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There may not be too much time to visit, perhaps on ly time News photographs are pa id fo r upon p ubli cation. for a quick hello wh ile you tell us what's wrong with the PACIFIC NEWS is published monthly by the Chatham Publishing Company, 1012 Oak Grove Ave., Burlingame, magaz i ne . We'll always listen to that. California 94010. (415) 348-0331. Printed in the U.S.A. -Karl R. Koenig Second Class postage paid at Burlingame, CA. 94010. PACIFIC NEWS assumes no responsibility for the safe return of editorial material. Acceptable photographs are COVE,R: Canadian National G12 991 working on Vancouver filed for potential future publication and paid for upon Island pri or to her recent retirement (Ken Perry). use. Advertising rates are available on request. PACI FIC NEWS 3 VANCOUVER ISLAND RAILROADING CHANGES MaIk S. Horne DATA/KEN PERRY For the past six years, the motive power for the Vancouver Island trackage of the Canadian National has been much the same. Normally, SW8 7154 has been at the Ogden Point docks in Victoria, rare G12 992 at the Point Ellice yard in Victoria and sister G12 991 on the disconnected northern district that is based at Deerholme. When needed, switching locomotives br ought over from the mainland at Vancouver - they were usually SWQOG' s - filled in when the regular units were away for servicing or repair, but only seldom did the relief locomotives stay for more than two months at a stretch. This pattern, however, was finally broken this past April when SW8's 7151 and 7152 were brought in from Calder yard in Edmonton, Alberta to replace the two GI2' s which are now slated for retirement. The pair of Canadian National G12 locomotives were originally built for the London and Port Stanley Rai lway as numbers L4 and L5 and were acquired by the Canadian National when it purchased the short line in 1966. The L4, built by General Motors Diesel in September, 1955 - serial A-831 - became the 991; sister L5 - serial A-1324, built July, lQ57 - became number 992. Ninety-two G12 locomotives were built, the design being promoted by the builder as an export model. Ninety 01 the examples built were, in fact, exported to the National Railways of Mexico where they went into service as the NdeM' s 580G -5889 . The two London and Port Stanley Railway units were the only others ever built. With eighty-one tons on four axles, the two G12's were ideal locomotives for the 60-pound rai I to be found on the Canadian National's Vancouver Island operations. They had adequate power - 1200 horse power available for traction - for the light trains and moderate grades. A peculiar characteristic of the combination of a 12-567 prime mover with the Canadian National's usual cylindrical spark arrestors was that the locomotives sounded very much like Fairbanks-Morse units; they also sported match ing exhau st-smoke characteri stics. Last runs for both locomotives appear to have been from Deerholme to the Cowichan Bay barge slip and return, with the 992 going out of service first in late February or early March while standing in for the 991. 4 JUNE, 1976 The 992 followed on April 1, the same day that SW8 serve the 157 route miles of Esquimalt and Nanaimo 7152 arrived from the mainland aboard the Seaspan Railway still in operation. Greg. April 26 was the last that Vancouver Island saw Yet another step in the consolidation of CP Rail's of the GI2's, as on that day the 7152 hauled the dead Vancouver Island and the British Columbia mainland 991 from Deerholme to Cowichan Bay and then shoved facilities took place April 19 when train dispatching it onto the barge bound for Port Mann, where the 992 on the Esquimalt and Nanaimo was transferred from was waiting. the E&N's own office in Victoria over to the Canyon As both locomotives were recently overhauled, and Division office in Vancouver and the staff of the thus in excellent operating condition, it is quite Victoria station was reduced to only two operators. possible that resale will follow their retirement, per The last train order issued from Victoria was the haps to some industrial railway. As this is written, annulment of Victoria-Stockett (Nanaimo) freigh t however, there is no final word on disposition. number 53. In early March, 1976 all Esquimalt and Nanaimo Motive power on the Esquimalt and Nanaimo is Railway station agents were replaced by travelling currently one RDC2, number 9103, for the Victoria-to agen ts when parent CP Rail's Customer Service Parksville passenger trains 1 and 2; one Montreal-built Center (CSC) in Vancouver was expanded to cover S3, number 6572, at Victoria; one Montreal S4, the the E&N . The stations at Chemainus, Nanaimo and 7112, at Wellcox; and GP9's 8640, 8643, 8649, 8672, Courtenay were closed completely. Victoria and 8676, 8677 and 883 1 in general road service. All of Wellcox remain as train order offices and satellite the locomotives are in CP Rail's multimark livery. billing offices to the Vancouver esC. Duncan, Lady April 12 of this year marked the first time that a GP9 smith, Parksville and Port Albemi remain open as has lasted a full continuous year on the E&N; both train order offices. Lake Cowichan escaped complete 8831 and 8672 came on to Vancouver Island at Wellcox closure at that time, but on April 15 it, too, was on that date in 1975, shortly after the replacement of eliminated leaving only five train order offices to the Baldwin roadswitchers .• Esquimalt and Nanaimo Bu dd car 9199, page opposite, poses fo r the camera high over Arbutus Canyon to th e north of Victori a during a Vancouver Island run on Au gust 5, 1974. Owned by parent CP Rail, this scenic passenger operation of the Island su bsidiary is presently assigned to sister Budd 9103 and is a trip well worth taking. The date is Ap ri l 26, 1976, below , an d Canadian National SW8 7152 has dead G12 991 in tow at Deerholme. G12 992 is already in storage on the mainland, and the 991 is about to leave Vancouver Island herself for the last time. Ken Perry PACIFIC NEWS 5 STUMP DODGING IS BACK Hea d-on at the shop in Baker, Heisler 3 undergoes her overhaul for service on the rebu ilt Sumpter Valley Railway when she wi ll revive Oregon's three-foot-gauge Stump Dodger passenger, which ma de its last run from Baker to Ba tes an d return in 1937. Laura Hu lton pany and the Sumpter Valley Railway - which st ill GEORGE E. HARDY, JR. operated a few miles of mill trackage with a Daven port diesel at Baker until December of1961 (PACIFIC NEWS, December, 1961) - in 1955, has leased the The coming July 4th weekend will see the result original grade from McEwen through Sumpter itself to of a five-year effort by the members of the Sumpter Larch Summit at milepost 34.7. It was not possible to Valley Railroad Restoration to relay a part of the rebuild directly out of Baker, since much of the old former three-foot-gauge Sumpter Valley Railway in right-of-way through the remarked Boulder Gorge, the northeastern Oregon. This year the annual Sumpter scene of many old and spectacular Sumpter Valley Valley Days will be joined by the sounds of the former Railway photographs, is blocked by Mason Dam. W. H. Eccles Lumber Company Heisler 3 as steam The pl ans of Sumpter Valley Railroad Restoration returns to this part of Oregon for the first time since call for extending the track from McEwen into Sumpter the Sumpter Valley Railway's last run in 1947 with next ye ar, as well as the movement of the ex -Sumpter Baldwin 2-6-6-2 number 251. Valley Railw ay's Baker depot, currently used as an The revived operations on the Sumpter Valley will office by the Elli ngson Lumber Company, to Sumpter begin from McEwen, at milepost 22.5, which has been for a permanent depot and museum. In the meantime, a dedicated as Railroad Park. Track is being relaid small 16x24-foot depot has been built at McEwen. A toward Sumpter, at milepost 29.0, on the original former Oregon Lumber Company logging railroad water right-of-way. This year, operations will be limited to tank from nearby Bates was donated by the Hines two miles of new track. The Edward Hines Lumber Lumber Company and has been moved to McEwen. The Company, which purchased the Oregon Lumber Com- tank is a typical example of those used on the logging 6 JUNE,1976 lines that connected with the Sumpter Valley. A standard-gauge motor car and push car were recently don ated to aid in the track laying; they have both been con verted to three-foot-gauge. The overhaul of the two-truck Heisler is nearly complete after years of volunteer work. Built in 1915 as the third and last locomoti ve for the W. H. . Eccles Lumber Compan y which connected with the Sumpter Valley Railway at Austin, the locomotive operated in the Sumpter Valley region for only a few years until it was sold to the Hallack and Howard Lumber Com pan y at Cascade, Idaho. It was still there in a shed where it had last been u sed to provide service as a stationary boiler when the Boise-Cascade Corporation acquired the miII, an d today is back on the Sumpter Valiey. The boiler test was successfully made on April 15 . In operati on, the number 3 wi II pull a train consisting of two tourist cars converted from ex-Rio Grande gondolas. Capacity wi II be 100 passengers. Sumpter Valley Restoration, Incorporated was established on October 20, 1970 by a local group in Laura Hutton Baker headed by Nils Christensen, its first president. Charter members included Nil s an dJoyce Chri stensen, Stanley and Karen Wellman, Robert Church, Bill With December snow on the ground, bottom left, Heisler Robin so n, Byron Brinton and Lei and Myers. 3 is unloaded at Baker in 1971 after the trip fro m Idaho and, On January 4, 197 1 the project was incorporated bottom right, is shown in 1915 at the builder' s plant.. under the Oregon non-profit corporation act, after The fi rst of the Su mpter VaHey's new excursi on cars is loaded at Baker, above, and was then th e center stage at which acquisition of equirment began. Hei sler 3 was McEwen for dedication ceremonies wh en trackwork began. returned to Sumpter Valley country following its purch ase from the Boi se-Cascade Corporation on Au gust 4, 1971. It was moved to Baker in December of that same year. Four narrow-gauge Denver and Rio Grande gondolas were purchased from the common Laura Hutton Laura Hu tton George E. Hardy. Jr. collection PACIFIC NEWS 7 Laura Hutton Aft er more than forty years at Cascade, Idaho the one-time W. H. Eccl es Lumber Company two-truc k Heisler number 3 here undergoes an overhaul at Baker in preparation for Ju ly 4th's operation. Th is sc ene is a happily-current Apri l 15, 1976 view, above, of the first fo rty -ton I-beam Heisler bu iI t. AII previous locomotives of this size used th e diamond frame. Built in Aug ust, 1915 as serial 1306, th e steamer has 14xI2 cyl inders and 36-inch drivers. Originally W. H. Eccles Lumber Company at Au stin , Oregon on the Sumpter Valley Railway, she was tran sferred to Cascade, Idaho when the firm opened a mill there. Th e locomotive went along with the property when it was sold to Hallack and Howard Lumber Company an d later Boise Cascade Corporation. Stored inside a bu ilding adjacent to the mill's po wer plant, sh e was maintained as a bac k-up stationary bo iler and in spite of her long term out of rai lroad service carried a 1970 Idaho boiler certificate when acquired fo r the Sumpter Valley. Now on display at Sumpter on ex-Colorado and Northwestern trucks borrowed from an ex-Stoddard Lumber Company log car, below, is Sumpter Va lley Railway restored stock car 20 20 await ing its time to rejoin Sumpter Valley's revived ra ilroad. George E. Hardy, Jr. 8 JUNE,1976 George E. Hardy, Jr. Shorter than th e balance of the Sumpter Val ley Rai lway 's pa ssenger-car fl eet, "turtle-back" number 4 was one of three cars still in service when the final passenger run was ma de at the end of July in 1937. Still on the property ten years later when main line opel'"dtions ended in Ap ril of19 47 the car was so ld off its truc ks and still exi sts today at Ba ker, no longer in any sort of use. Even tua lly, she should ro ll once more on three-foot-gauge rai ls in Oregon's Sumpter Valley. carrier' s equipment at Durango, Colorado in October bration to recall Sumpter's past as both a logging and of 1971 and also moved to Baker where a locomotive mi ning center. Held over the July 4th weekend each and restoration shop was built in that November with year, events are scheduled for the en tire family which materials donated by Ellingson Lumber Company. In include a Cowbelle Breakfast, tours of Sumpter and 1974 RPO number 4, of the distinctive Sumpter Valley a nearby gold dredge, various lumber-jack contests "Turtle Back" roof design, was purchased from a site and so on. Two other events will be going on in the in the mill town of Baker. nearby area as well; at Baker the Chamber of Com Many ori ginal Sumpter Valley Railway cars, less merce will hold its Country and Western Show and at trucks, have been donated to the revived railroad. A Haines, ten miles to the west of Baker, there will be a pai r of box cars, refrigerator car 3 and three stock Rodeo. To reach McEwen, on the Sumpter Valley, go cars are now owned, along with a Stoddard Lumber south six miles from Baker on Oregon State Highway Company log flat with Colorado and Northwestern 7 to its junction with highway 220. Then it is fifteen trucks. On e of the stock cars is now on display at mi les west, through Boulder Gorge, to Baker COlUlty' s Sumpter on the C&NW trucks. Railroad Park where, on July 4th, there will be food In addition to the help from the Edward Hines available from concession stands and Heisler 3 is Lumb er Compan y and from the Ellingson Lumber planned to be in operation. Company, assistance has also come from the Union Incidentally, regular memberships in Sumpter Valley Pacific which donated about one mile of rail in 1973 Restoration, Incorporated are available at $5. 00 per along with some 1000 ties. year, including an occasional newsletter which is Joi ning with the July 4th steaming of the number sent out to report on the recent restoration progress 3 as the big event in the area wi II be the Ninth Annual of the non-profit group. Write: Post Office Box 548, Sumpter Valley Days. This is an old-fashion ed cele- Sumpter, Oregon 97877 . • PACIFIC NEWS ') A FORMER STUMP DODGER IN THE LAND OF THE INCAS University, needs no discussion - it is without JOHN A. KIRCHNER/KEN MILLS question an emotional experience and worth the tra in ride regardless of the motive power. But in Swinging away from the double switchback at kil many ways, the little Baldwin 4-6-0 down in the ometer 48 in the An ta George, the black and red canyon was also a discovery, not so much that she Henschel Mikado rumbled down grade at a good speed existed, but rather that in October, 1974, twenty-seven wi th the 6:00 AM "mixto" from Cuzco on the three years after Oregon's Sumpter Valley Railway had foot-gauge Ferrocarril Cuzco-Santa Ana high in the given up the ghost, here was number 50 alive and Peruvian Andes. Close behind the mixto followed well. On previous visits in 1969 and 1972, number the 6:30 AM "Autowagon," which by this time had 100, then numbered 125, stood forlornly out of service caught up with its steam-hauled predecessor, while an d reported as "likely to never run again." out of sight but certainly on ly a short way behind By mid-afternoon, the mixto was returning once the railcar was the 7:00 AM diesel-hauled "tourismo" again to Cuzco and it was fascinating to watch as train. At a subsequent sidi ng the railcar and tourist the German-built 2-8-2 retraced its steps through the train both overtook the local, reaching their common deep gorge. Skulking out of sight at the depot, I destination at Machu Picchu, the "Lost City of the (author Ken Mills) patiently awaited the departure of Incas," in advance of the slower steam train. the diesel-powered tourist train. Once it was under As the daily mixto squeaked to a halt at Machu way, there remained only one way to return to Cuzco Pi cchu station, a fa int hiss of escaping steam could that night: Baldwin 100's special train. be heard from the siding opposite the depot. A quick A little extra money changed hands, a ticket was investi gation revealed a very American-looking ten reluctantly issued, and the Baldwin's "hooter" wheeler, numbered 100 and lettered F. C. S. for the sounded the high ball. Six hours were scheduled for Ferrocarril del Sur, the standard-gauge connection at the seventy-mile run, with the arrival at Cuzco due Cuzco which was nationalized in 1972 and merged in at 10:30. Whatever boredom was at first anticipated 1974 with the three-foot Ferrocarril Cuzco-Santa Ana soon changed. With the incredible cacaphony of the as a part of the state-operated ENAFER (Empress continuous sound from the front of the train and the Na cional del Ferrocarrilesl. It was discovered that harmonious singing of the happy children sardined number 100 had worked out of Cuzco at 5:30 AM, into the narrow cars, it was to be a memorable trip. ahead of the mixto, with an "especial" composed of The train slowly but surely slugged its way up the three Japanese-built coaches packed with school now-darkened valleys, with the exhaust beat reverb children on an outing from Arequipa, 470 miles to the erating off the solid rock walls, while at the frequent south. The special train was scheduled to return to the water stops many of the youthful passengers would standard-gauge connection at Cuzco at 4:30 PM. jump from the train to pick wild fruits hanging in As the mini-bus climbed skyward toward the Inca abundance from trackside trees. ruins some 1500 feet higher on an almost vertical The cars were without lights, but while darkness mountainside, one could look back at the railroad may dull the sense of sight, it enhances the hearing dwarfed to a minuscule size. Machu Picchu, redis and the performance from the small-drivered Baldwin covered by Hiram Bingham in 1eq 1 and subsequently was quite unforgettable. After the kilometer48 switch cleared of undergrowth by researchers from Yale back was negotiated, the train started across the Wa iting to leave Machu Picchu in Peru with a special excursion of school ch ildren vi si ti ng the In ca ruins on October 8, 1974, page op posi te, is the on e-time Sumpter Valley Railway'S Baldwin-built 4-6-0 numbe r 50 . Th ose mountain s behind the three- foot-gauge steamer tower into the sky. Thirty-seven years earlier at Baker, Oregon, below, number 50 wa its to leave with the Sumpter Valley 's Stump Dodger. Al bert Farrow PACIFIC NEWS 11 Ken Mills Lettered for the Ferrocarri l del Sur, Baldwin 100 and her crew relax at Machu Picchu in October of 1974. flatter Anta plain, but, the final ten miles into Cuzco Sumpter Valley 2-8-2's are apparently not among them are the most difficult, and certainly the most exciting so the mystery is still with us, perhaps to be solved for the steam devotee. From the Anta plain, already by an early visitor to one of the lines who saw them at an altitude of 10,500 feet and some 4000 feet in service. higher than the station at Machu Picchu, the track Just getting the Baldwin to Cuzco is in itself a uses frequent horseshoe curves and clings to ledges rather noteworthy affair. The' only route possible was on the mountainside in order to gain the summit at by way of the then British-owned Southern Railway of EI Arco, just over 12,000 feet, before negotiating the Peru (F. C. S.) starting with the use of lighters at the two double switchbacks immediately above the Cuzco port of Mollendo and thence riding a standard-gauge station giving an excellent view of this ancient Inca flat car over the 506 rai I miles to Cuzco, via Arequipa capi tal. Baldwin 100 blasted her way to the top, but and Juliaca, quite likely with one of those famous then had to pause to build up steam and to allow time "Andes" class 2-8 -D's on the front of the train. In for the crew to man the brakewheels - no air brakes so doing, the train had to be lifted to no less than on this train - for the final drop to the adobe and an altitude of 14,666 feet en route to Juliaca at red-ti led terminal. Oucero Alto before dropping down to the Altiplana Arrival was on the advertised, and as number lGO close to Lake Titicaca. From there the climb begins was tucked away in the roundhouse along with her again, to 14,153 feet at La Raya, for the final run sister steamers, one could reflect. From Philadelphia into Cuzco, situated at 11 ,440 feet. in1916 to work on the Sumpter Valley Railway - where What of the future for the number 100 and her as a wood burner it was regularly operated on that sister steamers, all of which are 2-8-2' s built by railroad's daily passenger, affectionately known as Alco, Baldwin and Henschel, the latter as recently the Stump Dodger - until retirement there in 1941 is a as the 1950's? The Ferrocarril Cuzco-Santa Ana has fair day's work, but nothing can eclipse the subse had diesels in the past, first Japanese units and quent years of adventure and revenue-earning in the then second-hand Alcos from the Chimbote line. highAndes of Peru. More recently, a batch of five Montreal-built hood Sumpter Valley's number 50 was not alone in her units arrived and technically they should be more travels to Peru, but unlike the ten-wheeler, the fate than able to handle schedules. But, experience has of three sister Baldwin steamers, 2-8-2's 16, 17 and taught the railroad that steam is more dependable and 18, remains a mystery. The locomotive dump at it is likely that one or two steamers will remain Poroy, near Cuzco, may contain clues, but nothing serviceable for a long time into the future, if only definite has yet been established. for extra trains and swi tch ing. Late in 1975 n um ber When the four ex-Sumpter Valley locomotives were 100was reported still active and in steam for just such shipped to Peru in 1945, there were at least six special duty. Let uS hope that this will continue to three-foot-gauge common carrier railroads wh ich might happen again and again .• have received them: the Ferrocarril Cuzco-Santa Ana, ____w __ w ______the F. C. Huancayo-Huancavelica, the F. C. Pimentel, BALDWIN NUMBER 50 - 100 the F. C. Trujillo, the F. C. Lima-Lurin and the F. C. 4-6·0 Bui It in 1916, Baldwin serial number 42865 del Santa (Chimbote). The last three have since been 42" drivers / 16x20 cylinders / 113,990 pounds weight abandoned, the Santa line as recently as 1970 when Acquired new by the Sumpter Valley Railway as the number 50 it was destroyed by a disastrous earthquake. Loco -Woodburner unti I reti red in 1941; used on Stump Dodger passenger motiv�s from the closed lines survive on all three Sold to Peruvian Government in 1945; now F. C. S. number 100 remaining three-foot-gauge railroads, but the one-time -----�-----�------ 12 JUNE,1976 VIRGINIA AND TRUCI(EE RAILROAD'S NUMBER 28 Both: Virginia and Truckee Railroad � KARL R. KOENIG In February of 1888, the pre-Colorado and Southern Railway D.enver Texas and Fort Wor th Ra i Iroad took de Ii very of a forty-to n slide-valved 4-4-0 from bui Ider Cooke Locomotive and Machine Company, a Paterson, New Jersey firm that became part of the American Locomotive Company in 1901. Number 9 on the Denver Texas and Fort Worth, later the number 114, she was to last for only a decade before being sold to the Dardanelle and Russellville Railroad, a short line interchanging with the rvlissouri Pacific at Russellvi lie, Arkansas and currently operating a pair of EMD SW1's and an SW7, whi Ie cannibalizing a rare EMC model SC. On the roster as the Dardanelle and Russellville 8, the Cooke 4-4-0 was replaced by heavier motive power, declared surplus and was sold about 1939 to Twentieth Century-Fox along with se vera I equally-vintage passenger cars for two decades of active movie work starting with "The Return of Frank James." Reportedly last actually operated in 1955, she was again surplus when the movie studio put much of its property up for sale in late 1971, selling the 4-4-0 to Short Line Enterprises of Alta Loma, California (March, 1972 issue). Rehabilitated, she was back on camera in June, 1974 for a TV movie staring Hal Holbrook as Abe Lincoln. Now in 1976, the eighty-eight-year-old Cooke - serial number 1861 - is under lease to the revi ved Virginia and Truckee Rai Iroad (April, 1976 issue).She arrived at Virginia City, Nevada, left, late in the week of Apr i I 26 and was tested, above, on May 1. She'll so on show her classic lines on V&T passenger runs which,although del ayed by the Nevada Public Utilities Commission should begin regular operation by July . • PACIFIC NEWS 13 NEW UN\T FOR NAT\ONAL METALS COMPANY shopped at the system shops in Sacramento as the LEON CALLAWAY 4700, ex-6954. Twenty-five locomotives are scheduled National Metals at Terminal Island, California, near for rebuilding. Additionally, GP35's sent through the Los Angeles, has purchasedAlco-built S4 number 1517 the program - none are currently on the floor yet at from the Santa Fe and has disposed of two of its Sacramento - will be renumbered in the 4500 series. General Electric 70-tonners. 65-ton GE number 505 SPMW 566, the Electro-Motive SW1 switcher that which looked like it would be scrapped several years was renumbered from 1005 and has been serving as ago is currently alive and well, working every day the motive power at Espee's Houston, Texas tie in the scrap yard. preserving plant, has now been replaced and retired. Aleo S6 1248, built in 1956, has been renumbered TWO ESPEE BALDWINS FOR KERR-MCGEE into the maintenance-of-way non-revenue number Locomotive dealer Chrome Crankshaft Company series and is now at work in Houston. has resold a pair of ex-Southern Pacific Baldwin The project to lower three miles of right-of-way in S12' s to Kerr-McGee Chemical Company's one-time Alhambra, California and install nine grade crossing American Potash plant that is the primary source of separations that went out for bid last November is revenue for the Trona Railway. Built in 1953, the two being redesigned to reduce its $16,900,000 cost. The Baldwins were originally Southern Pacific 1543 and revised plans were scheduled to be completed to 1550, later the 2150 and 2157. The latter was the last allow rebidding early this summer. The contract must Baldwin switch engine to be delivered to the Southern be awarded by September 1, or the allocated funds Pacific. At Kerr-McGee's Trona plant, the pair will will be lost. Nine months have been allowed for be numbered as the 100 and 101, respectively, and be completion of the project after an award is made for operated exclusively for in-plant switching allowing construction. (Gordon S. Ramsey) the retirement of smaller General Electric switchers. The steam " Big Hook" wrecker, SPMW 70 80, and its associated boom car which were built in 1906, MILWAUKEE ROAD MOTIVE POWER NOTES have been donated by the railroad to the Sacramento JOHN BRANDT Railroad Museum project for eventual display. The Only recently an operator of representative units wrecker was last assigned to Bayshore Yard to the from all five major locomotive bu ilders - Aleo, Baldwin, south of San Francisco. Electro-Motive, Fairbanks-Morse and General Electric - the Milwaukee Road is quickly changing its motive SANTA FE OPENS ITS NEW BARSTOW YARD power picture due to the delivery from Electro-Motive The Santa Fe's new $50 million yard at Barstow, of the large order for thirty-two new MP15AC's (PA California was opened in late April. On an average cIFIc NEWS, March, 1976). All of the Aleos and day as many as seventy-five trains are now handled and Baldwins have already been retired over the past at the yard which has a capacity of processing more several months and the few remaining Fairbanks-Morse than 2700 railroad cars each day. The locomotive locomotives will soon follow. facility at the new yard is equipped for servicing Fa irbanks-Morse H16-66 731 was donated during as many as one hundred units each twenty-four hours late April for preservation at a local museum in and a freight car repair operation can repair or con Kansas City. dition up to three hundred sixty cars a day. SOUTHERN PACIFIC MOTIVE POWER NOTES ALASKA RAILROAD COMMUTER PROPOSED There will be some new road numbers on the Espee Commuter service has been seriously proposed starting in July when the first rebuilt SD35E is out- for a segment of the Alaska Rai lroad between the Matanuska Valley and Anchorage. The railroad and sponsoring communities are currently conducting a series of joint meetings and inviting public comments. OREGON CALIFORNIA & EASTERN RAILWAY Virtually as the first of the rebuilds was finished at Morrison-Knudsen's Boise, Idaho facility the road numbers to be assigned by the Oregon California and Eastern Railway to their new locomotives was changed (pACIFIC NEWS, May, 1976). The ex-Union Pacific General Electric U25B's will now be assigned road 1000's OF GREAT SLIDES! numbers 7601-7605, the two slugs 7606-7607. Steam, Diesel, Electric, Loggers, THE FRASER RIVER BRIDGE IS REOPENED Narrow-Gauge, U.S. and Foreign Out of service since December 26, 1975 when it CATALOG AND SAMPLES, $1.00 was struck by a loose log barge, the railroad bridge over the Fraser River at New Westminster, British AMERICANA SLIDES Columbia (PACIFIC NEWS, February, l(76) was reopened to traffic on the evening of April 24. 'Rail Department P, P. O. Box 916, traffic has returned to normal, ending the rerouting Cupertino, California 95014 of Canadian National, British Columbia Hydro and Burlington Northern trains over CP Rail tracks. 14 JUNE, 1976 in service, and RS3' s 4054, 4056, 4058, 4064, 4065 BURLINGTON NORTHERN and 4070 were stored at Portland. They joined uni ts ci 4061 and 4077, whi ch were stored unserviceab Ie last August. This leaves only six RS3' s in service: former F. HOl WAGN ER, JR. Editor, BURLINGTON NORTHERN ANNUAL Spokane Portland and Seattle units 4068, 407 2 and 4078, and former Northern Pacific 4081, 4082 and 4085. All are based in Vancouver, Washington and will be Burlington Northern has finally decided to renumber stored if and when any repairs are required. all of the rem aining 9700-series former passenger The only other road units now in storage are eleven F-units into the 700 series, filling gaps created by F's at various points around the system. In addition, previous retirements. The renumbering is a s follow s: some fifteen switchers are stored serviceable. Old Number Model New Number Chicago's West Suburban Mass Transit District, 9707 F3-B 703 operator of Burlington Northern's commuter service, 97 09 F7 -B 705 has definitely decided to purchase twenty new bi-level 9726 F7-A 704 cars and four additional locomotives. Bids have been 9732 F3 -A 706 requested on the cars. Electro-Motive will be asked 9739 F7 -B 707 9740 F7 -A 708 to bid on new locomotives, and Morri so n-Knud sen will 9750 F3-A 710 also bid on rebuilding BN' s four rem aining E8' s - 9752 F3 -A 712 numbers 9967, 9972, 9973 and 9976 - stored at West 9754 F7 -A 714 Burlington since 19 74 and 1975. The low bidder will 9756 F7 -A 716 get the order, and it is not hard to guess who that 9758 F7 -A 718 will be. 9760 F7-A 722 With delivery of the forty-five 6700-series SD40-2 9790 F7 -A 724 units in February and March and their assignment to 9794 FP7 726 Lincoln, there have been a number of reassignmen ts B-unit 9709, which received Class One repairs earlier of road power, mostly shifting SD40's around between thi s year and was already in green paint (without the Lincoln, Livingston and Superior. In addition, the white passenger stripe), was renumbered 705 at North swi tcher assignments continue to change. For example, town during April and was used on a directors' special Denver recently sent SW7's 126, 128 and 130 to in May (see following) . 97 26, the last unit undergoing Lincoln and in return recei ved SW1200' s 246, 247 Class One repairs at Dale Street shop before that and 248 from Lincoln. The MU-equipped SW1200's facility is closed, emerged from its overhaul on May can be assigned to small towns on the main line east 7 as the 704. And mineral red "snowplow unit" 97 58 of Denver and easily shuffled in and out of Denver entered West Burlington shop in April for paint and for inspections. Thi s has not been an ea sy process new traction motors; it emerged in green as the 718. with the non-MU-equipped switchers previously used. All of the other F -unit s were to be renumbered as quickly as possible, hopefully by the end of May. BN operated a directors' special from Lincoln, Nebraska to Denver, Colorado to Alliance, Nebraska FULL COLOR to Gillette, Wyoming to Billings, Montana and back to SOUTHERN PACIFIC Minneapolis during mid-May. Officers and directors flew from the annual meeting in St. Paul to Lincoln POST CARDS where they boarded the train. Motive power for the special was a classicA/B/B/A set: 6681705/737/744 al l of which were recently painted and fresh ly waxed. NEW: All OF ESPEE'S BI CENTENNIAL UNI TS Boiler car 16, baggage 216, coach 1115, auditorium ARE NOW AVAilABLE! lounge Deschutes River, sleeper-lounge St. Cro ix River; diner Lake Michigan; sleepers Stevens Pass, .•••11 17, EMO SW8 (car d 0-2023) A night scene on Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood. Stampede Pass, Big Horn Pass; business cars Red • ..•2404, AlCO Century-41 5 (card 0-20 21 ) River, Missouri River, Yellowstone River and the On e of only ten on SP; seen at City of Industry, Calif. Kootenai River, as well as borrowed Santa Fe track · ••• 3197, EMO GP40P-2 ( card 0-2027) NEW Wearing vi vid red, wh ite and blue Bi Centenn ial colors. inspection car 89 made up the consist. Burlington • ..•3960, EMO S09 (card 0-2024) Northern was reportedly so pleased with the San ta Fe An action scen e on Oak Creek Branch wi th sister 3958. • •••4002, AlCO RS32 (card 0-2020) car that Como shop will construct a similar car with Seen at Mi llbrae, Cal ifornia, on ly ten of these camewest. tiered seating and a large rear observation window · ..• 4302, EMO SD9E (card 0-2025) for BN. The directors were given tours of the new Shown at Willits on the NWP fresh from me system shops. • •••5�8, EMO S039 (card 0-2022) automated wheel shop at Havelock (Lincoln), watched An action scen e in Soledad Canyon at Ravenna, Cal if. an automated tie replacement operation on the main · ...6800, GE U25BE (card 0-2028) line near Merna, Nebraska, toured the expanded NEW In BiCentennial colors at Tay lor Yards in los Angeles. • ••. 9389, EMO S045T-2 (card 0-2026) Denver yard operation, saw BN track testing car B9 We aring fresh red. white an d blue BiCentennial co lors. in Alliance and toured two coal mines near Gillette Po st card prices are 10<1: each ; 3 for 25<1:; 14 for $1 .00 - plus before returning to their homes. shipping at 15<1: for 1-6cards, 25<1: for 7-1 4 cards and 25<1: for 1976 is now planned as the last year for Alco each addi tiona l 14 cards. CHATHAM PUBLI SHING COMPANY RS3' s on the Burlington Northern. In April the stored Post Off ice Box 283, Bu rlingane, Ca lifomia 9401 0 Century 424' s, 425' s and 636' s were all placed back PAC I FIC NEWS 15 UNION PACIFIC FREIGHTS RET URN TO BOISE main line at Nampa. Th e branch was PHOTOGRAPHY/H ENRY R. GRIFFITHS comp leted in 1942 so that Boise could have main line passenger train se rvice. Usually, today, th e on ly freight trains The Union Pacific' s main line west on the line are the locals. There has from Pocatello, Idaho to Portland does not been any passenger service since not include Boise, Idaho. Boise' s on a Amt rak began operation, although the fo rty-fi ve-mile branch that joins wi th the creation of a new Am trak train which main lin e at both en ds. The branch wo uld include Boise on its Denve r-to swings north from the ma in line at Po rtland route is now cu rren tly being Orcha rd Junction and traverses mostly suggested. If no passenger se rvice is desert area fo r a twenty-five-mile run to inaugu rated over the line in a year or Boise, though it does hav e some nice so, however, the Union Pacific may go cu rves, cuts and fi lls. ahead with plans to di smantle the line From Boi se, the line swings west from Boise ea st to Orcha rd Junction. and down the valley twenty miles to the Every once in a while, when the main line is blocked by a de r ailment or by construction, freights are rou ted through Boi se. The rai lroad laid ribbon rail on the Nampa-orchard section of the main line in February andMarch, and thus fllr a wh ile Bo ise was again the scene of main line ra ilroading. 5045 3610 leads sister 3601 , 0035 85 B an d 5024 407 past the Boise pas senger station, below, with an eastbound trai n. The depot at Boi se is one of th e most beautiful on th e Union Pacific and is located on a hi II overlooking to wn. Also eastbound at the Boise station, opposite to p, 5040-2 3231 leads three more 5040 -2' s with a 100-car lumber train just after sunset on February 13, th e day after the view of 3610. Except fo r offices in one end, th e station has not been used since Ap ril of 1971. The Union Pacific' s 5045 3621 leads a trio of Burli ngton Northern units - 5040-2 6924, 5040 6324 an d 5045 6429 - along with a UP 50P35 away from the Bo ise Mountain s to ward Orchard Junction on February 12. The main line is twenty-five miles ahead for thi s train, whi ch is running on trackage th at may be dismantled if passenger service is not revived by Amtrak. PA CI FIC NEWS 17 STEAMING IN THE WEST WITH THE 4449 Leading Santa Fe GP39 3646, GP38 3520 an d the twenty-six-car American ( Freedom Train, ex-Southern Pacific 4-8-4 4449 works her way off the Santa Fe's Second District onto the First District of the Eastern Division at NR Junction in Emporia, Kansas, left. Th e date is March 24, during the train's run from Wichita to Pauline, Kansas - Topeka - for another di splay session. Running on the Missouri Pacific, below, the 4449 races across the Little Red River bridge at noontime on Ap ri l 13 headed for Little Rock , Arkansas some forty -two miles south. The day was cool and clear, just right fo r the one-time "Day light' s" visit. At Birmingham by the end of May , the 4449 will trade Freedom Train as signments with the ex-Reading 4-8-4 21 01 so that steam can remain on the point of the train when it operates in areas restricted by the 4449's bulk. She wi II be carefully inspected at the Southern's Birmingham Shops, given any needed repairs, and then operated later thi s year on a ferry movement to catch up with the Freedom Tra in near Washington, D.C. to comp lete the train's run toMi ami, Florida on December 31 .. Joe McMiBan Joh nnie M. Gray 18 JUNE, 1976 John C. Lucas Photographed ou t of th e cab of S040T-2 8301 , Sou thern Pacific Extra 5322 East is slowly grinding its way up Tehachapi Pass behind the leading S039, an S09E, SD39 an d a pair of SD45T -2 units. Extra 83 01 is at rest in the ho le at Cable, on a wann Southern California Au gu st 22 last year. PACIFIC NEWS 19 80th: Chris Collins On the east shore of San Fran cisco Ba y, near Hay ward, lives a pair of very old ch ain-dri ven narrow-gauge Plymouth loco motives. They work only bri efl y each fall to bring in the salt harvest from a year of solar evaporation by the Oliver Brothers Salt Company, and are si mply nu mbered 1 , above, an d 2, left. Such di minutive rail operations on ce fl ouri shed al ong the Bay, in a sharp contrast to - by comparison - the main line 'fUnning an d broader gauge of th e Leslie Salt Company railroads which are themsel ves now al most extin ct; RedwoodCity is gone, and on ly Fremont remains as a maj or survi ving salt rai l haul out of the ponds. Nonetheless, the two-foot-wide rai ls of Oliver Brothers sti I! come to life each fal! as these October, 1975 vi ews show in the mi dst of the harvest when the temporal)' tracks are laid right on the pond floors. Pennanent track s that surround the ponds remain in place currentl y wai ting for the end of the 1976 evaporating year so the Plymouth s can go back to work. 20 JU NE, 1976 Karl R. Koenig Heading northward away from threatening New Mexico ski es on the return run from Farm ington, three-foot-gauge Denver an d Rio Grande Western 2�-2 497 brings an empty pipe train back to Durango from the oil fi elds. Though it woul d hang on for another five years of increasingly rare The train movements, th e Rio Grande's narrow-gauge freight trackage was about to enter its sunset years. Although the Camera Si l verton passenger run north from Durango, Colorado is sti ll alive and in steam, as is Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Car Rai lway servi ce on the eastern en d of the final slim-gauge system, this frei ght trackage was pulled out in 1968 fo llow ing fi nal run s th e previous year. Bu ilt by Baldwin in 1902 - serial 20 521 - the 497 was originally the Ri o Grande' s standard-gauge 2-8-0 1103. It was heavily rebuilt by the railroad's Burnham Shops in Den ver during 1930, emerging as the narrow -gauge 497 fo r a ren ewed career on Colorado's fam ed three-foot lines. PACIFIC NEWS 21 Henry W. Brueckman Stretching for on ly tho se eleven miles between the Gen eva coal mine near Price, Utah an d a connection with the Den ver an d Ri o Grande at Co lumbia Junction, the U.S. Steel-owned Carbon County Rai lway serves to supply coal for the steel mill s at Provo. Here, on an October day in 1975, the en tire two-unit roster of the rai lway wo rks its way back to the mine fro m the Ri o Grande connection with an empty stri ng of coal hoppers. Sti ll wearing the paint scheme of th ei r previou s owner, SW9 's 1201 and 1202, built by Electro Moti ve in March of 1953, as serials 1787 0 and 17873, were originally part of an order by U.S. Steel 's Duluth Mi ssabe and Iron Range Rail way - numbers 11 and 14 - for fifteen switchers. The pair was bro ught to Utah fo r Carbon County work in 1958. 22 JUNE, 1976 The Camera Car Away over there, come s South ern P aci fi c 8700 on a damp A pri I day in 1975 as it crests a sm all ri se near mile 567. The view is looking east, toward Banning, Californi a on the ra ilroad's Sunset Rou te. The 8700, on the point of invisible westbound tonnage behind sea led-beam headlights, is a General Elect ric U33C bui lt in 1971 an d has been assigned to the Los Angeles Freight Pool ever si nce. PACIFIC NEWS 23 for its LRC - Light, Rapid, Comfortable - tra in supersedi ng a record of 1 [2 mph established by a Canadian Pacific steam locomotive in 1936 . ..Par ent Wey erhaeuser transferred Fairba nks A pa ir of outbound mi litary uni ts Morse swi tcher 492 from its Chehalis AN D THE 4449 US Army 4022, RS4TC, Whitcomb Western at the time the ra ilroad ended AMERICAN FREEDOM TRAIN 61252 built in 1954 and US Air Force operations and only Aleo Century-41 5 SU PER 8mm CO LOR MOVIES General Electric 45-ton 1245 bu ilt in rema ins for service on the newly-formed January, 1953 as se ri al 31869 - were Curtis Milburne and Eastern common AVAI LABLE WITH SO UND! both loaded on separate flat cars from carrier (PACIFIC NEWS, January and storage at the Tooele Army Depot May, [, 976); the 492 will remain at Va il Vol. I: Climb Over The Cascades Journey with 4449 as she ascends the ra ilroad fa ci lity at Hill Air Force Ba se for servi ce on this Weyerhaeuser logging eastern slopes of Stevens Pass. The train near 0 gden, Utah and shipped to un ra ilroa dwhere itwas recently overhauled labors out of a siding in the snow blan known new assignments (Kenneth M. ...Th e Denver and Rio Grande's very keted canyon just below the east portal Ardinger) ... CP Rail has set a new popular three-foot-gau ge Si I verlon beg ins of the Cascade Tunnel. The helpers are Canadian ra i I speed record of 129 mph its seasonal passenger service from changed out at Skykomish. There are severa l sensational runbys including the as part of its hi gh-speed tes t program Durango, Colorado to Si Iverton on May closing scene on Puget Sound : Extra 29 with its trio of 2-8-2'5 available for Bonus - The Canadian Roya l Hudson operati on over thi s route which fi rst runs by at the same location on Puget THE LOS ANGELES RAILWAY saw train service in 1882 ...Even So und. 200 ft. THROUGH THE YEARS though the Southern Pacific has had Vol. II: TheTehachapi Ascention hearings regarding the abandonment of By This is history revisited : Helpers are ad th e Montpelier Branch south of Clari bel ded at Bakersfield and well they need be Stercll L. EllS/Oil - about two mi les south of the con as 4449 is handling a 2080 ft., 1800 ton nection on the branch with the Sierra train with 2.2 percent gradesahead . You Rai lroad at Oakdale, California - to the are there at the horseshoe curve at Ca li end of the track at Montpe lier, it ha s ente; Above 8ielvi lle; Near the famous been used recently for the storage of Tehachapi Loop; and a great runby near Monolith. You'll see highlights of the run unneeded Paci fic Frui t Express Company down Soledad Canyon incl. Burbank Jet. re frigerator cars minus their me chan ical sans helpers. 200 ft. equipmen t; about one hundred cars we re on han d in early April (A I Rose) ... Vol. III : Rambling in Southern California Two Rio Grande and one Western Paci fic We open with 4449 in engine service at Los Angeles Taylor Yard. She's being locomo ti ve were se rious ly damaged on readied for the run up the coast to Santa Apri l 16 when the former's GP9's 591 3 Barbara. We watch the steam from a high an d 5943 co ll ided with the la tter' S vantage point as the train moves thru GP 40 3539 at Salt Lake Ci ty, Utah; the Chatsworth nearing the sweeping curve on Sa nta Susana Pass where we pick up 3539 was sent directly to the Morri son the action. The train closes out her Knudsen facility at Boise, Idaho for its Southern California tour with a run over re pa i r, the 591 3 and 5943 home to the of the history of Los Angeles is complete Beaumont Hill. We've included pacing No study Burnham Shops in Denver where the aetion near Pa lm Springs. 200 ft. without a study of the trolley system that was instru 5943 may be re tired instead of rebu ilt mental in its rapid growth. This fascinating book (Calvin M. St orwoskey) ...Th at on traces the history of the colorful Los Angeles Railway Si lent . 24. 95 ea. p.p. again, off-again proposed commu ter from its feeble beginnings in the 1800's to its unfor Sound 37.50 ea . p.p. train to run between San Diego an d Los tunate demise in 1963. 72 pages, large 8% x 11 format, Angeles recei ved renewed support in with over 90 excellent photographs. la te Apr i 1 wh en the San Di ego Coun ty 3 Companion Slide Sets Avail. supervi sors vo ted to rejoin the three 20 pcs. per set @ $1 0.95 ea . p.p. coun ty spon sori ng organization bu t no new startup date for the Los Angeles Calif.residents add 6% Sa les Tax $4.50 (CallI. Ru. add G% S�les Tax) Commuter is go ing to be esta blished un til increased fi nancing and rai lroad opera ting problems are settled even Sierra Rail Classics DARWIN PUBLICATIONS P.O. 80x·112 Dept. C though the pa ssenger cars were reha fIOX 5429 SHUMAN OAKS, CAUFORNJA 91413 Montrose, 91020, Calif. bi li tated for the service during 1975 from equipmen t purchased from the Oregon Pacific and Ea s tern Rai lroad at Cot tage Grove, Oregon . . . Canada's HawkerSiddeley has acquired a contract to bu ild two hun dred passenger cars announcing a new book service for fo r the National Railway s of Mexico rail- oriented people ... wh ich are to be delivered starting late th is year and consisting of sixty fi rst We handle the full rail lines of most leading publishers, as well as books and publishers class cars and the balance for second that are not as generally well known. Orders are usually shipped by UPS for fa st, class service . . . Santa Fe has won the damage-free delivery, with no extra charge for shipping and handling on orders of over top railroad employee safety award for $5.00. We are continually adding to our catalog offering. Please give us a try - we think the fourth year in a row, receiving the you'll be completely satisfied. We are railfans ourselve� and are interested in service. gold Harriman Memorial Award on May 11 NEW from Carleton - THE JERSEY CENTRAL STORY $30.00 in a ce remony at DOT headquarters in EXPECTED in July, 1 976 from Sundance - Washington, D.C. ...Th e ex-oahu Sugar ASPEN ON THE ROARING FORK $19.95 Baldwin 0-6-2T and other narrow-gauge PLEASE SEND STANDARD, LEGAL SIZE SASE FOR equipment from th e private Cottonwood CURRENT CATALOG BOX 339 and Southern Rai lroad (PACIFIC NEWS, JOHN H. WESTON WILMEITE Apri l, 1976) is now on the property of ILLlNOIS the Roaring Camp and Big Trees at Bookseller 60091 Fe l ton, Ca li fornia .• 24 JUNE, 1976 Amtrak bus connections, but in years gone by was S.F. MUNICIPAL RAILWAV the terminal for interurban trains of three different I [;�l rail systems. DON JEWELL San Francisco Muni Jottings After an absence of thirty-eight days during the city craft-workers' strike, the San Francisco Municipal [M WESTERN PACIFIC R.R. I Railway returned to operation on Saturday, May 8. Diesel and trolley buses began running that morning, KEN MEEKER and streetcar service resumed in the aft erno on after inspection of the trackage, tunnels and overhead wire The Western Pacific' s second red, white and blue was completed. BiCentennial locomotive, GP40 1976, ex-Number 3541 , The return of the PCC' s to the street s was not was released from the Stockton, California paint shop wit hout some problems. Since the rails were rusted in early May and immediately entered revenue service from lack of use, Muni's wrecker 013 1 was used on along with the WP's other BiCentennial locomotive, most of the lines during Saturd ay morning to sand and GP40 1776, the ex-3540. The two locomotives were clean up the rails. It ran into a delay trying to get to placed on the railroad's hotshot piggyback trains and Market Street and the J and N lines, as the contractor operated together between Oakland , California and working on the rehabilitation of Twin Peaks Tunnel Salt Lake City, Utah during the last weeks of May. had equipment blocking the tracks. After the wrecker They have since been split up and are now operating made its runs, empty PCC' s ran on all the lines for a separately over the entire system. co uple of trips to ensure that all of the trackage and Western Pacific will tentatively act as the host sw itches were ready before picking up any passengers. railroad for a major BiCentennial locomotive display By 1 PM the cleanup operations were completed and over the July 4th weekend in San Francisco. Several pas sengers could once agai n ride streetc ars in San railroads have expressed interest along with the WP Francisco. in having one of their BiCentennial locomotives on The pce s had dead batteries in many ca ses a s a display, including the Burlington Northern, Southern result of the shutdown, and most of the cars had to Pacific, Union Pacific, Santa Fe, Milwaukee Road and have their motor generator sets cleaned of dust an d United States Steel's Pittsburg plant. The plan is to oxidation. This extra work kept some of the cars from place these locomotives on display in front of San returning to service for several days, but by the end Francisco's Ferry Building July 2 and then on July of the first week of operation the streetcar fleet was 3 and 4 the display would appear at Fisherman's almost back to normal. Wharf. Both sites are on San Francisco Belt Railway During the strike the contractors working on the trackage. There are still details to be wo rked out, Muni track and tunnelrehabilitat ionprojects continued but this should prove to be one of the largest displays their work and were able to make good progress of BiCentennial locomotives in the United States on without the re gul ar interrupti ons of pas sing PCC' s. On her celebrated 200th birthday. the L Line, the Ulloa Street track renewal was in the Effective Tuesday May 4, the Western Pacific took final two-block stretch as the streetcars returned , and over the Overland Mail Contract from the Southern the newly retracked Zoo Loop went into service on Pacific with whom the co ntract from the post office the same day. had expired. The WP' s first eastbound mail train, The Municipal Railway has called for bids on known as the TOF - Trailer On Flat Car - departed another track reconstruction job on the N Line. This from Oakland on the 4th. The first westbound mail contract wi ll cover the track on both Carl and Irving train arrived in Oakland on Friday, May 7. This train Streets from the Sunset Tunnel to Ninth Avenue. It is known as the OMW - Overland Mail West - and will connect the track projects that were completed they will operate on a seven-days-a-week schedule. last year in the Sunset Tunnel and on Judah Street. This new project is approximately one mile long, and bids are due June 2. When it is finished early next year, the N Line will have almost three continuous YOU ARE NOT A REGULAR SUBSCRIBER? miles of renewed trackage. On May 14, the Bay Area Rapid Transit District Then . . . subscribe awarded the contract to build the Muni' s new West to Portal Station (PACIFIC NEWS, March and May, 1976) Hi at a total cost of over S6.3 million. The work should begi n sometime in June wit h completion scheduled for October of ]978. The State of California recently installed raised RAILROAD EMBLEMS. FOBS. & TIE TACS loading isl and s for Muni streetcars and buses at it s Over 350 cloth p�tches, more than 50 Fobs and Tie· TransbayTransit Terminal (Muni' s downtown streetcar ta cs. Send S2.00 fo r 44-page catalog and one sample terminal) . The streetcar island separates the loading patch. Fobs are S2.50 each, Tie-tacs S2.10 each. Belt PCC' s from the diesel buses and runs the full length Buckles S7.00 each. of the terminal ramp from Fremo nt to First Streets. M.B. AUSTIN The state owns and operates this terminal, which PO Box 1056, 'San Mateo, CA 94403 now serves bu s I ines from the East Bay as well as PACIFIC NEWS 25 its A Cars. This emblem takes the place of the BART em UNION PACI FIC "ba" logo on the car front near the win dshield and smaller emblems are placed under the car numbers on the cab end. Numbers 115, 127, 140., 153, 169 and GEORGE R. COCKLE, EDITOR 20. 2 have thus far been equi pped. 1974 CAR AN D LOCOMOTIVE CYCLOPEDIA Handrails for standing passengers have now been The 8000-cl ass modification program that initially installed in over 150. cars, one-third of the fleet. Even was scheduled for sixty-fi ve Electro-Motive SD40-2' s though the lack of thi s feature was once promoted as a BART advantage - "every BART rider will have a (PACIFIC NEWS, April, 1976) has been reduced to thirty-five units. Commencing with 3240-3274, these seat" - the full fleet of 450. cars should all be retro 3000-horsepower locomotives will be renumbered fi tted wi th han drails by the en d of August , sequentially 8000-8034. Units 3240-3242 were the The Transit District is testing various pai nts on the exterior of its carsin order to improve appearance. last three of a forty-unit order (72684) built in May of 1973, while the remaining thirty-two are from Union BART has found that the original raw aluminum finish Pacific's fifth SD 40 order (73661) built in June and is hard to keep clean an d it is experimenting wi th July of 1974. various coatings to seal the al uminum to make it easi er As of April 15, ninety-five units were listed as for the automatic car washers to get the grime off. A stored, including 3 U50's, 22 U50C s, 41 GP9A/B' s, si lver paint and a li ght gray pai nt are being tested, as well as a clear glo ss. 7 GP9m' s, I SD7, 4 GP20' s, 7 SD 24' s and 7 switchers. Soon to be shipped ar e thirty GP9B' s sold back to Electro-Mot ive and an ot her ten to the Illinoi s Central Gulf (Paducah). Useful component s are being removed from the EMD-destined locomotives for Union Pacific usage. Shipments of the locomotives will be made in N June, July an d August. I._LOWE_STCOMO_E R_TIVE I Forecasting for en d-of-y ear indi cates a potential !!��. 300,000-horsepower motive power sh ortage due to LKENB2NETH M. ARD INGER _ dramatic increases in freight han dli ng. New purchases an d possible upgrading of "Priority 3 Units" (low East St. Louis Junction Rai lroad General Electric hor sepower units like GP9's/SD24' s) are presently 7G-tonner number 71 hasbeen sold to locomot ive dealer being con sidered. Currently, the fail-free program Bi rmingham Rail and Locomotive and then resold to recently released DDA-40X 694 1 in thi s continu ing the Vicksburg Chemi cal Company in Mi ssissippi. Built overhaul program an d it was di splay ed at Omaha in in April of 1948, the locomotive is serial 2930.3. conjunction with National Tran sportation Week. Geo rgetown Railroad at Georgetown, Texas has 4-8-4 838 was moved from Council Bluffs, Iowa ac quired two Baldwins from the Tex as Mexican to Chey enne, Wy oming on May 10-11, to protect her Railway Company. famous sist er 8444 with useable parts. Goodpasture Grain at Galena Park, Texas, a suburb Construction will soon st art on a $20. million auto of Houston, has acquired an S4Alco built in May, 1953 mated classi fication yard at Hinkle, Oregon which as seri al 80.464. Originally Northern Pacifi c 719, then will have thirty-two tracks capable of handling nearly Burlington Northern 919, it became AGRICO I at 120.0. cars. Space will be provided for the ad dition of Pi erce, Florida, then Preci sion National and now another thirty-eight tracks. to Goodpasture. The di esel house at Council Bluffs, Iowa is now Kirby Lumber Company at Silsbee, Texas has sold scheduled to be tom down in the immediate future. their Electro-Motive SW9 number lOGO. - built April, Out si de servicing light s have been installed to facil 1953 as ser ial number 18289 - to the East Camden itate night operations. and Highland Railroad in Arkansas as their number 63. The E�lDit fleet retained to power spe cial train Southern Pacific 1239 has been sold by Chrome movements over the UP sy st em is being ex ercised Oankshaft to Nebraska Public Service at Omaha as frequently with Inspect ion Speci als and Director their numb er 100. The Alco-built S6 was originally Specials both scheduled. Espee 1072, built in Sept ember, 1956 as serial 81813. Union Pacific's one-time Alco Cen tury-63G' s which went to the Duluth Missabe and Iron Range as their 90.0.'s were in transit through Canada in April, re �Jfl\'��BA Y AREA RAPID TRANSIT port edly so ld to the Cartier Railway in Quebec. --- i " U S Steel 80-tonner number 10 from the Pittsburg, .....i £ DON JEWELL California plant has been sold by dealer Chrome Oankshaft to Skyline Industries at Bartlesville, The thirty-fourth and final station on the Bay Area Oklahom a. Built in July, 1946, the locomotive is GE Rapi d Transi t District's rail sy stem opens for its serial number 28475. initial passengers Thursday, May 27. The current Utah Railway has purchased the pair of Alco-built rail network will, thus, at long last finally be co m RSD12' s leased in early 1975 (PACIFIC NEWS, May, pl eted. Cost of the new station - San Franci sco's 1975) from Lasco. Acquired for scrap value, the two long-awaited Emb arcadero facility - was $3Gmillion. un its - previously numbered 20.14 and 2016 - have BART is celebrating th e BiCentennial by simply been renumbered and relettered as the Utah Railway adding the official BiCentennial emblem on several of 60.0. and 60. 1. 26 JUN E, 1976 E. L. Richardson Peter J. Replinger Brian Hnmphreys F. HoI Wagner, Jr. At Okotoks, Alberta, just south of Ca lgary, CP Rail F's 4070 and 4067 work for a Hollywood fi lming CD crew April 24 with imaginary "AM Road" lettering, upper left, and an equally relettered consist. Recently delivered and p laced into service, upper right, is Tacoma Municipal Belt Lin e Rai lway 944, photographed February 7 at Tacoma, Washington . The Alco S4 was built in August, 1953 - as serial number 80628 - for the L os Angeles Junction Rai lway as number 7. New on CP Rai l, above left, SD40-2 5762 displays a revi sed paint scheme at Mission City, British Co lumb ia with less, an d fatter, stripes which, with the lettering, are now Skotchli teo One of the new ASEA Swedi sh-built electri� locomotives for the 42-inch-gauge Climax Moly bdenum rai lroad rec ently completed at th e fi rm's Henderson Mine in th e Rockies fo rty miles west of Denver is o shown (February , 1976 issue), above right, as it arrived in Denver fro m the east via BN in March. Th e proj ect to rehabilHat e ex-Northern Pacific 4-6-0 1364 (July, 1975 issue) continues to make quiet progress, below. Photographed May 1, hopes now are to fire the bo iler up fo r the first time in June . zci= Kenneth G. Johnsen / Brand new at Los Angeles Union Passenger Tenn inal April 25 is Amtrak 220, an Electro-Motive F40PH and on e of thirty - numbers 200-229 - delivered starti ng in late March. Underneath that. fu ll-width cowl carbody is a 3000-horse power prime mover from which 710 hp is tapped to tum a 500 kw electric�1 generator that supplies power for the trai ling train an d eliminates th e steam boi ler provided, of course, that the con si st is of new Amfleet or modi fied equipment. D. Golde In late Apri I, Amtrak transferred some of its new Amfleet equipm ent west in a special Santa Fe train photographed, bottom , near Blanchard, New Mexico on the 29th with SDP40 F 508 leading new F40PH's 222, 215, 216 an d 217 al ong with 18 cars - a mix of both coaches an d cafe cars - stopping occasionally for display sessions enroute. The equipment was part of what was brought west to go into service May IS on the Los Angeles-to-San Diego "San Diegan" trains, and on short-run trains out of Seattle, Washington where on May 19 numbers 218 and 217, left, headed up the southbound "Puget Sound" at the Ta coma station bound for Portland, Oregon with convent ional equipment that required the addition of a steam generator car to the train's consist. Tom Gray John C. Lucas , I I 1 \ L 28 JUNE, 1976 NEWS PHOTOS At own er Kennecott Copper' s Cop perton Yard on mining operation s near Sa lt Lake City, Utah US-ton GE 778 - bu ilt in 1958 as serial 33348 - show s off its new BiCentennial paint job. Bu ilt fo r Kennecott's Cbino Mines Divi sion as the 104, the electric ha s been working for the massive, rail-ori ented Utah mining operation s of its owner since it was' tran sferred north in 1971. Ryan Ballard Before the advent of ConRai l, the creditors on a do zen Erie-Lackawanna Alco Century-425' s reclaimed them for non-payment and sold th e locomotives, road numbers 2451 -2462 , to the British Columbia Railway (May, 1976 issue) where they became the 80 1-812. Th e fi rst, ex-2451, sits at North Vancouver April 22 as the 801 with new Bri tish Co lumbia Railway lettering but sti II sporting the old road name on her si de . Below, the 2455 waits in Bu rlington Northern's Interbay Yard in Seattle in company with Espee SD45T-2 9237, on the BN in trade for Lo cotrol units, while enroute to Canada. Ken Perry S. L. Wil lhight PACIFIC NEWS 29 �ra lX>ard CLASSIFI ED ADVERTI SING sect ion for ra ilroad-related items. PAC I Fl C NEWS reserves the right to edit copy and to refuse listings . Ads can not be acknowledged, nor can proof copies be sent. Closing date is the 1st of the 2nd preced ing month. Count al l numbers, name and address, but not zip code. 10¢ a word, $3.00 m in imum. Payment in advance. Repeat ads 50% off for the second month of each two-month period for continuing ads. All listin gs are made free of charge and PACIFIC NEWS can DUPLICATE COLOR SLIDES, prints of all major roads, short assume no responsibi lity for errors, revisions in fares and lines and passenger cars in North America. Catalog of over 12,000 schedu les or chan ges in operat ions, al l of which are subject different items wi th sample $1 , refundable. Now offering cabooses. to chan ge wi thout notice. PACIFIC NEWS reserves the right to Thomas Chenoweth, Box 811, Poway, Ca lifornia 92064. edit material or refuse list i ngs. Insertions wi ll not be printed from brochures and the dead line is the first of the second CHARLES CONNIFF, P. o. Box 9686, Jackson, Missi ssippi 39206 month preced ing the date of publicati on. sells original color sl ides of short line equipment in the south, southeast, southwest and mi dwest. Li st $1.00. SSW (large) . Also June t9, Saturday some in northwest. EDAVILLE RAILROAD RAIL FAN 'S DAY For narrow-gauge buffs this will be a day to remember MAP GUIDE TO WEST COAST SHORT LINES. Maps and informa on the two-foo t-gauge rai ls of the Edaville Rai lroad at tion give exact location of over 50 short, belt and industri al lines. Sou th Ca rver, Massachu setts. Some of the events for the 8�xll booklet, $2. 75. Guide, 1145 Bedford Street, Fremont, California94538. day will be both steam and diesel freigh t trains, a trip le header, photo ru ns and a trip on the original main line. WAN TED: Copy of 8 mOl regular col or taken of the 4449 around Admission will be limited to members of some ra ilroad Tracy . Photo -Mat lost mine. Graham Henry, 1250 Monterey Avenue, club or an association for the six hours of sp ecial activity. Berkeley, California 94707. Fare : Membership proof and norma l entrance fee. Edaville Rai lroad FOR SALE: Over 100 di ffe rent Railroad emblem Watch Fobs, Tie Sou th Carver Ta cks, Key Olains, Ti e Cl ips, Money Cl ips, etc. Also Belt Ma ssachusetts 02566 Buckles wi th colored emblems; Stamp for free list. Deal ers write; Hoover's, 120 PN Fruit, Peru, Illinois 61354. June 19-28, One-week tour RAILROAD RADIO SCANNERS - Car Mobile and Hand Held - COLORADO RAILS Electra Bearcat, Midland and Pace. Several model s in stock Departi ng from Chi ca go on Amtrak' s San Francisco fro m $99 .50 to $169. 50. Crystals for most western ra ilroads in Zephyr, this special tour wi II vi si t Co lorado' s narrow-gauge stock at $5.00 each . Stop in or write for your needs. Iron Horse pas t, and its current operations. The Rio Grande Silverton Hobbi es, 3529 Clayton Road, Concord, California 945 19. wi II be both fo llowed by bus for photographs on one day, and ridden on the next. The Cumbres and Tol tec Scen ic BICENTENNIAL RAILROAD POST CARDS, fo urteen diffe rent cards, one dollar per set and self-addressed en velope. Mary wi ll operate a sp ecial five-car trai n fo r the group, al lowing Jayne's Rai lroad Speci alties, 7470 Lincoln Street, Hollywood, the opportuni ty to see two trains ru nning on the same day. Florida 33024. Vi sits wi ll also be made to abandoned rai lroad locations in the mining di stricts and the Colorado Rai lroad Museum . SANTA FE black-and-white roster photos. List of over 1600 steam, Fares sta rt at $599 for the complete tour from Ch icago. 340 diesel and motor car. Listings show right or left vi ew, where Tickets may also be purchased for ju st the Co lorado portion and when photographed, modifications, dispo sal date. Catalog and originating in Denver. 5x8 sample print fo r $1.00 from Stan Kistler, P. O. Box 4068, . Overland Chapter, NRHS Pasadena, California 91106 320 Wisconsin Avenue , Apt. 5t t RAI LWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE HlSTORlCAL SOCIETY Bulletins Oak Park, Illinois 60 302 for sale; $10.00 for the set of three. Issues are number 107 for October, 1962 featu ring th e Moun t Carbon Ra ilroad,The Importation Weekends , through August t and Disposition of the First Steam Locomotives in the Western SOUTHERN RAILWAY STEAM IN THE SOUTHLAND Hemi sphere and other articles; number 119 for October, 1968 Va rious steam locomotives from the collection avai lable fea turing locomotives of the Bu ffa lo Ro chester and PittSburgh; and to the Sou thern Railway are scheduled for trips to be run number 121 for October, 1969 fe aturing the Milwaukee an d Northern. out of Alexandria, Virginia during this summer starting in Karl R. Koenig, Editor PACIFIC NEWS, Post Office Box 283, June. 2-8-{)722 is due to provide the motive power for most Burlingame, California 94010. of the one- 30 JUNE, 1976 ' Publishers are encouraged to submi t copies wi th a camera, and the Zephy r certa'inly lent itself to of new and rei ssued books not prev iously spectacular photography. Wi thout belaboring. the beglnlllngs rx>C>k revi ewed in PACI FI C NEWS. There is no of the train and its heri tage in th e Burlington' s Pioneer charge, however, the books wi II be retained Zephyr, this' book lays down a thorough fo undation. ith gaZ ine for its research li brary. � wh ich to enjoy the entire run of the train unu l ItS fi nal departures six years ago in March of 1970.. The train wa s considered by most pas sengers as somethlllg speCial, and thi s book certainly tells the story excep tionally. The joys, AMERICA'S BICENTENNIAL QUEEN, ENGINE 4449 and the sadness, souven irs, equipment, specia I opera tion s Ri chard K. Wright and a cross-countl)' ride are al l here affording another look It was, of course, expected tha t Southern Pacific's ex at that vanished la dy. Thanks, Karl. -Karl R. Koenig Day ligh t 4-S-4 wou ld be the subject of a book. The 4449 CZ: The Story Of The Ca lifo rnia Zephyr, Delford ha s achieved unparalleled fame, and her journey is not Press, P. O. Box 27, Oradell, New Jersey 0.7649. over yet. Th is is a thin book, on ly fifty-two pages, bu t it 10.4 pages, fu lly ill ustrated with co lor du st jacket. tells well the story of The Lone Surv ivor from its birth at SY2xl l, hardbound. $10..95. Lima to the head of the Am erican Freedom Train. The book is dedicated to the 4449 's res torers , and crew . AMERICAN FREEDOM TRAIN America's BiCentennial Queen seems to have been a (Record) Recorded & Produced by Brad Miller qu ickly assembled book. Perhap s too qu ickly in places, bu t When the 4449 came to San Franci sco I was there at nonethel ess nicely done . Some may feel that thi s book track side to see and hea r. And when I visited the train I dwe lls too long on the history of the train the 4449 was purcha sed a record of her sounds to remind me of her vi sit. bui lt to pull, and I'm not at al l certain that pa ssenger car Th is is that same record and no on e with a record player views - inside and out - or a Cab Forward 4-S-S -2 photo shou ld be dep ri ved of their own copy of the 4449 's sounds wi th a scan t caption are app ropriate to the real mes sage of - an d al so a spectacu lar dust jacket co lor photo. the book: the Story of the 444<) and the Freedom Train. Actua lly, the record is of al l of the Freedom Train's From the moment she became the Freedom Train's steam locomo tives: thus there is a bi t of the 210.1 an d 759. choice thi s book is very complete in the thoroughness of 4449's the star, however, an d on thi s record tum up the the 4449' s story . The dates, frequently even the times, are sound and come along as sh e goes over Donner Pass, or given as the au thor takes you through the rebuilding an d slip in to the cab fo r a ride through Oregon. The record was finally the initial steaming, the test runs an d at la st that recorded duri ng the test trials an d trip east to pick up th e historic trip east to meet the Freedom Train. actual Freedom Train whi ch on ly means I eagerly awai t the This book is no t, however, the story of the 4449 after promised next co lume when she has that twenty-plus red, her Freedom Train chores began. Tha t story is still ta king wh ite and blue string of cars in tow. -Nornlan Saunders place and awai ts another volume. So, be sure not to miss American Freedom Train, Mobi le Fi delity Records, thi's book. Whether you r association wi th thi s Day light P. O. Bo x 336, Burbank, Cal ifornia91 50.3. 33-l/3 rpm wa s a renewed acquaintance or an introduction, America's long-playing record album . 45:r.i minutes, color dust BiCentennia l Queen be longs on your bookshelf to te ll the jacket with 5 photos. 9 B&W photos inside. $7 .49. 4449 's story over and over again. -Karl R. Koen ig America's BiCentennial Queen, Engine 4449, Wright En terp ri ses, P. O. Box 624, Oakhurst, Cal ifornia 93644 . 52 pa ges, softboun d, plus color cover. So. photographs, drawings. SY:>xl l. $5.00. RAI LS UNDER THE MIGHTY HUDSON Brian J. Cudahy The Shortline Rai lroad Series fro m Stephen Greene Press TH E REVIVAL OF THE VIRGINIA AND TRUCKEE has done it again, thi s time with a concise hi story of tho se I previously wa s not a regular PN reader, but when tra cks between New Jersey and Manhat tan Island. A man heard continual rumors that my beloved V&T wa s being from Georgia created the Hudson an d Manhattan Ra i lway rebuilt and PN had the only fu ll story, well. .. an d bored an underwater tunnel many sai d could not be Ralph Co nserrieo l:uilt. Th e Penn Ce ntral and Am trak use it today, proving Reno, Nevada the con tinued value of wha t ha s developed into a ma ssive network of track s and tunnels for long-distance pas sengers Virgi nia and Truckee caboo se-coach S, the Julia Bulette, and commuters both. was bu ilt by the V&T in their own shops at Virginia City in Th e book is fa scinating, and here at last is the story of IS69 and wa s the road's fi rst piece of rolling stock. The the Manhattan Transfer where Penn sylvania Railroad steam Ju lia has been fu lly re s tored, albei t wi thou t the original pu t in a final appearan ce. As always, I'd wi sh that th ese side doors, and it is indeed a show piece. However, in your little books were bi gger with larger photos, the reproduction article it ha s been co nfused with coach 17 wh ich the V&T better and Stephen Greene Press still needs someone in purcha sed as a bus iness car from the Cen tra l Pacific in the production dep artment who knows it is against the rul es January of 1 S76. to crop trains in train ph otograph s. Shame ! · Bu t, fo r all that At th e time of purchas e, thi s car was referred to by the it covers , touching on many interest topics, thi s one is CP as " the Old Cro cker Car." It was rebuilt by the V&T as val uab le and worth more than the meager asking price. My Offi cers an d Directors Car 25. It served in this capaci ty fai th in thi s seri es rema ins in tact. -N orman Sa unders until IS9D wh en it was converted to coach 17. Rai ls Under The Mighty Hudson , Stephen Greene Number 17has been the subject of consi derable res earch Press, P. O. Box 100.0., Brattleboro, Vermon t 0.530.1. by several persons including: Jerry Best, Gi lbert Kneiss, So. pages, 54 photos with map and track diagrams. Stephen Drew and thi s wri ter. All of the materials studied 5Y2xSY2, hardbound. $6.95. thus far point ever more stron gly to the fa ct that "the Old Oocker Ca r" is the same car that carri ed the Gold Sp ike, CZ: THE STORY OF THE CALIFORNIA ZEPHYR Silver Headed Hamm er and Leland Stanford to Promon tory in Karl R. Zimmennann May of IS69. Further research is continuing in an effo rt to In 1972 thi s book detai ling the vanished most fa mou s of fu lly do cument thi s historic piece of equipment; particular all Western passenger ru ns was ra th er qu ietly publi shed effort is be ing made to establ ish the origina l interior con in a small printing which soon was as hard to find as the fi gura tion so that an authen tic restoration can be carri ed CaliforniaZephyr itself. Now, thankfully, the rights to the out. Encoura ging progress is being made towards th is end. book have been acquired by De lford Press and with the new To day, number 17 remains preserved as a coach, the same addi tion of a color dust jacket - on the Rio Grande - The as it was when las t used on the Virginia and Truckee. Story of the California Zephyr is again available. Stan Garner, Vi ce Presiden t Administration Karl Zimmermann is a good wri ter and the reader wi 11 Short Line En t erpri ses, Incorporated find th is book hard to put down for he is equa lly as good Arcadia, California PACIFIC NEWS 31 CHATHAM BOOK SALES DEPARTMENT SAVE TIME & EFFORT. 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