... Contributing Staff watchers in the West are experiencing the unique opportunity to watch Seaboard Coast Line U36B's working on Donner Pass. They'll soon be heading to Oregon for branch-line work. And, speaking of Oregon, in a single move that added four Baldwin roadswitch ers to its roster of cPc © Contents Copyright 1977 rebuilt G E's, th e Oregon California and Eastern has created a motive ALL RIGHTS RESERVED power stable that is sure to attract considerable attention during the I IN THIS MONTH'S coming new year. � PACIFIC NEWS What els e can we look forin 1978? Many things. New EMDGP40X's SHIPYARD RAILWAY ...... 6 will be at work on several railroads - Southern Pacific's are due as this e MUNI'S FIRST LRV'S ...... 14 reaches your mailbox - and right here at our front door changes are §§ OUTWEST ...... 15 == RAILROADING COLUMNS ...... 16 slowly building for San Francisco-to-San Jose rail commuter service. == CAMERA CAR PHOTO SECTION ...... 20 Across the Bay from here Western Pacific will soon be running their § = AMTRAK APPROACHES END OF 19n ...... 24 fabled F-unit fleet again. Everywhere in the West Amtrak is running out § SHORT STUFF ...... 25 the final miles on its original cross-country rolling stock as th e new cars == NEWS PHOTOS ...... 26 . . . . . = await completion at a strike-bound Pullman plant. And builder Boeing = EXCURSIONS/CLASSIFIED/BOOK REVIEWS .... 30 == is making the initial tests on the first M uni LRV's to negotiate San § LETTERS TO PACIFIC NEWS ...... 31 Francisco's curving, hill-climbing streetcar trackage. Yes, 1978 is going = to be a year to watch. i SUBSCRIPTIONS BY DIRECT MAIL PACIFIC NEWS has been watching railroading in an expanding In United States, Canada and Mexico: $10.00 for one West for seventeen years, and the magazine has constantly been 55 year, $18.00 for two years. Single copies $1.00. Foreign: expanding to cover a wider range of western railroading news. Each and $11.00 per year. Foreign - only - First Class and Air every year since that very first issue we have published more pages than Mall rates are available upon a specific written request. the preceding year. The railroading news story just keeps on growing CHATHAM PUBLISHING COMPANY and we keep growing with it. Many of the railroads covered in th ose Post Office Box 283, Burlingame, California 94010 USA early issues have long been abandoned, but a trend for dwindling •

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PACIFIC NEWS 3 ':: :;. .,' .� :�: DISASTROUS RUNAWAY C P RAIL COAL TRAIN /i; � were not yet o:peniti'n��::altho�gh they had ��cn·.,might mom�ntar .r�: ha·siigl)�jyj�ill.n;; Speed . RONA.LD."C. HILL requested. The' 2.5%··. . westward down.grade before, the ice meltcd'a'f1'd the brake shoes agai.n Shorily before I :oq·: :J PM o}l Frida}>-' begins at Glacier, and dlere. is a 25 mph speed reached' full' effect i�e-ri'�SS, (The:' heat-'resistiint 'November 25'; 1977 CP Ra: ' � robot coal train 803 restriction froin ti:lat point all the way down'to Cobra brake shoes' used by CP Rail on coal cars "rolled out of the Connaugh' t 'Tunnel under Revelstoke be·ca�se.of the steep grades and t.he do ·not fynction welf until 'th�y,nc hot.) A� the 'Rogers Pass and headed into the siding at tight curvature:·.::j., .', ' train speed co�tinued' to inc·r'e'i!se. . furth:iir air ·:Glacier".British . . .�' Columbia .to await a meet with . After the me€��1.q:�I train 8p':irecei�e(l'a� Ie�r. red�ctions were made.t>ut io4p,¥�ail: an eastbound-freight. It had:beeo n:�nbwing ha�d, signal to leave \!'i,��; S:idibg, and proceed·dow.n t'he ' ,When the train sped througlitlTe.siteMttieald "and heavy snow covered the rails.' 'S�owplows main ·Iine. Th' c ' e' n'gineer-trainee re.leased: the' Ross Peak siding, thc;.engineer : - (jesperately brakes. and the he:avily-Ioaded.train started to threw the brakes into emc:;.ge[1c, y;-andtb,e·,(.rain move westwari(' H ereeharged "the air reservoirs slowed down to about 3s::'ipph�:" As the'. THE LOS ANGELES RAILWAY !ra'jn and. . �ade a minimum air, redudiqn :wht:n the speed sla.ck�ned, however. there was a, terrific . THROUGH THE YEARS speed of the train'reached 18 Olph, O'rdi'narily; run-in of th� cars,' . and";t·he tr "in '·acc,c1ejated that air n�'duction; combined with' dyna�ic �apidly down (he'steep g'rade: The 'engineerthen' fJy ' braking, would have been sufficient to hold the radioed that the coal train was out or control train back to the required 25 mph. Since the and the conductor cut orr the caboosc and brake shoes had iced up during the wait at stopped it sarely with the hand brake. By that Glacier, it was logically expected that the train time the speed was too great ror the head-end crew to jump. RECORD of the MONTH The train hurtled down the mountain canyon SB 4505 Steel Rails Under Thundering Skies going raster and faster. It shot through Flat Creek siding at an incredible 78 mph and to readers careencd through the Lanark snowsheds, of Apparently the train started to derail just PACIFIC outside the sheds. Anyway. the lead units came NEWS to an abrupt halt as they crossed the IIlecillewaet River. The rourth unit pulled the drawbar from $649 the third unit and flipped over into the river. this month Forty-rive coal cars piled up rifty feet high and ONLY spread to a point within twenty reet of the nearby Trans-Canada Highway. The robot car to your and three mid-train units plunged into the river No study of the history of Los Angeles is complete DOOR and caught fire. A 100-foot bridge just outside without a study of the trolley system that was instru· STEREO/QUAD ICD·41 t2" LP the Lanark sheds was destroyed in the process. mental in its rapid growth. This fascinating book Here it is fans. the second seclion of Steam RR Under Thirty-one additional cars crashed into the units traces the history of the colorful Los Angeles Railway Thundering Skies. Locol1101ives included: No. 4449. No. and scattered through the snowsheds. from its feeble beginnings in the 1800's to its unfor· 759. No. 8444. No. 1702 & II (Reader). No, 36 (White Mtn.>. No. 2102. No. t 246 & 1278 (Steamtown). No. 34 & Miraculously, no one was killed or injured: tunate demise in 1963. 72 pages, large 8Y� x 11 format, 28 (Sierra). Plenty of

4 NOVEMBER,1977 following the suspension of service at the Burlington Northern's former Oregon Electric the most part an entirely new right-or-way will hands of Hurricane Kathleen in 1976. trackage for passenger trains. have to be considered as Houston's present Reportedly, the railroad can be acquired by The committee is, perhaps, one of the most railroad trackage is already extremely overtaxed San Diego for about $20 million; the balance balanced and qualified ever appointed for a by freight movements. of the funding would allow reconstruction of railroad study of this type. Chairman Keith The Houston study is only now in the very the track, the restoration of freight service to Burbridge, a Senator from Salem, is a Southern first steps of its planning study, but it has been the Imperial Valley, station construction and Pacific engineer. Other members include a Union noted that "virtually every freeway" has a center transit vehicles for passenger service. Freight Pacific conductor, the state legislative median that could be used for either buses or service on the restored line would then be representatiave for railroad employees' United light rail transit. Houston railroads have pledged contracted out to, presumably, Southern Transportation Union and Mr. Joe Neal, the their support to solving the transit problem .• Pacific, or perhaps the Santa Fe. Superintendent of Southern Pacific's Oregon San Diego has long been considering Division. The balance of the committee is various proposals for a rail-oriented transit comprised of transit supporters with a record of line to serve the needs of the region. A new rail public support. (David Ralph Butler) • system, for example, has been the topic of a Metropolitan Transit Development Board HOUSTON, TEXAS PlANS FOR PROPOSED RAIL TRANSIT study investigating the cost - estimated at Rail mass transit in Texas will get its start in about $380 million - to construct a rail line Houston, if planners there are successful in their linking the local sports arena to the Mexican present plans to inaugurate a regional transit border. The San Diego and Arizona Eastern authority which supports the light rail concept for trackage. of course. will allow the MTDB to the future transit needs of the area. Voters turned plan and begin rail transit at a cost far below down a regional county-wide agency in 1973. what would be involved with the building of an An interim Houston RTA is being established entirely new rail line. Further progress on the for a three-year period in which the agency will proposal to buy the SD&AE rail line is develop a comprehensive transit plan, including expected by the end of the year following light rail operations, as well as ways to finance the additional MTDB meetings at which final operation of the transit agency. Both the plan, and approval to proceed with formal negotiations a permanent regional agency, will at that time could be given .• have to win the approval of area voters. With regard to the railroad alternatives, the RAIL COMMUTER PlANS CONTINUE FOR OREGON study will investigate using existing tracks but for The Oregon State Legislature has created a special Willamette Valley Rail Study Committee to investigate methods and LIMITED EDITION justification for the restoration of passenger railroad service south from Portland to S.P, Locomotive Pictures Eugene, via the capital in Salem. Amtrak's "a First Time Offering" Coast Starlight covers this route today, as a from the personal files of well·known author portion of its Seattle. Washington-to-Los GUY DUNSCOMB Angeles, California daily run. A man whose entire adult life has been closely The committee has been charged with the associated with the Southern Pacific. From his collection of over twenty thousand photographs, we're offering a responsibility to study the best method to series of 8x 10 black and white S.P. Locomotive pictures. begin additional train service, if it finds the Sets I, 2 and 3 will cover S.P. Cab·Aheads. Only complete sets of 10 photos each will be available. New service would be justified by estimated sets will be offered every other month. Only a limited passenger revenues over this rail route. number will be printed and NO sets will be re·run. These SpecificaIly, the nine-member legislative study photos will compliment your copy of Dunscomb's book "Century of Southern Pacific Stearn Locomotives". group will consider contracting with Amtrak Stamped Self Addressed Envelope lor lull details for increased service, construction of an all­ Concept Classic Details & Photos Dept. P new railroad using for the most part the P.O. Box 749 South Lake Tahoe, CA. 95705 median of Interstate 5, and restoration of the PAINTING rn����[�YOUR THING 7

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6 NOVEMBER,1977 SHIPYARD RAIL WAY 32 SHORT MONTHS OF BRAND-NEW SECOND-HAND WARTIME RAILROAD

The Sacramento Northern Railway, an smaller cars remodeled for feeder operations. HARRE W. DEMORO interurban linking inland valley points with the The most significam conversion from rail to Bay Area. discontinued regular passenger rubber. as far as impact on the future war effort During the I 930·s. the three electric railway service in June. 1941. Greyhound buses replaced was concerned. occurred on November 7,1933 systems serving the Oakland area of California the railroad service. when streetcar service between Oakland and steadily lost ground to the motor bus and privatc The 's affiliate. Transit Richmond was replaced by motor coaches. automobile. The clouds of war in the Pacific and Company, and a predecessor, East Bay Street Richmond. north on the Bay from Oakland, Europe were not being considered by regulatory Railways. had phased out much of the streetcar would be the location of busy shipyards during agencies and corporate boards when rail was system in favor of more buses during the 1930·s. World War II where thousands of workers ordered removed and trolley wire cut from Unfortunately. motor buses would be the most would nock daily and the transit problem. if poles. When hostilities dld start and the San difficult vehicle to operate during the war allowed to worsen. might affect the nation's war Francisco Bay Area became an arscnal. it was because of rubber and fuel rationing. and a effort, it was recogni7.ed. necessary lO build one railroad virtually shortage of replacemem parts. In 1928. Key Various proposals were studied resulting in overnight: the Richmond Shipyard Railway. System Transit Company had 67 motor buses the decision to build a new electric railroad Just a few months before the Japanese allack and 367 electric streetcars. After a financial using. in most cases. second-hand materials, December 7. 1941 on Pearl Harbor. two of the reorgani7.ation completed in 1930. Railway between Emeryville and the shipyards rather three electric railways that used the tracks on Equipment and Realty Company. Ltd .. a than operating locomotive-pulled trains along the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge holding company. encouraged its operating discontinued service. The Southern Pacific. subsidiaries to convert a substantial portion of On the opposite page, the ex-Interborough which operated its East Bay "Red Train" system rail service to motor coach. By 1937 streetcar Rapid Transit 929 is seen in a Key System with a subsidiary. Interurban Electric Railway. mileage operated annually was, for the first company photograph at Emeryville in 1942 taken abandoned operations in Alameda. Oakland. time. less than that of motor coaches. The trend to show the mounting of a former Southern Berkeley. San Leandro. Albany and Emeryville became even sharper in the next few years. Pacific Interurban Electric , between January and July of 1941. The only By the beginning of World War II, East Bay placement of the motorman's cab and absence of road to survive. the Key System. replaced the Transit Company and Key System owned steps on the platform-loading cars. The .929 Southern Pacific service by extending two of its almost 400 motor buses. but only 180 streetcars. became the Richmond Shipyard Railway 522. own rail lines and by inaugurating new motor The transbay rail business was handled by 88 At the 40th and San Pablo terminal, four bus routes. Because of a shortage of rail two-section articulated trains operating over the Shipyard Railway cars, led by the 557, wait at the equipment. Key System converted two of its rail San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. In 1928. loading platforms hastily constructed for this lines. both the H-Sacramemo Street line and the 129 interurban cars were in the service, short-lived, and short on mileage, wartime G-Westbrae. to motor buses in july. 1941. connecting with ferry boats. in addition to commuter railroad. Tom Gray collection

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The former Interborough Rapid Transit Second Avenue Elevated cars arrived at the Key System's Emeryville, California shops from New York aboard flat cars direct from storage in the east. The cars were suspended by an overhead crane while the flat cars were pulled out, lowered onto readied trucks and then shopped to be prepared for Shipyard Railway service. The car's third-rail shoes for current collection would be removed and replaced with a roof-top pantograph salvaged from Interurban Electric cars retired from service in 1941, the roof-top headlight would be lowered and pilots from both Interurban Electric and Key System cars would be added to each end of newly-created "married pairs."

8 NOVEMBER. 1977 sections of the Southern Pacific, the Key System and shipped to the Key System Emeryville Shop From Emeryville, the Shipyard Railway used and abandoned portions of the Interurban on flatcars. By August of 1942, work on the line existing streetcar tracks in San Pablo Avenue to Electric. On June 6, 1942 the United States was proceeding around the clock to hopefully Ashby Avenue, the point to which the Maritime Administration announced an establish service on December I, 1942. That Richmond streetcar line had been cut back nine agreement had been reached with the Key deadline was missed, but the first train of the years earlier in 1933. Then, using newly-laid rail, System to construct and operate a rail line to be former New York cars was operated that day on the line continued for a short distance on San known as the Richmond Shipyard Railway. Ninth Street in Berkeley. W. C. Smith, J. S. Pablo Avenue, then turned west onto Grayson William P. St. Sure, Key System vice president Sullivan, Don Perr and Art Sullivan took turns Street to Ninth Street where a connection was and general manager, was in Washington, D.C. as motormen, then became instructors. made with the former Ninth Street line of the when announcement of the project was made. The Shipyard Railway terminated at Interurban Electric. These rails were used to the Construction was to begin in ten days. Emeryville to connect with all of the Key end of Ninth Street after which newly-laid track If any railroad was old the day it was new it System's trans bay routes, and some local continued north crossing the main line of the was the Shipyard Railway. Brand new streetcar lines. Two terminals were built. One Southern Pacific near the Golden Gate Fields equipment was difficult to find as the nation was at 40th and San Pablo convenient to the San race track and then paralleled the railroad and geared for war. On June 19, 1942 the Oakland Pablo Avenue streetcar and the C-Piedmont, State Highway 17 to Potrero Street in Tribune reported that old wooden elevated cars the E-Claremont and F-Berkeley trans bay lines. Richmond. The rails continued on Potrero to out of service in New York would be brought The second was built at the foot of Louise Street the shipyard areas. to the west for the Shipyard Railway service. served by the A-1 2th Street and B-22nd Street More than 1000 wood piles were driven for Ninety of the best cars available were selected trans bay lines. the approaches to the bridge over the Southern

The interior of the wooden Shipyard Railway cars, right, featured the typical back-to-back elevated railway seating arrangement, with the seats at mid-car facing a narrow center aisle. Straps were hung from the roof for standing passengers, and the lighting in the cars consisted of simple bare lightbulbs. Advertising, of course, was abundant above the windows for passenger reading. Leaving the 40th and San Pablo terminal at the railroad's south end for Richmond, below, Shipyard Railway car 547 brings up the rear end of a train as it pulls out onto San Pablo Avenue beginning its short twelve-mile run northward to the in a scene that was briefly familiar to the San Francisco Bay Area but which vanished at the end of the war as quickly as it had appeared.

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PACIFIC NEWS 9 Hurriedly created for a short twelve-mile commuter run from the Kaiser shipyards in Richmond to a joint terminal with transbay passenger service in Emeryville, adjacent to Oakland, the trains of the Richmond Shipyard Railway provided their wartime duty from mid-January, 1943 to the end of September, 1945, a brief thirty-two months of electric railroading at the edge of State Highway 17, such as this view, above, of the rear of a six-car train rumbling back toward Oakland with every platform occupied in the late afternoon sun, sixty years after the wooden cars were built. Southern Pacific parallels the electric line at the left, and a widened Highway 17 today has erased the Shipyard Railway's path. Southbound in Albany, below, another six-car train threads its way across Buchanan Street under crossing protection that calls for looking, listening and, hopefully, an implied stop. A freeway interchange covers this spot today again hiding any trace of the short-lived passenger hauler.

Charles Savage

10 NOVEMBER,1977 Pacific in Albany near the race track, and some Overhead wire and related material came On the trestlework portion of the Southern 600,000 feet of heavy timber salvaged from the from Key stock and many of the bracket support Pacific overpass in Albany about midway along abandoned Key System ferry pier trestle were arms were from the H-Sacramento Street line. its route, a four-car Shipyard Railway train used as capping. Girders were unavailable for Much of the contact wire was removed from the deadheads empty back for another rush-hour the bridge span itself, so two surplus Southern Bay Bridge where it had been used by Interurban load as the train crew enjoys the open-platform ride on the only "elevated" portion of the Pacific turntables, one from the Bayshore Electric and Sacramento Northern trains (the wartime railroad's route. Roundhouse in San Francisco and one from the Key System obtained its power on the bridge Shipyards-bound, below, three two-car sets of Tracy (California) Roundhouse, were obtained from an electrified ). former Interborough Rapid Transit cars swing and placed atop concrete abutments. The use of the elevated cars was ironic. Only a through the curve along Hoffman Boulevard Rails for the Shipyard Railway came from few months before Pearl Harbor the near the Richmond city limits that turns the almost everywhere, except .a steel mill. Some of Sacramento Northern had burned most of its train away from the parallel Southern Pacific in the rail had been in storage on Key System interurban cars, which were in far better the background. Also, note the substation condition, and the Interurban Electric had sent . property, but the company also dug up steel visible behind the rear cars. from abandoned streetcar lines on Eighth most of its rolling stock to the Pacific Electric Street, 12th Street, Wood Street and Foothill after the war began. The old Bay Area "Red Boulevard in Oakland, and salvaged steel from Cars," owned by the United States Maritime abandoned I nterurban Electric trackage in Commission, the same agency building the Oakland and Alameda. About 29,000 feet came Shipyard Railway, went to work hauling only one of the pair had a pantograph. Despite from the Napa Valley Route electric line; some shipyard workers in Southern California. The their age - they were built in the 1880's as steam 75,000 feet was from the Pacific Electric former New York cars were fitted for third-rail coaches and were among the first New York cars Railway in Los Angeles. Other rail was salvaged current collection and had no steps, being to be electrified - the cars ran reasonably well. from the Key's recently-abandoned Sacramento arranged for platform-loading rapid-transit Key System articulated bridge units were Street line. Some railroad crossings were made stations. Key shop men installed pantographs assigned some runs because they could load and in the Key shop. Others came from SP's salvaged from Interurban Electric cars. Wood unload on the street, thereby performing local Sacramento Shop were they had been stored pilots from old Key transbay cars were installed services. Until some received small folding steps, following abandonment of the SP streetcar on some; others received steel pilots from the New York cars operated only in express system in Fresno. The Moore Shipyard in Interurban Electric cars that were not sent to service stopping only at special platforms. Oakland built some, and others were made at Los Angeles. The cars were coupled into "units," Some of the equipment was new - notably Seattle, Washington. or married pairs. Each car had. two. motors but the signal equipment - or at least most of it,

PACIFIC NEWS 11 Posing for a photo stop at Berkeley's Northbrae Tunnel on former Interurban Electric trackage - automobiles use the tunnel today - are the two preserved Shipyard Railway cars meeting a San Francisco-bound Key System bridge unit on the F Line, March 27, 1949. The R&LHS, which saved the Shipyard cars, sponsored the special fan trip.

truck and one trail truck, as well as controls at cars were painted gray and lettered "S hipyard Ninety wooden elevated cars that had begun both ends in a motorman's cab. Key System Railway." Bright yellow stripes later were their days as steam coaches on New York's shopmen removed the cab from one end of applied for better visibility. Although the Key Manhattan Railway were shipped to the Key each car and put a seat in the space. Each car System listed the trucks as "Baldwin," various System shop at Emeryville, California in 1942. then had a controller only on one end. The cars manufacturers were represented, and many At least some of them were in a long line of idle were then semi-permanently coupled together cars had one type motor truck and another for cars stored on the unused express, or third, in two-unit sets and one car of the pair received the trailer truck. track of the Jerome Avenue line in New York. a pantograph salvaged from Southern Pacific Of the ninety received, ten were not rebuilt; The cars were constructed by three builders Interurban Electric Railway cars. Former four of these were used for Hunters Point between 1881 and 1891,and were converted to I nterurban Electric pilots appeared on some service in San Francisco. All were dismantled electric operation with General Electric Shipyard Railway cars and others received after the line closed except for the 561 and 563 Company Type "M" Sprague multiple-unit wooden pilots that had been removed from old which were donated to the Pacific Coast control in 1902-03 for use on the Manhattan Key System wood trans bay coaches scrapped Chapter, Railway and Locomotive Historical Railway Division of the Interborough Rapid in the 1930's. Third-rail shoes were removed Society. They are now preserved at the Rio Transit Company. and headlights moved from the roof ends to Vista Junction Museum of the Bay Area Each car shipped to Oakland had one motor the grillwork enclosing the end platforms. The Electric Railroad Association. 0

USMC IRT BUILT BUILDER 547 847 Octo ber, 1887 Gilbert& Bush Truck wheelbase: (trailer) 5' 0",(motor) 6'0" 501 890 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush 548 958 December, 1890 Wason Motors(percar): Two GE No. 66 502 867 October, I887 Gilbert& Bush 549 853 October, 1887 Gilbert & Bush Controller: GE C-6-J (Sprague Type "M") 503 834 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush 550 999 March,I891 Wason Pantograph: Type S-522 (sliding contact) 504 822 May, 1881 Pullman 551 914 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush Seats: 46 per car 505 901 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush 552 839 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush Reverser: DB 20 A-7 506 827 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush 553 823 May,I881 Pullman Farebox: Johnson Type"J" 507 840 Octo ber, 1887 Gilbert& Bush 554 448 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush Car Wheelbase: 32'2W' 508 825 May, I881 Pullman 555 496 Octo ber, 1887 Gilbert& Bush Weight (two-unit set): 109,000 pounds 509 864 October,I887 Gilbert& Bush 556 854 Octo ber, 1887 Gilbert& Bush 510 841 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush 557 813 April,I881 Pullman 511 870 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush 558 888 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush NOTES AND REFERENCES 512 945 November, 1890 Wason 559 906 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush The Richmond Shipyard Railway was 513 398 Octo ber, 1887 Gilbert& Bush 560 820 May, 1881 Pullman short-lived, but because of its great 514 878 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush 56 1 844 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush importance to the defense effort it was well 515 900 Octo ber, 1887 Gilbert& Bush 562 845 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush covered in the Oakland Tribune and 516 924 October, 1890 Wason 563 889 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush Oakland Post-Enquirer which were 517 965 January, I891 Wason 564 871 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush consulted for much of the history of the 518 885 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush 565 941 November, 1890 Wason line. Also consulted were the 1943 and 519 872 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush 566 817 May, 1881 Pullman 1945 consolidated Annual Reports issued 520 836 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush 567 865 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush by Railway Equipment and Realty 521 866 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush 568 917 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush Company and Key System, The Western 522 929 October, 1890 Wason 569 881 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush Railroader combined issue of] uly-August, 523 904 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush 570 869 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush 1944; From Shore /0 Shore, The Key 524 858 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush 571 92 1 October, 1890 Wason Route, by Vernon J. Sappers; and a 525 863 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush 572 892 October, I887 Gilbert& Bush booklet issued by the California Railway 526 898 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush 573 846 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush Museum. The roster notes came primarily 527 912 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush 574 835 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush from Key System drawing 6187-F and the 528 913 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush 575 877 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush extensive files of Seymour Kashin of 529 938 November, 1890 Wason 576 908 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush Tarrytown, New York who provided 530 882 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush 577 868 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush information from the official roster of the 531 857 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush 578 925 October, 1890 Wason New York Transit Authority. This 532 910 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush 579 98 1 February, 1891 Wason information was checked against the roster 533 949 November, 1890 Wason 580 842 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush appearing in From Shore /0 Shore. The 534 894 October, 188.7 Gilbert& Bush reader may note that this out-of-print 535 887 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush Cars not rebuilt: 802, 821, 849, 876, 903, 919, book shows all cars built in 1888 by 536 959 December, 1890 Wason 927, 934, 975 and 979. Wason, but information on the cars was 537 811 April, I881 Pullman Cars preserved: 561 (844), 563 (899) at the incomplete at the time (1948) that 538 968 JanuarY, I891 Wason California Railway Museum, Rio Vista. publication was issued. Elmer Cumming in 539 816 April, I881 Pullman Cars with tongue and groove sides: 514 (878), the. July-August Western Railroader 540 920 October, I890 Wason 521 (866) and 544 (939). indicates only 821, 849, 903 and 934 not 541 860 October, I887 Gilbert& Bush rebuilt and that 529-531 had been out of 542 800 March,I881 Pullman service since August I, 1943. However, 543 933 October, 1890 Wason KEY SYSTEM OATA 92' II" New York records indicate ninety cars 544 935 N ovem ber, 1 890 Wason Length (two-unit set): 46'5!!;," were shipped to the Key System Shop in 545 899 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush Length (single car): 8'7" Emeryville, California. -HWD. 546 902 October, 1887 Gilbert& Bush Width (over sides, excluding steps);

12 NOVEMBER,1977 T om Gray collection according to newspaper accounts. "In spite of the fact that the Richmond Shipyard Railway was built almost entirely of used material, it is definitely in excellent operating condition," the Oakland Tribune reported the day before service on the railroad began. "All parts were thoroughly checked and repaired as to the safety factors involved. New signal equipment controls the entire operation and all safety regulations have been complied with," the paper added, attributing the data to St. Sure. Service on the railway opened to Shipyard Number 2 on January 18, 1943 and was immediately disrupted by a freak accident. The first express train was delayed 30 minutes when a streetcar split a switch on San Pablo Avenue at

Ashby Avenue. On February 8, 1943 service was D. S. Richter collection extended to Yard N umber I, and to Yards 3 and Rumbling westbound down Potrero Avenue 15 in the Pacific. The Shipyard Railway was 3-A on February 22 to complete the line. in Richmond bound for Kaiser Yard 2, the 510 offered to the Key System, but the company Traffic on the Shipyard Railway was the leads a six-car train down dusty streets past quickly turned it down realizing a complete heaviest at the shipyard shift changes, but the wartime housing enroute to await the next shift rehabilitation of the line was required and that line probably never realized its full potential. In change at the shipyards, above. modifications would have been required in February, 1944 the Federal Office of Price Of the ten cars not rebuilt for Shipyard Richmond where the route served the shipyards Administration announced stricter new Railway service, four were sent across San and not the population center. Francisco Bay for another unusual wartime regulations on gasoline for shipyard workers The United States Maritime Commission project. With the former Coos Bay Lumber who should use the rail line rather than private abruptly cancelled its operational contract Company 2-6-2T number 7 - built by Baldwin automobile. As a re}ult 5000 workers using 1710 shortly after the war ended, and service was in 1923 as Clear Lake Lumber 7, serial 57013 - automobiles were affected, but whether they suspended on September 30, 1945. The railway the cars regularly connected with Southern switched to the trains or merely formed more car was quickly dismantled, although the shell of a Pacific San Francisco Peninsula commuter pools was not reported. At the time the substation remained for years along Highway service at the Paul A venue station offering train new restrictions were imposed, the Shipyard service over the short route to the US Navy's 17. Agreement was not reached, however, on Railway was operating at oiily nineteen per cent Hunters Point Naval Shipyard on Espee the removal of the Ninth Street rails until 1949, of its capacity. industrial tracks. Drop-stairs were added to the when the Federal Government finally agreed to Riding the Richmond Shipyard Railway was cars for this work with steamer 19; the entire pay $56,000 to rip them up. an adventure because of the ancient cars and train was scrapped following the war. There was reason to rej oice at the passage of rough track. The wooden cars were loose the Shipyard Railway. After all, it existed only enough to iron out many of the irregularities of because of a war and the abandonment of the the track and roadbed, and they had a positive hastily-built line was a signal hostilities were but jerking braking system. Rattan seats added over and America was returning to its peacetime to the charm and the environment had the air of articulated units often neared 50 mph. It activities. The purpose of the Richmond turn-of-the-century New York. Shrill whistles probably seemed much fa ster because of the Shipyard Railway was well-stated in a Tribune matched the personality of the wooden cars. condition of the roadbed and rails. article in 1943: "So, if you think it's just another Despite a shortage of equipment, the Key The Key System operated the line for the interurban railroad you're wrong - in view of System articulated cars frequently saw service Maritime Commission under a cost-plus its effect on manpower, housing, personnel on the line where, unfettered by the automatic contract that expired on June 30. 1947. training and production efficiency, you might train control that limited them on the Bay Fortunately the war did not last that long, well call the new Key System road the 'pass the Bridge and private right-of-way approaches, the ending in Europe on May 7, 1945 and on August ammunition line'." •

PACIFIC NEWS 13 MUNI'S FIRST LRV'S

the LRV became the fi rst, at I :37 PM, to touch DON JEWELL Muni rails. The trucking crew then returned to Espee's After two years of anticipation, the first Bayshore Yard and the delivery process began Boeing Light Rail Vehicles (LRV's) have arrived again for the 1221. This time the job went in San Francisco. The cars, Muni numbers 1220 considerably faster, and by 5:30 PM both cars and 1221, reached Southern Pacific's Bayshore were tucked away inside Metro Center itself. Yard on Saturday, October22. Riding upon two The two LR V's will remain Boeing-owned for 89-foot flatcars specially equipped for their several months while they are being tested and cross-country trip from Boeing's Philadelphia, evaluated by both Boeing and San Francisco Pennsylvania plant, they were placed on arrival officials. Production of the remaining cars in the in an open area east of Bayshore's car repair 100-car San Francisco order will not begin until shop for unloading. all of the tests have been completed, sometime Sunday morning found Boeing personnel next spring .• washing both cars to remove the grime of their long journey from the factory to make them DELIVERY SPECIFICATIONS presentable for photography by the press during Muni 1220: Boeing serial number SF0020 the actual delivery. On Monday, October 24, Shipped on board PC flat 757558 both cars were transported by truck to Muni Muni 1221: Boeing serial number SF0021 rails at the new Metro Center car house, some Shipped on CR flat 757569 three miles to the west up Geneva Avenue. Shipment routed from Boeing: Depart from By 9:30 AM Monday, the first LRV, Muni Philadelphia via Conrail, Alton and Southern. 1220, was being unloaded onto a specially-built Cotton Belt, Southern Pacific. Both: Don Jewell 65-foot Reliance trailer for the final trip to home rails. A winch on the truck tractor was used to simply pull the LRV onto the trailer from the flatcar. After securing the car, the careful journey began. Overhead clearances along the route made the trip slow leaving the Southern Pacific's yard, as well as at Metro Center where a Muni line crew had raised the streetcar overhead wires to clear the arriving truck with its LRV cargo. At Metro Center, the truck backed to a ramp already set up in the new car storage yard, and with the winch lowering the 1220 down the ramp

San Francisco Municipal Railway LRV 1221, below, waits on a flatcar Octobcr 24 at Southern Pacific's Bayshore yard. The Boeing-built car will be the second Light Rail Vehicle to reach Muni rails later this same day. At Metro Center, top, LRV 1220 is about to come down the unloading ramp October 24 to be the first-ever of the new cars onto San Francisco rails fo llowing a short truck trip from the Espee (PA CIFIC NEWS, October, 1976).

Vic F . Reyna

14 NOVEMBER, 1977 Starting in that year they were rebuilt to operate either way and the sliding center doors were replaced with [�_ __OU _T _WES--,T I fo lding doors and step treadles. The class of 160 remained HARRE W. DEMORO intact until the 1952 sale to Buenos Aires, followed in 1953 by eight going north fo r Portland-Oregon City Los Angeles always has been a mystery to me. On a (Oregon) service where they worked until the system shut recent business trip there I realized how bewildered I was down in 1958. The Hollywood cars remaining in in the downtown. About all I recognized was the City Southern California began to disappear only as the rail Hall in the midst of freeways and the glowing orange system was abandoned to buses. A few lasted on the neon sign on a building flashing: "Jesus Saves." Watts Local (operated as two-man cars) and were It should be immediately stated that my view of Los renumbered into the 1800 series by the Metropolitan Angeles is not that of a provincial San Franciscan. It is Transit Authority, which abandoned the line in 1959. just that the Los Angeles I knew twenty yearsago is now And now, to Laflin's comments: Los! Angeles. Somewhere out my hotel window were "The Hollywood Cars were the largest streetcars ever streets once traversed by the narrow-gauge Los Angeles operated in California. As a matter of fact ... they were Transit Lines streetcars and the red Pacific Electric larger than any of the Pacific Electric wooden interurban interurbans. I just simply did not recognize the landscape cars which were higher but not wider or longer," any more. excepting the 1000 class. (The Hollywood Cars were 52' The cities I tend to be fa miliar with retain landmarks. It long, as compared to 46' for a single-ended pec streetcar is no coincidence these communities also have rail transit used today in San Francisco, or a double-ended San systems. Urban planners know that, in general, a city Francisco car, which is 50' 5" long.) with a rail system tends to stabilize along corridors of "The late Ira L. Swett (ed itor of Inlerurbans) never hid transportation. In Los Angeles, the corridors are the his dislike of one-man streetcar operation so his Special streets and freeways. The mobility offe red by the motor 28 on Pacific Electric's Cit v and Suburban Cars had no car has brought the worst example of sprawl to ever visit comment upon use of these cars during the mid-1 930's as the American landscape. State Senator James R. Mills, a one-man, two-man cars, although there are references in San Diego Democrat as well as president pro tem of the the reproduced Pacific Electric diagrams that cars 600 to California Senate, and a candidate fo r the Amtrak board, 614 inclusive and 635 to 642 inclusive and 644, and cars once observed that the automobile brought more damage 720 to 749 inclusive are one-man, two-man cars. on American cities than Japanese bombs did to Pearl "It is unfortunate that Ira did not comment on this Harbor in December of 1941. since the Hollywood cars had been made into one-man, My last Los Angeles visit was in October and occurred two-man type in a most interesting fashion. First, Ohmer only a few days after I had happily obse rved Addison H. vertical pull rods were installed by the motorman's Laflin, Jr. at the California Railway Museum at Rio position so he could work the Ohmer register." (An Vista Junction. Laflin had emerged from illness and the · ...... sight of him amongst the electric traction collection was · cause for jubilation. : THE WESTERN LEADER FOR MORE Laflin and I were among the members of the Bay Area Electric Railroad Association to ride the Southern THAN SEVENTEEN YEARS Pacific Slarligh l behind steam to Los Angeles (and yes, it : OF CONSECUTIVE PUBLICATION. was a GS-4 type like the 4449) where, on the weekend of · September 25-26, 1954 we would post black flags on the : DO NOT MISS THE 194TH MONTH! front of the last streetcar to operate on the Beverly Hills via Hollywood Boulevard line. This was my first journey to Los Angeles and I was quick to appreciate the Pacific Electric center-door "Hollywood Cars," with air whistles, running the last miles of service to Beverly Hills. SUTYPE ORBS PRINT YOURCR NAME ANDIB ADDRESSE ENCLOSE IT WITH YOUR PAYMENT It was after seeing Laflin at the trolley museum and my recent expedition to Los Angeles that I recalled AND MAIL IT TODA Y discussions three years ago with Addison regard ing the : Enter a direct-mail subscription to PACIFIC NEWS for ...... years. center-door cars. In my files was a letter from him and his : This is a 0 New Subscription 0 Renewal of an expired subscription · comments, reflecting the fact that Laflin is an excellent • SUBSCRIPTION RATES historian, are worthy of sharing. : United States, Canada & Mexico: $10.00 for 1 year, $18.00 for 2 years : Foreign rates: $11.00 for one year. Foreign air mail rates on request : But first, some general history of the Hollywoods is : necessary. There was a total of 160 built between 1922 : 0 I have enclosed my payment : • 0 Please bill with first issue (Above rates plus 50¢ billing charge) and 1928 by St. Louis Car Company and the J. G. Brill : Company. They were initially numbered 600 to 759 but

during the modernization starting in 1949 became : Name ...... numbers 5050 to 508 1, with those not renumbered sold to · Buenos Aires in 1952. : Address · As built, the cars had sliding center doors and were : City ...... intended for two-man service with center entrance front · exit, and could run in trains of up to three cars. As we : State and Zip Code .. shall see in a moment, the Pacific Electric cheated a bit in MAIL THIS FORM, OR A FACSIMILE, TODAY assigning crews. But essentially, the cars were arranged CHATHAM PUBLISHING COMPANY � for two-man operation. They remained at this - ,....-. Post Office Box 283 configuration when all 160 were upgraded with rewound Burlingame, Ca lifornia 94010 • motors and a tasteful interior and exterior redecorating : DO YOUR FRIENDS A FAVOR: Suggesl lhey stop read ing your PACIFIC NEWS : : and subscribe. Increased circulation allows more Western Railroadi ng coverage. : in a 1939 rebuild program. It was until the 1949 rebuild : : that they could be considered one-man, two-man cars. · ......

PACIFIC NEWS 15 Ohmer register was similar to what is in San Francisco also possible that the RS3's and RS II's will be stenci led cable cars today; however, it could record many kinds of as ARS3's and ARSI I's. fares and there were rods above the aisle that the This stenciling program is well along, but a number of cond uctor would turn to move a pointer on a dial that maintenance points are slow in applying the lettering. showed the proper fa re.) "Underfloor, foot-operated Alliance, Nebraska, for example, has done almost none gongs were installed at each end but the roof-mounted, of its assigned units. The lettering will be an aid not only pull rope (hand pulled) gongs were left in place. The to employees but also to railroad enthusiasts who, for result was these one-man, two-man 600's had four gongs. instance, don't know a GP7 from a GP9 or a GP38-2 "When operated in one-man service, these cars had the from a straight GP38. But beware of the oddballs center doors shut at all times and the wooden drop seats outlined above. 0 were dropped (across the stairwells) to block these doors. I have ridden these one-man, two-man PE 600 class cars with a one-man crew on the Edendale Line. Bob Du E NION Frense tells me that these cars ran with one-man crews on 8 TH_U__--,-PA_CIF_IC_ RA_ILR_OA---JD Sundays and at nights on the Santa Monica Boulevard Line ... [ GEORGE R. COCKLE, EDITOR "The PE 600 Class was close to the all-purpose electric _CAR AND LOCOMOTIVE CYCLOPEDIA car ...how ever, I would class the PE 600's as perhaps the The proposed sell-off of sixty-eight locomotives to last suburban streetcars ever built. The Market Street Precision National (PNC) reported in last month's Railway 1200's used on the 40 Line to San Mateo were an column has been finalized. I nvolved are 6 G PTs, 3 G P9's, earlier example of a suburban streetcar and I suppose you 10 GP9B's, 8 SD24's, 32 SD24B's, 7 GP20's and 2 SW9's. could class the Key System (Oakland) Lehigh Valley All of these units are stored in the Omaha-Council Bluffs Transit cars (one of which, the 27 1, is now at Rio Vista) as area except for the two switchers which are at Albina, an earlier example of a suburban streetcar ... Oregon. The locomotives sold are: "Had the Pacific Electric added dynamic braking when Electro-Motive GP7 units they upgraded these cars, they would have had a real Originally numbered in 700 series, renumbered in 1953 super streetcar ... Los Angeles would be a better place 102 built 02/ 1953 serial 17829 Originally 2nd 702 today if they were still running." 104 built 03/ 1953 serial 1783 1 Originally 2 nd 704 Thanks, Addison, fo r reminding me why I don't find 110 built 07/ 1953 serial 18569 Originally Ist710 Los Angeles as interesting as it used to be. 0 124 built 10jl 953 serial 18715 0 riginally 1st 724 125 built IOj l953 serial 18716 Originally Ist 725 129 built 10/ 1953 serial 18720 Originally lst 729 Electro-M otive G P9 units THE BURLINGTON NORTHERN 135 02/ 1954- 19136 20 1 04/ 1954- 19202 196 04/ 1954- 19197 l. : , F. HOl WAGNER, JR., EDITOR I Electro-Motive GP9B units BURLING TON NORTHERN ANNUAL 156B 02/ 1954- 19232 204B 04j 1954- 19280 174B 03 / 1954 - 19250 307B 09/ 1 957 -23713 Numbers of the forty-eight SD40-2's due during 179B 03 / 1954- 19255 329B 09j 1957 -23735 November and December will be 678 1 -6799, and the 194B 04 j 1954- 19270 335B 09j 1957 -2374 1 7000-7028. All will come with 62: 15 gearing and will be 197B 04 j 1954- 19273 336B 09 / 195 7 - 23742 intended for coal service. This will give Burlington Note: 307'B, 335B & 336B turbocharged to 2000 hp by Northern SD40-2's in the 6300's, 6700's, 6800's, 6900's, the Union Pacific Railroad in 1963. 7000's and 8000's, as well as BiCentennial unit 1876. Electro-Motive SD24 units Sounds like time fo r a renumbering, especially since the 407 08 /1959 -25365 416 09/ 1959 - 25374 6800's and 6900's are numbered to indicate that they are 408 08 /1959 - 25366 418 09/ 1959 -25376 Locotrol master and remote units, something that they 41 1 08/ 1959 - 25369 421 09/ 1959 - 253 79 are not (at least fo r all practicai purposes, Locotrol not 415 08/ 1959-25373 427 09/ 1959 -25385 having been used on these units for nearly two years - Electro-Motive SD24B units except on units 6800-6807 leased to Southern Pacific). 400B 07j 1959 -25388 422B 08/ 1 959 - 25410 However, as the new 7000-series numbers indicate, BN 402B 07j 1959 -25390 423 B 08/ 1959 -254 11 has no plans to renumber anything. 403 B 07/ 1959 - 2539 1 424B 08/ 1959 - 254 1 2 To elimi nate confusion among employees as to 404B 07/ 1959 - 25392 425 B 08/ 1959 - 25413 locomotive models, BN has begun a program of 405 B 07j 1959 - 25393 426B 08/1959 -254 14 stenciling the model - which is also the class on BN - on 407 B 08j 1959 -25395 427B 08j 1959 -254 15 both sides of every unit at the front of the side sills . There 409 B 07/ 1959 - 25397 429B 08/ 1959 -254 17 will be some exceptions, where the BN class is different 410B 08j 1959 -25398 432B 08j 1959-25420 from the actual or commonly used model designation. 412B 08/ 1959 - 25400 433B 08/ 1959-2542 1 Those differences are as follows: 413B 08 / 1959 - 2540 1 434B 09j 1959 - 25422 NW 12 for NW2u E9 for E8-Au/ E9-Au 415B 08j I959 - 25403 438B 09j 1959 - 25426 SW 10 for SW 1000 SD40 for SDP40 416B 08/ 1 959 -25404 439B IOj l959 - 25427 SW I2for SW I200 SD45 for SDP45 417B 08j 1959 - 25405 440B 10/ 1959 - 25428 SW 15 for SW 1500 A4 15 for Century-4 15 418B 08j 1959 - 25406 44 1B 09/ 1959 - 25429 F5 for F3-A 676 A424 for Century-424 419B 08j 1959-25407 442B 09/ 1959-25430 G P5 for G P9m A425 for Century-425 42 1B 08/ 1959 - 25409 443 B 09/ 1959 - 2543 1 G PI0 for G P7u A636 for Century-636 Electro-Motive GP20 units In addition, the U30C's will be lettered U30C I (units 5306 Renumbered 12/ 1962 and 1/1963 (470 & 479) from 700's to 5352, 5800-5805,5900-59 1 1 and C&S 890-893), U30C2 470 built 07j 1960 serial 26045 Originally 3rd 700 (units 5806-5823 ap..d 59 1 2-5928) and U30C3 (for units 47 1 built 07/ 1960 serial 26046 Originally 3rd 70 I 5300-5305, 5353-5394, 5824-5839 and 5929-5944). It is 478 built 07/ 1960 serial 26053 Originally 2 nd 708

16 NOVEMBER. 1977 479 . built 07/ 1960 serial 26054 Origina lly 2nd 709 Kansas City Board of Public Utilities (PA Cf FlC 482 built 07/ 1960 serial 26057 Origina lly 2nd712 NEWS, October, 1977) number 04's serial number 488 built 07/ 1960 serial 26063 Originally 2nd 718 reported last month came fro m Bill Kuba of Cedar 497 built 07 / 1960 serial 260n Originally 2nd 727 Rapids, Iowa; another re port, from Tom La wson of Electro-Motive SW9 units Birmingham, Alabama, says this unit is seria l number 1827 04/ 1953 - 17807 1842 04/ 1953 -17822 31034, November, 195 1, and fo rmerly General Services The ra ilroad's Omaha Shops are presently converting Ad ministration 118, originally US Navy 65-00280. Both S024 B 406B to a "slug booster unit" which will be of these are the same style of General Electric centercab numbered as the S-7 and be semi-permanently coupled to 80-tonner. S024 413 and operated by trainlined elect ric powe r Proctor and Gamble at Dallas, Texas will be receiving connections from the mother unit. This is the Union a slug unit from Johnson Railway Supply of Cornelia, Pacific's first six-a xle locomotive to be converted to Georgia, built for dealer Birmingham Rail and electric trailer se rvice on the ra ilroad as a, II previous slugs Locomotive of Birmingham, Alabama. The latter were red one GP9's. The 12-motor hump unit will be supplied the re mains of Occidental Chemical (Florida) assigned to the new Hinkle, Oregon ya rd when complete. SI 4125 to Johnson Railway Supply. The Aleo was Rather than consign heavily-damaged S040's 3071, originally built as the Central of Georgia number 6, se rial 3146 and 3336. involved in the Lake Point, Utah accident number 695 12. It was constructed in September of 1941. (PA C/ FlCNEW S, August. 1977), directly to scrap, they The rebuilding work is to be done at Johnson Ra ilway were instead hipped to the Omaha Shops in gondolas. Supply's Corneila, Georgia fa cility. 0 Inspection of all sa lvageable parts has been made and cost estimates have been worked up to overhaul certa in economica lly repairable pa rts. The Ca mas Prairie Railroad received Union Pacific ___T HE_S_OU_TH_ERN_ I GP9 293 recently to re place sister 245 that was sc ra pped [I ----I at Omaha Shops. DO�����L ] The first upgraded Electro-Motive GP35 will soon be released from the Southern Pacific's Sacramento General ______Shops. To be numbered as the 6300, the former 6553 will _WES_TERN PACIFIC_RAI_LROA----ID [fB remain a 2500-horsepower GP35 by reta ining its KEN MEEKER turbocharger. As with upgraded units of other models, the 6300 wi ll have all new wiring and electrical equipment The Western Pacific Railroad . respond ing to the as we ll as an updated prime mover with many new 645 wishes of a la rge num be l' of employees, announced in la te series parts. Current plans are fo r fo ur rebuilt GP35's, Nove mber that orange F7 913, currently at the Boise. numbers 6300-6303, to retain their turbocharged engines Idaho locomotive repair fac ility of Morrison-Knudsen. and be assigned to Class EF425 R-1 . Additional GP35's will be re painted into its original silver-and-ora nge pa int will also be upgraded but will emerge from the scheme upon re turn.The 913 (ex-2nd 913-A. nee 920-A), Sacramento, Ca lifornia shop without turbochargers and which suffe red extensive fi re damage in July of this year, be rated at 2000 horsepower. These locomotives will be will thus become the only operating Western Pacific classified as EF420 R-I, and current plans are fo r 54 such locomotive not painted green. Sister F7 92 1, also at units to be numbered 4500 to 4553. Morrison-Knudsen, will be painted green by the ra ilroad Plans are also being prepa red to upgrade Southern before re turning to service. The 917, curre ntly being Pacific's fleet of seventeen EM 0 G P30 units. They will repaired by the WP at its Stockton (California)Shop s is, also lose their turbochargers and be rated at 2000 of course, already green, and the other operable F7 , horsepower. New numbers 4560 to 4576 are set aside for number 91 H, is being repa inted to green at the time of this these units when they are completed . writing. The ra ilroad pIans to opera te the F's as a qua rtet. All locomotives released since January I, 1977 in mainly west from Stockton to San Jose or Oakland. Southern Pacific's upgrading program are being The Sierra Pacific Power Company has announced completed under a new title - General Rehabilitation plans to begin construction of a $200 million power plant Program (GRIP). These newly-rebuilt units no longer along the Western Pacific main line at Ellison, Nevada, return to service under ownership of the Southern Pacific 43 miles east of Winnemucca. The proj ect is sc heduled to Equipment Company as in the past several years, begin electric generation in the winter of 1981 and in designated as "E" on locomotive classifications such as connection with both the Union Pacific and the Rio GP9E and S09E. All units completed under GRIP Grande wi ll give the Western Pacific its first unit coal re main in railroad ownership and are designated with an train operation. "R", such as GP9R and S09R with newly-completed locomotives now classified as EF418R-I for G P9's, EF618R-1 for S09's, EF420 R-I fo r GP20 units and EF620 R-1 fo r S035's. Recent re habilitated locomotives are receiving a full [.WESTERN LOCOMOTIVE NEWS set of rea r red and white Gyralite warning lights as were installed fo r many years before being discontinued in the KENNETH M. ARDI��GER mid-1960's. All newly outshopped road units under the G RIP program have received these extra lights, incl ud ing General Electric demonstrator 2, serial number 39 164 S 035's which never had such signal lights in the past. The built in November of 1976, is a 144-ton centercab roof-top air filter boxes are now only being applied to representative of the builder's new line of industria l upgraded GP20 and S035 units. locomotives. The unit is now currently in the West S 035 units completed under G RIP so fa r this yea r are (early November) working for Kennecott Coppe r's huge the 470 1, ex-6906; 4702, ex-69 18; and 4703, ex-6923. Utah Mines Division near Salt La ke City. They are now classified as EF620 R-1. These units are

PACIFIC NEWS 17 now non-turbocharged and derated to 2000 horsepower. The first three of Southern Pacific's EMD GP40 X units are sched uled to be delivered to the Rock Island at RAILROAD BOOKS Blue Island, Illinois about December 10 where they will be put into service and worked through to Los Angeles. They should then head north to Roseville fo r testing on We handle the full rail lines of most leading pub­ Donner Pass - perhaps with the Seaboard Coast Line lishers, as well as books and publishers that are not U36B "Mother and Mate" trio, SCL numbers 1851, 1855 as generally well known. Orders are usually and 3215, presently in test there. The 3500-horsepower shipped by UPS for fast, damage-free-delivery, with no extra charge for shipping and handling on GP40X's will have a 16-cylinder 645 FE prime mover set orders of over $5.00. We are continually adding to to turn 954 rpm at full speed and driving new D87X our catalog offering. Please give us a try-we think design traction motors through an AR IOX2 main you'll be completely satisfied. We are ra ilfans our­ generator. Riding on HTB trucks with rubber side packs selves and are interested in service. where elliptical springs used to be, the new units, at an overall height of 14' 8W', will be slightly higher than All Aboard America- Illustrating the travels of the present Electro-Motive power on the Espee. Lacking a American Freedom Train ...... $14.00 front platform around the nose, radio-control Locotrol

Everywhere West-The Burlington Route ...... $14.95 gear will be housed behind the cab. The locomotive's air CZ: The Story of lhe ...... $10.95 intakes at the rear of the long hood will be covered by . Canadian National Steam Power ...... $15.95 an "elephant ear" modification similar to the test 100 Years of Capital Traction-A history of Washington program cond ucted several years ago by the railroad on D.C.'s street railway system ...... $25.00 certain members of its SD45 fleet. GP40X's delivered to Chicago Great Western Motive Power, VoL I ...... $ 4.95 Chicago's Rapid Transit, Vol. II-Photos and data on other railroads in this program will have conventional ro lling stock, 1947 to present ...... $23.00 flared radiators. 0 DenverSouth Park & Pacific- Mac Poor ...... $24.00 Dinner in the Diner-Dining cars and famous ra ilroad recipes, pre-Amtrak ...... $ 7.95 EI Paso Electric Company-Tentative History ... $ 4.50 THE S. The Grand Trunk Western Railroad- Dorin ...... $14.95 [.."M��!�I��t RAILWAY The Jersey Central Story-Carleton ...... $30.00 [� J� Railroads of New Jersey-Data and photos of present DON JEWELL freight and commuter operations ...... $15.95 400,000 Miles by Rail-50 years of travel aboard North With the arrival of the first two Boeing Light Rail America's great trains ...... $ 8.50 Vehicles for testing and evaluation (page 14), the San Railroads of Arizona, Vol. I-Myrick ...... $19.50 Francisco Muni's fleet of PCe's continues to limp along. Los Angeles Railway Through the Years- Narrow gauge street railway, without the smog ...... $ 4.50 Several cars are still out of service awaiting parts or Mount Lowe . . The Railway in the Clouds- istory of accident re pairs, meaning that a number of weekday runs H Pacific Electric's Alpine Division ...... $21 .95 still are not filled, The Electric Railways of Minnesota ...... $29.95 The third PCC to be rehabilitated and repainted in the NWI'S Guide to Railroad Photography ...... $ 3.25 new style is now in service: car 1134 was released during New England Diesels .. .. $24.95 October. This will be, however, the last car done until the Portraits of the Iron Horse-Otto Kuhler ...... $ 8.50 Iron Horses of the Santa Fe Trail ...... $34.50 promised budget funds are received . Work on these last Steam Trains of the Soo (4th edition)...... $13.95 two cars was done on a time-available basis by regular The 5:10 to Suburbia-An excellent photo study of shop forces, but with the backlog of cars needing re pairs current Chicago commuter operations ...... $14.95 all attention is now being directed to getting them back in Thouroughbreds-AI Staufer's study of New York service as quickly as possible. The new budget funds Central's famous Hudsons ...... $22.00 Turbines Westward-Photo and technical coverage of coming from the Mayor's office will be used to hire Union Pacific's turbines...... $14.95 additional employees for the PCC rehabilitation proj ect. e ist r f rr l � � H � �� ���§� There is currently also a problem with the new paint shop ��:�� h ia �����1ihe . �. � ....� ...... �� .. at Metro Center and no major paint work can be done Twilight on the Narrow Gauge-D&RGW's lines in the until the ve ntilation in the paint area is corrected to last years of the 1950's ...... $ 3.95 properly remove the paint fumes. Vanishing Markers-Railroading on the Boston & Maine in the 40's and early 50's ...... $14.95 The N Line track reconstruction project on Carl and Winchester & Western Railroad-History of a 40-mile Irving Streets has reached 9th Avenue and was completed ...... $ 3.00 long Virginia short line and placed in service during the week of October 3 I. A neighborhood celebration was held on Irving Street on Saturday, November 5 to celebrate the finished work.

Spare yourself the long wait for damaged book s- Reconstruction of the remainder of the N Line from 19th We ship promptlyl Avenue to the Beach is scheduled to begin within the next sixty days. Check or M.O. with your order please. Thanks. Muni 1220 made the first-ever LR V run on the streets We have many more titles in stock-please write of San Francisco on Thursday evening, October 27. It for our free current catalog. was a short trial run on the K Line from Metro Center to West Portal and back. Both LRV's had received trolley bases and poles by Thursday, but the 1220 was the first one inspected and readied for operation. Actual LRV testing by Boeing officials was scheduled to begin during JOHN H. WESTON BOX 339 W ILMETTE the following week. ILLINOIS These two LRV's came from the factory with full Bookseller 60091 seating and interiors and were already wired for the installation of trolley poles for temporary operation until

18 NOVEMBER,1977 the Muni's overhead wire is ready for use by as the "DMX" it operates fr om Dupo, Illinois to Laredo, pantographs. Some of the seats will be removed from one Texas where it connects with the National Railways of of the cars so that the test equipment can be installed. Mexico's newly-established piggyback service to Mexico Both LR V's still belong to Boeing and will not be City and six other Mexica n points. The 1050-mile run accepted by M uni until next year after testing is re quires about 45 hours. MoPac has been advertising completed . Boeing will conduct their tests for the next itself as "The North American Rail Link" because it several months, both on city streets and in the Market connects with the US extensions of both major Ca nad ian Street Subway with most of the work performed at night. ra ilroads at Chicago and has three major interchanges At this time, it is planned that these two cars will not along the Mexican border. This new se rvice gives some return to the fa ctory as they are already complete. If any credence to the claim. What will the next step be? A adjustments or modifications are required before Montreal to Mexico City run-through? 0 acceptance by the Muni, Boeing will have the work done in San Francisco. 0

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Delivery was not completed until November on Missouri Pacific's most recent G P38-2 units. Also, there were two orders - 776034- 1 to 776034-10, road numbers 2138-2 147, and 777035-1 to 777035-10, road numbers 2148-2157 - nor 776034- 10 through -20 as re ported last month. The second order was built in November. The reason for two separate orders was that ten units had trade-ins assigned, and ten did not. This group has The Northeast Railroad Scene numbe rs, white diagonal stripes and snowplow pilots on the rear end as well as the front. The previous delivery, by Bob Pennisi 2133-2137, did not get snowplow pilots on the rear. The order prior to that, 2121-2137, did not get any markings A series of soft cover photo books on the rea r except white horizontal frame stripes. These on the roads that became ConRail, units were intended to be used only in multiple-unit consists, but thinking has since changed to recognize the giving a brief look at the last 20 years, possibility of the operation of a single unit running with with plenty of photos - color covers. the long hood forward . Of course, the GPI5-I's came fully equipped on both ends as they were intended for Volume 1 - The Lehigh Valley local service where single-unit operation is common. The - SD40-2's are intended for main line multiple-unit service Volume 2 The Lehigh & Hudson River and thus do not get get numbers, stripes or plows on the 400 each - postpaid published by rear. The GE U238's that have been delivered in the new New Jersey residents add 5% sales lax. Railroad Avenue Enterprises scheme, 2257-2288, did not get diagonal stripes on the P.O. Box 114 rear. These, thus, are a few of the variations in MoPac's Flanders, N.J. 07&36 new pa int scheme . As units are repainted , or partially red one, in the various shops many variations result. A new train was recently added to the li ne-up. Known Dealer Inquiries Inuited

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PACIFIC NEWS 19 An eastbound Canadian National Railway transcontinental freight The snakes up the North Thompson River, above, a few miles to the east of Kamloops, British Columbia. S040 5093 leads the two-unit motive Camera power consist through the scenery of Western Canada in this photograph dating from July of 1974. A half-dozen locomotives - three General Electric U33C's, one Car Electro-Motive GP9 and two EMO F's - climb over the Skykomish River Bridge above Sunset Falls with time freight 83 nine years ago in Photo July, 1968. The Cascade Mountains rise high in the background, as this mixture of Great Northern motive power goes about its work in the era Section before the merger that placed these units on the vast locomotive roster of the Burlington Northern.

20 NOVEM BER, 1977 .-

Robert W. Johnston

PACIFIC NEWS 21 Both: Harre W. Demoro collection

Southern Pacific's subsidiary interurban giant Pacific Electric Railway's distinctive "Hollywood Cars" were a part of the Southern California landscape for thirty-seven years. These two photographs, dating from the 1940's, illustrate the classic suburban electrics as they appeared during the two major periods in the history of the 160 cars. In the frame above, the 715, in its original condition, scoots along Aliso Street in Los Angeles during 1940 enroute to Sierra Vista. A pair of the cars, in their upgraded condition after a 1939 modernization campaign, pausesat Valley Junction beyond Pasadena in 1947, below, during a time of heavy patronage for the Santa Anita Race Track. In either of the configurations, the center-door Hollywoods could run in trains of up to three cars (see Out West, this issue).

22 NOVEMBER, 1977 Photographed in August of 1977 at McKinley Park, Alaska, 122.4 The miles into its eleven-hour, 356-mile Fairbanks-to-Anchorage journey is the Alaska Railroad's train 5, the southbound Aurora. With a pair of Camera domes in the consist, and BiCentennial 1512 on the point, the streamliner is primarily former Union Pacific equipment. The 1512 Car itself, built by Electro-Motive in 1953 as serial number 19065, is one of three boiler-equipped FP7 units on the railroad, numbered as the 1510, Photo 1512 and 1514: all were built the same month. Thirty-two passenger cars, by the way, were purchased by the Alaska Railroad from the Secllon Union Pacific for service on the A urora, including baggage cars, coaches, dome coaches and food-service cars.

PACIFIC NEWS 23 ,...------. AMTRAK APPROACHES THE END OF THE 1977 YEAR ��Gb-' LAST CHANCE FOR �,� Amtrak has announced that it carried a total COLOR MOVIE FILMS of 19,207,000 passengers during the fiscal year FREE CATALOG that ended on September 30. The passenger OF RARE COLOR SLIDES! "The Big Red Cars" count is an increase of nearly six per cent over ( When you order your first 20 slide set) Pacific Electric on Long Beach Blvd. the prior year's totals. The most significant In terurban. Steam and early Diesel growth in Amtrak ridership was recorded on the from the 30s. 40's and 50s/ short-distance trains that are operating in the "Los Angeles Trolleys" Northeast Corridor. SEI BEFORE YOU BUY Daily operations in 1962 Send $2 and receive two sample slides Amtrak is going to spend $10 million to install plus our excellent new catalog; standby electric service for the needs of its new 8MM, 50 ft .• $5.00 ea. every slide is illustrated and describedl passenger equipment at tw enty cities, If your request is postmarked before nationwide. The present Amfleet equipment January 15th, 1978, the $2 cost will (493 cars), the pending new Pullman-Standard New York residents add sales tax be credited to your first order. bi-Ievel long-distance cars (284 cars) and the fifty-five Turboliners all require three-phase Z:A���iUCTluNS 480-volt power instead of the 24-volt that is 157 ALPI�E TERRACE I SAN FRANCISCO. 94117 P. O. Box 24 Earlton, N. Y. 120sa standard on conventional equipment. ______.... Installations are now scheduled in the West for Chicago, Illinois; Laredo, Fort Worth, Dallas ...... and Houston, Texas; Oakland, Los Angeles, Bakersfield and San Diego, California. After announcing the Chicago-to-Florida ' Floridian would become the system's first SOU passenger train to be discontinu THERN PACIFIC ed on a planned LIMITED EDITION BUCKLE January 19, 1978 last run, Amtrak has since suspended the processing of route and service procedures for five of its trains which were being Now the famous Southern Pacific "Rails to the considered for restructuring or discontinuance. emblem can be yours in a strictly limited, This action, which saves the Chicago-to-Florida Sunset" Flo ridian, was taken pending completion of a numbered, copyrighted, authorized ed ition. When Department of Transportation study and a Congressional review of a comprehensive a total of 3000 buckles are made, the molds will reexamination of the nationwide route be destroyed. structure. In addition to the Florida service, Amtrak was also planning the discontinuance or restructuring of the tmpire Builder and the SHOWN ACTUAL SIZE - FITS 1 %" BELT North Coast Hia watha, which operate from Chicago to Seattle; the Lone Star and the in ter­ American operating from Chicago to Texas; Brass-Lead and California's San Joaquin. Public notices Finish soliciting comment on the various options proposed for these trains have been removed Numbers 001 -2700 and toll-free phone lines available for public 700 sold comment will be discontinued . When the majority of the nation's clocks were $10.95 set back one hour to Standard Time on Sunday, October 30, Amtrak made many schedule changes on its timetable. The Sunset, for Sterling Silver example, now completes its run from Los Solid Angeles east to New Orleans 15 minutes faster. Elsewhere, throughout the West, numerous Numbers 01 S-275S minor changes were made affecting local 78 sold portions of Amtrak's schedule, although the cross-country run of the Sa n Francisco Zephyr $74.95 has been reduced by nearly an hour. In all, some twenty-six Amtrak trains now operate on shorter sched ules. 14K Gold Noted in error in the July issue, Amtrak has Solid not discontinued dining car service on trains 15 and 16, the Lone Star. There was a plan to Numbers 01 G-25G reduce costs by switching the car off train 15 at 4 sold Fort Worth and have only lounge and snack service between Fort Worth and Houston; $974.95 however, this was not put into effect. Instead, Amtrak switches the lounge car off at Fort Worth and the diner stays on to Houston. There Buckles are shipped postpaid, silver and gold is full lounge and dining service on the Fort buckles are insured . Avoid delay, a portion of the Worth-to-Chicago leg of the train's run. Two of the 9350-series "Pleasure-Dome production is already sold. Lounge" cars, formerly assigned to the Southwest Umited, are now working on the Coast Srarlight between Los Angeles and M & L MITTE NS Seattle. This move, combined with the handful of ex-Southern Pacific dome cars, allows a Post Office Box 824, Sparks, Nevada 89431 dome for each of Amtrak's Coast Srarligh t consists on the route (Daniel B. Kuhn).•

24 NOVEMBER. 1977 10% OFF ANY 20 % OFF ANY 20% OFF PLUS THREE TO SIX SEVEN TO TEN FREE FILM FOR Shorl Siull (no free film) (no free film) ELEVEN OR MORE Arizona Public Service has acquired a second EM 0 switcher for service at its Cholla. Arizona power generating plant: new MPI 5AC number EXTRA 4449 WEST �::���':r 8 2 is EMD serial number 756 14 9-1 " Simpson Six New Films **Coast to Coast ** One Film Free Timber Company Alco S4 number 20 left Shelton, Washington November 18 via the BN Never before, never again: A single steam engine, a single train, and UP for an in-kind limited remanufaclUre by Miami to Portland. Incredible magneticsound by Mobile Fidelity Morrison-Knudsen at Boise. Idaho (Peter J. X49A WHISTLING THROUGH DIXIE C The Gold Re plinger) The future of the Southern Miami to Birmingham plus the trip to altanooga. Coast, The Everglades, The Citrus Belt, The Deep South, the engine ablaze in the selting sun as linale Pacific's San Francisco-to-San Jose commuter 148' 29.50 sound $21.95 sil service was placed in the hands of the Interstate X49B TH E SUNSET ROUTE Engineer Doyle McCormack takes you up in the cab andshows you how Commerce Commission In mid-November to handle 20 cars from San Antonio to EI Paso. Includes the World famous Pecos 'high' Bridge and when the ra ilroad petitioned the Commission seldom photographed Paisano Pass 157' $30.95 sound $23.50 sil ROUTE for abandonment authority based on financial X49C THE GOLDEN STATE 4449 roars past-the picturesque wooden stations of SP's bygone Angeles Plus SaltonSea, Beaumont Hill, Mission Tower and Tuscan, losses and the the lack of action on a similar years en route from EI Paso to Los Phoenix, Yuma 143' $28.50 sound $21 .45 sil discontinuance application still pending before X49D COAST DAYLIGHT The World 's mosl famous train ride ' II's all here, jusl as il really was 20 the California Public Utilities Commission . years ago. A 'Daylight' train along Ihe incredibly beauliful route for which it was specifically created, camp Ie Ie from GS·4 Daylighl Engine Ihru full lenglh SP dome to round end observalion. The en lire lenglh The Coa.\'I S{(Jrligh l was delayed and passengers of California 's "forbidden " coast by helicopter, blas ting around the famous 'Gold Tree' horseshoe then bussed around a derailment north of Dunsmuir. over the slaggering Cuesla grade and on to San Jose. We've had reouests from all over the free World for Ihis one. We haven 'I leI you down l 185 fl. $36.95 sound $27. 75 sll California on November 24: Amtrak reversed its SHASTA ROUTE trains In mid-route to allow bus riding X49E THE Oakland to Portland including Carquinez Straits, the Valley, Sacramento Canyon and the mountain forests of Oregon plus a beautiful reprise of cross country scenes as passengers to return to rail transportation after ending 175' $34.95 sound $26.25 sil detouring around the derailed freight (Alan C. for the above films superbly recorded by Mobile Fidelity Productions, Burbank, CA 91503 Shi ney) ... A Sacramento, Ca lifornia firm has Sound Many sounds from these films are available from them on phonograph records and tapes. signed a 99-ye<)r lease for the historic Virginia - "We warmly recommend Extra 4449 North an evocation of everything that mighty machine and Truckee roundhouse still standing in now means·to all the nation". David P. Morgan, Editor in Trains Magazine. SIDE Carson City. Nevada with anannounced plan to 2149 SIDE BY 4449 shown in Ala. and arriving Birmingham. 2101 draws along side. The flags turn the stone building into a shopping mall; are passed and 2101 starts off. Second half shows 2101 crossing the Taconic Mountains on lIle New Haven's famous"Back Door" route to the west. 154 ft., $22.95, silent only efforts to preserve it for historical and museum 2149 free when all X4449W sound films are ordered at once. purposes have apparently failed although Inte reoast Real Estate Development. whieh Pay only $5 for 2149 when all X4449W silent films are ordered. leased the building from Southern California owners, has been active in histo ric preservation STILL AVAILABLE AT 1975 PRICES • SILENT

and renovation In Sacramento (Norman 4449A FREEDOM AND FREIGHT The initial Holmes) ...The last twenty-six A cars acll uired test with 2000 tons along the edge of the Columbia by BART and delivered without train control. River Gorge plus barreling across the snow crowned Wasatch Range in Utah, thru the brilliant reds of numbers 25 1-276, arc now ente ring service with 0 h ( plains of Wyoming. 6�� �r���� �e t. 1�� ' �2��r recently-purchased eq ui'pment; the cars are 4449B FREEDOM ON MT. SHASTA equipped with air horns and different visors Mounting the Cascade Mtns. with a special SP pass consist. (Don Jewell) ...The all-Aleo motive power of Filmed with mighty Mt. Shasta as backdrop, almost the Utah Railway has been bumped from main to snow line then over the shoulder and on to Sacramento. 177' $22.95 line service between Martin and Provo by leased 4449C FREEDOM IN THE SIERRA Heading for Union Pacific SD40's putting at least a Donner Pass, 7000 ' up in the Sierra, high on the tem porary end of a favorite railroading treslles, deep in the canyons as she snakes her way thru the fabled gold country and down to the attraction for photographers; the Alcos Nevada desert. 130' $16.95 continue to work the mine runs out of Martin 4449D FREEDOM ON PARADE Opens with 4449 charging across the Snake River in Idaho and follows forthe busy power-short railroad and RSD4303 along to Boise. The Bay area comes next, then Tehachapi Loop and scenes around LA 177' $22.95 August. 1977) is now back at (PA CI FlC NEWS. 4449E FREEDOM IN THE DESERT Crystal dawn breaks over Colton yard as 4449 picks her stately way work (Steven W. Belmont, Chris Ra ught) thru the maze of switches and thus begins an epic trek across the vast deserts of the American South·West. Southern Pacific has returned upgraded 150' $19.50 passenger GP9 3191 to service in the San PLUS 2101 Francisco commuter fleet: previously numbered 2101A FREEDOM IN THE SNOW The first run as thegiant Reading 4-8-4 rolls North thru the spectacular Storm as the 3010. the locomotive was outshopped the King Narrows on the Hudson. Along the Conn. and White Rivers in Vermont. Superb side by side pacing in the snow. 140' $18.25 last of October and will be followed by the 3192, 21 01B FREEDOM INTO SPRING the ex-3009 . The San Francisco Municipal More snow scenes and then early Spring in Coastal New England by the glistening church spires on her way to a continent girdling tour. 140' $18.25 Railway's Ca lifornia Street Cable line will celebrate 100 years of operation this coming PLUS TEXAS AND PACIFIC 610 FROM HELICOPTERS 610A FREEDOM IN TEXAS April complete with a decorated car which will Two films in one: the test to Wichita Falls. Then she lines out for Ft. Worth from reportedly be the number 60 The 2-t ruck Houston. You're staring down the stack, you're pacing wide open beneath the engine on the high fills. GloriOUS! 220 ' $28.50 � West Side Lumber Company three-foot-gauge AND AS IT REALLY USED TO BE Heisler number 2. long on display in the GS·4 THE DAYLIGHT LOCOMOTIVE The Coast Daylight in it's original orange and red plus the GS·4 in all Tuolumne. Californiacity park. has been moved it's aspects: with and without skirts, all black, In the Tehachapis, over the Sierras, across the desert with 'Name' trains, commuters, football specials and fan trips. Doubleheading with everything from F·7s to cab·forwards. into the shop of the adjacent Westside and 205 ' $26.65 Che rry Va lley Railway which is under 2102A CLOSE TO ZERO 2101's sister locomotive paced by helicopter on one of the coldest days of the construction for eventual tourist operation on year from Baltimore to the summit of Jack's Mtn. on the Western Maryland. A volcano of steam you won't the former West Side property; hopefully, the believe. 214' $27.85 189 9-built locomotive can eventually be restored to operation (Tom Moungovan) The new 1978 Amtrak calendar is now available S�P.O, RimnP� by writing Amtrak Calendar c/ o Western Box 565 Concord, Massachusetts 01742 Folder, 850 West Fullerton, Avenue, Addison, All films postpaid in U.S. Foreign Sur. 50, Air $1.80 per item. Australia $1 .00 sur $2.20 Air Illinois 60 101 and enclosing $3.75; the calendar Mass. Res. add 5% tax. Illus. catalogue 50�. Free copy each new order. 4449, 2102 and 610 films made in features a full-color Superliner train drawing .• cooperation with the Am. Freedom Train Fnd.

PACIFIC NEWS 25 nEWS PHOTOS

Seaboard Coast Line GE U36B's 1851 and 1855, with MATE 3215 (PA CIFIC NE WS, October, 1977), pass through Hiland, California while testing on Southern Pacific's Palmdale Cutoff ovember 26. The G E's are working with the railroad's dynamometer car, SP 137, during the initial phase of a six-week testing of the four-motor locomotives.

Work proceeds by Morrison-Knudsen at Boise, Idaho, middle, on Western Pacific F7 A 921 - EMD 8979, built January, 1950 - as the diesel engine is lifted from the carbody October 27 for an overhaul. Carbody damage repair to the opposite side, and prime mover repair, will restore the unit to operating condition early in the coming new year.

Also at Boise, below, Morrison-Knudsen's Alco RS2 802, ex-Elgin Joliet and Eastern Railway, leads the former Norfolk and Western 2436 toward the shops late this past summer. The GP7 has been remanufactured and is now due for imminent delivery to Weyerhaeuser's Vail, Washington operations as the 776.

William T. Morgan

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26 NOVEM BER, 1977 Outbound on non-revenue trackage along Ocean Avenue from the Geneva Car House to begin two days of a special UToys For Tots" Christmas Drive as Santa's Toy Trolley on Saturday, November 26, right, is San Francisco Municipal Railway Holman-built, in 1912, Car One. Complete with Santa Claus, his helpers, a public address system and recorded music, the car - which wears its original grey and maroon colors - toured all five San Francisco car lines, including downtown Market Street, collecting new or workable toys in cooperation with the fire department. The American Business Women's Association held its 1977 National Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah during the week of October 17, complete with a season-closing final steam run October 20 on the nearby Heber Creeper, below. With representatives of all fift y states on board, 2-8-2 36 steams abundantly in the cool weather of Provo Canyon patiently waiting to begin the return run to Heber City.

Steven W. Belmont

PACI FIC NEWS 27 Both: The Milwaukee Road

The first main-line electric locomotive on the Milwaukee Road, and the world's largest, poses above on display at Butte, Montana in October of 1915, a few days before it will inaugurate electrified service over what for many years was the world's longest electrified main line. Today, this same Milwaukee Road 10200 has just been placed on display in the Lake Superior Museum of Transportation at Duluth, Minnesota, having been set aside for preservation following the end of Milwaukee electric operations on June 15, 1974. Built by General Electric in 1915 as serial number 5022-A&B, the 288-ton, 212-foot locomotive sports 4100 horsepower and should be very familiar to Milwaukee electrification followers as the E50, a number it was assigned in 1939 and wore until the final day of service.

28 NOVEMBER, 1977 .',"'- ---,. nEWS PHOTOS

Fourth of the Missouri Pacific's 100 new cabooses now being constructed by the railroad, top, bay-window 13718 brings up the rear of a train at Dallas, Texas bound f.or Fort Worth. These new, short cabooses are being numhered as the 13715-13814(PA CIFICNEWS, October, 1977), and just over half are completed.

Lee Langum

Thirty-eight new Electro-Motive 5040-2 units are now being delivered to the Santa Fe: brand-new 5045, middle, is the eighteenth. Numbered as 5020-5057, delivery began with the 5028 (PA CIFIC NEWS, October, 1977) as the 5020-5027 will be equipped for Locotrol service as radio-control units.

CP Rail subsidiary Esquimalt and Nanaimo"s rehabilitation project to restore service to the northern end of this Vancouver Island line is nearing completion. The first train north of Parksville since June 30, 1975, bottom, was Extra 8669 seen at Mud Bay, milepost 121, enroute to deliv�r girders for the Tsable River bridge reconstruction (PA CIFIC NEWS, May, 1977). When the line is reopened, passenger service will be restored. Santa Fe

Dave Wilkie

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BACK ISSUES of PA CIFIC NEWS remain available; some date to the July, 1964 ODeratlons issue, number 35. Quantities ar.e liniited for many of these, however. The wide variety of feature article topics,covers -mostof the western railroading activity for this period of time. Send a stamped self-addressed envelope for complete details: PACIFIC All listings herewith are -made free of charge, and NEWS assumes no PA CIFIC NEWS, Post Office Box 283, Burlingame, California 940 10. responsibility for errors, revisions in fares and schedules or operalional changes, all of which are subject to change without notice_ PACIFIC NEWS reserves Ihe LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP. Before you subscribe to any publication that right to edit material or to refuse any lislings. Insertions will not be printed from brochures. Deadline is the firsl of Ihe second monlh preceding publication date: co"ers the northeast United States, compare RAILS NORTHEA ST. The facts stand on their own merit. 50pages an issue, II times a year, SI.75 a copy, full color Continuing, weekends covers, fo ur color inside pictures, all solid.content. If you are adoubting Thomas, GOLDEN AGE OF RAILROADING EXHIBIT send your name on a post card for a copy of our free 8-page brochure; tliat's all, The Pacific Southwest Railway Museum of San. Diego has an exhibit of your name ona post card, no stamp necessary. RAILS NORTHEA ST,Box 135, .railroad equipment open to the public. On display is a 1929 Aleo 2-S-2T, formerly East McKeesport, Pennsylvania 1503S . Coos Bay Lumber Company numbed I, and a 1926 private Pullman business car, the Victoria. The location is on Harbor Drivt! - near Broadway - in downtown NEGA TIVE TRADERS wanted that are interested in trading western material San Diego. Hours are from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM weekends_ Admission is free. fo r same. Also traders from the east are welcome. My negatives are 2V.x3V.", Pacific Southwest Railway Association black-and-white of SP, WP, AT&SF and BN. Write to Vic Reyna, P. O. Box 568, Post Office Box 12096 San Francisco, California 94 10 I. San Diego, California 92 112 1917 COLOR SLIDE CA T ALOG - Over 5500 diffe rent diesel, electric and some February 25-26, 1978, weekend steam locomotives from across North America representing 380 Class I, MOFFAT TUNNEL 50TH ANNIVERSARY Shorlline and Industrial Roads. Catalog includes model, road number and paint Ceremonies will be held at the East Portal of the famed Moffat Tunnel during a scheme of each unit. Over 300 different models included. Send $2.00 for catalog special stop of the Denver and Rio Grande's Rio Grande Zephyr on Saturday and sample to: Porreca, Box 22, Boulder, Colorado 80306. morning, February 25, 1978_ The fifty-year time capsule will be opened and the train will then continue west to Salt Lake City, Utah. Events aboard the train enroute will include a one-day Railway Post Office, special diner menu, publication of a booklet on the history of the tunnel by the Colorado Railroad Museum and a party to celebrate the anniversary. Officials of the Moffat Tunnel Commission, Denver and Rio Grande Western Publishers are encouraged to submit copies of both new and reissued books, records. photo sets, etcetera not Railroad and the National Railway Historical Society will all take part in the day's previously reviewed in PACIFIC NEWS. There is no events honoring the tunnel. II charge for this service; however. the material will be Detailed information from (please enclose self-addressed, stamped envelope): retained by the magazine for its research library. Intermountain Chapter, NRHS O 0 P. O. Box 5181, Terminal Annex B Denver, Colorado 802 17

July, 1978 ALL-RAIL EXCURSION TO COLORADO Reservations are now being taken for an all-rail excursion to Colorado via San ReviewS Francisco. Travel will use Amtrak's Coast Starligh t, San Francisco Zephyr, RED TRAINS IN THE EAST BAY Denver and Rio Grande's Rio Grande Zephyr, returning to 'Los Angeles on Robert S. Ford Amtrak's Southwest Limited. The conducted tour will include visits to the San Francisco Cable Car Barn, Colorado Railroad Museum and the Georgetown Southern Pacific's San Francisco suburban train and ferry system in Oakland, Loop. There will be steam excursions on the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad Alameda and Berkeley was among the more fa scinating networks of this type. and the Rio Grande's Silverton. Included will also be a bus tourofthe route of the Because it was abandoned in 1941, it has not been well documented, though it was Rio Grande Southern. the subject of excellent photography by commercial studios and the railroad Additional details, fares and reservations from: enthusiast fraternity. Robert S. Ford, an engineering geologist, has done an admirable research job Siotsy Tours and Travel on both the steam and electric periods. The manuscript is incredibly detailed and is 913 West Commonwealth Avenue remarkable in that it contains so fe w errors, certainly a world's record in this field Fullerton, California 92632 of research and Writing. But Ford does not provide any context to the story. He describes the electrification early in the century without comparing it 10 the general technology then being developed for main line railroads. It is as if Southern Pacific invented the rolling stock design when, in fact, it was the result of almost a decade of careful and industry-wide work stemming from the Long Island Railroad, New York subways, Hudson and Manhattan Railroad, the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines, and others. Likewise, the 1200-volt system used by the Southern Pacific was unusual as it marked a transition for heavy railroads between low voltage D.C. systems and high voltage D.C. and A.C. installations. In this regard, the Southern Pacific suburban system was unique as it was the only heavy commuter road to use R,llroadlnu'S lowest-cost classified ad marMet 1200 volts. Extra Board Ford mixes up train detection circuits with speed coding and impedence bonds CLASStFIED ADVERTISING PACIFIC section for railroad-related items. NEWS in his description of the signal system on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. reserves the right to edit all copy and to refuse any listings. Ads can not be And, he presents only traffic statistics rather than explaining their relationship acknowledged, nor can proof copies be sent. Closing date is the 1st of the 2nd preceding month. Count all numbers, name and address, but not zip code. Rates with the low density urbanization of the East Bay area that led to the downfall of are 10C a word, $3.00 minimum. Payment in advance. Repeat ads 50'10 off for the the Southern Pacific surburban system and resulted in the unusual design and sec.ond month of each two-month period for continuing ads. layout of today's (BARn system, a design he somehow mixes into the Espee electrification. Ford insists the Southern Pacific had the first ORIGINAL COLOR SLIDES and black-and-white negatives for sale on rapid-transit system in the San Francisco Bay Area, which hardly was the case. approval, mostly western diesels. Also two Patterson multi-unit developing tanks The technology used almost a decade earlier in Marin County by what was later and reels for sale. Ed Fulcomer, Box 1004, Canon City, Colorado 81212. the Northwestern Pacific - a Southern Pacific subsidiary - was a direct copy of the New York and Chicago elevated designs in the east. TRAINS OF NORTHERN MEXICO and Amtrak subjects are the newest None of these problems are fa tal, however. They are merely flaws. We are duplicate slide sets from Northwest Rail Images, 4891 Donald Street, Eugene, indebted to Ford, for he has done a landmark job. On the balance, it seems that Oregon 97405. Other subjects include CMSP&P electrics, SP&S pre-Amtrak what Ford presents are research notes rather than a story. But in any event, he has varnish and Canada from B.c. to Newfoundland. 35¢ brings list, sample. made a significant contribution to the literature on the subject and has produced a 352-page book that no serious student of California electric railway and fe rry RAILROAD RADIO SCANNERS - Car Mobile and Hand Held - Electra history should miss. -Harre W. Demoro Bearcat, Midland and Pace. Several models in stock from $99.50 to $169.50. Red Trains In The East Bay, Interurbans, Post Office Box 6444, Glendale, Crystals for most western railroads in stock at $5.00 each. Stop in or write for your California 91205. Hardbound, 352 pages, roster, maps, charts, diagrams. railroad-radio needs. Iron Horse Hobbies, 3529 Clayton Road, Concord, Fully illustrated, 8�x 11", full-colordustjacket. $28.00. This book is available California 945 19. from Chatham Publishing's Book Sales Department.

STEAM, ITS GENERATlON AND USE, Thirty-fifth edition, copyright 1913 by TRAINS OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND the Babcock and Wileox Company (boiler manufacturers). An outstanding and John Krause, with Fred Bailey very technical 336-page hardbound study of the state of the art in boilers for Railroading pictorial books may well be one of the most common publications stationary power generation. Illustrated. Charts, tables and some water damage. found awaiting purchase by the enthusiast market. Everybody seems to have Otherwise good condition. 7�x8W. $12.50. Karl R. Koenig, PACIFIC NE WS, fa vorite subjects they have been photographing for a variety of time periods and Post Office Box 283, Burlingame, California 94010. book production seems natural. Grand and glorious, thick and heavy, pictorial issues have a somewhat poor track record in too many cases. Perhaps their subject FOR SALE: Books Rails Around Gold Hill, Colorado Midland, Beebe and other is 100 narrow or price too steep. This book avoids both.

30 NOVEMBER, 1977 John Krause photography is well known. And good. As steam wound down its activity in our northeastern states, John was there to photograph it. Thanks to his camera, then, we travel in Tr ains Of North�m New Eng/andalong the tracks of the Rutland Railroad, Maine Central, Boston and Maine and the Central Vermont Railway. The index to the book promises a section titled "Tourist Railroads" but do not raise any hopes for current-day steam scenes. A list of eight railroads and Laners to 1l1l;1 an advertisement for the - albeit worthwhile - Steam Passenger Service Directory comprise the contents of this singl�-page chapter. Smoke and steam, switchers and main line articulateds, and even an occasional AGAIN: THE SUBJECT OF MANY OLDER ISSUES diesel, new, of course, make up page after page of this photographic collection. Regarding the 610 item, page 31, July issue. The 61O's first excursion was on 9 The captions are usually sufficient: more data might be desired by some readers July from Birmingham to Chattanooga and return. She did the samething again but the explanations should be enough for everybody. The purpose of the book is the next day, too. not to detail the motive power or operations of the subject railroads. N or is it their Michael M. Palmieri history. Likewise, New England railroading is far from "covered" but instead, in New Orleans, Louisiana the author's own words, "This volume, hopefully,will give most readers a glimpse

back at 'pure' New England railroading." Strike the third word, this book most Regarding Harre Demoro's Heading West in the July, 1977 issue: no wonder assuredly fills its goals . -Norman Saunders the Metroliner died on the Rappahannock ltiver bridge ...this RF&P bridge at Trains or NorthernNew England, Quadrant Press, 19 West 44th Street, Suite Fredericksburg, Virginia is not electrified. I'm sure Mr. Demoro meant the 707, New York, New York 10036. Perfect bound with color cover, 96 pages. Susquehanna River bridge at Perryville, Maryland. 8�xll" oblong, area map on back cover. $7.50. This book is available from Ara Mesrobian Chatham Publishing's Book Sales Department. Chevy Chase, Maryland

TUNNEL 13 The pantograph-equipped MU cars on the former Lackawanna(April issue) do Art Chipman not enter Bergen County. Only the D.O.T. of New Jersey's GE U34CH'sand their In the Siskiyou Mountains of Southern Oregon, three brothers stopped brushed aluminum coaches and cab-control push-pull trains are utilized in Bergen Southern Pacific's California-bound train 13 on October II, 1923 at tunnel 13, County over the old Erie lines. south of Ashland and near the California border, to commit the last of the West's On the New York and Long Branch line one can see the green, sky blue and great train robberies. The engineer, fireman, a dead-heading brakeman and the orange of the BN predecessor companies all on one train. The coaches still (June, mail clerk were all killed. The robbery was a complete failure, but the brothers 1977) retain their original paint and are pulled behind red GP7's and blue GP40P's escaped to lead la wmen on a massive three-year manhunt. The events of that day of the ex-CNJ. In addition to these, if one looks at the right angle at other catapulted the three DeAutremont brothers into Western history books for all stainless-steel cars, he can see the words Rock Island visible on the letter board. time. The events are well remembered even today. Locomotives on Conrail in the past months have been SP, Cotton Belt, CN, GT, Southern Pacific train number 13, operating from Portland, Oregon to Southern, BAR, MOP, L&N, UP and CNW. These are the only ones I have seen. Oakland, California, was stopped with the "gold-carrying" express car still just As Mr. Demoro states, at what geographic point does western railroading inside tunnel 13. The trio set off an explosion that far exceeded their expectations actually come to an end. and the robbery degraded continually from that point. Eventually captured, tried D. P. Wallworth and confined to prison, the story of the three train robbers continues on to the Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey present day as a fascinating chunk of Western Americana that is extremely interesting to read and thoroughly involved with the Southern Pacific over more AUGUST AND BRITISH COLUMBIA than a half-century span of time. -Karl R. Koenig In the August issue's article on the British Columbia Railway, there is a view ofa Tunnel 13, Pine Cone Publishers, 225 1 Ross Lane, Medford, Oregon 97501. brace of RSI8's on the Dawson Creek subdivision; for the record you might want Hardbound, 6x9". Sparsely illustrated, no train photographs other than the to note that there was a general renumbering of RSI8's 587-599 to 60 1.{i13. Unit destroyed mail car. 160 pages. $12.50 607 is pictured in the view. The renumbering was part of making room in the series for added power. With the addition, the RSI8 class stretches from 601 to 632. RAILROADING 100 YEARS AGO Concerning the view of SCOP 23001 on page 26, someone dropped the final Compiled by Skip Whitson word in the translation, Sectaria de Comunicaciones y Obras Publicas: Secretary This slim volume certainly has an interesting title. The book is part ofuThe Sun of Communications and Public Works. I wonder how many noticed the influence Historical Series" and as such presents a look at English and Americanrailroading of the SP on this line with the train number in the indicator boxes? The Pacific as compiled by the author from Harpers 1885, and Harpers 1874. The writing is, of Railway - the name given to the old SPdeM when it was taken over by the course, very fascinating to read - they wrote diffe rently a hundred years ago, you government of Mexico - still uses train numbers in the indicator boxes while the know - and just to have the outlook of reporters on an infant industry is worth practice has been abandoned by SP and UP, the main US supporters. the price of the book without considering the illustrations. James H. Harrison Dating from a time seemingly light years before today's photographic Fresno, California reproduction capabilities, the illustrations recreated in Railroads 100 Ye ars Ago are immensely enjoyable - there are twenty-seven of them. This book will take In reading the August issue of PA CIFIC NEWS I was quite pleased to see the you back to another era, if only too briefly. -Norman Saunders article about the British Columbia Railway. However, I found three mistakes in Railroading 100 Years Ago, Sun Publishing Company, Post Office Box 4383, the caption text for the picture on page 13. Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106. Perfect bound, 8�xl l", 40 pages. $3.50. The first mistake is the reference to the new M630's (as) "wide cab." This mistake should be corrected for all raiLfans as the cab on these units is no wider COLOR RAILROAD SLIDES CATALOG III than a regular cab. In fact, it is the nose which is wider. If the cab was wider the Vincent J. Porreca loading gauge would have to be changed. The units in question should be referred A photo list, this is a sixty-two page unillustrated catalog listing available color to as wide nose, cowl nose or crew comfort cab, but never wide cab! slides. Indexing is well done with codes for angle, color scheme and so on. The The second mistake is that the ex-Erie Alco-built Centuries are C425's, not works of eight photographers are tabulated, and all slides are, of course, for sale. C424's as stated in the caption. The third mistake involves "wide cab 720." The A typical listing would be California's Amador Central for which Baldwin 9 is first wide nose unit was 723, so the unit in the picture can not be the 720. I suggest shown, painted in yellow, blue and black. Main lines abound, and the slides are that the unit is actually 730, the last of the group. from a wide variety of dates. There are four samples of the duplicate slides at hand Paul J. Smith and detail, sharpness and color of these are all quite good. The catalog Victoria, British Columbia descriptions do represent the final slides, and there should be something for everybody who is a slide collector. -David Ralph Butler " The Century-424 reference was a typesetting error: there is a color news photo Color Railroad Slides Catalog III, Vincent J. Porreca, P. O. Box 22, Boulder, of sister 804 correctly identified on page number 33 of the same issue. The C425 Colorado 80306. 62-page catalog, 5\4x7W, no photographs. Over 5500 working as the middle unit in the page 13 photograph, by the way, is the last of her diffe rent diesel, electric and some steam locomotives from North America. group - number 812 - but the trailing M630 isn't: it's wide-nosed, crew-comfort Includes model, road number and paint scheme. $2.00, including sample. cab Montreal-built 728.

Ilio--Gralillein theRoCkies A dramatic pictoria l interpretation of today's standard ga uge Rio A Contemporary Glimpse Grande ra ilroad system, through the medium of 75 carefully chosen sa lon-quality photogra phs ta ken between 1962 . and 1976, and ex­ Ronald C. Hill planatory text. Included are coverage of the Denver-Pueblo "Joint By Line", the Tennessee Pass line, the Moffat Road, and pf:lssenger service. 80 pages in 81/2 x 91/2" format, on heavy paper stock. $8.50 ppd. Colorado Railroad Museum DEPT. N, BOX 10, GOLDEN COLO. 80401

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