SF 1988 Motive Power Pictorial (SCI, 121.003 .. 19.95 NEW TITLES Signaturesin Steel, 115-101 ...... 39.75 PENTREX'S NEW BOOK 2IHhCentury Limited. 128-1al ...... 19.25 --- NEW BOOKS --- SF·Gateway to the American West, 107-121 .....44.25 Appalach Coal Mines & RRDs (ltC). 128·114 .••. 12.95 Southern Pacific in Oregon tPFM), 12t:Hl17••...• 38.95 FEATHER RIVER CANYON: 1997 Trains calendar , 12.95 list...... 8.95 Argent Lumber·last 01 SWamprats (PFM). 120-01529.25 Sthrn Rw'y Syst. Pict·Wash·Atlanta.121·023 ....34.95 SP 1995Motive Power Annual,121-021 ...... 34.95 TheUP'S book HEARTeveryone has OF asked STONE for! AtlanticCoast Llne·DieselYears. 119·104.....•. 37.75 SP&S Cabooses,175·110 ...... 23.95 31st Annual Steam Pass.Directory, 131·01078 ...... 11.25 Now at the AT&SF Color Guide Fr'VPass. Equip. 106·152 ...35.95 SP's Coastline . 195-101 ...... 50.95 SPECIAL PRICE of ONL Y $3395 American Narrow Gauge, 107-126...... 33.85 Limited number of copies at this price! Don't be B&O Color Gde Frt/PassEq 106·164...... ••...•... 35.95 SP in West·HardRd. to the Prom., Pt, 191-102.• 24.95 American Sbortllne Railway Guide. 131-01073 ...... 17.95 disappointed-will in November. B&O Passenger Service. Vt (HB). 128-122 ..•..•. 17.95 SP Oleselization, 120·010 ...... 32.50 SOA BNSF 1995 Annual,121-024 (KC) .••••....•..•.••.•..•..34.95 This oHer ends promplly-When original order is sold out or Nov. B&O Sand Patch · Clash of Titans. 132·100 ...... 39.75 Super Chief·Train 01 the Stars, 107-127 ...... 31.95 30, C·Uoers·FM Une of Consollocas.119-116 ...... 1B.25 whichever comes first-Order Early! B&O Yl & Y2, lEA), 110 ...... 33.50 Superpower, 228-101...... 30.50 STK#109-B925 C&O Coal and Color, 1611-114.•.••....••...••.•...••..•.• 311 .95 Beaumont Hill, SP, 107-103..••.•..•...... •..••. 35.95 SWayne Lumber N.G. in MelTimac, 120-016...... 31.95 ChiliUne & Santa Fe-City 148·105...... 35.75 Beauty of Railroad Bridges, 107-122•.•...•...... 33.85 om., Tacoma By Trolly,120-022 ...... 29.50 CAM Annual '96-West. Rail Kist., 108·22..•..•••..... 32.95 Before Guilfonl, 11D-l01 •.••...... ••...•...... 29.50 Tehachapi (SchmolHngerJ. 115-103 ...... 35.95 SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S Di... I,01 So. Rwy 1939-82, 119-118 ...... •.•....43.00 Blue Ridge Trolley - H&F Interurban,107·12t1 ••. 30.5O The ,\-. Chicago Rapid Tran. Sys.,147·B·131 ..43.75 OPHTA 1996-7loco Ros1er, 17S-102 .•....•...... •••13.75 COLORFUL BN: Coal Country Trackside Guide.175-106 ..••. 21.75 Through the Heart of the South, 115-106 ...... 25.50 Durango·Always ARR'd Town, 148·106 ...... 33.75 BN: RR'D Giant of thePNW, 175·1al ...... •.•• 19.75 U·Boats·McDonnell. 115-105 ...... 37.25 EMO S060, 119-115 ...... 24.75 SP's steamSHASTA & early diesels in route fromROUTE Oakland·Portlan d. BNSF 1994 AnnuaIIHB),175·107 ..••...... •..••.34.95 UP Business Cars, 231·10-7570 ...... 35.95 FMlotos in Cal., l06-174•.•..•.•..•... Pr ..Pub 35.95 light interest in SP. Brown Book, 170·10t •.•.•...... •• : ••..•...... • 19.25 •• UP ·The Salt lake Route, 115·117 ...... 44.00 This is a "must have" for those with even a s Feather River Cyn·UP,1 09·BB25 ..•.•.• Pr ..Pub 33.95 British Columbia Railway, 204·101 ...... ••...••.. 50.95 •• U.S. Military Railway Serv •• 115-102...... 24.75 Ft Worth & Denver Color Pict,121-tl26 ...... 35.95 Pre-Pub Price - $3395 Burlington Northern Into the 90's,121·013 •••.•. 34.95 Westside · N.G. in the Sierra, 120·013 ...... 44.95 GreatNorthern Freight Equip, BK2,121·025 ...... 35.95 Offer Ends Nov. 30,1996 Stk#121-028 Burlington Route,Vl (FWW),121·010 ...... •.. 34.95 West Virginia logging.128-104 ...... 15.25 Gult.Mobile & Ohio Color Pict., 12t·027 ...... 35.95 By the El, 140·118 ....•....•...... ••..•...... 29.50 Wrecks,Accidents & Collisions,112-101 .••24.95 Heart olthe PA RlId,131·01071....•.•.•.•...... •... 14.95 Cabooses of theB&D RR'D (Hubler), 215-101 •.••37.95 In Search of SteamDonkeys, 223-101...... 34.95 ___ VIDEOS --- Calaasesuf 'the1tt1rfalk "Western, 200-102.... 35.95 '1997Will be in shortCALENDARS supply toward year end! OrderNow! l&ll'Old Reliable", 128-126....•.••.••...... ••• 24.75 CB&Q Color Guide/Fr't & Pass. Equip, 106-148 .. 35.95 611 on Saluda, 152·113 ...... 29.95 Me1ro1i.k Co""u1erTralnSystem, 107-125 •...... •.....13.95 C&O Alle9heny Subdivision, 168·105...... •..• 15.95 611: 'Ilie Final Excursion, 225-VV2tl ...... 19.95 ) MiAA. & St. Color, 106-175..... Pre-Pub 35.95 ' 1��1� 1l.�:sTrD{12dilfefent� C&O Diesel locomotives, 168-102 ••...... •.•• 23.75 Loui$jn •• Acrossthe Heartland, loo·HRTLANO ...... 19.75 a:: ��ModeIRmlaOOg Mont. MarlsPass: MilepassIBMSF 8M Gde.175-109 •.•• 19.75 C&O Dining Car Recipe Book,168·104 ...... •. 15.95 Amtrak AcrassAmerica, 1DO·AMTRAK25...... 14.75 1�=9 �'��I$ i�� NYC Ught Weight Cars, 128·131 ..••...••....•••24.75 ....::" :.' -=:;::L�"'' Sc: �9� .7 ';' �;------i =:;:;;· ;::;· C&O in the Coal Fields,168-112 .•..•...... •• 17.75 Pass. Best Pass. Tr. of the 50'5/60'5 West. 129-53110 ... 28.50 ,-....:::' Passing Trains·McDonnell, 115·108...... 37.25 ntlm OUR PRleES--$B.9Sea / C&O Steamliners,2nd to None, 168-101 ••...... 23.75 Birth of a Viewliner, 211·105 ...... 23.50 Railroad Radio,232-101 ...... 16.50 159-1475 2+, $B.7Sea / 3+, $B.25ea California Railroads,107·102 ...... •..•.••...... 34.25 Blue Mountain Steam, 225·VV23 ...... 19.95 :�u�, , Rio Grande Color Guide, 106-173 ...... 35.95 CascadeDivis\on-B�\l R1lad, 191-101...... 27.95 Cab Ride Clinchfield·South/NorthtEA), 152-000 •. 25.75 Rock IslandColor Guide, 106·170 ...... 36.75 CentralArizona's Railroads tGW),107·118 ...... 30.95 Cab Ride Thru Rockies,Vl-3 (EA), 123·000...... 22.95 SouthetnMotive Power, 119·114 ...... 47.95 EARLY BIRD "TRAIN" Chasing Trains - B. Richardson, 146-129 •..•....40.50 Cass & Mower logging Railroads, 129·53120 .... 22.25 SP',4300 4-8-2', (1Ievlsed),195-102 •..••...•.••..•.•• 44.75 ChessieEra (TlC), 128-116 .•...•..•...... •..•.. 12.50 Classic Steam of the 20's & 40's, 129-53114 ..•. 23.75 SP In Ihe Bay Area, 131·01070 ....•..•..•.•.....•....•.. 15.00 CHRISTMAS CARD SPECIAL Chicago,Burlington & Quincy Vl (MS), 106-136 35.95 Clinchfield · Elkhorn to Erwin,152·C1 ...••...•... 24.95 12 CARDS/BOX LIST $8.95 Specify Steam or D iesel SP in the West·PT2."1·5" Conidor, 191-109 ...... 33.95 Clinchfield Country,110-104 •...... •..••..•..• 28.95 Clinchfield · Erwin to Spartenburg, 152·C2 .....•24.95 51'Rw'y Spencer SIIop','28-128•.•..•.•..•..•.•..••.... 17.95 One Sox: $675 - Two: $Er°per Cntrl. Vermont Rwy·Yankee Trad•• V7. 202-104.29.75 Canrail HotspotsEast, 1I1O-HOTSPOT...... •..••. 23.5O Trails Among the Columbine 1995-6.146·132 ...... 28.75 Coal on the Move·VGN Rwy, 208-101 •..•..•.••8.95 Conrail·The West Slope, 129-53119 ...... 31.00 Three or more: $625 per tiox! Triumph 1,132'105 ...... 54.95 Colo. & SO.·Southern Div. (FWW), 121·020 ...... 34.95 Conrail Hot Spots West, 100·HSWEST ...... 28.25 These rices will 0 U !! Order Now! UllioDPacific Switch8rs, 119-119...... 18.5(1 ClrlulLook atConrai l'sSD40's& SD4D·2's, 15H20 .. 15.95 Conrail Middle Division·AIt.·HR'SBG,129·53128 28.75 UP·A Oecag. Transition,l09-UP096 ....•..•••••..... 9.25 Conrail Commodities,tn'101 ...... 36.75 01 Countdown to Merger,100·MERGER ...... 19.75 West. MD Diesel locomotives, 128-132...... 18.50 STK# Silk Screened Frun the Loom • Contemporary Diesel Spotters Guide, 131-01068... 15.50 CSXY1-Y5,129-0 .....•....••...... •...•• EA 28.75 T-SHIRTS-&-*405 1 01 BE� REGULAR - ADULT: S-XllS9.95. XXllSlO.95. XXXllSI2.95 KIDS: SS.95 CR Motive Pwr Rev'e, 1986-91, 119-102 •••.••... 37.95 --- NEW VIDEOS--­ Daylight 4449'5 Oregon Journey, 101l-4449 ORE .. 16.75 Diesellocos·The First 50 Years,131-01054 ..... 2tI.75 Denver & Rio Grande Western, 10G-201 ...... 36.95 Amlrak"'Gellesis" GreatNorthemFi SF/2804-YeilowlBlue Alang the PocahontasDistrict, l00-POKEY....••.•... 22.25 Diesels of the Chicago & NW, 119-110 ...... 43.00 Double Stacks Over Tehachapi,lDO-DSOT '2.95 BN-I W�hI4)Engin" ICDiesel16137 SFDash 9./617 CbristmasTraiDS,l00·TMAS ...... 14.75 .•• Dixie Une.139-106...... 21 .25 Durango & Silverton NS RR'd, 154·1G4...... 29.75 BNsFChico lVDiesel/578@signaIBr. Soo/SOO Donner Pass,Granite series, Y2, 214-105•.•.••..•••• 12.75 ��������Ie 1227 MR'Dome'/104 sPDash 9, 18106 EastBroad Top. Slim Gage Survivor,11G-112 ....35.25 Erie lackawanna · 2 Tapes,129·53063 ...... 56.95 Eri. lackawannaI.o!facy 12 tapes),211·108 ...... 36.50 NPHeoid + "'Train� GE', OA5HB-40C.CW/CM (Withers),119-106 ..... 1B.5O Farewell to the SantaFe, 214·103 ...... 12.50 ���� ,��ePing) WISI'mEng Gent'r + -Traintown� EorelIllinois Central·ln Color, 106·155...... 35.95 Milwaukee Road ...... 3V oI Set 37.75 ALLOW 3-4 WEEKS DELIVERY ON TEES Escanaba & Lake Superior, 134·117 ...... 31.50 Illinois Cntrl Streamliners 1936-46,128·120 ...... 15.75 M.O.W.·Yeslerday & Today IGF), 129·53090 •..•• 15.50 FeatiulrRi,,, Cyn E·9'" 10IHRE9...•••.•••.•.•• 14.5O Send $1.50 with SASE for wearables catalog showing InsuU·Chicago tnterurbans·ln Color.106·167 ..••35.95 •• NYC Odyssey,Vl-2IEA) 12 lape 501),129-l100 •...•• 54.95 IIS-Allanta Chananaaga, 129-53124...... 28.75 designs available. Refundable-free with order! Interstate Railroad (OlG), l1G-ll0 ...... 31.75 to On location, Appalachian Conquest, 131-1502BV22.50 On loc., Battling Tebachapi, 13,.,5032Y•..••••• 21.00 Manhattan Gateway, 131·01057 ...... 32.95 On location, BN's Chicago Rctrck, 13H5027Y .22.50 O.loc., Am1raI<'sNECorridor, 13,.,5031Y 21.00 • MR in Color Yl&2, l06-157IBoth34.95EA) ...... 35.95 ....•• On location, Cajon Pass,131-15025V ...... 22.50 SWEAT SHIRTS •ACKETS Onlocation, GIl's Chicago 13,.,5030Y.•• 22.50 'Super Collon' Baseball Slyle MissouriPacific Diesel Power, 166-101 ...... 44.50 Gateway, On location, Cascade Crossing,131·15029V .....22.5O Penn CentraJ-2 Tape Set,129-53128 ...... 34.95 Fruil the Loom Ash wlblack sleeves Mudhens.13G-11, ...... 2l.95 On location, HorsesfloeCurve. 131·15026V ...... 22.50 01 1 Pmtex Pmi.. ,YS, 100·PREYS...... 15.50 ADULT M·XlJS49.95. XXl1S52.95 H&W and Virginian in Color (TlC),128-117 ...... 25.95 Pacific Elec.·Remembering Red Cars, 1oo·PE1 •. 28.5O Railfanning·SF·Modeling for Photo, 129·53215...... 22.95 Hickle Plate RD Official Photo,Yl, 128-127 ...... 20.50 Pacific NW I(aleidoscape,129-53102 ...... 28.75 RGS/Tbe DRGW,129-53127 ...... 14.75 H. Hew England Rails Color Guide, 10&-144 ..... 35.95 Railfanning S. Cal. in the SO's, l00-S0CAlHS .... 27.95 Rocky Mountaineer,211·119 ...... 23.50 N. Amer. loco Prod. 1968·89,112·102 ...... 21.95 Rails Chicago '95, 129-53112 ...... 23.50 Salute to the Une. 134-115 ...... 37.95 N. Amer. Non·Rev. Frt. Cars. 112·103...... 14.95 500 Rails New Orleans, 129·53123 ...... 31.00 Shasta Divislon·Granlte Series, 214-108 ...... 12.95 "TOP 01= THE LINE" New Haven Power,142-108 ...... 62.95 The Rathole, Norfolk Southern. lOD-RATltOlE ..• 28.50 Central Calli. Mainline, l00-SPCCM..•....••.•.. 16.75 NorthwestRail Pict. II, 12G-004...... 30. 75 SP', Through the Rathole Cab Ride, l00·RHCAS ••..•• 14.50 SP's Coastline,214-107 ••.•.••.•.••.••.•..•..•••..••••... 17.95 NP Color Pictorial, YlIFWW), 12HI11..•..••...... 34.95 Rebirth of a loco.·NS #482,154-105 ...... 19.95 12'/, $29.95 Early Baldwin Diesel" l00·SPBAID..•..•.••.•.. 14.75 Men'sDUPONT Large 100% Fanny AMERICAN Packs·Black-6 MADE x "CORDURA" Nickle Plate in Color·Y2, 106-169 ...... 36.75 51", Saluda 611 Oeux, 152-102 ...... 14.95 SP's Gteps Cadillacs,100-SP SEEP ...... 16.75 Large Back Packs·Padded Straps' 11 ,/, x 15 x 6 $33.95 MS Moti.. Power HeY. '8H,119-000 .. HC 28.75 SC 21.95 ami Saluda Mountain, 152·101...... 24.95 Track's Ahead, Vl,100·TA01 ...... 17.95 Norfolk Southern Review ' 1995, 163·107 ••...•.. 27.25 S.F. Odyssey,Yl-Z 12 tape sel),129 ...... EA48.95 UP B44-Back on the Track" 22s-YY25..••..•.•••• 17.95 Lifetime Guarantee Norfolk Southern Diesel locomotives, 128·123 .15.95 SF·The Diesel locomotive, 100·SFDJESEl .... ,2.95 UP Stm-B44 & 3985 onthe 225-VY24..••••• ,8.95 Most Road Names Available-Call N.Pacific Color Guide to FrtJPass Eq, 106·158 .. 35.95 01>1., Santa F. Odyssey,Y3 (2 tap. sel), 129-53037... 39.50 WisconsinCentral, 184-114 ...... •...... •..•.•. 27.95 N.P. Diesel Era, 1945-1970, 107-124 ...... 42.00 Santa Fe Pictorial (liS),123·SFPICT ...... 23.00 NW PacifiC RR's & h's Successors, 191-107 .....28.95 Pullman St'd Ubrary, v)-16 lEA),144·000 •..••..••. 29.25 "Sherman'(Highball), 184-106...... •...... ••..••• 27.25 TRAINMEN'S TOTE BAGS NYC Diesellocomotives, 128-118 ...... 22.95 Railroad Alias, Y1-V5, 169-000 •..••...•..••... EA 17.95 Silver & Blue·VIA, 211-104...... 23.50 Made for Railroaders. These are neat for those quick one or •...••..••...••...•.. MYC Great Steel Flee1, 12B·125 16.75 Railroadsolthe Ohio Yalley, 172·102 ..•....••....17.95 Steam in the 50's, V3, 129-53092 ...... 2fi.95 two day trips. Timetable size side & end pockets. Great buy! NYC in the Hudson Valley, 131·01061 ...... 14.75 Railroads of Vermont, Pictorial, 202-102 ...... 45.95 Sleam Shortlinesol lhe Soulh, 129-53109 ...... 23.50 Most Road Names 12'x18', Multi·Pockets ... $32.95 NYC Steam in Color, 106·139 ...... 35.95 Railroads of Vermont, V2,202-101 ...... 37.95 Steamtown Grnd Open, 10G-STGO ...... ,3.95 NY Ontario & Western DIesel Age, 111-112 ...... 21.75 Reading Steam in Color, 106·172...... 36.75 Tehachapi·Eve of Change, 214·102...... 14.50 Pennsy DieselLocos, V1, 119-112 ...... 11.25 Red Electrics tPFMl, 12G-020 ...... 31.50 Thunder in theWasatch, 184·107...... 27.25 Engineer HatsCOLLECTABLES· AdulVChild: ...... 5.00 Pennsy Diesel locos, V2, 119·113 ...... 13.50 RF&P·Capitol Cities Route, 128·119 ...... 22.50 To the Northern Ughts, 211-103 ...... 23.50 ** Railroad Hals Adjustable· Most Roads ...... 5.00 Pennsy DieselYears, V2, 3, 4 tEAl, 106-000..... 33.75 RSS Slory, Y2-Y5IEA),146-000 •...•...... 51.75 Trains of Winter, 134·114 ...... 31.25 Be� 8uckles(Brass, Pewter & Silver Finish) ...... 5.98/8.95 Pen", Diesel Years, YS, 6 (EA) 106-000...... 35.95 Rock 1,Iand Color Pic. Yl,21FWW),121 IEA).... 34.95 Train Wrecks,Crashes & Disasters, 126-NV040.23.25 Cloisonne Pins (Deluxe) Small & Large .. ..._ ...... 2.00 /3.00 Pennsy Electric Years, 106-116 ...... 33.75 Rock 1,Iand In Color, Yl-ZIMS) (EA), 106-000.. . 35.95 Union Pacific·Super Railroad,129-53115 •....••.. 31.50 Cloth Patches. Most RRd Names ...... 1.30-4. 98 Pennsy Steam Years,Vol l, 106-114...... 33.75 Rte of the Eagles·MP StreamlineEra, 166-102 .... 35.75 UP Odyssey,Yl & Y2IEA) 2 tape sol,129-0 ...... 48.95 CoffeeMugs · Logos/Train Picture, Most Roads ...... 5.00 Piggyback & Containers, 107·104 ...... 35.00 Santa Fe 19411-7Y1-V4IEA), 1, 106-000 ..•...•... 35.95 White Pass & Yukon Route, 154-101...... 23.95 President Travels by Train, 128-124 ...... 29.50 Santa Fe Annual,1993'1994, 163-106...... 31.95 Many Other Assorted Items! ALLEN KELLER VIDEOS PRR Color Gde. FrtlPassEq, Yl&2 (EA), 106-Il00... 35.95 Santa Fe in the Mountains, 131·010GO ...... 14.75 Minimum Order Please PRR: Hudson to Horseshoe,106-142 ...... 35.95 SantaFe Rails, V1.166·1al ...... 29.95 Yol l-24Ieach),099-0 ••...••....••...••....•...... 30.95 * *$15.00 Pull. Sid. Lib·Selected "v'ywt. Cars,144·131 ... 36.75 Include $5,75 Shipping/Handling Seaboam Coastline . 128·121 ...... 14.25 All Sale Items Are Limited to Supply on Hand! for Wearables & Collectables. � . .,.. • .� .,.. � � November 1998 al ewsIssue 398 ·

FEATURES

24 Southern Pacific: A Chronology A brief look at SP's complex history from its beginnings to the UP merger Michael W. Blaszak

32 Southern Pacific Farewell Fred Matthews A fond good-bye to SP and its employees. DEPARTMENTS SP Memories: Places and Faces of the Silver Age Fred Matthews Lookin' Out the Back Door wayne De pperman • Timeless SP Daniel J. Sheets 4 Editorial Glendale Gordon Glanenberg· Why the Sunset Route? Steve Schmollinger 5 PRN Letters The Valentine District George Pitarys • Concepcion John Roskoski 8 Expediter What Makes a Semaphore Tick? Ste ven W. Coons The Norden Experience Dick Dorn 1 0 Special Report In Memoriam: 16th Street, Oakland Sean ZWa german 12 Union Pacific SP in the Silicon Valley: the San Jose Station April Ha lberstadt 1 8 Southern Pacific Lines Brian Jennison Dick Dorn SP as in Special • Nevada 18 Canadian Pacific Railway The Cotton Belt To m Kline • The Cans Dave Burton 20 Canadian National Deep in Enemy Territory Michael W. Blaszak • The Friendly Te d Benson 22 Midwest Regionals Gordon Glattenberg 59 Genesee & Wyoming 80 Wisconsin Central 82 Illinois Central 84 Burlington Northern Santa Fe 88 Short Lines 71 New Products 71 PRN Advertising Index 72 The Last Word 74 PRN Classilieds

ABOVE: In 1957, GS-4 4443 awaits excursion service. A short train at Lone Pine, Calil., on Sept. 2, 1972_ LEfT:

COVER: An Alco PA leads the Ovcp/and Limitcd past classic Union Switch & Signal semaphores in West Oakland, Calil., on Dec. 24, 1958. Fred Matthews photo

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UNION PACIFIC POWER Accolades for the White Pine cesses leading up to the mining project's ap­ proval nd the Copper Range Co., which as re­ Historical Roster of Diesel, That was a very nice article about the Wiscon­ cently s a few years ago was the subject of a Turbine and Electric Locomotives sin Central and the White Pine Sub. How lawsui over alleged violations of air-quality about a follow-up article on the Remote Con­ laws. s part of a settlement of that suit, the trol car and more detail on the controller, who Volume 2: Six Axle Hi-Tech compa y agreed to pay fines of some $1.8 mil­ made it, how, etc.? Diesels 1986 - 1996 lion a to contribute $3 million for environ­ Also, that was a nice article on the mental cleanup costs and further research. semaphores in the July issue. How about a fol­ Th railroad has transloaded some railroad low-up and closeups on how the mechanism cars in 0 trucks, although as of Aug. 13, 1996, works? it was 'evealed that at least two trains would Andrew Mueller be allo ed to move over the line, although the Via the Internet trains, one eastbound and one westbound, would ot be allowed to carry any cars carry­ found the August 1996 issue most interest­ ing ha ardous materials. The exact amount of Iing, particularly the feature portraying oper­ loss ca sed by the blockade to the WC was not ations on Wisconsin Central's obscure White known but was estimated to be in excess of Pine Subdivision. Ironically, my family and I $100,0 0 thus far. recently returned from vacation on Madeline Island, not far from Ashland, Wis., and the james . Humbert area described in the article. Dean Sauvola did St. Pau , Minn. a fine job researching and presenting informa­ Inter odal Comments tion on an unusual topic, even though I wasn't by thrilled at the notion of non-union, one-person The in rmodal subject has been well covered, Dick Winegar operation (l work as a locomotive engineer for telling t like it was and is. Interesting to note the Union Pacific Railroad in St. Paul, Minn.)! that many container ships no longer use the • Unit by unit roster of the newest UP I'd like to add some additional information Panama Canal, with its rising tolls, in defer­ Locomotives. Includes C&NW that has come to my attention, courtesy of the ence to the Land-Bridge across America via MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE. A Wisconsin band the major rail carriers. merged Locomotives. of Chippewa Indians has staged a blockade of It might be noted tha t the more recently WC's White Pine Subdivision across the Bad built container ships are truly big and restrict­ • Unit by unit history including River Indian Reservation in recent weeks. The ed to operating in one ocean between the ma­ renumbering, rebuilding and protesters, who call themselves Ogitchida jor ports. With capacities of 5,000 TEUs or disposition. (Ojibwe for "protectors"), have established more (Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit) and beam camps to prevent shipments of sulfuric acid broader than the 110-foot wide canal lock • Complete UP roster for: from traveling through reservation land and chambers, they are also faster, moving in the April, 1996 reaching a copper mine in Michigan's Upper 20-25 knot range. With greater capacity and

Peninsula owned by the Copper Range Co. resultant transit time, fewer ships and fewer • Current C&NW renumbering The chemicals are intended to help leach cop­ crews return a better investment. per from existing mine tunnels. Protesters The Land-Bridge arrangement with the rail­ • Spotting features - body panels, fans have conducted spiritual ceremonies at the roads assures that such operations are truly and pilots. site, vowing that their actions will remain the wave of the future, and surely containers peaceful. Shipments of the hazardous materi­ are king. • 224 pages with even more photos. als were halted on July 22, 1996. And it is simply not ships and railroads According to Ed Burkhardt, WC's presi­ alone, for the ports are feverishly doing their dent, his company negotiated for a week with part to keep ahead of the container explosion. the individuals before talks broke down and Tn California, both the ports of Los Angeles Only $29.95 Plus shipping/handling he requested assistance from local law en­ $4.00 forcement officials. Burkhardt contacted Ash­ land County Sheriff Mike Hanson, who sug­ Order from: gested having the dispute mediated as a better Willamette Falls Publications way of reaching a conclusion. The United 11831 S.W.3rd States Department of Justice dispatched john Te rronez, a conciliation specialist, to faci litate Beaverton, Oregon 97005 a compromise. Mr. Terronez remarked that the dispute resembled "a breakdown in communi­ Still available: cations," and that he thought it should be pos­ Volume 1: Diesel Cabs $29.95 sible to bring both sides together. Other par­ Plus $4.00 shipping/handling ties included in the negotiation effort included Wisconsin Governor To mmy Thompson, U.S. Attorney General janet Reno, and U.S. Interi­ or Secretary Bruce Babbitt. B esides the widespread belief among protesters that hazmat cars could derail and pollute reservation land and water, there is widespread mistrust of both the federal and state agencies which oversaw the review pro-

Pacific RAILNEWS·5 and Long Beach are expanding-competitive cle, Intermodal Marketing Companies are us­ footnote, the Canadian National developed as they are-looking ahead into the 21st cen­ ing more highway transport, because of high the first doublestack container car in 1971. tury. To gether, they represent the major con­ rail rates and poor rail service. Check the August 1971 TRAINS if you want to tainer terminals of the Pacific Coast. Many While the growth of intermodal traffic has see a picture of it. millions of dollars are now in the construction been impressive, today's intermodal network The article on J.B. Hunt was fine, although stage with miles of new track, acres of pave­ does not properly serve the market of ship­ "fluffy " and not too objective. Some com­ ment and environmentally safe bulk handling ments moving less than 1,000 miles. Ye t this is ments: its equipment is not identical to high­ facilities with rail-dockside loading/unloading. where approximately two-thirds of all intercity way equipment. The containers, inside height In addition, more millions are to be spent truck moves are. For intermodal, to para­ is nominally 110 inches; in reality, it is and are being spent on the 20-mile Rail Corri­ phrase Mr. Dickens, it seems to be the best of around 109 inches. This doesn't sound like a dor-the Alameda Corridor linking the ports times and the worst of times. whole lot of difference, but sometimes the ex­ with a direct rail line to central Los Angeles tra inch or so means you can carry a load that and mainline railroads. The portside improve­ James A. Giblin otherwise wouldn't fit. Also the inside width ments are talking place on Te rminal Island and Downers Grove, Ill. of Hunt's plate containers is the same as a have resulted in the replacement of the old highway plate except at the stacking frames. double-bascule rail bridge with a new just received a copy of the September PRN In this case, the stacking frames are the two-track lift span now under construction. I that highlights intermodal, and I must say width-limiting dimension because if you can't Containers are on the move and as one I'm pretty disappointed, especially in Michael squeeze the load between them, you can't get sage has put it, "You ain't seen nothing yet." Blaszak's article. How could you talk about it in the box, no matter what the width is ev­ intermodal history including oddball equip­ erywhere else. Again, the difference is not John L. Whitmeyer ment like Clejan and ATSF's co-axial system much, but it often does make a big difference Redondo Beach, Calif. and not even mention RoadRailer? Blaszak in productivity. For example, when we first was at TTX so I can understand his narrow designed the plate trailer, our objective was to s a former member of the management focus, but come on, RoadRailers have been in get over 1 �O-inch inside width specifically for Ateam of Santa Fe Railway's Intermodal revenue service for over 16 years ! We now can loads that use a larger than standard pal­ Business Unit, let me congratulate you on the have over 5,000 RoadRailer trailers in service let. Going from a 99-inch inside width to excellent Intermodal issue of PRN (September racking up millions of miles a year on Tr iple more than 100 inches allowed can carriers to 1996). Howevet; I think that you have only told Crown, Schneider, Swift/Southern Pacific, increase their load (and hence productivity) part of the story of intermodal. While inter­ and soon Amtrak. We also have a major pres­ by 12 percent for a similar length trailer. modal has been quite successful up until now, it ence in Europe (not that this a real concern Aside from the above dimensional limitations, is still very far from living up to its potential. for you). The fact is that this system is out there are two other reasons that no other TL My issue of TRAFFIC WORLD arrived on the there, seeing daily use, effectively competing carrier has invested in containers like J.B. same day as PRN. Whjle PRN was very upbeat against over-the-road truckers (and conven­ Hunt. One, they weigh more than similar about intermodal, TRAFFIC WORLD carried a tional intermodalldouble stack) in shorter/ trailers (I'll have to check the exact numbers); very downbeat article on the realities of inter­ medium hauls and not in niche markets as is and two, there are a lot of questions about the modal. According to the TRAFFIC WORLD arti- usually thought. By the way, just a historical strength and durability of these units, particu­ larly the floor s t rength (l' v e heard that they've been restricted from certain commodi­ ties, especially paper). I know that J.B.'s move into intermodal is always looked at very fa­ vorably by the rail press, and I think with good reason-after all, it was a real pio­ neer-but that doesn't mean you shouldn't be objective. And as impressive as J.B.'s commit­ ment has been, I think it is just as interesting to look at some of the reasons as to why no­ body else has followed its lead in equipment.

Jim Matthews Wabash National Lafayette, Ind.

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separated as monopolists, and challenged as competitors were joined as family. Technically, Southern Pacific Rail Corp. of Delaware merged into UP Hold­ ing Co. of Utah, a wholly-owned UP subsidiary, which then changed its name to Southern Pa­ cific Rail Corp. Now comes the gargantuan task of making the two railroads one. For now, SP operates as a wholly­ owned but separate subsidiary of UP, and UP publications refer to SP as such, Union Pacific Corp. Chair­ man Drew Lewis told employees that "total implementation, includ­ ing the merger of operations," would take at least two years. To the public, though, UP is already representing the two rail­ roads as merged. Southern Pacific employees were instructed to an­ swer the telephone "Union Pacif­ ic" after corporate transactions Dan Munson were completed. On Sept. 18 UP announced that "its" Intermodal Container Transfer Facility (ICTF) in Southern California handled 2,808 containers on Sept. 15, a record. Some of us have been around this business long enough to rem em ber that the premerger UP had refused to participate in the ICTF, originally intended to be shared by the three railroads serv­ ing Los Angeles but only em­ braced by SP. Almost immediately, UP and SP established links between their company telephone, voice mail, and E-mail systems. Start­ ing Sept. 16, UP assigned its cor­ pot'ate aircraft to operate shuttle service for employees between the Omaha and Denver offices two days a week. On Sept. J 3, UP's human resources depart­ ment announced an 18-month program to help employees of both railroads deal with job loss Sean Graham-White stress and relocation anxiety. Executive Vice President-Mar­ TOP: BNSF GP38-2 2099 has just been released from the paint booth at Mid America Car in Kansas City, Mo. keting and Sales Jim Shattuck The locomotive, equipped with Positive Train Separation, is headed for testing in the Pacific Northwest. named the merged senior sales ABOVE: Illinois Central GP10 8400, the first Chicago Central repaint, rests at Woodcrest, III., on Aug. 31, 1998. team on Sept. 12. Of the 11 vice presidents, assistant v. P. s, and others, three came from SP, two SP Merger Done Deal when the Golden Spike was driv­ cific and Southern Pacific employ­ from Chicago & North Western , en at Promontory Summit, Utah, ees, under the guidance of their and the rest from UP. These exec­ Dateline Omaha, Sept. 11, 1996: signifying the completion of the supervisors, may begin imple­ utives will fi ll the remaining posi­ "At 10 a.m. Central time today, first transcontinental railroad. menting integration plans." tions in the merged department Union Pacific and Southern Pacif­ Union Pacific Corporation com­ So UP ONLINE described the over the next few weeks. ic railroads consummated a his­ pleted all transactions needed to acquisition of SP by UP. In little On Sept. 12, the UP Corp. toric merger that may have been transfer control of Southern Pa­ more than a year, two companies board of directors declared a spe­ contemplated as early as 1869 cific to Union Pacific. Union Pa- that had been born as partners, cial stock dividend of the remain-

a-November 1996 Iy 1997, when a static display site gust. Built by Pullman in 1930 will be ready at the museum. Al­ for pool service as the 10-section though D&RGW had only six Genera! Polk, the Georgia 300, F9s-A-units 5771 -5774 and B­ was rebuilt into a three-bedroom units 5762-5763-the railroad observation car in 1955. The roy­ was known for its large fleet of al blue-and-silver, heavyweight other F-units, including 48 FTs, car highlighted a consist that in­ 12 F3s, four F5s, and 82 F7s. cluded an additional open-end private car, former Missouri­ Short Items Kansas-Texas MKT 403; and 11 Superliners, pulled by three Am­ Three prototype AC6000CW lo­ trak Genesis locomotives .... comotives entered revenue service Conrail's Pekin Secondary (once on CSX Sept. 13. Numbered 600- the Peoria & Eastern) in Illinois 602, the 210-ton, 76-foot units met its fate in September. Norfolk are currently roaming the 18,600- Southern purchased the portions mile system, being jointly tested from Urbana-Mansfield and Chip Sherman with builder GE Transportation Fatlller City-Bloomington; and the Systems under various operating two abandoned segments (from SP sold its former D&RGW F-units 5771 and 5782 to Colorado Railroad conditions. Over the next two Mansfield-Farmer City and Ur­ Museum for 81 . The F-units, shown at SP's Burnham Shops in Denver years, CSX will place 53 bana-Hillary Yard in Decatur) are on Sept. 3, 1998, are ready for shipment to the museum in Golden, Colo. AC6000CWs in operation, at a being scrapped. Illinois Central cost of about $2 million each. The continues to have reciprocal locomotives produce 166,000 switching rights to the Anderson's ing shares of Union Pacific Re­ to current interchange standards. pounds of tractive effort and have elevator just west of Champaign sources Group Inc. common Southern Pacific then turned top speeds of 75 mph ....Private on the former Conrail trackage. stock, completing divestiture of them over to Burlington North­ open-end observation Georgia The last observed Conrail moves, UP's natural resources holdings. ern, whichdonated transportation 300 hosted President Clinton's on Sept. 5, were 100-car grain The stock dividend is payable to Golden. Arriving on Sept. 14, 21st Cen tury Express whistle-stop trains from Anderson's elevator to Oct. 15 to UP shareholders of the units were placed at Coors tour to Chicago's Democratic Na­ points east for barge loading. record on Sept. 26 (including Brewing Co. for storage until ear- tional Convention during late Au- Thanks to Erik Coleman. PRN holders of UP shares issued in the SP merger). According to Drew Lewis, "This transaction com­ pletes our strategic transforma­ 83'10 tion of the corporation." Rio Cpande Zephyp F9s: Waiting in Golden StClosingock Price IndexSept. 4, 1998 • Closing Price Oct. 1, 1998 In its last days, SP sold former • Denver & Rio Grande Western started trading June 12, * GNWR F9A 5771 and F9B 5762-which 1998, at 817 per share in their heyday pulled the Cali­ fo rnia Zephyr through the Rock­ ies-to the Colorado Railroad Museum at Golden for $1 each. Built in 1955, and perhaps the most photographed F-units ever, 5771 and 5762 were D&RGW's last covered wagons in passenger service, leading the Rio Grande Zephyr between Denver and Salt - Lake City until the train was dis­ as continued in April 1983. After briefly taking the point on the -I;: - Z4'/. = Ski Tra in, the F9s entered freight = and maintenance-of-way service, � - and were used on Leadville, Co­ � lo., slag trains. They were retired � in 1985 and stored outside at the � D&RGWISP Burnham Shops. = = The locomotives began their is: final journey Sept. 4, when they were moved into Burnham Shops Z% Z'!. for air brake work to bring them

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geographic, aesthetic, and historic significance: this new railroad op­ erates 273 miles of track. Its her­ ald is a redwood tree set against Richardson Bay and Mount Tamalpais. The new railroad is named the Northwestern Pacific. The circle is complete. On June 14-16, NWP ran a Celebration Special to publicize the reunification of the Redwood Empire Route. Over three days, NWP GP9 3 844, painted in a variation of SP's classic Black Widow livery, pulled California Northern engine 105 (a former Chicago & North Western GPI5- 1); a California Western coach; four private cars; and SP's busi­ ness car Sunset from Schell ville to Willits. The special stopped at towns along the way, where curi­ ous locals came out in surprising numbers to see the colorful train. From the platform of the Sunset, railroad officials sincerely promised immediate improve­ ment in freight service and the eventual operation of passenger Both photos this spread, Sean Zwagerman trains. Beaming politicians pub­ licly congratulated themselves on On June 17, 1998, NWP 3844 guides a deadheading passenger move between Longvale and Dos Rios, Calif. making the NWP a reality. Fortu­ The equipment was being moved for another Celebration Special run from Arcata to Scotia, Calif., on June 22. nately, involvement of the coun­ ties and Bridge District implies that passenger service is not mere The Redwood Empire reopened the line in 177 days. gray in September 1993, when SP political fantasy, but probable. Route Returns Twenty years later, the fi nancially­ leased its line from Suisun-Fair­ Commuter trains between Sono­ fragi le Eureka Southern was al­ fi eld to Wi llits to another new ma County and the ferry terminal ways one wet winter away from short line, California Northern. at Larkspur in Marin cannot be­ The circular herald of the North­ complete ruin. Every storm Unlike SP, which frustrated ship­ gin until the old San Rafael western Pacific Railroad depicts a brought anxiety to the railroad's pers and Eureka Southern alike Branch, dormant since 1985, is redwood tree set against Richard­ employees, to customers fed up with erratic service and frequent revived. But excursion service son Bay and Mount Tamalpais. with slow trains and frequent de­ schedule changes, California should begin almost immediately, The design is emblematic of the railments, and to anyone with a Northern has come to operate ef­ perhaps involving stops at Sono­ landscapes traversed by this his­ fondness for the Northwestern Pa­ ficiently and dependably. ma County wineries, giving some toric 273-mile railroad connecting cific. Nature was fa irly benign Now, less than three years af­ competition to the Wine Train in the Redwood Empire with the during the drought years of the ter California Northern estab­ that other valley to the east. San Francisco Bay Area. late 1980s, but the end came lished itself in the area, another The new NWP originally In 1984, NWP became a divid­ nonetheless in 1989 when Eureka new railroad is beginning service planned to begin moving freight ed railroad. Southern Pacific, sole Southern declared bankruptcy. A to the Redwood Empire. On April between Schellville and Willits on owner of the railroad since 1929, new short line, the North Coast 30, SP completed a $27 million Aug. I, but changed the date to sold the line north of Willits to a Railroad, assumed the dubious sale of the southern portion of the July I, which came and went. Ob­ new short line, Eureka Southern. honor of operating the Eel River line to the NCRA and NWPRA scured by clouds of paperwork, Southern Pacific continued to op­ Route. Though the North Coast (Northwestern Pacific Railroad other start-up dates-July 8, July erate the trains south of Willits. receives government funding Authority), a joint-powers author­ IS-also passed. Finally, on the Ever since, the persistence of a through the North Coast Railroad ity comprised of the Golden Gate morning of July 21, California railroad along Eel River Route has Authority (NCRA), it remains Bridge Highway and Transporta­ Northern 's SD9s pulled out of been as uncertain as the landscape trou bled by poor track. Derail­ tion District; Marin County; and Petaluma for the last time. As the itself. The tracks are at the mercy ments are common, and even NCRA (which in turn represents train rounded the wye at Schel­ of crumbling hillsides and flood­ when the trains remain upright Sonoma, Mendocino, and Hum­ Iville, the new interchange point ing waters, and the Eel is notori­ and in motion, they often fail to boldt counties). This bewildering for the two railroads, it passed the ously merciless. A flood of almost make the 116-mile trip from Sco­ collection of acronyms is the re­ old SP depot, newly painted in apocalyptic force swept away 100 tia to Willits in less than 12 hours. sult of interminable bickering California Northern green and miles of track and bridges in De­ On the southern end, mean­ among local politicians. Far more white. Atop the station is an even cember 1964. Southern Pacific while, Cambridge green and interesting than the political and newer sign reading "Northwestern reached into its deep pockets and Smyrna tan replaced scarlet and financial specifics of the deal is its Pacific Railroad."

10·November 1998 At 11:59 p.m. Monday, July 22, sun at Geyserville at about 6:30 l\TWP train crews came on duty in a.m., but did not, unfortunately, Wi llits and Schellville. The follow­ meet the Willits Hauler. "Don't you ing 36 hours were summed up by ever s leep?" Ernie the engineer one employee as "absolute chaos." asked me. Radio communication First, the southbound Willits between the NWP office in Eureka Hauler left Willits three hours late. and trains south of Willits was Assigned to this train were NWP weak and sporadic, but finally SD9 5305, and two GP35s-6595 Erniemade contact with the dis­ and 6600, still in faded SP colors­ patcher and learned that the on loan from OmniTRAX until Wi llits Ha�t!e had only reached more of it own reconditioned lo­ Hopland, whel . the crew would be comotives arrive. One GP35 would leaving its can 3ncl returning light­ not run at all, but had to be engine to Willi . So the Sci1ellJJilie brought along anyway because it Hauler did th same, leaving the had a radio, and the working GP35 northbound en pties at Geyserville did not. The GP35 that did run and a 25-mile gap between two sent up a pah'iotic display of sparks sets of strandec freight cars. when the dynamic brakes were ap­ Another rew arrived at plied. The dynamics on the SD9 Petaluma at 8 a.m. to switch the did not work either. As a result, Ed industries between Petaluma and the conductor had to set retainers Healdsburg. Unfortunately, its lo­ The p.m. switch job, with immaculate GP9 3844 leading, assembles the G on the 12 loads of lumber, and the comotive seemed to be missing. cars lor the midnight Willi ts Haulcp. The switch job, shown here at Willits Hauler crept down the 3 The Schellilille Hauler had taken Willits, Calif., also makes a trip to Ukiah, Calif., to switch industries there. percent of Ridge Hill at 3 mph. it to help get the 50 cars to Gey­ Meanwhile, the SchellJJille serville. This crew had to wait for Hauler was chugging north with 50 the southbound Hauler to bring radio; the northbound freight out at Redwood Valley. The trainmas­ cars, pulled by NWP GP9 3840 back NWP 3840. of Wi llits-which meets a south­ ter brought it into Wi llits about and North Coast GP9 3857. This Back on the north end, the bound from Scotia at Island five hours later. h'ain left Schellville two hours later trainmaster called the Willits Mountain-could not start Most of these headaches wi ll than anticipated. It met the rising Hauler to see if it could spare a switching without one. The train­ disappear shortly, once NWP has a master met the Willits Hauler at sufficient number of reliable loco­ Redwood Valley, and rushed a ra­ motives. But freight service itself dio back to Willits. This delayed will continue being vulnerable to s� the northbound two hours, which the whims of nature and the fragili­ then lost another 30 minutes ty of the north coast timber indus­ switching at Longvale, and came try. Northwestern Pacific has lasted to an unexpected stop at milepost beyond the era when heavy freight The New 160.5 where the cond uctor spot­ tra ffic justified its astronomical ted a broken rail. This train did maintenance costs. But 50,000 eventually make the meet at Is­ loads of lumber no longer travel land Mountain, and at the end of these rails every year. And today ""'\:) NWP p the crew's 12 hours of service, the sight of a long train of fragrant, (""') .,.... - limped back into Dos Rios. The freshly-milled lumber snaking Northwestern Pacific along the Eel River is shadowed by '-;:h 6 p.m. switch crew in Willits (""') Longvale Union Pacific (ex-SP) brought the train back into town, the sad reality that if business is up, Willits Ft. Bragg California Northern and thus delayed itself to the trees are down. Over time, the " Ridge point where it could not assemble lumber industry may be the rail­ ' Hill Other Railroads Redwood Valley '''> the next day's freights. road's-and its own-worst ene­ Capella NVWT-Napa Valley Wine Train Ukiah CWR-California Western The next day's trains met at my; the massive clear cuts spread­ NOT ALL LINES SHOWN Cloverdale, only to find that the ing like cancerous wounds across Cloverdale 45-car Schellilille Hauler was too the mountains suggest that sus­ Geyserville Schellville long for the siding. "Ready for a tained yield timber harvesting was Healdsburg vacation?" I asked Ernie. "You mere political fantasy, and that To Salt Lake City mean watching the conductors "manifest destiny" has come back run around in circles isn't a vaca­ around as the environmental policy Santa Rosa \ tion?" he responded. Finally, they of the Pacific Northwest. Petaluma used an industrial spur to spot But at this moment, the renais­ some of the cars and were able to sance of the Northwestern Pacific Ignacio exchange trains. The 50 north­ symbolizes restoration, not deple­ San Rafael--::t6 Val bound cars from the day before tion. And new paint on an old lo­ (o��1��I: ; Aarkspur were still in the siding at Gey­ comotive is a sign that, at least on To Los Angeles Oakland servi lle. The Willits Hauler was the surface, prosperity has re­ Mt.7 turned to the Redwood Empire. Ta maipais still running without dynamic To Los Angeles brakes, and the crew's 12 hours MAP BY TOM DANHEMAN AND BRIAN SOLOMON expired at noon, leaving the train Sean Zwagerman

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MEXICO-Clifford R. Prather Union PaCific S080M 8322 pops out of Tu nnel l on UP's Portland Sub on July 27, 1998. Unlike its neigh­ P.O. Box 925, Santa Ana, CA 92702 bor across the river-Burlington Northern-UP only has two tunnels along its Columbia River line.

MODERN POWER-Sean Graham-White 743 Park, River Forest, IL 60305·1705 E·mail: [email protected] HEADQUARTERS very next day, Aug. 29, Davidson announced UP would close SP's Denver headquarters MONTANA RAIL LINK-Kyle Brehm Staying in Omaha within two years, sell the building and elimi­ P. O. Box 20826, Billings MT59 104 nate or relocate 1,200 jobs. Davidson said the E-mail: [email protected] North Western Station in Chicago was the site high cost of doing business in Colorado made ON-LINE COORDINATOR-David C. Warner of a reconciliation on Aug. 28 between the Denver less desirable than Omaha or St. Louis E-mail: [email protected] chaitman of Union Pacific and the govel11or of as a headquarters location. Of the 1,200 affect­ E-mail: [email protected] Nebraska, UP's home state. A few weeks earliel; ed positions, about 600 will be transferred and MIDWEST REGIONALS­ UP Chairman Dick Davidson had told Ne­ the rest eliminated. Transferees to Omaha will (CC&P and IAIS) Dave Kroeger braskans attending the Republican National be accommodated "into existing facilitie by 5720 Johnson Ave. SW, Cedar Rapids, IA 52404 Convention in San Diego that he hoped Chuck better utilizing current space." (All others) Andrew S. Nelson Hagel, the GOP candidate for senator, would 341 S. Main, Pearl City, IL 61062 win the Nov. 5 election. Hagel's opponent? MEXICO SHORT LINES WEST-Wayne Monger None other than Democrat Ben Nelson, the re­ First to File 1409 lillman St., Suisun City, CA 94585 tiring governor of Nebraska and one politician E·mail: CompuServe 73563,2652 on whom UP had leaned heavily to make the Union Pacific and its partners, SBC Lnterna­ SHORT LINES MIDWEST-Bob Thompson railroad eligible for state incentives encouraging tional, Inc. and Empresas ICA, said on Aug. Route 6, Box 7070, Paris, TX 75462 relocation of Southel11 Pacific jobs to Omaha. 27 that they had filed the first application of

SP/SSW-Brian Jennison Davidson's statement at the convention intent to bid on a 50-year concession to oper­ P.O. Box 3519, Reno, NY89505 miffed Nelson, who thought he deserved bet­ ate the 2,400-mile Northeast region of Ferro­ ter after supporting the merger and UP's leg­ can'i/es Nacionales de Mexico. Most observers SP (D&RGW)-Richard C. Farewell islative requests. And UP made amends. While consider this the most attractive of the three 9729 W. 76th Ave., Arvada, CO 80005 in Chicago for the Democratic National Con­ line-haul railroad packages offered by the UNION PACIFIC-Michael W. Blaszak vention in August, Nelson responded to UP's Mexican government. It extends from Mata­ 21 1 South Leitch Ave., La Grange, IL 60525 invitation to enjoy some hospitality on the moros (opposite Brownsville) and Nuevo Lare­ WISCONSIN CENTRAL-Mike Abalos business car train in the station. He was greet­ do through Monterey, Saltillo, and San Luis 3425 W. 79th St., Chicago, IL 60652 ed by Davidson wearing a Nelson for Senator Potosi to Mexico City and Veracruz. Lines to

MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE: button. After lunch, Davidson told reporters Tampico, Aguascalientes, and Lazaro CaI'de­ Address all con-espondence regarding subscriptions he didn't "want to risk opening my mouth and nas also are included. (including new orders and renewals) to: sticking the other foot in," but "Ben would be "If our bid is successful, we will bring re­ Pacific RailNews a great senator and great representative for the sources, technology, and management exper­ P. O. Box 17108 state of Nebraska." The smiling governor tise to the Mexican railway system to help it North Hollywood, CA 91615-7108 replied, "All is forgiven." become more competitive in North American The reason the governor was smiling wasn't and world markets," said Dick Davidson. The For all subscription problems and inquiries call: just the $10,000 UP's political action commit­ UP and its partners will analyze and evaluate outside the U.S. (8 I 8) 793·3400 (800) 210-22 1 1 tee contributed to his senate campaign. The the Northeast region of the FNM during the

12.November 1996 next several months. They will submit a de­ claiming that UP could not build the connect­ tailed technical proposal and an economic pro­ ing tracks without STB authority, which would posal to the Mexican government by Nov. 29, include an environmental study. with an award expected in December. The STB's Chairman, Linda Morgan, If UP and its partners win the concession, a agreed with the city and ordered UP to hold stand-alone Mexican corporation will be fOllned off on construction until the board could con­ to manage and operate the railroad. SBC Inter­ sider the matter. But UP had already notified national, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of residents that it has no immediate plans to SBC Communications, Inc., parent company of build the West Chicago connection. "Economi­ Southwestern Bell, which is interested in using cally, conditions did not warrant that [connec­ the rail right-oF-way for installation of fiber optic tion] right now, " according to Regional Public communication lines. Relations Director Mark Davis, "but that's not to say we won't look at it again." EJ&E Just how UP will use its trackage rights No West Chicago Link-For Now without connections in the right places, though, remains to be seen. In a curious pair of notices to the Surface FREIGHT SERVICE Tra nsportation Board, UP and Missouri Pacific each gave public notice that the Elgin, joliet & Spine Line Revamping Eastern had agreed to grant trackage rights over virtually its entire main line, even though Train service on the former North Western there wasn't actually an agreement yet. Ac­ Spine Line between the Tw in Cities and Kansas cording to the notices, UP's trackage rights City was adjusted on Aug. 29, with some trains will extend from South Chicago to Gary, Ind., running through Des Moines, Iowa, rather than around the horn through Joliet and West terminating there. Through service is now of­ Chicago to Waukegan, 111., about 130 miles in fered between Itasca, Wis. (Duluth, Minn.-Supe­ all. The rights also cover the )'S Whiting, Ind., rior, Wis. gateway), and K.C. via trains ITKC line and Goffs, Ind. branch. Operation of and KSIT. (Under UP's system, KC is the symbol these trackage rights may require construction for Neff Yard in Kansas City, Mo., and KS desig­ of connecting tracks, but STB authority to nates 18th Street Ya rd in Kansas City, Kan.) In build these tracks wasn't sought or required. addition, train PRKC operates through from The rights were to become effective "on the Proviso Yard near Chicago to Kansas City. All date of final agreement of the parties, but not trains on these routes formerly originated and sooner than Aug. 28, 1996." terminated at Short Line Ya rd in Des Moines. �(WIL --waAfLwer- One of those proposed new connecting Trains running through set out and pick up Des PU BLICA TIONS tracks, as recounted in previous columns, Moines cars at Hull Avenue Yard, skipping the P.O. BOX 1734 - La Mirada CA 90637 would permit eastbound UP trains to turn Short Line Yard stop to save time. south on the j at We st Chicago, where there is On Sept. 6, UP and Conrail expedited dou­ no practical connection now. The plan, howev­ ble stack service between Arkansas and Texas er, has aroused spirited local opposition be­ points and the Northeast, offering third-morn­ cause it would require demolition of about 23 ing delivery on eastbound moves six days a homes and put an active rail line right through week. The UP terminals involved are Dallas, what would be left of the residential neighbor­ Houston, and Laredo, Texas; and Little Rock, hood. The city of We st Chicago and the oper­ Ark. Conrail handles shipments to and from ating unions both challenged UP's notice, Harrisburg, Pa., and Kearny, N.j.

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Pacific RAILNEWS -13 On Sept. 16, Chicago-Seattle intermodal tives-primm·i1y GP9s, SD9s and SW 1 500s-by in Chicago during September. The railroad ex­ train CSSC7Z- 15 became the first UP train to placing newer high-horsepower four-axle units pects to receive delivery of 75 convertibles in operate with one crew through from Clinton, in yard and local assignments. Union Pacific's 1995-96 (8000-8074) and 85 more in 1997, Iowa, to Fremont, Neb., passing the traditional first move following the merger was to get these which will now be 8075-8 159. During third crew change at Boone, Iowa. New agreements units back on the road by shifting 90 Armour quarter 1997, EMD expects to deliver 25 pro­ with operating crews combine seniority districts yellow locomotives to SP points. The move paid duction true SD90MACs. We have conflicting in the Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Om­ off by reducing the number of SP trains held for reports on their numbers: one source slots them aha terminal areas and on the Iowa grain lines, power by 40 percent, from 61 tt·ains on Aug. 11 as 8162-8 184, while another states they will be and eliminate Boone as a crew change point for to 37 tt·ains on Sept. 16. Togethet; UP and SP numbered 8200 and up. many east -west tt·ains. have some 6,000 locomotives, about one-third Meanwhile, the first production of the nation's diesel fleet. AC6000CW locomotives, 70 10 and 7049, ar­ LOCOMOTIVES Shortly after the merger, SW 1500s in fresh rived in North Platte, Neb., from builder UP paint began appearing at SP's Armourdale General Electric on Sept. 9. The Mixing Begins Yard in Kansas City for movement west. These locomotives, bearing 1000-series numbers, are SHORT ITEMS During its last years, SP sidelined many of its being leased from Helm. According to one re­ aged and unreliable low-horsepower locomo- port, 35 of them are former Norfolk Southern Smokin' Through the West units and 15 are originally from SP. The early deliveries went to City of Industry, Calif., dis­ The long-awaited Marlboro Unlimited passen­ placing SP GP40s from yard and "hauler" as­ ger train may operate in spring 1997. In a test signments. These, in turn, freed SP GP38-2s run conducted by Amtrak, UP operated a pas­ Revised Edition! which will head for snow fighting duty and lo­ senger train from Denver to Silver Bow, cal service out of Roseville, Calif. Mont. The consist included Amtrak F40PH At least some of the Electro-Motive Divi­ 310; Superliners 32109 and 3904 1 along SP's 4300 4-8-2's sion SD70Ms in the 700 1 -7024 series, which Northern Railcar cars Northern Vi ew, North­ have been operating on UP since delivery in ern Niles, and Northern Plains. It departed early 1995, also shifted to SP for service be­ Denver at 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 30 and was to tween Los Angeles, Roseville, and Portland. be interchanged to Montana Western at Silver In September, UP picked up another pair of Bow on Oct. 2. Plans called for the train to used GP39-2s, these coming from Kennecott continue to Billings via Montana Rail Link, Copper. They emerged from the paint shop as arriving there Oct. 4 ....The newest exhibit UP 2749-2750 and were sent to Wisconsin for at Omaha's Western Heritage Museum is UP service, with 2750 becoming the primary sleeping car National Command, a six-sec­ wayfreight engine at Sheboygan by mid-month. tion, six-roomette, four-double bedroom Pull­ DASH 8-4 1 CW 9404 sustained $200,000 man built in 1956. The car was one of 15 in damage, mostly to the ca b, in a Sept. 12 built to this plan (12 fo r UP, three for sideswipe at North Platte. Jenks Diesel Shop Wabash), primarily for service on the City of The complete story, from design to service, in North Little Rock, Ark., will handle repairs. St. Louis. After UP retired and sold the car in of SP's most capable steam locomotives. During August UP decided to change the 1972, its owner parked it in a field near the

• numbering series for its SD90MAC locomotives Colorado-New Mexico border, where it sat for 176pages (2 4 new) 243 black & white • • to keep the "convertible" 4,300 h.p. and "true" 16 years. The arid High Plains climate helped photos (32 new) 9 new color photos 6,000 h.p. units together. The first two "true" preserve the car, which still had its original expanded tender chapter · 40 drawings units, originally slotted as 8075-8076, emerged Pullman blankets, curtains, and ladders when $55.00 from the EMD assembly plant in London, Ont., UP rediscovered it and bought it back in Price: as 8160 and 8161. The 8160 was selected for 1988. In an age when travel to most passen­ Plus shipping fo reign shipping). $3 ($5 display at the Railway Supply Association show gers means an airline seat, the National Ca lifornia residents add$4. 45 sales ta.x. Command will display typical overnight ac­ commodations for businessmen two genera­ tions ago .... Maximum authorized speed for Also Available trains operating through Bismarck, Mo., will increase in stages from the present 30 mph to SP's Coast Line 60 mph during October. Bismarck, on the DeSoto Subdivision south of St. Louis, had a by John R. Signor BNSF MONETT/CHEROKEE SUBS 2 hrs. municipal ordinance limiting trains to 30 mph See the fast action of this former Frisco/BN main operations, but a 1993 Supreme Court deci­ lIline betweenlA Springfield.H' Missouri." and Tulsa. A complete account of the history and sion held that regulation of train speeds by Oklahoma. You will see the ever-increasing num­ operations of SP's fam ous route between ber of Avard connector trains on this important the Federal Railroad Administration precluded San Francisco and Los Angeles. and busy line connecting the SW with the Deep local governments from interfering ....A bro­ South. Lots of manifest and coal...... $29.00 ken rail resulted in a 37-car derailment when "Signor's latest is best of effo rt the TRAINS OF KANSAS CITY VOL. III 2 hrs. eastbound coal train CjRWL-08 passed Mar­ the lor." Visit the ever·changing KC rail scene between late shall, Mo. on Sept. 10. The River Subdivi­ - Richard Hendrickson 1995 and early 1996. Some snow scenes. See BNSF sion reopened the following afternoon; until red units. BN SD70MACs. the latest UP power. and • then, trains detoured over the Sedalia Subdi­ 324 pages 53 1 black & white photos DPUs and KCS F units. All for...... $29.00 • 36 color photos · 20 maps vision between Kansas City and Jefferson SANTA FE'S CHILLICOTHE SUB 2 hrs. City, Mo ....The Missouri River bridge be­ $65.00 Visit the first subdivision out of Chicago to Ft. Price: Madison. Iowa (228 miles). See red units pulling tween Omaha and Council Bluffs had to be in­ Plus $3 shipping ($6 foreign shipping). SF's premier intermodal fleet. All mid-1995 spected on Sept. 9 after Harvey's casino boat footage. Lots of SD75Ms...... $ 29.00 struck one of its main supports ....The C&NW California residents add $5. 04 sales tax. Write for free video catalog roundhouse at orfolk, eb., i being torn -Titles - Narration - Music down and the turntable pit fi lled in. Union Pa­ SIGNATURE PRESS .Available in VHS only cific expects to complete the job by ovember. •Add $2.00 S/H for each tape Order Direct -MO residents add 6% sales tax Th anks 10 Ti m 10hnson, To ny Johnson, ·If ordering 2 or more tapes, deduct S1 per tape. 1 1508 Green Road ' Wilton, California95693 Sean Graham-White, Bill Fw·m el; Michael M. MAKE CHECKS/MONEY ORDERS PAYABLE TO: Barlels, and Jim Seacresl. DEALER INQUIRIES INYlTED MO·KAN VIDEO 1-800-305-7942 42S Leslie Drive, Independence, MO 640S5 Michael W. Blaszak

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18-November 1998 mainline crossings, howevel� has not witnessed a including fuel nozzles, cylinders, and oil filtra­ reopening the line, SP operated track geometry major reassignment of Almour yellow motive tion. General Electric has begun a I 20-day pro­ car Oregon over it to check its integrity. Because power units. Indeed, through September it has gram to fix the problems. of slow orders-there were more than fo rty-five been business as usual, with gray-and-red motive Because of its troubles with the GEs, at the 10 mph orders!-the car required three days to power occasionally interspersed with pure time of the merger SP had re-entered the loco­ travel the 216 miles between Wendel, Cali£., and sttings of Denver & Rio Grande Western diesels. motive leasing market. Before taking delivery Klamath Falls, Ore, Two surfacing gangs were Moreover, UP has stated that it may continue to of the ACs, the railroad had as many as 300 sent out to restore the line to 40 mph status. operate the Te llllessee Pass mainline crossing of leased units. With arrival of new power, the Thanks to 01'10 Elfes, H. W. Farewell, the Rocky Mountains for up to 18 months. number of leased locomotives dropped to few­ Raymond Currier, To ny Johnson, Ben Kerr, The merged UP will soon be transporting er than 30. Now, with traffic increases, retire­ Vic Neves, Whitney Pratt, Sam Reeves, and additional coal to Mexico. A Cyprus Amax ment of most Geeps and Cadillacs, and prob­ SP's Information Center. Minerals subsidiary has signed an agreement to lems sidelining the GEs, SP has again had to provide a Mexican government utility with 2.8 lease locomotives. On Sept. 5, SP had these R.C. Farewell and Brian Jennison million tons of coal through 1997. Twentymile leased units: 26 C30-7s (from GE Leasing); 27 Coal Co. will ship the coal from its mine near SD40s and SD40-2s (from Canadian Pacific Steamboat Springs, Colo., to the Federal de Railway); and nine GP38-2s (from Helm Leas­ Electricidad in Piedras egros, Coahuila, Mexi­ ing). The lease on the Canadian Pacific and co. Routing will be from the mine loadout near Soo locomotives was to expire Sept. 20. FINAL LOOK AT THE SP Steamboat Springs over SP rails to Eagle Pass, New parent Union Pacific has come to SP's Te xas, then via Ferrocarriles Nacionales de aid as well, providing mostly low-horsepower Mexico to the power plant. four-axle units. This helps free SP's GP40-2s and GP60s for mainline service. These UP units · wmmm MOTIVE POWER have been transferred to SP, in each case to free NEW! Fate of GEs Uncertain an equal number of higher-powered diesels. e·,.,�O� Ten additional SW IOs were coming to the With the merger, questions have been raised system, releasing SW 1 500s to Denver; a -- Limited Edition Book -- about the fate of SP's 18-month-old, 279-unit, GP40-2 and a GP35M to Pueblo and Harring­ nearly $500 million fleet of General Electric ton, Kan.; and five SD40-2s to road service. AC4400CWs. These locomotives, with the ex­ SP in the West- Part 2 ception of SP 145 and 224 (destroyed on a MODOC LINE By Wesley Fox Tennessee Pass runaway), have been the back­ Fires Close Line Fox Publications presents Part in its bone of Rocky Mountain coal and taconite mo­ 2 tive power suites since their delivery. Unfortu­ series on the Southern Pacific. This book covers the Corridor nately, the brutal service has taken its toll; unit The Modoc Line was shut down in late August "1-5" availability has fallen to 82 percent, down from by forest fires ravaging Oregon and California. fr om Eugene,OR south to north of a builder-promised 95 percent. There have On Aug. 27, a mile of ties burned between Am­ Los Angeles ,CA. Included is the Na­ been critical failures in the power assemblies, brose and Perez (east of Alturas), Calif. Before tron Cutoff, Shasta, Coast and Teha­ chapi Routes, plus a final look at the Siskiyou Line.

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tion process. In the United States, 1,250 miles fOlmerly part of the Soo Line will be divested, including the Kansas City corridor and the Corn Lines of northern Iowa and southern Minnesota. Beyond this, CP is studying yet another 960 miles for potential sale or abandonment. The 650 miles in Iowa and Minnesota have drawn great interest from 15 potential bid­ ders, ranging from Class I carriers to regional and shortline operators. One serious con­ tender for the CP's granger lines is Iron Road Railways, which operates the adjoining 140- mile Iowa Northern. Iron Road has concentrated in northern New England and southeastern Canada. It is currently negotiating with CP to acquire 250 miles of line extending west from Sherbrooke, Que., nearly to Montreal. This would provide a better western connection for its other prop­ erties in the area. Iron Road may have compe­ tition from Illinois Central for CP's Iowa and Minnesota lines; the network of grain hauling lines would fit nicely into IC's recent repur­ Don Kalkman chase of Chicago, Central & Pacific. The fOlmer Milwaukee Road main line be­ On a beautiful August morning, a westbound Canadian Pacific freight rolls across eastern Iowa tween Chicago and Kansas City has attracted at Ainsworth. This morning's train is ushered by a Soo Line SO SO and a rebuilt S040M-2. interest from both Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Kansas City Southern. The BNSF may acquire the portion between Chicago and Sa­ OPERATIONS Some 1,365 miles of track are recommended vanna, Ill., as an overflow bypass for its con­ for transfer to short lines or regional operators, gested singletrack route between Savanna and Route Plans Detailed and 275 miles are slated for abandonment. Of Aurora, Ill., granting KCS trackage rights to the 13 lines to be abandoned, to are in Ontario. reach CP's Bensenville Yard (where a joint ter­ Up to 25 percent of Canadian Pacific Rail­ [n addition to lines specified in the network minal would replace the current arrangement way's total physical plant could be eliminated plan, 275 miles of low-volume branch (Tackage between the two carriers in Kansas City). by the year 2000, according to CP's route ra­ scattered throughout the prairies will be discon­ As the future of CP's St. Lawrence & Hud­ tionalization plan announced during August. tinued under the Robson fast track rationaliza- son Railway subsidiary evolves, candidates for

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::E: CHECK • MONEY ORDER III la-November 1996 transfer to short lines or regional carriers in­ with Hiawatha Avenue mill district operations nesota Commercial was 803 1, to be renumbered clude Montreal-Quebec City; Sudbury-Sault now controlled from Ford Yard in St. Paul MNNR 80 ....The number of leased units on Ste. Marie, Ont.; and Smiths Falls-Sudbury, (next door to the Ford assembly plant). Nego­ CP remained at 122 in mid-August, although Ont. (Central Western Railway is currently ne­ tiations continue with various government HLCX S040 5054 was used as a middle unit on gotiating for the right to purchase this last cor­ agencies to remove the Southtown Yard and train 376 in Minneapolis Sept. 7, new to the ridor from CP.) expand an adjacent industrial park. fleet. In mid-August, 56 units remained stored serviceable, although many of the road units FACILITIES LOCOMOTIVES were back in service by early September because of increased grain carloadings. Sixty-five units Finis for Shoreham Shops? Motive Power Highlights were categorized unserviceable in August .... AC4400CW 9578 has returned from its stint at Besides the proposed sale of underperforming The two Soo units heavily damaged in a Feb. 15, the Transportation Te st Center in Pueblo. The trackage to other carriers, CP is consolidating 1996, wreck with a runaway BNSF h'ain in St. GE was shipped to Canada for service on coal and improving its facilities at locations where Paul, GP9 2408 and GPI5C 4102, were retired trains west of Calgary. it plans to maintain a strong market presence. in July. The carcass of 4102 remains on a flatcar Thanks to Mike Cleary and Peter Phillips. Construction of a greatly expanded and updat­ at Shoreham Shops ....Seven more RS23s ed diesel shop in St. Paul, Minn., should be were retired in August. The unit sold to Min- Karl Rasmussen completed by year's end, permitting demoli­ tion of the fOlmer Soo Line Shoreham shops in Minneapolis. Readying itself, CP has been clearing out its retired or unserviceable locomotives; unus­ able units are being sold. Most of the EMO switchers and GP9s long stored at Shoreham were removed from the roundhouse "garden" tracks during August, apparently ready for shipment elsewhere. By early September, the four Soo fuel tenders and a handful of SW I 200s were the only equipment still set aside for storage. When the Shoreham buildings are demol­ ished, CP may relocate tenant Tri-Modal to the south side of its intermodal facility, freeing nearly 30 acres of flat, dry land for industrial development. Canadian Pacific has closed its former Mil­ waukee Road South Minneapolis yard office,

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monton, Alta., opened July 15. The center con· solidated and replaced similar facilities in Prince George, Kamloops, Saskatoon, and Win· nipeg. All CN operations between northwestern Ontario and the Pacific Coast (more than 500 daily train movements) are now handled by the 155 employees at the centec Canadian National expects the consolidated facility will save the company more than C$3 million annually.

TRAIN CREWS More Extended Runs

Rainy Rivet; Ont., has been eliminated as a crew change point for most trains. Winnipeg- and Rainy River-based crews now run between Win­ nipeg and Fort Frances, Ont., or in the United States, to Ranier, Minn., on the Duluth, Win· nipeg & Pacific. Crews are still changing at Atikokan, Ont., but it is expected that agree· ments will be reached allowing them to work Steve Glischinski between Fort Frances and Thunder Bay. When extended runs are fully implemented, On Aug. 10, 1998, a rebuilt 8040 escorts a Canadian National freight as it rolls southbound on the railroad estimates that running times be­ the former Duluth, Winnipeg Pacific at Ash Lake, Minn. tween To ronto and Vancouver will be reduced 8& by five or six hours. Extended runs should be in service between British Columbia and north­ LINE SALES the line (it has more than 1,200 miles of track), western Ontario sometime this falL Gateway Eyes Churchill Line but nothing came of the deal. Now, with CN pri­ vatized, the situation is altogether different. MOTIVE POWER Gateway North believes the Churchill line is a Gateway North Transportation, a Winnipeg­ viable route for farmers in western Canada to S0751s Still Coming based consortium, is bidding for Canadian Na­ reach grain markets in northern Europe and tional's line to Churchill, Man. (on Hudson Russia. In addition to grain, Gateway predicts Delivery of the 105 SD75Is continued at a Bay), and a number of branch lines in northern the line will also handle pulp, paper, iron ore, slow pace through summer. Delivery started in Manitoba. Gateway had tried earlier to purchase and lumber. The line will be greatly enhanced by late May with the 5626; units through 566 1 new ice-breaking technology on the Hudson were received as of mid-September, an average Bay, allowing a longer shipping season. of about 10 per month. So far, the units are A number of communities and industries in used chiefly on trains out of To ronto, including northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan are con­ transcontinental priority trains. They are still St. Louis AndIts Streetcars, cerned that CN could abandon the line to rare on other trains in western Canada. the way it was ... Churchill and connecting routes. For many by Andrew D. Young, author of the St. Louis along the line, rail is the only means of trans­ SHORT ITEMS porting bulk commodities, as highways are ei­ Streetcar Storyand trolley editor of Readying for Winter's Worst Locomotive and Railway Preservation. ther inadequate or nonexistent. The Manitoba government is also concerned, but has stated that provincial control is not an option. Over the summer, CN has been gearing up to ensure that it can maintain its service levels OPERATIONS during winter months. This year's plan of at· tack includes a major investment in snow reo Walkers Center Opens moval equipment, including additional turbine snowjets. The railroad is also testing an air re­ Canadian National's new western operations peater car and may acquire up to eight of center at Walker (formerly Calder) Yard, Ed- these units. During the past few winters, snow and extreme cold have wreaked havoc on CN With over 120 rare and historic photographs, operations, particularly in central Canada .... almost all publishedfor the first time, this book takes a A study that looked at all fixed fueling sites nostalgic look back at the final forty years (1926·1 966) for locomotives has identified several that will of St. Louis's street railways, the buses that replaced be closed. Hornepayne, Ont., was identified as them plus the automobiles and highways that a key site for its mid-point location on the marginalized all public transit. transcontinental main line. Work has already On� $21.95 (plus $2.00 shipping and handling). begun on upgrading the facility. Missouri residents, please add $1.31 for 5.975% Th anks to lames Brock, Pete Johnson, Jim Missouri sales tax. Mastercard/Visa. Lewis, Karl Rasmussen, and Steve Yo ung. AACHWAY PUBUSHING Dept. PAN · P.O. Box 410903 · SI. Louis,MO 63141 Mike Cleary

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U.S. and Canadian • 500 Titles in Stock MasterCard Arvada, Colorado 80004-1622 Write for free list Credit Card Holders • Visa Order ToU Free , ;, �. • Discover 24-Hour Fax: 1-303-456-2049 Colorado residents ){1-800-344- 1106 • American Express Information: 1-303-456-4564 8 •. m. to 8 p.m.j 1 p.m. 6 p.m., nme add 7.50% tax Mon·Sat Sun to MountaIn Internet: [email protected] a Chronology 1848 1862 -Mexico surrenders California to the -July I: President Abraham Lincoln signs U.S. under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hi­ the Pacific Railroad Act, which designates dalgo. James W. Marshall discovers gold Central Pacific and Union Pacific to build at Sutter's Mill. California's population the transcontinental railroad and provides grows from about 26,000 in 1848 to land grants and financial assistance. 380,000 in 1860 -March. II: Galveston & Red River Rail­ 1863 way incorporated in Texas; it is SP's em'li­ - Jan. 8: First earth moved in construction est ancestor of CP at Front and K streets, Sacramento -Sept. 2: San Francisco & Oakland Rail­ 1850 road provides service between its name­ -Feb. II: Buffalo Bayou, Brazos & Col­ sake cities by rail and ferry orado Railway incorporated in Texas -Oct. 26: CP lays first rails -Sept. 9: California becomes the 31st - ov. 2: Judah dies in ew Yo rk after state. Calls intensify for a transcontinen­ contracting yellow fever while traveling tal railroad east by ship from California -Nov. 10: CP operates its first locomotive, 1851 the Governor Stanfo rd (Leland Stanford -May 17: BBB&C begins surveying its was elected California's governor in 1861) standard-gauge route at Harrisburg, Texas. It later lays the first rails of what 1864 will become the SP system - June 6: San Francisco & San Jose opens its line down the San Francisco Peninsula 1852 -June 10: CP completes line to ewcas­ -Aug. 16: Sacramento Valley Railroad in­ tie, 3 I miles corporated in California -Aug. 25: San Francisco & Alameda -October: New Orleans, Opelousas & Railroad (the Encinal Line) begins rail­ Great Western Railroad begins construc­ ferry service between those points; rail tion of its broad-gauge (five-foot, six­ line later extended to Hayward inch) line west from Algiers, La., across the Mississippi River from New Orleans 1865 -May 13: After stopping for five months 1853 because of lack of funds, CP completes -Sept. 7: BBB&C commences first regu­ 40 miles of line to Auburn, permitting lar railroad service in Te xas between Har­ the company to convert government risburg and Stafford's Point, 20 miles bonds to cash and finance faster con­ struction. Demand for workers causes CP 1854 to recruit 14,000 Chinese laborers -Civil engineer Theodore D. Judah emi­ -June 30: California & Oregon Railroad grates from Connecticut to California to incorporated by Marysville interests to survey and build the Sacramento Valley build from there to Portland, Ore.; Big Four acquires it in November 1855 - Dec. 2: Southern Pacific Railroad in­ - January: Galveston & Red River begins corporated by some of the organizers of construction of its broad-gauge line SF&SJ. It is subsequently authorized by north from Houston (changed to stan­ Congress to build southeast through Cal­ dard gauge in 1874-77). Two miles of ifornia to meet the Atlantic & Pacific track are built that year. Company is re­ transcontinental line (later Sama Fe) named Houston & Texas Central on Sept. I, 1856 1867 -Aug. 9: Sacramento Valley constructs first -Dec. 13: First operation of disconnected railroad track in California at Sacramento segment of CP across Nevada state line. -Aug. 17: First train operated by Sacra­ The link to CP's main stem through the mento Valley carries 200 passengers difficult terrain of Donner Pass is not completed until 1868 1856 -Feb. 22: Sacramento Valley completes 1868 line from Sacramento to Folsom, 23 -April: Two rival railroads, each calling miles itself the Oregon Central, begin construc­ -Sept. I: Sabine & Galveston Bay Rail­ tion south from Portland on opposite road & Lumber Co. incorporated to banks of the Willamette River build broad-gauge railroad east from - June 19: First CP train from Sacramento Houston; name changed to Texas & New reaches Reno, Nev. , a new townsite Orleans Railroad Dec. 24, 1859 staked out by railroad engineers. Con­ struction east then accelerates through 1860 easier profile of the Humboldt Valley -After developing plans for construc­ -Sept. 25: Big Four believed to have ac­ tion of a transcontinental railroad east­ quired original SP; company is reincorpo­ ward across the Sierra Nevada, Judah rated in 1870, when it merges with SF&SJ convinces Sacramento merchants Collis -Oct. 26: Los Angeles & San Pedro Rail­ P. Huntington, Leland Stanford, Mark road opens the first line in L.A., extend­ Hopkins, and Charles Crocker (the Big ing 22 miles to Wilmington Four), and other investors to finance the venture 1869 -BBB&C reaches Alleyton, 80 miles west -March 13: SP completes line from San of Harrisburg Jose to Gilroy -April 28: CP constructs 10 miles of 1861 tTack in a single day to Camp Victory - January: Texas & New Orleans com­ (Rozel), Utah, reportedly winning Crock­ pletes broad-gauge line from Houston to er a $10,000 bet with UP Vice President Orange, Te xas, 105 miles, but it ceases Thomas C. Durant service during the Civil War and is not -May 10: Last spike at Promontory, completely reopened until it is rebuilt as Utah, completes 690-mile CP route from a standard-gauge line in 1876 Sacramento to the junction with UP. SP -June 28: The Big Four incorporates later acquires UP trackage between Central Pacific Rail Road Company after Promontory and Ogden Judah's surveying parties indicate build­ -June I: California & Oregon, now a Big ing the proposed line across the Sierra Four venture, operates first train between would be feasible Marysville and Roseville

28-November 1998 'July 31: Charles Morgan acquires ersfield over Te hachapi Pass to Mojave OO&GW, later renaming it Morgan's ·Sept. 5: Last spike in Oakland-L.A. Louisiana & Texas Railroad & Steamship route is driven at Lang, Calif. Co. At this time the railroad extended from Algiers to Brashear City (later Mor­ 1877 gan City), where it connected with ·Feb. 5: GH&SA completes line to San coastal steamships for Galveston. Mor­ Antonio, Texas. Later Collis P. Hunting­ gan converts the track to standard gauge ton purchases an interest in this company • ov. 8: Western Pacific Railroad (not af­ and plans to link it with SP filiated with the later WP), completes rail ·Sept. 30: SP reaches Yuma, Ariz., after route between Sacramento and Oakland completing bridge across the Colorado via Altamont Pass and iles Canyon River. SP is supposed to meet the Texas ·Dec. 25: First 20 miles of "east side" & Pacific here, but since T&P's railhead line from Portland operated, qualifying is still in Te xas, SP resumes eastward Oregon Central for federal land grants construction in ovember 1878 • Dec. 31: CP begins construction of ·Oct. 1: Tyler Tap Railroad, earliest an­ San Joaquin Va lley line south from cestor of Cotton Belt, begins narrow­ Lathrop on WPR gauge service between Tyler and Big Sandy, Texas. It is renamed the Te xas & 1870 SI. Louis in 1879 ·Jan. 15: California Pacific Rail Road completes line from Sacramento to South 1878 Vallejo, connecting with steamers for San ·Jan. 9: CP affiliate Northern Railway Francisco. Cal-P branch from Davis to completes line from Oakland to Mar­ Marysville completed March 15 tinez, Calif.; it is later extended to Tracy • Jan. 24: BBB&C, which had failed finan­ 'March 30: Louisiana Western Railroad cially, is sold to investors led by Thomas organized to construct line from Lafayette, Peirce, who changes company's name to La., to Sabine River to meet T&NO Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio on July 27, and begins expansion 1879 'March 17: Former stagecoach operator ·Dec. 28: Northern Railway line between Ben Holladay, who owned the east side Benicia and Suisun placed in operation. line in Oregon, incorporates the Oregon The Solano, largest cm-ferry in the world, & California Railroad to operate both the begins operating across California·s Car­ east side line and the west side line, quinez Straits, shortening CP's link to the which he has also acquired, and contin­ Bay Area ues to build south toward California • June 29: San Francisco & Oakland and 1880 San Francisco & Alameda consolidated; March: ML&T begins operations to Vel'­ acquired by CP Aug. 22 milionville (Lafayette), La. ·Sept. 27: O&C reaches Salem, Ore., in 'March 20: First SP train enters Tu cson, time for that year's state fair Ariz. 1871 1881 ·Aug. 1: CP takes control of Cal-I', which 'March 1: SP connects with Santa Fe at is transferred to SP in 1885 Deming, N.M., forming second transcon­ tinental route 1872 'May 19: SP completes line to EI Paso. 'May 28: CP's Valley line reaches Fresno Texas townsite .June: Financier Henry Villard, who was ·Sept. 1: California & Oregon reaches managing O&C for its German bond­ Redding, Calif., where construction stops holders, resumes construction south of for 11 years Roseburg, Ore. • Nov. 5: L.A. voters approve subsidy for 'July 1: First train operates through from construction of Valley line through town. New Orleans to Houston SP had threatened to bypass L.A. if the subsidy were not approved 1882 'Dec. 3: O&C reaches Roseburg, Ore. • Jan. 1: SP connects with T& I' at Sierra The ra ilroad fails financially, and con­ Blanca, Te xas struction stops for nine years • Jan. 22: SP opens the Oakland Wharf (later called the Oakland Mole) 1873 'Sept. 27: Northern Railway completes .First locomotive built by Sacramento West Side line from Davis to Te hama, Calif. Shops, CP 4-4-0 55, enters service 'March: H&TC reaches Red River at 1883 Denison, Texas, where it connects with .Jan. 12: SP and GH&SA railheads meet Missouri, Kansas & Texas to form first near the Pecos River in Texas, completing north-south rail route to Texas. There­ the Sunset Route after H&TC converts broad-gauge seg­ ·Feb. 5: First through passenger trains ments to standard gauge (used by Katy) operate between San Francisco and ew to fa cilitate through movements Orleans 'Aug. 12: SP trackage (the future Coast 'April: SP commences construction Line) reaches Soledad, Calif., where con­ north from Redding toward Oregon to struction stops for 13 years as Big Four meet O&C concentrates on expanding through the 'Aug. 3: Atlantic & Pacific completes San Joaquin Valley. connection with new SP line from Mo­ jave to Needles, Calif. This line was 1874 leased to Santa Fe in 1884 and sold to 'Nov. 8: SP line completed to Sumner that company in 1898 (East Bakersfield), Calif. ·Aug. 12: T&StL completes line across 'December: SP acquires LA&SP Arkansas to Bird's Point, Mo., where it ferries cars across the Mississippi River 1875 to Cairo, III. The company enters re­ 'July 16: First SP train operates from ceivership in 1884, emerging as the St. L.A. to Colton Louis, Arkansas & Texas 1876 1884 'May 25: First train reaches Indian Wells 'Sacramento Shops produces the largest (now Indio), Calif. locomotive built up to that date, CP 237, ·Aug. 8: SP completes route from Bak- named EI Gober/welor. However, it does

Pacific RAILNEWS·27 not steam well and will be withdrawn Pacific) grants Cotton Belt trackage from service in 1892 rights from Fair Oaks, Ark., to Memphis -March 17: Southern Pacific Company incorporated in Kentucky as holding 1901 company for CP, SP, and their affiliated -March: UP, led by Edward H. Harriman, companies. (The state of incorporation acquires 38 percent of SP stock from the is changed to Delaware in 1947, and SP Huntington estate and on the market, Railroad and SP Company are merged enough to allow Harriman to exercise in 1955) control. New management begins $240 -May 4: O&C rails reach Ashland, Ore., million upgrading program but the line later enters receivership -March 3 I: First L.A.-San Francisco trains over Coast Route (via Santa Paula) operate 1885 March 1: SP formally leases GH&SA, 1902 ML&T (which owns H&TC stock), and -Aug. I: SP begins steamship operations T&NO, although they had been com­ between New York and New Orleans monly controlled since about 1883 1903 1886 -sp purchases one-half of Pacific Electric's Construction of Coast Route southward stock, the "largest electric railway in the from Soledad resumes world." SP bought the remainder of the Southern California interurban in 1910 1887 -Jan. 12: StLA&T converts main line to 1904 standard gauge -March 8: Lucin Cut-Off, featuring a -July 1: O&C leased by SP; also, SI' wooden trestle across Utah's Great Salt leases narrow-gauge South Pacific Lake, enters service, making the transcon­ Coast, extending from Oakland to San­ tinental line via Promontory redundant ta Cruz (converted to standard gauge -March 20: Montalvo Cut-Off between 1 906- 1 909) Burbank Junction and Montalvo com­ -Aug. 19: Branch from Saugus to Santa pletes the Coast Route Barbara via Santa Paula, Calif., complet­ ed. 1905 -Dec. 17: Last spike in Portland-Oakland - Limited use of coal-burning locomotives (Siskiyou) route driven at Ashland Yard on Oregon lines commences. Previously, all locomotives in Oregon burned wood. 1889 -April 18: Southern Illinois & Missouri -May 14: StLA&T enters bankruptcy Bridge Co. opens Mississippi River bridge at Thebes, III., giving Cotton Belt 1891 direct access to East St. Louis, III., via -June I: St. Louis Southwestern Railway Missouri Pacific trackage rights (obtained (Cotton Belt) begins operating former St­ in 1903-1 904) LA&T, which it had acquired Feb. 9 -Sept. 28: GH&SA acquires Galveston, Houston & Northern Railway, providing 1892 direct access from Houston to Galveston -June 16: SP acquires control of San An­ tonio & Aransas Pass Railway, extending 1906 from San Antonio to Corpus Christi and -April: SP carries 1,600 carloads of relief Houston to Alice, Texas, with a branch to supplies to San Francisco without charge Waco. Railroad Commission of Texas or­ after April 18 earthquake and fire ders SP to relinquish control in 1903, but -Dec. 14: SP and Spreckels sugar inter­ SP reacquires company April 30, 1925 ests organize San Diego & Arizona Rail­ way to construct line east from San Diego 1894 -May 5: Coast Route reaches San Luis 1907 Obispo, Calif. -Jan. 8: Seven railroads operating north -Fall: First run of the Sunset Limited be­ of San Francisco are consolidated into tween New Orleans and San Francisco as Northwestern Pacific Railroad, owned a seasonal weekly train 50-50 by SP and Santa Fe. In return, Santa Fe sells SP its interest in the 1895 Phoenix & Eastern Railroad, which SP -May: 1344 is first SP locomotive con­ wanted for a main line east of Phoenix verted from coal to oil fuel that was never completed -Feb. 10: SP closes break in Colorado 1896 River channel that threatened to flood -First known use of SP Sunset herald the Imperial Valley and devastate its resi­ dents. An earlier break had created the 1898 Salton Sea, fo rcing SP to raise the Sunset -Dec. 18: First run of overnight OIVI be­ Route several times tween Oakland and L.A. via San -July: Block signals now installed on Joaquin Valley 1,263 route-miles of SP system, up from 50 miles in 1901 1899 -Oct. I: SP and UP incorporate Pacific -Oct. 5: SP acquires Houston & Shreve­ Fruit Express Co. to operate a fleet of port and Houston East & West Texas refrigerator cars; part nership lasts Railroads, providing a through route through 1978 (known as the Rabbit for its loping pro­ -Dec. 8: Bayshore Cut-Off opens, provid­ file) between Houston and Shreveport ing shorter and more efficient route into -Oct. 15: The Overland Limited begins San Francisco operation as a through train between Chicago and Oakland via Chicago & 1909 forth Western, UP, and CP Sept. 9: Harriman dies 1900 1910 -March I: SP purchases control of Car­ -Febluary: SP receives first Cab Forward son & Colorado Railroad, narrow-gauge articulated steam locomotives from Bald­ line from Mound House, Nev., to Keeler, win. Conventional articulateds 4000 and Calif., 299 miles 4001, placed in service in 1909, endan­ -Aug. 13: Huntington, last survivor of gered crews who had to endure their noise Big Four, dies. I ron Mountain (Missouri and smoke in the snowsheds and tunnels

2S.November 1998 The Cab Forward design, putting the en­ tem name-the Santa Fe type-instead gine crew ahead of the stack, helped calling them Decks, short for Decapod) 1911 1926 o Dec_ 23: SP begins electrification of East oAug. 7: Natron Cut-Off opens, greatly Bay suburban lines, eventually operating improving the Portland-Oakland route over 1,200 daily trains on these lines oOct. 5: First trains operate to Phoenix via o ov_ I: Pacific Railway & Navigation new line from Picacho to Wellton, Ariz. Co_ begins operating line from Hillsboro to Tillamook, Ore.; control passes to SP 1927 on July I, 1915 oMarch 21: SP subsidiaries in Te xas and Louisiana combine to form the Te xas & 1912 New Orleans Railroad (merger complet­ oElectrification of Oregon commuter ed June 30, 1934) lines commences oApril 17: First run of the Cascade be­ oDec. 12: U.S. Supreme Court finds UP's tween Portland and Oakland via the Na­ control of SP violates the Sherman Act tron Cut-Off and orders UP to sell its SP stock o 10V. 10: T &NO extends to Mexican border at Brownsville, Texas 1913 oSept. 10: Freight service begins over 1929 Dalsa Line between Hearne and Flatonia, oOregon electric service discontinued Te xas, shortening distance between Dal­ oJan. 17: SP agrees to acquire Santa las and San Antonio Fe's half ownership of Northwestern Pa­ cific, making NWP a wholly-owned SP 1914 subsidiary oFeb. II: u.s. Attorney General sues SP oSept. 15: Modoc Line completed between to force it to divest CP, claiming common Klamath Falls, Ore., and Fernley, Nev. control violated the Shennan Act. UP wants to acquire CP 1930 oOct. 23: NWP completes I06-mile line oOct. 15: Suisun Bay Bridge over the through Eel River Canyon between Willits Carquinez Straits opens, superseding fer­ and Shively, Calif., creating through rail ry service route from Sausalito to Eureka 1931 1916 oOct. I: Cotton Belt operates first Blue oAug. 24: SP completes the 120-mile Eu­ Streak Merchandise freight train between gene-Coos Bay, Ore. line East St. Louis and Pine Bluff, Ark. 1917 1932 oSeptember: Southern Pacific headquar­ oAprii 12: ICC authorizes SP to control ters building at 65 Market Street, San the Cotton Belt; SP later acquires almost Francisco, completed all of its stock 1919 1933 oNov. 15: SD&A completes line from o Feb. I: SP acquires fu ll control of San Diego to EI Centro, Calif. Train ser­ SD&A and renames it San Diego & Ari­ vice commences Dec. I zona Eastern Railway 1921 1935 oFeb. 28: Cotton Belt relocates Memphis oDec. 12: Cotton Belt files for reorgani­ freight operations onto Rock Island track­ zation under the Bankruptcy Act age rights from Brinkley, Ark.; passenger o Dec. 16: Huey P. Long Bridge across the trains had shifted to this route in 1912 Mississippi River opens, providing T&NO with direct access to New Or­ 1922 leans for the first time April 28: First run of the Daylight be­ tween L.A. and San Francisco via Coast 1936 Line. At first, the train ran only on sum­ o Lima Locomotive Works delivers first mer weekends orange, red, and black GS-2 class 4-8-4 steam locomotives 1923 o June 14: Diesel-powered streamliner oFeb. 6: Interstate Commerce Commis­ City of Sail Francisco enters Chicago-Oak­ sion, under new Transportation Act of land service, operating every six days in 1920, authorizes SP to control CP, end­ each direction with single I I-car trainset ing the federal government's effort to split the companies 1937 oMarch 21: First run of the new, stream­ 1924 lined Daylight (later Coast Daylight) be­ oAug. I: SP and Western Pacific imple­ tween San Francisco and L.A. ment Paired Track agreement between oSept. 19: First run of the Sunbeam be­ Weso and Alazon, Nev., with westbound tween Dallas and Houston. It will be trains of both railroads operating over SP joined by the Hustler on this run June and east bounds over WP. This comple­ 5, 1938 ments double-tracking of most of the Overland Route west of Weso during the 1938 preceding years oFeb. 20: Narrow-gauge operations dis­ oNov. I: SP acquires EI Paso & Southwest­ continued between Tonopah Junction, em System, which provides a second route Nev., and Benton, Calif., severing the for­ from Tu cson to EI Paso and a connection mer Carson & Colorado route. Tracks with Rock Island at Tu cumcari, N.M. salvaged in 1942 °Dec. I: SP sells East Bay electric opera­ 1925 tions to Interurban Electric Railway oAmerican Locomotive Co. delivers first of 49 4- 10-2 steam locomotives, dubbed the 1939 Southem Pacific type. UP was only other oFebruary: Electro-Motive sends SW I purchaser of locomotives with this wheel 804 to demonstrate on SP in Oakland; SP arrangement. (While SP had 182 2- 1 0-2 later buys it and renumbers it 1000; it be­ locomotives, it was understandably reluc­ comes the railroad's first diesel locomo­ tant to refer to them by their Whyte Sys- tive. Aleo HH660 100 I follows in May

Pacific RAILNEWS·29 1941 1960 -Feb. 22: Last Morgan Line passenger April 30: Former Carson & Colorado steamer, the Dixie, departs ew Orleans remnant between Laws and Keeler, as SP terminates ocean service Calif., abandoned, ending SP steam and -Feb. 28: N\VP electric passenger trains narrow-gauge operations and ferry service discontinued -July 4: First run of the San Joaquin Day­ 1961 light operates between Oakland and L.A. -Nov. I: T&NO and EP&SW merge in­ -July 25: East Bay electric operations dis­ to SP continued 1962 1942 -September: SP gains trackage rights -July: First Cotton Belt diesel, Baldwin over WP between Flanigan and Weso, VO IOOO switcher 1000, arrives Nev., which leads to abandonment of -Sept. 8: Original transcontinental line Flanigan-Fernley segment of Modoc Line severed at Promontory as 120 miles of track are scrapped to aid the war effort 1963 -sp and UP agree to acquire Rock Island 1944 jointly and split it up, with SP desiring - June: Cotton Belt receives first of 20 trackage south and west of Kansas City. EMD Fr freight locomotives Also, 233 miles of former EP&SW aban­ - Dec. 31: SP reaches all-time high in em­ doned between Tucson and Anapra, N.M. ployment, with 112,400 on payroll to meet unprecedented wartime demand for 1965 transportation -Jan. 27: ICC rejects competing SP and Santa Fe proposals to purchase Western 1947 Pacific. -June 2: SP F3 6100, the railroad's first -Aug. 13: Pacific Electric merged into SP diesel freight unit, enters service. Ulti­ mately SP, T&NO, and Cotton Belt ac­ 1966 quire 770 F-units -Sept. 7: Cotton Belt and New Yo rk Cen­ -July 24: Cotton Belt emerges from tral begin run-through freight trains be­ bankruptcy tween Indianapolis and Pine Bluff; Penn­ sylvania Railroad commences Enola, Pa.­ 1949 Pine Bluff trains in 1967 -July 10: The Shasta Daylight begins op­ erating between Portland and Oakland 1967 MONTANA -July II: Palmdale-Colton, Calif., Cut­ 1950 Off enters service -Aug. 13: The streamlined Cascade en­ ters service between Portland and Oak­ 1968 land; trains feature articulated triple-unit -May 7: To tal Operations Processing Sys­ Cascade Club diner-lounges tem (TOPS) computer hardware and INOT ALL LINES SHOWN) -Aug. 20: The streamlined Sunset Limit­ software enter service at Portland; this ed enters service between New Orleans pioneering system becomes the model for IDAHO and L.A. future railroad computer networks 1953 1971 WYOMING -May 4: T&I 0 begins piggyback service -May I: SP discontinues intercity passen­ between Houston and Louisiana points; ger service, with operations on main SP starts San Francisco-L.A. piggyback routes continued by Amtrak in July -Oct. I: SP sells Pacific Electric passen­ 1973 ger operations to Metropolitan Coach - July 19: SP opens new hump yard at Lines, but retains freight service West Colton, Calif. -Oct. 28: Consolidation (2-8-0) 502 is the last Cotton Belt steam locomotive to 1974 run in regular service on that railroad -Dec. 4: ICC issues decision approving UP-SP plan to acquire and split up Rock 1955 Island, but onerous regulatory condi­ -June 16: First double-deck coaches as­ tions and the Rock's poor track and signed to S.F.-San Jose commuter service equipment cause UP and SP to abandon the deal. Rock Island enters bankruptcy 1957 on March 17, 1975 -Jan. 22: Last steam locomotives retired from San Francisco commute service. 1976 Use of standard-gauge steam power in SP -Sept. 10: Hurricane Kathleen devastates freight service ends in July SD&AE; through freight operations sus­ pended 1958 -June 7: T& 10 discontinues last passen­ 1977 ger trains between Dallas and Houston -sp and American Car & Foundry design -July 29: SP substitutes buses for rail­ and build a prototype single-unit double­ road-operated passenger ferryboats on stack car for carrying containers San Francisco Bay -Oct. 19: GS-4 4460 pulls excursion 1978 train from Reno to Oakland. It is the last -May 18: Seaboard Coast Line Industries SP standard-gauge steam locomotive to rejects SP merger proposal. When SP operate on home rails until locomotive continues stock purchases, SCLI agrees to 4449 is revived for the Freedom Tr ain in merge with Chessie System to form CSX 1975. (The 4460 is preserved at the Mu­ - June 21: During a round of golf, SP seum of Transport in St. Louis) Chairman Ben Biaggini strikes deal with Rock Island trustee William Gibbons to 1959 buy the Rock's Tucumcari Line between -June 30: Central Pacific merged into SP St. Louis, Kansas City, and Santa Rosa, SP's -July 27: Salt Lake Fill replaces the N.M., for $57 million wooden trestle of the Lucin Cut-Off -Nov. I: SP sells SD&AE to Metropolitan -Nov. 29: Cotton Belt discontinues its Transit Development Board. West end last passenger trains, operating between becomes San Diego Trolley, the east end Final Days East St. Louis and Pine Bluff, Ark. is repaired, and Kyle Railways resumes

3U-November 1998 freight service, but bridge fires cut the line again in 1983 1992 oMarch 23: Special passenger train be­ gins touring system to promote The 1980 New SP; company stops external refer­ oJan. 1: SP abandons 140 miles of its Rio ences to Rio Grande and Colton Belt as Grande Valley route in Texas, shifting separate entitities through trains onto M P between Placedo oMarch 24-27: Contents of Sacramento and Harlingen Shops are auctioned off as locomotive oMar. 24: First Cotton Belt train operates maintenance is concentrated at Rio over Tucumcari Line to Kansas City. ICC Grande's Burnham Shops in Denver approves Cotton Belt's purchase of the Tuc umcari Line on June 10 1993 oJuly 1: California Department of Trans­ oTrying to complete the sale of 3,000 pOl·tation (Caltl'ans) assumes financial re­ miles of low-density lines, SP makes sponsibility for S.F.-San Jose commute three transfers of Oregon trackage: 10 service; SP continues as contract operator miles to Molalla Western (Feb. 22); over 36 miles to Willamette Valley (Feb. 22); 1982 and 184 miles to Willamette & Pacific o Dec. 22: As condition of UP-MP merger, (Feb. 28) Cotton Belt obtains trackage rights over oSept. 26: SP conveys 185 miles of track MP between K.C. and St. Louis, which it to California Northern uses in lieu of the Rock Island line be­ tween those points 1994: oDecember: Former LA&SP line trans­ 1983 fen'ed to local governments for transfor­ oDec. 23: SP combines with Santa Fe In­ mation into the Alameda Corridor, a dustries to form Santa Fe Southern Pacif­ grade-separated railroad linking the ic Corp.; railroads remain separate pend­ Ports of L.A. and Long Beach with the ing ICC merger approval rail network oDec. 31: SP transfers about 446 miles of 1984 Oregon branch lines to Central Oregon o 01'. 1: SP discontinues service over for­ & Pacific Railroad mer (original) WPR line over Altamont Pass and through Niles Canyon in favor of 1995 trackage rights over parallel UP; line is dis­ oAug. 3: UP announces agreement to ac­ mantled in 1985. Also, NWP line north of quire SP Willits is transferred to Eureka Southern oSept. 22: Consummation of Burlington Northern Santa Fe holding company 1985 merger gives SP broad new trackage oApril 26: Caltrans equipment begins re­ rights, including Chicago-Hutchinson placing SP locomotives and cars in com­ (Kan.)-Fort Worth on Santa Fe and mute service Denver-Fort Wo rth on Santa Fe and BN oJune 19: SP sells 16 miles of former PE L.A.-Long Beach line to Los Angeles 1996 County; it is later converted to Metro oJuly 3: Surface Transportation Board ap­ Blue Line light rail operation proves UP acquisition of SP oSept. 11: UP completes SP acquisition SOUTH DAKOTA 1986 o July 1: Copper Basin Railroad begins Refel'ences operating SP's Hayden Branch in Arizona oAustin, Ed, and Dill, Tom. SOUTHERN IOWA oJu1y 24: ICC turns down Santa Fe-SP PACtFiC IN OREGON. Pacific Fast Mail, NEBRASKA railroad merger as anticompetitive 1987 oNov. 17: Intermodal Container Transfer oCrump, Spencer. R I DE THE B I G RED Facility opens near Port of Los Angeles; CARS. Trans-Anglo Books, 1970 it becomes SP's most important terminal oDunscomb, Guy L., A CENTURY OF SOUTHERN PACIFIC STEAM LOCOMOTIVES. 1987 2nd ed. Self-published, 1963 oMarch 16: Louisiana & Delta makes oHanft, Robert M. SAN DIEGO & ARI­ first run on about 100 miles of discon­ ZONA, THE IMPOSSIBLE RAILROAD. Tra ns­ nected Louisiana branches sold by SP Anglo Books, 1984 o June 30: I CC refuses to reconsider de­ o Hofsommer, Don L. THE SOUTHERN PA­ nial of Santa Fe-SP merger despite agree­ CIFIC 1901-1985. Te xas A&M University ments to grant thousands of miles of Press, 1986 trackage rights to competitors oKraus, George. HIGH ROAD TO PRO�·tON­ TORY. American West Publishing, 1969 1988 oMyrick, David F. A R I LROADS OF EVADA oApril 28: SP sells 34 miles of urban lines AND EASTER, CALIFORNIA. Howell-North to Dallas Area Rapid Transit for $58 mil­ Books, 1962 lion. This is the first of many line sales to O-RAILROADS OF ARIZONA. Vol. II. How­ passenger operators, enabling SP to raise ell- 'orth Books, 1980 cash and offset its operating losses oPacific RailNelVs, various issues oOct. 13: Following ICC approval, SFSP oSignor, John R. TEHACHAPI. Golden ALA. sells SP rail operations to Rio Grande In­ West Books, 1983 dustries; combined system is known as oSouthern Pacific Co. SOUTH ERN P/\CIF­ Southern Pacific Lines IC'S FIRST CENTURY. 1955 oSP Trainline, various issues 1989 oSt. Louis Southwestern Ry. Co. CORPO­ o 01'. 8: Subsidiary SPCSL Corp. ac­ RATE HISTORY OF THE ST. LOUIS SOUTH­ quires Joliet-East St. Louis segment of WESTERN RAILWAY. 1957 failed Chicago, Missouri & Wes tern, ex­ o-C OTTON BELT ROUTE CENTENNIAL. tending SP to Chicago 1977 °Strapac, Joseph A. COTrON BEL:r Loco­ 1990 MOTIVES. Shade Tree Books, 1977 oAugust: SPCSL obtains trackage rights o-SOUTHERN PACIFIC ANNUAL. various over Burlington Northern bet ween years Kansas City and Chicago; operations oThe Short Line, various issues commence Nov. 14 oZlatkovich, Charles P. TEXAS RAILIlOADS: oOct. 12: Sale of 175 miles of Southern A H ISTORY OF CONSTRUCTION AND AMN­ California trackage to L.A. Count)' Trans­ DONMENT. University of Te xas at Austin: porration Commission closes Bureau of Business Research, 1981 51»

Pacific RAILNEWS·31 Farewell s au

Photo courtesy Sundance Publications

On Nov. 30, 1957, SP AC 4274 makes SP Memories: Places and Fa c e s history as the last SP articulated to of t he Silver Age stop and cool its brakes at Truckee, Text and Photography by Fred Matthews Calif., aner cross­ ing Donner Pass. he Southern Pacific of the 19405 and ton Ye llow after SP's late 19th century presi­ early 19505 was quite photogenic-a dent. Things would change by the early to wide variety of trains in remarkable mid- 1 960s, but the postwar era was a Silver Tvolume by late norms, almost universally Age for photographers. clean and shiny, operating over well-kempt There were historical reasons for this shiny rights-of-way past numerous stations and image. From the Harriman Era of 1901-1909 structures, most of them neat and bright in down through the presidency of A.T. Mercier the mustard-tinted color known as Hunting- (1940-1950), SP management was intensely

32·November 1996 thern Pac ific

Photo courtesy Sundance Publications

concerned with public relations, and cultivat­ ABOVE: An SP 2-8-0 ing close associations with business and civic rests against the elites. It still saw the railroad as an all-pur­ backdrop of Port pose public service agency, needing support Costa's classic Vic­ from employees, towns, shippers, politicians, torian downtown and potential passengers. So "image" was im­ on Nov. 11, 1958. portant, from the brilliant Daylights whose LEFT: Unique to basic color contrasts had been suggested by the wife of President A.D. McDonald in the Southern PaCifiC, mid-1930s, through all the roadside billboards Cab Forwards were announcing "7.50 to L.A." and urging, "Next regularly used over time Try the Tr ain," both signed "Your Friend­ Donner Pass to re­ ly Southern Paci fic." It wou ld all reverse duce crew expo­ rapidly after the late 1950s, when passenger sure to smoke service seemed a nuisance, and management when operating in saw the railroad as a machine to serve a few long tunnels and large shippers. But it was beautiful while it snowsheds. SP lasted, as a few vignettes may show. 4274 is seen on its My home station was Oakland's 16th Street, reached until mid-1948 by the rocking last run at Sacr.a­ and bouncing No. 12 streetcar from the Grand mento, Calif., on Lake Theater. Southern Pacific's 16th Street Nov. 30, 1957. was classic Harriman grandeur on a modest scale-a brick box with Renaissance stone fac­ ing, built for the 1911 electrification of SP's Oakland, Alameda & Berkeley suburban lines. Until 1941 these Red Electrics (to distinguish them from competitor Key System's orange

Pacific RAILNEWS-33 A set of Alco PAs trains) used a viaduct up to the station's upper 2-8-0s simmered at the ancient engine termi­ lead No. 101, the level, while steam trains from the ferry at Oak­ nal between trips out to switch the local indus­ westbound City of land Pier paused at the two ground-level pas­ tries, venture down the San Ramon branch San Fp ancisco, senger platforms. They paused, because until from Avon and, until the big Cab Forwards ar­ along the Carquinez World War II San Francisco still dominated its rived in the early 1950s, to push heavy freights industrial neighbor, and most passengers up to the big bridge east of Martinez. Straits at Port boarded at the pier. Until 1930, and opening of the big bridge, Costa, Calif., in But all trains stopped at 16th Street, about Port Costa had been much busier. Indeed, June 1959. The 46 of them in 1930 and still 32 in 1947. By nowhere so small had such a rich transport Benicia Bridge, that date there was one diesel turn, the City of history. From 1879 to 1930, SP had run a pair which eliminated San Francisco, just become daily; the rest drew of giant train ferries from a pier just west of the need for the 4-6-2s, 4-8-2s, or Black (unstreamlined) 4-8-4s town, across to reach the Cal-P line from ferries, can be -grand sights accelerating towards Berkeley Benicia to Sacramento and east. And for a seen in the dis­ under the signal bridge. After decades of more briefer period, about 1880 to 1915, the shores tance on the len. decline and then renewed activity, 16th Street of the straits had been lined with docks, was badly damaged in the 'quake of 1989; a where Central Valley grain was transferred to couple years' use of an adjoining Amshack was four-masters for Asian and European markets. followed by a move two miles north to the new A few pilings are still visible to the west, re­ Emeryville station, with better bus connections minding us how early, and powerfully, Califor­ across the Bay Bridge. Oakland has built its nia was intertwined with the world economy, own station near Jack London Square on the with SP as a crucial line-and how risky that San Jose line; the Harriman palace at 16th, connection has always been. boarded up, awaits an uncertain future. Pas­ Merced, in the San Joaquin Valley 150 rail senger trains no longer pass it, using instead a miles from San Francisco via Port Costa and new curve to the west, toward the bay, to al­ Tr acy, was an agricultural center of 17,000 in low somewhat higher speed. the 1940s. Santa Fe's Golden Gates and Hud­ About 25 miles up the Western Division son-powered standard trains paused on the main line from 16th Street was the somnolent east side of town; the "main" depot was SP's, Victorian village of Port Costa, nestled in a along Highway 99 downtown, with eight de­ narrow canyon off the Carquinez Straits. It partures for Los Angeles, Sacramento, and was quiet enough by 1947, except for the pass­ the Bay cities. On Nov. 8, 1947, I witnessed ing parade of ships and trains; a half dozen the depot at Merced in one of its great tradi-

34-November 1998 tiona roles, as the center for civic occasions. cellent photographic possibilities around On Nov. 11, 1958, I After the southbound San Joaquin Daylight town-the classic western main street, with with a mix of UP departed at 11:55 a.ill., local people began to the old Hotel Rex sign surviving without the and SP eqUipment, gather on the platform. Merced was going to hotel; back-lit scenes of westbounds from the No. 101 runs past participate in international politics. The crossing near the garlic restaurant; and tree­ the SP facilities at Friendship Train was coming up the valley, framed glimpses of the grade west of town. Port Costa. The old stopping for ceremonies and symbolic dona­ With Union Pacific likely to increase the traf­ train-ferry site tions of food for war-torn Europe. It was a fic volume at least to the 1983 level, Truckee gesture, designed to show skeptical France remains a place to visit. (minus the dock) is and Italy in particular, that U.S. aid did have Big Tr ees wasn't much for traffic density, seen on the right. popular support at home, and therefore was certainly not by my first visit in 1948. But in likely to continue. It may have been the last terms of sublime surroundings and an aura of time that Merced's "new" (l920-era) station religious mystery, no other rail location could performed this civic ritual. compare. By 1948 the dirt-and-redwood-needle Tiny Truckee, with 1,000 permanent resi­ platform had seen no regular passenger ser­ dents in 1950, was where the Donner Pass vice for eight years, ever since floods near Los grade increased from 1 percent along the riv­ Gatos had washed out SP's through Picnic er from Reno, to about 1.8 percent for the Line from the Bay Area to the weekend cab­ tortuous 16 miles to the summit. It was a ins, re ligious retreats, and resorts near Big classic train-watching spot, with Huntington Trees, and on to the beach and casino at Santa yellow depot next to the Victorian main Cruz. Through the 1920s this had been a busy street; westbound freights with a pair of Cab line, at least on weekends; the bases of the Forwards (one mid-train) came thundering vanished block signals so testified. through, air horns blaring for the downtown But Big Trees survived, and still does. From crossing. Eastbound fruit blocks, perhaps ev­ 1940, SP sent its long summer-Sunday Sun ery hour in harvest seasons, coasted down into Ta n Specials around via Watsonville Junction town, preparing to stop in the yard east of the and the hill-and-dale coastal line to Santa Hotel Truckee. There were still a dozen pas­ Cruz. And the spur up to Olympia remained senger trains through, 10 of them at night. In in, to serve a quarry. So several Sundays each later years, traffic density plunged. On a re­ year, from 1948 to the late 1950s, an extra sec­ visit in 1983 two Amtrak trains were joined tion of the Sun Ta n, a pair of 2-8-0s coupled by about 14 freights. But there remained ex- to the observation platform, went roaring up

Pacific RAILNEWS-35 In summer 1958, SP what SP warned was a "mountain grade" to may come: in 1996 commute coaches, now GS-l 4402 ushers that dreamy platform at Big Trees. And the double-deckers, operated an experimental train No. 140 past magic of the redwoods has brought more rails: Sun Ta n via Watsonville to Santa Cruz. Who Mission Bay in San in the 1960s the narrow-gauge Roaring Camp knows? Maybe we will be able to experience & Big Trees was built out of Felton, just north the sheer roar of SP "hogs" struggling upgrade Francisco, Calif. The of the grove. In the 1980s, the RC&BT owners through the redwoods once more. San Francisco acquired the Olympia branch, renaming it the And there were SP's faces. Diesels, at Peninsula featured Santa Cruz, Big Trees & Pacific. Excursion least after 1940, were standard models, one of the last hold­ trains, pulled by diesels, still creep up the though they could look very different in outs for SP steam. grade from Santa Cruz Boardwalk. And more black or in red/orange/black. But every

3S-November 1995 steam locomotive type, often even classes ances, and perhaps personalities-the little­ within the same type, had its special old-lady look of the dumpy S-l l 0-6-0s (Lima, look-and sometimes its special sound: SP 1914; 1229 was preserved in Roseburg, 4-8-2s, 4-8-4s, and 4-8-8-2s had sharply dif­ Ore.); the patience of those uncountable 2-8-0 ferent whistles. There was a family resem­ hogs, which began around 1904 as mountain blance among SP engines after the late freight power but ended their service 50 1930s, in the silver smokebox fronts intend­ years later as utility local and branch line ed (with day-lit headlights, and air horns on power. The eager face of Sixbits, the P-8 Pa­ some classes) to increase visibility at cross­ cific built by Baldwin in 1921 for transcon ings. Otherwise there were distinct appear- expresses but soon replaced by heavier 4-8-2s and 4-8-4, was a staple through 1955 on Sacramento locals and doubleheaded on fast freights. The single-headlight Black North­ erns offered another fa miliar face-either the GS-6s (4460s) during the war, or the de­ streamlined GS-3s of 1937, which first en­ tered fast passenger and then the freight pool after the classic double-headlight GS-4s bumped them in 1941. And most famous of all, the AC class 4-8-8-2 Cab Forwards, ruling BELOW: In Novem­ the mountain grades until 1951-1952, then bel' 1956-j ust six many of the newer ones taking over Western weeks belore the Division freight. Engine 4274, heading the end steam on last train pulled by an AC, Nov. 30, 1957, was 01 the last of 30 AC- lls built by Baldwin in SP's Western Divi­ 1943. The last AC of all, 4294, dwarfs visitors sion-an SP 2-8-0 in the California State Railroad Museum. SP waits at Port Costa.

Filled with LHT: happy patrons, an SP observation car on the end a Sun Tan Sp8cia/01passes through Big Tr ees, Calif., in 1953.

Pacific RAILNEWS .37 Lookin' Out the Back Door

Text and Photography by Wayne Depperman

he car was always pointed east. There came a time when the urge to do Not that there was a genuine dis­ something different arose. And, as is wont taste for Southern Pacific. Far from it. with these urges, it came at the darndest possi­ TheT heart had always yearned for the flanged ble time-snow in the Columbia Gorge, snow wheel on the steel rail, and the Espee put as on Willamette Pass, ice around the perimeter many wheels on the rail as anybody of Klamath Lake. In other words, white weath­ else-which is to say it met the qualification er from north to south in Oregon, and roads for the affection of the camera, and the tally in requiring a tense, tight, attentive grip on the my negative files reveal just due. steering wheel. That was January 1982. But others received far more attention. The It was Wednesday the 13th. Night had Great River-the Columbia-flowed from the drawn a dark blanket over the world, with the east with a railroad on each bank moving ton­ snow looking everywhere like a grey ghost on nage in the multiple millions. The interest was the land, and my pickup treaded gingerly into there, the scenery, and, of course, the tug of Chemult. Or was it really an Alpine village? railroads grown up with in the Portland area. The winter was piled high all around, and the In time, "railroads along and near the roofs had hosted 12-24 inches. In the daytime Columbia River" evolved into a life's work, so the snow was reluctant to leave, but here in there was always seemingly a need to point the the night the mercury huddled down in the car east. And the Espee? Well, we must set tube, and nothing melted. priorities, and the "Big Friendly" just never got But the light was on in the depot, as it so Thelma Simmons bumped up my list. often was in decades past. Inside, a lady of poses at Chemult, But, as Bill Cosby once said, "Now. I told years, Thelma Simmons, kept duty, although Ore., at 8:28 p.m., you that story to tell you this one." (Cosby, duty wasn't calling. A conversation with her on Wednesday, Bill. "Buck, Buck." Revenge. Warner Brothers revealed a rather sad story: her years with SP Jan. 13, 1982. Records.) were nearly at an end, but as she was looking forward to retirement her husband died, total­ ly changing her view of the future. When the time came for Thelma to lock up-there were only two shifts at Chemult then-she crossed the tracks, carrying her little portable television, and descended the snow­ covered steps. I offered to help but was re­ buffed. Thelma wasn't being rude-she was just a woman who'd worked a lot of depots for a lot of years. From her home nearly 40 miles dis­ tant, she'd gotten to work in this slop, and she sure didn't need anyone's help getting to her car.

THAT WAS NEARLY 15 YEARS AGO, and the lights at Chemult were shut off in September 1983. Still, only within the last year did the creaky depot go to glory. But with a little telephone research, I found Thelma Simmons, and I soon heard her raspy but lively voice. She is still in the same house 40 miles from Chemult. Thelma reports that when the depot was closed, she had a chance for a full pension, and took it. Today she cares for her one acre and her flowers ...she has no garden, just a strawber­ ry patch (and the strawberries froze this year). Of living alone, Thelma says it's just something you have to learn to get along with. She would like more company-her son lives about 15 miles away, and her daughter about 150, and she'd like to see them more often. A recently retired neighbor asked Thelma, "What do you do when you're retired?" She answered, "Well, with me, it's a decision of whether to mow my lawn or vacuum." We hope that Thelma's strawberries turnout better next year. And we hope that she will be able to mow her lawn (her preference) in peace and good health for many years to come. SP

3S-November 1998 A mixed lash-up of Timeless SP SP and UP locomo­ tives escorts a Text and Photography by Daniel J. Sheets westbound train up through the Oregon Cascades west of hat have enjoyed most about visit­ my only link to SP's past on the Oregon Cas­ Frazier at Tunnel 11 I ing Southern Pacific? Watching the cades. [ never witnessed the fireman sanding on Aug. 17, 1998. artifacts of the past showcased next the flues on Cab Forwards, Black Widow F-7s Wto the machines of the present. What other west­ pulling the Pacific Coast Expediter, or ern railroad, in 1996, can take us time traveling semaphores and cabooses on the Hill. All I in just one afternoon? Today, anyone can visit have are photos in a book. SP's Cascade line and see the original water tow­ Yet today, J can still get glimpses of the er at Cruzatte, still standing today as SD70Ms past at places like Cruzatte. Time has changed and Amh'ak's Coast Starlight roll by. That same little on the Cascades; to be sure, the trees are tower was present when the PA Alcos and E7s taller, the trestles are rusty, and concrete is pulled Shasta Dayligh t passenger trains a gener­ chipping away on the snowsheds. But Geeps ation ago. That very same water tower wil11essed and Cadillacs still slip past the water tower as and fueled many thirsty Cab Forwards and the they did 40 years ago. like. In a matter of speaking, SP is living history, I will miss scenes of SP as they fade away with reminders of past times that still linger. like those of Missouri Pacific, Western Pacific, What will I miss most about the SP? The and now Chicago & North Western. I truly operating relics and engineering monuments hope to document SP before it too sinks below that will undoubtedly be lost with Union Pa­ the sea of yellow-before yesterday's SP is cific's merger. Unfortunately [ will also lose erased by tomorrow's UP. SP

Pacific RAILNEWS.39 Glendale

Te xt and Photography by Gordon Glattenberg

hile I was growing up in Los Ange­ Miller and Richard Steinheimer also frequent­ les in the 1940s and 1950s, train ed Glendale, and I've wondered if we met watching meant talking my parents back then. The one person I do remember Winto taking a Sunday afternoon drive over to from those Sundays was Ralph Lettelier, who Southern Pacific's Glendale Station. It was shot excellent black-and-white and Ko­ relatively close, and in contrast, Santa Fe at dachrome pictures. He also shot this picture Pasadena and Union Pacific at East Los Ange­ of the northbound Owl that was ruined by a les seemed remote and mysterious. Alan little kid standing in the way-me.

In 1943, a young Gordon GlaUen­ berg stands in front of an SP class AC Cab For­ ward at the Glen­ dale station. Ralph LeUelier photo

40· November 1996 Glendale in the 1940s meant one Cab For­ 1948 with the appearance of large numbers of ward on most of the valley passenger trains Black Widow Fs. The PE vanished in 1955, and and coast freights, while most valley freights the surrounding neighborhood gradually de­ had two. The Lark and Coast Daylight had clined. The 1926-vintage station now says Am­ Daylight-painted 4-8-4s, and the San trak, but it looks very much the same as it did in On Sept. 11, 1956, Joaquin Daylight had doubleheaded 4-8-2s or the 1940s; with Amtrak and Metrolink, this de­ Gordon pho­ 4-8-4s, also usually Daylight-painted. Anoth­ pot now sees more passenger trains than ever. tographed the er attraction at Glendale was Pacific Electric's In 1956, I spent a week during summer va­ same AC with an Glendale-Burbank line on Brand Boulevard, cation from college chasing SP's remaining eastbound freight at the east end of the station. There was a steam power in northern California. At Port at Port Costa, storage yard for PE cars along the SP tracks, Costa, [ encountered a Cab Forward in its last and Glendale Tower, a manual interlocker, months of service, heading an eastbound Calif. The big artic­ controlled the crossing. freight for Roseville. I didn't recognize it a· the ulated steam loco­ Like most rai I locations, change came to time, but it was old friend 4246, the Owl ; lo­ motives were all Glendale. Steam power started to vanish about comotive at Glendale. SP retired by 1958.

Pacific RAILNEWS -41 On a bleak Jan­ uary 1995 day, an Why the Sunset Route? eastbound SP dou­ ble stack passes Text and Photography by Steve Schmollinger the long-unused coaling tower at Mescal, Ariz_ ne day in 1876, a young civil engineer nental rail line. Colonel To m Pierce, president named N.R. Olcott, employed by the of GH&SA, drove the Sunset Route's final fledgling Texas & New Orleans, let his spike near the Pecos River on Jan. 12, 1883. mindO and pencil wander and sketched out a Why did SP build the Sunset Route? At the pair of circles, a sunset, and some rails. He time, not everyone thought it was a good idea, showed the sketch to his boss, Bill Averill, especially since the railroad already had a who was in charge of building the railroad. transcontinental line through the center of the "Say, Bill, some day this little old railroad is country. Creed Haymond, the carrier's general going to be a link in a through line to the Pa­ solicitor, testified as much before a U.S. Senate cific Coast. When that happens, this sketch Committee in 1888. might come in handy." (Taylor, Frank )., and Haymond stated that "our people, in order Neill C. Wilson. SOUTHERN PACIFIC: THE ROAR­ to prevent the construction of a Southern Pacif­ I G STORY OF A FIGHTING RAILROAD. New ic Road by a hostile company, which would York: McGraw-HilI.) surely have meant destruction to our business," Indeed it did come in handy! Not long af­ completed the new road in part to support CPo terward, C.P. Huntington and company bought But it is Haymond's prescient assessment of the T&NO and, joining it to their Southern Pa­ the Sunset's own merits that stands out. The cific and Galveston, Harrisburg & San Anto­ Sunset Route may be the biggest prize Union nio railroads, created their second transconti- Pacific got for its $5.4 billion acquisition. SP

42-November 1998 On May 11, 1992, The Va lentine District an SP HOWCM (Houston to West Colton, Calif., mani­ Text and Photography by George Pitarys fest) climbs over Paisano Pass, SP's scenic highlight in tudY in contrasts-that's how I perceive About one-third of the way west from �the Southern Pacific. This railroad oper­ Sanderson is Paisano Pass, and while it's no West Texas. ates in the highest peaks of the Rock­ climb to Cascade Summit, the grade does ies, Sierra, and Cascades; hits the low spots reach and maintain 1 percent. At the summit, of bayou country; runs through the "rain on the east slope, there is rock outcroping­ forests" of the Pacific Northwest; and reaches reminiscent of every John Wayne movie across the parched deserts of the Southwest. you've ever seen-with a double reverse [t connects Chicago and Los Angeles, two of curve that is outstanding. As an added bonus, the largest population centers in the country, you may catch the South Orient which shares and at the same time operates through some trackage between Alpine Junction and of the most deserted areas in the Lower Paisano, on its way to or from Presidio. Or Forty-Eight to get there. perhaps Amtrak No. 1, another dichotomy: It is this desolate segment of the SP I'd like this remote but accessible district carries pas­ to illuminate. West Texas-shades of Judge senger service, while major cities like Phoenix Roy Bean-is home to the Va lentine District, no longer have this service! While the Golden which stretches 313 miles between EI Paso State Route does siphon off traffic at EI Paso, and Sanderson across Big Bend country. I 15 trains would not be impossible here in the spent a couple of days here in May 1992 as a long days of summer. side trip to the Tucumcari Line, and was very So, will this line prosper or fade into the pleasantly surprised. Here is a segment of the sunset with the merger? Options are avail­ SP that is often overlooked because of its re­ able; the Union Pacific's former Mopac line moteness, and yet it is vital. True, there are (the old Texas & Pacific) to EI Paso could di­ times in this area when you can't even tune in vert or increase traffic, depending on which an AM radio station, but you can shoot a lot of line is emphasized. Only time will tell, and in trains in some pretty good locations. this vacant land west of the Pecos. SP

Pacific RAILNEWS.43 Concepcion

By John Roskoski, Photography collection of John Roskoski

hen you were in school, you may the first floor, plus living quarters for the sta­ have daydreamed-gazing out the tion agent on the second. Approaching trains window watching daylight stream could be seen readily from the bay window of Winto the classroom. Can you imagine attending the telegraph operator's station. a school where thundering, moving daylight Inside a converted passenger waiting appeared? Blasting by classroom windows, room-surrounded by desks, blackboards, this picturesque Daylight was adorned with bookcases, and maps-children in the first the vivid red-and-orange paint scheme of the through eighth grades were taught lessons. The Southern Pacific Railroad. The sight of the baggage room became the auditorium; an open train gave students a rush of excitement, pro­ field served as the playground. Adjacent freight viding a momentary diversion from daily and passenger cars belonging to the Mainte­ school struggles. The three Rs sped away with nance of Way department provided housing for the majestic Daylight, as students watched railroad workers and their families. from their one-room schoolhouse at Califor­ Though a school was located at Lompoc, 26 nia's Point Concepcion (at milepost 325 from miles away, it was not possible to transport the San Francisco) on SP's Coast Route. children when rainy weather made the dirt roads At this isolated coastal outpost, classes were impassable. Thus, the school at Point Concep­ held in the SP train station. Built in 1901, the cion was formed in 1930 as part of the Honda Concepcion depot was one of 43 "combination school district. (In 1923, Honda was the site of Elden Sandy copies station 22" buildings erected between 1899 the United States' worst peacetime naval disas­ train orders at and 1920. Each station cost between $3,300 ter when seven destroyers ran aground on the Southern Pacific's and $4,750 and contained a passenger waiting rocky coastline, claiming 23 lives.) Concepcion depot. room, offices, and a baggage/freight room on Nine years later, Grace Sandy, whose hus­ band Elden was a telegrapher at Concepcion, was hired as a temporary teacher for the Con­ cepcion students. Holding a life diploma for elementary school teaching, Grace began her duties on July 1, 1939, under the following stipulations: 1. The annual salary for the school year was $1,350 payable in 10 equal monthly install­ ments. 2. Te aching services were required only for the time that the number of students justified maintaining a school at Concepcion. Elden Sandy's railroad roots ran deep and were planted in Canada. When he was 17, he hired out with a section gang on the Northern Pacific & Manitoba Railroad. He braved -550 F temperatures while working as a telegrapher at the Canadian National Railway in 1924. Three years later, Elden and his family immigrated to California where he began working for SP. Laid off during the Depression, he was rehired in the early 1930s and worked as a telegrapher at Guadalupe, Serrano, and Paso Robles. At Paso Robles, he met Grace who was teaching school there. They married in 1934 and moved to Concepcion four years later, settling into the agent's quarters.

IT WAS A SYNERGY OF LOVE, environment, and careers. Elden took care of station agent duties and moved trains, via train orders, up and down the coast; Grace taught at the Concepcion school until 1945, when it closed for lack of stu­ dents. (The school re-opened in 1947, and re­ mained open until the mid- 1950s). By that time another career bug had bitten Grace, thanks to her husband and the SP superintendent. As Elden told it, "The superintendent came down and said, you know we're in kind of a tight spot. It's hard to get men to work at these jobs. What's your wife doing?"

44-November 1998 "Well, you know, housework, cooking, windswept, and storm-lashed outpost along ABOVE: The section cleaning," replied Elden. SP's Coast Line, and are outstanding examples men at work: five "Let's put her to work on the railroad!" of the courageous, competent, and dedicated laborers and a urged the superintendent. railroaders who made SP The Friendly. SP foreman who keep Elden, who was teaching telegraphy to a the track in good few young women fresh out of school, readily condition. LEFT: agreed. His patience was being tested by the "She was a so-called "sixty-day wonder students" and their sporadic attendance. 'peach,'" comment­ "He was a hard master with me," Grace re­ ed Elden Sandy called. "He wanted to show that he could when he saw this teach and have someone stick to the art of photo of himself telegraphy. " and his wife, "You did very well, very well, " Elden replied. Grace, at the Con­ "Elden was a good hand sender because he cepcion depot. had a limber wrist; mine was much stiffer, " Grace commented. With Elden 's fine and firm teaching; the "bug key's" forgiving side-to-side motion, in­ stead of the up-and-down wrist-wrenching ac­ tion of the regular telegraph key; and her deter­ mination, Grace hired out in fall 1945 with SP.

IN 1947, THE SANDYS LEFT CONCEPCION and moved to Surf (milepost 302) so that their six­ year-old son, Elden, Jr. could attend school in Lompoc. Elden, Sr. , would bold down tbe sta­ tion agent position and postmaster at Surf, un­ til retiring in 1960. Adding to her family's rail­ road legacy, Grace took care of the third trick telegraph duties at the Surf station. She retired from SP 20 years later. Elden and Grace Sandy performed valiantly in perhaps the loneliest, most barren,

Pacific RAILNEWS-45 Circuit Breaker

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Union Switch & Sig­ nal semaphores What Makes a Semaphore Tick? were once stan­ dard safety devices By Steven W. Coons, Photography by Donald J. Henderer across Southern Pacific's lines, and may still be found etired SouthernPacific Signal Maintain­ single-arm signal worked much in the same along the Tu cum­ er Bill Fisher succinctly answers this way, except with one slot arm and slot coil." cari Une in New question: "Because everything was de­ The above photo of a Siskiyou line Mexico. This signal. Rsigned fail-safe, constant voltage on the track semaphore delineates the major parts of a Style is on display at circuit, including home and distant relays, kept B motor compartment. In its working life, the Drain, Ore. the slot coils continuously energized. When a semaphore operated from the west end of Yon­ train passed into the block, the relays would calla, Ore., at milepost 603.7 Retired in July 'drop' (de-energize), and slot coil armatures 1993, the signal was donated to Drain, Ore., would release the toggle, tripping both arm where it can be seen on the corner of Third and mechanisms. Then when the train cleared the West B streets. Unfortunately, the city has following block, the home relay would receive shown little interest in the semaphore. During current and pick up, sending current to the red the long wait for site placement, sandblasting, atm slot coil. This, in turn, started the motOl� and painting, the former Southern Pacific signal clearing the red arm but leaving the yellow up. lost its pinnacle and Adlake spectacle lights. A Once the train cleared the next block, the dis­ sign, donated by a local railfan explaining tant relay would pick up and clear the yellow. A semaphore operation, was never used. SP

48-November 1998 Amtrak No. the G, The Norden Experience eastbound Califol'­ nia Zephyl', enters the west end of the Text and Photography by Dick Dorn snowshed complex at Norden, Calif., on Feb. 9, 1975. hen I was a young railfan, Norden his tales and became an adept CTC operator drew me with a special magic fi lled moving trains over the mountain. Shorty had his Former SP FP7 114 with images of wooden snowsheds, basement set up for guests, and I spent winter pilots the train, be­ Wcovered turntable, mole people, rotary snow­ nights in a watm bed as stOlms raged outside. cause the larger plows, and the deepest snowpack traversed by Another place I frequented was the cook­ (and new) SDP40Fs any railroad in the United States. [n the early house across the tracks from the depot. It was were not equipped 1970s, after moving to Marysville, I made many open 24 hours , and the cooks were always with plows. memorable and wondrous trips to Norden. ready to serve. What better atmosphere could a I still clearly remember my first exposure. Af­ railfan ask for-rubbing elbows with rails and ter parking just off old U.S. Hwy 40, [ entered listening to the talk of the day's snow fighting. the chute and main entrance to Mole To wn, the For me, the ultimate photographic chal­ name often given to Norden because of the cov­ lenge was the snowfigbting equipment. Shorty ered walkways connecting the buildings. As I would call me to let me know when the call walked down the covered stairs to the walkway would go out for flangers and spreaders, and I and began to explore this fascinating new place, would be on my way. In 1975, I had my first I was amazed. What really sticks in my memory opportunity to shoot the rotary snow plows. is standing in the covered snowshed just outside What an exhilarating day that was-with three the depot and experiencing four big SD45s with flangers, the spreader set, and a set of double­ all 20 cylinders apiece blasting through in a total ended rotaries operating. Since that day I have rush of diesel exhaust and thunderous noise. photographed every rotary operation. This was big-time railroading at its best! Clearly there was never any location on a I developed a wonderful friendship with Al­ railroad comparable to Norden. And sadly bert "Shorty" Teal, second trick telegraph opera­ there will never be for this unique place closed tor at Norden. Shorty always welcomed compa­ on Sept. 8, 1985. Soon after, everything was ny so we spent many evenings while I enjoyed removed except the concrete snow sheds. SP

PacifiC RA[LNEWS.47 In MemorIam 1 6 t h Street, Oakland

Text and Photography by Sean Zwagerman

n 1989, an earthquake centered near Loma and pigeons roost in the chandeliers. White Prieta in the Santa Cruz Mountains took sheets drape the benches like funeral shrouds. hold of the hills and cities of northem Cali­ Below a clock that stopped years ago, a snow fomiaI and shook them. Hard. Some parts of the of plaster dust has settled on the smoky paint­ San Francisco Bay Area never stood up again. ing of Mount Shasta on the south wall. The be­ The defining images of that disaster show a sec­ ginning of the end for the Oakland station was tion of the OakJand Bay Bridge collapsing onto the SP merger with the Rio Grande, when the the lower deck, and the elevated Cypress section depot became merely an obstacle to land de­ of Interstate 880 lying crushed and sprawled velopment. The city of Oakland tried to save along the surface streets of Oakland. But the the building, but the earthquake ended such quake sent other less dramatic and immediate hopes. In a note of sad irony, the depot and ad­ shockwaves through the East Bay that are just jacent historic 16th Street Tower will be lev­ now being felt. A roughly paved surface street eled to make way for a new freeway. runs like a scar along the route where the free­ In June 1994, I rang the doorbell at the way once loomed over the housetops of West 16th Street To wer, heard a buzzer sound up­ Oakland. It passes piles of concrete rubble and stairs, and waited. A window slid open above, twisted re-bar in the front yards of abandoned and the West Oakland yard operator looked Victorian homes. Turning onto 16th Street, one down and frowned. I had driven to Oakland passes a rusting For Lease sign on the American several days before to photograph the towel� Steel factory; an Art Deco gas station littered but the clerk had been too busy to be troubled with abandoned cars; a beautiful-but empty­ with a nostalgic railfan, and told me to come red brick school building; a baseball diamond back. The look on his face told me he had gone to weeds. Sixteenth Street ends abruptly hoped I wouldn't. He disappeared back inside at a torn and rusted chain-link fence. the tower and unlocked the door. "You got five Behind the fence stands one more building minutes," he said, ''I'm busy as hell." closed forever by the quake, but this loss is I walked up several flights of stairs past particularly sad. Built in 1912 as a sign of piles of paper, rusting lockers, faded calendars. Southern Pacific's confidence in the prosper­ Each step up led further back into the past. Up­ ous port city of Oakland, the Beaux-Arts style stairs, a massive steel case ran the length of the depot at 16th and Wood streets rises like a building, holding the mighty levers that once phoenix above the cracked and littered land­ controlled the switches. The small computer scape, a symbol still of beauty and endurance. that had replaced it sat beneath a vintage SP Amtrak No. 8, the Despite years of neglect by SP followed by Standard Clock, alongside an old-fashioned eastbound Califop­ years of abuse by Amtrak, the station remains telephone attached accordion-style to the wall. nia lephyp at 1 8th one of the finest examples of railroad architec­ Below an illuminated diagram of Oakland Ya rd ture in the West. The facade of massive Sierra was tacked a drawing of the design for the new St. Station, a week granite with its 25-foot arched windows re­ yard and the freeway that will rise where this before the official mains splendid after 80 years. Inside the grand tower now stands. As I leaned out of a peeling, end o. Amtrak ser­ waiting room, measuring 116 feet long, sun­ wood-framed window, I saw in the lights of a vice to the grand light filters in through the windows onto the departing train the ghosts of the past hundred old Oakland station marble floors and the carved oak benches. But years, of all the trains that have crept out of in August 1994. now the waiting room is locked and chained, Oakland, saving their strength for the crossing of the eternal Sierra. The lifeblood of the American railroad landscape is this persistence of history, the thread of the past that remains woven into the fabric of modern railroading. Southern Pacific Clerk John Snelling is him­ self part of the past and present of Oakland yard. He has worked here-happily-for 30 years. "I love it," he says. "I wouldn't want to do anything else." He meant it when he said he was busy, but he talked with me as he worked, throwing switches by computer keyboard and gracefully orchestrating train movements in the yard. He moved quickly and smoothly, talking to the dispatcher in Denver, joking with con­ ductors and engineers he has known for years, swiveling his chair to look out across the yard, and clearly enjoying himself all the while. "I've seen this yard busy and slow, and it's about as busy now as it ever has been," he said, "but it's mostly passenger trains."

4S.November 1996 "Were you here during the earthquake?" bus load of school children came speeding John Snelling at "No, I was off that day, but Juanita said this across the parking lot. The conductor made a work, Oakland 16th tower was shaking!" He pointed out the win­ half-hearted effort to hurry them aboard, but Street To wer. dow at the depot. "If you look close-right the last California Zephyr to leave 16th Street there, near the chimney-you can see a crack departed 30 minutes late. running all the way from the top to the bot­ The train moved slowly out of the station, tom." He turned in his chair and pointed to past the tower, under the block signals con­ the deserted baseball diamond. "That's where trolling the east end of Oakland Yard, and on the President's helicopter landed when he its way across the country. Again the station came to look at the Cypress Freeway." was silent, again the pigeons were the only Until recently, there were two people work­ visitors. From the tower, the weekend clerk ing in the tower, the 16th Street control opera­ leaned out the window and watched the last tor and the West Oakland control operator. By car dissolve into the fog. now, the dispatcher in Denver had taken over As I walked up the creaking stairs of the control of the movement of trains in and out tower at noon on Oct. 12, 1995, Juanita, the of Oakland, leaving only the West Oakland West Oakland control operator, sat quietly job. Eventually that position too, and John talking with a couple of SP crewmen. The Snelling, would be replaced by Centralized mood was very different from my visit a year Traffic Control (CTC) in Denver. "SP wants to before: quiet, still, and resigned. Juanita smiled have one great dispatcher for the entire rail­ as I walked in with my camera and tripod; "I road, a dispatcher god," he laughed. "There guess the word's gotten out," she said. An won't be any clerks like us at all." hour later, all her duties became the responsi­ About a month later, on July 31, 1994, I bility of SP Dispatcher WS-62 in Denver. Six­ was back at 16th Street. The weather was ap­ teenth Street Tower now stands as still and propriately gloomy, with a typical summer fog lifeless as the depot beside it, darkened by the hanging chill and damp over the industrial sky­ long shadows of the looming freeway. line of West Oakland. On this Sunday, the Sometime in the near future: A bleary-eyed San Joaquins, Capitols, and California Zephyr commuter sits in morning traffic on the 16th would officially make their last stops at 16th Street on-ramp to Highway 580. Below him, Street. (Unofficially, Amtrak continued to stop he sees a vacant lot that must have been a here for a couple more weeks. Amtrak had parking lot at one time, next to an enormous continued to serve this station since the quake, pile of steel and Sierra granite. ") wonder what but passengers had to wait outside under the that place was?" he asks himself. rusting skeleton of the old Key System plat­ Always taken out of context to criticize form. A new station had opened at Emeryville, Oakland, Gertrude Stein's famous comment about a mile north, and the Oakland depot at "There's no there there" will soon become sad­ Jack London Square would open within the ly appropriate when the monuments to Oak­ year. In a mockery of preservation, some of the land's grand history of architecture and trans­ old oak benches from the 16th Street depot pOl·tation at 16th and Wood streets succumb will be used in the new one.) As train 6, the to the wrecking ball, to the dubious progress Chicago-bound Zephyr, was ready to depart, a of our automotive culture. SP

Pacific RAILNEWS.49 The Italian Renais­ sance Revival de­ SP In the Silicon Va lley pot at San Jose hosts both Amtrak th e San Jose Station and CalTrain, serv­ ing more than 30 Text and Photography by April Halberstadt trains per day.

y career as a SouthernPacific engineer Francisco & San Jose Railroad was already aver­ was both short-lived and spurious. aging more than $15,000 a day in revenues. When I worked on the railroad, Real With expenses running only about $9,000 a MEngineers were still men who drove locomo­ month, the investors were pretty happy. South­ tives. They were definitely not women who ana­ ern Pacific bought the company in 1869, its crit­ lyzed traffic capacity on microwave networks. ical last link to the Pacific Ocean. What most My railroad career was cut short by a corporate history books neglect to say is the Big Four ac­ sell-off. The Southern Pacific Communications quired this enormously profitable line to provide division had hired me, but the Espee soon sold real cash for the rest of their investments. It has its network to GTE. To day Sprint® is America's served continuously for over 135 years. third largest telecommunications provider, an Many of the original depots are still in ser­ all-digital carrier on a fiber-optics network. vice too. Six are on the National Register; San­ Although SP stopped signing my paycheck, ta Clara's is the oldest, a redwood passenger­ everything else remained the same. My job, my and-freight office dating from 1864. Menlo network, and my commute-San Jose to Park features a Gothic-Victorian station while Burlingame-were unchanged. Over the next nearby San Carlos offers an elegant sandstone few years, I continued making the journey Romanesque structure. They are all cherished. along the San Francisco Peninsula right-of-way, A favorite is the newest old depot in San following the oldest railroad commuter route in Jose, the Cahill Street depot. The original 1863 America. The ride was a reminder that SP gets station was replaced in 1935 by an Italian Re­ both credit and blame for opening the peninsu­ naissance structure, one of the last large de­ la to prosperity and development. The thriving pots built by SP. Reopened last year after an Silicon Valley depends on its commuting work­ estimated $5 million renovation, Cahill serves ers; it wouldn't have happened without SP. passengers from more than 30 trains each day. This little 47 -mile stretch of commuter line Good-bye, Southern Pacific. I will think was a money-maker from the very beginning. kind thoughts about you every time I walk Opened in San Jose on Jan. 16, 1864, the San through the door beneath your name. SP

50-November 1996 On June 2, 1998, SP as In Special Southern Pacific GE AC4400CW 178 shepherds a west­ Text and Photography by Brian Jennison bound unit grain train through the hat made Southern Pacific special? where in the world. The railroad simply has to longest SP tun­ As a kid back East, I always liked work to get anywhere! Whether it is entering nel-two-mile Tu n­ Santa Fe better; with its fleet of sil­ the Golden State via Donner Pass; or strug­ ne1 41, the summit Wver streamliners pulled by Warbonnet F-units, it gling out of the Los Angeles Basin via Beau­ tunnel on track No. seemed the quintessentially successful western mont Hill; or heading for Oregon via the Shas­ 2 at Norden, Calif., railroad. (When your local roads were New tas, Siskiyous, and Cascades, SP is the archety­ on Donner Pass. Haven or Central of New Jersey, it wasn't diffi­ pal mountain railroad. That's the concept I cult to fantasize about the West!) want to keep in mind. Set aside the politics When I moved to northern California in and corporate shenanigans; concentrate on the 1972, however, [ learned that the scarlet and physical properties of the railroad itself, and gray was the best show in town, and figured the vast territories it covers. out pretty quickly that SP was a road to be I've known railfans who hated SP, and reckoned with. wouldn't shoot pictures of it even back when The history of Californiaand Oregon is so in­ the motive power lash-ups were clean. They'd extricably entwined with SP's history-the Big go off to the Feather River Canyon, or up to the Four, Donner Pass, THE OCTOPUS, the Mole­ Burlington Northern, Orout on the Union Pacif­ that it was impossible to go anywhere in San ic; they'd shoot the short lines. Now, J can ap­ Francisco or Oakland without being reminded preciate these railroads as well, but in my hum­ of SP's influence. The Berkeley Hills were devel­ ble opinion, none can hold a candle to SP for oped in part because the SP built the line to haul the sheer majesty of western mountain railroad­ commuters to the ferries. Alameda grew in the ing. J'm going to miss SP as a corporate entity same way. Urban patterns now taken for granted and, regardless of the inevitable yellow paint, resulted from decisions made at SP headquarters when I'm watching trains winding up the Truc­ on Market Street. kee River Canyon, or assaulting the Te hachapis, From a train-watching perspective, SP or whining down off Beaumont Hill in full dy­ ranks with the most dramatic railroads any- namic, it'll always be the SP to me! SP

Pacific RAILNEWS-51 On a very cold New Year's Day 1980, a Nevada westbound coiled steel train eases Text and Photography by Dick Dorn through the sweep­ ing curve at Mill City, Nev. he Silver State-where things are done says, "I was so in love with you I would have differently, and most rural residents are followed you anywhere." a tough independent breed. Located in Photographing trains in Nevada can be very Tthe West's great intermountain region between rewarding, but you have to be patient and will­ the Rocky and Sierra mountains, Nevada is a ing to travel off the paved road. Palisade desolate and hostile environment. However, Canyon, west of Carlin, is undoubtedly the most Southern Pacific partly tamed Nevada with the spectacular area to shoot in as vertical rock building of the transcontinental railroad that walls rise above the Humboldt River with SP closely followed the original emigrant trail. The and Union Pacific tracks on either side. The area railroad played a key role in the state's early de­ east of Wells to Montello finds SP running velopment as most of the major cities in north­ through the most desolate of areas. Spend a day ern Nevada are located on its tracks. out here, and the only humans you'll probably My first trip to Nevada was in 1974 with see are train crews. You can also drive your car Ted Benson to photograph the Mina Branch. on the original Central Pacific right-of-way that This trip gave me a quick lesson in off-road is now part of the dirt road following the tracks. traveling. Two flat tires on the tortuous road Then there is the aroma of sagebrush, the around Walker Lake caused major problems. A state flower. During a 12-day h'ip to Nevada in ride from a friendly train crew and an even June 1996, my 15-year-old son Justin theorized, friendlier station agent at Thorn confirmed the "Dad, I think tbat a long time ago all the plants graciousness of this state's residents. What has had a meeting. They decided where to live, and followed are more than 50 trips to pursue SP the sagebrusb lost and had to go live in Nevada." trains across this desert wonderland. r will always have a fond attraction for the My wife, Chris, and 1 spent our honey­ Silver State regardless of which trains operate. moon in Palisade Canyon. We now look back It's the scenery behind the trains, and the on that adventure with laughter, and Chris uniqueness of the state that call me back. SP

52-November 1996 Blazing through The Cotton Belt winter fields of its namesake fiber, this well-worn Text and Photography by Tom Kline GP20 steers the hot MFSAT (Mem­ phis-San Antonio n tracing a railroad's heritage, you often dis­ In 1980 SSW gained more trackage, purchasing cover it evolved from a network of small, in­ the defunct Rock Island's Golden State route trailers) at McKin­ dependent short lines. Southern Pacific was from Kansas City to Santa Rosa, N.M., which ney, Ark., just east Icreated from such a patchwork quilt. became known as the Cotton Rock. of Texarkana, on And even though many patches have lost Whether your tastes run to the slow-paced Sept. 20, 1981 . their identity over time, their legacies survive branch line paddling through hamlets surround­ in the lexicon of operating departments and ed by fields and woods, or big-time in-your-face crews who steadfastly refer to the routes by railroading-the Memphis Blue Streak !Vl er­ their earlier names. chandise Fo rwarder scorching past at 70-plus on Throughout SP's long history, one of its ear­ the CTC main line-the SSW delivers. Conve­ ly components has remained visible. Its initials niently, both types of action are close enough are SSW: St. Louis Southwestern. that they can be enjoyed on a single outing. This railroad began as a narrow-gauge feed­ If you prefer nostalgia, you can find remnants er line built to bring Texas cotton to St. Louis. of the Cotton Belt across its former routes. In As lines branched out into the cotton fields of Mc eil, Ark., you can spot switchstands with Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Missouri, the Adlake locks stamped with SSW. In Dalhart, route was quickly dubbed the Cotton Belt, a Texas, a former Rock Island wedge snowplow name it retains today. still wears the SSW's emblem on its flanks. Acquired by SP in 1932 for its St. Louis con­ Above the doorways of freighthouses in Jack­ nection, the Cotton Belt became a 2,000-mile, sonville and Wa co, Texas, the company's name is independent child of its 14,000-mile parent. inlaid in brick, although the rails are long gone. Through the years SSW held its own, with 628 Eventually all this will disappear-in the miles of Centralized Tra ffic Control (CTC); two name of progress and in the form of Union Pa­ Alco PA- 1 s in the classic Daylight scheme; and cific's shield. Wi ll the identity of the SSW, a a stable of snazzy 4-8-4s built in its own shops. patch in SP's quilt, fade too? Stay tuned. SP

Pacific RAILNEWS-53 On May 12, 1998, four dirty SP six­ The Cans axle EMD locomo­ tives lead the east­ Text and Photography by Dave Burton bound loaded "cans" up through Marcel, in the cons will be icons. Disney has its mouse. one would go. This worked well because the Te hachapis. Yosemite has its half-dome. The South has nearest westbound train would be in its cotton-and Tehachapi has its cans. Te hachapi or farther east. IOil cans, that is. Occasionally the cans wouldn't run in the In 1983, Southern Pacific started running a afternoon. During tunnel work, they ran early unit oil train from Bakersfield, Calif., to the in the morningfor a short time. And in the late Long Beach area. Slowly but surely it became 1980s, three sets ran back and forth, making one of the most popular trains running over for sporadic viewing on the pass. the Tehachapi Mountains. Over the years, the This year the cans returned to afternoon "cans" would run in six sets of 11-l3 GATX departure, and this is how they will go out. tank cars each. You see, this modern icon will stop running I moved to the Te hachapis in 1989 and on the Tehachapis in the next few months. A within weeks fell into the habit of following the loadout is being built just south (railroad cans on my way home. [f I didn't see one, I'd east) of Mojave yard. A pipeline will trans­ figure something was wrong. It usually was. port the Kern River heavy crude over the You see, if either the loads or empties were mountains, where it will be loaded on tank held up it would affect the schedule for a day trains for the trip to the refinery. or two. With the rail replacement of 1989 go­ Somehow, this seems only fitting. With the ing on (SP replaced rail on the entire mountain merger of the two giants of the West, we all that year), the cans would get their call about know that Armour yellow diesels will soon be 4 p.m. and would be cutting in their helpers by on the point. So I say "Bravo!" to the Mojave the time I got there, about 5:15. After the stan­ loadout. Anyone who has spent the hours I dard six-unit set of six motor EMDs was have watching the cans would agree, "Those added, the cans would pull in line at Sandcut grimy tunnel-motors belong; they're part of with the hot Santa Fe 99 1 ahead at Bena. By the serpent!" 5:30, SP would open the window and every- Good-bye, oil cans. SP

54-November 1998 Look carefully at Deep In Enemy Te rritory these unusually clean locomotives backing through In­ Text and Photography by Michael W. Blaszak diana Harbor Beifs Blue Island Yard af­ iants fans in Chavez Ravine. American St. Louis main to SP on Nov. 8, 1989, along ter bringing SP Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) mem­ with trackage rights on Illinois Central into the train ASBIM north bers at a Christian Coalition conven­ big city. Southern Pacific agreed to buy Soo from East Louis St. Gtion. Dennis Rodman on Sesame Street. South­ Line's former Milwaukee Road Chicago-Kansas on Nov. 12, 1989. ern Pacific in Chicago. City line as well, but C&NW blocked the deal They mark the Some pairings just seem inappropriate. And by refusing to let SP use some jointly-owned dawn of a compa­ the last one was no less unexpected than the track out of K.C. Undaunted, SP secured track­ ny's unfulfilled hope. others, at least to long-term observers of the age rights over Burlington Northern's alternate railroad industry. Historically, SP was the stal­ route in August 1990. Very late in the carrier's wart of the southern gateways, the champion of existence, SP got trackage rights over the best New Orleans, Memphis, and East St. Louis­ route of all, Santa Fe's, as a condition of the the railroad that didn't know what snow was Burlington NorthernSanta Fe merger. unless it fell in the Sierra or Cascades. Chicago In an era of disappearing railroads, SP's en­ was where the enemies of the Golden Empire try into Chicago was a treat for train-watchers. gathered, the Union Pacific, Chicago & North Southern Pacific's trains wandered the city Western, and most of all, the Santa Fe. over a plethora of routes and served a variety But that was precisely why Phil Anschutz of yards, including three intermodal terminals. and his management made it their top priority At first traffic grew robustly, but then it dived to extend SP to Chicago after taking control of after Santa Fe took away SP's cornerstone the property in 1988. Chicago is the center of General Motors vehicles and parts traffic in the railroad universe. Anschutz correctly saw 1992. Over the next few years, SP fought back that SP had to be a player in Chicago, if it with more doublestack runs, and the famous wanted to keep playing at all. ore and coal trains operated in conjunction The Friendly's invasion was a pincers move­ with Wisconsin Central. In the end, though, ment, extending north from St. Louis and these valiant efforts were washed away by the northeast from Kansas City. The disintegrating same yellow tide that has eroded so many oth­ Chicago, Missouri & Western yielded its Joliet- er traditions of westernrailroading. SP

Pacific RAILNEWS.55 It's May 12, 1989, and Conductor The Friendly John "Boomer" Thompson is ready Text and Photography by Ted Benson to take Passenger Extra 4449 west out of Fresno, Calif. n 1969 there was a sign outside Southern to hate. "Don't get too close," the corporate Pacific's 16th Street station in Oakland, monolith seemed to say, "we'll only break your whose irony fi lled my collegiate heart with heart." And at the front of Oakland's 16th Iglee. Bold red letters surrounding SP's beloved Street, the destination of some memorable sunset herald proudly proclaimed Yo ur Friendly youthful train rides, Espee had the audacity to Railroad, a message IS years old and hopelessly claim it was still my friendly railroad! When out of date. Tw enty years old and wise beyond we fans called it The Friendly, venom dripped my years, I dutifully recorded the graven image from our tongues. We were one with Frank one March afternoon, snickering all the while. Norris and Hiram Johnson. The friendly SP? My friendly railroad? Te ll that to the In 1969, it was the fiendly SP. How close lawyers battling to rid SP of passenger service. could you get to an octopus? Tell that to the railroad cops who kept tossing One thing you can say about being 20 years me out of West Oakland Yard. Tell that to the old: with any kind of blessing and luck, you kid raised on GS4s, Black Widow F7s, and 20- get over it. Maturity starts seeping in around car Daylights, now coming of age with battle­ the edges. As your life experience grows, you ship gray SD45s, "garbage-mat" vending ma­ learn stuff. It wasn't long after leaving college chine diners, and a railroad that had turned that I starting learning a few things about into a "transportation company." friendliness and the Sp. Southern Pacific-in 1969-it was the rail­ No single moment brought an epiphany. road you hated to love; the railroad you loved Looking back, the hometown railroad was al-

58. November 1998 Car Inspector Joe Gomes renects on thefuture of SP's Peninsula service at San Francisco's Tbird and Townsend station in 1974. In a year, the 191 5-era depot would close, replaced by the fa­ cility now used by CalTrain at Fourth and To wnsend. ways pretty decent. The operators and ticket Remember that winter trip to Nevada in agents at Modesto, Calif., didn't have to put up 1974 and the afternoon you and Dick Dorn with the pesky kid who kept cajoling them out wound up with two flat tires chasing the Mina of timetables and infonnation while spending far Local on Walker Lake Road? Ta lk about more money on film than he did on rail fares. friendly railroaders! There was no reason for No one made Engineer Ed Tyner climb the local's crew to stop on flag and provide a down from the San Joaquin Daylight to greet ride to Thorne, where the agent served both of the skinny 11 year old at trackside one after­ you dinner while arranging repairs with the noon in 1960, introducing himself as a fellow Hawthorne Chevron station. Such hospitality Modestan and encouraging the kid to stay in deserved more than mere thanks. Don't you touch. Who could predict the impact Tyner's wish you'd asked for a name and address? tales would have two decades down the road? And when it came to friendly, don't forget Espee was a different railroad in 1963. The the dapper guy in the cowboy boots who wel­ Modesto motor freight office was a busy place comed you aboard his private car one after­ and resident historian Guy Dunscomb really noon in Modesto, doted over your pho­ didn't have time to talk trains with a budding tographs of a steam locomotive numbered If it does say so it­ 14-year-old railfan. But Guy did invite the boy 4449 and sent a thank-you note for the prints. self!-the sign and his father over to Dunscomb's home to Can you ever forget the words of praise in the look at locomotive photographs. And while letter signed Phil Anschutz? hanging next to the Dunscomb wasn't a diesel fan, he was quick to So snicker at The Friendly if you must, but front door of Oak­ encourage the kid's fledgling camera efforts. do so with the voice of gentle maturity. For ev­ land's 18th Street And what about all the SP employees en­ ery time you remember SP in the years to come, Station in 1989. countered in the years since, when photojour­ it will be your friendly rail- nalism became a way of life and railroading road-the SP of telegraphers the most seductive of avocations? like F. B. "Fido" Pietz at Men­ How could you sneer at The Friendly after dota, Calif., and H.W. Hand meeting Car Inspector Joe Gomes at San Fran­ at Beowawe, Nev.; Roseville cisco's legendary Third and Townsend station Dispatchers Bill Neill and YOUR in 1972 and receiving his blessing to photo­ Steve Gust; Trainmasters Lar­ graph at will? Who needed a permit letter? ry DuBose and Lloyd Nations; FRIEN DLY "He's alright," Gomes would tell inquisitive Locomotive Engineers Errol railroad policemen, "he's with me." Ohman and Jerry Williams; Will you ever forget Tracy, Calif., round­ Conductors John Thompson house Foreman Roger Bowman and the hours and Elmer White; Brakemen spent learning the intricacies of diesel power Bruce Corgi at and "Jivie" Jack in the days when Krauss-Maffei hydraulics Ross-the railroad of so many were parked outside the shop door? It was welcoming faces it's impossi­ Roger who broke the news that SP's "hydro" ble to list them all. experiment was over, months before 65 Mar­ One thing you can say ket Street went public. Sure, you lost a TRAINS about the friendly Southern byline with San Francisco's refusal to confirm Pacific: When you get that the early report, but you gained valuable expe­ close to an octopus, it's im­ rience in cultivating sources. possible to let go. SP

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Wisconsin Central power has been showing up regularly on Southern Pacific rails. A Wisconsin Central SD45 leads an SP train RVKC (Roseville-Kansas City) through Pando, Colo., on Aug. 15, 1998.

OPERATIONS equipment management, finance, human re­ sources, engineering, and mechanical depart­ A 'High-Class Problem' ments took part in a comprehensive exami­ New Book: (New Series) nation of WC's service, with attention fo­ In the nine years since Wisconsin Central as­ cused on customer needs, train schedules, .Ac"t ./.t�..t .AI/'Conrail's SD-40 and SD40-2's" by Gerard Bernet...... $19 .95 sumed operations over the former Soo blocking, connections, empty car move­ A 48 page all color look at these classic locomotives in Line/Lake States routes, carloadings have ments, yard and industry switching, goals, both roster and action photos. There are 66 views shown tripled and so have the number of trains, Be­ and measurement. Suggestions from this re­ Complete roster anc1 mechanical specifications are done sides operation of the Fox Valley & Western view had to consider the effects systemwide, in chart form, giving the diesel fa n a comprehensive and Algoma Central , WC has added metallic not just potential benefits to one terminal or look at the units. Rebuilding and leasing information ore, aggregates, coal, and intermodal business division. Most importantly, according to Tel'­ is also included. that was non-existent back in October 1987, bell, the changes had to be aimed at ensuring This explosive growth has created what Presi­ that WC will do a better job of meeting the Hard Cover Books: dent Ed Burkhardt calls a "high-class prob­ needs of its customers. We arc now handling total distribution of Tri-State lem." Despite efforts over the years to cope A number of issues merited special atten­ Railway Historical Society books: with this growth by adding personnel, trains, tion: speeding traffic flow between Stevens The Lackawanna Railroad in Northwest New Jersey track, and equipment, shipping schedules have Point and Shops Yard-North Fond Du Lac, by Lowenthal & Greenberg ...... $39.95 suffered, and car hire cost has increased. (Car Wis,; changing CSXT interchange in Chicago; (supply very low) hire cost is WC's second-highest operating ex­ reducing congestion at Neenah, Wis.; improv­ pense, behind wages.) Management decided it ing ore and intermodal train performance; was time for the most comprehensive look at improving connections between trains and Photographs ...... $2.50 each the system since its inception. with other railroads; and better use of end-of­ Our catalog lists over 5500 dilTerent steam, diesel, Edward Te rbell, WC's vice president and train devices. electric & trolley photos printed on 8x10 paper. general manager, and Earl Currie, vice presi­ As a result, a number of changes have been The catalog also lists books of other publishers, dent-planning, headed up a summer task made to WC's operating plan, Trains T050/ videos and misc. railroadiana. force that reviewed the railroad's overall ser­ 05 1 are now Norfolk Southern run-throughs Catalog.... $l.OO (free with order) vice and schedules. Representatives from the operating between Shops Yard and Macon, (new catalog each March) transportation, marketing, customer service, Ga. Motive power from both roads run ORDERING INFORMATION: through, and NS cars are preblocked for Orders under $25.00add $2.00 postage& handling New Jersey residents add 6% sales tax Chicago; Fort Wayne, Ind.; Chattanooga, Foriegn orders add 10% for shipping (minim lUll $4.00) NORT H AMERICAN RAILROADS Tenn.; and Macon, Ga. (allow up to 4 weeks for delivery) Photo CD-ROM Collection for Windows "The new service saves a day and it's tai­ Volume 1 - Midwestern Roads ...... $19.95 lored to meet the needs of the paper indus­ Dealer inquires invited. Volume 2 - The CNW .... $24.95 try," said Tim Kelly, WC's assistant vice presi­ Volume The Southern .... Dept. 205 3 - Pacific coming soon dent-transportation. The S nicknamed the P. O. Box 114 Add $3.00 S&H ($8.00 foreign). Send check or money order to: service "PACER," an acronym for Paper and Flanders, NJ 07836 B & B Products Company (612) 782-6982 1325 42nd Ave. NE - Columbia Heights, MN 55421 Clay Expedited Run-through, Norfolk South-

SO-November 1995 ern originates most of the kaolin clay used to make coated paper. Train TI42 now operates Tuesdays-Satur­ . �'- ��. - "'�- - . days as a through Green Bay to BRC Clearing '''-'1.��� � it!-- �.. - ! ,-�-. Yard train, replacing Shops Yard-BRC train r"o - .. \ ��.�I·_��� _ �.�l�� _ � , � T242 (BRC to Shops Ya rd train T243 contin­ Expert commentary! tells the story of today's railroading. All trains are shown ues to operate Wednesdays and Sundays). in their entirety and are identified by symbol and destination. All of these Trains T009/TO 1 0 now provide daily ser­ videotapes were shot in broadcast quality HiS and edited in Betacam SP. vice between Shops Yard and Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. Westbound T009 generally de­ parts Shops at 3 p.m. with a setout at Wau­ paca and a setout/pickup at Stevens Point, ar­ riving at Wisconsin Rapids around II p.m. Its counterpart, TO lO, leaves Wisconsin Rapids at 9 p.m., with a setout/pickup at Stevens Point, then sets out BRC cars at Neenah for T142 be­ fore terminating at Shops Yard around 4 a.m. As a result of the T009/TO IO schedule, times for the L022/L023 trains operating be­ tween Stevens Point and eenah have been ad­ justed for better eastward connections. The L022 now leaves Stevens Point at 1 a.m., an'iv­ NEW "Kansas City Southern - 1996" NEW "The Show Along U.S. 30" ing Neenah around 3 a.m., then flips for the With the acquisition of MidSouth, Kansas City Southern has The Union Pacific main line between Gibbon and O'Falions westbound run L023, departing Neenah around undergone tremendous growth in the past few years. This in Nebraska carries the most tonnage, if not the most freight tape shows operations on the two busiest KCS lines. First is Irains, of any rail line in the world. U.S. 30 runs right alongside 5 a.m., returning to Stevens Point at 7:30 a.m. 24 hrs. of action on the former MidSouth between Meridian this line, which was featured in the November 1995 Tra ins In the September column, we mentioned and Jackson, Mississippi, then 24 hrs. of action on the origi­ magazine. Baseball refers to its major leagues as "The that WC was looking into moving its CSX in­ nal KCS in the Ozark Mountains, south of Neosho, Missouri, Show." The awesome action along U.S. 30 is "The Show" for where pushers are needed on heavy trains. Rebuilt GPs and railfans. DPU trains, new ACs-they're all here. This tape cov­ terchange to Belt Railway's Clearing Yard, as a SDs in both KCS color schemes were running around when ers 25 hrs. of action east of North Platte in May 1996-an result of an arbitration ruling in favor of the these scenes were i 1996. 67 min. $25.95 incredible 130 trains. set. 4 , 6 min. $45.95 Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal's switch­ ing and car charges. Plans were under way to NEW "Austell, Georgia - NS Hot Spot" NEW "Cartersville, GA - CSX Hot Spot" start a third train to Clearing Yard, handling With over 55 trains in 24 hrs. on peak days, the 14 miles Cartersville, 50 miles north of Atlanta, is where the CSX mainly CSX interchange, with this train possi­ between Austell and Atlanta is the busiest line on the lines from Nashville and Cincinnati to Atlanta join together. whole NS system. At Austell, the NS lines to Chattanooga This singlet rack funnel is one of CSX's busiest and most bly using the new connection at Franklin Park, and Birmingham divide. We caught 24 hrs. of awesome congested lines. This videotape shows 24 hrs. of action III., then running east on Metra's Milwaukee action there in April 1996. 2 hrs., 39 min. $33.95 around Cartersville in April 1996. 112 min. $29.95 We st commuter line to the BRC connection at Cragin. This was to begin sometime after Aug. "UP-SP Paired Track in Palisade Canyon" "Union Pacific on Cima Hill" 4, but those plans have been shelved for the This new tape shows 24 hrs. of action on the well-known See 30 hrs. of action on the UP's toughest grade-Cima time being, as CSXT did not favor conducting UP-SP paired track operation in Nevada in scenic Hill, 80 miles south of Las Vegas, Nevada, on its busy line Palisade Canyon, 30 miles west of Elko, in October to Los Angeles in October 1995. 90 min. $27.95 interchange through the Belt, and is reportedly 1995. 65 min. $25.95 "SP Around Klamath Falls" renegotiating terms of the B&OCT agreement "Southern Pacific on Steins Pass" This tape shows over 30 hrs. of action on SP's 1-5 Corridor with the We. This means that trains T044/045 This tape shows 24 hrs. of action on SP's Sunset Route between Dunsmuir and Kirk, north of Klamath Falls, continue to operate between Shops Ya rd and on Steins Pass, 140 miles east of Tucson in October Oregon, in October 1995. Heavy trains grind up grades 1995. Heavy stack trains grind up 1.4 percent grades and CSXT's Barr Ya rd in Riverdale, III., in Chica­ around Mt. Shasta and blast across the Oregon Plateau. then blast across the desert at 65 mph. 89 min. $27.95 We also caught a few BN trains. 67 min. 525.95. go's south suburbs. Meanwhile, increased traf­ fic from CSX Intermodal's Bedford Park, JII., "Mojave Desert Thunder" "The Trains of Tehachapi" The Santa Fe's Needles Subdivision hosts the fastest This videotape won't show you all the scenic highlights of facility to central Wisconsin has caused WC's freights in the United States, and nowhere do they run Te hachapi, but it will show you the incredible number of Stevens Point ramp to go to a seven-day-a­ them any faster than on the relatively flat track around Santa Fe and SP trains that ran over Te hachapi in a 24- week operation as of Aug. 17. Amboy, California. This tape shows 24 hrs. of incredible hr. period in October 1995. Many classic views are action on the Santa Fe main line between Siberia and shown, including trains shot at Caliente and the Loop. Cadiz in October 1995. 82 min. 527.95. 118 min. $29.95 SHORT ITEMS "Wisconsin Central 1995" "SF-NS Joint Track East of K.C." This tape shows traffic and operations at different points Thirty miles east of Kansas City, Santa Fe and Norfolk Abandoning Old Athens around the dynamic Wisconsin Central, concluding with Southern share their track for a distance of 30 miles. This joint 24 hrs. of action on Byron Hill, south of Fond Du Lac in track is the busiest part of SF's high-speed steel freeway June 1995, when newly acquired Santa Fe SD45s and between Chicago and Kansas City. This tape shows 25 hrs. On Aug. 12, WC sought permission from the F45s and SP's new AC4400s were running around the of action on the joint track in October 1995. 128 min. $31 .95. Surface Transportation Board to abandon WC. 80 min. $27.95. 0.64 miles of the Old Athens Line, which ex­ "Stacks on the Middle Division" "Conrail & NS at Silver Creek" tends from the Medford Sub at Abbotsford In September 1995, a 5100mm clearance project was Silver Creek, New Yo rk, 30 miles west of Buffalo, is one of completed on the former Pennsylvania Railroad Middle the best known raiitan hot spots in the East. Conrail's to Athens, Wis ....The railroad participated Division and double stacks and auto began to flow over Chicago line and Norfolk Southern's line to Bellevue run recently in a high/wide, high value move. that line, now known as Conrail's Pittsburgh Line. This tape side by side through there. CR runs the heaviest manifest Four large generators valued at $40 million shows 24 hrs. of action along the scenic Juniata River and longest intermodal trains in the world. This tape around Newport in central Pennsylvania, 30 miles west of shows 24 hrs. of incredible action at Silver Creek in were transported for Westinghouse from Harrisburg, two weeks later. 80 min. $27.95 September 1995. 2 hrs., 16 minutes. $33.95 Laura Point, Fla., to Kewaunee, Wis. Wis­ Big "E" Productions has 50 videos covering contemporary railroad operations in the consin Central received the train, consisting United States and Canada. Write or call for details. of a CSXT locomotive, four heavy-duty flats, fo ur idler cars, and a caboose from the Union Pacific June 27 at Cleveland, Wis. The Big "E" Productions train took nine hours to move over the Lake Shore, Fox River, and Kewaunee Subs. A P. O. Box 75 short time later, trackage between Denmark and Maribel on the Lake Shore Sub, retained Greenland, NH 03840 800-832-1228 24 hrs. solely for this move, was lifted. a day. Th anks to P.f. Gratz, Art Schillel; THE JOUR­ Visa, MasterCard, Discover Card, check, or MO. 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LOCOMOTIVES More S070s Coming

Illinois Central is expected to purchase 20 ad­ ditional SD70 locomotives from Electro-Mo­ tive Division. If it does, it would dispel the no­ tion that IC was unhappy with its first $26 million, 20-unit order of the 4,000 h.p. diesels, delivered in 1995. If all goes ahead, the new units will probably be delivered in October 1997, and numbered 1020-1039. The SD70s have primarily operated on reg­ ular manifest freights, unit coal trains, and unit grain trains. The SD70s have also occa­ sionally operated on way freights. In early September, a first Chicago Cen­ tral & Pacific locomotive met up with black paint in the spray booth at IC's Woodcrest Shops in East Hazel Crest, III. Paducah-re­ built CC&P GP10 1744 thus became IC 8400. The unit wears the traditional IC black-and-white scheme. One minor variation on unit 8400 is the addition of initials CCP below Illinois Central on the cab sides to de­ Bill Lang note the subsidiary's ownership. Some of illinois Central's newest power leads a southbound GLNO (Glenn Yard/Chicago-New Or­ INTERMODAL leans) freight as it passes pontoon trallic at Manchac, La., on Aug. 24, 1998. IC/BNSF Intermodal Pact

OPERATIONS padlocked once and for all. Thus ended more The IC has signed an agreement with than a century of local operator control on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe to haul inter­ Local Control Quietly Ends Illinois Central. modal units between Memphis and Mobile, Transfer was immediately assumed by the Ala. This joint service, which began Aug. 26, As the second trick operator finished his shift dispatcher at Desk No. 2 at the Homewood expands offerings to area shippers in Califor­ at 11 p.m. on Sept. 4-the last "On Sheet" Operations Control Center. The Homewood nia, the Pacific Northwest, and the Midwest. recorded-the doors to Gilman Depot were plant is undergoing changes as signal work The shipments are interchanged between IC progresses. With the need to complete the and BNSF at Memphis. This has suddenly project as quickly as possible, much of the in­ made Ie's intermodal schedules quite com­ terlocking equipment remains connected in­ plex. New train 113 (Memphis-New Orleans) side the depot. Eventually, the interlocking replaces "extra " train S 103 and departs will be controlled by more modern equip­ Memphis at 5 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays, haul­ !! !T-SHIRTS ment installed in the cluster of aluminum ing BNSF/Mobile pigs. On the off-day, train shanties that have appeared nearby. Most of 123 replaces the XJANO, which moves be­ southe the signal bridges to the north of the crossing tween Jackson, Miss., and New Orleans. rnpa i will be removed, replaced by mast-mounted Train 104 picks up the northbound B SF cfic color-light signals. traffic to Memphis six days a week. The As reported before in this column, the once-a-week 114 (previously X104) is substi­ Gilman District, once part of the main line to tuted on day seven. Between Jackson and Mo­ St. Louis, later reduced to little more than a bile, trains 109 and 110 are resurrected (they secondary route, today is again a major traffic were buried in June) to handle the increased funnel for IC. Traffic levels are many times intermodal traffic. what they were only 10 years ago, due in part Thanks to Chris Balducci, Danny johnson, to rerouting of intermodal trains 1051106 over Mark S. Lambert, Dick Stephenson, Sean the district. Consequently, maintenance-of-way Graham-White, and MISSISSIPPI RAIL NEWS. crews have been busy upgrading the line for track speeds of up to 60 mph. Erik Coleman T- SHIRTS $11 .95 Child's T's $9.95 Add $1.00 for XXL sizes FIRST-CLASS RAILROAD PINS™ J ..BAR RAIL BOUTIQUE 910 N. Salem SI. · Rockton, lL 61072 Send S.A.S.E. GLACIER fo r our catalog 815-636-1782 FAX 815-636-1784 NATIONAL • PARK Add $5.00 S&H • Allow 2-4 weeks delivery. Dealer inquires invited Izaak Walton Inn VISA Ask us about our Essex MT many other designs "",I, 59916 ��"-�< Ie I [,1· ,.] (406) 888-5700 62.November 1996 Order all three tapes - SP 's Central CaliforniaMa inline, SP 's Geeps and Cadillacs, and Daylight 4449's Oregon Jo urney - and get all three fo r the sp ecial price of $59.951 Sp ecify Order Code #SPSPEC RAIL NEWS Burlington Northern Santa Fe

others were seen on BN intelll10dal consists and the Duluth-Granite City, III., taconite trains. One of the DASH 9s-986-took an extended tour of the Santa Fe during September, operat­ ing to Long Beach, Calif. , on stack train S­ KCLB and later to Phoenix on train 197, always as a trailing unit in the consist. What happened to the four units missing from this sequence? The BNSF reportedly re­ jected locomotives 970, 973, 975, and 976 be­ cause their paint wasn't adhering to the metal. General Electric sent 973 to Conrail's Altoona, Pa., locomotive shop and 975 and 976 to Mid­ America Car in Kansas City during mid­ September for stripping and repainting. The paint problem may have slowed deliveries in mid-month, as no new units emerged for a week before 997-10 00 made their appearance. Orange-and-green BN GP38-2 2099, re­ ported as repainted in our last column, depart­ ed Kansas City on BN train 01-023-07 Sept. 7. It was expected at Lake Yard in Portland on Sept. 13, where it will be assigned to testing of the Positive Train Separation system. A second Joe Blackwell unit to be used in PTS testing was also expect­ ed to be repainted orange and green. AHer weaving through a traffic jam at Academy, Colo., Burlington Northern SD70MAC 9474 and Burlington Northern SW1 500 43 was dam­ an empty coal train top the grade at Palmer Lake, Colo., on the evening Aug. 5, 1998. aged in a collision on the Port Te rminal Rail­ 01 road Association in Houston and moved to the OmniTRAX locomotive shop in Wichita, LOCOMOTIVES Electric's Erie, Pa., plant during the first three Kan., for repairs Sept. 4. weeks of September. By Sept. 20, when units The BN moved E units 3 and 9920, togeth­ The Paint Still Won't Stick 997-10 00 were idling at BN's Clyde locomotive er with SW 1 200 235 and GE (former Santa shop near Chicago, a total of 36 new locomo­ Fe) C30-7s 81 14 and 8147, from the West New DASH 9-44CW locomotives in the tives were on the property. The majority of these Burlington, Iowa, locomotive shop to Gales­ Burlington Northel11 Santa Fe orange-and-green were hauling grain trains between Havre, Mont., burg, III., for storage Sept. 5. paint scheme continued to roll out of General and Superiot; Wis., on the orthern Lines, but ot often seen in Kansas are Montana Rail Link units, but SD45s 378 and 363 were on the point of a G-SUFR 1-06 grain train that - originated on BN for Fresno, Calif., and oper­ ated via the Superior, Neb. gateway. Opera­ tions over this BN-Santa Fe route need some fine tuning, however. When the train arrived in ewton, Kan., Santa Fe didn't fi ll the fuel RAILROAD JOBS tanks. As a result, the train later ran out of fu­ el at Canadian, Texas. A complete guide to high-paying entry­ level positions with over major U.S. 75 FREIGHT SERVICE Why not become a part of it-join our railroads. America's best-I{ept secret. members who are actively involved in Start your railroad career today_ Twin Cities-California Inter modal railroad history-read our acclaimed journal The latest On Sept. 19, BNSF announced it would initi­ RAILROAD HISTORY. GUIDE TO FREIGHT AND issue covers the Great Northern on the o ate new intermodal service between the Tw in Mesabi Range, the Delaware Valley PASSENGER RAILROADS $19.95 Cities and major Santa Fe markets in Califor­ Railroad, Lebanon-Thornton Traction nia and Arizona, effective Sept. 30. Westel11 destinations include Los Angeles; Co., and Ft. Smith Western Railway ______& Name Richmond (San Francisco Bay area); Modesto; with roster. Our quarterly newsletter Fresno; San Bernardino; and Phoenix, and (by Address______includes short subjects and news truck) San Diego and Sacramento. Blocks of items. Our chapters have informative City____ State __ Zip _ ___ Tw in Cities traffic will move on BN trains be­ newsletters too! Join now! tween St. Paul, Minn., and Galesburg, !II., and Please send Check or Money Order to: on Santa Fe trains west of Galesburg. Sched­ Send for fo lder to: ules had not been released by press time, but Railway Locomotive Historical Society we expect the Twin Cities block will be & Box 193552HH EI TX switched at Clovis to and from other trains P.O. P. O. BoxRAILROAD 13607, Paso JOBS, 7991 3 serving the western markets. The result will be San FranCiSCO, CA 941 19 (Texas residents: Please add 8.25% sales tax.) five-day service in each direction.

G4·November 1998 Also effective Sept. 30, BNSF will offer in­ bois) and follow with two three-letter origin way to Chicago via La Junta, Colo., on Aug. termodal service between Alliance and Hous­ and destination symbols. For example, BN 22, on a five-car extra symboled 8-99 1-21 be­ ton, Texas, and the Pacific Northwest via train 142 becomes H-NTWGALl (high priori­ hind SD75M 235 and GP50 3819. Because Kansas City. Tr affic will be carried on Santa Fe ty manifest, Northtown, Minn.-Galesburg, Ill., the GP50 isn't an A List unit, we surmise it trains between Houston, Alliance, and Kansas first section). Understandably, dispatchers and was shut down the entire trip, and 235 did all City, and BN trains west of there. It will take crews have been slow to use these tongue­ the pulling over Glorieta and Raton Pass. Ye s, six days to move a trailer to or from Alliance twisting symbols in radio conversations. the loads arrived in Chicago on time. and seven days to or from Houston. Special trains for chemicals are more un­ Several changes will be made at Kansas TRAFFIC usual, but Santa Fe operated one to keep Vista City to accommodate the new traffic pattern. Chemical at Oklahoma City from shutting New trains 8 and 9 will be expedited between Missing the Train down. Seven critical carloads of polyvinyl K.C. and Portland and operate via Nebraska. chloride, delayed in Houston, moved from Trains 20 and 21 will be stack trains, with 20 What happens when four hot United Parcel Temple, Texas, to Oklahoma City behind running between Seattle and Birmingham. Service loads out of Albuquerque, N.M., miss GP35 2886 Sept. 6 as train U-TEOKI -06. Tr ain 21 will originate at Springfield bound their connection with the 9-99 1-21 train at Be­ We didn't receive all the details on Boeing's for Seattle. Trains 23 and 26 will be United len? Well, you can't just tell UPS the trailers 737-700 fuselage rollout at Wichita in time for Parcel Service trains between Birmingham and will be late. Instead, Santa Fe ran them all the last month's column; here are a few more. Boe- Denver, via Kansas. With this change, BN will discontinue haulage intermodal service between Kansas City and Dallas via Kansas City Southern. The Trinity Connection at Saginaw, Texas, entered regular service Sept. 1, when Al­ liance-Richmond trains Q-ALRI1 and Q-RI­ 6 AL 1 shifted from UP's Baird Subdivision to B 's Amarillo-Fort Worth line using the new link. Because the Q-ALRIl does not originate on Monday, the Q-ALLA1 uses the BN route that day. One eastbound intermodal train op­ erates via BN on the days when Q-RIAL1 doesn't run. Apparently the BN route current­ ly doesn't have enough capacity or crews to accept more than one Santa Fe train per day. This event marked the first operation of BN crews into Alliance; Santa Fe pilots were called to guide them in or out. At Amarillo, trains use the so-called Million Dollar Con­ nection between BN and Santa Fe that was in­ stalled many years ago to facilitate movement of Rock Island run-throughs onto and off of Santa Fe rails. On Aug. 25, and again on Sept. 3, loaded coal trains bound for Houston Light & Pow­ er's Smithers Lake, Te xas, generating plant op­ Conrail Color Calendar erated via Santa Fe Amarillo-Temple instead of their usual route via BN Amarillo-Tower 55, Fort Worth, and Santa Fe from there to 1997 1997 Te mple. The diverted trains were symboled C­ AMSX on Santa Fe rather than the usual C­ ..-.. ,or,,:{::�'" FWSX. Whether this rerouting will become SP permanent is being evaluated. 4" _" _ : ... During August, BN and Santa Fe began op­ erating coal trains from York Canyon, N.M., ---Mt:MIII On.£.u�O�s � cMi!\o:n..B.JblicaJ1o.n� to a generating station at Louisville, Neb. 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PaCific RAILNEWS-S5 ing was very particular about the placement of transfer to the UP route when UP begins direc­ rail equipment fo r the Aug. 24 rollout ceremo­ tional operation of these two lines. ny, forcing Santa Fe to leave workaday DASH Kerr-/-loListon: BNSF will take over SP's role 8-40CW 935 at Mulvane and operate spit­ as the Georgetown Railroad's alternate connec­ shined SD75M 825 1 backwards from Mulvane tion For aggregate shipments. Crews will be SIX NEW CALENDARS to Connell siding near Wichita so it would be based at Kerr, Texas, and trains will operate as FOR 1997 pointed the right way in the plant. As one San­ needed, similar to SP's operations prior to the ta Fe official remarked, "When Boeing ships a UP merger. Anticipated start-up was Sept. 13 CANADIAN $20 million load, they call the shots." "or as soon thereafter as feasible." TRAINS Algoma Central, the The first fuselage arrived in Wa shington Te mple-Eagle Pass: Santa Fe wi ll begin pro­ Rockies, a 4-4-4 State Aug. 29, but since Boeing didn't want it viding it own crews for as-needed trains to the "Jubilee", CN's Supercontinental, CPR until Sept. 3, it spent Labor Day weekend sit­ Mexican border at Eagle Pass about Oct. I. As­ F-M Train Masters, BC ting on its special flatcars in front of the Balmer needed coal train service will also be provided Rail Dash 8 40CMs, and more. Ya rd office. Local 53862, the Maltby turn, to the San Antonio City Public Service power shoved the flatcar into Boeing's Renton, plant at Elmendorf and the Lower Colorado Wash., plant on the appointed day. River Authority power plant at Halstead, After the ceremony, it was business as usu­ Texas. Crews will be based at Eagle Pass A Jordan Spreader, GE C44-9Ws, FP7s on al. The second 737-700 fu selage made its (where a Santa Fe yard engine assignment will the San Joaquin maiden voyage down the rails Aug. 26, behind be established) and at Temple, with San Anto­ Dalylight, a cab­ forward, "Black Widow" venerable Santa Fe GP7 2237 from Wichita- nio serving as an away-From-home terminal. SD9s, an Mt 4-8-2, ewton. /-louston-Eagle Pass: Tehachapi, SD70Ms, Santa Fe is building a and more. connection in the southwest quadrant of the UP MERGER crossing with UP (formerly Katy) at Sealy, Texas, to permit trains to operate through Idaho Northern, a Trackage Rights Operations from Houston to Sealy to San Antonio. Once 4-8-4, a DD35A, a Big Boy, the City of Los that is done, about Nov. 15, Santa Fe will pro­ Angeles, the Columbia Additional information concerning BNSF's vide as-needed service over this route. River Gorge, a 2-8-2 and "Challenger" plans to implement its huge trackage rights /-louston-Robstown: One train per day in double-header and deal with UP continued to trickle out during each direction will be established between Hous­ August and September, in advance of the pub­ ton and the Texas Mexican interchange at Rob­ lic operating plan, which is to be filed with the stown, Texas (230 miles). The home terminal Surface Tra nsportation Board Oct. 1. will be Robstown, although crews will be able to In an Aug. 16 letter to Brotherhood of Lo­ pick up and deliver trains at Corpus Christi if re­ comotive Engineers officials, BNSF gave the quired. Anticipated start-up is Oct. I. union formal notice of its crew assignment Te mple//-louston-New Orleans: One train plans, as fo llows: per day in each direction will operate between /-louston-East St. Louis: One train per day in Temple, Texas, and Avondale, La ., via Santa each direction at start-up, scheduled for Oct. 8. Fe's Conroe Subdivision and Beaumont, Texas. PASSING The initial tTain is likely to be BN 177 and 178, Daily through trains also will run between TRAINS which will be shifted from its current B route Houston and Avondale. Local service will be Rio Grande K-36, Utah Railway SD40s, a via Fort Worth. Both trains initially will operate provided between Houston and Dayton, Texas, Shay, Montana Rail over the SP-Cotton Belt route. Home terminals and between Beaumont and Lake Charles, La. Link, U.P. 3985, BN, Sante Fe DASH will be established at IlImo, Mo., Pine Bluff, Home terminals will be Beaumont (for the 8-40CWs, East Broad Top, LTV F9s, plus Ark., and Houston, with away-from- home ter­ Temple trains) and Avondale, with an away­ more. minals at East St. Louis, III., Shreveport, La., from-home terminal at Lafayette, La. Two yard and Jonesboro, Ark. The northbound train will engine assignments will be established at SEASONS Avondale Ya rd. Anticipated start-up is Jan. I. OF STEAM A BR Standard 4-6-0, Stockton-Biebel; Calif : Burlington Northern Repton, Bradley Santa Fe expects to operate one manifest train Manor, a Fairburn 2-6-4T, a Black Five, SP&S CABOOSES per day over the Inside Gateway route, with an A3 Pacific, crews changing at Keddie, Calif. (the home ter­ double-headed History ­ "Castles', a Maunsell - A minal will be established at nearby Quincy). S 5, plus more. t By Paul T. Hobbs Later, some trains may operate between Kla­ math Falls, Ore., and Portola, Calif., via Bieber A comprehensive history of the SP&S caboose Calendars fold out to 18"x1 2" and Keddie. This service is expected to start fleet from 1908-1970 written for both the histor· Jan. I. ew local freight trains will be estab­ AVAILABLE NOW AT ian and llIodeler. COlllprehensive historical text, lished between Richmond and Warm Springs, (incl. $9,95 U.S. / $1 1 .95 Cdn. 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NAME ______Ready November 15th. Late in 1996, BNSF expects traffic to build to a level supporting daily trains, but UP will ADDRESS ______Order Before Christmas: $25.00 continue providing crews for these trains until • CITY ______about September 1997, when BNSF will estab­ OUler GNP Xmas Book Specials: Montana's lish its own Denver-Salt Lake City service. STATE/PROV ______Marias Pass: Early GN Mileposts and BNSF Home terminals will be established at Denver P.C.IZIP______Guide ($24.95): $24.00 * BN: Coal Hauler and and Salt Lake City, with the away-from-home Coal Country Guide ($29.95): $26.00 terminal at Grand Junction, Colo. The absence TOTAL REMITIED: U.SJCAN. S ______of any mention of a Nevada away-From-home All prices include 4U1 Class P&H terminal infers that BNSF doesn't plan to oper­ Send to: Dealer lnquilies Welcome ate its own trains between Salt Lake City and STEAMSCENES Portola, Calif. BOX 8014-8, BLAINE, WA 98230 Great Not1hem Pacific l'ublications Starting in September, UP began handling 4, Box 627A, BOIUJers Ferry, lD 83805 2254 LAWSON AVE. Rt. BNSF "bare table" trains, repositioning emp­ W. VANCOUVER, B.C. V7V 2E4 (208) 267 -3054 ty intermodal equipment from the Pacific

66-November 1996 Northwest to California over the Inside merger on construction: it wants seven highway Gateway route. These trains had previously underpasses costing an estimated $121 million. been routed over SP. Use of this route has Up on the pass, BN was forced to relocate a been a headache for BN, as train length on planned wye track at Lester when it was discov­ the Oregon Trunk (Wishram, Wash.-Che­ ered the original alignment would have dis­ mult, Ore.) is limi ted to 5,000 feet and ca­ turbed some almost-forgotten graves. The town booses are req u ired. itself is almost forgotten, too. During the 1960s, Tacoma Public Utilities began buying and bum­ LINE SALES ing down structures in an effort to protect the Palouse Lines Sold city's watershed from development and pollu­ tion. One resident, though, stubbornly remains: 93-year-old former Lester schoolteacher Burlington Northern completed two line sales Gertrude Murphy, who said she is looking for­ of Washington State branches Sept. 6. The ward to the return of the trains. branch from Marshall to Palouse, Wash., and connecting lines to Bovill and Mos cow, Idaho, SHORT ITEMS along with the Cheney-Coulee City, Wash., branch, were sold to Palouse River & Coulee Electronic Air Brake Te sting City Railroad, a new subsidiary of Dick We bb's Watco operation. Wa tco also operates After about a year of testing electronic air the former-UP Blue Mountain and Eastern Ida­ brakes (EABS) on intermodal consists, BNSF is ho railroads in the area. Meanwhile, the WO pleased that wheel wear appears to have de­ Subdivision from Wenatchee to Oroville, clined. Comparing a trainset of 35 stack cars Wash., was conveyed to Cascade & Columbia equipped with EABS with an identical trainset

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Pacific RAILNEWS-71 COMMENTARY

The Last Word • • • With Ed Ripley

picked up a friendly new connection at K.C.: South­ ern Pacific (Cotton Belt, technically). The second time the Missouri Derby was run, the The Missouri sponsor didn't call off the race, but another fatal prob­ lem kept the prize from being awarded. Soo Line, which had acquired the remains of the Milwaukee Road in a debt-laden 1985 buyout, decided four years later that the Kansas City extension was an economic Derby burden it could no longer carry. During the general malaise that afflicted the Soo in its post-Milwaukee years, traffic on the K.c. line sagged from 171,275 car­ loads in 1984 to 141,321 carloads in 1988. Out came the "for sale" signs as the line went back on the market. The winner was SKCC Acquisition Corp., a new subsidiary of the friendly SP, whose new ownel; Phil Anschutz, had made Chicago access a major corpo­ rate goa\. The corporation lined up $86 million in fi­ nancing from Japanese banks and laid plans to spend $50 million more to make the property a 60-mph line for intermodal service. Ignoring opposition from Chicago & North Western, Chicago Central & Pacif­ ic, and Kansas City Southern, the Interstate Com­ merce Commission (lCC) decided in July 1990 that this deal met the necessary public interest standard. What Soo and SP weren't counting on, though, was North Western's determination to block the deal. From Airline junction, northeast of Kansas City, to Po­ lo, Mo., C&NW and Soo shared ownership of a dou­ bletrack main line. North Western persuaded an arbi­ trator to rule that Soo couldn't allow SP to use the C&NW trackage included in this joint facility without C&NW's permission-particularly since Soo planned to run two daily trains of its own in each direction over the line pursuant to trackage rights it would re­ Dean Sauvola tain. Rather than fight this adverse result, SP knocked on Burlington Northern's door and negotiated Chica­ A westbound CP Rail mixed freight negotiates the Mississippi River causeway at Savanna, III. go-K.C. trackage rights over B instead, leaving Soo without its money and with a considerably underuti­ lized asset. A few years latel; when North We stern dis­ ere they come, spinning out of the turn: 15 appeared into UP, successor Canadian Pacific persuad­ iron horses, famous contenders like Conrail ed the ICC to change the joint facility agreement by and nags so obscure we can't see their names, permitting CP to sell its interest in the Airline junc­ his is at Hraising great clouds of dust as they race toward the tion-Polo segment without UP's approval. finish line at the Missouri River. The prize in Canadi­ If this narrative has left the impression that this an Pacific's Missouri Derby: ownership of the rail­ Chicago-Kansas City line is sort of a booby prize, least the road's Chicago-Kansas City line, along with-per­ that's a reasonable inference. From Chicago Union haps-its secondary lines in northern Iowa and Station to Kansas City Union Station the route mea­ Tthird running southern Minnesota and branches connecting with sures over 500 miles. That's a good 50 miles longer the K.C. main. than the Santa Fe and 35 miles longer than BN. This is at least the third running of the Missouri While the line is shorter than any of the Chicago­ of the Missouri Derby, unique among iron horse races in that it has K.C. routes UP owns, the Big Ye llow Railroad has had different sponsors and outcomes. Back in 1979, trackage rights over both the Santa Fe and BN lines Derby, unique when the bankrupt Milwaukee Road was studying thanks to its acquisition of SP. And these alternate how it could cut back to profitability, its managers routes are considerably faster than the poke-along 40 decided to put all of its lines serving Iowa and Mis­ and 50 mph maximum speeds allowed on the old among iron souri on the block as part of a plan to slim down to a Milwaukee. It's not inaccurate to suggest that Santa 1,700-mile north-south route between Duluth, Fe could run a train round trip between Chicago and horse races Minn., and Louisville, Ky. They eventually thought Kansas City in the time it would take a Milwaukee, better of it, though, and decided to retain the Chica­ Soo, or CP train to go one way. go-Kansas City line and the so-called Corn Lines run­ ning west from Marquette, Iowa, in the core Milwau­ THE FORMER MILWAUKEE ROUTE doesn't offer much in kee I [ system. It was a good decision, Milwaukee of­ the way of on-line traffic, either. [n Illinois, it parts ficials reported later, because by staying in Kansas fields of corn and soybeans that are usually trucked to City the railroad kept most of the east-west inter­ nearby processing plants located, of course, on other change traffic with Union Pacific it expected to lose railroads. The janesville branch taps General Motors' after pulling out of Omaha. In addition, because of truck assembly plant, but the North Western-now disintegration of the Rock Island, the Milwaukee UP-has had the bulk of GM's rail traffic locked up ["or

72-November 1996 years. A little business is generated in the Quad audibly threatening to pull its traffic off KCS's Cities, but manufacturing there is just a shadow Dallas-Atlanta intermodal trains because they of the activity of a quarter-century ago. Through haven't been running on time. How to divert southern Iowa and northern Missouri, the line observers' attention from these problems? Ex­ passes some of the region's less-fertile falll11and pand the system, of course. and dozens of tiny towns that generate negligi­ Kansas City Southern may have concluded ble amounts of tonnage. The biggest attraction is that it simply has to get to Chicago, which re­ the power plant at Fruitland, which terminates mains the most important railroad center on unit trains of western low-sulfur coal. the planet. The company is the only railroad After CP assumed full control of the Soo, system larger than Guilford or Florida East its management weaved and wobbled over the Coast that doesn't enter Chicago. The railroad future of the Kansas City line. Strategically, has haulage arrangements to the Second City, the route fit into CP's grand plan of the early but that's not the same. With Chicago access 1990s to build a presence in the United States would come a direct link to Conrail, allowing for cross-border traffic. Financially, though, KCS to extend its haul on northbound chemi­ the property continued to be a marginal con­ cal shipments and make more money on them. tributor to CP's bottom line. A big obstacle It also could make productive use of the Corn was the absence of friendly connections at Lines, as its route provides an outlet to Gulf K.C. After SP joined UP, B , and Santa Fe in ports and Mexico. Chicago, the only railroad offering an end-to­ Wisconsin Central: Ore and coal business end link-up at Kansas City was KCS, with might be WC's main motivations for bidding which CP had few synergies. on the Kansas City line. With SP now swal­ In that respect, CP's April 1996 announce­ lowed by UP, it's only a matter of time before ment that it intended "to explore opportunities UP tries to cut WC out of the Geneva Steel ore fo r selling or sharing the assets of our Chicago haul from Minnesota to Utah. Extending to to Kansas City line" was hardly a surprise. The K.C. could improve WC's chances for retain­ premise is that this corridor, with or without ing this movement when it comes up for bid the Corn Lines and branches, is worth more to the next time, although the resulting Duluth­ someone else than it is to CP, even if CP re­ K.C. route would leave WC at a severe tains trackage or haulage rights to protect its mileage disadvantage to either UP or BNSF. current traffic, which it plans to do. The sur­ Wisconsin Central might also be aiming to prise is that so many contestants seem con­ extend its haul on originated paper movements vinced that the line is valuable, in view of its to western destinations, which it now inter­ checkered past and limited prospects. But changes to UP and BNSF in Chicago or the then, UP and BNSF so thoroughly control rail Twin Cities. routes in the West these days that other play­ Illinois Central: Having just re-entered Iowa ers are forced to look carefully at any trackage with its CC&P purchase, IC may consider the that goes on the market. Corn Lines the key. With a connection to CC&P's main line at Dubuque, the Com Lines LET'S LOOK up and down the starting gates to could become another feeder to IC's railroad, consider what winning the Missouri Derby which is an alternative to Mississippi River might mean to each competitor: barges for southbound grain. Whether IC would Conrail: Big Blue's brief heyday as a pri­ be seriously interested in the Kansas City line is vately-held company is ending, and manage­ more doubtful. Being in K.C. would blur lC's fo­ ment knows it. The way the transcontinental cus on Omaha-Council Bluffs as its preferred merger pairings are shaping up, Conrail fig­ western gateway. ures to be the East's odd man out, which Canadian National: This railroad is rarely means that it would be either split between UP considered as an entry in this derby, but why and BNSF or slowly destroyed as the transcon­ not? Canadian National is far stronger in east­ tinentals move interchanges of through traffic ern Canada than CP, and may be able to ex­ fa rther and farther east. tend its control of more To ronto-Chicago busi­ That's why, in my estimation, Conrail ness if it goes to Kansas City. fo ught so tenaciously to expand to Texas in the Short Lines: It's hard to imagine how a -Bill Christopher UP-SP merger case. Access to the chemical shortline operator could expect to prevail in plants along the Gulf Coast would have al­ bidding against these relatively large railroads lowed Conrail to grab both ends' chemical traf­ for the Chicago- K.C. line. As we've seen, this rides along with fic, giving the railroad more control of its traf­ line is valuable mainly as a means of extending fic flow, no matter what the westerngiants do. connections' hauls on existing carload traffic. Wisconsin Southern's Union Pacific blew this plan out of the wa­ A shortline operation without access to this ter, but buying CP's K.C. line might be the first traffic would result in another Chicago, Mis­ Chicago Job. step of Conrail's Plan B. The second step souri & Western, without the passenger trains. would be acquisition of KCS, which would The Corn Lines and branches, though, are provide Conrail with a presence on the Gulf a different matter. They originate movements, -Don Marson and a route to Mexico to boot. That won't be creating cash flow that would allow a shortline cheap, since the CP line figures to fetch up­ acquirer to pay off its debt. What's more, CP examines the Utah wards of $100 million, and KCS would cost could structure a shortline transaction more hundreds of millions more. Remember, easily than a Class I acquisition to encourage Railway'S motive though, that Conrail was prepared to drop business generated by the branch lines to stay nearly $2 billion in UP's lap for SP's eastern on the CP system. power fleet. lines, so money may not be much of an object. The finish line is within sight, and the Kansas City Southern: Mike Haverty's re­ galloping steeds can smell the prize as the sounding defeat in the UP-SP merger is just Missour i Derby nears its end. By the time the beginning of his current troubles. His rail­ this appears in print, the winner may well road has been underperforming its competi­ have been announced. Wait around a few tors; he had to downsize his management years, though, before asking whether the ranks by 5 percent in August, and rB. Hunt is prize still smells. PRN

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