· . cpc AUGUST,1978 $1.00 ·Pacilic Ne s ALSO In THIS ISSUE: AMTRAK'S PLAnninG DEPARTMEnT, THE HEBER CREEPER, ESPEE AGREES TO TALK COMMUTES AnD MORE. ��� SOUTHERN PACIFIC BAY AREA STEAM HARRE W. DEMORO

Here is a collection of vintage photographs of the vast Southern Pacific steam operations in the ever-popular Bay Area, just as these locomotives appeared in over ninety years of steam activity from the early diamond stackers to giant cab forwards and the fabled Oaylight locomotives. Photographers and collectors featured in this book include Ralph W. Demoro, D. S. Richter, Vernon J. Sappers, Waldemar Sievers and Ted Wurm. The book includes data on Southern Pacific types, and a lengthy general history of the railroad's steam operations in the San Francisco Bay Area that serves as the center of this look at steam-powered railroading.

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2 AUGUST, 1978 Pacific No.202 lie s AUGUST, 1978 VOLUME 18 NO.8

KARL R. KOENIG • EDITOR

HARRE W. DEMORO ...... EDITORIAL STAFF TOM GRAy ...... PRODUCTION STAFF HAROLD C. KOENIG ...... EDITORIAL STAFF JO HN PARSON ...... OFF ICE STAFF D. S. RiCHTER ...... EDITORIAL STAFF GARY VIELBAUM ...... STAFF LIBRARIAN

Kenneth M. Ardinger ...... Contributing Staff Edward M. Berntsen ...... Contributing Staff George R. Cockle ...... •...... Contr ibuting Staff Doug E. Cummings ...... Contributing Staff • • • To m Eikeren kotter ...... Contr ibuting Staff ITherenside is a story thatChatham circulates among magazine editors, in any field, Robert L. Hogan ...... Contributing Staff not just railroading publications, that readers never seem to notice Don Jewell ...... •...... Contributing Staff comments on how best to submit material. Why not help lay this rumor Joe McMillan ...... Contributing Staff to rest once and for all? Ken Meeker ...... Contributing Staff Peter J.Replinger ...... Cont ributing Staff Do not send NEWS any photographs for our possible use PACIFIC Virg il C. Staff ...... Cont ributing Staff without your full name and address on the back of each and every view, F. Hoi Wagner, Jr ...... Contr ibuting Staff and please provide a full caption - especially your reasons for thinking J. Harlen Wilson ...... Contr ibuting Staff the topic is a news photo if that is the reason for sending it. Working conditions have been known to increase the pressure to the point that even photographs of obvious news value are not recognized as such and C'1X ©Contents Copyright 1978 without the caption your view could be filed or returned in error. And, speaking of returns, please be sure to include return postage so ALL RIGHTS RESERVED we can send back to you material we are unable to use. We can not IN THIS MONTH'S PACIFIC NEWS return black-and-white prints that we have pu blished, but once McKEEN ...... 4 reproduction and file needs for color work are completed your slide WESTERN FOREST INDUSTRIES ...... , , ..... , " 5 used in PA CIFlC N EWSwill be on its way home to your collection. We SOUTHERN PACIFIC AUGUST 1ST ROSTER . . . . 6 do receive many slides we can keep, however, so if that is the case please A VISIT WITH AMTRAK'S PLANNERS ...... 10 be sure to tell us. We file them all for future needs and certainly UPGRADING UTAH'S HEBER CREEPER ...... 12 appreciate the opportunity to have a selection of color photography at RAILROADING COLUMNS ...... 14 hand for research work. CAMERA CAR PHOTO SECTION ...... 19 What is the quickest way to get a photograph published in this SHORT STUFF ...... 25 SP AG REES TO TALK COMMUTES ...... , ... .. 26 magazine? Send us an 8x I 0 print of a newsworthy railroad scene west of NEWS PHOTOS ...... 27 the Mississippi River with your name, address and a complete caption EXCURSIONS/CLASSIFIED ...... 30 on the back. You'll probably be in the very next issue. Without the BOOK REVIEWS/LETTERS ...... 31 caption, name or address the chance will be lost, fo r experience has shown that in spite of our greatest effort when we need any SUBSCRIPTIONS BY DIRECT MAIL accompanying letter for caption or photographer data it seems In United States, Canada and Mexico: $10.00 for one impossible to match paper with photograph. If your name and address year, $18.00 for two years. SIngle copies $1.00. Foreign: is only on the envelope you use to send the material to us, please $11.00 per year. Foreign - only - First Class and Air consider that envelope and contents are separated forever at our mail Mail rates are available upon a specific written request. desk on their way in the door and your chance for either return or CHATHAM PUBLISHING COMPANY publication is lost. Post Office Box 283, Burlingame, California 94010 USA You will quickly notice that this issue has quite a spread of interesting • articles on western railroading, ranging from new locomotives and ALL PHOTOGRAPHS (ONLY) ARE PAtD FOR UPON PUBLICATION rebuilt track in Utah to Amtrak planning for those new Superliner cars ARTICLES IN THIS MAGAZINE ARE CONTRIBUTED BY ITS READERS that keep being postponed for long-haul passenger trains here in this PACIFIC NEWS is published monthly by the Chatham Publishing Company. 1012 Oak Grove Avenue, Burlingame. California 94010. West of ours. From main line Southern Pacific to a six-wheel Plymouth (415) 348-033l. Printed in the U.S.A. Second Class postage paid at on Canada's Vancouver Island this issue is full of railroad adventure Burlingame, California 94010. PACIFIC NEWS assumes no responsibility for the safe return of editorial or advertising material. Acceptable that our authors are willing to share. Won't you share a story or a news photographs are filed for potential future publication and are paid for upon use. Advertising rates are available on request for rate card. report in an upcoming issue of PACIFIC NEWS? We can not do it • alone from Burlingame; your help is essential. -Karl R. Koenig CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Post office does not regularly forward 2nd Class COVER: At Stege, milepost 13.1 northbound out of Oakland, Mail and PACIFIC NEWS will not replace copies not forwarded and destroyed by the post office - replacement copies, and post office California, two of Southern Pacific's Morrison-Knudsen TE70-4S notification charges, will be billed. Please allow PACIFIC NEWS at least units hustle freight this past March 9. (Vic Neves) four weeks for any address changes to insure uninterrupted mail delivery.

PACIFIC NEWS 3 C. G. Hcimerdinger. Jr. collection

development of the gas-electric car in time ended the market for the McKeen Motor Car and after less than two decades of production the final car was built for McKeen's last customer. Southern Pacific, which during the early 1900's was part of the Harriman-controlled railroads, along with Union Pacific, obtained thirty-nine McKeen cars for its Pacific Lines between 1908 and 1911. The cars were heavily used on branch lines, as well as on lightly-traveled main line runs where the cars were McKeen • • • welcome relief from conventional steam-powered passenger trains. Along Southern Pacific's routes, the development of the automobile, along with orders for gas-electric On a warm sunny day late in 1908 , Southern Pacific motor cars, spelled doom for the Espee McKeen cars. McKeen car number 27 waits somewhat impatiently By the middle of the 19 20's most of the fifty-five-foot for its passengers while the conductor stares directly at cars were already gone from the roster, and a decade the photographer. Captured on film seventy years ago later, in the mid-1930's, most of the seventy-foot cars in the midst of its daily wanderings over Espee were also scrapped. Two cars, however, numbers 45 trackage out of Sacramento, McKeen 27 and its and 61, lasted a bit longer, but only until 1939 when sisters were once regular features of the railroad's they, too, were retired. passenger operations. What of the number 27? She was not so lucky and The McKeen car was the brainchild of William had a much shorter history. Renumbered as the II McKeen, Superintendent of Motive Power for the shortly after the above photograph was taken, the car Union Pacific Railroad. Sponsored by the UP, about suffered an engine explosion and fire in 19 12 and a hundred and fifty of the cars were built between was scrapped in the following year. 1905 and the early 19 20's. Using a mechanical No McKeen cars are known to exist today, , and powered by only a single axle, the although two bodies can be found. One, the former cars had but limited capacity for any pulling seventy-foot Virginia and Truckee number 22 which capability. For passenger runs of light patronage, and was sold in 1947, is presently a warehouse in Carson branch lines, the McKeens were a railroad's answer to City, while the other is off the Utah Railway and is rising costs, however, and they could be found in currently used as a shed by the railroad at Martin, limited numbers throughout the west. The Utah. -CO G. Heimerdinger, Jr.

4 AUGUST, 1978 WESTERN FOREST INDUSTRIES

CEASES VANCOUVER ISLAND RAIL OPERATION considerable fame as the last operational tourist-oriented railroad not presently in DATA/PHOTOGRAPHY KEN PERRY Climax in . The number 10 last operation - the equipment is in storage. operated in 1968, however, and Western Forest Little work was done on the railroad after British Columbia's Western Forest Industries Industries resumed its own operation of the Hillcrest's withdrawal, and WFI operations has ceased operations on its six-mile Vancouver railroad. Both Climax locomotives, by the way, during the past years were usually only on two Island rail line that connected the firm's sawmill were preserved. Number 9 is on display at the days of each week; for a long time regularly on at Honeymoon Bay with CP Rail's subsidiary Cowichan Forest Museum; number 10 is the Tuesdays and Fridays. Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway at Lake property of the Victoria Pacific Railway, a The railroad's most recent motive power was Cowichan (PACIFIC NEWS, June, 1978). The a 1929-built Plymouth WL6, serial 3365, which termination of service is apparently a result of ended service as WFl's number 40. This deteriorating trackage and the lack of sufficient locomotive was acquired in the early 1960's, Western Forest Industries' little four-wheel revenue car movements to justify maintenance having been built for Merrill and Ring Lumber Plymouth WL6 number 40 is seen during June, of the railroad. Not only is Western Forest 1978 near the Canadian National Railway yard Company, also on Vancouver Island. The little I nd ustries the owner of the trackage, but it is the office at the Point Ellice Yard in Victoria, twenty-ton locomotive was later sold to the only surviving customer on the line. All freight British Columbia. O'Brien Company at Stillway as their traffic is now handled by truck. Seen below in 1973, this same number 40 number seven, then Powell River Company The railroad became quite well known in the works with two cars on WFI's trackage between (Kelly Logging) at Cumshewa Inlet before being 1960's when the line's operational needs were the E&N interchange and the mill six miles away sold to Western Forest Industries, still retaining cond ucted by Hillcrest Lumber Company out of at Honeymoon Bay. This scene is on the the number 7. A 1973 renumbering saw it its own mill at Mesachie Lake using a pair of Robertson River bridge, just west of Mesachie operate during its final years as the forty. Climax locomotives. With 2-truck number 9 as Lake and about 1.5 miles east of Honeymoon After the termination of Western Forest relief, Hillcrest's 3-truck number 10 gained Bay on the south side of Cowichan Lake. Industries' rail operations in late 1977, the little Plymouth was placed in storage at the mill. During June, 1978 Westcan Terminals Limited acquired the six-wheeler for dock switching at Ogden Point, in Victoria, British Columbia on trackage formerly used by the Canadian National to serve a now-demolished grain terminal. Westcan was looking for an alternative to loading dimension lumber on bulkhead flatcars at the CN express office in Victoria, due to congested traffic conditions. As Westcan already operated a lumber assembly area for ocean-going vessels at Ogden Point, and as a defunct Canadian National barge slip and yard was still in place there, the firm acquired the Plymouth and set itself up to do the necessary switching. The former Western Forest Industries number 40 arrived in Victoria on June 23, 1978, and as of this late August writing is being repainted into an as-yet-unspecified new paint scheme in Canadian National's Point Ellice Yard. The work is being done by a Victoria based auto-body and sheet metal firm, and no new number has yet been chosen .•

PACIFIC NEWS 5 SOUTHER N PACIFIC MOTIVE PO WER AUGUST 1, 1978 ROSTER

D. V. JEWELL AUTHOR, SOUTHERN PACIFIC MOTIVE POWER ANNUAL 1974 - 1976

Martin I.. Aosnyak

ESPEE MOTIVE POWER ON AUGUST 1,1978 NEW NUMBER OLD NUMBER CLASS MODEL NO. ALCO EMD GE M-K TOTAL Switch Engines 131' 492 623 1120 - 1121 4615 - 4616 2 Passenger Units 24 24 1123 - 1126 4618 - 4621 4 Freight Units 1533 344 4 1881 1127 - 1128 4622 - 4623 ES408-4 2 TOTALS 131 2049 344 4 2528 (5.2%) (81%) (13.7%) (0.1%) 1150 - 1153 4700 - 4703 ES408B-1 TR6B 4 Note: IArco total includes road-unit models now classified heavy switchers. This tabulation and rOlter II Identical, and may be compared with, the 'ormat published 1190 - 1199 1170 series ES409E-1 SW900E 10 In the Southern Paclllc Motive Power Annual lerlel.

• As in the Southern Pacific Motive Power Annual, the asterisk symbol • is used ( ) 1201 - 1202 1034 - 1035 AS409-1 2 herewith to denote units owned by the St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt) Railway. S6 1204 - 1205 1037 - 1038 2 NEW NUMBER OLD NUMBER CLASS MODEL NO. 1207 - 1208 1040 - 1041 2 1210&1213 1043& 1046 2 1000 - 1001 7121& 7115 AS600-1 Slug 2 1214 - 1218 1047 - 1051 5 1002 7811 1 1219 1052 AS409-2 1 1004 none ES406-2 SW1 1 1221 1054 AS409-3 1 1223 - 1224 1056 - 1057 2 1100 4600 ES408-1 TR6A 1227-1231 1060 - 1064 5 1236 - 1237 1069 - 1070 2 1105 13 ES408-2 SW8 1 1240 1073 AS409-4 1 1110 - 1111 4605 - 4606 2 1242 - 1243 1075 - 1076 2 1116 4611 1 1246 - 1247 1079 - 1080 2 1118 4613 ES408-3 1 1249 1082 1

6 AUGUST. 1978 Only months out of builder Morrison-Knudsen's Boise, Idaho facility, page opposite, Southern Pacific TE70-4S number 7031 leads a westbound freight over Cajon Pass near Highland, California on April 25, 1978. The 7031 is one of four such units, numbered 7030 through 7033 and built by Morrison-Knudsen utilizing components from traded-in Espee U25B's. The four sport a vivid new orange-and-red test paint scheme, reminiscent of the railroad's old Daylight scheme that was introduced to the Southern Pacific in January of 1937 with the delivery of 4-8-4 GS-2 4410. Upgraded GP9 E 3826 and subsidiary Cotton Belt G P30 5006 team up to work a ballast train near Durham, California, above, on November 8, 1977. The 3826 was outshopped in 1976, receiving a Farr-type paper air filter and major electrical modifications. There are now nearly three hundred upgraded G P9 units on the current Southern Pacificroster, and as of August I there are twenty-nine more that remain to be scheduled for the program. The 5006, by the way, is making a rare appearance in Northern California. The locomotive is one of only seventeen GP30's on the roster, the first ten of which are lettered for the Cotton Belt.

NEW NUMBER OLD NUMBER CLASS MODEL NO. NEW NUMBER OLD NUMBER CLASS MODEL NO.

1252 -1257 1085 - 1090 6 2305 - 2306 2210 - 2211 SW9E 2 2307 2215 SW1200E 1 1270 - 1280 4634 - 4644 AS409-5 S6 11 2308 2212 SW9E 1 2309 - 2311 2216 - 2218 SW1200E 3 1300 - 1319 1900's ES401E-1 NW2E 20 2312 - 2316 2200's ES412E-1 SW1200E 5 1320 - 1337 1900's ES410E-2 18 2402 - 2404 none AS415-1 C-415 3 1400 - 1414 2700 - 2714 ES615-1 S07 15 2406 - 2407 none 2 1415 2715 ES615-2 1 2409 none 1 1416 - 1422 2716 - 2722 ES615-3 7 1423 - 1442 2723 - 2742 ES615-4 20 2450 - 2480 none ES415-1 SW1500 31 2481 - 2492" none ES415C-1 12 2250 - 225r 1062 - 1069" ES412C-3 SW1200 8 2493 - 2510 none ES415-2 18 2258 - 2261" 1070 - 1073" ES412C-4 4 2511 - 2522" none ES415C-2 12 2262 - 2271 1597 - 1606 ES412-4 10 2523 - 2578 none ES415-3 56 2272 - 2288 1607 - 1623 ES412-5 17 2579 - 2582" none ES415C-3 4 2289 - 2293" none ES412C-5 5 2583 - 2590" none ES415C-4 8 2591 - 2612 none ES415-4 22 2294 - 2296 2200 - 2202" ES412E-1 SW7E 3 2613 - 2679 none ES415-5 67 2297 - 2300 2204 - 220r SW9E 4 2680 - 2689 none ES415-6 10 2301 - 2302 2208 - 2209 ES412E-2 2 2303 - 2304 2214&2213 SW1200E 2 2690 - 2701 none ES415-7 MP15(OC) 12

PACIFIC NEWS 7 NEW NUMBER OLD NUMBER CLASS MODEL NO. NEW NUMBER OLD NUMBER CLASS MODEL NO.

2702 - 2731 none ES415-8 MP15AC 30 3200 - 3209 none EP636-1 SDP45 10 2732 - 2735 none ES415-9 4 3300 - 3325 GP9 series EF418E-1 GP9E 26 2736 - 2759 none ES415-8 24 3326 - 3353 GP9 series EF418E-2 28 3355 - 3426 GP9 series 72 2900 5720 AS418-1 RS11 1 3428 - 3437 GP9 series 10 2903 - 2904 5723 - 5724 AS418-3 2 3438 - 3440 GP9 series EF418R-2 GP9R 3 2908 - 2909 5728 - 5729 2 2910 -2911 5845 - 5846 AS418-4 2 3541 5709 EF418-6 GP9 1 2913 - 2916 5848 - 5851 4 3586&3589 5745&5748 EF418-7 2 2918 - 2920 5853 - 5855 3 3612&3640 5771&5799 2 2922 - 2923 5857 - 5858 2 3648* 827" EF418C-2 1 2926 - 2928 5861 - 5863 AS418-5 3 3653&3663 449 & 5800 EF418-8 2 2930 5865 1 3670&3676 5807&5813 2 2932 5867 AS418-6 1 3680&3683 5816& 5820 2 2935 - 2936 5870 - 5871 2 3688&3694 5825& 5831 2 3697&3703 5834&5840 2 2954& 2958 7004& 7008 AS618-1 RSD12 2 3708 - 3710 5872 - 5874 EF418-9 3 2960 7010 1 3712&3715 5876& 5879 2 3716 - 3719 5880 - 5883 4 2971 - 2976 none ES620-1 SD38-2 6 3723 &3727 5887& 5891 2

3004 & 3006 5622&5624 EP418-3 GP9 2 3730 - 3797 GP9 series EF418E-3 GP9E 68 3798 - 3804 GP9 series EF418R-3 GP9R 7 3110 - 3136 7100's AS628-1 C-628 27 3808 - 3813* GP9 series EF418S-3 GP9E 6 3816 - 3843 GP9 series EF418E-4 28 3140 -3153 7800's AS630-1 C-630 14 3844 - 3859 GP9 series EF418R-4 GP9R 16

3186 -3187 3003& 3000 EP418E-1 GP9E 2 3871 - 3872* 3649&3647" EF418S-4 GP9E 2 3873 - 3874* 3651 - 3652* EF418CR-4 GP9R 2 3188 - 3189 3008&3005 EP418R-1 GP9R 2 3190 -3191 3007&3010 2 3877 - 3879 GP9 series EF418E-5 GP9E 3 3192 - 3193 3009&3002 2 3880 - 3885 GP9 series EF418R-5 GP9R 6 3194 3001 1 3902&3914 5423& 5436 EF618-3 SD9 2 3197 - 3199 none EP430-1 GP40P-2 3 3964 5491 EF618-5 1

On the property for only a couple of weeks, right, new SD40T-2's 8498 and 8497 lead four additional six-axle units, including visiting Conrail SD40-2 6342, westbound through Hinda, California on February 19, 1978. These two "snoots" are part of a ten-unit order, numbers 8489-8498, and are unusual among recent. Espee deliveries in that they lack any radio-control equipment. Already a veteran of years of freight operation 1969-built General Electric U33C 861 1, below, leads two EMD hood units and ninety-three cars west through Moorpark, California in June, 1978. Although the number of six-axle GE's on the SP total well over 250, recent motive power orders have been for four-axle B30-7's, of which the railroad currently has twenty-four with sixty more on order to expand the 7800 number series upward to 7883.

Don Bain

William T. Morgan

B AUGUST, 1978 NEW NUMBER OLD NUMBER CLASS MODEL NO. NEW NUMBER OLD NUMBER CLASS MODEL NO.

4000 - 4005 7300 - 7305 AS420-1 RS32 6 7032 - 7033 6733 &6752 2 4007 &4009 7007& 7009 2 7150 - 7159 none GF628-1 U28C 10 4035' 80S' EF420C-1 GP20 1 4041 - 4042' 811 - 812' EF420C-2 2 7200 - 7201 none EF435-1 GP40X 2 4045' 815' 1 7230 - 7231 none EF435-2 2 4050 &4057 7200 & 7207 EF420-1 2 4060 7210 1 7600 - 7601' none EF430C-1 GP40 8 4063 - 4064 7213 - 7214 2 7608 - 7627 none EF430-1 GP40-2 20 4068 &4077 7218 &7227 2 4079 7229 1 7800 - 7803 none GF430-1 B30-7 4 4085&4087 7235& 7237 EF420-2 2 7804 - 7823 none GF430-2 20

4100 - 4101 4065& 4083 EF420E-1 GP20E 2 7900 - 7929 none GF630-1 U30C 30 4102 - 4109 GP20 series EF420E-2 8 7930 - 7936 none GF630-2 7 4111 - 4122 GP20 series EF420R-2 GP20R 12 4134 - 4138' GP20 series EF420S-1 GP20E 5 8300 - 8306 none EF630-3 S040T-2 7 4139 - 4144' GP20 series EF420S-2 6 8307 - 8321 none EF630-6 15 4145 - 4149' GP20 series EF420CR-2 GP20R 5 8322 - 8326' none EF630-1 5 8350 - 8356 none EF630-4 7 4300 - 4419 S09 series EF618E-1 S09E 120 8357 - 8371 none EF630-7 15 4420 - 4438 S09 series EF618R-1 S09R 19 8372 - 8376' none EF630C-2 5

4450 - 4451 3822& 3800 EF618E-2 S09E 2 8400 - 8478 none EF630-1 S040 79 8479 - 8488 none EF630-2 10 4700 6900 EF620E-1 S035E 1 8489 - 8498 none EF630-5 S040T-2 10 4701 - 4708 S035 series EF620R-1 S035R 8 8585 - 8599 none GF633-10 U33C 15 5000 - 5009' 750 - 759' EF423C-2 GP30 10 8600 - 8629 none GF633-1 30 5010 - 5013 7400 - 7403 EF423-1 4 8630 - 8637 none GF633-2 8 5015 - 5017 7405 - 7407 3 8639 - 8641 none 3 8643 - 8644 none 2 5300 - 5317 none EF623-1 S039 18 8645 - 8685 none GF633-3 41 5318 - 5325 none EF623-2 8 8687 none 1 8688 - 8727 none GF633-4 40 6300 6553 EF425R-1 GP35R 8728 - 8737 none GF633-5 10 8738 - 8767 none GF633-6 30 6500 - 6503' 760 - 763' EF425C-1 GP35 4 8768 - 8777 none GF633-7 10 6504 - 6511' 764 - 771' EF425C-2 8 8778 - 8785 none GF633-8 8 6513 - 6519' 773 - 779' 7 8786 - 8796 none GF633-9 11 6521 - 6527 7409 - 7415 EF425-1 7 6529 - 6531 7417 - 7419 3 8799 9113 Camera Car 6533 - 6547 7421 - 7435 15 6549 - 6552 7437 - 7440 4 8800 - 8816 none EF636�1 S045 17 6554 - 6576 7442 - 7464 23 8818 - 8844 none 27 6577 - 6596 7465 - 7484 EF425-2 20 8845 - 8856 none EF636-2 12 6597 - 6602 7700 - 7705 EF425-3 6 8858 - 8907 none 50 6604 - 6624 7707 - 7727 21 8909 - 8934 none 26 6625 7728 EF425-4 1 8935 - 8963 none EF636-3 29 6627 - 6635 7730 - 7738 9 8964 - 8970' none EF636C-1 7 6637 - 6648 7740 - 7751 12 8972 - 8981' none 10 6650 - 6662 7753 - 7765 13 8982 - 8991 none EF636-4 10 6664 - 6679 7767 - 7782 16 8992 (2nd) 8908 EF636-14 1 6680 - 6681' 780 - 781' EF425C-3 2 8993 - 9051 none EF636-4 59 9052 - 9055' none EF636C-3 4 6700 - 6705 7500 - 7505 GF425-1 U25B 6 9057 - 9059' none 3 6706 - 6707 7506 - 7507 GF425-2 2 9060 - 9062' none EF636C-2 3 6710 -6713 7510 - 7513 4 9064 - 9068' none 5 6715 - 6716 7515 - 7516 2 9069 - 9103 none EF636-5 35 6718 - 6723 7518 - 7523 6 9104 - 9135 none EF636-6 32 6725 - 672.7 7525 - 7527 3 9136 (2nd) 8857 EF636-13 1 6728 - 6732 7528 - 7532 GF425-3 5 9137 -9151 none EF636-6 15 6734 - 6738 7534 - 7538 5 9152 - 9155' none EF636C-4 4 6740 - 6741 7540 - 7541 2 9156' 8971' EF636C-5 1 6743 - 6744 7543 - 7544 2 9157 - 9165' none EF636C-6 S045T-2 9 6746 - 6747 7546 - 7547 2 9166 - 9173 ;fa ne EF636-7 8 6749 - 6751 7549 - 7551 3 9175 - 9219 one 45 6754 - 6767 7554 - 7567 14 9221 - 9240 none EF636-8 20 9241 - 9260 none EF636-9 20 6800 - 6801 6708& 6724 GF425E-1 U25BE 2 9261 - 9281' none EF636C-7 21 9282 - 9301' none EF636C-8 20 6901& 6903 4817& 4819 EF625-1 S035 2 9302 - 9313 none EF636-10 12 6904 4820 1 9314 9220 EF636-11 1 6908 - 6911 4824 - 4827 4 9315 - 9343 none EF636-12 29 6915 - 6917 4831 - 4833 3 9344 - 9370 none EF636-15 27 6919 - 6921 4835 - 4837 3 9371 - 9378' none EF636C-9 8 6924 4840 1 9380 - 9404' none 25 6927 - 6928 4843 - 4844 2 9500 - 9502 none EF642-1 S045X 3 6950 - 6953 6900's EF625E-1 S035E 4 9503 - 9504 EMO 4201-02 EF642-2 2

7025 - 7028 none GF428-1 U28B 4 9900 - 9902 9500 - 9502 EF850B-1 0035 3

7030 - 7031 6745&6717 SF428-1 TE70-4S 2 9951 - 9952 9551 - 9552 GF850-1 U50 2

PACI FIC NEWS 9 A VISIT WITH AMTRAK'S PLANNING DEPARTMENT

CHARLES MONTOOTH

It was a beautiful, sunny, late summer day in Washington, D.C. as I took the escalator from the Metro at L'Enfant Plaza. Amtrak was still ensconced in its up-do-dateheadquarters, which lent it an aura of success and provided the proper setting for what should be a progressive, modern corporation. A short time later, Amtrak's offices were moved to their present location at 400 North Capitol Street. The man I was about to see had just sold his prized BMW as an act of faith in the future of rail passenger service. He was Raul Bravo, . Director, Equipment Design, the man who presides over the brightest spot in the Amtrak picture. Bravo, working under veteran railroader Joseph J. Schmidt, Vice President in charge of equipment, communicates a contagious enthusiasm for his work which is reflected in the attitudes of his staff. The time was early September. Drastic service cuts had just been announced. Congress appeared to be in a reluctant mood. The administration had yet to come forward with a transportation policy. Amtrak itself was plagued with tardy trains and failing equipment. Even its friends were losing patience with its erratic performance. But on that day in September when I walked into the design office I found nothing but heart warming high hopes for the future of trains. Kevin L. Marlin Here was assembled a team of energetic, hard Both the fabric� and coloring for Amtrak's working young professionals busy with the task passenger car seats are evaluated on more than of creating new and mobile environments for a just esthetics, above. Here, designer Martha patient American public. Each designer Whitaker evaluates a pattern skein for its appeared to be attacking a particular part of the potential sewing and application problems overall problems of designing new trains for the during interior design work for upcoming new future as well as improving ones now in service. passenger cars for Amtrak's growing fleet. Director Bravo, formerly of Chrysler, Ford A mockup of the interior of a new Superliner and Rohr, led me through the design section's dining car, right, with tables set and seemingly compact quarters. Every square foot of space ready for its first dinner seating, shows off the was filled with models and mock-ups, sample outstanding work being done by Amtrak's chairs, fabrics, hardware and beautiful drawings planning department: of car interiors. Plans covered available desk tops. Racks of expertly drafted technical drawings stood by each work table. Bravo explained that each designer takes his or her assigned task from sketches through working drawings. He introduced me to a young woman who brought out color and fabric selections safety regulations. So successful has been their along with handsomely rendered interior effort that the airlines are benefiting from perspectives. Her name was Martha Whitaker, a Amtrak's pioneering work in this field. Another, dedicated designer of trains. Others were Ralph Dolinger, who started with Amtrak at the attracting new suppliers of carpeting and beginning designing car exteriors and graphics, hardware for the rail car market to meet Federal was working out a mock-up for the interior of

10 AUGUST, 1978 The design office's contribution to the Superliner project even included selection of table settings, shina and linens, above, all of which will work in conjunction with the dining car galleys, as shown in the mockup at right. . Ralph Dolinger, bottom, works to assemble an engineer's control console that he designed for the LRC program, and perhaps even for Amtrak locomotive purchases in the years to come as more equipment is added to the fleet.

the LRC (Light Rapid Comfortable) Canadian train which is scheduled to begin international service in the Pacific Northwest later this year. Next I met John Hemming, a momentairly sidetracked architect, who proudly assembled a mock-up lavatory-toilet compartment in seconds before my eyes. Thecompact. two-stage unit can be arranged to accommodate space for the handicapped or for a shower, and can be fitted neatly into both new or old carbody shells. Past experience of the team varied. Kevin Martin came from CBS and Henry Dreyfuss Associates. Jay Unterman and Ken Bauman had Lockheed, TW A and American Airlines in their backgrounds. George Lobstein came from the All: Kevin L. Martin academic world of Illinois Institute of Technology to give locomotives the look of the future they have not had since the days of the Pioneer Zephyr and the GG I. The work of the team was impressive, the operation lean and efficient, the staff creative, the promise encouraging. Bravo, himself, was receptive to ideas and responsive to customer suggestions. While there we discussed the possibility of refurbishing existing Budd-built equipment, something which is now being planned and which has been advocated by members of the National Association of Rai lroad Passengers. We also discussed the advantages of a firm commitment by both the Congress and the administration to a long-range program of designing and building new trains. We noted the benefits to the car building industry of such a program and even looked forward to the possibilities of our country selling trains to underdeveloped nations. Bravo also hinted at a surprise or two for train watchers in the not too distant future. I went away feeling that Amtrak and the public were getting their money's worth. This is the kind of effort and these are the kind of people needed in the rail industry today .•

PACIFIC NEWS 11 UPGRADING UTAH'S HEBER CREEPER

hand, work moved into high with the Bantam ditching and moving rail. A ISO-foot section of the railroad below Deer Creek that had been washed out was replaced and relocated several feet south, and a section above the dam that had sunk was repaired. Ballast trains were operating often, and the tamper was put to work as the track crew busily replaced ties. As this is written, in late July, the track work is progressing fairly well with considerable ballast already in place, much ditching has been done, many ties replaced, several grade crossings have been improved including new rail rather than just fresh asphalt or dirt; but the tamping, aligning and shaping of the track is going much slower than anticipated . The tamper currently needs maintenance, and it was gone for a while to Arizona to help finish a job there. All in all, however, the track should be in top shape by the time Railroad Builders completes sections operating problems were largely their work later this year. STAN JENNINGS averted as train service began. Another big change planned for this year is PHOTOGRAPHY/THE AUTHOR In 1976, the State of Utah, which owns the the inauguration of a shuttle train between roadbed, formally recognized the problem and Bridal Veil and Vivian Park. The little The year 1978 seems to be the year of changes began the process of acquiring a grant for Davenport, the first locomotive on the line after on Utah's Heber Creeper, with track upgrading upgrading of the railroad. Because of the the Rio Grande abandonment, has again been being the change that will have the most impact generally poor condition of the track, and the fitted with another engine, this time with the on the railroad's operations. New equipment, county's high unemployment rate, a $60,000 Detroit Diesel that was used under the diner for however, will be the most obvious change grant was obtained last year for track electrical power until a couple of years ago. The greeting visitors to this popular tourist line. improvement. The money was used primarily locomotive will be used to pull a train of three The Heber Creeper began life as the Utah for installing a passing track at Bridal Veil, and small home-built cars between Bridal Veil and Company, running from for tearing up the unused rail from the lower Vivian Park. One of the new cars is complete, Provo to Heber. The railroad was later absorbed part of Provo Canyon. The county was also able the others are still under construction. This year into the Rio Grande system. The Heber Branch, to use a "make-work" program for brush it is planned to use the train as a supplemental locally known as the Heber Creeper because of clearing and general track maintenance. operation for those who want � bit of a train ride the many curves and a 2.5 per cent ruling grade The largest and most important grant was but do not want the full trip. Future plans call that necessitated low speeds, was, in the 1930's, received in late 1977 in the amount of $500,000 for terminating the main train at Vivian Park the largest shipper of sheep in the United States. in Federal monies for general track upgrading. with the Davenport and its consist running a By the 1960's, however, car loadings were down Railroad Builders of Englewood, Colorado shuttle service between that poin! and Bridal and toward the end of Rio Grande ownership received the contract for the job, and work Veil. Why, after all these years, stop the service the railroad saw less than one short train a week. began slowly in December, 1977 and in earnest to Bridal Veil and substitute a shuttle train? Consequently, the Rio Grande was granted during April, 1978. The first job was relaying the Simply, it is a dangerous and expensive run. permission to abandon the branch in 1968. rail that had been pulled out of the lower part of There are many blind curves, and the train both Needless to say, with the low volume of traffic the canyon onto the stretch just out of Heber. starts and stops on a two per cent grade. A very in the final years the Rio Grande did not This part of the railroad had at one time been real possibility is a turntable at Vivian Park. One maintain the trackage in top shape. In 1969-70 relaid by the Rio Grande with re-lay rail from was planned and the site surveyed in 1977, but when a group of railroad enthusiasts and Heber curves and the result left quite a bit to be desired the county vetoed the plan at that time. It businessmen got together to form a steam for a passenger-hauling railroad. remains a possibility for the future, however, in tourist attraction on the line, the railroad was in Most of Railroad Builders' track equipment order to have the steam locomotives operate in poor condition. Because of the lack of funds the arrived on the Heber Creeper in early June, the direction that both Baldwin and Aleo Heber Creeper, formally known as the Wasatch including both a Brookville and a Plymouth intended when they were built. Mountain Railway at first, was able initially to locomotive, a ballast car (ex-Yosemite Valley Also in the works this year is a new paint do only the most necessary track work, although Railway number 1232), a Bantam high-rail scheme for the rolling stock. The coaches are by maintaining slow speeds over the worst crane, and a tamper. With the equipment on being painted dark green, with silver roofs and stripes, and with gold lettering. As this is written, one coach has been painted, but remains to be lettered . A second is now in green paint, but no stripes yet. Baldwin 2-8-2 number 100 and its tender have been repainted, black of course, and Aleo 2-8-2

Railroad Builders' track regulator, above, works its way over the Heber Creeper during the present track rehabilitation program. Basically, this machine grooms and shapes the ballast on the roadbed after the tie tamper is finished. Awaiting its first call to duty, left, the Davenport and one of its new shuttle cars is expected to first enter service in late August.

12 AUGUST, 1978 Railroad Builders' Plymouth, above, rolls across the Provo River Bridge and, right, works as the second unit with RB's Brookville on a two-car ballast train. Neither unit could handle the ballast train alone up the railroad's hill, hence the double heading. Still resting in the Lakepoint, Utah yard of the Purdy Company, bottom, is the former Western Pacific MW 0354 which is being acquired by the Heber Creeper in trade for scrap rail. number 36 has been partially repainted with the tender retaining its bicentennial colors from White Mountain Scenic Railroad (Arizona) days a while longer. Two new pieces of equipment will make their appearance in Heber later this season. The biggest surprise is Union Pacific's donation of number lOll, a 1939-built Electro-Motive NW2 given to the State of Utah, Division of Parks and Recreation, for use on the Heber line. The locomotive was fitted with a new engine in 1977, and a new generator was installed this summer along with a general overhaul. It is planned that the 1011 will be used only for switching chores, work trains, and some off-season night-party and weekday trains. The regular season day trains will, of course, continue to be steam. The railroad is also acquiring a former Western Pacific caboose built about 1902. The car is presently at the Purdy Company yard in Lakepoint. Originally built as a box car and later converted to a bay-window caboose, the last use for the car was in maintenance-of-way service in which it was fitted with a sliding side door and the car's bay window removed. The railroad is trading an equivalent weight in scrap rail for the outside-braced wooden car. With better track, additional motive power and a new paint scheme, the 1979 season on the Heber Creeper will be better than ever. Make plans now for a visit. •

PACIFIC NEWS 13 presence easy to ignore. The road generally terminates in Richmond, and barely gets over the city limit sign and [� ___ into Oakland. Its single track hugs the hills around San _O_ UT_W_ES-----lT . Pablo Bay, often taking directions remote from roads. HARRE W. DEMORO Little of the Santa Fe here follows main highways. Consider the Santa Fe. Its 4-8-4 Northerns were bigger Perhaps the Santa Fe needs discovery. A book than the celebrated Ge neral Service locomotives of the publisher advises that he abandoned plans for a series of same wheel arrangement that powered Southern Pacific's volumes on Santa Fe because there were fe w good Daylights. AT &SF assigned 2- 1 O-2's to tonnage that photographs in existence of the railroad showing it other roads, such as the Southern Pacific, favored with beyond California, except for work done in Colorado. articulated steam engines. Even when the hour was late He was not talking about contemporary pictures, but and it was evident passengers meant only deficits, Santa rather the lack of material showing the history of the Fe retained grace and good manners. Santa Fe. What of this railroad? Diesels are scrubbed clean. I had almost forgotten about the Santa Fe. Here in the Freights are fast, often short. There are upper quadrant San Francisco Bay Area, Southern Pacific is dominant. semaphores in Franklin Canyon east of San Francisco Western Pacific, the poor - and solvent - little Bay. Computers sort cars at Barstow on the California "W obbly," attracts interest with its four F-units. It also is desert. Old locomotives are rebuilt into new models at the noticed because WP does run into Oakland. The railroad system's huge shops in Texas, and in California. is visible, and difficult to ignore. In Northern California, Santa Fe's profile is low, its I recall Santa Fe in the 1940's at San Pablo Avenue in Emeryville. A Mission-style station and landscaping surrounding a Santa Fe emblem marked the terminal of the Golden Gates as well as transcontinental trains. Patrons bound for San Francisco boarded buses. This LARGE-SCALE was Oakland Mole with its great trainshed and ferries! No wonder orange and silver streetcars and interurban RAILROADl :'-JG NI ODEL trains of Key System, which ran along two sides of the Santa Fe fa cility, were more interesting than a railroad terminal that seemed to be a bus stop. Santa Fe, to my railroad enthusiast father, was something you photographed if you had extra film. This was especially true after dieselization because SP still had steam - lots of it. But when Santa Fe was noticed, it was fi rst-class entertainment. Because of the grade out of Emeryville the railroad often was obliged to doublehead freight movements. Santa Fe crews were religious about proper use of whistle signals between locomotives. It was a grand experience, especially when the departure blocked San Pablo Avenue and stopped streetcar traffic as well. While Santa Fe was running GP9 diesels into Emeryville, Southern Pacific was scheduling steam, such as cab-forwards and GS-type machinery, at nearby Desert Yard. Who could avoid being distracted by, for an For the Newcomer, an over·all view of the hobby with an example, an SP 4-8-2 Mountain with seventy loads explanation of how to get started. departing "The Desert" for Roseville? When you paid attention to Santa Fe, it delivered. Like For the Builder, a review of construction priorities and the time I went to Los Angeles on a Golden Gate. There development alternatives. was a round-end observation car, perfect for viewing For the Craftsman, a trouble shooters guide to many of the semaphores at Rheem, Glen Frazier and Port Chicago. problems live steamers face. Fred Harvey food is remembered, especially the time we dined as the San Francisco Chief rocketed past, somewhere beyond Riverbank. There was that long and dull bus trip from Bakersfield to Los Angeles that, when HARD BOUND COVER experienced , made the Coast Daylight seem more of a memorable experience. A FULL 136 PAGES Santa Fe was respected, but almost forgotten, until this PAGE SIZE: 5Y2'" x 8Y2" spring. With Donald Duke, I explored Cajon. While at what SP calls Dike, I realized what charmed me about 25 DRAWINGS SP, and why I ignored Santa Fe. 40 PHOTOGRAPHS The SP line at this point is part of the road's Palmdale Cutoff, the much-publicized line that allows maximum use of West Colton Yard and bypasses Los Angeles. It $10.00 Prepaid generally follows the Santa Fe to what AT&SF calls KOSTER'S MINIATURE RAILROAD SUPPLIES Summit; the SP name is Hiland. Here, Espee veers toward Mojave and Santa Fe continues toward P.O. Box 97 Victorville. An SP train running from Los Angeles to Hiland is going west on the timetable, on the Santa Fe it is HOMESTEAD, 'fLORIDA 33030 an eastward train. SP has not installed signals on its line. Every so often there is an old caboose serving as an

• AUGUST, 1978 agent's office. Out front is an order board and a pole for Franklin Canyon, also Maltby. From Muir Station hanging train orders. As we approached the caboose at Road, behind Martinez, one can see the full expanse of Dike, a man emerged eating a brown-bag lunch. the Santa Fe's bridge here. The other day I saw two blue "Got a westbound coming," he said, standing on the and yellow cowl units ...0 caboose platform and apologizing for "getting into your picture." He nodded to a siding. "That helper engine (an SD45T-2) will couple on the rear," he continued. "Got another west man behind him, maybe thirty minutes back." We barely had time to set up before the train [8_THE_U _NIO_N _P A_CIF_IC _R A_ILR_OAD----I appeared. Or so we thought. Actually, it seemed to take GEORGE R. COCKLE, EDITOR CAR AND LOCOMOTIVE CYCL OPEDIA forever. The train was long and our patience was rewarded by a laboring "Popsickle" unit on the front, The second order for fifteen General Electric C30-7 new Morrison-Knudsen TE70-4S number 703 1. The SP units, numbers 24 15-2429, are now all on the property. train stopped, the helper was coupled to the caboose, and The 2426-2429 were built in July, and have consecutive the train crawled on toward Cajon. builder's numbers from 41795 to 41798. Omaha Shops There was another headlight. The second SP train, we has installed an experimental air-cooled air compressor thought. The light was coming fa st, and while the first SP on the 2425, in an effo rt to reduce problems created by train literally dragged itself into the mountains that the present water-cooled compressors. If tests prove headlight - a Santa Fe freight with a blue-and-yellow satisfactory, future deliveries will have the air-cooled air SD45-2 on the point - sped past at perhaps 40 mph and compressors as standard equipment. was gone. Instructions have been issued by the railroad to We only saw one other SP train that day, but we must renumber the fifty SD45 units from their current road have photographed six on Santa Fe, in addition to a numbers of 3600-3649 to numbers 1 through 50 at their Union Pacific unit coal train (UP has trackage rights on next maj or shopping. Consideration is being given to Cajon). Santa Fe is double-tracked, with modern signals. renumbering the often-numbered SD24M, currently UP SP runs on train orders and is single track, although a 3999, to either follow the SD45's or to UP 99. CTC system is to eventually be installed. Continuous movement of scrapped U50Cs from Maybe the problem with Santa Fe is it is too slick. Its Council Bluffs to Kansas City cleaned out the remaining freights run on time, I am told. AT&SF refused Amtrak units by late August. An early July visit to Erman its Super Chief name when service declined, but the train, Corporal'ion at Turner, Kansas indicated that little had called the Southwest Limited today and still operated by been done to fi nish work on the first purchase of numbers Santa Fe, is on time and mirror clean when departing Los 5000-5004, 5005-50 15, 5045 , 505 1 and 5053 . Angeles Union Passenger Terminal. Joining SDP35 1402 with a top-mounted air-raid type Fortunately, both SP and AT &SF are fiscally solvent. siren (PA CIFIC NEWS, May, 1978) is sister 1400. In many ways, each is a success story in this age of Conrail, Rock Island and Milwaukee. Perhaps it is just that the SP's manner of operation as well as its history WASHINGTON makes the road more interesting. Southern Pacific, you may recall, was called the Dutch STEAM LOCOMOTIVES Flat Swindle in the 1860's. It literally owned the State KENNETH G. JOHNSEN House and brought about the Progessive era of Hiram Johnson. SP angered Frank Norris into writing Th e Octopus, tamed the Colorado River and first bridged San Francisco Bay, with the Dumbarton Cutoff. Espee ran multiple-unit electric trains in the Oakland area, crisscrossed Southern California with trolley wire for its Pacific Electric red interurbans, owned one of the world's Washington State is full of magnificent scenery to attract largest fe rryboat fleets and, when it wanted to, dazzled us all manner of tourists. For the student of the iron horse with the Daylights, Lark, Cascade, Overland and Sunset. there are a number of de lightful finds that should make a SP was at Promontory and Blue Canon, also digging visit to the Evergreen State especially rewarding. through the mountain between Sylmar and Saugus, and Listings are arranged alphabetically by towns. With each is the present railroad identification, the type of engine, its tunneling into Chatsworth. Snowsheds and cab­ present number, the builder, construction number, date forwards, lower quadrant signals, commuter trains and built and present status, including directions to the the City of San Francisco, as well as land grant scandals locomotive itself, a photograph and a brief historical and political graft - all are the heritage of the SP in the sketch. American West. • What must be understood, I guess, is that the Overland WASHIN GTON STEAM LOCOMOTIVES Route of the SP opened the West. Santa Fe may have A guide to today's locomotives of the Evergreen State provided a different route and more comfortably, but the PERFECT BOUND, WITH A FULL-COLOR COVER * 80 PAGES * Governor Stanford, Jupiter, Apollo and Ne vada were 5'{,xB'{," * EIGHTY PHOTOGRAPHS * DIRECTIONS * CURRENT here fi rst. Indeed, it would be diffi cult to separate much PHOTOGRAPHS * FULL INDEXING BY LOCATION, BUILDER AND OWNER * SPECIFICATIONS * AND CURRENT STATUS of the history of the Far West - and of California and Nevada in particular - from the history of the Southern ALL FIFTY-NINE LOCOMOTIVES Pacific Railroad. ARE FULL Y COVERED Perhaps this interrelationship - this knowing that SP is part of the fa bric of the Far West - causes us to watch ORDER NOW: grimy locomotives painted gray and crimson creep up the TO BE PUBLISHED ABOUT AUGUST$4.75 8, 1978 grade to the Martinez-Benicia Bridge on a summer CHATHAM PUBLISHING COMPANY afternoon. Except, on some of those warm afternoons, I POST OFFICE BOX 283 have been exploring back roads to the south, toward BURLINGAME, CALIFORNIA 94010

PACIFIC NEWS 15 Several diffe re nt horn arrangements have been tried out Century-4 15's, 420-424, rated at 1500 horsepower for a on the SDP35's in an effort to determine the optimum tota l of 196,100 horsepower. trackside alerting system. All new deliveries have the Another bit of locomotive statistics: Union Pacific has horns mounted over the cab. installed two variations of the fuel-sa ving devices on their Released from leased service by Becker Industries at road units. There are 127 Touchstone fuel savers which Soda Springs on July IS was NW2 1007 . are installed on the DDA40X's, numbers 6900-6945, the Under recent agreements with Amtrak, E8 A 928 is high-speed S D40-2's, numbers 8000-8074, and the assigned to Portland to protect the Pioneer, while E9A's GP40X units, 9000-9005. There are 454 authorized 95 I and 954 are protecting the San Francisco Zephyr Vapor Power Setter fuel savers installed, or scheduled, with assignment at Og den and Cheyenne. On Amtrak's for the C30-Ts, 2400-2429; the U30C's, 28 1 0-2959; and eastbound and westbound Zephyrs, the E9's have been the SD40 and SD40-2's, 3123-3488. This adds up to a lot " operating as the " lead unit, whether added or removed of fuel savings for the railroad! at Cheyenne, so that they do not op erate into Denver. An The slowly diminishing fleet of switchers versus the immediate improvement was noted for on time lack of any decision to purchase replacements is performance over the UP's segment of the train's becoming critical. Currently, 3.56 per cent of the fleet, or Chicago-to-Oakland route. Until recently, the train 130 units, make up the roster. There are 51 operated late some seventy-five per cent of the time with NW2's, 23 SWTs, 37 SW9's and 7 TR5 sets plus the five east and west connecting roads handing off the train to leased C-4 1 5's. General observation of yard activities the UP as much as six hours late, hence the operating finds U28C's doing heavy drag work in North Platte, agreement which is now earning a bonus for the UP. Kansas City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Los Angeles, As of August 26, there were eleven units stored while GP30's are doing flat-yard switching alongside the unse rviceable re presenting 20 ,450 horsepower, further indefatigable GP9 in most of the maj or yards. The six indication of the effectiveness of UP's Motive Power ten-motor slug pairs, and the one twelve-motor slug pair, 1980 Plan. There are twenty-two low priority units in a assigned to Los Angeles, North Platte and Pocatello, are pending-retirement status. not considered in this switcher grouping since they are At mid-year, the railroad had 1525 locomotives assigned to specific hump yard activi ties. totalling 4, 1 35,300 horsepower, or approximately 14.3 The ninety-four-mile-Iong Coalmont Branch is being per cent of the nation's diesel fleet aggregate horsepower upgraded to handle increasing coal traffic. The line, which is 58,965,025 horsepower. Included in the UP total which has the highest point on the railroad, extends from are eighty-three units leased to the Rock Island. A quick Laramie to Walden, Color ado. Sidings are being review of these units leased to and numbered in the Rock extended at Wyocolo to 3200 feet and a new 3336-foot Island series shows twenty G E U28B's, 262-28 1, rated at siding is being laid at Walden. 0 3250 horsepower; fifty-eight EM 0 G P40's, 340-359, 362- 38 1, 4700-47 19, rated at 3200 horsepower; and five A\Co

�.-; BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT THE WESTERN LEADER FOR MORE & . THAN SEVENTEEN YEARS A change in operating philosophy from the original OF CONSECUTIVE PUBLICATION. plan to run short trains frequently to longer trains less DO NOT MISS THE 203RD MONTH! often has left the Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) with too many cars with control cabs, and not enough mid train cars without cabs. Changes in the SUBSCRIBE equ ipment roster have thus become essential. BART is rebuilding fourteen cab cars (A cars) into TYPE OR PRINT YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS cabless B cars at its Hayward Main Shop. In addition, ENCLOSE IT WITH YOUR PAYMENT damaged B car 529 is being rebuilt as well. Eight A cars AND MAIL IT TODA Y that were delivered without automatic controls, and Enter a direct-mail subscription to PACIFIC NEWS for . . ... years. which have been in storage, are now being equipped to This is a 0 New Subscription 0 Renewal of an expired subscription operate as A cars. The rebuilding program is not SUBSCRIPTIO� RATES expected to be completed until November of 1979. United States. Canada & Mexico: $10.00 for 1 year. $18.00 for 2 years The new B ears will look like cars built as B's, but there Foreign rates: $11.00 for one year. Foreign air mail rates on request will be differences in wiring. BART shop personnel are o I have enclosed my payment using some parts salvaged from three cars that have been o Please bill with first issue (Above rates plus 50� billing charge) scrapped. A car 164 will continue as an engineering car. The A car rebuildings are listed below; and it is important to note that with the exception of numbers 80 I and 802, Name .. the only two completed as of this writing, all of the Address ..... remaining numbers are assigned numbers. " A" "8" " A" " B" " A" "8" City ...... 147 80 1 109 806 224 811 State and Zip Code .. . 137 802 159 807 143 812

MAIL THIS FORM, OR A FACSIMILE, TODAY 206 803 138 808 120 813 CHATHAM PUBLISHING COMPANY 154 804 156 809 178 814 Post Office Box 283 149 805 118 810 ._...... ;,... Burlingame, California 94010 The transit district decided to do the work on the cars DO n'fJYOUR FRIENDS A FAVOR: Suggest they stop reading your PACIFIC NEWS with its own forces after exploring the possibility of and subscribe. Increased circulation allows more Western Railroading cOllerage. having the rebuilding done outside. Firms contacted were Rail Systems Incorporated, United Air Lines and World

16 AUGUST. 1978 Airways. United would have done the work at its San Electro-M otive locomotives from the Norfolk and Francisco maintenance base, World at its Oakland Western. The locomotives include four S045's, ten Airport ce nter and Rail Systems at Mira Loma in S 040's, three S 035's, five G P40's, seven G P35's, three Southern California . GPI8's, six GP9's, and one each GP30 and GP38. All of BARTs car fleet totals 447 cars. Rohr Industries, the locomotives are assigned to Pool Seven - the West however, built a total of 455. Five prototypes, 101, 102, Colton-Los Angeles region - and are considered as SP 104, 106 and 108, were scrapped by Rohr at Chula Vista units in that they may be operated anywhere on the and replaced by new cars with the same numbers. Some system. Southern Pacific will perform all maintenance components were used to build an experimental vehicle and minor repairs on the group. As the two railroads for the United States Transportation Test Track at already pool locomotives on a regular basis, the N & W Pueblo, Colorado. Prototype B cars 50 1 -503, and A car has requested that in order to keep the leased units 107, were returned to Chula Vista and rebuilt into separate from pooled units Southern Pacific not operate revenue cars, retaining their old numbers. The 107 is the any leased N&W units back onto home rails without oldest A car in use, the 504 is the oldest nonprototype car prior instructions. in use, and the 108 is the oldest nonprototype A car in The sudden availa bility of Norfo lk and Southern units service. The 50 1 is the oldest car on the railroad. - the Santa Fe already has forty locomotives on lease Cars 120, 137, 143, 147, 178, 224 and 529 were wrecked operating west of Bakersfield into Richmond and Los or otherwise damaged. The 529 is a B car, and will be Angeles - is due to the fact that this eastern coal-hauling rebuilt as a B car. The other A cars being rebuilt are railroad is currently suffering through an employee strike serviceable but have deteriorated cab floors or other regarding job security. Although the N&W is still being problems. BART is also scrapping three cars: prototypes run on a limited basis by executive officers, it has quite a 103 and 105, damaged in a test train head-on collision at fe w surplus units available for lease. As of this early Coliseum station in 1971, and the 152, wrecked in 1975 in a collision between a test train and a maintenance vehicle WHO WHAT WHERE WHEN WHY and HOW in Oakland. A maintenance worker was killed. The 143 THE RAILFAN'S OFFICIAL PHOTO LOG Entries for Photo No , Date, Loca­ was in the Fremont accident in 1972 in which the train t 10n I 5 ta te . "RR . Subj , Loco No , Came ra Angle and Scene DeacriptlCXl 984 photo entries . This log is designed for the Railfan who capi­ overshot the station and stopped in the parking lot. talizes on photography but desires to record pertinent historical Eight other A cars delivered without automatic dats expeditiously . $3.00 per Log , $5.50 for tva. SAVE MONEY AND TIME controls - most all of which have since lost their motors THE RAILFAN ' S OFFICIAL WCOMOTIVE TALLY BOOK Reduce fila c:oeU by - will be placed in service with new A TC equipment or not duplic8\lng locomotive pho tographs already in your collectlOD. Pocket-size tablet contains preprinted loco numbers nth atatua to components removed from cars scrapped or converted to note photos previously taken. Format allows for quick referenee B cars. The eight are: 252, 253, 254, 258, 26 1,268, 270 and while In the field . Inventories the photo collect loa. 56 pq.... 9,800 en tries . $1. 75 per Book , $3.25 for two. 275. There are no plans to renumber the cars to fill in gaps NEW ADDRESS HSgt Robert C. De l Groaso NEWRESS ADD left by rebuilding. USA Readiness Group Bld� Fort Sne l ling, St. Paul III 55111 [. 0 54 WESTERN LOCOMOTIVE NEWS KENNETH M. AR DINGER

Precision National Corporation Electro-Motive SW8 units 1112 and 1114 were on lease to Conrail in June, both painted yellow with PNC emblems on the cabs. The two, seen at A von, I ndiana, are ex-Southern Pacific 1112 and 1114, originally 4607 and 4609, EMO serial numbers 17334 and 17336 built in March, 1953. Santa Fe Aleo S4 1519 has been sold to locomotive dealer George Silcott at Worthington, Ohio. The unit is Alco serial number 788 14, built in 1951. Union Pacific EMO NW2 1036 has become Canton Railroad 52 at Baltimore, Maryland. The locomotive was first sold to Chrome in February, 1977 and later rebuilt at the Rock Island Silvis shops and upgraded to 1200 horsepower. Built in May, 1946, serial number 3422, the locomotive entered service on the Canton Railroad earlier this year. 0 ROYAL HUDSON AS HEAR THE MAJESTIC VANCOUVER,TO IT STEAMS FROM NORTH DWATERS OF SQUAMISH, B.C, A"I THE HEA VERSIONS BEAUTIFUL HOWESOUND, 2 TA LK. [.. SOUND- LOTS OF STACK _ . NO RUN BY'S. _T_ HE_S_OU_THE_RN_P_AC_IFIC� TOUR - DOCUME1'fTARY SPECIFY SOuND OR TOU R TAPE

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Commerce Commission's $4.4 million dollar lawsuit BANTEC PKODVCTIDNS DEPT. P against the railroad for not moving freight cars on time 2185 C4PILANO RGA-U CPA ClFIe NE WS, June, 1978) has again leased additional motive power to hopefully speed up train NORTH VANCOUV B.C. V7P 3CI service. Effective September 4, the S P leased forty

PACIFIC NEWS 17 September writing no settlement regarding the strike has purchases for seventy days. Chessie, the nation's biggest been reached, and it is possible that the Southern Pacific coal carrier, currently owns less than five per cent of will receive more Norfolk and Western units on lease in Seaboard's stock. One source indicated that the the near fu ture. (Vic Neves). Seaboard-Chessie talks emphasize a "partnership Discussions between Espee and Seaboard Coast Lines between the two roads" which presumably means that SP regarding a possible merger of the two railroads wanted to be the dominant post-merger carrier and that terminated in May (PA CIFIC NEWS, May, 1978) and Seaboard Coast Lines president Prime F. Osborn now the Seaboard has announced that it has begun apparently is not interested in playing "second fiddle." 0 "exploratory discussions involving a possible affiliation" with the Chessie System. The announcement is apparently an attempt by the Seaboard Coast Line to prevent the SP from acquiring it and "comes as no �JZ'=1 . E surprise" to the Espee. �1. ,�.£.�, tA,!t!.q . '" ��.§,L

According to SP Chairman Benhamin F. Biaggini "We J. HARLEN WILSON knew that Seaboard might be looking for a new partner and right now we're stymied." Southern Pacific has The Missouri Pacific's new Electro-Motive SD40-2 recently been acquiring small amounts of Seaboard stock units, numbered upwards from 3216, have started and now owns 9.5 per cent, but was told by the Interstate arriving as of early August. The locomotives are not Commcerce Commission to cease any additional equipped with dynamic brakes, and do not have Mars lights. Fifteen of the fifty new units are due in August (PA CIFIC NEWS, July, 1978) as EMD serial numbers 776099-1 through 776099-14. These SD40-2's are the second units on the railroad to be given these numbers. The previous units, equipped with dynamic brakes, were renumbered earlier as 6000 to 60 19. Radios, toilets and other Mopac-applied items are not yet available for the new EMD's, thus they are presently being used only as "B" units. At North Little Rock on August 10 was freshly rebuilt and repainted EMD SWI 1277 headed for Fort Worth Recar in Texas. EMD frame number 4228-4, the locomotive is apparently a Precision National rebuild of former Chicago and North Western 1277 built in 1953. 0

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18 AUGUST, 1978 George R. Cockle

The Union Pacific Railroad's fleet of forty General Electric U50C units is now gone from the roster, with the last of the huge locomotives seeing service late in 1976. During their last year of operation, these 5000-horsepower locomotives had many internal components and The radios removed and were relegated to use only as the trailing units in any motive power consist. Although technically "reactivated" during , \f...' 1/11 Camera '-- �. 1977-1978 as stand-by power plants, particularly during the coal strike, II ,--...... - all of the big GE's have since been retired and are being sold for scrap. In �j ;' �� � Car "" , May of 1976, however, it was still possible to photograph one of the :l (I . _ - � ... - ,,- giant units in the lead such as the 5031 taking charge of a Union Pacific t· �."'. - Photo freight near Council Bluffs, Iowa enroute with yet another � , � - r r. transcontinental freight train. SeclJon

I"A CH'IC I«flIII!& M Peter J. Rcplinger

Klickitat Log and Lumber Company Lima-built Pacific CoastShay number 7, above, curves through the Washington countryside for the final time with parent St. Regis Paper Company officials aboard a lone decorated car observing the May 2, 1964 final run on the logging railroad. The outing was made on the approximately 3.5 miles of the eighteen-mile railroad which still remained in place as the scrapper worked his way into the mill at Klickitat. Shay 7 was built for the Somers Lumber Company at Somers, Montana as their number 2 in The 1929, then J. Neils Lumber Company 7 and finally Klickitat Log and Lumber Company, which was a subsidiary of St. Regis when the Camera railroad's log haul was turned over to trucks on April3, 1964 ending the very last use of a in western logging service. Today, Car number 7 is preserved, and operated, at Tacoma's Camp Six Logging Museum in Point Defiance Park. Photo Southern Pacific Train One, the San Francisco Overland, runs westbound over the Lucin Cut-Off across the Great Salt Lake in 1921, Section page opposite, only hours out of Ogden, Utah in charge of P-8 class Pacific 2461. The 4-6-2 was built for SP by Baldwin in 1921 and for many years with fourteen sisters labored with the railroad's varnish between Ogden and Sparks before time moved on and the trains became both heavier and longer and the 4-6-2's passed down to duty of less importance. The 2461, by the way, was sold for scrap on July 1, 1955.

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PACIFIC NEWS 21 John J. W hcdihan

On May 23, 1963, only days away from builder Electro-Motive's erection noor at LaGrange, Illinois, Great Northern GP30 301 1 awaits assignment at the railroad's Interbay Engine Terminal at Seattle, The Washington. The 301 1 was one of a total of seventeen examples of this model owned by the Great Northern and is currently wearing Camera Burlington Northern green paint as number 221 1. With the BN merger, the 3011 joined thirty-eight more GP30's from the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad, but can be quickly distinguished from these Car CB&Q units by pilot snowplows and the lack of a headlight on the short hood. All of the GP30's absorbed into the Burlington Northern roster Photo with the merger, by the way, are still in sen'ice with the exception of number 2230, the ex-Burlington 953, which was wrecked near Madras, Section Oregon in February of 1974.

22 AUGUST. 1978 Santa Fe Fairbanks-Morse H12-44TS number 541, right, switches at the Dearborn station in downtown Chicago during the late 1960's. The locomotive is one of three such boiler-equipped l200-horsepower switchers built by FM, all for the Santa Fe and all assigned to Dearborn. Numbered 541-543 and built in 1956, they are easily distinguished from other FM road switchers by their short length, riding on switcher trucks rather than road trucks. Sold to Allison Steel Manufacturing Company at Tempe, Arizona on October 6, 1972, the 541 missed a temporary assignment to Amtrak where 542 and 543 put in a few more years until retirement in 1974. The 543, however, has been retained for historical purposes by the railroad and is in storage in New Mexico. Denver and Rio Grande Western GP9 5941 pauses in front of the Provo, Utah depot on March 19, 1975, below, assigned to work a ballast train on the extreme western end of the railroad. The 1956-built EMD geep has in recent years seen little main line duty, relegated to work yards by newer SD40T -2 units that hustle today's fast freights through the Rockies.

Steven W. Belmont

PACIFIC NEWS 23 MAlOR MILWAUKEE ROAD REORGANIZATION PENDING MORE ELECTRO-MOflVE DIESELS fOR KENNECOTT NEW The Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul and Pacific The Kennecott Copper Corporation at Railroad has begun negotiations with the Union Bingham, Utah will receive twenty-two new SLIDE Pacific Railroad in Omaha, Nebraska regarding Electro-M otive diesels for its copper mining the possible sale of segments of the Milwaukee operations starting in October of this year. The SETS Road between Butte, Montana and the Pacific order involves three models, with the last units Northwest. Mr. Stanley E. G. Hillman, the scheduled to be delivered to Kennecott this "D&RGW Articulateds" court-appointed trustee for the financially coming December. The locomotives will allow "D&RGW Steam Freight Power" "D&RGW Steam Passenger Power" troubled Milwaukee Road, has said that the even further red uctions in actual electric "Rio Grande Zephyr" company can no longer operate as a operations on the railroad which serves both the "Rio Grande Southern" transcontinental link and that if negotiations huge pit at Bingham and the main-line haul to Five 3 S MM slides in color per set succeed certain segments of the Milwaukee's the smelter. $1 .50 each set At your dealer or order direct. lines west of Butte would eventually become Ten G P39-2 units are to be delivered in Add SOg shipping and New York part of the Union Pacific. The balance of the October, numbers 790-799, following in residents add sales tax. Milwaukee west of Butte would be subject to sequence the 1977 order for twelve of these abandonment. The outcome of the negot iations, unique high-cab units (PA CIFIC NEWS, of course, is subject to Interstate Commerce January, 1977). The new units will be EMD �-lIP.o. BOX 24,iMud9lJ EARLTON, N.Y.. 12058 Commission and stock holder approval. The serial numbers 7761 16-1 through 7761 16-10. Union Pacific has said that they have not Seven SD40-2 units are on order for delivery decided exactly what segments of the in November, road numbers 101-107, and these 100 YEARS OF Milwaukee they are interested in, but will be EMD serial numbers 776129-1 through indications are that the studies center around 7761 29-7. Five M P 15AC units will complete the CAPITAL TRACTION trackage that generates heavy lumber traffic. new-unit acquisitions in December. Two, EMD The Milwaukee Road, which last December serial numbers 7761 17-1 and 7761 1 7-2, will be • Complete Story of Washington, filed for reorganization under Federal conventional, while the other three, 776 128-1 D.C. Streetcars bankruptcy laws and which just recently was through 776 1 28-3, road numbers 120-122, will • Lavishly Illustrated: 700 Photos, granted funds by the Federal Railway feature a special "wide cab." • 13 in Color Administration to increase repair and maintenance of its motive power fleet PACifiC LUMBER COMPANY ENDS RAIL OPERATIONS • Howard Fogg Color Frontispiece (PA CIFIC NEWS, April, 1978), is also California's last operating logging railroad, • Detailed Rosters. Seventeen continuing negotiations with the Chicago and The Pacific Lumber Company at Scotia, with a Maps, Technical Details North Western regarding the possibility of history dating back to the California Redwood sharing trackage in the midwest (PA CIFIC Company in 1886, has announced it is ending its • Maginnis Car Drawings NEWS, June, 1978). These negotiations have railroad haul in favor ofcontract truck logging. From Your Dealer or Direct $25 pp. led to five proposed consolidations which, if Logging trains to serve the huge mill at Scotia, approved by the ICC, and the courts, would known as the la rgest redwood mill in the world, LeRoy O. King, Jr. enable the two railroads to abandon nearly 300 have not actually operated for quite some time. 481 5 Allencrest, Dallas, Texas 75234 miles of parallel track. Limited rail operations ceased well over a year ago for a twelve-month study of "truck only" costs compared to the railroad. Late this past A CONTEMPORA RY LOOK AT THE SA NTA FE summer the final figures were in and the lumber company announced the sad decision. ROUTE OF THE WARBONNETS In order to reach the log reload at Yager By JoeMcMillan Creek, some fifteen miles northeast of Scotia, the lumber company utilized trackage rights Tour the AT & SF from Chi cago to Texas to Cal ifornia in 275 dramatic, high· over the Northwestern Pacific main line between quality photographs with detailed capt ions. See Santa Fe action at its best­ Scotia and Alton, and then operated over the from main lines to obs cure branches: the Illinois Division, Kansas stations, the NWP's Carlotta Branch to a connection with the Freedom Trai n with F·units locals in Texas, New Mexico potash 4449 & 61 0, & & lumber company's owntrack for a few miles into copper haulers, Abo Canyon, Super C, Arizona lines, the Mojave Desert crossing, the woods. On September 5, 1978 two cleanup the surf line, Cajon, Tehachapi and much more. It's all here in 176 pages, 81/2 x trains were operated to pick up the 78 surplus 11, hard cover with color Fogg dust jacket;for only $18.95. log cars that had been stored at the reload since Also available for a limited time: Order roday from: , logging operations ceased. Powered by Baldwin THE 5:10 TO SUBURBIA, a contemporary, pre· JOE VO-IOOO 104, one of two on the railroad - three McM ILLAN RTA glimpse at Chicago's commuter railroads, :120H Halsev Dl'iVl' 65-ton GE's are also on the roster - the two $14.95. I trains consisted of 40 and 38 log cars which are Wo od l' idJ{l', 1I1'1l01S Illinois Residents add 5% Sales Tax. now in storage at the Scotia mill. •

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24 AUGUST, 1978 installation of a new set of boiler tubes in the discontinue the Southern Crescent between one-time Klickitat Log and Lumber 7, which Washington, D.C. and New Orleans and has Short Stull was the last Shay locomotive to work in revenue ordered the railroad to continue operation on service in the Pacific Northwest; also in present schedules for another year ...By 1983 A second round of Interstate Commerce Washington, at Snoqualmie, the Puget Sound twenty new weekly coal unit trains will be Commission hearings regarding a possible Railway Historical Association resumed steam moving from a new Montana mine at Spring Burlington Northern-Frisco merger will start operation on July 4, using Baldwin 2-6-6-2 Creek, twenty-five miles north of Sheridan, January 3 in Chicago and according to new rules number I I, which fo rmerly hauled logs for U. S. Wyoming on the Burlington Northern to the established by Congress to speed up merger Plywood (The Trainsheet) . . . The use of Gulf Coast near Houston, Texas; trains will hearings a two-year time limit is now set for the conventional equipment on Amtrak's EI begin at a reduced rate by late 1980 with service ICC; all BN-Frisco hearings must be completed Camino service between Los Angeles and San provided by the BN and other unspecifiedroads by January 25, 1980 and a final decision must be Diego (PACIFIC NEWS, February, 1978) under contract to Pacific Power and Light.• announced by July 23, 1980 - the biggest ended August 12 after sponsoring Los Angeles disagreement has the BN saying that the County withdrew its support at the end of the Milwaukee Road and Rock Island would lose six-month trial period which began in February, THE LOS ANGELES RAILWAY only $7 million to the merged road, but however Amtrak immediately substituted Milwaukee-Rock Island sources say $2 I million Amfleet equipment on the train and has THROUGH THE YEARS is more accurate ... Discussions are underway continued the service; the County-owned for a speed-up of Chicago and North Western's conventional cars are again in storage ...The Bl' "Falcon" piggyback service with the railroad Interstate Commerce Commission has refused 5/('1'('11 L. Eas/ol1 hoping to make only one crew change between permission for the Southern Railway to Chicago and North Platte, Nebraska, occurring at Boone, Iowa, and to also eliminate a 500-mile inspection stop at Fremont, Nebraska ...The RECORD of the MONTH Western Pacific Railroad has placed an order SB 4503 Last Train to Waterloo with Electro-Motive for five new GP40-2 units to readers which are scheduled to be built in August, 1979 of as road numbers 3545-3549 ...An otherG P38-2 will be added to the Butte Anaconda and Pacific PACIFIC roster in November with delivery of number 109, NEWS serial number 786138-1; EMD serial 766008- 1, 29 BA&P GP38-2 number 108, was delivered in $7 February, 1977 ...The Skagit River Railway at Concrete, Washington announced in early this month August that its 1928 Baldwin 2-6-2 number 6 ONLY to your "has been rebuilt and fully inspected (PACfFlC No study of the history of Los Angeles is complete NEWS, January, 1978) and that negotiations DOOR without a study of the trolley system that was instru­ with the Burlington Northern regarding useage STEREO/QUAD ICD·41 12" LP mental in its rapid growth. This fascinating book of their track between Concrete and Sedro A memorial album to the Reader RR. the last regularly Wooley are about concluded" and that some scheduled steam powered mixed freight· passenger to traces the history of the colorful Los Angeles Railway operate in the U.S.A. per the Official Guide. All three from its feeble beginnings in the 1800's to its unfo�· limited operations are to hopefully begin next locomotives arc featured. No. 1702. No. 11. No. 108. lunate demise in 1963. 72 pages, large 8% x 11 format, spring . . . Utah Power and Light Company at Includes a doubleheader. and rear helper action. Deep in the piney woods of Arkansas. some of the finest old time with over 90 excellent photographs. Castle Gate, Utah is repainting ex-Denver and r:lilroad sounds abound. and we got 'cm. Rio Grande Western GP9 5923 (PACIFIC Offer good only during month NEWS, September, 1977) into its own red and of this magazine issue. black paint scheme; apparently the locomotive, - FREE Catalog upon request - $4.50 built in 1955 as EM D serial 20525, will retain its Mobile Fidelity Records former D&RGW number (Ken Meeker) . P.O. Box 336, Burbank, Calif.915 03 or see your Hobby! Record Dealer Tacoma, Washington's Camp Six Logging Stereo 8 or Quad 8 Track Tape - 57.98 Museum resumed steam operation July 4 with Stero C.... " - 57.98 DARWIN PUBLICATIONS Foreign Customers add SJ .50 postage fIOX.sJ29 SHERMAN OAK.S..CAUfORN1A 91413 Pacific Coast Shay number 7, following California residents add 6% tax

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PACIFIC NEWS 25 SOUTHERN PACIFIC AGREES TO TALK COMMUTES

The Southern Pacific has changed its position have stated, by the way, that they expect the improvements" for discussion in these upcoming on abandoning the San Francisco-to-San Jose Interstate Commerce Commission to act on the negotiations on the future of the train service: commuter operation, and the railroad has now railroad's petition to discontinue the service -Increase the present twenty-two trains in - "expressed' its willingness to accept subsidies" as entirely in October. each direction on a weekday to thirty. Weekend well as sell rolling stock and right-of-way. This Earlier, a citizens committee, called PENTAP and holiday service, as well as peak service, eleventh-hour turnabout on policy was first for Peninsula Transit Alternatives Project, would remain approximately the same; but announced in a report issued in late July by the submitted a detailed report to the Metropolitan there would be additional service in the "reverse �ine-county Metropolitan Transportation Transit Commission on financing the estimated peak" direction and midday, with the goal to put Commission, which is empowered to oversee all $10 million deficit incurred by the commuter midday service on an hourly interval. transit operations in the San Francisco Bay train service, which is currently operating with -Improve stations, add park-and-ride spaces, Area, including Southern Pacific's commuter fifteen leased Amtrak General Electric P30CH modify switches and crossovers, rehabilitate train service. units as part of the motive power pool existing locomotives and cars, and purchase ten The offer by the railroad was made in a (PACIFIC NEWS, July, 1978). The PENTAP cab-control cars to allow change to push-pull private meeting between Southern Pacific document calls for fares to pay about thirty-five operation of trains. executives and government officials, according or forty per cent of the operating costs of the -Increase the service up to sixty-eight trains, to the document released by the Metropolitan trains, with the remainder coming from both thirty-four in each direction, on weekdays by the Transit Commission. Santa Clara County California and Federal transit sources. year 1986. Supervisor Steinberg reported at a July 21 However, the committee, which is an official The future of the San Francisco-to-San Jose meeting of an MTC committee that she met with advisory unit to the MTC, recommended that commuter service of course remains in doubt, Espee officials "in response from a request from the Southern Pacific subsidize a small amount and an application for complete abandonment SP." According to the minutes of the July 21 of the loss. of the trains remains pending before the public meeting, Ms. Steinberg met with SP Vice "There is an unwillingness to accept the Interstate Commerce Commission; but at least President Alan DeMoss, SP official J. H. validity of Southern Pacific cost estimates, for the first time the railroad has announced a Williams and Rod Diridon, a Santa Clara particularly in the absence of having an willingness to accept subsidies and negotiate for County supervisor. opportunity to seriously explore potential cost public ownership and operation of the trains. _ Ms. Steinberg reported that representatives of savings in concert with SP," reported MTC the Southern Pacific had expressed a new Commissioner John C. Beckett, chairman of flexibility concerning the negotiations with PENTAP. "As a result, it is not possible to A trio of Amtrak General Electric P30CH CalTrans - the California State Department of determine the precise level of subsidy needed to units wait at Southern Pacific's San Francisco Transportation - and, according to the minutes sustain the existing level ofSP services, nor is it station with two of the railroad's own EMD Southern Pacific "expressed its willingness to possible to judge how much additional service GP40P-2 units for the departure time of their accept subsidies, work under a purchase of will cost or how much reduced service will save." respective commute trains on August I, 1978. service contract, and sell the right-of-way and The railroad is now willing to "talk subsidy," Fifteen of the GE's are presently being leased by equipment" needed for public operation of the however; and both railroad and CalTrans SP for the service, working with a few of the commute service. The representataives of the officials have been riding the trains to gain a railroad's passenger-equipped GP9's to railroad also stated that Southern Pacific would first-hand knowledge about rolling stock, provide the service even as the future of the be willing to negotiate on any basis leading to a stations and rights-of-way in prelude to the commuter runs is being decided by local transit "successful conclusion." negotiations that will come. agencies while the ICC considers an application Metropolitan Transit Commission officials PENTAP has proposed the following "service to abandon the trains entirely.

R ichard Morley

26 AUGUST, 1978 nEWS PHOTOS

The Apache Railway has sold its two Fairbanks-Morse HI0-44's, 100 and 200, to Willis Kyle of Kyle Railways for the South Central Tennessee Railroad, which will operate a 52-mile ex-Louisville and Nashville route. The 100 was the first diesel acquired by the 75-mile Apache back in October, 1947, serial lOL81; the 200 in October, 1948, serial 1 OLI 00. The two are here being picked up at the Apache's Holbrook, Arizona interchange by the Santa Fe July 16. Vancouver Wharves in North Vancouver, British Columbia, has acquired ex-Spoklane Portland and Seattle Alco RSI 54, built as serial Ronald W. Keller 73572 for subsidiary Oregon Electric in June, 1945, from dealer Gordon Machinery (PA CIFI C NEWS, June, 1978). Now numbered 22, the unit last worked for Morrison-Knudsen out of Prince Rupert on a Canadian National contract and has been in storage at Spokane. California's 8-mile Camino Placerville and Lake Tahoe Railroad has repainted previously orange-and-black G E 44-tonner 102 into green and white, matching new company colors. The 102 was built in 1941, serial 12951 , for Chicago Burlington and Quincy, later the Burlington Northern's 3. Acquired via dealer Birmingham Rail and Locomotive in 1971, the G E received a thorough overhaul at Camino in which it was given the hoods of retired 44-ton 101, built new for the line in 1953. The 101's hoods were of a much later design - specifically the 102 had side radiators - so she now appears as a newer unit in scenes such as this, below, at Smith Flat on August 11, 1978. The train operates Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays between parent Michigan-California Lumber's mill and the SP. Grant L. Ferguson

PACIFIC NEWS 27 Central Iowa Railway Company, a 63-mile line running since 1974 over former Rock Island track between Hills and Montezuma, Iowa, has announced they are now out of business and the railroad will be sold for scrap. The only motive power, Electro-Motive SWI number J33-3, for Jeremiah 33:3, has been sold and delivered to dealer Chrome Crankshaft at Alhambra, California. Seen on the Union Pacific at Salt Lake City enroute west, the unit was built in June, 1939, serial 897, for the Chicago Burlington and Quincy as their 9136, later Burlington Northern 78. In March, 1973 it was sold to the Central Iowa Railway. Union Pacific has donated Electro-Motive Both: Stan Jennings NW2 lOll, built in July, 1940, serial number 1123, to the Utah Division of Parks and Recreation for the Heber Creeper Railroad (see page 12). The lOll, middle, seen at Salt Lake City, was fitted with a new engine in 1977 and a generator early this summer. Ex-Tidewater Southern Railway 44-tonner 735, built as number 135 in November, 1946, serial number 28337, and last operated for mill switching by the Pickering Lumber Corporation at Standard, California but never relettered, is now on lease to Pacific Railroad Constructors by owner Chrome Crankshaft. The construction firm is handling the Southern Pacific's grade separation and line relocation at Alhambra in Southern California where this photograph was taken August 8, 1978. The silver-and-orange GE was sold by the Tidewater to Pickering in April, 1967, and acquired by Chrome Crankshaft in 1977; it has been in storage on Modesto and Empire Traction Company property in Modesto (PA CIFIC NEWS, March, 1977).

A. F. Bolton_

28 AUGUST. 1978 nEWS PHOTOS

Burlington Northern's latest group of new Electro-Motive SD40-2's includes twenty-four sublettered for subsidiary Colorado and Southern. Photographed at Alliance, Nebraska only weeks off the builder's floor at La Grange, Illinois, is BN 7849, serial 776057-30, a member of the first subsidiary motive power to be delivered with parent BN numbers. Colorado and Southern, however, appears to be in no hurry to renumber older units into the Alan R. Burns Burlington Northern series and it may be years before a complete renumbering is accomplished.

Freshly outshopped Santa Fe GP30u 3276 rests outside the railroad's San Bernardino, California shops on July 28, 1978 in vivid new paint. The locomotive was released only the day before, and is the prototype for an upcoming planned rebuilding program which features upgraded wiring, inclusion of "Dash 2" series modules for dynamic braking, and air conditioning. Other prototype rebuilding programs currently underway involve GP35u 3446 and FP45u 5945. Ed Chapman Kerr-McGee Chemical Corporation at Trona, California has repainted ex-Southern Pacific Alco RSD12 2962 into the firm's current blue and white paint scheme. The locomotive was built in March, 1961 as serial number83842 for the Southern Pacific and was originally numbered 7012. The unit is, by the way, an Alco rebuild of the former SP RSD5 5300 built as serial number 80431 in May, 1953 and one of twenty-one sold back to Alco in 1960, stripped for usable parts leaving the trucks, frame and miscellaneous equipment as the basis for the new RSDI2's. The 1800-horsepower 2962 was shipped from SP's Houston facility in March of this year (PA CIFIC NEWS, February, 1978) and joins two ex-SP Baldwin S12's on the current Kerr-McGee roster. Also operating at Trona are two Baldwin AS.(i16's employed by the Trona Railway, Kerr-MeGee's connection with the Southern Pacific.

J. Harlen Wilson

Ashley Drew and Northern's most recent motive power· acquisition, Paducah GPI0 number 1810, poses at Crossett, Arkansas. The locomotive is the former Illinois Central Gulf 9352 and was received by this Georgia Pacific shortline in March of this year (PA CIFIC NE WS , May·, 1978). The locomotive joins a roster of five Electro-Motive switch engines and usually operates in multiple with an SW1500 on the nightly roundtrip between Crossett and Monticello, Arkansas.

PACIFIC NEWS 29 Mountain-Sugar Pine Railroad for the benefit of railfan photographers on the 14th of October, including a freight train and an extra-fare moonlight cab-hop behind three-truck Shay number 10 if the response warrants. Other trains and Excursions I events will round out the day. Lunches will be available, and a bar-b-qued steak dinner is included with the extra-fare moonlight cab hop. Fare for day-long activities is $20, lunch extra. Moonlight cab-hop and steak Special dinner is $25. SAE for tickets and information to: Agent, YMSPR R Railfan's Day 3473 W. Shields Avenue, Apt. 95 Operations Fresno, California 937 11 October 21-22, weekend STEAMTOWN'S ANNUAL RAILFANS WEEKEND Two full days featuring special railfan-oriented activities with lots of steam action guaranteed. Many photo stops and run-bys. Also a night photo session. Door prizes include cab rides. Steamtown Foundation All listings herewith are made free of charge, and PACIFIC NEWS assumes no responsibility for errors, revisions in fares and schedules or operational changes, P. O. Box 71 all of which are subject to change without notice. PA CIFIC NEWS reserves the Bellows Falls, Vermont OS IOI right to edit material or,to refuse any listings. Insertions will not be printed from brochures. Deadline is the first of the second month preceding publication date. November 4, Saturday STEAM DOUBLE-HEADER ON THE SIERRA RAILROAD Until October 29, Season A steam double-header, featuring Consolidation 28 and Mikado 34, will depart SUMPTER VALLEY RAILROAD RESTORATION Jamestown at 9:30 for a full day's outing. Not since the filming of Bound For Operating on an extended route for its third season as trackage continues to be Glory and a recent press run have these two locomotives teamed together and relaid on the original Sumpter Valley Railroad right-of-way out of Dredge Depot several years have passed since they shared an excursion billing! is 2-truck Heisler 3 and its open-car passenger consist. Trains leave hourly. The train will first run west to Cooperstown, then east to Barron Ranch ncar Sumpter Valley Railroad Restoration Standard. At least five photo run-bys arc scheduled, all at points not accessible by P. O. Box 654 motor vehicle. A delicious buffet will be served enroute. Baker, Oregon 978 14 Fare: $19.50 (advance orders receive I 920-era ticket), children 3-7 $12.50. Jumps-Kitts Rail Tours Until October, Season P. O. Box 816 SIERRA RAILROAD MOTHER LODE CANNONBALL Glendale, California 91209 The Sierra Railroad offers a 16-mile hour-and-a-half journey from Jamestown to Sonora and beyond to the Piekering lumber mill yard at Fassler every weekend November 18-19, weekend of the summer. The trains are steam powered - the normal motive power is 2-8-0 RAIL WORLD '78 28 - with four departures each day. The unique Rail To wn 1897 guided An exhibition of scale model trains from around the world, including operating roundhouse tour of the Jamestown facilities is available weekends in all but the layouts in several scales, private collections, commercial exhibits, audience . winter months, and daily throughout the summer. Wine and Cheese Zephyr, participation in clinics and operations, and railroad films and slides from many Twilight Limited and Sierra Supper Specials operate on various summer dates. countries. This meet is a joint effort of European Train Enthusiasts, Interail, Sierra Railroad Company Roseville Roundhouse Model Railroad Club, Sacramento Modular Railroad Drawer 515 Club and the Sierra bivision, PCR, NRMA. To be held at the Placer County Jamestown, California 95327 Fairgrounds, Roseville. Tickets $1.00: under 10, SOc . Rail World '78 Until October, Season 3009 Tanya Court CHESSIE STEAM SPECIALS Sacramento, California 95826 The popular Chessie Steam Special Excursions will again operate during 1978 as part of a continuing celebration of the 150th Birthday of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, America's first. The B&O is a part of the Chessie System. As in the case of the 1977 trips, the former Reading T- I 4-8-4 number 210 I will power the consist of nineteen cars. Excursions operate to serve various points along the system on virtually every weekend through the end of October. Schedule and fares from: Chessie Steam Specials Box CJ, 2 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21201 Exira Board September 15-0ctober I, two weeks Rallroadlnu's lowesl-cosl classified ad marMel R&LHS ANNUAL LOCOMOTIVE DlSPLAY The yearly display of locomotives and equipment owned by the Southern CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING California Chapter of the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, including a section for railroad-related items. PACIFIC NEWS reserves the right to edit all copy and to refuse any listings. Ads can not be new ex-Santa Fe horse car, will be held at the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds at acknowledged, nor can proof copies be sent. Closing date is the 15t of the 2nd Pomona from September 15 to October I during the annual run of the county fair. preceding month. Count all numbers. name and address. but not zip code. Rates Southern California Chapter, R&LHS are 10e a word, $3.00 minimum. Payment in advance. Repeat ads 50% off for the 1020 N. Sierra Bonita Avenue second month of each two-month period for continuing ads. Los Angeles, California 90046 FOUR CHATHAM MINI BOOKS. We have found a very small quantity of each September 16-17, weekend of the four 16-page 5Yix8y," mini books published several years ago by Chatham BAKERSFIELD BY TRAIN Publishing Company. Each is illustrated. Available while the supply lasts at $I.50 A special train will operate from Los Angeles over the Santa Fe's Santa Ana each: Bur/ingfOlI Northern Renumbers, a unit-by-unit listing of the renumbering Canyon, Cajon Pass and Tehachapi Loop trackage to Bakersfield. Much of this that took place upon the merger creating today's BN; Klamalll alld HoppolV routing is freight track, not normally used for passengers. Amtrak Hi-Level chair Va lley, a pictorial of this now inoperative California tourist railroad showing both cars, snack and club cars will be included in the consist. Fare of 59S.00 includes of its steam locomotives in action; Pugel Sound and Snoqualmie Valley Railroad, overnight lodging in Bakersfield and two lunches. Additional for private room in story and study of this Washington museum; Sligar Pine RaillVay, the history of parlor car and single hotel room. Train connections at Fullerton from San Diego.- this one-time common-carrier part of Pickering Lumber Corporation'S railroad. Lets Travel Tours Chatham Publishing Company, P. O. Box 283, Burlingame, California 940 10. P. O. Box 2768 Riverside, California 92S 16 RAILROAD BOOKS - current publishers only - discount prices. LSSAE for list. Railroad Equipment-PN, P. O. Box 213, Lindsay, California 93247. September 16, Saturday CALIFORNIA WESTERN LOG TRAIN BEHIND STEAM M EM BERS SLI DES, Repronar reproduced, Kodak processed. SSAE and $1.00 A steam-powered log train will be operated on the California Western Railroad for list number 3 and sample to Hawk Mountain Chapter NRHS, Dept. A, P. O. by the Northern California Railroad Club on September 16, consisting ofa steam Box 372, Allentown, Pennsylvania 18105. locomotive, loaded logging Oats, an open-air observation car and two coaches. Many photostops will be held as the train runs through redwood forests from Fort SLIDES, black-and-white negatives - original and duplicate color slides, Bragg to Shake City and return in an area inaccessible by highway. original black-and-white negatives. Class One, shortline and industrial The fare, at $30.00, includes a barbecue lunch at Northspur. A connecting bus locomotives and miscellaneous equipment. Catalog and three samples, $1.00. A. lour from San Francisco is also available and train capacity is limited. F. Bolton, Box 423, Placentia, California 92670. Northern California Railroad Club 3124 Wessex Way SMALLEST TIMETABLE ever issued: a reprint of the 1905 Moffa t Road Redwood City, California 9406 1 designed for a fisherman's wallet for only 35< postpaid. Many other Colorado employee and public reprints. List from the Colorado Railroad Museum, Box 10, October 7, Saturday Golden, Colorado 8040 I. UNION PACIFIC 8444 EXCURSION Union Pacific 4-84 8444 will power a special train round-trip from Denver to THESE CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS ARE INEXPENSIVE. At only Laramie, Wyoming on October 7, with photostops featured enroute. Equipment 10< a word - with a fifty per cent discount for the second of each two-month on the train will include a baggage car, coaches, dome coach and a full lounge. period the ad is repeated - you can not afford not to be represented right here Food service will be available all day in the baggage car. where a listing will find or sell anything from a true gem to a white elephant' Adult fare is $38.00. Tickets and information: LAS VEGAS AND TONOPAH Intermountain Chapter, NR HS wall map circa 1910. A big 19x2S" reproduction , P. O. Box SI81 showing the Los Angeles and Salt Lake. $3.00 each mailed in a tube. Long's, 17233 Denver, Colorado 802 17 Celtic Street, Granada Hills, California 91344.

RAILROAD RADIO SCANNERS October 14, Saturday - Car Mobile and Hand Held - Electra YOSEMITE MOUNTAIN-SUGAR PINE RAI LFAN'S DAY Bearcat, Midland and Pace. Several models in stock from $99.50 to $169.50. Several special trains are to be operated on the three-foot-gauge Yosemite Crystals for most western railroads in stock at $5.00 each. Stop in or write for your

30 AUGUST, 1978 railroad-radio needs. Iron Horse Hobbies, 3529 CI.yton Road, Concord, forth between the wharves and interchanges with the New Haven and the California 945 19. and Maine, the railroad was continually busy, but only after dark. Unfortunately, the way that the author reveals the history is rather confusing, and there is no SPOKANE PORTLAND AND SEATTLE RAILWAY COMPANY explanation given as to why the railroad insisted all of their steam locomotives fit a Consolidated Code oj Op erating Rules, 1959 edition, for sale at $ 1 0.00. 232-page boxcab design. Aside from these facts, the reader is presented with a wealth of pocket-sized bound book of railroad operating regulations and signals from two information, including a very interesting account of the railroad's last day of decades ago. This book has never been used and is in mint condition. Includes service in 1970, and a complete locomotive roster. Great Northern and Northern Pacific rules as well for joint operations. Karl R. Ot her features of the book include a detailed description of the unloading of the Koenig, PA CIFIC NEWS, P. O. Box 283, Burlingame, California 940 10. famous British 4-6-2 Fly ing SCOISma1l at Boston Harbor in preparation for a lengthy tour of the United States, and a brief history of Boston's SOUTHERN PACIFIC EMPLOYES TIMET ABLES for sale. These have never and how it almost was totally demolished by the wrecking ball in the early 1970's. been folded and are in mint condition, shipped Oat. Western, Sacramento, Author Kyper also reveals an exciting account of his sti nt as a crossing-gafe tender Tucson, San Joaquin, Los Angeles and Oregon Divisions from the middle 1960's on the Boston and Maine during the early 1970's, and how one night a huge fire at prices from $1.00 to $3.00 each. List sent for stamped self-addressed envelope. virtually destroyed the small Massachusetts town of Chelsea, but left his crossing John Parson. PA CIFIC NEWS, P. O. Box 283, Burlingame, California 940 10. shanty untouched although it was right in the middle of the inferno. Overall, the author packs a lot of information, mixed with warm personal BACK ISSUES of PA CIFIC NEWS remain available;some date to the July, 1964 reflections, into 160 pages of Boston memorabilia and although the book is a far issue, number 35. Quantities are limited for many of these, however. The wide cry from being a complete history of railroading in the area, it would be a most variety of feature article topics covers most of the western railroading activity for welcome book in the library of any northeastern railroading fan. - Ken Meeker this period of time. Send a stamped self-addressed envelope for complete details: The Railroad That Came Out At Night, Stephen Greene Press, Brattleboro, PA CIFIC NEWS. Post Office Box 283, Burlingame, California 940 10. Vermont 0530 1. Hardbound, 6V,x8V,", 160 pages, 47 photographs. 57.95.

A TREATISE UPON CABLE OR ROPE TRACTION J, Bucknall Smith and George W, Hilton In 1887 cable cars were in valid economic competition with both horse cars and the infancy of electric streetcars. Stationary steam engines turned huge cable Publishers are encouraged to submit copies ofboth new winding machinery and the growth of cable traction as an industry seemed and reissued books, records, photo sets, etcetera not assured. Few knew that perfection of electrified street railway operation was only previously reviewed in PACIFIC NEWS. There is no months away with the introduction of new controllers and motors for streetcars, charge for this service: however, the material will be or that cable cars world wide would always remain a minority and be doomed to a B II retained by the magazine for its research library. 0 0 relatively short life. The survivor, in San Francisco today, exists to attract tourists. With the popularity of cable traction for movement of passengers along city streets hopefully ready to burst upon England, J. Bucknall Smith, an English engineer trying to interest British tramway operators in this form of railway ReuiewS technology, authored the original version of this book which survives today as the outstanding historical document on cable railways. and other new railroading-related Droducts George W. Hilton, author of 77,e Cable Car In America, has prepared an excellent preface to this second edition, and also a long list of numbered notes on THE MOFFAT TUNNEL Smith's writings as the reader progresses through the volume. We are given the Charles Albi and Kenton Forrest benefit ofninety years of cable car history, the authoritative knowledge of Hilton, In September of 1923 you could purchase tax-exempt Moffat Tunnel Bonds and the rare opportunity to study a fascinating topic in the context of its prime with a yield of five per cent. In July of 1927 the 6.2-mile tunnel was "holed time period. This is indeed a rare treat. through" and on February 28, 1928 a series of special trains were operated to This second edition is a photographic reproduction of the original book, which commemorative opening ceremonies for the tunnel which, at the time of its was sadly not successful in expanding the interest in cable traction. Nonetheless, completion, was the second longest railroad bore in the United States. sixth the book's accbunt of the invention of the cable car and its technology is extremely longest in the world. Moffat Tunnel is, of course, today on the main line of the thorough and fascinating reading in the company of seventy-six examples of Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, and still very much in active use, Victorian draftsmanship at its best. On the eve of electric streetcars, J. Bucknall although such was not always the case as this book explains. Smith detailed the state of the art in cable traction. Historians, technologists and Host to passenger traffic since its construction. the tri-weekly Rio Grande cable car enthusiasts should all be glad this long-unavailable book is once again in Zephyr still plunges through this bore which itself dives under the Continental print and ready to enjoy. - Norman Saunders Divide in the heart of the Colorado Rockies. Perhaps the greatest test for the A Treatise Upon Cable Or Rope Traction, Owlswick Press, P. O. Box 8243, importance of the tunnel came during World War \I when as many as thirty Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19101. Hardbound, 5�x8�", two-color cover, freight, passenger and troop trains operated through the tunnel in a single day. no dust jacket, no photographs but 76 drawings. 232 pages. 514.50. This slim booklet is an excellent history of the tunnel. with more than enough detail to satisfy most readers on the reasons for the tunnel's construction. how it was built. and t he railroading geography of this part of the Colorado Rockies both before and after the massive construction project was completed. There are abundant photographs of the construction work, as well as train operations along this vital route, part of the Denver and Salt Lake at the time of the Moffat Tunnel work and not part of any transcontinental main line until after completion of the Dotsero Cutoff in 1934 allowing a direct connection between the D&SL and the Letters to liJf#lfJ Rio Grande after the latter railroad acquired a majority interest in the former. Following completion of the cutoff. D&RGW trains could operate direct from ONE WEEKEND IN APRIL Denver through the tunnel, over the Dotsero Cutoff and onto Rio Grande rails My sympathy to Mr. W. T. Morgan (May issue) whose frustrations with allthe again for the run to Salt Lake, resulting in a massive upgrading of the D&SL things that can go wrong in our quest for the Holy Grail are more typical than not. properties. A full merger of the subsidiary into the Rio Grande took place in April I had previously thought that "Yumas Ignoramus" was a species whose habitat of 1947. Railroading in the Colorado Rockies is fascinating, this book makes it was east of the Mississippi River, whose role on this earth is the propogation of more so. - Norman Saunders Murphy's Law. The Moffat Tunnel, Colorado Railroad Museum, P. O. Box 10, Golden, Isn't it strange that Morgan's greatest obstacle to achieving his goal of good Colorado 8040 I. Softbound, saddle stitched, 44 pages, two-<:olorheavy cover shots of 4449 was the very popularity of the railfan movement. I enjoyed Mr. and fully illustrated. 8�xll". $2.95. Morgan's adventures immensely. It just goes to show that sometimes we have a bad day and sometimes we have a good day. That'S what makes it so interesting. LACKAWANNA HERITAGE 1947-1952 Charles A. Brown John Krause and Ed Crist Sutton, Massachusetts This book, in an oblong format, is the leading title in a planned series of photo essays, a "monograph" to use the words of the publisher. While you will not get a I have just finished reading "One Weekend In April" by W. T. Morgan in the history of the Delaware Lackawanna and Western from its pages, you will most May issue and am truly close to tears. If only Mr. Morgan had let it be known that certainly get a n excellent "feel" for the railroad during five transitional years when he was rolling out of Oxnard on his beautiful (sob!) Suzuki 750, perhaps a great steam was bowing down to the inroads of internal combustion. majority of the fans chasing the 4449 that fateful weekend would have stayed The mix of steam and diesel photographs is handled well, seeimgly just the way home, allowing Mr. Morgan to maneuver his wonderful machine at will. the railroad appeared during the time period of this book. EM D cab units share And the audacity of X4449's passengers, those motorcaders and various other the trackage with A\Co and Baldwin steamers, massive "Poconos" roam the rails travelers to inundate the hostelries of Yuma to the point that Mr. Morgan had to of the Lackawanna Railroad, home-built 0-8-D's switch coal a nd passengers and a remount his shining steed to seek refuge elsewhere. It certainly seems that some vanished heritage has been preserved for the enjoyment of everyone. - Norman motel in Yuma would have anticipated his arrival and held a room for him. We are given no roster, but none is needed fo rthat is not the intent of this book. A final apology to Mr. Morgan for the woeful state of law and order in EI A map is vital, but one is provided. This book - we look forward to others in the Centro. Certainly if one can not sleep soundly in that community without fear of series - is one to just simply enjoy. -Norman Saunders local thugs ravaging one's beautiful (sob!) Suzuki 750, why I say it is time to Lac kawanna Heritage 1947- 1952, Railroad Heritage Press, 424 West 33rd declare martial law and clean up the place. Street, New York, New York 10001. Softbound, saddle stitched, 48 pages Mr. Morgan is certainly due proper recognition for capturing on film those very with a two-<:olor heavy cover. 8�xl l" oblong, 62 photographs. $4.00 rare Kaiser Steel U-Boats; he truly has the last laugh on all we boobs who spent that weekend either chasing or riding that commonplace transcontinental steam THE RAILROAD THAT CAME OUT AT NIGHT excursion. It does seem that some of us would have had the good sense to stay Frank Kyper home and wait for the next one, right, Mr. Morgan? This publication, subtitled "A Book of Railroading in and around Boston," is Jim Tatum precisely that, a collection of nine stories that range from a historical look at two Pomona, California waterfront shortlines to a very interesting account of the author's own personal life as a crossing-gate tender for the Boston and Maine. All the way from Massachusetts I came to see the 4449 return to her home on 77,e Railroad Th ai Ca me Out A t Nigh t is both the books title and one of its nine Southern Pacific's Coast Daylight route and W. T. Morgan's article, although stories: the Union Freight Railroad Company, a 2.I I-mile shortline that died with taking place east from Los Angeles instead of north, is a duplicate of my own the introduction of Conrail in 1970, ran only at night. During the early years of experience. My thanks to Morgan for telling it like it is, to serve as a reminder of this railroad's operation, motive power consisted of various geared steam the times, and the fun, and the excitement, of being one of the masses out to locomotives that were modified to fit into a boxcab configuration with dual renew friendship with the Southern Pacific's GS class. Frustrating times, yes, but controls, including four three-truck 80-ton Climax locomotives built between now I know that Morgan, too, knows it was a chance of a lifetime! 1923 and 1928 that lasted until the arrival offive General Elcctric 44-ton diesels in Bob Monforton 1946. Operating on trackage along Boston's waterfront shuttling cars back and Boston, Massachusetts

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