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VIA RAIL Previous Day, and Hence Needed the Extra Failed Throughout the Day Long before today's fabulously successful San Diego Trolley from downtown to the Mexican border. there was a ne'er-do-well, meander­ ing country trolley line cal/ed the San Diego & Southeastern that tapped the same territory. The onset of the Great Depression blew it away, and nobody dreamed that history would repeat itself when San Diego grew into a giant. SAN DIEGO'S SOUTH BAY INTERURBAN Here's a meticulously researched By Ra I p h Forty book full of gems of photos that will stand as a fine case history of traction lost. Includes a series of 'maps by John Signor. SAN DIEGO'S SOUTH BAY INTERURBAN By Ralph Forty 96 pages , 92 photos . plus maps , time­ tables , etc ., index. 8V2X11" softbound. ISBN 0-916374-76-9 . Special 106 ..... .. .. .. $14.95 (Shipping $1 .10; Californians add 6% sales tax.) ~ ..- ... _............. '-'-- ._--- - --. November 1987 No. 288 P ACI FIC RAnNEI17s and P ACIFIC NEws are Pueblo Varieties .................... Ed Fulcomer 18 registered trademarks of Interurban Press, a California Corporation. Southern Colorado passages PUBLISHER: Mac Sebree EDITOR: Jim Walker Yakima Flashback ..... • ••• • Jim Walker 20 NEWS EDITOR: Dick Stephenson Looking back at an earlier Yakima, Wash. ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Mike Schafer ART DIRECTOR: Allen Ambrosini ART PRODUCTION: Mark Danneman A Short Line Gets Longer. • ••• R .L.Taylor 22 PRODUCTION MANAGER: Ray Geyer CONTRIBUTING ARTIST: John Signor The Keokuk Junction extends STAFF: Departments: Michael W. Blaszak , David R. Busse, P. Allen Copeland , Harre W. Demoro, R.C. Farewell , Rail News ........ ........ 4 Rail Canada West ..... 33 Thomas Higgins, Herb Horton, Don Jewell , Ken Meeker, Steve Morgan, Brian Norden, Call Board ... .... ...... 6 Short Lines ........... 37 Clifford Prather, Karl Rasmussen, John A. Expedited News .......... 7 Transit Rushton, Jim Seal, Joe Strapac, Charles Ver­ San Diego ............. 37 celli. Railroads SP ..... .............. 8 Portland .............. 38 P ilCI F I C R AnNEws (UPPS 862840) is pub­ lished monthly by Interurban Press (a corpora­ BN ................... 10 Los Angeles ........... 39 tion), 1212 South Brand Blvd. , Glendale, CA AT&SF ............... 12 Preservation ............. 39 91204. Second-class postage paid at Glendale, CA 91209 and additional offices. POSTMAS­ D&RGW ...... .. .... 14 Out West ............. 40 TER: Send address changes to: Pi\c lr lc UP ................... 16 Books .................. 40 RAILNEws, P.O. Box 6128, Glendale, CA 91205 . ISSN 8750-8486. Soo ... ........ ...... 16 From the Past ........... 42 CORRESPONDENCE: Please use P.O. Box C&NW ............... 30 Photo Stop ............. 44 6128, Glendale, CA 91205 for ALL correspon­ Amtrak/passenger ...... 31 Interurbans Newsletter .... 46 dence. 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Replacement copieslPO notifications wi ll be billed. Please allow us at least four weeks for any address changes. ADVERTISING RATES: On request, or call A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR (818) 240-4777. Articles and photographs for the magazine are welcome. When submitting material for con­ lthough you see it only when it appears once a month, we think about sideration, include return envelope and post­ A PACIFIC RAILNEWS every day. It has been about three weeks late, and age if yo u wish it returned. P IlCIFI C R llnNE I17S does not assume responsibility for we've been working to correct that delay. the safe return of material. Payment is made I recently helped move our Homewood, Illinois, office (where PASSENGER upon publication. TRAIN JOURNAL, PROTOTYPE MODELER, P AC IFI C RAILNEWS and PRI VATE © 1987 INTERURBAN PRESS VARNISH are produced) to Waukesha, Wisconsin, in the same offices with our Mac Sebree, President great typesetter, Joy Buslaff and staff. We think this will help streamline Jim Walker, Vice-President operations and bring all of our magazines to you sooner. We do appreciate both your kind words and criticisms. Not all letters can be answered (time doesn't allow) but we thank you for sending them. -JIM WALKER PACIFIC RailNEWS - 3 DA-I- · · -~ ~ ..t ~..... -EW-S Brand-new 500 SD60 6002 was only days out of the La Grange EMD factory when photographed at Humboldt Yard in Minneapolis on August 22, 1987. Note the detail of the equipment on the roof. -ROBERT M. BALL Skunk Line "Degradation" Georgia-Pacific officials may not have re­ alized the furor they were creating when they sold the historic railroad to Mendo­ cino County Railways last May. MCR, a Kyle Railways subsidiary, had operated the line for ten years under a lease ar­ rangement. G-P's sale to Kyle came as a surprise to many, as Willits-based Little Lake Development Co. had thought it was on the verge of closing a deal after lengthy negotiations. Recen t public ou tcry stems from Kyle's acceding to G-P's plans to clear­ cut right up to trackside. In G-P's lega­ lese, the buyer "acknowledges ... the seller's logging operations may result in scenic degradation along the right-of­ Latest additions to the growing roster at the Feather River Roil Society museum at Portola, Calif., ore way." Long Island FA 604 and Louisiana & North West (ex-WP) FP7 A 49. Both locomotives are due to be Kyle president, Willis B. Kyle, said repainted, with the Aleo FA slated for UP livery while the ex-CZ unit will go bock to WP dress. "We can't understand all the fervor. The Additional details on the Portola display can be found in PRN 286. -TOM SAVIO 4 • NOVEMBER 1987 Looking like a cross between what SP might have fielded as a color scheme and the New York Central, this F45 (ex-BN 6627) is owned by Doyl e McCormack and resides in Portland, Ore. It was photographed there in July 1987. -NORTHWEST RAIL MUSEUM clamor is hurting the train and the region it is serving," according to the Santa Rosa PRESS DEMOCRAT. Clear-cutting is a "standard practice of the lumber indus­ try," Kyle continued, and he said the trees will grow back " quite fast." Some 4000 petitioners and California's PUC are seeking reconsideration of earli­ er ICC approval, contending that the line "must be shielded-by the remedy of re­ vocation-from such a questionable and puzzling arrangement." The 14 page brief filed by PUC attorneys asserted that G-P "must not be permitted to condition its sale of that railroad upon a buyer's acceptance of a course of action directly contrary to the public good and the best interests of the line." The petition sought, if not revocation, at least the at­ tachment of protective conditions to the sale. Mendocino County supervisors have responded to the public outcry by agree­ Freshly painted ex-AT&SF CF7 307 shows off the colors of the new Red River Volley and Western ing to name a special task force to study while at National Railway Equipment Co. in Di xmoor, III., on August 23, 1987. Details of the new the idea of a scenic corridor for the line. short line can be found in PRN 286 and a li sting of equipment on hand at National will appear in next (David L. Dorrance) month's issue. -MICHAEL BLASZAK Fire Closes Eureka nel 11 near Arnold, five miles north of started by chunks of hot carbon blowing Willits, on August 2. out of locomotive exhaust. The material Southern Tunnel, The blaze apparently was started by was not caught by spark arresters. Shoofly Built the southbound train. By that evening, The road's manager, John Kosack, was the entire 600-foot tunnel was engulfed in quoted as stating "the fire officials know The Eureka Southern, operating under fl ames. The railroad sealed the tunnel the what they are talking about, but I am not Chapter 11 protection since last Decem­ next day to attempt to suffocate the fire. ready to admit this was the cause of the ber, suffered another blow in its struggle According to the California Depart­ fire. We have been performing good to regain solvency. Fire broke out in Tun- ment of Forestry the fire was apparently maintenance and try to clean out the PACIFIC RailNEWS - 5 spark arresters as best we can." a.m., arnvmg Los Angeles just after By the 10th, after an engineer's evalua­ 8 a.m. behind Santa Fe units SD45m ICC Rejects SP tion, officials opted for a shoofly around 5427 and C30-7s 8132/9080/8085 . The Placerville the fire site utilizing an existing access train was delivered to SP at Taylor Yard , road. The shoofly was completed in time where it was inspected, the animals wa­ Abandonment for service to be resumed by the end of tered and SP power added: SD45T-2R In mid-August the Interstate Commerce the week. Passenger service was operated 6813 , SD45T-2 SSW 9399, UP SD40-2 Commission by a 3-2 vote rejected SP's on the weekend of August 15-16.
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