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2 APRIL,1 977 Pacific No. 186 APRIL, 1977 lie s VOLUME 17 NO. 4

. KARL R. KOENIG • EDITOR

HARRE W.DEMORO ...... EDITORIAL STAFF TOM GRAY ...... PRODUCTION STAFF HAROLD C.KOENIG ...... EDITORIAL STAFF JOHN PARSON ...... OFFICE STAFF D.S. RICHTER ...... EDITORIAL STAFF GARYVIELBAUM ...... STAFF LI BRARIAN Inside Chatham • • • The 4449 is home! Once again, as has oftentimes been the case in spite Kenneth M. Ardinger ...... Contributing Staff of "house rules" against it, this section of PA Cl FIC NEWS is among Edward M. Berntsen ...... •..•..... Contributing Staff George R.Cockle ...... Contributing Staff the last to be put through our typesetter. While much of this April issue Doug E. Cummings ...•..•..•...... Contributing Staff is already completed - part has even been proofed in preparation for Tom Eikerenkotter ., ...... Contributing Staff - printing I am at least this month allowed the luxury of being able to Robert L. Hogan ...... •..... Contributing Staff insert very recent happenings, such as the 4449's triumphant return to Don Jewell ...... Contributing Staff Portland greeted by thousands and trailing a twenty-car streamliner Daniel B. Kuhn ...... •..•..•..•..... Contributing Staff that brought back memories of a bygone time to countless more Joe McMillan ...... Contributing Staff Ken Meeker ...... •..•..... Contributing Staff thousands at trackside along the Amtrak special's transcontinental PeterJ.Replinger ...... Contributing Staff route. The journey provided young Westerners with their first look at Virgil C.Staff ...... Contributing Staff a steam-powered streamliner; perhaps this was the greatest reward of F. Hoi Wagner,Jr ...... Contributing Staff the former Southern Pacific Daylight 4-8-4's tour, both with the J. Harlen Wilson ...... •.....•...... Contributing Staff Freedom and the Amtrak streamliner. A nation of school-age children now know what big-time steam railroading was all about. Let us hope for more frequent reminders. C'p( ©Contents Copyright 1977 Among railroading enthusiasts - and many new ones have been created during the 4449's tour of most of the United States - the return ALL RIGHTS RESERVED to Portland prompted renewed visits with old friends and an opportunity to meet others personally for the fi rst time, all while closely IN THIS MONTH'S PACIFIC NEWS

watching or riding the transcontinental special which brought so many M-K 1976 LOCOMOTIVE ACTIVITY ...... 6 people with a common interest into such a small portion of this West of BC'S ROYAL HUDSON VISIT,PART TWO ...... 16 ours for a brief period of time. Nightly, all along the route of the special, OUT EAST ...... 21 SCREAMING EAGLE/MUNI JOTTINGS ...... 22 gatherings, dinners, meetings and photography sessions furthered the . . WESTERN LOCOMOTIVE NEWS ...... 23 fellowship of railroad enthusiasm - less, of course, those callous few UNION PACIFIC/SANTA FE ...... 24 who seemed to be so awestruck (?) by the 4-8-4 as to occasionally ruin AMTRAK NEWS ...... 25 the viewing for others. Never, however, has any railroading event in BURLINGTON NORTHERN/ESPEE ...... •...... 26

this century done so much to promote railroading, and railroading CAMERA CAR PHOTO SECTION ...... 27 enthusiasm. Not that this was a new assignment for the 4449; was not SHORT STUFF ...... 30 she created to promote railr oading on the front of Southern Pacific's NEWS PHOTOS ...... 31 famed ! EXCURSIONS/CLASSIFIED ...... 34 BOOK REVIEWS/LETTERS ...... 35 We've been asked by letter - so now don't expect a reply - and by . green phone, "Did you see her?" Yes, of course. On her home turf, Espee's Coast Route, and then north from here to Oregon, staff member SUBSCRIPTIONS BY DIRECT MAIL Doug Richter and I absorbed as much 4449 as possible, renewing as In United States, and : $10.00 for one year, $18.00 for two years. Single copies $1.00. Foreign: many memories as possible, and wishing that both we and the 4449 had $11.00 per year. Foreign - only - First Class and Air more time. We paced, lost, chased, found, missed, pursued, hunted, Mall rates are available upon a specific written request. trailed, sought, tracked, hounded, shadowed, stalked, raced, photographed, watched and, of course, rode. We'd do it again starting CHATHAM PUBLISHING COMPANY tomorrow, of course, and with equal enthusiasm . Post Office Box 283, Burlingame, California 94010 USA Th e 4449 is now, sadly, out of work. Along with her fa n club, which •

has to number in the millions nationwide, we hope the unemployment is ALL PHOTOGRAPHS (ONLY) ARE PAID FOR UPON PUBLICATION only temporary but it is too soon tell. Many of you have called this PACIFIC NEWS is published monthly by the Chatham Publishing Company. 1012 Oak Grove Avenue. Burlingame. California 94010. office seeking a hint on her future but as of this writing she remains (415) 348-0331. Printed in the U.S.A. Second Class postage paid at Burlingame, California 94010. PACIFtC NEWS assumes no responsibility tucked away safely inside and adjacent to the Union Pacific's Portland for the safe return of editorial or advertiSing material. Acceptable police office awaiting decisions by owning city of Portland. And, yes, photographs are filed for potential future publication and are paid for upon use. Advertising rates are available on request for rate card. . there are 4449 supporters among Portland's officialdom who want to • see her run again! -Karl R. Koenig CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Post office does not regularly forward 2nd Class Mail and PA CIFIC NEWS will not replace copies not forwarded and COVER: Ready at Boise December 30,1976 is Weyerhaeuser GP7 765 destroyed by the post office - replacement copies, and post office notification charges, will be billed. Please allow PACtFtC NEWS at least acquired for the line at Vail, Washington. (Norman E. Anderson) four weeks for any address changes to insure uninterrupted mail delivery.

PACIFIC NEWS 3 MILWAUKEE-ROCK UD MAl COMBIME OM KC RUM would alleviate the spending of $5.7 million by could be picked up or set out along the way. The The Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul and Pacific the financially troubled to center sill need only be strong enough to and the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific are upgrade the line. While main line operations withstand the pull and buff forces and to discussing the possible consolidation of portions would be switched to the Rock Island trackage, support the trailer or container. The railroad of their respective main lines between Chicago, the Milwaukee would continue to provide local expects the riding qualities to be excellent, Illinois and Kansas City, Missouri. There are service on its own line between those because the trucks will be located at the very eight separate rail routes linking Kaycee with two points. ends of the cars; and with the pivot point of the Chicago, and those of the Milwaukee and the The Rock Island trackage which would be couplings at the extreme end of the car, any Rock Island are the closest geographically. involved in this operation is also in need of tendency of the cars tojackknife in a compressed The basic plan is for through Milwaukee upgrading; however, the capacity of the Rock's situation should be greatly reduced. Road to operate over the Rock Island trackage and route is more than twice that of the I n operation, trains made up of skeleton-car between Polo, Missouri and Muscatine, Iowa, a Milwaukee's. At present, the Milwaukee Road sections would be scheduled to avoid the forces distance of 243 miles. The Muscatine-to-Polo has trackage rights over the Rock Island in two to which conventional freight cars are ordinarily portion of the Milwaukee Road is unable to places, for twenty-six miles between Davenport, subjected. The equipment will not be humped or carry heavy freight traffic at competitive speeds; Iowa and Muscatine, and for forty-two miles kicked in switching; and this, combined with the and the operation of that railroad's through from Polo to Kansas City. This new proposal virtual elimination of train-action forces, is trains via the Rock Island would not only would simply close the gap between the two yet another important factor allowing the expedite freight service, the joint operation sections. Both railroads use the Harry S. equipment to be less rugged, and therefore much Truman drawbridge across the Missouri River lighter in weight. This decrease in train weight to gain access to Kansas City, with the will allow fewer locomotives to power the train THE LOS ANGELES RAILWAY Milwaukee terminating in a joint yard with the and will result in a substantial savings in both THROUGH THE YEARS Kansas City Southern, while the Rock Island fuel and money .• continues on to their own freight yard in Kansas lJy City, Kansas and then southwest to Tucumcari, SP APPUES TO DISCONTINUE COMMUTER SERVICE S/t'I'('1/ L. LasJrm New Mexico and a connection with the The Southern Pacific, citing $10 million in Southern Pacific .• annual losses on its -to-San Jose commuter operations - which is more than SANTA FE DESIGNS NEW INTERMODAL FLAT CAR double the 1973 loss - applied to the California In May, the Santa Fe Railway will begin Public Utilities Commission on Monday, May 9 testing a totally new concept in the for the authority to discontinue all of its transportation of piggyback trailers and passenger service on the San Francisco containers. The railroad's mechanical engineers Peninsula. Forty-four commute trains now have one primary goal in this project: to reduce serve the 47-mile route, reportedly handling less railcar tare weight in order to improve the than 7500 riders on an average weekday. This is energy efficiency of rail transportation. A . about 2000 fewer passengers than in 1973. long-time proponent of interm odal operations, "For two years, eight months and sixteen the Santa Fe is concentrating on that type of days, we've been waiting for a fare increase while equipment because it believes that the greatest the losses climbed," declared Alan D. DeMoss, potential for traffic growth is in piggyback Espee vice president, in making the and container operations. discontinuance application public. The state The concept that evolved is a series of short, PUC has not acted upon a fare increase request No study of the history of Los Angeles is complete skeleton-type cars semi-permanently connected that has been pending since it was filed on without a study of the trolley system that was instru­ by articulated couplings, with each coupling August 23, 1974 in application for a 96% fare mental in its rapid growth. This fascinating book ' supported on a conventional truck. The increase. According to Southern Pacific, that traces the history of the colorful Los Angeles Railway prototype now under construction at the was a break-even point for the commute service from its feeble beginnings in the 1800's to its unfor­ Topeka Shops will have six such short cars, but in 1973, with more riders and less expense. There tunate demise in 1963. 72 pages, large 8% x 11 format. the Santa Fe is looking at the possibility of using were political delays, and no public hearings with over 90 excellent photographs. sections of twelve cars each. The ends of these until last year, DeMoss noted. sections will be equipped with conventional "Since then," stated DeMoss, "the couplers to permit fast makeup and breakup of Commission has again and again postponed any trains. Cushioning, according to the Santa Fe, action on the fare increase, even though it has S4.50 may not be required because the concept will been talking about increases of possibly 25% or result in a significant reduction in slack action. 40%. At this late date, that's too little. It would Santa Fe emphasizes that the system is cover only II % to 18% of the 197610ss, and even DARWIN PUBLICATIONS designed for true unit-train operation on a less in 1977." HOX .H'29 SIIER!>I"'." OAKS.CAUFORNIA 91-llJ point-to-point basis, although sections of cars With train patronage dropping, inflation has pushed operating costs up a reported 58% since 1973. Train fares now cover only about 29% of Announcing an Exciting New Rail Pictorial ... the railroad's operating costs . Expenses are RAILROADING WEST quoted at $14 million, income only $4 million. A Contemporary Glimpse The last fare increase was 2Y2 years ago. "No private company can afford on-going By Jeffrey T. Brouws and Ronald C. Hill losses of this scale," De M oss said. In a message provided its passengers, it was pointed out that A dynamic view of modern railroads, featu rin g selected the Southern Pacific has lost about $22 million mainlines and shortlines in the West. Foreword by the on the commuter service just in the 990 days that distinguished artist Howard Fogg. Printed on high­ it has waited for an answer on the 1974 rate quality 100 poun d lacquered finish paper to reproduce increase application. faithfully the spectacular photographs, most of which The railroad contrasted its wait for a fare have never been published previously. increase with a recent action of the state PUC which gave quick approval to San Mateo Eighty pages, softbound. $7.50 postpaid County Transit District's bid to acquire Color:tdo residents :Idd sales lax. Greyhound commute bus service which is RAIL GRAPHICS operated parallel to the railroad. It took less than three months for the PUC to grant 2455 East Yale Avenue Denver. Colorado 80210 approval for the bus takeover, which is now

4 APRIL, 1 977 scheduled to become operational about July I By late in April the drive to raise $17,000 to memberships in the non-profit civic enterprise with its fare structure still unsettled. barge the two locomotives to Seattle from continue to be available: P. O. Box 548, The Southern Pacific said that its action is Skagway had reached one-third of its goal. Sumpter, Oregon 97877 .• being taken with "full regard" for the needs of Local businesses and friends of the railroad the commuters, pointing out that in the last year restoration effort had donated over $5000 by AMTRAK ORDERS NEW UNITS, TO REBUILD OTHERS and a half it has offered to sell half of the that date, including a special appeal to Baker, Amtrak has announced plans to spend $15.4 right-of-way, the stations and commute Oregon school children to bring in their nickels, million to have builder Electro-Motive modify equipment to a public agency (PACIFIC dimes and quarters for the project. forty of its SDP40F units to four-axle NEWS, January, 1976) and to sponsor the The two locomotives (SV 19 became the locomotives which will be similar to the startup of a van pool program. These offers White Pass 81 and the 20 number 80, a reverse F40PH units now in service. The rebuilding will remain open, but the railroad is obviously of the Sumpter Valley's changing of the road involve new frames, trucks, fuel tanks and car justifiably unwilling to wait any longer while the numbers away from construction sequence bodies. The overhaul will be made to deficit grows and grows. Total abandonment of during renumbering from 101 and 102) were locomotives coming due for major 500,OOO-mile the service has now been applied for. Some scheduled to be loaded onto a barge during the reworking. The prime movers, and all electrical serious action will now be required to save the last week of April and to arrive in Seattle about and air brake equipment, will be renovated and train service, much the same as the eleventh­ May 5. The 100-ton locomotives, in poor installed on new frames in new carbodies. The hour preservation of the interurban passenger condition from years spent on the deadline at program is expected to be complete late in 1977. trains on the Chicago South Shore and South Skagway rusting, will be transported to Baker The rebuilding will convert the SDP40Ps, each Bend Railroad in light of an Interstate by the Union Pacific for eventual service on the weighing 396,000 pounds, into locomotives that Commerce Commission order which granted tourist-hauler Sumpter Valley Railroad. are similar to Amtrak's F40 PH's which are approval to discontinue the trains effect ive April The has donated four sixteen feet shorter and weigh only 259,000 8, 1977 if no solution was reached by local miles of railroad track to the Sumpter Valley, pounds. Boiler-equipped SDP40Ps will be governmental agencies to keep the trains revival effort, furthering the organization's converted to head-end power at the same time. running: a financing program was announced restoration work on the historic line. The value Ten more F40PH locomotives have been March 15 to save the South Shore passenger of the rails and other fittings included in the ordered by Amtrak to meet anticipated service - but new cars will be acquired .• package gift is approximately $64,000 and will demands later this year. They will join thirty

allow the railroad to triple its present trackage. already at work . • SUMPTER VAllEY TO GET ALASKA STEAMERS BACK The rail will come from the UP's Brogan Branch The narrow gauge Sumpter Valley Railway between Vale and Jamieson, an eighteen-mile revival, which is known as the .Sumpter Valley line off the Union Pacific's Ontario-to-Burns ' Railroad Restoration, has acquired the two route which was discontinued last fall. The COLOR MOVIE FILMS former Sumpter Valley 2-8-2's sent north to Brogan Branch was constructed by the Malheur the White Pass and Yukon (PACIFIC NEWS, Valley Railroad in 1910, using 70-pound rail "The Big Red Cars" March, 1977). Built by Alco for the Sumpter which will now be moved to Baker and relaid as Pacific Electric on Long Beach Blvd. Valley Railway as numbers 101 and 102, later three-foot-gauge track to eventually allow the renumbered as the 20 and 19, respectively - Sumpter Valley Railway's 2-8-2's returned from "Los Angeles Trolleys" builder's numbers 61980 and 61981 - they the White Pass to once again operate on their Daily operations in 1962 served the narrow-gauge Oregon line for only own home right-of-way. Contributions to the twenty years before being retired in 1940. project, of course, are very welcome and 8MM, 50 ft., $5.00 ea.

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PACIFIC NEWS 5 MORRISON-KNUDSEN LOCOMOTIVE REBUILDING ACTIVITIES IN 1976 NORMAN E. ANDERSON

The street address is 4600 Apple Street, Boise, Idaho; probably the most unlikely place in the United States to find a locomotive remanufacturing facility. But if you go to that address, there you will find such a facility, owned and operated by Morrison-Knudsen Company, Incorporated. When visiting this facility, two questions usually come to mind: Why M-K and why Boise? These are two valid questions, and a check into the history of Morrison-Knudsen is required to reveal the answers. Morrison-Knudsen Company was founded at Boise in March, 1912 as a general contracting partnership by Harry W. Morrison and Morris Hans Knudsen. Knudsen, a native of Denmark, came to Idaho in 1900 and developed a reputation as an expert in dirt moving; Morrison arrived from Illinois in 1904 and won recognition as a concrete superintendent. Independent work assignments on the Boise River Diversion Project involving construction of dams and canals in 1909-1911 brought the two founders to the same place. In 1912, when they decided to go off together and form a new general contracting firm, their total assets amounted to $600 in cash, six teams of horses, a few wheelbarrows and some Fresno pan-type Both: Norman E. Anderson scrapers. In 1923 the partnership was incorporated in Idaho, and in 1932 the company Deep inside the Morrison-Knudsen Boise, became a Delaware corporation. Idaho locomotive fa cility, above, is Long Island During the firm's first twenty-five years, Railroad Century-420 208 undergoing a Morrison-Knudsen built canals, roads conversion to low short hood and overhaul prior and railroads and performed land reclamation to delivery as Detroit and Mackinac 976. projects throughout the western United States, Three months after the June 14, 1976 view using at first horse-drawn and steam-powered above, U. S. Steel DS44-1000 26 poses upon equipment and later, in the 1920's, going more arrival at Boise from Provo, Utah, below, for its and more to gasoline-powered trucks and remanufacturing which will not be completed tractors. In 1915 M-K landed its first raiJroad until 1977. job and has been working practically without surcease ever since for America's railroads or Knudsen was also involved in the construction on the railroads of other nations. In 1927, and maintenance of United States railroads. Morrison-Knudsen participated in the The post war-period saw M-K become one of construction of the Guernsey Dam on the North the nation's leading builders of missile base Platte River in Wyoming. Since then, M-K has facilities. Its accomplishments in this field built or participated in the building of more than include construction of the nation's first and 150 major dams, the best known being Hoover largest underground Titan missile base at Dam, completed in 1936 on the Colorado River, Lowry Air Force Base in Colorado, Atlas and one of the most gigantic being Libby Dam, Missile silos at Altus Air Force Base in completed in 1973 on the Kootenai River in the Oklahoma, 550 Minuteman missile launching state of Montana. sites at four different bases in Missouri, During pre-World War II years, M-K Wyoming, North Dakota, and Montana; and engaged in construction of roads, railroads, participation in construction of missile more dams, and other civil works. During the launching facilities in North Dakota for the World War II years, M-K was involved in nation's only Safeguard missile defense base. defense projects including construction of During the period of U.S. involvement in Viet underground naval fuel storage facilities near Nam, Morrison-Knudsen participated in vast Pearl Harbor, military bases on Midway and construction projects under the direction of the Wake Islands, airfields in Alaska and iron-ore Uniled States Naval Facilities Engineering railroad rehabilitation in Brazil. Morrison- Command. M-K has also become deeply

6 APRIL,1977 involved in the aerospace field, having built some of the main facilities at the John F. Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral as well as a 15,000-foot runway for the upcoming landing of space shuttle orbiting vehicles. With sixty-five years of experience, Morrison-Knudsen has become one of the leading construction companies in the world in just about every field, including railroad construction. Down through the years, M-K construction men have built hundreds upon hundreds of miles of new railroad grade. They have erected bridges by the score, bored tunnels' and daylighted others, crushed countless carloads of roadbed ballast, responded to emergencies in devastating storms and floods, put down mile after mile of new track, and done a host of other rail-oriented tasks. These railroad projects have taken M-K men around the world and include the following more ' notable jobs: construction of the 365-mile Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway; design and installation of the Great Northern's Tunnel ventilating system; daylighting of four tunnels for the Southern Pacific following the 1952 earthquake in the Tehachapi Mountains of Southern California; relocation of 12.2 miles of track for the Alaska Railroad during 1949-195 1 along the rock-rimmed Turnagain Arm just south of Anchorage; construction of the I 13-mile railroad into the Toquepala Mine for Southern Peru Copper Corporation; a 44-mile line relocation for the

In an aerial view at Boise, Idaho is Morrison­ Knudsen's locomotive remanufacturing facility, below. The primary shop is at center with the four open track doors. Various locomotives - primarily for parts - are in storage at bottom and top left. The history of Morrison-Knudsen as a contractor dates to 1912, the year before this twelve-horse team hauled construction equipment for the new firm on a western

irrigation project . Both: Morrison-Knudsen

PACIFIC NEWS 7 Henry W. Griffiths

Norman E. Anderson Santa Fe near Williams, Arizona; a 42-mile relocation for Union Pacific on Sherman Hill; design and construction of the earth-fill causeway for Southern Pacific across the Great Salt Lake in Utah; a line relocation around a tunnel near Boise, Idaho, for Union Pacific; a 14-mile relocation of the Spokane Portland- and Seattle at the site of the Dalles Dam along the Columbia River in Washington; construction on nearly 700 miles of three of 's iron ore hauling railroads - Robe River Railway, Mt. Newman Railroad, and Hamersley Railroad; reconstruction of one hundred miles of track and three major bridges of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad in 1965 caused by the 's "thousand-year flood" in December, 1964; construction of 32 miles of the 36-mile Denver and Rio Grande Western spur line near Moab, Utah; construction of the BART subway under Market Street in San Francisco, California; construction of subways, structures and stations for BART in Oakland, California; a tunnel enlargement for the Frisco near Winslow, Arkansas; relocation of fi fty-nine miles of Burlington Northern main line around Libby Dam in Montana; design and construction of Union Pacific's North Platte, Nebraska diesel running-repair shop;

8 APRIL, 1977 Morrison-Knudsen

At the east portal of WyominJ:'s Altamont Tunnel, a M-K project for UP, opposite top, installation of high-speed track at the SD40-2 3235 leads a Southern Pacific SD45 and a UP SD40-2 on eastbound tonnaJ:ein 1973. Department of Transportation Test Center near Twelve horses team up powering a Morrison-Knudsen two-wagon team in 1913, above, to Pueblo, Colorado; design and construction of haul equipment for the fJedJ:linJ: firmon irriJ:ation projects. M-K's Plaza I, left, and Plaza II, the 78-mile Black Mesa and Lake Powell below, are today's world headquarters on Broadway Street in Boise. Plaza I, dedicated June 2, Railroad in Arizona; construction of the 1970 rests on the former J:eneral shops site. Plaza II, completed in 1975, is home for M-K's 40-mile branch line for the Burlington Northern Railroad Division which operates the Boise Industrial Complex locomotive facility. near Sarpy Creek, Montana; relocation of thirty-one miles of main line of the Norfolk and Western in West Virginia; construction of Norman E. Anderson Union Pacific's Altamont Tunnel in Wyoming and lowering of the floor in the nearby Aspen Tunnel to permit passage of higher loads; construction of a rail transit tunnel under the East River in New York City for the New York City Transit Authority; and construction of various subways, stations, sub-stations and facilities for the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. Throughout the first half-century of working for the railroads, Morrison-Knudsen developed a strong and enduring friendship. Whenever a need developed for assistance, M-K was always there, ready and willing to fulfill the need and capable of handling the job. It was therefore natural that when the time had come for a commercial enterprise to offer locomotive remanufacturing to the railroads, M-K was ready in July, 1971 to play a vital part in this

PACIFIC NEWS 9 RAILROAD

DIVISION This fascinating building greets visitors to Morrison-Knudsen's Boise Industrial Complex at 4600 Apple Street, the home of M-K's 4600 Railroad Division locomotive remanufacturing facility. Added to the complex in 1975, the security guard house at the entrance was constructed using the locomotive salvaged from the former Burlington Northern Alco S6 number 950 which was converted into a slug for the Columbia and Cowlitz Railway. Norman E. Anderson

service to the industry (PA CIFIC NEWS, Street property for the M-K headquarters office or fabrication job. The electric shop repaired April, 1974). building. In July, 1968 construction of the new A.C. and D.C. motors and both assembled or With the decision made to enter this new field, shop complex was begun, and shortly thereafter repaired control cabinets in conjunction with the question was "where." At first thought, one construction of the new office building was the work performed in the main shop or for field might think that the natural answer would be in begun at what would become 400 Broadway construction projects. the East. Although two-thirds of the nation's Street. Placement of the office building was such When it came to the locating of a locomotive locomotives are operated there, a decision to that construction could be carried out without remanufacturing facility with no real promise of build a locomotive remanufacturing facility interrupting normal operations at the original either success or long-range continuity of work must consider the cost of setting up such an shop facilities. assured, it was not hard for M-K to take careful activity in addition to where the practical areas The new office building, completed in the note of their heavy investment in the Boise of business potential are located. Let's go back summer of 1970, was dedicated on June 2 and a Industrial Complex which had most of the in history once again to 'see how the Boise, Idaho number of smaller offices in Boise and around machining and fabrication support equipment location came to be. the United States were vacated as the that would be necessary for locomotive Morrison-Knudsen Company, General management moved into a centralized remanufacturing. Any choice of another Contractors, as it was known in 1912 when it headquarters. The expanded original office location for any reason would require an had its beginning, had a general shop building, a building across the street at 319 Broadway was investment similar in land, buildings and warehouse and stables on the east outskirts of retained by M-K; its offices were leased out to equipment to what already existed at Boise. It Boise, on the east side of Broadway Street. The other firms and later reoccupied by M-K as the was therefore decided to go with the plan of first office was a rented room in a downtown corporation continued to grow and are still in adding a locomotive remanufacturing shop at Boise building. Later, office space was set-up in use today. Boise with the option of converting it to some the warehouse. By 1923, the company had In August, September and October, 1969, the other use should locomotive remanufacturing established a firm foundation as a construction shop machines and overhead cranes were moved not prove successful. company and became a corporation. The from the original shop into the modern facility So in the summer of 1972, with an increase in following year M-K erected a five-room brick which had just been completed on a 48-acre site the locomotive remanufacturing business, office building across the street from the shop at in the industrial area previously mentioned. The construction was begun on a 170x282-foot 319 Broadway. As the corporation grew over the movement of equipment and transition of locomotive remanufacturing shop. The years more office space was needed and the personnel was carefully planned and carried out structure consisted of a 140x282-foot, high-roof Broadway Street office was enlarged several so the shop did not miss a day of production. structure for the locomotive work area and a times; additional office space was acquired in The facility, as originally built, consisted of six 30x282-foot, low-roof structure, attached Boise and, eventually, throughout the United buildings: a 40xl 00-foot office building; the directly to the north wall, for offices and States and the world. main shop with 36,000 square feet under roof; a sub-assembly work areas. Use of this shop was In 1968, the corporation decided to centralize 50xl 00-foot electric shop; a 100x218-foot main begun in January, 1973. A 24xl 02-foot its management in Boise, thereby eliminating warehouse; a 24x75-foot paint shop; a locomotive paint shop was also completed in many region and division offices elsewhere. To 40xl 00-foot steel storage building, open on the 1973, adding two buildings to the Boise accomplish this, plans were made for a six-story, south side for storing special steel and shop Industrial Complex. plus basement, corporate headquarters office supplies moved to the site from the Broadway In September, 1974, in the face of increasing building. The Broadway Street property by this location. The intent of this complex was to business, a major expansion program was time was located near the expanded Boise City continue serving as a maintenance and repair undertaken. The locomotive shop was increased Center, Boise State College campus, and facility for M-K owned construction equipment, in size by a 140x175-foot addition to the west residential areas. It was felt that the property and to build specialized pieces of equipment for end of the building bringing the overall size of would make a far better location for an office various projects as required. The shop complex the locomotive work area to 140x457 feet. The building than a general shop. Besides, the shop also took in work outside M-K to maintain a original warehouse building was reconstructed facilities were out of date, having been erected in steady work load. into a combined electric and air component the horse-drawn equipment days. It was thus The main shop, built in a "T" shaped repair and engine overhaul shop. The original decided to build a new shop complex southeast structure, contained a machine shop, electric shop was then made into the locomotive of Boise's city center in a new industrial area fabrication shop, repair shop, receiving parts warehouse. A 24x27-foot air compressor adjacent to Union Pacific's Boise Cutoff warehouse, and shop offices and was capable of building was constructed just north of the passenger line and make available the Broadway handling almost any type of repair, maintenance locomotive shop with larger compressors to

10 APRIL. 1977 Western Pacific GP40 3539 paid a visit to Morrison-Kundsen's Boise facility for wreck. repairs during mid-1976, following an accident at the system's eastern terminai. Front-end repairs were completed, and the locomotive returned for road serviceon the Western Pacific, in late August, 1976. The unit was the only locomotive from a western main line carrier to visit Boise for work during the last year.

All: Norman E. Anderson

Remanufactured new from the Long Island Railroad's Alco-built Century-420 number 208 during 1976 was Detroit and Mackinac Railway BiCentennial 976. Originally equipped with a steam generator inside its high short hood, and built to run forward, the locomotive was modified to operate with a rebuilt low short hood as its leading end during three months of work at Boise. Built by Alco in February of 1964, the locomotive posed, middle, on April 10 still in Long Island Railroad paint at Boise and, in early July, bottom, as the remanufactured 976 with its new look ready to start a fresh career of railroading activity on the 405-mile D&M in the state of Michigan.

PACIFIC NEWS 11 satisfy the air needs of the locomotive and component shops. The expansion of business in 1974 also brought about an increase in staff personnel at the complex and seven office trailers soon appeared. In 1975, a three floor office building was built inside the warehouse portion of the equipment shop to eliminate the need of having the office trailers spread out around the complex. Another building added in 1975 was a rather unique and appropriate security guard house at the entrance to the complex. This structure was constructed using the locomotive cab salvaged from former Burlington Northern Aleo S6 switcher 950 which had been converted The ManuCacturers Railway Company sent to a slug for the Columbia and Cowlitz in Alco S2 - serial number 72738 built in 1973 (PACIFIC NEWS, December, 1973). The September oC 1944 to Boise Cor a last of the building additions at the complex was remanuCacturing in the latter part oC 1976, completed in late summer of 1975 when a second receiving in return a new TE47-4E renumbered 50xlO0-foot locomotive parts warehouse was as the 253. At the leCt, the locomotive's electrical constructed south of the warehouse set up cabinet rests atop the Crame inside the M-K in 1974. shop, as seen Crom the cab end ofthe unit during - On the corporate level, Morrison-Knudsen its rebuilding. had continued to grow in the 1970's, and office space at the Broadway Street Plaza I building was once again becoming scarce. Therefore, in August, 1974, construction began on a 170x170-foot four-story, plus basement, office building adjacent to the northeast corner of Plaza I. The Plaza II office was completed in September, 1975, and was soon occupied by the expanded staffs of the company's industrial and mining engineering operations and divisional and regional operations. Today Plaza II is also the home of the Industrial Construction and Railroad Division, under which the Boise Industrial Complex operates. Throughout its existence, the Boise Industrial Complex has been involved in a wide range of projects. The list includes many interesting undertakings and ranges from simple machining and fab rication jobs to construction of large items such as mammoth coal and earth hauling vehicles, specialty construction equipment, pre-fabricated sections of coal plants, and fa brication of portions of lilrge coal digging drag lines. Of all the projects undertaken at the Boise Industrial Complex, three have been of an on­ going nature which could be classed as products of interest to the railroad ind ustry - production

All: Norman E. Anderson

In another view on the Boise shop floor, left, remanuCacturing work progresses on TE47-4E number 253 Cor the Manufacturers Railway. This view, Crom the Cront of the locomotive, shows the installed. The two tall "stacks" near the front of the locomotive are, in Cact, part of the unit's sanding equipment. Completed and ready to go to work, the 253 pauses for the camera at Boise before shipment, above (a color news photo of this locomotive - which is painted green with gold and red stripes and silver trucks - appeared in the October, 1976 issue oC PA CIFIC NE WS).

12 APRIL, 1977 M-K PHASE :m: CONTROLLED FLOW BALLAST DOORS tRAIL ... RAIL t. BALLAST DOOR t CAR t. BALLAST DOOR lCAR A A I

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DOOR DUMPING TO OUTSIDE DOOR DUMPING TO INSIDE

MORRISON-KNUOSEN COMPANY, INC. COHTR.CTORS - ENCINEERS-DEVELOPERS BOISE . IDAHO

Alaska Railroad ballast car 14923, seen at Boise May 4, 1976, is one of twenty-five former 70-ton cement hopper cars fitted with M-K's patented "Controlled Flow Doors" at the Boise Industrial Complex. The cars also received a complete reconditioning which included conversion of their trucks to roller-bearing. Non-locomotive railroad assignments are an important part of the work completed each year at Morrison-Knudsen's Boise complex. Norman E. Anderson

of ballast car doors, conversion of hopper cars tested, M-K acquired a large f1eet of open-top controlled-flow door saved so much labor in to ballast cars, and locomotive remanufacturing hoppers and covered cement hoppers and ballasting that M-K introduced the door and and reconditioning. converted them to ballast cars. On cement retrofitting of cement hopper principles to the During years of laying miles of railroad track, hoppers, the roof was cut off to make them open railroad industry in 1971. Since its introduction, Morrison-Knudsen men decided that there had top cars. The door is fittedinto the car with slope the door has gained wide acceptance from to be a better way of dumping ballast than with sheets to match the car hoppers and results in a railroads throughout the United States and conventional hopper cars with their crude chain car which can be emptied at a controlled rate Canada. The doors have been built in various opening doors perpendicular to the rails. dumping ballast either inside or outside the rail lengths in both the controlled-flow ballast door Application of a simple pendulum­ but never on it; the other significant feature of and general service door, with a slightly wider counterbalance principle and placement of the door application is that ballast can be accurately door opening. In addition to being used for doors in the car parallel to and directly over the spread, without waste and without the ballast, cars have been equipped with the M-K rails resulted in the M-K patented "controlled assistance of an accompanying plow or other doors for handling other commodities such as f1ow" door. Once the door was designed and device. The ballast cars equipped with the M-K grain, coal, aggregates, and various types of ore.

PACIFIC NEWS 13 All: Norman E. Anderson

Logger Weyerhaeuser provided the Boise complex with the largest volume of work from a single customer in 1976 with ten locomotives from three subsidiary operations: the logging railroads at Longview and Vail in Washington and the common carrier Oregon California and Eastern in Oregon for whom TE53-1-4E 7603, above, was remanufactured from a Union Pacific GE U25B as part of a seven-unit order (PA CIFIC NEWS, August, 1976). Formerly Southern Pacific GP35 number 6626, bottom, Weyerhaeuser's 308 returned to M-K at Boise in 1976 for an engine overhaul and gear ratio change. Also from the Longview logging railroad, middle, SW7 300 visited Boise in mid-year for a remanufacturing before returning to its log-hauling chores.

Through 1976, over 14,000 doors have been turned out by M-K for retrofitting in cars by railroads or for incorporation in new cars by car builders. Morrison-Knudsen has also applied the doors to numerous cars in their own lease fleet of ballast cars and made applications of doors to cars which were sold to railroads. Among the many railroads with M-K controlled-flow ballast doors and general service doors in operation are Louisville and Nashville, Missouri Pacific, Santa Fe, Frisco, Boston and Maine, , Grand Trunk Western, Black Mesa and Lake Powell, Alaska, Soo Line, Chicago and Northwestern, Duluth Missabe and Iron Range, Reserve Mining, Milwaukee Road, Clinchfield, Denver and Rio Grande Western, Illinois Central Gulf, Delaware and Hudson, Union Pacific, Burlington Northern, Roberval and Saguenay, Minnesota Ore, Orinoco Mining, Indiana Harbor Belt, Bessemer and Lake Erie, Maine Cent ra l, Morrison- Knudsen Railroad Equipment Leasing, Canadian National, British Columbia Railway, Quebec North Shore and Labrador, Quebec Cartier, Robe River and Hammersley in Australia, and So uthern Peru Copper Corporation in Peru. Since its entry into the locomotive remanufacturing field, Morrison-Knudsen has processed a total of 143 locomotives through its

14 APRIL, 1977 MORRISON-KNUDSEN 1976 LOCOMOTIVE COM PLETIONS COMPILED BY NORMAN E. ANDERSON

Completed Owner No. Builder Model Serial Built Work performed/Remarks 02/06/76 Weyerhaeuser Company 308 EMD GP35 30136 04/65 Overhauled; used at Longview. Wa. 02/16/76 Delaware & Hudson 505 Alco/M-K TE56-4A 80524 08/53 Remanufactured New 02/16/76 Delaware & Hudson 1976 Alco/M-K TE56-4A 803 12 09/52 Remanufactured New 02/28/76 Delaware & Hudson 507 Alco/M-K TE56-4A 803 19 09/52 Remanufactured New 03/26/76 Delaware & Hudson 508 Alco/M-K TE56-4A 80530 08/53 Remanufactured New 04/13/76 Baltimore & Ohio 5498 EMD F7B 15927 01/52 Scrapped 04/14/76 Baltimore & Ohio 551 5 EMD F7B 17534 01/53 Scrapped 04/15/76 Baltimore & Ohio 5448 EMD F7B 12275 09/50 Scrapped 05/19/76 Weyerhaeuser Company 300 EMD SW7 13571 12/50 Remanufactured; used at Longview 06/26/76 Oregon California & Eastern 7601 GE/M-K TE53-1-4E 34537 09/62 Remanufactured New 06/26/76 Oregon California & Eastern 7606 GE/M-K S3-3B 34238 05/62 Remanufactured New 07/01/76 Oregon California & Eastern 7607 GE/M-K S3-3B 34237 02/62 Remanufactured New 07/01/76 Oregon California & Eastern 7603 GE/M-K TE53-1-4E 34538 09/62 Remanufactured New 07/09/76 Detroit & Mackinac 976 Alco C-420 84779 02/64 Remanufactured 07/30/76 Oregon California & Eastern 7602 GE/M-K TE53-1-4E 34239 02/62 Remanufactured New 08/20/76 Oregon California & Eastern 7605 GE/M-K TE53-1-4E 34536 09/62 Remanufactured New 08/24/76 Western Pacific Railroad 3539 EMD GP40 37850 09171 Wreck repairs 09/03/76 Manufacturers Railway Co. 253 Alco/M-K TE47-4E 72738 09/44 Remanufactured New 09/15/76 Oregon & Northwestern 3 Baldwin AS-616 75470 05/52 Reconditioned 09/24/76 Oregon California & Eastern 7604 GE/M-K TE53-1-4E 34228 08/61 Remanufactured New 12/30/76 Weyerhaeuser Company 765 EMD GP7 18599 07/53 Remanufactured; used at Vail, Wa.

Last of the 1976 locomotives completed by Morrison-Knudsen at Boise was GP7 765 for the Weyerhaeuser Company - a Weyerhaeuser locomotive was, interestingly, also the first unit completed in 1976. Number 765 is the former Norfolk and Western 2431 built in July of 1953 - EMD serial number 18599 - and originally the Nickel Plate's 43 1. The unit was remanufactured by M-K and now works hauling logs on Weyerhaeuser's Vail logging line near Olympia, Washington. Norman E. Anderson

Boise Industrial Complex as of the end of 1976, the year, accounting for ten of the eighteen units. the last four of eight TE56-4A locomotives not including units scrapped for parts. Of the Its logging operation at Longview, Washington, remanufactured from Aleo RS3 units fo r the 143 locomotives, eighty-fo ur units received sent G P35 308 to Boise for an engine overhaul Delaware and Hudson, and also designed and complete remanufacturing in kind or were and to have the gear ratio built a TE47-4E switcher model remanufactured remanufactured into a new configuration, while changed to their standard 65: 12. They also sent from an Aleo S2 for the Manufacturers Railway fifty-nine units received a lesser amount of work SW7 300 to Boise for remanufacturing. Another (PA CIFIC NEWS, October, 1976). Rounding which ranged from minor reconditioning to Weyerhaeuser operation, at Vail, Washington, out the 1976 list, Western PacificG P40 3539 had overhauling major components and repairing purchased a GP7, numbered 765, from M-K the fr ont section of the underframe replaced wreck damage. The history of the first four and which was remanufactured from the Norfolk ahead of the fr ont bolster, while Oregon and one-half years of locomotive activity at the Boise and Western 2431. Oregon California and Northwestern Baldwin AS616 number three Industrial Complex is given in past issues of Eastern, a Weyerhaeuser subsidiary, purchased received limited repairs as a result of fire damage PA CIFIC NEWS: April, 1974; July, 1975; and fi ve TE53-I-4E locomotives and two S3-3B to the dynamic brake electrical equipment. March, 1976. slug units. Although the production level at Morrison­ The year of 1976 contributed eighteen A quick check of the list of 1976 locomotive Knudsen in 1976 was somewhat less than locomotives to the above totals with fifteen of completions shows that the year was dominated previous years, indications are that 1977 will see the units in the remanufact ured category. by M-K's specialty-design line locomotives. In an increase in locomotive remanufacturing and Additionally, three Baltimore and Ohio F7B addition to the five locomotives and two slugs recondit ioning, and the new, unusual, and units were scrapped. The Weyerhaeuser designed for the OC& E (PA CIFIC NEWS, exciting projects will no doubt occur at 4600 Company was the largest volume customer of August, 1976 ), Morrison-Knudsen completed Apple Street, Boise, Idaho .•

PACIFIC NEWS 15 Kyle Brehm

BRITISH COLUMBIA'S ROYAL HUDSON VISITS THE WESTERN UNITED STATES PART TWO

Leon Callaway -

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16 APRI L, 1977 As initially illustrated in our March issue reproductions of the Royal Family loaned by Pacific's commuter trackage to San Jose. Seen enroute to San Francisco, British Columbia's the Royal London Wax Museum in Victoria, smoking her way through Burlingame, above, Royal Hudson Jubilee Display Train, powered plus outstanding replicas of the Crown Jewels. the train storms "Burlingame Mountain" some by 4-6-4 number 2860, departed Vancouver, Two museum cars contained artifacts from three blocks from the Oak Grove Avenue British Columbia on March 19 to begin a nearly British Columbia, another of the cars displayed crossing overlooked by the PA CIFIC NEWS month-long tour via the Burlington Northern, photographs of BC's heritage, including its rich office which was, of course, closed. Santa Fe and Southern Pacific to Los Angeles history in both logging and railroads. From San Jose early Monday morning, and return. Operated under the sponsorship of The train arrived in San Francisco on March March 28, the train steamed south to Fresno the government's Tourism British Columbia 23 via Southern Pacific with Cotton Belt's first via Southern Pacific to Port Chicago near agency to both promote tourist travel to the SD45T-2 9389 providing any additional muscle Martinez, and then on the Santa Fe - the same north and to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of when needed for the trip from Oregon. That interchange used by Amtrak's San Joaquin - to Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, the train's same evening, opposite top, the train spent the the south end of California's Central Valley. goodwill tour included fifteen cities throughout first of four nights adjacent to San Francisco The train was turned back to the Southern Washington, Oregon and California. For all of Bay at Aquatic Park, near the Maritime Pacific, after a night at Fresno, on the morning the special train's tour, the Honorable Grace M. Museum; virtually the same location used by the of March 29 at Bakersfield where SD45T-2 9307 McCarthy, Minister of Travel Industry for 4449 during its December, 1975 visit. was added, again behind the , opposite British Columbia, was on board. On Sunday morning, March 27, the Royal bottom, as photographed enroute to Los Displays carried on the train included the wax Hudson steamed unassisted down Southern Angeles at Bealville in the Tehachapis.

PACIFIC NEWS 17 Working on the Santa Fe without any diesel helper, right, the Montreal-built 4-6-4 steams south into Bakersfield, near Rosedale, from Fresno through suburban housing over straight­ as-an-arrow trackage on the morning of March 29. Ahead lay both Southern Pacific track and a diesel helper. Operating unassisted for the Santa Fe portions of its trip, the train was given a for added power on the Southern Pacific except from San Francisco to Port Chicago via San Jose. After her visit and display in Los Angeles from March 31 to the morning of April I the train retraced its route over Espee's Tehachapi Pass on April 2, a Saturday, which placed the movement of the train in easy view of both railroad enthusiasts and public alike. With Espee SD45 9051 added as a helper, the train curves downgrade around the railroad's famed Tehachapi Loop, below, at Walong, where it will soon come back around to duck into the tunnel here seen under the tender. A favorite spot for railroad photography, Tehachapi Pass was especially popular on this particular Saturday morning as steam once again visited Southern California. With the help of Espee's SD45 9051, which did most of the work in controlling the speed of Leon Callaway

Russell B. Sperry

18 APRIL, 1977 railroad museum project which recently opened a portion of its displays. The journey northward from Sacramento be�an April 6, a Wednesday, with travel to Klamath Falls over Southern Pacific rails which would take the locomotive to Portland. A diesel helper was a�ain provided. On the Ore�on Division's Cascade subdivision, middle, the northbound train slips across Salmon Creek Brid�e at milepost 577.8 at ei�hteen minutes before 1:00 PM. The date was Thursday, April 7, as the train made its journey between Klamath Falls and Eu�ene. Cotton Belt BiCentennial SD45T-2 9389 is once a�ain with the train to provide added power over the steep climbs of the railroad's mountain re�ions when required. Actually, the diesels provided by Southern Pacific frequently did the majority of the work required to move the train. The Royal Hudson 's auxiliary tender, by the way, clearly shows itself with this side view deep in the scenic Ore�on forests. Curvin� alon� past the sidin� at Minnow, Ore�on with the shores of Lookout Point Lake in the back�round, Extra B C 2860 East is headin� down the final laps of her route to Eu�ene on Thursday, the ei�ht-car train stretched out behind her two tenders and the BiCentennial diesel helper power, ri�ht. The train was opened for public display at Eu�ene on Friday, then traveled to Portland Leon Callaway the train on its northbound journey to Bakersfield for a display session startin� in the early afternoon, the Royal Hudson curves throu�h Caliente, left, with a sli�ht exhaust at her stack and the �enerator - for electricity, located just ahead of the cab on top of her boiler and trailin�a plume of steam - hummin� away. The scenery is typically Southern California Tehachapi, a far cry from her present normal assi�nment in passen�er service on the British Columbia Railway or the transcontinental Canadian Pacificservice for which she was built in June of 1940. Royal Hudson 2860 was the first delivered of the railroad's final order for 4-6-4'5, class H-Ie. Built by the Montreal Locomotive Works - who built all sixty-five of Canadian Pacific's - 4-6-4'5, 2800-2864 - the 2860 went to work in June of 1940 as MLW serial number 69292. She wei�hs a total of 675,000 pounds. Her 275 Both: Dave Wilkie pounds of boiler steam pressure turn 75" drivin� wheels throu�h 22x30" cylinders for 45,250 pounds of tractive effort. In answer to the obvious current western comparison, the 4449 wei�hs a total of over four hundred tons and is nearly 100 tons heavier than the 2860. With 300 pounds boiler pressure turnin� 80-inch drivers throu�h 25'hx32" cylinders the 4449 turns out 64,800 pounds of tractive effort. Althou�h the former Daylight is obviously a much lar�er locomotive, it must be remembered that both were built for entirely different service requirements even thou�h constructed for passen�er assi�nments on their two respective railroad owners. What is the "Royal" in Royal Hudson? In 1939, En�land's Kin� Geor�e VI and Queen Elizabeth toured Canada. Their train was pulled by Hudson 2850, the first member of 1938-built class H-Id which comprised ten locomotives. All Canadian Pacific's streamlined Hudsons became known as Royal. Display of the train was sta�ed near the California capitol at Sacramento, revisin� the ori�inal schedule by borrowin� time from the stop at nearby Stockton to expand the visit to historic Old Sacramento, which houses the state

PACIFIC NEWS 19 Saturday for display on Sunday. On the 11th, Monday, the 2860 steamed north over the Burlington Northern toward Seattle. Being paced by the trafficon the adjacent freeway, top, G) the train puts away the miles between Kalama . and Kelso, Washington on Monday morning with a white plume of smoke that trailed her entire train length, top. At Centralia, middle, the Royal Hudson paused to await the Amfleet PUKet Sound behind F40PH 217, which was also northbound and is here just leaving the station to be followed by the 4-6-4 and her train. The Jubilee Display Train paused for a public showing at Tacoma, below, where its cars were opened for visitors on one of the few tracks still left in the station. Crowds here were less than in California, but nonetheless the 2860 attracted considerable attention everywhere that she went during the three-state, three-railroad tour in behalf of British Columbia tourism. There can be no doubt of the goodwill gained for her country by the Royal Hudson's journey .• Both: Robert W. Johnston

20 APRIL. 1977 suburban points out of Washington, and Conrail runs electric multiple-unit cars between Washington and Baltimore. Newspapers in Baltimore carry real estate ��------H A-R-�-�w_T_DE-�-�-R !� advertisements contending that one may live better and cheaper in the Maryland city and commute by Amtrak, At what geographic point does western railroading Conrail or B&O to the capital - now that the Metro actually end? subway has a stop beneath Washington Union Station. To some, the important milepost might be Salt Lake Baltimore station in the afternoon is the scene of an on the Denver and Rio Grande, or the Union Pacific at interesting freight movement. At around 3 PM, six Omaha. What about Denver Union Station as a logical diesels growl into sight at the head end of a long coal boundary? Or certainly, the West ends, or begins, at drag. Usually the train halts at BP Junction for passenger Chicago, Illinois. trains, perhaps a Metroliner in flight on the Ground Surely, paired E44's with 100 auto racks howling Shuttle. Then position-light signals move to straight up through Trenton on a chilly New Jersey morning, rattling and down and the horsepower nudges forward. The the windows of Lorenzo's saloon - it doesn't open until locomotives are usually all EMD, often with a GP30 on 5:00 PM - is not western railroading. Conrail's beer­ the point. Almost always in the consist are one or two can-opener emblem is hardly the setting sun of Southern ex� cabless GP9B's. At the end, Pacific or the sign of the Feather River Route. Five behind the caboose, is a GP30 or GP40 pushing hard. SD45T-2's strumming music on Donner Pass at Yuba Conrail diesels would startle the San Francisco Bay Area Gap certainly is western railroading. But along the Pollution Control District. No matter their manufacture, Hudson River north of New York, aging U-boats of they smoke up the sky and obscure the catenary. various configurations lug tonnage over uncertain track, On the New Jersey shore at Hoboken, pantograph­ past the third-rail multiple-unit commuter trains, over equipped multiple-unit cars on the former Lackawanna tracks shared with Rohr-built Turbos. hurry commuters through Bergen County under ancient Let us examine steel terminating in a dirt pile on the 3000-volt DC catenary. It is a fact that Thomas Alva outskirts of Annapolis, Maryland. Edison ran the first electric train there in 1930, but often Power poles above rusty rails taunt one's curiosity. The ignored is the fact that the General Electric Company tracks, one learns, are the remains of the Washington used the same voltage and power layout there as it did Baltimore and Annapolis, a blue-plate interurban that in some years before on the Chicago Milwaukee and St. its prime ran high-speed electric service both from the Paul Railway in the northwest. capital and Baltimore to this Naval Academy city on In upstate New York the Fonda Johnstown and Chesapeake Bay. This is the same railroad that ran Gloversville hauls freight behind diesels over track once articulated interurban cars inspected by Oakland's own frequented by Brill-built "Bullet" interurbans. The shells Key System engineers planning the trains that would of most of those Bullets now lie in a field in Salt Lake eventually operate on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay City, far from their home state. But then they ran in New Bridge. It was the WB&A that sold its Niles-built York only a few years and spent most of their days "Electric Pullmans" to a variety of other interurbans, speeding between Salt Lake and Ogden on Bamberger including the Salt Lake and Ogden, later the Bamberger Railroad schedules. Railroad. And, at Rio Vista Junction in California's In Philadelphia, other "Bullets" hasten from Upper Solano County, reposes a Central California Traction Darby to Norristown over the former Philadelphia and Company steel box motor, the number seven. Beneath its Western's third-rail fast line. It was in 1906 that the P&W yellow livery can be found the remains of an earlier was both unfinished and already bankrupt. So its first career, long before it shuttled between Stockton and order of cars went west to become the "Big Sub" Sacramento. Number seven, one remembers, was built interurbans for the suburban operations between San for the Washington Baltimore and Annapolis. Francisco and San Mateo, and to branch and main line At Ivy City Yard, north of Washington, Amtrak duty on the Northern Electric Railway, someday to E60CP and GG I electrics raise pantographs to catenary. become the Sacramento Northern. at times, both the experimental Swedish and French Rattling over Philadelphia's streets are former Kansas electric locomotives share track space. But there are other City PCC streetcars. They came in two batches, directly locomotives at the yard. 's bright green from Kansas City and, more recently, via Toronto, which E8's await their call to wheel the Crescent south to bought cars, too, from Kansas City Public Service in the Atlanta and New Orleans. Three days a week the train 1950's. Look again, they are identical to the eleven carries a through Pullman to Los Angeles, via Amtrak's ex-Toronto, ex-Kansas City cars in San Francisco. Is . Minneapolis in the West? Then ride ex-Minneapolis PCC And, there is also plenty of non-electrified Amtrak streetcars in the Newark subway, over tracks laid in a territory in the East. The familiar SDP40F runs on former canal through the New Jersey city, or travel to Florida trains along with the new General Electric-built Boston and ride ex-Dallas PCC cars operated by the P30CH diesel locomotives. These units, coupled to Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. There is, Amtrak standard or Amfleet cars, make the West seem of course, the fact that the 4449 touched the rails of the very close. An SDP40F Florida train looks no different Southern. And, at year's end, weren't there Burlington than the San Francisco Zephyr between Chicago and Northern Alcos on Conrail? Oakland. The P30CH locomotives will appear in the Where does western railroading end, or begin? Writing West powering Bilevel trains. from Washington, D.C., one can not find an answer. A Washington's version of the California Valley's San teletype machine across the Mall from this typewriter Joaquin runs weekends between Union Station and monitors the progress of the Coast Starlight as well as the Harper's Ferry, though at last report GE rather than Patriot. There is no answer. It doesn't matter anyway. EMD power was being used. But the Amfleet cars are The track gauge is the same and railroading loses none of there, just as if they were running past Merced, or San its charm or utility when it crosses political or Clemente in San Diego service. geographical boundries. But one ponders the question at The Baltimore and Ohio schedules ROC trains to Lorenzo's, over draught beer and soft shell crab.

PACIFIC NEWS 21 Who would argue with a cab ride in a Metroliner at U30C 3319 is now at Pike Avenue shops in North Little dusk through Pennsylvania, the swinging headlight Rock, Arkansas for installation of a new ca b and nose panning the catenary and countryside as, at 107 mph, the section. It will get a standard GE cab ordered from the pantographs are bouncing off the wire and the lights factory so number 3311, with its EMD-style cab, will flickering? Why even ask the question? remain unique. For the past several months, 3319 has Notes: Track rehabilation continues in the Corridor been in service as a cabless "drone," or B-unit, following between Boston and Washington. It seems probable that a grade crossing collision which destroyed the cab and CTC will be installed between New York and nose (PA CIFIC NEWS, August, 1976). Philadelphia as a part of the upgrading though it is still The Rock Island had its White River bridge damaged uncertain whether Conrail will use electric locomotives by a barge on April 9, 1977. This is on the Little for freight after Amtrak alters the catenary to 60 cycles, Rock-to-Memphis line. The Rock detoured over the eliminating the GG-I which runs only on 25-cycle power. MoPac starting April 10, with its new all-Illinois Central General Electric is delivering additional Jersey Arrow Gulf train which terminates in the ICG yard in Memphis. II commuter cars to replace the Lackawanna electrified The Rock is working with the Santa Fe to set up a service. The arrows use the II,OOO-volt-and- higher AC through train operation from Memphis to the west coast system which will be installed on the old Lackawanna via Amarillo, Texas. tracks so trains can run directly into New York's Missouri Pacific GE-built U23B 2256 has been Pennsylvania Station over former Pennsy rails. The repaired at the Pike Avenue shops in North Little Rock, problem is that the AC cars are being delivered long Arkansas, following collision damage. The locomotive before the DC catenary on the Lackawanna can be now sports an EMD-style cab as does the 3311. converted. Conrail will run the cars for awhile between The former Auto-Liner 101 purchased late in 1976 has New York and Trenton fo r New Jersey Department of now been painted MoPac blue and renumbered 2. The Transportation, which wants to remove the original car passed through North Little Rock on April 27 as part Jersey Arrows from service (see PA CIFIC NEWS, of a Directors Special which had departed St. Louis the September, 1975) and upgrade them to Jersey previous day for a tour of the system. The complete Arrow II configuration. How can you tell one from consist of the train was Missouri Pacific locomotive 1585, another? The originals have flat roofs, the new ones have an EMD GPI5-1, and Missouri Pacific office cars, in humps on the roofs for electrical equipment. order, 2, I, II and 8. On the transit scene, President Carter sent a The St. Louis-San Francisco Railway will soon join handwritten letter to DOT Secretary Brock Adams both the Missouri Pacific and the Chicago and North suggesting the administration deemphasize subway Western as owners of Electro-Motive GP15-1 units. The construction due to its alleged high cost and concentrate Frisco now has twenty-five of these locomotives on order instead on parking lots, bus lanes and light rail. The letter for late August or early September delivery. was leaked to the press in Washington by startled DOT On the MoPac summary in the March, 1977 issue, and industry operatives. 0 please correct U30C's 3330-3364 to 3300-3334. 0

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Better weather still finds the Missouri Pacific short of The San Francisco Municipal Railway's first two power. Carloadings are at record levels and sometimes Boeing Light Rail Vehicles (LR V's) are now scheduled to trains are being held for locomotives. Shippers are trying arrive in San Francisco in September of this year. These to fill the backlog of business created when many two cars will be complete and ready for service when industries were idled by the severe weather earlier this delivered, but will only be used for testing on the Muni year. To help supply the demand for cars, MoPac has system, including the new Market Street Subway, for a borrowed 1000 fifty-foot boxcars from the National period of several months before any additional cars Railways of Mexico. They have been exempted from arrive. The two LR V's will also be used to establish the Interstate Commerece Commission car service rules one maintenance procedures and train shop personnel on the and two, which require the return of empty boxcars, new Boeing-built equipment. upon receipt from customers, to the owning carrier. The remainder of the Muni's LRV fleet - ninety-eight MoPac and Santa Fe recently introduced a new faster cars - will not begin arriving until mid-1978 following piggyback run-through train called Whirlwind II. It gives the last deliveries of cars to Boston for their share of the third-morning service to Los Angeles from Memphis and order. Boston has already taken delivery of New Orleans. The train is routed via Sweetwater, Texas approximately fifty LRV's, and quite a number of these and the motive power is pooled. have been placed in service. However, in late February all Motive power news includes a change of switcher were removed from service because several had power at Dupo, Illinois. GP 15-1 's are now being used in developed broken truck kingpins. Shipments from this major rail terminal, which is located just across the Boeing of additional cars were halted until the problem river from St. Louis. Previously SW1200's were the was solved. Traction motors have given some trouble on standard switcher power there. GP7 trade-ins for the these cars as well however, with Boston giving the Boeing twenty-five new GPI5-I's that are scheduled for delivery LRV a thorough shakedown to locate and correct any in June are now being sent to EMD. The remaining GPTs problems there is no question that the Muni's LRV's will in the 1600-1628 group are being renumbered to 600-628 be much more trouble-free when they finally enter to make room fo r the new GPI5-I's, which will be service in San Francisco. numbered 1590-1614. GPTs number 1605 and 1609 are Elkton Shop will close for good on Friday, May 27, already off the Missouri Pacific roster. ending a seventy-year career under two owners. The shop

22 APRIL. 1977 was built in 1907 to serve as the main general repair at Copperton, Utah where it joins two sister units, the facility for the Market Street Railway and was acquired 776 and 777. Roster note: this is the fi rst 775; 70-ton by the M uni in 1944 as part of San Francisco's purchase electric 799 had been assigned number 775 for years, but of the entire Market Street Railway system. Elkton Shop was never actually renumbered. continued as the general shop for the Muni right up to Morrison-Knudsen's two remaining TE53-4E units on the current year. the Black Mesa and Lake Powell Railroad in Arizona Market Street Railway constructed over 250 new have been returned from that isolated coal-hauling streetcars at Elkton during the 1920's and 1930's; and this electrified railroad and sent east - on the Union Pacific shop also built many fine, new cable car bodies under at Ogden, Utah April 14, 1977 - where the 5302 and both Market Street Railway and Municipal Railway 5303 will work on lease to Conrail. management to keep the cable car fleet in good repair. Stauffer Chemical at Sage, Wyoming has the former Until recently, Elkton Shop was equipped with a Southern Pacific General Electric 70-tonner number foundry which enabled the Muni and its predecessor 5103 in service renumbered 510 and painted blue with the to cast many of the parts needed to keep the streetcars same Stauffer emblem used on their many tank cars. The and cable cars running. The Muni was still able to cast locomotive was built in May, 1949 as serial 30166. parts for the cable car and PCC fleets, which were no United States Army 1861, a Fairbanks-Morse H 12-44, longer made commercially, right up to the time the was shipped from Ogden (Utah) Hill TEAD on April 16 foundry portion of Elkton Shop had to be removed in following overhaul and a fresh repainting. This FM came 1975 to make way for the fi rst construction of the new to Ogden storage from the Pueblo (Colorado) Army Metro Center Car House. Depot in 1973 and will now be used at the Anniston Armv And now Elkton Shop will close. Some departments Depot in Anniston, Alabama. are already in the process of moving to other locations, United States Air Force 7064, a General Electric-built and on the weekend following May 27 - Memorial Day 44-tonner - August, 1942, serial 15113 - arrived at weekend - the streetcar maintenance forces will move Ogden Hill TEAD the week of April 21. The locomotive to Metro Center along with their equipment so that some was last assigned to Grissom Air Force Base at Peru, work can still be performed on the PCC fleet. PCC Indiana where it had served since May of 1971. Originally maintenance will be moved to the nearby Geneva Car built as USA 7064, it first worked at the Pine Bluff House where most repairs will be handled. Metro Center Arsenal in Baldwin, Arkansas. will only do the backshop work, such as on traction United States Steel Baldwin DS44-1000 number 1000 motors, so that Metro Center can be set up and ready returned to Provo, Utah in mid-April from its overhaul at for the LRV's when they arrive. And, by mid-June, Boise, Idaho in which it received virtually the same Elkton Shop will be demolished to make way for the new treatment as sister 26 (PA CIFIC NEWS, February, Metro Center car storage yard. 1977) which returned from the Morrison-Knudsen New Powell Street cable car 25 (PA CIFIC NEWS, rebuild fa cility in March. D November, 1976) finally entered service on Thursday, March 3. The car's inaugural run up Powell Street was complete with a load of civic dignitaries marking the occasion. Car 25 wears the new maroon, blue and white color scheme, introduced by cable car number I in 1973, TWELFTH ANNUAL and is normally assigned to the Powell-Hyde Line. And, to increase passenger safety on the cable cars, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors recently adopted new 1977 STEAM PASSENGER regulations limiting the number of riders on the outside running boards of these cars. D SERVICE DIRECTORY

COMPLETE INFORMATION AND PHOTOS ON ALL [. STEAM TOURIST RAILROADS, TROLLEY MUSEUMS WESTERN LOCOMOTIVE NEWS AND RAILWAY MUSEUMS IN THE UN ITED STATES AN D CANADA. KENNETH M. ARDINGERI

8 MORE PAGES THAN THE 1976 BOOK . COLOR COVERS Kaiser Steel's Fontana, California plant has increased its locomotive roster in the past six months with EMD switchers 1024 through 1029; some are NW2, SW7, SW8; AVAI LABLE AT ALL RAI LROAD some have been identified in past PA CIFIC NEWS issues and now the 1029 can be listed with its history. MUSEUMS AND MANY LOCA L Outshopped January 25, 1977 by the Silvis, Illinois shops HOBBY SHOPS, OR BY MAIL of the Rock Island using the frame and some other parts from Chicago and North Western EMD SW8 80 1, built $3.00 postpaid in November of 1952 as serial number 16889, the locomotive had been sold by the CNW to Chrome (FOR FIRST CLASS POSTAGE ADD 50¢) Crankshaft at Chicago in September, 1975 before becoming Kaiser 1029. One noticeable change to this unit is that it now sports two exhausts; as the CNW 80 I it EMPIRE STATE RAILWAY MUSEUM had only one. Post Office Box 666 Kennecott Copper 61, a General Electric 70-tonner - October, 1949, serial number 30374 - from McGill, Middletown, New York 10940 Nevada, has been transferred to become the number 775

PACIFIC NEWS 23 out at Salt Lake City, trucks will be changed and Pacesetter equipment installed at Omaha, and then _THE_U_NIO_N _PA_CIF_IC _RA_ILR_OAD----J 8 repainting and lettering at North Platte. The first, 419, [ GEORGE R. COCKLE, EDITOR has been scheduled to start the program a little early CAR AND LOCOMOTIVE CYCL OPEDIA while the balance will be shopped between July and October of this year. The end has arrived for the big General Electric The expected delivery of new General Electric C30-7 twin-engined U50's with the retirement of the remaining units which was to have commenced in April has been B+B-B+B's -numbers 45, 51 and 53 - and the first set back to now start in June. sixteen of the C-C models. After a final run-through at The large increment order of Electro-Motive SD40-2's the Omaha (Nebraska) Shops for removal of any useable continues to arrive on the property. An up-date from last components, the units had all distinguishing markings month shows twenty-one more units on hand as of April and numbers overs prayed with black paint and were 30 (PA CfFIC NEWS, March, 1977): 3370 through 3373, returned to Council Bluffs to await disposition. The serial numbers 766056-36 through 766056-39 built in 5002's two main prime movers and its generators had March, 1977, and 3374-3390 built in April as serial previously been removed and were sold to Conrail, along numbers 766056-40 through 766056-56. These units are with another spare generator. being placed into immediate road service as B-units as the Two of the B+B-B+B units and three of the C-C models set-up program at Omaha Shops has been temporarily were sold and shipped to the Erman Corporation at suspended due to other fleet maintenance requirements. Turner, Kansas on April 29: The original SD40-2 acquisition order called fo r 75 45 (2nd) GE U50 serial number 35105 09/64 units to be numbered 3335 through 3409. A change now 53 (2nd) GE U50 serial number 3565 1 08 /65 calls for delivery of 65 units numbered 3335 through 3399 5002 GE U50C serial number 37141 03170 and the remaining ten units delivered as 8065-8074. 5009 GE U50C serial number 37 148 05170 The 6900-Class Fail Free Program has been concluded 50 12 GE U50C serial number 37151 11170 with the release of the 6939. Results of this selective Of the balance, nine locomotives are stored serviceable maintenance program have proven highly satisfactory in and fourteen are stored unserviceable. Of those that are lowering on-going maintenance, providing higher unit serviceable, five - 5019, 5026, 5027, 5032 and 5039 - are availability and fewer missed schedules. stored at North Platte, four - 50 17, 5028, 5030 and 5039 The changing scene at Council Bluffs saw the - are at Council Bluffs with the unserviceable units all demolishing of the old water tower and sand drying stored at Council Bluffs except fo r one at Omaha. house near the now-gone diesel servicing house in late There is 192,300 horsepower stored unserviceable April. During that month crews also demolished the throughout the system, 88,000 of which consists of nine steam generation plant and removed most of the SD24's and twenty-eight SD24 B-units. Breaking out the overhead steam piping system. Grading and ballasting in remainder: 7 GPTs at 9000 horsepower; 2 GP9B's at 3500 and around most of these relics of "smoke and cinder" horsepower; 8 GP20's at 16,000 horsepower; 14 U50C's days has all but removed their scars and makes room for at 70,000 horsepower and 5 NW2 switchers at 5000 modernization plans. horsepower. Five of the Electro-Motive 5000- Union Pacific's roadway maintenance program for horsepower DD35B units were placed in storage at Salt 1977 includes spending $4.3 million to replace worn or Lake City in mid-April: 74B, 84B, 91B, 96B and 97B. outmoded tampers, liners and other maintenance Eight SD24's have been selected as hump units for the equipment. A $100,000 program will provide the new Hinkle (Oregon) yard classification complex: 400, strengthening for several timber bridges on the Grand 40 1, 403, 405, 419, 420, 426 and 447. The locomotives will Island (Nebraska) Branch so as to handle 100-ton cars. receive engine Class-B inspection and generator change- These structural improvements will upgrade the line to high standards and provide an alternate route for main line traffic plus handling the seasonal grain movements in the area. A popular executive name - William J. Fox, Vice a book service for President of Operations - has been succeeded by Robert L. Richmond. Mr. Fox retires after nearly forty-one rail· oriented people • • • years of service, starting as a switchman in Los Angeles during 1936. D We handle the full rail lines of most leading publishers, as well as books and publishers that are not as generally well known. Orders are usually shipped by UPS for fast, damage-free delivery, with no extra charge for shipping __TH_ E_SA_NT_A _FE_RA_ILW_A--,Y and handling on orders of over $5.00. We are continu­ [� ally adding to our catalog offering. Please give us a try JOE McMILLAN, AUTHOR -we think you'll be completely satisfied. We are rail­ SANTA FE'S DIESEL FLEET fa ns ourselves and are interested in service. Santa Fe's five BiCentennial EMD SD45-2 units, numbered 5700 to 5704, are currently being repainted to MOST CURRENT RAIL BOOK RELEASES IN STOCK their original freight schemes. The number 570 1 lost its PLEASE WRITE FOR FREE CURRENT CATALOG red, white and blue paint in mid-April and the 5703 and 5700 are in the San Bernardino, California shop and will

BOX 339 emerge in mid-May and early June, respectively, in JOHN H. WESTON WILMETTE ILLINOIS freight paint. The 5702 will probably enter the shop next, Bookseller 60091 followed some time later by the 5704. F7 cab units 215L and 245L have been retired leaving only four on the roster: 252C, 260C, 275L and the 328L.

24 APRIL. 1977 Nearly all of the sixty-nine remaining booster units, Park for rehabilitation and operation. however, remain in active service. A two-hour ceremony at the station following the Because of the current power shortage, most of the train's arrival featured a band,.bagpipers and officials of A1co S2 and S4 switchers which had been in storage in the city, the state, Amtrak, Southern Pacific and Union California for some time are returning to service. A Pacific. Amtrak railroading was also well represented number of them will be sent east to switch in West Texas during the program, when both the northbound and and Kansas. Four 1418-class Electro-Motive switchers, southbound Coast Starlight arrived, and the Amfleet­ which had been laid up at San Bernardino, are being equipped Puget Sound, its F40 PH locomotive reassigned to Chicago's Corwith Yard. throbbing, sat on an adjacent track. The locomotive rebuilding programs continue at a very The streamliner which the 4449 pulled north from Los rapid pace. CFTs 2470 down through the 2460 have been Angeles was an impressive nineteen cars - the twentieth released since our last report in the January PA CIFIC car, Espee business car Oregon, was added in Eugene for NE WS. All 1977 program CFTs - numbered 247 1 and the last day of the journey - with Santa Fe-assigned and below - are emerging with squared-off cabs giving the Barstow-based SDP40F 527 in the new wrap-around units a more unusual look. Also recently released from paint providing assistance whenever necessary. East of the Cleburne, Texas facility are GP7 rebuilds 2008 and Los Angeles the train had included three vista-domes in 209 1 to 2094. GP20 rebuilds 302 1 and 3066 - formerly its consist; however, due to Southern Pacific operating numbered 3121 and 3166 - rolled out of the San restrictions on the Coast Line, the three dome cars were Bernardino Shops March 17 and April 12, respectively. replaced with full-length dome-lounge 9373, formerly There are now four upgraded 3000-class GP20's in Southern Pacific's 3604. At the rear of the train was service. SD26 units continue to leave from this huge observation-lounge 3342, once the Seaboard's 6602. Southern California shop facility. The latest to roll out Effective April 24, Amtrak altered the schedules of are the 46 14, 4641, 4650 and 4669. As of April 29, there most of its long-distance trains in the west. This schedule were sixty-five SD26's in service, all assigned to the Coast change was due to train connections in some cases, but Lines. Only fourteen SD24's have yet to be rebuilt. for the most part the primary reason was the slow-down A new locomotive rebuild program is just getting of the SDP40 F locomotives used on those runs. underway at Cleburne Shops in Texas. Two GP9's, The Los Angeles-to-Seattle Coast Starlight now numbers 2907 and 2943, have been retired and will be the departs Los Angeles at 10:00 AM with an arrival in first rebuilds of that class. The work will be nearly Seattle the following evening at 6:20 PM. The identical to that of the current GP7 program. Upgraded southbound train leaves Seattle at 11:05 AM and arrives GP9's will be numbered in the 2248-2299 series. in Los Angeles at 6:55 PM the next day. Explosions and derailments have disabled a number of The Chicago-to-San Francisco San Francisco Zephyr Santa Fe locomotives during the first third of 1977. CF7 now leaves from Oakland heading east at 1:00 PM and 2648 and GP7 2865 were damaged January 30 at arrives westbound at 3:30 PM. At the other end of the Buckholts, Texas; and a month later near Dallas, F-unit Zephyr's 2400-mile run, arrivals in Chicago are scheduled boosters 23 1 B, 328A and 355B were wrecked in an for 3:35 PM with departures at 4:00 PM. It is interesting explosion (PA CIFIC NEWS, February, 1977) which to note, by the way, that for the first time since the coming resulted in their retirement. Another explosion, this time of Amtrak passengers heading east on the Overland at Love, Arizona on March 16, severely damaged GP35 Route can now enjoy the scenic beauty of both Weber 3446 and GP30 3276. GP7 2886 and F7B 280A were and Echo Canyons in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah wrecked near Temple, Texas on April 17 and on the day during daylight for the train departs Ogden, Utah before in East Texas G P9 290 1, CF7 2467 and GP7 2891 for Chicago at 7:30 AM. suffered damage. Three SD45's sustained fire damage in In the Pacific Northwest, the eastbound Emp ire a crossing accident on the Frisco in April. Builder leaves Seattle at 11:55 AM. The westbound Amtrak E-units have returned to the Santa Fe. As of arrives in the Queen City of the Northwest at 3:35 PM. April 29 the following were assigned to Cleburne for Chicago arrival and departures for the Builder are 5: 15 maintenance: 367, 368, 400, 404, 405, 413, 414, 419, 421, PM and 1:40 PM, respectively. 426, 429 and 436. Other Santa Fe-assigned Amtrak units Amtrak's other Seattle-to-Chicago streamliner, the as of that date include F40PH's 220-224 and SDP40F's Hiawatha, now pulls out of Seattle at 3:40 500-529, 535, 614, 617, 618 and 619. 0 PM and allows daytime viewing of Stevens Pass and the famed Cascade Tunnel. Eastbound trains arrive in Chicago at 10:05 PM, westbound trains pull out of Chicago's Union Station at 9:30 AM and arrive in Seattle at II:5 9 AM, on the third day. The Hiawatha will begin AMTRAK NEWS its usual daily summer operation on June 15, and continue on this schedule until September 7. In view of DANIEL B. KUHN the imminent arrival of the new Bilevel cars on the northwestern trains, get out and ride the Builder and the On May 1, Sunday, Amtrak celebrated its sixth Hiawatha this summer while the scenic grandeur of birthday in grand style with a ceremony upon the arrival each route can be enjoyed from a real dome car. home to Portland, Oregon of ex-Southern Pacific GS-4 In the southland, the Chicago-to-Los Angeles 4-8-4 4449 from its tour with the American Freedom Southwest Limited continues to run much as it always Train. Powering a twenty-car streamliner, the 4449 has since Santa Fe has had little trouble with the steamed into Portland Union Station right on time at SDP40F's on its track, although the Southwest Limited exactly 1: 15 PM concluding not only Amtrak's does both leave and arrive at each end of its route thirty transcontinental steam excursion which had departed minutes earlier. The Los Angeles-to-New Orleans Sunset Birmingham, Alabama on April 13, but also the 4449's Limited, a tri-weekly train the year round, now departs fantastic journey which had begun December 14, 1974 Los Angeles eastbound at 9:30 PM and arrives when the former Daylight locomotive was pulled from westbound at 7:30 AM. Arrival and departure times in deteriorating "display" in storage at Portland's Oaks New Orleans are 8:30 PM and 11:50 AM, respectively.

PACIFIC NEWS 25 The second Ca ltrak began service between sleeper-lounge St. Croix River and Frisco business car 2 Los Angeles and San Diego on April 24. The fifth daily (March 27 train); and Frisco GP38-2's 469/467, Frisco round-trip over the line, the new train is partially caboose 1718, BN heater car 19, BN baggage car 216, subsidized by the State of California in response to Frisco business car I, BN sleepers Jeffe rson Pass and increased patronage during the last year. Like all of the Stevens Pass, BN auditorium-lounge car Deschutes other San Diegans, the train is powered by EMD F40PH River and BN business car Mississippi River (March 28 diesels and is equipped with Amfleet cars. Another new train). Burlington Northern's track measuring car B9 Amfleet service, the Seattle-to-Salt Lake City Pioneer, is toured the Frisco earlier. scheduled to begin service on June 7 and was covered in Much publicity has been given BN's three detail on page five of the March, 1977 issue. 0 BiCentennial locomotives, but the road's BiCentennial caboose has escaped everyone's attention, primarily because it is not an "official" paint job. (This writer did not know of the car's existence until it was prought to his THE BURLINGTON NORTHERN attention recently by Bill Wylde of Carterville, l11inois. Thanks, Bill!) The caboose, number 11442, works the G : , HOl WAGNER, JR., EDITOR F. I Herrin, l11inois-to-Paducah, Kentucky local and was BURLINGTON NORTHERN ANNUAL painted by Herrin shop forces. It features large red, white The twenty new General Electric C30-7 units began and blue bands completely encompassing the car. Watch arriving around the first of May. The first one, number for a color shot of it in the .u pcoming Burlington 55 10, was inspected at Erie on April 19, then delivered Northern Annual. and set up for service by the Burlington Northern at Note: In last month's issue, Tom Lamphier, the BN's Lincoln on May4: builder's number 41533, order number new president, started with the Great Northern as a 1343-1, built in April, 1977. Appearance of the new group chainman in the engineering department - as in a is identical to that of the first ten, numbers 5500-5509, surveying crew - not as chairman as we converted in even down to the plated-over Mars light opening on the a typesetting error. 0 low nose. The new locomotives are equipped with Vapor Pacesetter creep control for unit coal train loading and unloading work. Another A1co-built RS3 has been placed back in __ HET _S_OU_THE_RN_P_AC_1F1C----J service: 4064 joins the 4068, 4078, 408 1, 4082 and 4085. [1 _ 1 All but the 4064 are in green. Some recent repaintings: 1543 (the last GP7), SW7 137 Once again, Southern Pacific locomotive activity is and Burlington Northern (Manitoba) Ltd. GP9 2. in the news forefront. New locomotive additions to the As part of the merger study by the BN and Frisco, motive power roster are being ordered, and work is at last special trains were operated over both roads so that beginning at Boise, Idaho by Morrison-Knudsen on a officers and directors could view the properties. The BN revamp of four U25B's for the Espee. special left St. Paul on April 22, running to Willmar, Four new Morrison-Knudsen TE70-4S locomotives Minot, Havre, Wenatchee, Interbay, Auburn, Pasco, are to be built in Boise for the Southern Pacific, equipped Sandpoint, Missoula, Billings, Edgemont, Alliance and with a twelve-cylinder Vee-type turbocharged ASV Lincoln, arriving on the 29th. When the train started out 25/30 four-stroke-cycle prime mover supplied by Sulzer its consist was FTs 668/ 117/144, heater car 19, baggage Brothers, Limited of Switzerland. The locomotives will car 216, sleeper-lounge St. Croix River, business cars be rated at 2800 horsepower and numbered 7030-7033, a Clark Fork River and Yellowstone River, sleepers natural numbering series following the system's four Stevens Pass and Big Horn Pass, auditorium-lounge U28B's built in 1966: 7025-7028. Southern Pacific has Deschutes River and business car Mississippi River. sent four U25B's to Morrison-Knudsen as trade-in's for Somewhere along the line, F7 744 developed problems the TE70-4S units: 67 17, built March, 1963 as serial and was cut off, replaced by Colorado and Southern 34687 (the previous showing of 67 13 has proven to be SD40-2's 918 and 996. Two trains were run on the Frisco; incorrect); 6733, built January, 1964 as serial 34770; they came into Springfield, Missouri on March 27 and 28 6745, built February, 1964 as serial 34782; and 6752, built - one from Memphis and one from Kansas City. March, 1964 as serial 34789. All were originally built as Consists were: tW()Frisco GP38-2's, Frisco caboose 1724, 7500-series numbers, but retained their final two digits in BN heater car 16, BN business cars Clark Fo rk River and the system's 1965 renumbering. Yello wstone River, BN sleeper Big Horn Pass, BN From General Electric, late this year, will come four new B30-7 locomotives, to be numbered as the 7800 to 7803. The four Electro-Motive GP40X units are due YOU ARE NOT A REGULAR SUBSCRIBER? at about the same time. For 1978 delivery, ninety new locomotives are now Then subscribe planned, with an impressive forty of the units to be ... Locotrol equipped for radio-control operations which to R are scheduled to be expanded into Northern California and the Overland Route. EMD SD40-2's, twenty lead ************************** units and twenty remote units, will comprise the radio : SUPPORT ADVERTISERS � control units. Ten six-motor and forty more four-motor units are also planned, including more GE's. :: WHO SUPPORT � Passenger GP9E 3189, the former 3005, returned to the PA CIFIC NE WS San Francisco Peninsula April 25 following its upgrading � � at Sacramento which was completed April 18. Four, 3186 * THAT WAY EVERYBODY BENEFITS * to 3189, of these units now haul commuters, although the ************************** 3189 is the first "torpedo boat" to be upgraded. 0

26 APRIL, 1977 Martin Louis Bosnyak

Smoking its way out of Tunnel One eastbound on Cajon Pass in Southern California is Union Pacific's DD35A 72 at Alray. The date is April ll, 1976 as sisters 71 and booster 968 help in the efforts to lift The heavy tonnage over this well-known California mountain pass which play5 host to three railroads: Southern Pacific, Santa Fe and Union Camera Pacific. The result is a constant show of railroading activity for cameras or train watchers. Car Photo Section

PACIFIC NEWS 27 Burlington Northern Electro-Motive 6542, a 197I-built SD45, leads The the first section of eastbound freight 88 across Deception Creek on the 2.2 per cent grade five miles from Scenic, Washington and Cascade Camera Tunnel. The date is September 10, 1976, and the third unit is quickly identified as BiCentennial SD40-2 1876, one of the railroad's trio Car of red, white and blue locomotives painted for the observance of the 200th birthday of the United States. The 1876 was originally number Photo 6325 and was first repainted as BiCentennial 1976 but suffered in a collision with another train on its inaugural run, was quickly replaced Section by a second 1976, and later emerged, briefly, with its original number and then the 1876.

28 APRIL. 1977 Both: R. C. Farewell

Two views of the Denver and Rio Grande's Rocky, a siding perched at the eastern edge of the Front Range in Colorado directly below "Big Ten Curve." Rocky, located on the Rio Grande's single-track CTC-equipped main line, sees plenty of daily action, such as this solid consist of coal operating as train 704 and heading for the Public Service of Colorado generating plant in Denver. Due to the tonnage - up to 10,000 tons - the train is restricted to half of the normal40 mph allowed on the two per cent descent into Denver's North Yard. Presently running tri-weekly, the train usually operates with four of five of the railroad's latest SD40-T's, exactely as is happening with the 5373 on the point. As a Rocky Mountain sunset lends its last glow to highlight an eastbound run of the Rio Grande's seasonal at Rocky in March, 1976 as it returns snow devotees to Denver, below, the camera has assumed nearly the same angle as in the view above. The normal ski train consist has been swelled this day by the addition of a pair of dome-chair cars borrowed from the Rio Grande's own Zephyr equipment pool for a snow excursion of Denver officialdom.

PACIFIC NEWS 29 by two other steamers when work is completed Museum at Rio Vista Junction, California ... on the fo rmer Magma Arizona 7 and the Texas The British Columbia Government has and Pacific 75 ...Slightly delayed (see story on temporarily halted work on the Dease Lake Shortsiun page 5) the Sumpter Valley's two steam extension of the British Columbia Railway May 28 hasbeen announced as the first day of locomotives were scheduled to depart Alaska by pending an investigation and report from a train service on the steam-powered Texas State barge, along with equipment bound for the special commission looking into the railroad's Railroad; fo rmer Southern Pacific 4-6-0 2248, tourist-hauling Tweetsie Railroad at Blowing financial position ...Work is progressing now number 200, will be the initial motive power Rock, North Carolina, on May 18 with arrival in rapidly in Southern California at Costa Mesa in service but should be joined later in the year the lower forty-eight states late in the week of where O'Connor Engineering Laboratories is May 23 .. . The California Western Railroad has constructing recreations of both the Central brought in a former Southern Pacific Pacific's 4-4-0 Jupiter and Union Pacific's streamlined articulated coach for Super Sk unk 4-4-0 119 which met May 10, 1869 at service this year, repainting the car red at the Promontory Point, Utah for the driving of the Fort Bragg shops ... With the loss ofthe former gold spike to complete the transcontinental Dardanelle and Russellville 4-4-0number 8, the 'railroad; the Golden Spike National Historical Virginia and Truckee Railroad at Virginia City, Site hopes to begin display and operation of the POST CARDS Nevada negotiated to near the fi nal stages for two new steamers late in 1978 ...New rail is Post card prices are 10¢ each; 3 for 25¢; 14 for $1.00- use of the ex-Vernonia South Park and Sunset being acquired by the White Pass and Yukon plus shipping at 14¢ for 1-6 cards, 28¢ for 7-14 cards and 28¢ tor each additional 14. Cards are all standard 3'hx5'h. Steam Railroad 2-6-2 105 - ex-Oregon­ (PA CIFIC NEWS, March, 1977) from Japan to American Lumber Company - now on loan for relay over a dozen miles of 45-pound rail laid at SOUTHERN PACIFIC DIESELS display by the Oregon Pacific and Eastern at the turn of the century with upgraded 100-

· ...1117 , EMO SW8 (card 0-2023) Cottage Gr ove, Oregon - only to announce pound steel for the heavy ore traffic that is · ...2404, ALCO Century-415 (card 0-2021) that the effort may now be set aside in favor of currently being carried on the three-foot-gauge · ... 3197, EMO GP40P-2 (card 0-2027) another unspecified steam locomotive; the one­ railroad ... Tacoma, Washington's logging · . ..3960, EMO S09 (card 0-2024) time McCormick and Baxter Creosoting museum at Point Defiance Park, known as · ... 4002, ALCO RS32 (card 0-2020) Company Porter 0-4-OT number 202, built in Camp Six, has acquired the one-time Kinzua · . ..4302, EMO S09E (card 0-2025) 19 13, is scheduled to begin V&T steam Pine Mills Company three-truck West Coast · ... 5308, EMO S039 (card 0-2022) operations until additional motive power is Special Heisler number 102; previously in · ... 6800, GE U25BE (card 0-2028) ready later this summer ... The leading private ownership, the locomotive will be moved · ...9389, EMO S045T-2 (card 0-2026) fr om Union Pacific turbine locomotive number to the park and overhauled in preparation for 18 has just been acquired by the Smoky Hill alternating in service with three-truck Shay WESTERN PACIFIC DIESELS Railway and Historical Society for the Kansas number 7 acquired from the Klickitat Log and

. ... 1776, EMO GP40 (card 0-3001) City Railroad Museum for preservation there Lumber Company at Klickitat, Washington ...... 17 76, SP 3197, ATSF 5700 (card 0-3003) (George R. Cockle) ... The privately-owned California's Pacific Lumber Company in the · ... 1976, EMO GP40 (card 0-3002) former Nevada Copper Belt Railway Hall-Scott redwoods at Scotia currently has twin-engined gas car number 21 is to be returned from the General Electric center-cab number 102 out of CHATHAM PU BLISHING COMPANY Sierra Railroad where it has long been in storage service for an extensive overhaul of one of its POST OFFICE BOX 283 at Jamestown to the California Railway two prime movers (Tom Moungovan) .• BUR LINGAME, CALIFORNIA 94010

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30 APR IL. 1977 nEWS PHOTOS

San Francisco Municipal Railway cable car 25, left, was photographed March 13 on the Powell-Hyde Line just ten days after this, the city's newest, went into service. Painted in the new maroon, blue and white color scheme, this was the last cable car built at Elkton Shops.

Both: D. V. Jewell

Westbound at Pittsburg, California January 23, right, is freshly upgraded Southern Pacific SD35E 4700. Previously number 6900, the locomotive lost its during the overhaul at Sacramento (California) General Shops and is now rated at 2000 horsepower and equipped with a roof-top box housing air filters. Weyerhaeuser Company - Vail-McDonald operations number 481, below, was photographed April 30 in the midst of scrapping at the Purdy Company yard in Chehalis, Washington. The Fairbanks-Morse H10-44 was built in April, 1948 as the first of a fleet of six F-M switchers purchased by Weyerhaeuser for its various logging/lumber-oriented railroads in western Washington.

Peter J. Rcplinger

PACIFIC NEWS 31 Both: George R. Cockle

Head-end motive power on April 16 for Union Pacific's Junior Old Timers Special turned a rail at the service facilities following heavy rains, above, and substitute locomotives had to be dispatched to Fox Park Coach Yard to join up with another two E-units waited to head west from Omaha with the train. Impressively off the track, but not damaged, the 928 is the system's sole remaining E8A amongst a small fleet of E9's. SDP35 1402 and 1404, below, subbed for the missing E's accelerating out of Omaha's Summit Yard heading for the Lane Cut-Off. A three-day stay in Las Vegas is twenty-six hours away for club members.

32 APRIL. 1977 IIEWS PHOTOS

Photographed April 20 alongside the Fort Bragg, California enginehouse of the forty-mile California Western is Baldwin 56 in new colors (PA CIF IC NEWS, February, 1977) for its SuperSkunk passenger work this summer out of the railroad's east end shared with sister 55: both Baldwin RS12's are ex-McCloud River Railroad. Super Skunk steam will operate out of Fort Bragg, on the California coast. Tom Moungovan

Foster Farms' new Alco S4, sans number but wearing the firm's chicken emblem on its cab, awaits the next tour of switching at Livingston, California on March 13, not long after it became the first locomotive the food processor put to work there. The former Central California Traction Company 50 - built as WP 563 in

May, 1951, serial number 78777 - the unit was reacquired by the Western Pacific in the same transaction that gave the Traction Company the ex-Tidewater Southern Alco RSI 746, but the S4 was promptly resold to Foster Farms. Union Pacific U30C 2849, below, had plenty of work to do hauling heavy snows from mid­ March blizzards between Cheyenne, Wyoming and Denver, but with the help of a Chicago and North Western SD40 and a Norfolk and Western SD45 the UP's "We Can Handle It� slogan was again proven. The three-road trio was photographed at Denver on March 12.

Ronald C. Hill

PACIFIC NEWS 33 excursion between North Vancouver and Lillooet, British Columbia on the British Columbia Railway for two conseclJtive days in mid-June. The (rip on the popular ROC cars includes a buffet dinner at Lillooe!. , Brochure available. Fares: Adult SI8.00; Children $10.00. " l� West Coast Railway Association Excursions I J P. O. Box 2790 Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6B 3X2 I ��-' . . August 28, departure date SpeCial � WEST COAST CONNECTION, NRHS CONVENTION '77 -��...... A through Pullman is being operated departing Los Angeles August 28 for Roanoke, Virginia and the National Railway Historical Society convention. Operations Operating first on Amtrak's Sunset Limited, then the Southern's SOllliJern ��,. . Crescenr and finally to Roanoke on the steam-powered Convention Special, the tour package includes railfare, hotel accommodations in Roanoke and all convention activities with optional rail or air return. The convention program All listings herewith are made free of charge, and PACIFIC NEWS assumes no includes two all-day steam excursions, a branch-line diesel excursion, tours of the responsibility for errors, revisions in fares and schedules or operational changes, all of which are subject to change without notice. PACIFIC NEWS reserves the Norfolk and Western shops and separate non-rail activities. right to edit material or to refuse any listings. Insertions will not be printed from Trax Travel brochures. Deadline is the first of the second month preceding publication date. 1506 West Grand Avenue Pomona, California 91766 (Starting) May 7, Thirteen different days STEAM-POWERED EXCURSIONS FOR B&O'S 150TH BIRTHDA Y September 4-5, Sunday-Monday, Labor Day Weekend A series of steam-powered passenger train operations on the Chessie System Postponed fr om Memorial Day We ekend in May during the upcoming summer will be held in celebration of the Baltimore and SIERRA RAILROAD STEAM SPECTACULAR Ohio's 150th birthday. The trips will feature the former T-I Class Reading Two spectacular days of special steam operations on California's legendary Company 4-8-4 number 2101 pulling open-window coaches, air-conditioned Sierra Railroad have been planned, complete with unusual photographic coaches, first-class accommodations and a snack-concession-baggage car. There opportunities for the railroad enthusias!. This will be a rare chance to see four will be photo run-bys on most of the trips. Sierra Railroad steam locomotives under steam for a most unusual Labor Day Dates of operation and routes: May 7, Circle trip out of Baltimore to Point of Weekend spectacular. Rocks, Maryland; May 8, Baltimore to Harpers Ferry and return; May 14, Sunday, Sep tember 4. Two steam engines, both built in the 1800's, hauling three Baltimore to Philadelphia and return; May 15, Circle trip from Baltimore to Point cars up the Sierra's Dry Creek Canyon? Impossible? No, for that is what has been of Rocks; May 21, Baltimore to Harpers Ferry and return; May 22, Baltimore to planned for this special Sunday when Sierra Railroad 4-6-D number 3 and Hagerstown and return via ; May 28, ferry move from 4-4-D number 8 team up to power a special three-<:ar train from Jamestown to Baltimore to Cumberland; May 29, ferry move from Cumberland to Pittsburgh, Cooperstown and return. There will be photostops away from the public roads on Pennsylvania; June 5, Pittsburgh to Wheeling, West Virginia; June 11,Pittsbur gh this special 6\1\-hour trip departing at 9:30 AM. Bring your own lunch. to New Castle, Pennsylvania and return via P&W; June 12, Pittsburgh to Monday, September 5. Three mighty steam behemoths on a single train! There Rockwood, Pennsylvania and return; June 18, ferry move from Pittsburgh to are few places in America where you can ride behind a triple-header, and this is Cleveland, Ohio; June 26, Cleveland to Warwick via Lester and return via Akron. only the sixth time it has happened on the Sierra Railroad (the fourth since the Fares and additional information from: railroad's 1971 steam revival, and the first since 1973!). This will be the very first Chessie Steam Train time that the Sierra's three excursion engines - 4-6-D number 3, 2-8-D number 28 The Chessie System and 2-8-2 number 34 - will operate all of the way from Jamestown to Oakdale 2 North Charles Street and return. This three-engine "Special of Specials" features a variety of vintage Baltimore, Maryland 21201 heavyweight passenger equipment, complete with snack and lounge service. A 7\1\-hour trip, the train departs at 9:00 AM. May 21, Saturday Fares: $15 for Sunday, no half fares; $15 for Monday, $9 ages 2 through 12. RAILROADlANA SHOW AND SALE Special fare for both days: $25.00. Tickets are limited. The National Association of Timetable Collectors is sponsoring a Railroadiana Pacific Locomotive Association Show and Sale at the Howard Johnson Motor Lodge, 4222 Vineland Avenue, 54 Hancock Street North Hollywood, California from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM on May21. Admission is San Francisco, California 94 114 50 cents. Timetables, hardware, paper items. Auction to he held. Tables available for $5.00 in advance. Further information from: Jeff S. Asay 5480 Ferguson Drive Los Angeles, California 90022

May 21-22, Weekend SPRING SPECTACULAR TO SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON A combination rail and bus tour to the scenic grandeur of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks will be operated by the Central Coast Chapter, National Railway Historical Society on the weekend of May 21 and 22. Ealra Board The tour begins in San Francisco and goes by train using Amtrak's San Joaquin to Hanford where charter buses take the group to Sequoia National Park for an CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING section for railroad-related items. PACIFIC NEWS overnight stay at Giant Forest Lodge. Sunday morning is spent in Kings Canyon reserves the right to edit all copy and to refuse any listings. Ads can not be acknowledged, nor can proof copies be sent. Closing date is the 1st of the 2nd National Park, returning on the San Joaquin departing from Fresno. preceding month. Count all numbers, name and address, but not zip code. Rates Fare is $75, double, and $85 single, including transportation, meals and are 1 OC:: a word, S3.00 minimum. Payment in advance. Repeat ads 50% off for the accommodations, Information and tickets from: second month of each two-month period for continuing ads. Central Coast Chapter, NRHS P. O. Box 8407 RAILROAD ANTIQUES AND ARTIFACTS. Choice pieces from America's San Jose, California 95 155 leading mail order specialist in diverse RR non-paper collector's items. Museum quality (Smithsonian a regular customer), widest selection, satisfaction (Starting) May 28, weekends and holidays guaranteed. Appraisals also available. Send $1 for 38-page illustrated Catalog STEAM RAILROADING ON THE SUMPTER V ALLEY plus current issue of the monthly R R Dispatch. Scott Arden, 20457B Regular scheduled steam-powered passenger service on the three-foot-gauge Highway 126, Noti, Oregon 9746 1. Sumpter Valley Railroad, a non-profit civic historical enterprise, begins on Saturday, May 28 and will continue each weekend and holiday until the end of ORIGINAL KODACHROME Slides. Many BiCentennials. Two stamps for October. Powered by two-truck Heisler number 3, the train will make periodic eleven-page lis!. Alco-G E cast builder's plates, 525.00 each. Two stamps for list of departllres between 10 AM and 5 PM for the thirty-minute ride out of Dredge passes. timetables and other railroadiana. Benson, 4361 Clarkwood Parkway, Depot southeast of Sumpter on trackage relaid on the original right-of-way of the 108, Warrensville Heights, Ohio 44 1 28. abandoned Sumpter Valley Railway. Fares: Adults, $2.00; Family, $6.00; Children under 6, free. RAILROAD RADIO SCANNERS - Car Mobile and Hand Held - Electra Sumpter Valley Railroad Restoration Bearcat, Midland and Pace. Several models in stock from 599.50 to 5169.50. P. O. Box 548 Crystals for most western railroads in stock at $5.00 each. Stop in or write for your Sumpter, Oregon 97877 railroad-radio needs. Iron Horse Hobbies, 3529 Clayton Road, Concord, California 945 19. June 18-19, weekend STEAMTOWN'S ANNUAL RAILFAN WEEKEND BACK ISSUES of this magazine remain available as far back as the July, 1964 Two full days fea turing special railfan-orientcd activities, with lots of steam issue, number 35. Quantities are limited for many of these, however. The wide action guaranteed. will be held during mid-June. Many photo stops and run-bys variety of fea ture article topics covers most of the western railroading activity for will be staged, also a night photo session. There will be door prizes, including cab this period of time. Send a stamped self-addressed envelope for complete details: rides. For complete details. write to: PA CI FlC NEWS, Post Office Box 283, Burlingame, California 940 10. Stcamtown Foundation P. O. Box 71 SOUTHERN PACIFIC GS-4 & GS-5 4-8-4, locomotives 4430 through 4459, Bellows Falls, Vermont 05 101 color transparencies of any size are wanted showing the COOS! Dayli!{hl passenger train at any location between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Transparencies July 16 & 17, two one-day trips must be suitable for professional reproduction. Brad Miller, Mobile Fidelity ROC DAY EXCURSIONS ON BRITISH COLUMBIA RAILWAY Records, Post Office Box 2157, Olympic Valley, California 95730. Phone number: The Cariboo Dayliner will host two groups for the scenic 320-mile one-day (9 16) 583-2433.

34 APRIL, 1 977 LARY/LATL 35mm Kodachrome slide duplicates from 1946-1948, set of 15, From March 28, 1910, when work was begun on the railroad, until October 31, $6.95. List of 377 different slides, $1.00. Also have PERy, SDERy, Phoenix, 1936, when the last interurban service was discontinued, this book gives a detailed others. Sample slide, 60<. Bob McVay, Box 625, King City, California 93930. look at the ali-too-short life of the Galveston-Houston Electric. Of special interest to me was the information on the hurricane-proof Galveston Causeway which LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP. Before you subscribe to any publication that links Galveston with the flatlands south of Houston. This causeway is still in covers the northeast United States, compare RAILS NORTHEA ST. The facts service today carrying main line freight trains and automobiles. stand on their own merit. 50 pages an issue, I I times a year, $1.75 a copy, full color Photographic reproduction in this book is average. The numerous reprints of covers, four color inside pictures, all solid content. If you are a doubting Thomas, timetables, advertisements and maps are extremely valuable for getting an send your name on a post card for a copy of our free 8-page brochure; that's all, accurate look at living along the interurban. Life was usually peaceful and serene your name on a post card, no stamp necessary. RAILS NORTHEA ST, Box 135, in that bygone era when the electrics were the accepted means of transportation. East McKeesport, Pennsylvania 15035. although on October 16 and 17, 1915, the situation in the area was anything but serene as a killer hurricane inflicted heavy damage on both cities and the SUGAR PINE RAILWA Y PHOTOGRAPHERS! Did you photograph any interurban. Some very impressive photos of the damage caused by that storm are portion of the operation of three-truck Shay number 7 over the Labor Day included in the book. Weekend in 1971, or any of the preparation efforts during that summer? Do you If you enjoy interurban railways, or are interested in the history and economic have any photographs of the equipment in later storage or of the dismantling of development of the Galveston-Houston area. then you will find the Galveston­ the railroad? Ifso, please contact Karl R. Koenig, Editor, PA CIFIC NEWS, Post Houston £Iectric Railway to be an essential and worthwhile addition to Office Box 283, Burlingame, California 940 10. Any-type photographs are wanted your library. - Daniel B. Kuhn for personal collection; not wanted at this time for publication. Galveston-Houston Electric Railway, Interurbans Publications, Post Office Box 6444, Glendale, California 91205, 1976 printing, eighty-four pages, PHOTOGRAPHS MADE FROM OUR NEGAT1VE S: We offer the use of our softcover, 8V,xll uncoated paper, many photographs, $6.00. This book is negatives for printing under our "Royalty Program." Any road in the USA, available from Chatham's Book Sales Department. Canada, Mexico and England. Send SAE for information. Railway Negative Exchange, P. O. Box 408, Moraga, California 94556. RAILS TO THE ROCKIES Gre20ry Le Pak DENVER, COLORADO, July 9 and 10, Railfair '77, the Rocky Mountain In 1882, the search for gold and silver occupied the thoughts of everyone who Region's most complete railroad show. Exhibitors include Burlington Northern came to the Centennial State. The Colorado Rockies held large deposits of Railroad, antique collectors, a"thors. artists, modelers, NARP, Amtrak, precious metals, the. value of which far exceeded the net worth of several European publishers, DOT, railroad antique shops and dealers. travel agents, plus more. countries. Mine shafts were sent down virtually everywhere with reckless Admission: $1.00 adults, 50< children. Jefferson County Fairgrounds, 15200 West abandon. Mining towns such as Cripple Creek and Leadville required a wide 6th Avenue. Hours: Saturday 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, Sunday 10:00 AM -4:00 PM. variety of supplies and rnanufactured goods, and a number of railroads were built Sponsored by NR HS Intermountain Chapter. For more information contact R. westward into the Rockics to serve this vast region. W. Luckin, NRHS, Box 5181, Terminal Annex, Denver, Colorado 802 17. Rails To The Rockies tells the story of these many railroads, both narrow and standard gauge, which sent their tracks into the mountains from the more populated cities and towns on the edge of the plains. With names such as the Florence and Cripple Creek or the Denver South Park and Pacific, railroads were the only means of dependable transportation in the Rockies. The Bill of Lading for this book consists of six chapters covering all aspects of Publishers are encouraged to submit copies of new and railroading in the Rockies, from the South Park Line to Gunnison in the 1880's to reissued books, records, photo sets and etcetera not the of the 1970's. Although mainly a photo book, Rails To previously reviewed in PACIFIC NEWS. There is no II charge for this service; however, the material will be The Rockies gives a considerable amount of information on the development and 0 0 ", moo·"", ".'" ,,�.,," "Om" operations of the railroads discussed. " The photographs are by far the most enjoyable aspect of this publication. B Countless old views depict railroading as it was in the heyday of Colorado's narrow-gauge era. One feature which makes this book even more appealing is the H U uis fact that in many of the photos, the people shown are identified and the situation e e surrounding the scene is explained, giving Rails To Th e Rock ies a special touch of ALL ABOARDI AMERICA - THE AMERICAN FREEDOM TRAIN human interest missing in many books. Edward M. Yalowitz, Editor Snow is a problem with any mountain railroad, and the Colorado Rockies are Railroad enthusiasts who might pick this book up at some store will quickly put famous for the amounts of this white stuff which falls on their slopes each winter. it back down. But don't! All Aboard America appears at first glance to be simply a Snow removal photos in this book depict the never-ending battle to keep the trains non-railroad collection of photographs gleaned from newspaper files but to pass running. From narrow-gauge steam-powered rotaries, to diesel-powered the book off that simply is vastly unfair to as-yet the only document available to spreaders and flangers,author Le Pak covers it all. Passenger train enthusiasts will remind us in future years of the journey of the American Freedom Train. finda complete selection of railroad passes and timetablecovers which have been True, this book is a "general reader" publication not designed with railroad reproduced to illustrate the time when travcl meant traveling on a train. enthusiasts in mind, but it is also an extremely interesting collection of With a balanced selection of steam and diesel, freight and passenger, narrow photographs from the twenty-one-month tour of the train. The people views of the and standard gauge, I find this book to be very interesting, and I am sure that more than thirty million that saw the train - only seven million actually toured anyone interested in railroads would do likewise. -Daniel B. Kuhn . its display cars - are the bulk of the book but they are a fascinating view of the Rails To The Rockies, Alpine Publishing Limited, 503 1 West Fremont Drive, cross-section of American life during the visit of its most fa mous train. This is one Littleton, Colorado 80 123. 126 pages, coated stock, hardcover 9x 12 paper, book to sit back with and relax. There is no text, and virtually no captions either. numerous photographs. $18.95. Availble from Chatham Publishing's Book This is, in all simplicity, an immensely entertaining book that serves to give the Sales Department. reader his own opportunity to relive the travels of the Freedom Train at his own time and pace. Trackside train views, to be sure, arc in the book - the West's own 4449 is on the cover photographed not far from here at Martinez - and a handful of the color views make the book a photographic delight for railroad enthusiasts. For its predominance as the train's primary motive power, the 4449 seems to have been slighted a bit and the casual customer for this book may think the former Southern Pacific DayliKht shared its duties with the fo rmer Reading 210 I far more than was actually the case; the locomotive story is lacking. L tters to Nonetheless, I would urge that you add All Aboard Alllerica to your book e collection. This book is sure to become as valuable a part of the preservation of the GREAT WESTERN SUGAR train's travels as the actual tour was to our American history. This book will whet I did not know it was there. and I've lived in the area most of my life. Hero's one the appetite of anyone for more Freedom Train information. The full story teenager who's on his way out to watch the Great Western Sugar Company do its remains to be done and if ever told will go hand-in-hand with this photographic steam switching work (PA CIFIC NEWS. January, 1977) no matter where I have coverage of a fascinating train. to go next year. Thank you for a great magazine, and thank you Mallory Hope Wondering specifica lly what was carried on the train? Theres a three-page Ferrell for pointing out local railroading. My future meeting with a Great Western tabulation at the back of the book detailing the entire display. Broken down into a Sugar 0-4-0T will be my first-ever sight of non-tourist steam power at work car-by-car listing. even the item's sou rce is given in this va luable documentation of anywhere and I hope at least one operates at the end of this year. the touring artifacts. -Norman Saunders Tim Summerville All Aboard America. The American Freed om Train Foundation. 5205 Denver, Colorado Leesburg Pike, Bailey's Crossroads. Virginia 2204 1. 128 pages, hardbound. fully illustrated with some color. 8V,xll. 512.50. SORRY, NOT OBSCURE In the January. 1977 PA CIFIC NEWS you reviewed Tr olleys To Th e Sur/ by GALVESTON-HOUSTON ELECTRIC RAILWAY William Meyers and Ira Swett. You state that "This aspect of early Southern Herb Woods California electrified transportation has remained obscure for far too long." All too little has been published on the electric railways of Texas, and this Well, not exactly obscure: this book is mostly a hardcover reprint, with some reprint of Interurbans Special number twenty-two, covering the Galveston­ addendum. of Ira's fa mous Special Number 18 on the Los Angeles Pacific which Houston Electric Railway, is a welcome new addition. Built in 191 1, before came out in 1955. This great and detailed effo rt. certainly one of Ira's finestworks, Houston itself became a deep-water seaport, the Galveston-Houston Electric contained 135 pages and sold for $2.00. And, in 1965, he pu blished Special Railway was a vital link between two very important cities. At that time. Number 40, Los Angeles Pacific AlbulII, which comprised 150 pages of additional lialveston had about 40,000 people and was the principal port on the Gulf of pictures. This was printed on slick paper. Mexico. Houston, forty-five miles to the northwest, had a population of about So you can see, that the LAP has not really been neglected. Incidentally, LAP 90,000. was the greatest cotton market in the world. and was served by over a was bigger than the PE itself when it was absorbed into the latter. dozen railroads. It is no wonder then that the citizens of both communities Harvey J. Quittner welcomed fa st and efficient interurban service between their two cities. Los Angeles, California

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