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2 JULY, 1976 Pacific No. 177 JULY, 1976 lie' S VOLUME 16 NO. 7

KARL R. KOENIG • EDJTOR "

TOM GRAY ..... '.' ..... PRODUCTION STAFF

INolOI; CI-I�TI-I�M... HAROLD C. KOENIG •...... EDITORIAL STAFF This seems to be the year fo r the mentioning of topics more than once JOHN PARSON ...... EDITORIAL STAFF in a short period of time. Last month we suggested that our need for D.S.RICHTER ...... : EDITORIAL STAFF photographs of the American Freedom Train was larger than the GARY VI ELBAUM ...... STAFF LIBRARIAN supply - and so it remains, by the way, for although there is good coverage of the train in this issue we have about used up our supply, Kenneth M. Ardinger ...... •.... Contributing Staff again, and have no views of the 4449 in storage at Birmingham yet we do Edward M. Berntsen ...... Contributing Staff have readers hoping to see such a scene in PACIFIC NEWS-and this George R. Cockle ...... •...... Contributing Staff month the subject of the magazine's delivery comes up once more. In Doug E. Cummings .....•...... Contributing Staff four simple words, it's not our fault! Tom Eikerenkolter ...... •..•.... Contributing Staff Yes, as admitted in the June issue, we have been a bit late with the past Robert L. Hogan ...... •.... Contributing Staff Don Jewell ...... •..•...... Contributing Staff issues of 1976, but not as late as many subscribers are being led to Joe McMillan ...... • ...... Contributing Staff believe. We've not missed a single issue in 177 consecutive months and Ken Meeker ...... •...... Contributing Staff have no intention of doing so now; and to settle a question that has Peter J. Replinger ...... Contributing Staff come up many times lately, the May issue was the latest in reaching the Virgil C. Staft"...... •.... Contributing Staff post office but somehow from the early indications the June issue is F. Hoi Wagner, Jr ...... Contribultng Staff breaking all of the records for late delivery. Once it reaches the post office, there's little we can do to help speed the magazine along that is not being done already. New sorting methods © went to work with the May issue and should have helped it. Instead of C'p( Contents Copyright 1976 rushing the June issue along, however, it appears that across San ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Francisco Bay from here subscribers never had a chance. From everywhere between Vallejo to the north and Fremont to the south, and THOSE WESTERN BICENTENNIALS ...... 4 east to Tracy, the post office managed to delay the magazine for weeks. STEAMING IN THE WEST WITH THE4449 .12 Our circulation department informs me that renewals from across the CANADA'S MIGRATING INTERURBANS. . .. 15 continent - even from across the international boundary - were being SANTA FE'S NEW BARSTOW YARD ...... 16 received in return from the June issue be/ore it was delivered in the East TODAY'S TRONA RAILWAY...... 18 Bay. The problem, however, seems to, hopefully, have been somewhat CAMERA CAR PHOTO SECTION ...... 21 of a one-time situation that should not occur again. BURLINGTON NORTHERN NEWS...... 27 As for our own tardiness, the march back to on-time performance is UNION PACIFIC NEWS/MUNI JOTTINGS ... . 28 SANTA FE/WESTERN LOCOMOTIVE/WP ...... 9 already being made. This issue will be in the mails on an earlier date 2 NEWS PHOTOS ...... than was June, and June, as mentioned, was earlier than May. That ..30 SHORT STUFF ...... , ...... 33 orderly return to on-time publication is itself on schedule. EXCURSIONS/CLASSIFIED...... 3 4 We are f1attered, by the way, with the f100d of calls and letters BOOK REVIEWS/LETTERS ...... 35 received shortly after PACIFIC NEWS fa ils to show up on time. We value your admiration for the magazine and faith in its delivery. We will not let you down. No doubt some eagle-eye will remember a long-ago comment in this column that it is written fa irly early each month and now be wondering how so many comments on a June issue could be made so early in the fo llowing month. Simple. This June issue is more than half done as this is being written and there's a resulting note on the deadline chart that page 3 is overdue. That's why there's only a quiet office, an occasional SUBSCRIPTIONS DIRECT BY MAIL passing fr eight train on the Southern Pacific - the radio reports that In United States, Canada and Mexico: $10.00 for one Extra 4450, that upgraded passenger-equipped S D9E, is about ready to year, $18.00 for two years. Single copies $1.00. Foreign: leave Bayshore Yard fo r San Jose - and me. This is a Saturday, but $11.00 per year. Foreign (only) First Class and Air when the magazine is late weekends often give up a .bit of their time in Mail rates are available on specific request. fa vor of getting back on schedule. There's a BiCentennial story to tell, a visit to the Trona Railway to make, Santa Fe's new Barstow Yard to CHATHAM PUBLISHING COMPANY study, migrating Canadian interurbans to learn about, and an Post Office Box 283, Burlingame, California 94010 USA eastbound Southern Pacific freight to photograph. 4450 just got the •

highball from the caboose. It's all on the main line now at Brisbane and NEWS PHOTOGRAPHS ARE PAID FOR UPON PUBLICATION it will be here in about fo urteen minutes. Bye. -Karl R. Koenig PACIFIC NEWS is published monthly by the Chatham Publishing Company. 1012 Oak Grove Avenue, Burlingame, California 94010. COVER: California Western's eastbound Super Skunk with Baldwin (4t5) 348-0331. Printed in the U.S.A. Second Class poslage paid al Burlingame. California 94010. PACIFIC NEWS assumes no responsibility BiCentennial SS on the point 3 miles west of Willits, California June 14. for the safe return of editorial or advertising material. Acceptable (Henry W. Brueckman) photographs are filed for potential future publication and are paid for upon use. Advertising rates are available on request for rate card.

PACI FIC NEWS 3 A SAMPLE LOOK AT A FEW OF THOSE WESTEIH BICEHTENNIALS

A late entry into the BiCentennial theme is the Ventura County Railway number 4, seen just before the July 4th weekend at Oxnard, California prior to going into service and virtually as PACIFIC NEWS was going to press. The General Electric 70-tonner was built in December, 1946 for the South Western Portland Cement Company (Mojave Northern) at Victorville. It joined the Ventura County roster in June, 1971. Glen Icanberry

At Hill Air Force Base in Utah is the United States Air Force's Baldwin 1863 in Air Force colors modified for the BiCentennial year. Wearing the national BiCentennial emblem on the front and the Air Force emblem on the cab, the locomotive was built by Baldwin as serial 75713 in 1952. Photographed May 5, 1976.

George R. Cockle

HUTCHINSON NORTHERN 1 GE 30-ton electric. at Orange Empire Ry. Museum IDEAL CEMENT 1 Whitcomb 45-ton. used at Superior. Nebraska cement plant IDEAL CEMENT 028 GE 45-ton drop-cab. 2nd of 3-unit roster IDEAL CEMENT 029 GE 44-ton, 3rd of 3-unit roster ITT RAYONIER 76 Baldwin AS-616. used for logging near Hoquiam. Washington KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN 616 & 642 EMD SD40-2's. units were not renumbered KANSAS CITY TERMINAL 76 EMD SW1200, unit was not renumbered KENNECOTT COPPER 778 GE 125-ton electric. assigned to Utah Mines Division KOPPEL BULK TERMINALS - Baldwin S12, used at Long Beach. California LOUISIANA MIDLAND RAILWAY 1111 Alco RS1, this unit was not renumbered MILWAUKEE ROAD 156 EMD SD40-2 MISSOURI KANSAS TEXAS RAILROAD 200 EMD GP40. unit was not renumbered MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD 1776 EMD GP7u. ex-77. originally the C&EI 212 WESTERN BICENTENNIAL LOCOMOTIVES MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD 1976 EMD GPl8.locomotive was not renumbered MISSOURI PORTLAND CEMENT 1 EMD SW900. used in SI. Louis COMPILED BY tOM GRAY MODESTO AND EMPIRE TRACTION COMPANY 603 GE 70-ton, not renumbered OMAHA LINCOLN AND BEATRICE RAILWAY 2 GE 44-ton. unit not renumbered ALASKA RAILROAD 1776 EMD FP7A, ex-1510 ROCK ISLAND 652 EMD E8. used in passenger service out of Chicago ALASKA RAILROAD 1976 EMD FP7A. ex-1512 SALT LAKE GARFIELD AND WESTERN RAILWAY DS-1 GE 44-ton AMERICAN FREEDOM TRAIN 610 Lima 2-10-4, not renumberediused in Texas SANTA FE 5700-5704 EMD SD45-2's. five locomotives.these units not renumbered AMERICAN FREEDOM TRAIN 4449 Lima 4-8-4, locomotive was not renumbered SOO LINE RAILROAD 1776 EMD GP35. ex-727 APACHE RAILROAD entire eight-unil active roster 01 Alco and FM locomotives SOUTHERN PACIFIC 3197 EMD GP40P-2. assigned to San Francisco commutes ARKANSAS AND LOUISIANA MISSOURI RAILWAY 12 EMD SW9 SOUTHERN PACIFIC 6800 GE U25BE. ex-6708. originally 7508 ASHLEY DREW AND NORTHERN RAILWAY 176 EMD SW1200 SOUTHERN PACIFIC (COTTON BELT) 9389 EMD SD45T-2 BATESVILLE WHITE LIME - Porter 0-4-DT, On display at Batesville, Arkansas TERMINAL RAILROAD ASSOCIATION OF ST. LOUl� 1207 EMD SW9 BEALEN MANUFACTURING COMPANY - Whitcomb 44-ton. Columbus. Nebraska TEXAS MEXICAN RAILWAY 1776 EMD GP7. ex-851 BENDIX CORPORATION - Sedro Woolley. Washington TEXAS AND NORTHERN RAILWAY 22 Alco S2. locomotive was not renumbered BURLINGTON NORTHERN 1776 GE U30C. ex-5325 UNION PACIFIC 951 EMD E9A. repainted by Electro-Motive forPreamble Express BURLINGTON NORTHERN 1876 EMD SD40-2. ex-6325 UNITED STATES CORPS OF ENGINEERS - GE 25-ton. used at The Dalles Dam BURLINGTON NORTHERN 1976 EMD SDP40. ex-6397 U. S. STEEL COMPANY 29 Baldwin DS4-4-1000, used at Geneva, Utah steel mill CALIFORNIA WESTERN RAILROAD 55 Baldwin RS-12. used on Super Skunk runs U. S. STEEL COMPANY 76 Baldwin S12, used at the Pittsburg. California mill CHICAGO AND NORTH WESTERN 1776 GPI8. locomotive was not renumbered UNITED STATES AIR FORCE 1863 Baldwin S12, assigned Hill Air Force Base, Utah COLORADO AND WESTERN 200 EMD GP7. ex-l0l. used at Pueblo, Colorado mill VENTURA COUNTY RAILWAY 4 GE 70-ton FEATHER RIVER AND WESTERN 1 Plymouth 35-ton. private: Portola. California WESTERN PACIFIC 1776 EMD GP40. ex-3540 HOUSTON BELT RAILROAD 31 EMD SW9 WESTERN PACIFIC 1976 EMD GP40. ex-3541

4 JULY, 1976 J. Harlen Wilson

One of the more frequent appearances of the Western BiCentennial locomotive fleet has been with 4-8-4 4449 during the travels of the American Freedom Train, such as the Missouri Pacific's pair here arriving at Newport, Arkansas on the morning of April 12. After all, what better way is there for putting"diesel power into the limelight than to share it with this former Southern Pacific (;5-4 4-8-4?

The Missouri Pacific's G P7u number 1776 is the former Chicago and Eastern Illinois 84, here photographed at Austin, Texas in February of this year. With its sister red, white and blue BiCentennial number 1976, the' locomotive was first introduced to the MOP's trackside at the time of the initial visit of the 4449 and the American Freedom Train.

Both: Rail Fi/III .\I(}nfh�r. Dennis Schmidt

Missouri Pacific's 1976 is a GP 18u with external air filters and rides on Alco trucks. Both locomotives are painted with a version of the Missouri Pacific's eagle sporting a variant of the American flag. The two units are painted white with blue cabs and trucks. Those bold stripes on the carbody are red and the stars are white. As was the 1776, the 1976 was photographed at Austin, Texas in February of 1976 soon after it was repainted and returned to service.

PACI FIC NEWS 5 Henry W. Brueckman

Burlington Northern SOP40 number 1976, formerly the 6397, was the second BiCentennial locomotive on the railroad. Here, on an August, 1975 day, she leads a freight across the Lake Pend Oreille Bridge to the south of Sandpoint, Idaho. Santa Fe's Super C here rounds the curve on the south track near Summit, below, on the railroad's widely-known crossing of Cajon Pass in Southern California on February 29, 1976. BiCentennial S045-2 5703 is in the lead, a job which was nearly always assigned to one of the railroad's five red, white and blue units prior to the recent discontinuance of the train.

Paul McGuffin . • 1 '::� t' , •. . � • v I • !... :. ;. .,...�

Henry W. Brueckman For the BiCentennial year the Western Pacific painted up a pair of Electro-Motive G P40's in nearly-identical red, white and blue paint schemes. The fabled Keddie Wye played host to both of these units on two trains May 18, above, when the 1776, ex- 3540, headed a southbound movement from the Burlington Northern (left) meeting sister 3541, now the 1976. enroute down the Feather River Canyon from the east. Below, the first of the repainted locomotives, 1776, leads the Western Pacific's symbol TOF over Rock Creek Trestle deep in the heart of the Feather River Canyon on its maiden run May 30, 1976 enroute to the east end of the railroad for a display engagement. Ken Meeker

PACIFIC NEWS 7 Seaboard Coast Line General Electric-built U36B number 1776 was painted in its red, white and blue colors at the factory during its construction in 1971. The locomotive toured much of the nation in late 1972 on a special train designed to re-awaken a sense of history for the then upcoming BiCentennial celebrations. Here, left, at Richmond, California on the Santa Fe at the start of the tour on November 11, 1972 the 1776 prepares for a trip that will terminate in Richmond, Virginia that December. What was not anticipated, however, was the impressive number of BiCentennial-painted locomotives that have since followed behind this Seaboard Coast Line/ General Electric effort that started all of the red, white and blue railroading. Although the Union Pacific did not paint a locomotive in BiCentennial colors, its 951, an EMD E-unit, was repainted red, white and blue by Electro-Motive to power the Preamble Express that traveled the route of the future American Freedom Train during late 1974 to arrange advance planning for the steam­ powered train now in operation. The Union Pacific has since repainted the 951, however, maintaining its BiCentennial scheme and it remains active in these colors. When photographed, she was at Denver with the Preanlble Express in August of 1974. Harmen-Silver photograph

Tom Gray

8 JULY, 1976 1

Henry W. Brueckman

Virtually the first Western railroad to repaint a locomotive in BiCentennial colors was the Santa Fe, below, which repainted five S045-2's, numbers 5700-5704. The number 5700 herself is seen April 3 of this year on the north track at milepost 57 near Summit on the crossing of Cajon Pass. California's seven-locomotive Modesto and Empire Traction Company, above, repainted one of their GE 70-tonners, number 603, and on April 20, 1976 posed it on a segment of their seemingly endless industrial switching track with box cars from each of the three transcontinentals with which it interchanges: Santa Fe, Western Pacific and Southern Pacific. Kopel Bulk Terminal at Long Beach, California adopted a new paint scheme for its two locomotives stationed at this facility and then added a BiCentennial touch to the hood of ex-Southern Pacific Baldwin SI2 2128, left. The locomotive is white with a black frame and trucks and yellow pilot. Robert Schoonmaker Paul McGuffin

PACIFIC NEWS 9 Bill Raia Rail Film Monthly. George Cockle

George R. Cockle Rail Film Monthly. George R. Cockle

Rock Island E8 652 was not renumbered, top left, but it was very much repainted for the BiCentennial. Here she is sporting the paint scheme that was the compliments oCthe 20th Century Railroad Club, while on the point oCthe Peoria Rocket leaving the eastern end of the system at Chicago on VIa)l17, 1976. Kansas City Terminal Railway S W1200 76, top right, was repainted in VIa)l, 1975 with a red, white and blue stripe - and stars - a�ong its black carbody. It did not have to be renumbered. Ideal Cement Company repainted their three-locomotive roster at the Superior, Nebraska plant in BiCentennial colors as displayed, above left, by 1940-built 44-tonner 029. A sister drop-cab 44-tonner and a Whitcomb also work on this railroad affectionately called the Nebraska-Kansas Railroad as the quarry it operates to is across the state line in Kansas. Milwaukee Road 156 is an SD40-2, seen showing off her BiCentennial red, white and blue paint scheme at Kansas City, Missouri not long after she went into service. At The Dalles Dam on the Columbia River the United States Government, which operates the facility, has repainted a 25-ton General Electric inherited from contractors into BiCentennial colors, below. The locomotive is now used with an equally-colorful red, white and blue flat car to transport tourists visiting the dam and generating plant. Extended tours of the facility involve a trip out on the dam passing from the Oregon side into Washington midway across the river.

Tom Gray John E. Shaw

BiCentennial locomotives do haul freight, do get dirty and do get wet, just like any other locomotive. Here. above, we have Cotton Belt S045T -2 9389, Cotton Belt GP30 5004 and Southern Pacific's only General Electric U25BE, number 6800, also in BiCentennial paint, together snaking a freight northbound out of Taylor Yard in Los Angeles on a rainy February 8, 1976. Only the Southern Pacific's third BiCentennial unit, the passenger-hauling GP40P-2 3197 which normally works in the San Francisco commuter pool, was missing from the lineup. The Salt Lake Garfield and Western's OS-I, below, provided the muscle on June 6 for a special excursion by the Promontory Chapter of the NRHS. The railroad repainted the locomotive earlier this year, the Chapter repainted the coach in BiCentennial colors itself just prior to the outing, photographed crossing the Surplus canal west of Salt Lake City. Excursions are usually operated by the Cliapter in the spring and fall of each year on this seventeen-mile railroad. The coach, by the way, belongs to the chapter and is ex-Union Pacific 5340. Stan Jennings STEAMING IN THE WEST WITH THE

THE AMERICAN 4449 FREEDOM TRAIN

St. Louis, Mi ssouri and its famed arch , left, welcome the 4449 and the American Freedom Train to the very un­ mistakable west bank of the Mississippi River with its historic steamboats. Looking back over the 4-8-4's tender, the train is backing to its St. Louis display site April 4. Earlier, to the west of St. Louis at Kirkwood, the train waits at 5:00 AM, below, for special invited guests from St. Louis to arrive for the last leg of the run from display at Jefferson City over the Missouri Pacific. Both: John 1. Wheelihan

12 JULY,1976 Fifty miles west of its next display stop at Jefferson City, Missouri, the 4449 is enroute from Kansas City with the Missouri Pacific's pair of red, white and blue BiCentennials. The date is March 31 as the one-time Southern Paci fic G8-4 blends its own white smoke with the equally white clouds at Lamine, Missouri. James E. Asplund

4449 would meet both Amtrak and a freight there. The freight was to hold the main with number 22 pulling ARI(ANSAS up behind, wi th the Freedom Train to come down the si ding. Alacia would be the place to meet the 4449! ARTICLE/PHOTOGRAPHY J. HARLEN WILSON When I arrived, I unloaded and headed for the east side of the tracks, stopping along the way to photo­ I made plans long before April 12 to meet the graph the veteran E8 on the Inter-American. Selecting American Freedom Tr ain as far north of Little Rock a position in the cotton field that would allow me to as I could and pace it on in. As a railroad employee I shoot the Fr eedom Tr ain and the head-end of Amtrak had the schedule and also a two-way radio to talk number 22, I was reasonably confident of getting a directly to the dispatcher so that I coul d keep track fair shot ; the only other rail enthusiast that I knew of the train's whereabouts. Wi th a scheduled 2:00 AM of within miles was at my side and I did not expect departure from St. Louis, I figured the 4449 would to have people in the way. All set. There she comes! show up about Poplar Bluff at daylight. However, as Ther e is the smoke, now I can see the headlight. the weather was cloudy, I decide d to leave Little But, as the big red, white an d blue GS-4 came closer Rock about daylight and drive north hoping that by people swarmed over the right-of-way into our view­ the time I intercepted the train there would be enoug h finders. I think some even came out of the journal light for pictures. box es on the freight train. Well, we shot the best we Just north of Newport, I learned from th e dispatch er could and the chase was on. that the Freedom Train and Amtrak's train 22, The My first look at a real live GS-4, 'although short, Inter-American, would meet at Alacia. In fact, the was enough for me to see why so many people rave

With its visit to St. Louis completed the 4449 steams along over the main line of the Missouri Pacific south of White River near Newport, Arkansas on the morning of April 12. Ahead is a di sp lay date in Little Rock, and once ag ain the 4-8-4 has the two Missouri Pacific BiCentennial diesels along for the day's train movement.

PACI FIC NEWS 13 about these locomotives. I have been guilty of making AM there were people on hand to see the one-time some cutting remarks about them, once saying that Southern Pacific Daylight steamer. comparing one to a green-and-gold Southern Railway Thursday was spent in anticipation of the chase class Ts-1 Mountain was I ike comparing a circus to Memphis which was to start at 2:00 AM on Friday clown to a lady in even ing clothes. But, I had to morning. It was unbelieveable how many people got admit the GS-4 was impressive. up at that time of the night to see the Freedom Train I managed to get ahead of the train for a few ph oto­ off. We got out of town about an hour late, and the graphs of the 4449 as it came into Newport. Ahead first seventy miles or so were spent with my entire of schedule, the decision was made to hold the train family just enjoying the beauty of the big 4-8-4's there and depart at the scheduled 12:00 noon. This running. No pictures, no recording, just looking. gave time for a snack and to get into my' chosen spot At Bald Knob, it began to get daylight and we on a nice left-hand curve just south of the White started shooting pictures in the still too-weak light. River a little way out of town. It soon became evident that the sun was not cooper­ From there on to Li ttle Rock wa s a typical steam ating, however, and enough light for decent pictures train chase, but at North Little Rock the entire town was slow in coming. At Wynne, a stop was made to turned out to greet the American Freedom Train. service tbe locomotive and to pick up the press. By People were so thick that even as a railroad employee this time the light was good enough to allow a dandy I was not permitted to enter the yard until the train shot of the 4449 working up Crowley's Ridge just east had passed. of town. As the train had stopped right at the foot of Upon arrival at Little Rock, the 4449 was cut off, the grade, Missouri Pacific BiCentennials 1776 and leaving the Missouri Pacific's BiCentennial diesels 1976 were called on to do a little work. This time and to switch the train out to Vestal Park. The 4449 on the approach to the Mississippi River bridge were gingerly followed on the light rail. Then, almost the only two times the diesels were used. immediately the crew went to work dropping the main I had long always wanted to shoot a train on the and side rods in preparation for having the driving Memphis-Arkansas Bridge with the Memphis skyline wheel flanges turned. in the background and what better train than the The 4449 was brought to the Missouri Pacific's American Freedom Train? We made a half-mile hike light repair shop where the next two days were spent up the highway bridge for this purpose, so I made it truing the drivers on the floor-mounted wheel lathe. worthwhile by putting a whole 36-exposure roll of While this has become common on diesels, it was a Kodachrome through my Canon. But, unfortunately, "first" he re for a steam locomotive. The 4449 was both the clouds and the haze kept them from being . rel eased [rom the shop late Wednesday, Apri I 14 and prIze W1I1ners. rejoined the train on display at Vestal Park. We bid farewell to the 4449 and the Freedom Tra in I went to bed early that night, setting my alarm at Memphis. It was now in Tennessee. We grabbed a for 12: 30 AM, getting up then to head out to Vesta I bi te to eat and headed home for some sleep with a few Park for some night photography of the 4-8 -4 whose good photographs and lots of good memories of this beauty was beginning to grow on me. Even at 1 :0(1 once-in- 200-years event. •

On the Mi ssouri Paci fi c' s floor-mounted wheel lath e in th e light repair shop at Little Rock, 4-8 -4 4449 has her driving wheels turned du ri ng a two-day maintenance session wh ile the train itself was on di spl ay. Driver al ignment and resulti ng wear pro blems were co rrected earlier in the 4-8-4's national tour. CANADA"S TRIO OF IVIIORATINO INTERURBANS

ROSER1 D. TU R NER PHOTOGRAPHY/TH E AUTHO R

The British Colwnbia Electric Rail­ way operated the longest interurban sy stem in Canada, and one of the most extensi ve in North America. Its red and white cars finally succumbed to the competition from buses and private au tomobiles in 1958. when passenger service was terminated on the branch fr om Vancouver to Steveston. Subse­ quently, WiUl only dieselized freight operations remaining, the catenary was Interurbans 1220 and 1235, above, at the Tro lley land Electri c Railway. removed and all electric rolling stock I3elow, 1235 is readied for shi pment back to Canada as 1220 and 1231 wait. was disposed of. Only two steeple-cab switchers were retained for switching Columbia Provincial Museum in Victoria in a small yard in downtown Vancouver, and was felt to present a unique oppor­ an operation since dieselized (British tuni ty to repa tri ate some very in teres ting Colwnbia Hydro feaLUred in PACIFIC and important pieces of historically NEWS, October, 1975). Most of the significant rolling stock. What added to interurbans and the streetcars were the museum's interest was the condition eventually scrapped, although the of the cars; they were vi rtua Ily in ta CI bodies of some survived for a few years and potentially operabl e. While th ey as roadside cafes, cottages or even as had been slDred outside, the owner had ch icken coops. tak en considerable effort to see that Seven of the interurbans are still in ule u1fee cars were not damaged and existence, but until last year only one had also acquired a large quantity of was in Canad a. Number 1223 was dis­ spare parts at the time of their original pl ayed for many years in an unprotected purchase from the British Columbia site atBurnaby and suffered from vandals Electric Railway. Weather and time, of and theweather.1t was eventually moved course, had had an effect on the cars the St. Loui s Car Company in 1912. They to Bur naby's Heritage Park and pa rtially and some of the woodwork and seating were originally ordered by Stone and rebuilt, although a complete restoration had perisl1ed. Webster, the owners or managers of a was not possible. Finding a new home for the three number of street railway properties in The other cars had all been acquired cars was a key question as storage for various parts of the United States. How­ in the 1950's by various individuals or an object the size of one of the big ever, the purchase was not completed groups in the United Stat.es where they St. Loui s-bui It cars was not readi Iy and British Columbia Electric acquired were stored or on display in private available. The National Museum of them in stead. museums. Number 1225 went to the Science and Technology in Ottawa was The cars were all medium-weight Orange Empire Trolley Museum at contacted and the Curator for Industrial interurbans - about 70,800 pounds - Perris, California while the older 1304 Technology, John Corby, was able to and are of com posite construction with was taken to Glenwood, Oregon not far inspect the cars and arranged for one steel si des and frames. Several of the from Port Ian d. Num ber 1207 was placed to be acquired for display in Canada's cars were originally used on Vancouver on display on the property of the Puget National Museum. Island on the Saanich Interurban while Sound Railway Historical Society at The British Colum bia Government felt the majori ty spen t thei r en ti re careers Snoqualmie Falls, Washington. justified in buying the other two cars. operating on the lines ou t of Vancouver. The remaining three interurbans were Purchasing details were finalized and Eventually, the Saani ch line was re­ acqui red in 1958 for use on a planned shipping arrangements were mad e by equipped with city cars from ViclDria to urist railroad operation in the Seallie the Provincial Museum. All three cars service and the St. Louis interurbans area. But the line, calied the Tro Iley land were moved to Vancouver where the were transferred to Vancouver and Electric Railway , never operated as 1220 and 1231 were stored in CP Rail's rebuilt for heavy service on British intended. Unfortunately, while a great Drake Street yards along with rolling Columbia Electric's line to Chilliwack. dea I of work was done at a si te wes t of stock from the Provincial Museum Train None of these rebuilt cars survi ve d. Interstate 5 south of Seallie between and Ule Royal Hudson excursion train. It wi II be some time yet before Olympia and Chehalis, th e lack of an Meanwhi Ie, the 1235 was shipped via all three of the cars are fully re stored. adequate power supply precluded the CP Rail to Ollawa where it is now in The f rethought of the Trolleyland railroad's opening. As a result, the storage pending restoration. Final plans Electric Railway in first saving the three cars, numbers 1220, 1231 and for the two cars remaining in British cars was a cri ti cal step in the long 1235, were eventually offered for sal e Columbia have not yet been announced process that will eventually see the in 1974. by the govemmen t. interurbans preserve d as examples of The availabi Iity of the cars was The three in terurbans, and twenty-five the state of the art in transportation of brought to the allen tion of the Bri ti sh other identical cars, were all built by the early 1900 's••

PACIFIC NEWS 15 Th e 48-track cl assifi cati on yard, above foreground, is Barstow's center of activities, while be low is th e interi or of the yardmaster's tower and the operations co nsole for the yard.

THE SANTA fE'S NEW BARS Costing some $50 million, the Santa Fe's new Barstow, Californ ia freight yard was opened in late Apri I completing the railro ad's most recent major con­ struction project in the west. The new yard is a 4Y2-mile-Iong com plex which includes a 4S-uack computer ized classi­ fi cation yard capable of processing more than 2700 cars daily, a diesel locom otive servicing facility that can handle over one hundred un i ts each day and a fr eigh t car repair operation capa ble of repairing 360 cars dai ly. Santa Fe's John S. Re ed, chaimlan and ch ief executive officer, noted that "Barstow is a key point for Santa Fe. The rai lroa d forms a huge 'V' there, as the lines from Northern an d Southern California converge at that point to join th e transcontinental main line . By centralizing our classification of Cali fornia traffic at Barstow we have quicker handling than the previous with the as si stance of two computer expe dited car haddling and eliminated method of holdi ng cars at poin ts of systems. The tefl11inal computer, built congestion at our other California yards, origin for tr ain s heading to the final by IBM, maintain s a record of each thereby speeding both the delivery and destination area. car' s movement from arrival through the gaulering of carload traffi c." Th e major part of the Santa Fe's recei ving yard, classification yard, On an average day seven ty-fi ve or westbound tran scontinental tra ffi c is repair fa ci lity if needed, and so on until more trains can be handled at the new made up in Ch icago an d Kansas City it leaves from the departure yard. Thi s Barstow yard. Except fo r a few through into soli d Lo s Angeles and San Fran­ computer also prov ides car destination trains moving directly between Los ci sco Bay Area trains, and these will li sts to the "hump" computer system Angeles or the San Francisco Bay Area con tinue to bypa ss Ule Ba rs tow yard. which handles classifi cat ion of cars an d Chicago, other traffic origina ting in Other Californi a tr affic is now sent to and controls the speed of each car as California is moved to Barstow as Barstow in random order where it is it descends from th e hump. Such con­ quickly as trai ns can be assembled, sorted into trai ns for either Northern siderations as car wei ght, temperature, then switched into other trai ns headed or Southern Cali fornia destinations. wi nd velocity and speed at which the for specific destinati ons. Thi s provides Operations of the yard are man aged car commences its descen t, together

16 JULY, 1976 The modem supervi sor' s high tower, above, dominates the new $50 million freight clas si fi cati on yard at Barstow, Californi a wh ere, be low, three trai ns on three routes can arri ve and de part simultane ously.

All: Santa Fe Railway TOW CLASSIFICA TIONcars in YAstation orderRD with those for .the first del i very point next to the locomo­ tive, those for the next point immediately behind, and so on, al lows the train crew to perfornl intermediate switching more efficiently along its route. The new Barstow yard fa cilities were eighteen months in th e desjgn stage and the yard required one month over two years to bui ld. The yard proj ect involved one of the largest earth-moving jobs in Ca lifornia hi story. Five million cu bic yards of desert sand were exca ­ vated an d relocated and 600 ,000 cu bic yards of crushed ro ck were used, part to cover the en tire yard to keep down the bl owing san d and the I:£llance for track ba lla s t. Nearly 20,000 trees, hundreds of shrubs and two miles of ground cover were planted. An irrigation sy stem wa s included in the six miles of water line with the. di stance each car must ro ll to the rai lroad's Topeka computer center laid; a waste water treatment fa c ility, a coupl ing wi th another car, are taken and other offi ce s for improving car costing a half million cbJIars, including into account by the compu ter which uti liza t ion and car location. three wa ste evaporation pon ds, protects regu lates the amount of re straint each Four tracks in the classi fication yard against contamination of un<;lerground pneuma tic retarder provi des as the car have been designed as a unique "mini­ wate r sources. pa sses through it. Data accumu la ted hump, " or rehump yard, to produce more Stati sti cally, Barstow yard covers by the compu ter is visually avai lable refined blocking of fre ight cars wh ich is about 600 acres of land, has about 113 at various points throughout the yard de si ra ble fo r ce rtai n outbound trains. For miles of track, 320 switch es, 294,000 via cathode ray terminals. example, cars fo r a parti cular train can ties an d serves Santa Fe trains arriving When trains depart the new Barstow be grouped toge ther in station order for and depa rting on three routes. Loca ted yard, the terminal computer issues a sixteen destinations by two moves over on the bank of the Mojave River wi th a wheel report listing by locomotive, car the mini-hump, wi th the pote ntial for di stinctive yard office tower, the new and ca boo se the entire consist of the building many more blocks available in yard is a maj or addi tion to the operation outbound train whi ch is transm itted to the computer program if desired. Having of the Santa Fe Ra i lway .•

PACIFIC NEWS 17 Gary G. Allen

tonnage hauled on the rai lroad's thirty-one miles of HA L RI EGGER track to an interchange with the Southern Pacific at Searles, plus the incr easing maintenance costs on aging locomotives, the rai lroad entered into a run­ As the third wealthiest in the state, the thirty-one­ through contract with the Southern Pacific and sold mile Trona Railway enjoys an almost unique position the two center-cabs east to Peabody Coa l. in California along with its namesake town where, at Towards the end of its ownership of the Baldwin two Kerr-McGee Chemical Company plants , jobs go center -cabs, the Tro na Railway was splitting its begging . The Tr ona Railway's payroll of some forty trains of alkali refined from Searles Lake into two emp loyees has been a constant part of the tota l local sections, necessitating two daily round-trips of employment figure for years. sixty-two miles each. Now, the Tr ona Railway leases Located in one of those out-of-the-way places in anywhere from five to nine Southern Pacific locomo ­ Southeastern California's mineral-rich Panamint Valley tives to haul one manifest, which at one point ascends desert country, the rai lroad's motive power has drawn a 1.8% grad e. The Tr ona's crew drives by automobile rai l enthusiasts from far af ield hoping for a glimpse to the junction at Sear les, operates the Espee's and a photograph of the Tr ona's Baldwin diesel s. locomotives and brings the empty train back into Until April 1, 1973 (PACIFIC NEWS, May, 1973) Tr ona early every evening of the work week. The the railway owned four Baldwins : two big center-cab outbound loads are returned upgrad e to Sear les in 606SC versions of the 1949 DT6 -6 -2000, a 19 54 AS6 16 the late evening. and an earlier 1951 sister that was formerly the 5249 In the daytime, the only activity to be seen on the in the Southern Pacific fleet. Due to the increas ing rai lroad is either one or both of the remaining Baldwin

18 JULY, 1976 All: Hal Riegger

The Trona's steam-era water tank still stands at Searles Junction, here hi ghlighted during darkness by locomotive headlights at the start of the rai lroad's nocturnal run from the Southern Paci fic interchange, page oppo site. Four Southern Paci Iic units, wi th SD9E 4359 in the lead, above, pause for a rou tine brake check before leaving Trona to return to the Espee. The enroute trip will climb a 1.8% grade and pass through a mi litary reservation on thi s moonlight night. Baldwin 52, right, was de livered new to the railroa d in 1954 and is still acti ve to day , here seen weighing cars at the Trona yard. Be low, thi s same number 52 ambles along the Panamint Valley desert floor shuffling cars between th e two chemical plants of parent Kerr-McGee. Hal Riegger

The fo rmer Southern Pa cific 5249 was bui lt by Ba ldw in in April of 1951 complete with the IU XUlY of dynamic brake s and multiple-u nit equipment. She weighs 323,000 pounds and was the lone mem ber of Espee's original class DF-10S. She left the Southern Pacific's roster just shy of 9� years later and was rather quickly sold to the Trona Railway, joining the Trona roster in Novem ber, 1960 as the number 53. Here, the AS61 6 is in the Trona shops fo r a thorough overhau l and showing off a colorful prim e mo ver - it's yellow and green - which would, of course, not norma lly be vi si ble.

AS61 6's at work switching , weighing cars and making around n111e or ten PM with the Southern Pacific's up the train for the night's run . The seemingly minimal motive power on the head end, the Trona's tr ain activity is deceiving, yet Trona's situa tion, when moves sout h out of the Trona yard and across the analyzed, is ideal for a going, solvent concern. bleak, dark desert and upgrade to Searles where The railway now owns only the two Baldwins and the Espee's crew takes over . The consist is now a caboose, bes ides picturesque rnainte nance equ ip ment mainly covered hoppers with an occasional tanker, wi th which it still maintains a fine track and roadbed. or a fe w box cars thrown in; the actual tonnage is The maintenance shop, like the main office, is modest primarily various sodiu m, potassium and lithium salts yet adequate for its purpose. One gets the impression for both foreign and domestic markets . of considerable pride on the part of the employees in AS616 52 , built in March, 1954 as Baldwin-Lima­ the ir work and in be longing to the Trona Railway . Hamilton serial 75835 - is equipped with controls on A fe w relics of the past persis t: a water tank at both sides of the cab and was acq uired new, while Searles reminds of the days of steam and stands among number 53 - BLH April, 1951 , serial 75139 as Espee the ruins of a small railroad se ttlement that consisted 5249 - which was obtained fr om the Sou thern Pacific of the station and company struc tures. And, in the in November of 1960 is not. yard at Trona several kerosene switch lanterns are Perhaps not as picturesque or as romantic as it still used, although they are now supplemented by for merly was for rail buffs, now with the two Baldwin reflector targets . center-cab units off the ros ter, the Trona Railway is Half of the Trona Railway's activities must be nonetheless an interesting and profitable shortline photographed at night, a not always easy task . At railway . Well worth going out of the way to see .•

20 J U L Y, 1 976 John E. Shaw Stan Wi Ilhight

Southern Paci fic Baldwins live! Looking a bit the worse for wear, mis­ sing her footboards and carry ing a scrawled "Equip No. 513" on her, the fonner Espee S12 2131 does switching fo r National Metals on Terminal Island near Los Angeles. Down through the years many an SP locomotive, both steam and di esel, has ended its career here and others wi ll doubtless follow the 2131 , photographed working on the fifth day of the current year. In only a moment, right, Bu rli ngton Northern F45 661 2 wi ll enter Seattle's Interbay yard en ding another run. The date is late fa ll of 1975 and the maple leaves are starting to turn. Th e 6612 was fo rmerly Great Northern 439, part of the rai Iroad' s second order bui It in 1969 and one of forty-six at work on the Burlington Northern today.

PA CI FIC NEWS 21 Henry J. Luna

22 JULY, 1976 '�.? ;:( . ,

Barney Mearns

It's a hot, terribly hot day in early September, 1959 just east of Tuolumne, Ca lifornia, page opposite, as another mi ll-bound arrival eases to a brake-checking stop on the th ree-foot-gauge rai ls of West Si de Lumber Company. Shay 10 is about to dro p down the steep grade into Tuolumne and del iver her logs to the mi ll, a task that wo uld last but one mo re sea son . These parti cular rai ls sti ll exi st, however, The the dormant property of the inactive pa ssenger-hauling West Si de and Cherry Va lley Rai lway . Three-trucker number 10 Camera now hauls tourists on the Yosem ite Mountain and Sugar Pine at Fish Camp, Ca lifornia near Yo semite Park. Car A current-day logging scene, above, Crown Zellerbach's Alco eases into "Diamond Crossing" at Ladysmith, British Co lumbia with a loaded log train from Nanaimo Lakes. Just about to thump over the Esquimalt an d Nanaimo's main line, the train will be at its Island-edge sa lt water log dump in less than another mile to complete the day 's run.

PACIFIC NEWS 23

Joe McMillan

The November day in 1975 is damp an d getting daIker, page opposite, as Western Pa cific's Extra 3053 East is photographed between the porta ls of tw in tun nels 7 and 8 at OaIk Canyon in that fabled Feather River cou ntry . 3053, by the way , is a U30B that came from bui lder General Electric in September of 1967 as number 753. It was given its present number in May of 1972. Montreal-built Century-630 4559 was originally delivered in 1969 ·a s number 45 14, a member of the Canadian Pacifi c'S Pacesetter ra dio rem ote control fl eet. Here, as CP Rail, she leads a trio of S04O-2's - numbers 561 5, 5709 and 5666 - out of the west portal of the fi ve-mile Connaught Tunn el at Glacier, British Columbia on June 18, 1975. Robot car 10, with S040-2 's 5661 and 5699, is at work in mid train.

PACI FIC NEWS 25 ORANGE EMPIRE RUNS STEAMER rail rapid transit system. Two ballot measures Th is doe not mean that there is no hope of The ex-Mojave orthern Davenport-built authorizing taxes and construction for the rail ra pid transit in Los Angeles, however. The 0-6-0T number 2 has onceagain been fired up at transit line fa iled in the June 8 elections. Rapid Transit District is negotiat i ng with both the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris. The propositions - R and T - would have state and fed eral sources for money to build a California. A renewed permit was issued on raised Los Angeles County sales taxes one cent. transit starter line from downtown to Long April 24 following a boiler inspection, after but voters have consistently refused to pay any Beach. This proposed starter line is independen� which the throttle was replaced - including a extra money for rapid tra nsit in Los Angeles and of the Sunset Coast Line rail network turned new throttle rod - air brake equipment they voted negative once again. The Sunset dow!) by the voters. repaired, tested and replaced and fi nally on May Coast Line fa iled to win the support of the Los 22 the locomotive was again placed under steam. Angeles City Council and two members of the SOUTHERN PACIFIC DIESEl NOTES Although several minor things were found to board of directors of the Southern California Southern Pacific's new 4700-series locomo­ need additional attention, plans were being Rapid Transit District. tives mentioned last month will be derated to made to operate the locomotive over the July The two ballot propositions were promoted 2000 horsepower and lacking their 4th weekend. Meanwhile, work continues at the by a Citizens Committee for Rapid Transit. The turbochargers. These SD35's will be re built same location on the ex-Ventura County 2-6-2 Southern California Rapid Transit District as the 4700-4724. which will include all of the remaining units. Four SD35E's have alreadv Baldwin number 2 in order that it. too, may be itself is forbidden by law to campaign for ballot ' operated in steam. (William B. Ga rner) issues. The rail line was primarily the product of been produced by the Sacramento (California) Los Angeles County Supervisor Baxter Ward. General Shops. but these retained their SUNSET COAST LINE IS DEFEATED who is also a member of the Southern California horsepower rating and turbochargers and are JOHN LIVINGSTON Rapid Transit District board of directors. In the numbered as the 6950-6953 leaving the balance Los Angeles County voters turned down the same election. by the way. Ward won a bid for of twenty-five units for the current program and proposed Sunset Coast Line. a 232-mile heavy- his re-election. 4700 number series. The ra ilroad's same upgrading and de­ turbocharging program is also to be extcnded to the system's 2500-horsepower GP35's resulting RECORD of the MONTH Superb Films of the in a series of 2000-horsepower G P351::. SB 4504 A Royal Hudson locomotives outshopped by the system shops at Freedom Train Engines Sacramento. A RoyalHudson to readers Southern Pacific's three Alco-built RSDI5'� of g� INevada but There is no c.\:cusc for not adding this album to your A special selection of post cards, from to date the test eq uipment still belongs to the collection. Do it now! our inventory, of locomotives painted Offer good only during month for the BicentenniaL Selection con­ Burlington Northern and that seems to be the of this magazine issue. tains 21 standard post cards and five continued status of the project for quite some Jumbo 6" x 9" post cards for $2.75. - FREE Catalog upon request - time yet as the Southern Pacific undertakes a New York residents add sales tax Mobile Fidelity Records long and serious study of the actual operational p.o. Box 336. Burbank. Calif. 91503 benefits from such radio-controlled mid-train or see your Hobby/Record Dealer JiudW-lIiMudq;. helper units. It is. however. an interesting test Slereo 8 or Quad 8 Traek Tape - S7.49 P. O. Box 24, Earlton, N. Y. 12058 project. made even more so by the usc of the Burlington Northern units.•

On the Texas and Pacific somewhere between Eagle Flat and Sierra Blanca , the morning stillness is broken as Extra 610 West thunders past. The powerful majesty of a Texas type 2-1 0-4 is captured in a magnificent watercolor by Howard Fogg, America 's premier railroad artist. Our extra high-fidelity four-color reproductions duplicate the color and skillful touch of the superb original. The 16" x 22" i mage is the exact size of the original and is printed on heavy #80 cover, 18" x 24" stock. This is a real quality piece that every ra ilfan will want to own.

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26 JULY, 1976 Th is routing would eliminat e nearly all grades for BURLING ON NORTHERN cl T loaded trains, except sout h of Denver, and wou lcfdo mu ch to assuage the fear s of such northern Colorado

F. HOl WAGNER, JR. communit ies as Longmont and Fort Collins, where Editor, BU RLINGTON NORTHERN ANNUAL the C&S ma in line ru ns thr ough town right down major str eet s. The se towns are curr ently calling for the railroad to relocat e it s tracks ar ound the towns at Both the Burlingt on Northern and the Chicago and ra i lroad expense. How times have chang ed! In the North We stern have agreed to begin con struct ion work 1880's these same communities were built up around on their new joint coal line in Wyoming, extending the railroad to insure their survival; today they want from a point south of Gillette - the end of the BN's the rai lroad out of town, yet they sti II want the spur to the Amax Belie Ayr Mine - down to 0 rin fre ight service it prov ides. wher e the railroad meet s the Colorado and Southern Power hungry ConRail has leased thirteen units and the Chicago and North Western. Construct ion will from the Burlingt on Northern, all of which had been get underway even though the C&NW ha s thu s far in dead st orage. The locomot ives are NW2's 453, 468, been unable to obtain financing for it s share of the 47 6, 47 7, 483, 51 9 and 529, and Alco RS3' s 40 54, new line's costs. 40 56, 40 58, 40 64, 40 65 and 4070 . , It is not known wher e ConRail plans to use these unit s, but by late June all of the RS3' s and most of the NW2' s had been turned over to ConRail at Chicago. Two more Ge eps will soon receive chopnoses as part of wreck repa ir work. GP7 1613 wa s damaged near Oregon, Illinoi s and will be rebuilt at West Burl ington. GP9 1702 was badly wrecked on the Cama s Prairie Railroad - joint BN-Union Pacific - S.D. and $1 50,000 has been allotted to overhaul the unit at Hill yar d. NW2' s over hauled recently at West Burl ingt on have been receiving paper air filters, in boxes atop the hood and ahead of the cab, as part of the overhaul. WYo.

RAILROAD NOTES: A pleasing assortment of three dif­ COLO. ferent full color still life arra ngements of railroad objects. Twelve assorted notes in a box. Each box $2.50.

MEMO PADS: Two styles of 50 sheet pads available. Pennsy Pad with three assorted engines and a caboose. Fan Pad with six mainline excursion engines. The idea l pa per for a note to a fellow fa n. Each pad $1.00. Con struct ion of this new line may wel l keep BN . Locotrol operat ions alive permanent ly. Noth ing has DECORATIVE DECALS: Large, full color decal drawings been done about sett ing up a he lper distr ict south of locomotives, trolleys and other transportation subjects approximately 51/2 " X 11". Put them on plaques, mail­ of Denver to replace the on ly existing remote-unit boxes or whatever. Several of our selection of over 50 operation, and appar ently there are no plans to decals are listed below. Each $1.25. pursue th is alternat ive at the pr esent. Once the S P-Dayl ight new line is bu ilt, coal trains wi ll be rout ed south Pennsy GG-1 to Or in, then on down through Chey enne to Denver UP Big Boy ov er su bsidiary Colorado and Sout hern. Th is will Cumbres & Tol tec mean loaded coal trains will encounter all of the N&W J =611 D&H Alco PA st eepest grades on the C&S, most notably at Horse Southern =4501 Cr eek, Wyoming and al so Burke' s Hill near Boulder, Casey Jones =382 Colorado, nece ssitating either Locotrol or manned Nickel Plate =759 helper unit s. Pennsy K4s The alternat ive is to turn southbound trains ea st LV John Wilkes Amtrak SDP-40F at Or in, run them through Gu ernsey, Wyoming and D&RGW Rotary OM Scottsbluff, Nebraska to Northport, Ne bra ska, there  connect ing with the Alliance-Denver line currently .JohnTe rry Studio used by coal trains. Northbound empt ies would use Dept. PN 8 McNab Ave., Cedar Knolls, NJ 07927 the Colorado and Southern line from Denver to Orin.

PACI FIC NEWS · 27 Union Pacific and the Chicago and North Western UNION PACI FIC have been awarded a four-year mail contract between em several Pacific Coa st cities, Denver and Chicago. Estimated volume is 40 0 vans per week westbound

GEORGE R. COCKLE, EDITOR and some 200 eastbou nd. 1974 CAR AND LOCOMOTIVE CYCLOPEDIA Present status of the General Electric-built U50C's has twenty-two units stored unserviceable. These are The first of thirty GP9 B's sold to Electro-Mo tive providing the critical parts to keep the dwindling by the Union Pacific were delivered to the Chicago fl eet of 50 00-horsepower units operating . Serviceable and North Western at Cou ncil Bluffs, Iowa for east­ locomotives are running as trai ling units, since CTC bound movement to LaGrange on June 4. Handled as and radio equ ipment has been removed. a solid cut were: UP 146B EMD 02 11 954 serial 19222 UP 147B EMD 01 11954 serial 1922 3 UP 168B EMD 03/1 954 serial 19244 [ S.F. MUNICIPAL RAILWAV UP 177 B EMD 03/1954 serial 19253 E! �l UP I89B EMD 04/1954 serial 19265 DON JEWELL San Francisco Muni Jottings UP 20 IB EMD 04/1 954 serial 19277 UP 20 3B EMD 04/1 ()54 serial 1927 9 UP 322B* EMD 09/19 57 serial 23728 The three Boeing Light Rail Vehicles - two Muni UP 343B* EMD 10/1957 serial 237 49 and one Bos ton - bei ng tested at the Department of UP 345B* EMD 10 /1957 serial 23751 Tr ansportation Test Facilities near Pueblo , Colorado *Turbocharged to 20,00 horsepower by UP in 1963. are now being returned to the Boeing plant for retro­ On June 18 another three GP9 B's were delivered to fi tting of modifications and installation of interiors the Chicago and North Western for movement to EMD before delivery to their owners; the single Boston car at LaGrange, Illinois: will stop off at Shaker Heights Rapid Tra nsit enroute UP 133B EMD 02 /1954 serial 1920 9 back to Boeing's Philadelphia plant for a brief session UP 195B EMD 04/1 954 serial 1927 1 of demonstration on th is suburban Cl evelan d, Ohio UP 322B* EMD 09/1957 serial 2372 8 transit system which is currently operating PCC cars, *Turbocharged to 2000 horsepower by UP in 1963. including considerable multiple-unit service. Preparation of these sold units is creating a heavy Muni Car 1 again returned to the streets of San demand on shop ma npower . Future movements will Francisco on Sunday, June 13 when the Bay Area probably occur as units become available to ship. Electric Railroad Association sponsored two four -hour Tentatively, the ten units sold to Illinois Central fan trips over most of the streetcar system . One of Gulfline up as 130B, 142B, 149B, 151B, 152B, 154B, these trips had originally been planned for April 25, 170B, 187B, 191 B and 317B, and are scheduled into bu t was postponed due to the city workers strike. the Omaha Shops , along with 162B, 190B, 304B and For each of these tr ips Car 1 fo llowed its normal 346B recently arrived from other locations. tour route from Ge neva Car House to the Transbay TR-5 1872A, with 1870B, was returned for duty in Terminal , and then covered the N, Land M lines in Kansas Ci ty with the opposite units of each being that or der before returning to the car house over stored at Council Bluffs, Iowa for probable scrapp ing: the K line. The sight and sounds of the passing 1870A has wir ing problems and 1872B has prime iron mons ter brought stares and smiles fr om the many mover troubles. people out enjoying an unusually warm Su nday . These Released during May:!J une fr om the 6900 fa ii-free trips may have been among the last for Car 1 on Muni pr ogram were UP 6901 and 69QU. The next DDA-4QX rails as it will pro bably be moved to the Bay Area scheduled into Omaha Shops for this complete over­ Electric Railroad Association's California Railway haul is the 6933. ,So successful is this program that Mu seum at Rio Vista in the near fu ture when Elkton a feasibility study is bei ng conducted to upgrade Shop is torn down. Car 1 has been kept in a corner fo rty-two Electro-Motive DD35' s. of Elkton between fantrips for several years , but No release date has been set for Electric Trailer with the shop being removed so that the remainder of S-6, the ex-GP9B 30 6B. Omaha Shop forces work on the new Metro Center Car House ca n be buil t there th is conversion as time permits . When the ET is will soon be no room fo r th is car . nearly completed a SD2 4 will be selected as the On Friday, June 11 , the Muni took bids on the sal e mother unit and be equipped wi th the necessary wiring. of one hundred el even used trolley coaches , which Union Pacific 951, the EMD E- unit painted in red , included all fi fty-seven remaini ng Twi n Coaches and white and blue for the American Freedom Train's all fi fty-four remaining Wes tinghouse-equippe d Marmon Preamble Express , received a new coat of BiCen­ Herringtons . Many of these coaches are still in ser­ tennial paint just prior to the National Model Railroad vi ce, but will soon be replaced by the new Flyers Association's Mid Continent Regional Convention on now arriving. Most of them wi 11 be scrapped, however June 17-19, and the locomotive was on display at fo ur Twin Coaches will probably be saved for various Fox Yard, Council Bluffs , Iowa along with other trolley museums throughout the coun try . Muni' s Twins retained passenger equipment. are the last examples of post-World War II-built Fageol The 8000-class modification program has received Twin Coach trolley coa che s still in operation. another identifier ; the model designation is now known This sale of trolley coaches was advertised to as SD40-2H. These high-speed units are seen pulling sell off 195 surplus coaches , however just one week hotshots such as Super Van and the Overland Mail. befor e the bids were due, Muni and city officials

28 JULY, 1976 decided to at least temporarily save all remammg Texas Sta te Ra ilway has the ex-Point Comfort and Ge ner al Electric-equipped coaches (Marmon and St. Norther n number 7 at Maydelle, Texas. The locomotive Louis bui lt) unti l studies now underway for conversion is an Alco RS3 , the ex-Un ion Ra ilroad 608 built in of several diesel bus lines to electric are comp lete,d. May of 1949 as serial number 76828. The city has an abundant supp ly of electricity fr om its Hetch Hetchy Power System in the Sierras, and United Sta tes Army RSD- I's 8006 and 80 22 have ther e are strong fee lings for using this available been shipped to the Tennessee Valley Authority at power to reduce both air and noise pollution. These Musc le Shoa ls, Alabama fr om the North Ogden, Utah "saved" cmiches are all still in service, but will be fa ci lity of the DSA ; called the Defense Depot Ogden. stor ed in a leased yar d as more Flyers arrive and Bui lt in November , 1942, the 8006 is Alco serial they become surplus. This. group includes thirty-six 69425; the 8022 serial 7064 3. The 8006 was built as St. Louis and 147 Marmons (GE) sti ll on the ro ster Rock Island 749, was acquir ed by the Army during for a total of 183 tr ol ley coaches. Wor ld War II, was loaned to the Alaska Ra ilroad as number 1042 and then retur ned to the Army. One of the two locomotives wi 11 become TVA 400, the other wi ll be used for parts.

United States Navy Hawthor ne Naval Ammunition L---S_ A_N_T�A_F_E_N_EW_S ------'�] Depot at Hawthor ne, Nevada has joined the red, white JOE McMILLAN and blue BiCe ntennial club wi th their SI 65-00028 Author, SANTA FE'S DI ESEL FLEET (NAD 41). Bui lt by Alco as ser ia l 72015 in Febr uary of 1944, it was or iginally NAD 12. The air intake In mid-June, the Santa Fe leased four Electr o­ shutters are red-white-b lue. Motive F7 booster units to the power -shor t To ledo Peor ia and Wester n Railroad at Peoria, Illinois. Num­ ber ed 20 3A, 21 3B, 2IIA and 206A, the locomotives were reactivated fr om stor age at Kansas City. Seventy­ seven other F-unit boosters remain in storage at [� WESTERN PACIFIC R.R. I var ious points on the system. Alco S4 num ber 1518 was sold to the DuPont KEN MEEKER Company at Antioch, Califor nia in mid-June. The Wester n Pacific's subsidiary Centr al Califor nia I951-bui It locomotive had been wor king a t the plant Tr action Company 60 (not number 80 as reported in pr ior to the sa le, and is the third ex-Santa Fe unit the Febr uary, 1976 issue) - the for mer Reading 607 - acquired by E. 1. du Pont de Nemours and Company is due to be released fr om the WP's Stockton shops in for this plant: 44-ton 462 was pur chased in 1966 and late July. It has been modified to operate on the is now preserved at the Castro Point Ra ilway Museum Tr action Company's inter ur ban-er a sharp curves found in Richmond, Ca l ifor nia; A1co SI 2304 took over the on the Lod i Branch and is, of course, to be painted in plant's switching in 1970 . the CCT s red and white scheme by WP shop for ces. Santa Fe-assigned Amtrak E8A's 437 and 438, the It joins sister geep 70, the ex -Reading 618, already at ex-Amtrak 325 and 326, were renumbered 367 and 368 work on the railroad. respe ctive ly in mid-Apr il to avoid co nflict with other Three of Wester n Pacific's old wooden bay-wi ndo w Amtrak units of the same numbers. cabooses, which have been regulated to br anch line duty in recent years, have been so ld. Two of them, WP 66 8 and Sacramento Norther n 1642, went to a private party in San Fr ancisco on June 7. They we re conver ted fr om 1500 1 -16000 ser ies boxcars dur ing the [. _�_ C_SJ_�_�_�_IVE war years. The third, WP's 664 bui lt in 1943, was NEWS_ sold to the Purdy Company on June 9. Purdy, however , ___ I says that they plan to upgr ade the car for resale. KENNETH M. ARDINGER

Apache Railway has numbered the three ex-Southern YOU ARE NOT A REGULAR SUBSCRIBER? Pacific Ako RS11's to 901, 902 and 903 instead of fo llowing the old method of numbering in the even Then . . . subscribe hundreds. The three locomotives are ex-Espee 292 1, 29 25 and 29 29 (PACIFIC NEWS, May, 1976). to liB Carbon County Railway in northeast Utah has RAILROAD EMBLEMS. FOBS. & TIE TACS repainted their open hopper number 7000 into red, white and blue BiCente nnial co lors. Over 350 cloth p�tches, more than 50 Fobs and Tie­ ta cs. Send $2.00 fo r 44-page catalog and one sample Texas and Northern Rai Iway has constr ucted a slug patch. Fobs are $2.50 each, Tie-tacs $2.10 each. Belt using the trucks fr om ex-Santa Fe F7 B 26 5B and the Buckles S7.00 each. fr ame fr om one of their Alcos. Numbered as the SPIG-1 M.B. AUSTIN it is painted in BiCentennial colors to operate with PO Box 1056. San Mateo. CA 94403 EMD's 998 and 999 .

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Petaluma and Santa Rosa Railroad interurban 63, top left, was built in 1904 by the ' Holman Car Company in San Francisco and here on the weekend of May 31, 1976 makes its inaugural run as its rehabilitation nears completion by the Bay Area Electric Railroad Association at its California Railway Museum at Rio Vista Junction. Steven W. Belmont The final scenes of I'm A Fool starring Ron

Howard and Amy Irving were filmed on the George E. Hardy. .Ir. Pacific Locomotive Association's Castro Point Railway museum in Richmond, California during the night of May IS, top right. 44-tonner 102 was used with the museum's Harriman-era passenger equipment substituting for the heavyweight era of transcontinental railroading for what will become a TV movie on the educational network this fall. The Utah Railway has purchased Alco RSD1 2's 201 4 and 201 6 from the Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railroad's subsidiary leasing company. The two locomotives had been on lease to the Utah Railway since January of 1975. Number 201 4 has been relettered and numbered as the Utah's 600, middle. while the 2016 is expected to be used for parts. The revived Sumpter Valley Railroad's locomotive rehabilitation project was finished in mid-June and on the 18th the ex-W. H. Eccles Lumber Company two-truck Heisler number 3 was fired up and loaded on a truck, right. for the highway move to McEwen. Here, with the cylinder cocks open, the 1915-built steamer operates over a temporary track constructed to allow her exit from Baker for the trip to the railroad (PA CIFI C NEWS, June, 1976).

30 JULY, 1976 Both: Michael Wilkie

Canadian Forest Products' 2-8-2 number 113 was back in steam over the weekend of June 5, above and below, when it was fired up for what may have proven to be the final time. On Saturday she made a forty-mile trip from Woss Camp to the logging railroad's Vernon Reload - photographed above passing the Duncan Reload watertank - and on the return brought with her a sizeable train of logs as seen below crossing the Lukwa River bridge at milepost 38.5. This high bridge is not far south of Woss Camp, where it is expected that the 113 will soon be placed on static display as her boiler certificate expires on June 20 ending her career. On Sunday the locomotive was used on a short branch line to Woss Lake, making two trips for the entertainment of everybody on hand for this final show of logging steam on the far northern end of British Columbia's Vancouver Island. At press time it was hoped that an extension of the 11 3'5 boiler certificate could be obtained to allow another special operation over the June 26 weekend, surely to be her final run if permitted. Woss Camp has been the home base for the locomotive for the past many years, and it is fitting that she will be preserved there as a reminder of this still-active logging railroad's previous history.

Don Jewell

At the South Hayward Shops of the Bay Area Rapid Transit District, right, is BART A-car 169 wearing both the District's offering for railroading BiCentennial paint schemes and new test paint as well (PA CfFIC NEWS, June, 1976). The official national BiCentennial emblem can be seen on the front of the car replacing the normal BART logo, while the car itself is painted a light gray which is quite different from the unpainted B­ car behind it.

PACIFIC NEWS 31 Pausing in Barstow, California for servicing, left, is the first of Amtrak's new Rohr-built Turbo's to be delivered. The five­ unit articulated train was enroute to the Department of Transportation's Pueblo (Coloardo) Test Facility to undergo trials. Rohr has a contract with Amtrak to build seven of these French-licensed Turboliners, but when this contract is completed, anll the last of a 297-car order has been shipped to Washington, D.C. for the new Metro Rapid Transit, aerospace-manufacturer-Rohr will depart the railroad industry leaving Harold Webster Washington, Amtrak and BART to look elsewhere for additions to their Rohr-built fleets. The Amtrak Turboliners are being built at Rohr's Chula Vista, California plant.

Amtrak's new up-on-Friday back-on­ Sunday Las Vegas Limited is now in operation out of Los Angeles, operating with a variety of motive power and rolling stock. During the first weekend of this new service, left, Amtrak Electro-Moth'e E8 417 and three sisters waited at Las Vegas in the shadow of the Plaza Hotel for its scheduled - 2:00 PM - departure time to begin the 324-mile trip back to Southern California. SDP40F's and the new F40PH's have both been assigned to the train since it began operation. R obert Schoonmaker H. William Shippen NEWS PHOTOS

On April 10 Southern Pacific's eastbound train 376 derailed near Dunsmuir, California on Cantera Loop causing the lengthy delay of both the northbound and southbound AmtraK Coast Starlight. The railroad's original plan had been to bus the passengers around the lIerailment but rain and snow forced the cancellation of this plan and additional delay to the trains while the railroad worked to reopen the main line. At the left, Amtrak SDP40F's 567 and 557 work to lead the westbound train past O'Brien siding at milepost 277.6, twenty miles north of Redding, . during the first daylight run of a passenger train since Amtrak took over the service from Southern Pacific.

32 JULY, 1976 they can be rebuilt ... A gold and silver spike-driving ceremony has been scheduled for July 4 commemorating the' completion of the Feather River and Western Railroad in Portola, California - a quarter-mile standard-gauge railroad on the property of its owner and president, Norman W. Holmes; the BURLINGTON An order valued at $4 1 million has been placed by the ex-White City Terminal and Utility Company six­ ...... ,� NORTHERN Santa Fe for new rolling stock totaling nearly 1400 new wheel Plymouth number I provides the motive power cars including 750 hoppers and gondolas, 300 box cars Passenger operations with 4-4.{J number 28 are and 130 special unit-train coal cars; the entire order is scheduled to start on the revived Virginia and Truckee scheduled for delivery by the end of the current year . Railroad over the July Fourth weekend and will 1975-76 Annual That CP Rail movie train shown in the June issue continue through the summer ...The Santa Fe is going ***** ***** ***** (page 27) lettered for AM Road was being used in the to operate a special display train along its Northern BICENTENNIAL EDITION fi lming of a feature-length production titled The Silver California lines starting in Richmond on August 5 and Streak with stars Gene Wilder and Jill Clayburg; the visiting sixteen cities in eighteen days working its way 144 pages-Over 430 photos train operated from southern Alberta to Montreal in south to Barstow; one of the BiCentennial SD45-2's front of the movie cameras but the story tells the will power the train consisting of display cars depicting 20 color shots comedy and mystery of the adventures of a young man the history of Santa Fe's California operations . Detailed locomotive rosters of BNI Although Guatemala's FEGUA continues to report no as he travels by rail from Los Angeles to Chicago ...A C&S/ FW&D/ BNMLi WWV I LST&T, Southern Pacific grade crossing in Davis, California active steam, reports following the earthquake are has been given top priority by the California State potentially over optimistic; as of late April the railroad also radio control cars, heater Public Utilities Commission for authorization of a was not operating any passenger service. no service cars, air repeater cars and slugs. grade separation to ease the h ighwayj railroad from Zacapa to Salvadore and the most activity was on BN-assigned Amtrak units too. 22 the Pacific Division's Champerico Branch and out of congestion, and potential danger, where Richards pages and color cover on BN's Boulevard and the railroad come together; a total of Puerto Barrios (Tom Moungovan) ... Management of eighty-five such grade separation projects have b�en the California Western Railroad's popular Skunk Bicentennial trio and American proposed, but only six are expected to actually be built passenger operations are sched uled to be taken over on Freedom Train on BN. Full details in the near future including a Santa Fe crossing of July I by Port Railroads Incorporated, the company of 1975 power changes. Complete Crenshaw Boulevard in Torrance, an Espee crossing of owned by Willis B. Kyle already operating the Yreka coverage of business and instruc­ Highway 17 and Standard Avenue in Richmond and Western Railroad, San Francisco Belt Railroad, Market-Front Streets in Salinas . . The Pacific Coast Oregon Pacific and Eastern and Hawaii's Lahaina tion cars. Lengthy section on Chapter, R&LHS, moved its ex-Virginia and Truckee Kaanapali and Pacific . . A drive has begun in mountain operations. Feature Railroad 1872 Baldwin-built 2-6.{J number 13, and Portland, Oregon to create a railroad museum around model: the Alco RS1 1. All this and the Burlington Northern's Hoyt Street roundhouse, combination car 16, out of storage in Oakland at the more for last year's price : former Key System maintenance building to the Espee remembered as the rebuilding home for Southern shops in Sacramento where the state has leased space Pacific's GS-4 4449 now temporarily in storage at for rehabilitation work - the move was made June 2- Birmingham, Alabama awaiting its return to duties on $9.95 Shipped postpaid, after whicn they are scheduled to be placed on display the American Freedom Train; the Portland museum . (Stephen E. Drew) ...The Roaring Camp and Big would be a combined transportation and logging And we are pleased to announce Trees three-foot-gauge tourist railroad at Felton, museum and would include all of the railroad that all previous editions are once California has again been operating its trains with the equipment now at Oaks Park if the museum efforts are little ex-Hawaiian 0-4-2T and the former Rio Grande successful in establishing what would be an again in stock and available at diesel while its two larger steamers are both out of outstanding home for the 4449 when it returns early in their original prices, as follows: service pending repairs; a disastrous fire struck the 1977 (P. A. Larkinj D. S. 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October30 - 31, Weekend STEAMTOWN'S 3RD ANNUAL RAILFAN'S WEEKEND Steamtown celebrates the US BiCentenriial and its own fifteenth year of steam train operation wi th a two-day steam extravaganza for the avid photographer an d steam ra il­ All listings are made free of charge and PA CIFIC NEWS can roading enthu siast. Tripleheaded steam runs (CP locomotives assume no responsibi lity for errors. revisions in fares and schedu les or changes in operations. all of wh ich are subject 1246, 1278 and 1293). Mixed freight and passenger run s. to change wi thou t notice. PACIFIC NEWS reserves the r i ght to Nigh t photography. Shop tour and lots of photo runbys . At ed it material or refuse listings. Insertions wi ll not be printed least 6 locomotives under steam . For detai ls: from brochures and the deadline is th e first of the second Steamtown Foundati on mon th preced ing the date of publication. P. O. Box 71 Bellows Fa lls, Vermont 05101 Weekends, through August 1 SOUTHERN RAILWAY STEAM IN THE SOUTHLAND Various steam locomotives from the collection ava ilable to the Southern Ra ilway are scheduled for trips to be run out of Alexandria, Virginia during this summer startin g in June . 2-8-0 722 is due to provide the motive power for most of the one-day excursions, but will be do uble-headed with the 630 when extra cars are required. �ra lX>ard The trips will operate to a variety or' loca tions, such as Front Royal, Charlottesv'ille and Richmond, Virginia. They CLASSI FIED ADVERTISING section for railroad-1'elaled items. are sponsored by loca l NRHS chapters and the Alexandria PACt FI C NEWS reserves th e ri ght to ed it copy and to refuse listings. Ads can not be ackn ow l edged. nor can proof copies be BiCentennia I Commis sion. Fares vary wi th trip lengths. sent. Closing date is the tst of th e 2nd p rec ed i ng month. Count Alexandria BiCentennial Commission al l numbers. name an d address. but not zip code. 10C. a word. P. O. Box 1776 S3.00 m i nimum . Payment In advance. Repeat ads �% off fo r the Alexandria, Virg inia 223 13 second month of each two-month period fo r continuing ads.

Sept�mber 17 - Oc tober 3, two weeks GlARLES CONNIFF, P. O. Box 9686, Jackson, MiSSissippi 39206 RAILROAD EQUIPMENT DISPLAY sel ls original co lor slides of class I road equipment in south, The Southern Ca lifornia Chapter R&LHS' annual exhibit northwest, southeast, southwest, midwest and central USA. List of historical locomotives and equipment - including the $1 .50 (SSE large). ex-Southern Pacific three-cylinder 4-10-2 5021 tha t was recently returned to the display (P ACI FIC NEWS, February, RAILROAD RADIO SCAN ERS - Car Mobi le and Hand Held - El ectra Bearcat, Midland and Pace. Several models in stock 1976) - will be open to the public during the Los Angeles from $99.50 to $1 69.50. Cry stals for most western rai lroads in Coun ty Fa ir at Pomona. Th e exhibit is one of the free stock at $5.00 each. Stop in or write fo r your needs. Iron Horse attractions at the fairgrounds. For informa tion write: Hobbies, 3529 Clayton Road, Concord, Cal ifornia 94519. Southern Ca lifornia Chap ter, R&LHS 1020 North Sierra Bonita Avenue SANTA FE black-and-white roster photos. List of over 1600 steam, Los Angeles, Ca lifornia 90046 340 diesel and motor car. Li stings show right or left view, where and when photographed, mo difications, disposal da te. Ca talog and September 18 - 19, Weekend 5x8 sample print for $1.00 from Stan Kistler, P. O. Box 4068, AMTRAK - VIRGINIA & TRUCKEE TOUR Pasadena, Californ ia 91 106. Aweekend tour to the Comstock's newly restored Virginia RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE HISTORICAL SOOETY Bu lletins and Truckee Rai lroad wi ll be operated via Amtrak's Sail fo r sa le: $10.00 for the set of three. Issues are number 107 for Fran cisco Zephyr to Nevada and re turn via a chartered October, 1962 featuring the MOllnt Carbon Railroad, The Importation motorcoach. Operation on the Virginia and Truckee will and Disposition of the First Steam Locomotives in th e Western incl ude 4-4-0 number 28, ex-Dardanelle and Russellville Hemi sphere and other articl es; number 119 fo r October, 1968 number 8, and motorcar number 50, ex-Tucson Cornelia and fe aturing locomotives of the Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburgh; and Gi la Bend 40 1. Overn ight at the Ormsby House at Carson number 121 for October, 1969 featuring the Milwaukee and Northern. City, Nevada. Brochure available. Karl R. Koenig, Editor PACIFIC NEWS, Post Office Box 283, Burl i ngame, Cal ifornia 94010. Fare is $47.50, based on doubleoccupan cy. Northern California Railroad Club UNION PACIFIC slides and photograph s, California Divi sion 1534 28th Avenue diese ls. SASE for list. Union Photo, P. O. Box 8098, Anaheim, San Francisco, California 94122 Ca lifornia92 802.

Septem ber 18, Saturday SANTA FE BICENTENNIALS: Five 8xl 0 black-and-white photos SECOND ANNUAL DINNER ON THE DINER of all five Santa Fe BiCentennials in action over Cajon Pass. Enjoy lunch on the ex-Frisco Meteor diner-lounge and Send $5. 50 to Paul McGuffin, Post Office Box 417, Wrightwood, then tour the entire Northwe stern Oklahoma Rai lroad and California92397. its Saundra Shops . A chartered bus will leave from the COLOR DIESEL SLIDES. Thousands to choose fro m representing Amtrak depot in Wichita at 7:00 AM and return at 7:30 PM hundreds of major rai lroads, shortlines, industries. Con stantly after a busy day on this Oklahoma shortl ine. expan ding inven tory from across North Ameri ca. Sen d $1 for Fare is $16 including lunch. Tickets or brochure: the current catalog and sample to: Porreca, Box 22, Boulder, Wichita Chapter, NRHS Colorado 80302. 825 Spaulding Wichita, Kansas 67203 ARE YOU A SERIOUS COLLECTOR of negatives and original slides of steam, diesels, traction, mainline electri cs, industrials and shortlines? Ra il Film Monthly bas new listings of these and September25 - 26, Weekend more in each bi-monthly issue. Send 75¢ fo r sample or $4.20 fo r 1976 FLORIDA LIMITED six-issue subscription to: Box 4676, San Franci sco, CA 94 101. The 1976 Florida Limited will operate this year to Va ldosta, Georgia and re turn pulled by the fa mous Southern SOUTHERN PACIFIC black-and-wh ite roster photos. List of over Railway 2-8-2 4501. The trip wi ll operate on both days, 2200 views, mo stly steam, sbows right or left view, where and

34 JULY, 1976 when photograph ed, modifications. Twel ve-page catalog and a active electric ra ilroad. The balance of facts and ph otos· 5x8-inch sample print for $\ .00 from Stan Kistl er, P. O. Box 4068, is JUSt about right for an initial dose, though I'd have Pasadena, California 91 106. welcome d a bit more of author Varney' s occasIOnal humor for itwas a pleasant addition to the often dry railbook field. BACK ISSUES of this magazine remain available back as far as and a surprising big plus for thi s book. the July, 1964 issue, number 35. Quan ti ties are limited for many The layout of the book has as much vari ety as u1 e of the se, however. The wide variety of fea ture arti cle topics railroad, from good times to fair and a littl e bad. co vers most of the western ra ilroading activity for this period subject success ion; after hav mg an of time. Send a stamped se l f-addressed envelope for complete Too many one-photo pages in electric line I'd have much list: Post Offi ce Box 283, Burl ingame, Ca lifornia 94010. interest created in the 250-mi Ie rather u1 e abundant wh ite space be devote d, at the very least, to larger photographs. -Norn1an Saunder s Texas Electric Album, Interurbans , P. O. Box 6444 Glendale, Cali fornia 91205. 96 pages, 113 photos Publ lsllers ,He Invited to SUbmi t COPICS of with maps. 8�'1xll perfect bou nd. 56.50. new ookvl cwed In PACIFIC NEWS. Tll Crc IS no ch

TEXAS ELECTRIC ALBUM Rod Varney and the Texas ERA The minute I fi rst saw that beautifu l arch-w indowed THE APACHE RAILWAY'S PO RTER 2-6-0 interurban gliding along under a high-q uality overhead Here is some more history on Porter 5532 in the Apache over an eq ually well-maintained double-tracked ma in line Ra ilway roster in the May PA CIFIC NEWS: I crossed my fingers to hope that this would not be "just Jame s Phillip fo r Cady Lumber Company number - (Glen­ another pretty-pi cture book" put out for tho se who already more, Lou isiana) knew plenty about the Texas Electri c Ra ilway. Thankfully , to Cady Lumber Company number 5, Holbrook , Arizona. I was not to be disappointed. Apache Rai lway number4 The author of a book is suppos ed to know more about D. 1. Shelburne hi s top ic than the reader; I had never heard of the Texas San Jose, California El ectric. While many believe that a re viewer has to know a great deal on the subject of the book being reviewed, I NOVEMBER 2ND WAS A BICENTENNIAL DA Y do not subscribe to that theory . Is not the purpose of a For the sake of historical accuracy I wish to correct ' book to inform? With the cons iderations for accuracy that the caption to the photo of the Super C on page 23 of the a reviewer seeks , of course. Texas Eleclric AlbulIl is as Apri I, 1976 i S5 ue. For the past severa I years I ha ve watched fine a pure pictorial as I've yet seen in the traction book and recorded the consists of the Sup er C as it left Hobart field. It meets all of those invisible re quirements U1 at Yard (in Soutl1 ern Cal ifornia) . combine to make any book effort appeal ing to a circle On November 2, 1975 it was headed by BiCentennial larger than the author and his friends. From rea ding the uni t 5700. The photo you show was taken one week later on captions and look ing at the maps and timetables - sadly November 9. The Sup er C consist that day was 5696, 5699, the book lacks even an abbreviated roster of who bu ilt 571 3, 5688, twenty-two piggyback cars and caboose 99931 6. how many and when of its interurbans, box motors and Donald R. Carson fre ight motors - I now know qu ite a bit about a once very Long Beach, California

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