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October 1997al Issue 407 FE ATURES

Some30 Decade Wisconsin Central's first 10 years have been eventful. Andrew S. Nelson

I(nox Station32 Bed & Rails A new bed-and-breakfast in central Illinois is recommended for raiIfans. George S. Pitarys Steve Smedley

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Can't We All Just Get Along? railfan was asked to vacate an overpass on a trackside I am an engineer for the Burlington Northern public road. The special agent informed the & Santa Fe Railroad. I am also a railfan. r feel railfan that there was a special train coming, so that I am qualified to respond to the editorial he would have to leave. Yes, the railfan knew "Can't We All Just Get Along?" published in that there was a special train coming-that's the July RAILNEWS. As a railroader with 20 what he was there for-the Employee Appreci­ plus years of experience and a lifetime railfan, ation Special running with Frisco steam loco­ I can see the view from both sides of the cam­ motive t 522. Ironically, B SF advertised this era, so to speak. train as one for employees and their families to I am appalled at the way the two rail fans ride and railfans to watch. were treated by the engineer. I am glad that it Agents should be trying to catch individuals was not a BNSF crew who did that. Even if the who shoot out signals, steal copper wire fr om engineer (or conductor) owned the property, he the signal lines, paint graffiti all over the cars, still had no right to talk to them in such a rude or run crossing gates in front of trains. Catch­ manner. The General Code of Operating Rules ing these individuals is a much more important prohibits this kind of treatment. GCOR rule job, and would make the railroads much safer. 1.6 (adopted by both BNSF and Union Pacific) I apologize to the majority of special agents states that employees must not be (among oth­ who may read this letter. Most of you are very er things) "immoral, quarrelsome, or discourte­ professional and helpful. I have dealt with ous." This employee was immoral in his lan­ many special agents in my 20 plus year rail­ guage and discourteous for no reason. road career, and I can recall only a couple of The only thing that Jeff and Steve did special agents whom I didn't care for. I have wrong was trespass. If they were on railroad been told by special agents that I had a blank property, then the employee had a responsibili­ check to take photographs anywhere on their ty to turn them in to the appropriate authori­ territory-I was an extra pair of eyes which ties, but not cuss them out. could report problems. They treated 99 per­ Not only have railroad operating people cent of railfans in the same way. been rude, but so have some special agents. In As a railroader and railfan, I've been on one instance, I felt that a special agent was try­ both sides of the camera, As an employee, I ing to justify his job by catching railfans and have asked a few people to please stay back running them off, rather than trying to correct while photographing trains, not because 1 problems that the railroad faces. He could try didn't want them to take a picture, but be­ keeping graffiti artists from painting out re­ cause I didn't want them to get hurt. flectors on rail cars (making them harder to I have also seen many railfans taking pic­ see at night), or watch for vandalized trailers tures where they simply don't belong. A few and containers. Instead, the rail fans taking evenings ago, 1 was running a train and was photos in the safest places possible were ha­ photographed passing through a small town. rassed because they were an easy target. There were three railfans, all with 35mm cam­ I was recently made aware of a special eras. One walked about t 50 feet away from the agent who ran a rail fan out of a railroad park­ crossing where the other two were taking pic­ ing lot who had received permission from the tures, and stood with his feet against the out­ local operating superintendent and had a side rail of the north main track while we sailed signed liability release. The special agent did by at 55 mph on the south main track. I realize not even take time to look at the release, only that he could see far enough to know that no told this individual that he was trespassing and train was on the north track, but nevertheless, if would have to leave. Another situation arose someone had been on that train who didn't like recently in Kansas City on the BNSF when a railfans, this railfan could have caused some

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The next railfan to For the engineer on the UP (Southern Pa­ come along could have been run out. cific) at Tehachapi mentioned in the editorial, Blame Where Blame Is Due I also recently saw a railfan on a telephone and for over-zealous special agents: Don't bite So, the Illinois legislature has overwhelmingly pole not far from my home terminal. This was the hand that feeds you. Good public relations passed a bill limiting commuter train speeds definitely trespassing, and I should have asked are maintained by working railroaders as well through Fox River Grove (Commuter/Transit the dispatcher to get someone out to catch this as the PR department. column, August RN). While the speed the Me­ individual. It really bothers me when I see On my part of the railroad, [ have never tra commuter train was traveling when it photos published that I know have been taken heard anyone treat rai lfans in an abusive man­ struck the school bus may have been a factor, from signal bridges or telephone poles on rail­ ner. I do know of a couple who don't really as was the poorly timed traffic signals, neither road property. I feel that they shouldn't be [ike railfans, but at least are civil in their lan­ would have mattered had the bus driver not published as they entice others to look for the guage. In the eyes of most railroaders, rai lfans violated one of the basic rules of driving: same location. What one person gets away are all the same-the one who stood in front Don't stop on railroad tracks! with, another might not-and get hurt. of the train is just like the one who is off to [ would say that 99 percent of all the rail­ the side. Many railroaders don't understand Gary Betz fans [ see are taking pictures in a safe location rai[fans, and think we have a strange hobby. Ionia, Micbigan far enough away from the track to avoid in­ (Some of these same people, though, will sit jury. The problem is the other 1 percent. I on a creek bank for hours waiting for a fish to Long Island Lapse have had railfans stand in the middle of the bite; then, when they catch one, they will re­ An item in the July RN, entitled "LlRR Gets track to shoot a picture of my train coming at lease it because they don't eat fish.) New Power" is incorrect. Long Island Rail Road them at 70 mph! This gives the crew a sinking Finally, I've learned that handing out a few is not getting General Electtic Genesis locomo­ feeling because no one can be sure what this extra prints made from your slides goes a long tives. The railroad will receive 41 new General individual is thinking about doing. Why take way to help ease tension between railroaders Motors Electro-Motive Division locomotives the chance of getting killed? Careless rail fans and railfans. over the next two years. The first 23 wi ll be have caused several locations to be closed. DE30ACs (GM calls them F59ACs), these are Railfans have also been blamed for much BNSF Engineer 3,000 h.p. units with a shorter Cat· body that can of the trash left on the hill above Santa Fe Kansas fit into the tunnels leading to Penn Station in Junction in Kansas City (most is left by New York. These DE30ACs are not dual-mode teenagers out parking and drinking. Nonethe­ n response to the July editorial "Why Can't (diesel electric/third rail electt·ic). The remaining less, when film boxes are laying around, IWe All Just Get Along?"-Apparently not! 18 locomotives will be DM30ACs, OM indicat­ landowners know that railfans have been After a close encounter involving a raspy­ ing dual-mode. Although the exterior carbodies there). A good rule is to leave only footprints voiced engineer and a sawed-off broom, I've will look the same, the DEs will not enter Penn and take only photographs. Most of us do. come to this conclusion: If the engineer's Station because of the exhaust. DM30ACs will Because of this attitude and their interest, a'comin', you best start a'runnin'! operate into the station. railfans can be a good tool for the railroad; The locomotive bodies are being buill in a most will be glad to help out. [ have reported Bernadette Mason brand-new plant in Glenville, New York, oper­ open trailer and boxcar doors; given train Hobert, Indiana ated by Super Steel. (LIRR wanted the locomo­ crews rides when their train was disabled or tives built in New York State.) So far, the only when crews had a long walk after lining a hy the complaint? Railfans should espe­ flaw with the new units is that the first one switch behind them; helped change out a Wcially be aware o/" railroad laws and weighs more than designers thought it would. knuckle as well as help carry it (l wouldn't rec­ rights. Would they prefer to be prosecuted? As One other correction, one DE30AC wi ll go ommend this for a non-railroader railfan); re­ for the verbal abuse, the remarks they gave to Pueblo, Colorado, for testing; passenger ported burned-out signals and broken or mal­ were as rude as the ones they got. cars are not included. functioning crossing gates; and even flagged crossings for crews (again, not an appropriate Virginia M. Skinner Doug Hahnel activity for a non-railroader railfan). New York City, New York Via the Internet

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The legislation calls for Am­ damages the railroad would have trak to receive $1.16 billion in tax to pay in liability cases. relief for each of the next two Amtrak had hoped to remove years. To secure enough votes for from law an employee benefit that passage, conferees agreed the continues to pay each employee's money should be conditioned on wages up to six years if a route is reforms. Funding wi ll come from shut down. a rather complicated tax refund "We are not trying to eliminate formula called "net operating loss the practice," said Amtrak's Cliff carryback." Because Amtrak has Black. "We simply want to be able never made a profi t and never to negotiate terms." paid taxes, the refund wi ll be According to Black, the White linked to taxes paid prior to 1971 House frowned on the railroad's by Amtrak's predecessor railroads. attempt to make these changes, Release of funds by the Treasury did not pass the original authoriza­ Department (which has control tion that included these modifica­ because this is a tax refund) is de­ tions, and has now set a mandato­ pendent on an authorization. ry precedent for reform before Amtrak's Manager of Corpo­ Amtrak can see any of the money. rate Communications Kirk Ros­ "The big picture is that if we tron said, "We wi ll receive, as do not get this authorization bill, Carl Swanson soon as President Clinton signs it, which hasn't been passed in the $3.2 billion for capital funding, last three years for labor and lia­ Union Pacific AC4400CW No. 6680 was on stage during an August 6 cele­ which is separated from the oper­ bility, if we don't have the key to bration at General Bectric's Erie, Pennsy lvania plant. The event marked ations side, to pay for the day-to­ open it and use it, then the com­ the 1,000th locomotive equipped with GE's alternating current technology. day benefits, payroll, mainte­ pany is going to go bankrupt and, nance of the trains, and so on." therefore, the jobs for the em­ Rostron added, "There is $2.3 ployees won't be there. So, right Look for the Union Label 60-day period, during which no billion set aside for Amtrak for now, we're really pushing. If walkouts can occur. capital purposes. For us to use there is no conclusion, if that au­ On August 19, Amtrak an­ the $2.3 billion we also had au­ thorization is not passed, Amtrak nounced that if the Brotherhood Brent Haight thorization passed along with could be out of business by of Maintenance-of-Way Employes that which was excluded from the February," said Rostron. strike, the railroad would shut Amtrak's Fiscal Nightmare reconciliation bill. They included According to Rostron, Amtrak down, and 23,000 employees the $2.3 billion for us through a could survive until Congress re­ would be out of a job. What if your rich uncle passed tax credit which was engineered convenes this month. Members of the BMWE per­ away, and left you more than $2 by Senator Roth. The half-cent "We have $150 million to bor­ form the mandatory Federal Rail­ billion, but with a caveat: You proposal was going to run against row in a line of credit. After that, road Administration inspections, must change your ways before opposition, so in order for us to it's over if we do not get the autho­ maintain signals, and more. you can get a nickel. What be able to use those funds we also rization to get our $2.3 billion; and According to Amtrak Director would you do? needed an authorization bill. then we still need our operating of Corporate Communications Cliff subsidy, which is completely differ­ Black, "Rather than run a cobbled ent from the capital, and with that railroad, we would shut down." $2.3 billion in capital and our op­ The main point of contention, erating subsidy on our business according to Black, is the union's plan we have agreed to with desire to have its Amtrak mem­ [Amtrak's Kirk] Rostron warned Congress, we plan to be self-suffi­ bers granted parity with BMWE cient and subsidy-free by 2002. members who work for freight that if the reforms do not become That $2.3 billion will actually al­ railroads- something, Black said, low us to act as a private company Amtrak is incapable of doing. law, Amtrak will be finished does, make investments, upgrade "Freight railroads earned a our capital infrastructure, and help profit of $4 billion last year. As it complete the high-speed rail." is, we have to borrow $80 million Reps. Bud Shuster and Susan this year for payroll." Essentially, that is what some That bill did not make it into the Molinari took credit for getting On August 4, the BMWE de­ members of Congress told Am­ reconciliation. They excluded it the reform legislation to the Pres­ clined mandatory arbitration prof­ trak it must do before it can get because there was too much ident's desk. fered by the ational Mediation $2.3 billion in federal support scrutiny over the labor and liabil­ "This bill is virtually identical to Board and began a 30-day cool­ over the next two years. ity provisions. So, it's kind of like the bipartisan bill we passed in the ing-off period. Clinton signed the omnibus we have the car, but we don't last Congress by an ovelwhelming Without a Presidential Emer­ budget and tax reform bill into have the keys to use it." 406-to-4 vote, which was support­ gency Board, the earliest the union law on August 5. Congress denied Rostron warned that if the re­ ed by the Clinton Administration." could have walked off the job was the half-cent fuel tax proposed by forms do not become law, Amtrak The measure would create an September 5 at 12:01 a.m. Sen. Roth and authorized a con­ will be fi nished. Am trak Emergency Reform On August 21, the White voluted formula based on old tax The biggest issues relate to la­ Board, replacing the current board House intervened, beginning a rates to give Amtrak $2.3 billion. bor and the amount of punitive of directors. The seven nominees a-October 1997 cannot be Amtrak, federal, rail la­ • • FA CT FO LDER bor, nor management representa­ • tives, but must be people who • have technical qualifications, pro­ • fe ssional standing, and have demonstrated expertise in intercity : Fast Facts: General common carrier transportation : ElectriC'S 1,OOOth A.C. and corporate management. • Locomotive Shuster and Molinari claim • that this bill will allow the rail­ • road to run on a more business­ • In August, General Electric • like basis. They believe that the Transportation Systems rolled • measure does not detract from • out the 1,000th locomotive the financial health of the rail re­ • tirement system as Amtrak re­ • equipped with GE's alternat- mains under the Railroad Retire­ • ing current technology. Here's ment system, at the request of la­ a look at the milestone unit. bor during the 104th Congress. : • Ross Capon, president of the • Owner: Union Pacific National Association of Railroad • Mark Sublette Model: AC4400CW Passengers told RAILNEWS that los­ • ing the half-cent proposal did not Brand-new Amtrak P42 No. 102 shows 0" the carrier's new Northeast • Length: 73 feet, two inches • cripple Amtrak. "If the deal gets Corridor paint scheme at Philadelphia's 30th Street Station engine faCili­ Weight: 210 tons (fully fueled • and sanded) made, Amtrak gets $1.15 billion in ty on August 3. The locomotivewas built by General Electric in June 1997. • January 1998 and $1.15 billion in • Continuous Tractive Effort: January 1999. That certainly does • 145,000 pounds. not constitute doom. It should 1999. By the time Amtrak needs freight railroads enhancing long- • Control System: On board help Amtrak survive the 1998 op­ more capital, Amtrak should have distance train economics, and a • microprocessor computers erating-grant squeeze, assuming a a record of success to enable it to high-speed rail project producing : and Harris Locotrol reasonable outcome of the House­ make the case from a greater posi­ $150 million in profits a year. • Senate conference. It should let tion of strength," including "joint "Sure, it would have been nicer • Trucks: High-Adhesion high-speed rail open on time in ventures on express with the to get the half-cent with a sense of • • Other Information: • • 109''111 • • In 1994, UP was one of the • first recipients of AC4400CW • • prototypes. • • UP currently operates more StockClosing Price Index July 17, 1997 • than 650 a.c. GE locomotives. • • • An AC4400CW carries • Closing Price August 21, 1997 • - • more than 5,000 gal lons of == • diesel fuel, enough to power a 3: • 2 • car getting 25 miles per gallon ca - • for more than 125,000 miles. = • = • • The maximum service speed '5 • for an AC4400CW is 75 mph. = • • An AC4400CW can trans­ • � • late 72 tons of its weight into cB • pulling power. • • • An AC4400CW carries 40 • cu bic feet of sand, used to • improve traction on lip­ • • pery rails. • • An AC4400CW can operate : on grades so steep that the • front of the unit will be two • feet higher than the rear. • • • The diesel engine used in the • AC4400CW weighs 20 tons. • • • Source: General Electric • Transportation Systems. RaiiNews·9 BREAKING NE WS �pedite,.

was corrected by welding several large brackets on the pre-produc­ tion engines. The production ver­ Amtrak Carrier sion will incorporate a newly de­ On-time Performance signed turbocharger casing. In early August, GE's engine (OTP), Third Quartet; FY 1997 factory at Grove City, Pennsylva­ (April-June) versus Third Quar­ nia, began work on fou r additional ter FY 1996 (Percent of Am­ pre-production 7HDL 16 engines. trak h'ains operated on time) As of August, AC6000CW or­ ders totaled 112 units: 34 for Carrier OTP OTP CSX, 70 for UP, and eight for 1997 1996 Australian mining railroad BHP. Amtrak Northeast Corridor 89.0 88.4 Carl Swanson Metro-North 88.7 90.7 St. Lawrence & Hudson Show Me the lime 87.8 N/A Canadian Pacific (Soo Line) "Time is money" rings as clearly 85.3 96.5 New England Central Mark Sublette as a train whistle for railroads and their customers. Quite sim­ 84.8 96.2 Amtrak shop forces have converted former Auto-Tl'aintable car 8601 ply, if Amtrak makes time, it San Diego 84.3 81.7 Metra 83.2 NIA into an "Automat" car. The car, seen in Chicago, entered service in July makes money. orfolk Southern 80.4 87.6 and is equipped with tables and several coin-operated vending machines. According to Amtrak's Chair­ man, President, and CEO Thomas Conrail 79.3 66.2 Downs, "The number one con­ Burlington Northern Santa Fe permanence, but even the half­ lars of honest costs that the fare­ cern to our customers is late 76.7 63.3 Canadian National cent proposal was time-limited to box doesn't cover." trains. If we can't get people to five years." Capon asserted, "I their destinations on time, we 76.1 88.3 think organized labor made a con­ Leo King and Brent Haight lose business, which translates in­ Union Pacific 75.6 76.9 scious decision to dump their Am­ to lost revenue. We can't afford So. Cal. Regional Rail Auth. 74.6 N/A trak workers because of some fear GE: Full-scale ACGOOOCW that kind of loss and it's frustrat­ that an Amtrak deal would have a ing when it's easy to identify and Illinois Central 73.0 86.4 negative impact on freight railroad Production in April solve the problem." And the SouthernPacific 72.1 71.9 employees (notwithstanding Re­ problem is evidenced by only a .5 CSX 65.6 69.8 publican acceptance of stonewall Engineers with General Electric increase in on-time arrivals from Canadian National (Grand legislation aimed at preventing believe problems discovered dur­ third-quarter FY 1996 (75.4) to Trunk We stern) 55.4 65.5 such an impact); or is just not ing pre-production testing of the June 1997 (75.9). Vetmont Railway" 88.5 NIA willing to face the issues. In fair­ AC6000CWs have been resolved, Downs traces this marginal in­ ness to labor, we should say they and say the production version of crease to Amtrak's freight partners. ':'Operating on interim sched­ did not introduce the 1995 lan­ the 6,000 h.p. locomotives should Sixty-fou r percent of the third­ ule with temporary speed re­ guage; they supported amend­ begin rolling off the Erie, Pennsyl­ quarter delays resulted from freight strictions ments made to Shuster's original vania, erecting floor in April 1998. train interference, signal problems, Source: Am.trak bill somewhat more pro-labor. No­ Members of the 6,000 h.p. de­ and speed restrictions. Twenty-nine body believes the 1995 bill is what sign team met with reporters at percent were within Amtrak's con­ labor would have written on their GE's Erie, Pennsylvania, plant trol (mechanical problems and pas­ Big Brother is Watching own. However, that doesn't ex­ during an August 6 celebration senger-related delays), and 7 per­ plain why they oppose now what marking the 1,000th locomotive cent were attributed to circum­ Vandals and trespassers, beware. they supported two years ago." built using GE's alternating cur­ stances outside the railroads' con­ The Federal Railroad Administra­ Capon added, "If I was ru nning rent technology. trol such as flooding and highway­ tion has developed new legislation the show, I would give Amtrak As of early August, the 13 rail crossing incidents. to serve as a model for state and maybe $.75 per gallon of federal pre-production AC6000s had Most frustrating were the per­ local governments cracking down gasoline tax, in perpetuity, but con­ logged more than 50,000 hours formances of Canadian National on trespassing and vandalism on ditioned on achievement of certain of running on Union Pacific and (Grand Trunk) and CSX Trans­ railroad property. performance measures and pas­ CSX. Designers said the test pro­ portation, representing a continu­ This legislation makes enter­ sage of reform legislation." Privati­ gram had revealed some prob­ ous decline at 55.4 and 65.6 per­ ing or remaining on a railroad zation is not a viable alternative to lems, as would be expected with cent respectively. righ t-of-way or other railroad federal fu nding, according to the test version of any complex Commuter operator Metro­ property a misdemeanor subject Capon, but a euphemism for shut­ machine. After all, tests are con­ North Railroad and freight carrier to $100 fine, imprisonment up to ting down the system. "I mean, re­ ducted to discover and correct St. Lawrence & Hudson have 30 days, or both. It also makes ally, Amtrak gets around $800 mil­ flaws before production starts. recorded the best times. Conrail stowing away on trains a misde­ lion a year in fe deral fu nds. Even if Early in the program, for ex­ and Burlington Northern & Santa meanor subject to a $1,000 fine, 25 percent of Amtrak funding was ample, GE determined that vibra­ Fe win accolades for most im­ six month in prison, or both. The waste and fraud (which [ don't be­ tion from the turbochargers (the provement, each at 13 percent. legislation specifies persons al­ lieve is the case), that would still 6,000 h.p. 7HDL16 engine has lowed on railroad property and leave several hundred million dol- two of them) was a problem. This Katie Norton restricted areas. lO-October 1997 Jim B. Davis The Jaype Turn on the Camas Prairie Railroad rolls west across the Clearwater River bridge near Spaulding, Idaho, on July 19. The line, which had been owned by Burlington Northern & Santa Fe and Union Pacific, is for sale. New operator Camas Prairie Railroad purchased BNSF's interest in June.

Vandalism amounting to less tion conducted a series of tests tage of the train's tilting technolo­ buckled because of flash flood­ than $500 damage is a misde­ that may result in trimming 30 gy, which has safely been used in ing earlier that evening. Each of meanor subject to restitution, and minutes from the current Talgo Europe for decades. the 16 cars and three of the four if possible, up to 120 hours of train schedule between Portland If the testing goes well, and if locomotives leFt the track, but community service. Vandalism and Seattle. This reduction wou ld WSDOT, Amtrak, BNSF, the Fed­ all remained upright. amounting to more than $500 make it possible for Amtrak and eral Railroad Administration, and Burlington Northern & Santa damage is now a felony, subject to WISDOT to offer a new daily the Oregon Department of Trans­ Fe immediately implemented a $10,000 fine, 10 years in prison, mid-day round trip on the Port­ pOl·tation agree, the Talgo sched­ speed restrictions on all 33,000 or both. If serious bodily injury or land-Seattle corridor in time for ule could be trimmed by a half­ miles of its track whenever flash death results, the perpetrator is the holiday travel season. hour as early as late October. flood warnings are in effect: 40 su bj ect to a $20,000 fi ne, 20 The test program used the Tal­ mph for Freight trains and 20 mph years in prison, or both. It is now go set from the Seattle-Portland Carl Swanson for passenger trains. a fe lony to steal or receive rail­ Mount Adams, trains 753 and Severe winds of up to 70 mph road freight. These acts are sub­ 752. During the testing, Superlin­ Mother Nature 2, BNSF 0 may be to blame for an August 17 ject to a $5,000 fine, five years in ers substituted on the Mount derailment involving 30 cars of prison, or both. Adams. The Talgo, one of two It is likely that Mother Nature will eastbound B SF intermodal train sets currently used in the Pacific be blamed for two major derail­ on the Wichita Falls Subdivision. Brent Haight Northwest, underwent testing to ments that occurred on Burling­ The accident damaged 1,000 feet determine if it could be operated ton Northern & Santa Fe trackage of track and closed a section of Amtrak Eyes Additional safely at higher speeds on the during August. U.S. 287 for six hours. The con­ Seattle-Portland Train curves of Burlington Northern & On August 9, Amtrak's ductor suffered minor injuries. Santa Fe's main line. Currently, Southwest Chief derailed in As of press time, the accident Starting August 4, and continuing Talgos slow for curves, much as Kingsman, Arizona, injuring 121 was still under investigation. for three weeks, the Washington conventional trains must. This re­ passengers. The train, en route State Department of Transporta- quirement does not take advan- to Chicago, hit a bridge that had Brent Haight RaiiNews·ll SPECIAL REPORT l{peditep

semblance of standardization from its anything and everything collection of hand-me-down rolling stock, Amtrak replaced most of them with Armour yellow Union Pacific sleepers. Change became the train's only constant. rt seemed that each new timetable brought with it a new routing between Chicago and Cincinnati. In 1974, the George Washington name was dropped in favor of fames Whitcomb Riley. There was even open speculation that Amtrak would seek to end the Tidewater Virginia service. Those who championed Railpax legislation in Congress, faced with massive train-off petitions follow­ ing the removal of most U.S. mail from the na tion's passenger trains, spoke of saving and pre­ serving existing service and routes. Amtrak was obligated to comply with the finalized route system and end point city pairs identified by the Secretary of Transportation on May 1, 1971. Wiley M. Bryan, Doug Riddell collection Since the C&O route was not generating satisfactory ridership, & O White Sulphul' Sp l'ings E8 4028 in 1975 Amtrak decided to cross Chesapeake hio 1016 sleeper trails into Williamsburg,0' Virginia,Twiligh tin Sh Aprilol'eli 19nel'.70. the James River and test the wa­ AHer November 1971, sleepers vanished 'rom the route until the recent inaugural the ters of the Hampton Roads travel market by reviving through ser­ The First Run of Amtrak's only the George Wa shington sur­ Boston-Chicago train (for a yeal; at vice to Chicago over Norfolk & vived to carry on the proud tradi­ any rate), and the Tidewater Vir­ Western's parallel Pocahontas Twilight Shol'elinel' tion of C&O passenger service. In ginia service was reduced to a fee­ route from Norfolk to Cincinnati. the first six months of Amtrak's ble, one- or two-car accommoda­ The short-lived Mountaineer, was Prior to the july II, 1997, inaugu­ tenure, very few changes had been tion, jokingly said to resemble Pet­ combined with the Riley at Rus­ ration of Amtrak's daily NorthEast made to the train other than substi­ ticoat function 's Hooterville-Pixley sell, Kentucky through 1977. The Direct 7i.vilight Shoreliner, the last tution of a normally assigned, Cannonball. To the contrary, with a results were still unimpressive. time anyone boarded a sleeper at lightweight, green Penn Central Great forthern; orthern Pacific; Apparently forgotten was the quaint brick Georgian passen­ baggage car. (Amtrak passed on Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; or &W and Atlantic Coast Line's ger station in the restored colonial C&O's assortment of head-end Burlington Northern dome coupled pooled service between Norfolk capital of Williamsburg, Virginia, equipment which was almost ex­ to baggage/dorm/lounge No. 1351 and the Northeast Corridor via a was November 13, 1971. Though clusively heavyweight). Even after from B&O's Columbian, the Tide­ connection at Petersburg, Vir­ operated by Amtrak, the 10/6 still being combined with Penn Cen­ water section (Nos. 98/99, later ginia. One can only guess what bore the familiar Chesapeake & tral's fames Whitcomb Riley at 45 11452) more readily possessed might have been had the Moun­ Ohio "for progress" logo, retained Cincinnati for through service to all of the qualities of a pocket taineer headed north to Wash­ its gleaming fluted flanks, and was Chicago on july 12 that first yeal; sh'eamlinel; except a sleeper. ington, instead of west to Chica­ resplendent in the road's classic en­ Nos. 50/5 1 still remained a C&O Sacrilege! The road that go. [ submitted a proposal to di­ chantment blue livery with yellow train-the ghost of the George made fa mous the slogan "Sleep vert the Newport News section letterboards. Trailing a matching Wa shington, for all practical in­ like a killen " operating a train of the fames Whitcomb Riley to Chessie E8, that last sleeping car tents and purposes-although it wi th no sleeping car? the Northeast via the Richmond, was very likely the storage battery­ was only known eastbound by that Not only did the C&O 10/6s Fredericksburg & Potomac Rail­ powered, steam heat-equipped name-westbound it was the Ri­ immediately disappear from Char­ road at Richmond to Amtrak City of Ashland, No. 2624, from ley. Even so, the sleeper, diner, a lottesvil le-Newport News main­ management in 1972, but since the mammoth post \VWIl order coach, and the baggage car contin­ line service, but the through sec­ the carrier was struggling simply placed by very optimistic passenger ued to Newport ews, while an en­ tion as well. Because their non­ to survive, expansion was hardly train proponent and Chesapeake & gine and one or two coaches were standard floor plan flew in the an option. Ohio CEO, Robert R. Young. forwarded to Washington, D.C. , af­ face of convention (their six bed­ just as times seemed bleakest, Where once the FFV and the ter the split at Charlottesville, per­ rooms were located mid-car, af­ Amtrak announced that it would Sportsman joined it in burnishing formed in the shadow of Thomas fording tony patrons a smoother, indeed connect jamestown and Ply­ the rails to the port of Hampton Jefferson's Monticello. quieter ride), they were with­ mouth Rock with a new daylight Roads, by the time Railpax legisla­ On November 14, 1971, how­ drawn from service, and hastily train called the Colonial just in tion was signed into law in 1970, evel; Nos. 50/5 1 became a through sold or scrapped. Seeking some time for the nation's bicentennial 12-0ctober 1997 celebration. New General Electric ed with Friday and Sunday after­ to lure passengers to Chessie's ture while leaning against a cut of P30CH locomotives would speed noon departures, and confirmed rails. Patrons entering the fi rst hoppers. (We're talking about the Amfleet coaches from the land of that a market existed, but unfortu­ class Tw ilight Lounge from their middle of a major classifi ca tion Paul Revere to the home of Patrick nately, it required a dedicated set adjacent sleeper or Custom Class yard.) This man was nearly Henry. Unfortunately, the Riley's of equipment for just those two coach will find silverware, fresh mowed down by an inbound coal ewport News-Richmond-Char­ days when rolling stock was sorely flowers on crisp white linen train. This brazen disregard for lottesville stub would be sacrificed. needed elsewhere. tablecloths, and complementary railroad property tarni he the On June 15, 1976, Amtrak pre­ The plan to extend the Night refreshments and beverages. hobby we all share. miered not only the Colonial, but Owl had been sent aloft like a tri­ (There is a separate lounge for Later, the setting sun silhouet­ added an Amfleet-equipped day­ al balloon year after year, and coach passengers.) ted the tall buildings of Richmond light train to its East Coast sched­ summarily shot down just like So at 9 a.m., July 11, I stood ahead as I blew the horn to warn ule, connecting New York and Sa­ soap opera star Susan Lucci's proudly dressed in h·aditional pin­ yard crews working at Fulton, and vannah, Georgia-the Palmetto. perennial Emmy nomination for striped bibs on the platform of broke the eight-car train hard, For my efforts in helping plan the best actress. Using the Night Richmond's Amtrak station await­ screaming through the series of new service, I was the guest of hon­ Owl's otherwise idle equipment to ing the Twilight Shoreliner's arrival. curves on the perimeter of the or that day, along with Virginia serve the eastern Virginia corridor I had come full circle in 40 years. yard. Traversing the long riverside Governor Linwood Holton, when was quite logical, and its feasibili­ No, this was not 8:30 a.m. at Main viaduct through the heart of the the single coach consist of the last ty had been kicked around for a Street Station (though I would business district, I waved at a westbound Riley tiptoed past the decade. Doing so, however, meant guide the Shoreliner past its land­ young boy on Chimborazzo Hill, throngs viewing the Colonial on much earlier departures from mark clock tower a few minutes where my grandmother and I display at Williamsburg, and literal­ Boston and Washington to facili­ later, and hopefully in late 1998 would stand and return my grand­ ly disappeared into the sunset. Still, tate servicing and turning of the bring it to a halt there to board father's greeting from the rear of the Co lonial's aLI-daylight schedule equipment in Virginia, thus upset­ passengers once again). I was not the George Wa shington as it required no sleeper. ting and altering its traditional an excited seven year old holding slowed down and bore right at Ri­ That both new trains remain gate times at intermediate points my grandfather's kerosene lanterns vanna Junction to make its grand tremendously successful some 20 where its sleeper was still used by as we watched the George Wa sh­ enh·ance into Main Street Station. years later is a tribute to well­ some overnight business travelers. ington sprint into the elevated Our arrival at Amtrak's depot planned market research. Amtrak at Richmond was no less grand recognized that while both C&O this July 11, 1997. We broke and N&W operated from the mid­ through a ribbon stretched across Atlantic to the Midwest, the major­ num ber four track, as I brought ity of travelers departing Hampton Using the Night Ow/'s otherwise idle the train to a halt at 6: 15 p.m. Our Roads wanted to go north. The arrival was timed perfectly for the Co lonial filled that void. Likewise, equipment to serve the fast-growing local evening newscasts; TV cam­ the schedules of trains destined for eras captured the contrast of the the Sunshine State from New York Virginia corridor was quite logical fife and drum corps from Colonial were predicated on departures and Williamsburg and the rakish lines arrivals in Manhattan and Miami, of the P42. Passengers and re­ but offered middle-of-the-night ser­ porters flooded the platform; bal­ vice for most localities in between. At the most unlikely of times, trainshed. Instead, completing the loons drifted above, and I was pre­ The Palmetto tapped a ripe market in 1997, pressed to extract as arc, I was the regularly assigned en­ sented with the banner as I of small- to medium-sized south­ much revenue as possible from gineer of Amtrak's new train. climbed down from the cab. eastern cities and towns largely ig­ every available source in defer­ When it stopped and the doors "How does it feel to run a big nored by the airlines. Given the ence to dwindling federal funds opened, Luther Goode wasn't powerful locomotive, pulling a only alternative (two-lane high­ and an unsympathetic Congress, there to place the step box on the train full of people like that?" ways), residents of Georgia and the the carrier decided to expand its platr-orm, but [ know he was asked WRVA radio's Lila Young. Carolinas flocked to Amtrak. Tidewater Virginia service, while watching. He'd have been proud "Great," I responded. "Beats The Colonial's morning depar­ at the same time reincarnating of Carl, Kathy, Luanne, Donna, sitting up there in the studio over­ ture and evening arrival in the the sleepy old Night Owl as a vi­ Ron, Va ughn, and the other on looking Main Street Station, Hampton Roads area did suit pas­ brant, well-packaged, well-mar­ board personnel from the Boston watching the train go by, and just sengers who could afford to spend keted, first-class, overnight East crew base who add just the right wishing I was on it." a day traveling to and from their Coast train. touch of class to this train. My son, Ryan, wrestled my destinations. But for shipyard em­ The Tw ilight Shoreliner was As I accelerated the big 4,200 grip from me and grinned. I hope ployees who worked until 3 p.m., born. h.p. GE P42 up Airport Hill, it he'll remember this day as fondly or the thousands of military per­ I n a twist of irony, this new dawned on me that while I wa as I recall the frequent trips sonnel billeted in the area with service to Boston would restore used to operating over this route, aboard the George Wa shington weekend passes commencing on sleeping car service to the Hamp­ it had always been in the after­ wi th my grandfather. Friday afternoon, putting off travel ton Roads peninsula that another noon or at night. This train almost I t was time to go home now until the following morning's train Boston train had taken away 26 duplicated the George Wa shing­ and dream about future trips was not an option. Likewise, be­ years earlier. That old 10/6 has ton 's schedule, making it ideal for aboard the Ttvilighl Shoreliner. Its cause of the Colonial's late evening now been replaced by Amtrak's being photographed-and there lucky patrons too might dream, arrival and early morning depar­ state-of-the-art Viewliner sleepers seemed to be a railfan at every lulled to sleep by the clickity-clack ture, it was necessary for tourists with in-room movies, music, road crossing and around every of the rails marking the paths once wishing to spend a single day visit­ showers, and other amenities­ curve. At Newport News, one trod by presidents and patriots. ing Colonial Williamsburg to stay some of the very attributes that even followed us around the wye two nights in a hotel. Amtrak flirt- Robert R. Young had envisioned track, and stopped to take a pic- Doug Riddell RaiiNews -13 COMMENTARY

From the Cab ...With Doug Riddell

News, Virginia, although my tour of duty ends at Rich­ mond, where it began at 9:35 a.m., when I signed up for train 94, the Old Dominion. With any kind of luck, we'd be in Richmond at 7:45 p.m., and off duty by 8 The Boys' Club p.m. My wife, Sandy, and son, Ryan, would have long since finished dinnel; so I'd have to grab something on the way home. As is the case with many railroaders, meals at home with family are rare, as evidenced by my fast food physique.

FORGET THE OLD IMAGE OF THE CONDUCTOR, standing on the platform, handing up orders to the engineer in the cab of his waiting locomotive. There are no more last-minute train-side conferences, where a check of timepieces, onion skin flimsies, a clearance card, and a highball were the only requirements for proceeding. In keeping with a good practice started by CSX, and later adopted by Amtrak and most other railroads, formal crew briefings are held before going out to the train, to insure that everyone knows exactly what's to be done, by whom, and how. A checklist review guar­ antees that all of the necessary written authority has been obtained to operate over the route. In these days of interdivisional and multi-railroad runs (not just by Amtrak, but by freight railroads exercising trackage rights), several sets of dispatchers' bulletins, superintendents' bulletins, division notices, and vari­ ous movement forms, it is imperative that all crew members sit down together and make sure that every­ one is "with the program." Doug Riddell "Nothing to affect us on Conrail. Latest dispatch­ er's bulletin is 4- 146, with no form Os according to AEM7 K train dispatcher Strong at 4:50 p.m.," Rogers began. Under an impressive array of catenary wire, an passes Tower, theO control2, center for train movements into and out of Union Station in Washington, D.C., on ctober 1998. "All work orders are dead on the Richmond, Freder­ icksburg & Potomac Subdivision, only two speed re­ strictions, and nothing on the Richmond Terminal ter the licking 1 took in my customary Friday according to CSX Dispatcher SMR-Steve Reed. �afternoon gin game in the crew lounge at Riddell, you've got engine 394 with six cars. The Washington Union Station, 1 could easily have club's on the rear." oday, the been convinced that we were playing with a marked "Do we have club work at Fredericksburg?" I deck. It was a relief to look at my "railroad-approved" asked, contemplating how I would need to spot the Seiko wrist watch, announce that it was time for me train nearly two hours down the road. hand at the to sign up for my run to Richmond, Virginia, and "Alexandria, Fredericksburg, and at Ashland," he T throw in my hand. replied. "Typical Friday: we're packed." throttle or A few moments later, as my Assistant Conductor I picked up one of three white phones in the sign­ Richard Morris and 1 reviewed our paperwork before up room and called K Tower to find out where my en­ our crew's job briefing, Conductor Pete Rogers gine was located. the ones giv­ couldn't help but needle me. "Quick now," I joked with Train Director Danny "To hear them boys from New York, you and Lady Moffitt in my best TV quiz show announcer's voice, ing signals Luck aren't on speaking terms. In fact, they said you "For a year's supply of genuine Amtrak seat checks might as well be total strangers the way you played," and nomination for honorable mention as the employ­ he laughed. "Fifty-two cards, and the very one you ee of the month, tell me where I could be found if I are just as need is always on the bottom of the deck." were the engine due out on train 99?" "Where'd you get your degree in psychology, Don "On the head of the train, I hope?" he replied likely to be Rickles University?" I countered. smugly. "Isn't that where you usually find itT Friday afternoon rush hour is as busy as it gets at "Sorry," I answered. "That's not the answer we're Union Station with departing Metroliners, NorthEast looking for, but as a consolation prize, you'll receive a those 01 a Direct Service, MARC and Virginia Railway Express complimentary six pack of Amtrak Lite spring water. locals, and long-distance trains such as the Capitol Remember, when you're subject to call, only Amtrak woman Limited and Silver Star. Everyone wants to get out of Lite will legally quench that thirst." town, the politicians as well as the public. I was on duty "You've got the 394. It's at the bottom of 27 track," at 4:45 p.m., carded to depart at 5:45 p.m. on train 99, he chuckled. ''Wby'd you ever get out of broadcasting the Ti dewater. Train 99 was "on time" according to the anyway? You must have been a riot on the air." monitors in the W. Graham Claytor Concourse, but the "\ hated poverty," I said. crew clerk said Amtrak's Arrow computer system re­ Just as Danny promised, at the south end of 27 ported it 10 minutes late out of Wilmington, Delaware. track sat the 394, an accumulation of oil and dirt The train itself runs through from Boston to Newport coating the sides of the aging F40, in which someone 14·October 1997 had fingered the words, "Wash me" and Nurses and hostesses aboard passenger reason: seniority. If you don't have seniority, "Scrapyard bound." Every time I climb aboard trains were nothing new, they predated Pearl you don't work, and if the railroads aren't hir­ an F40, I wonder if this will be the last time. Harbor. But when the boys answered Uncle ing, you can't establish seniority. Rail passenger The noisy Electro-Motive workhorses were to Sam's call and went ofT to war, the fairer sex service began declining at the end of WWTl; have been put out to pasture months ago, but donned gauntlet gloves, high-top shoes, and correspondingly, with few soldiers and less ma­ glitches in the electronics of the newer P40s bib overalls and became hostlers. Black-and­ teriel to transport, not only were railroads not and P42s have stayed their execution. white photographs and newsreel footage docu­ hiring, but many railroaders were furloughed. "How do you like the new engines?" I'm mented their role, and these images were sent Except for a short reversal in fortunes because often asked by railfans and railroaders alike. overseas to our men in uniform-not only to of the war in Korea, almost no new employees "Their cab is sure comfortable and quiet," I let them know that everyone was involved in were hired from 1945 until the early 1960s. answer diplomatically. Getting used to them is the war effort, but to remind them what they Railroads in the western United States ap­ going to take a while. Right now, when I'm try­ were fighting for. But female railroaders were pear to have led the way, hiring women in train ing to spot a P40 or P42 at a short station plat­ much more than a publicity gimmick-they did and engine service in the mid-1 960s, although form, or attempting to couple one onto a train, I yeoman's work. After VJ Day, the lads returned Barbara Jean Hopkins, the first woman locomo­ feel like someone trying to drive an automobile to their old jobs, and the ladies, turning in tive engineer to die in the line of duty, was a while wearing a blindfold and boxing gloves. I their overalls, returned to theirs. Baltimore & Ohio employee. Her train was grew up running mostly EMD products-E8s, With the exception of the traditional on­ struck head-on while standing at Orleans Road, SDP40Fs, and F40s-in passenger service. [ ran board hostesses and/or nurses, women re­ West Virginia, on February 12, 1980. The other General Electric P30CHs rarely (thank heaven). mained a rarity on the railroads-for a practical train, a freight, apparently ran a stop signal.

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I'm just sorry that more don't take ad­ was hurt. It hurt me too." Division, where Hopkins had worked. In 1987, vantage of it." "She's not going to be a railroader, I take Tressler came to Amtrak as an engineel; where Born near Meyersdale, Pennsylvania, in the it?" I said. she and I work together today. Actually, I work shadow of Sand patch, Rebecca Tressler now "I want her to go to college and get a job fo r her, since she is an road foreman of engines. supervises Amtrak engineers blazing up and that's not only physically challenging, but "I got sick on my first train ride," Tressler down the Northeast Corridor from Philadel­ mentally challenging as well," Carrie said. reminisced. "It was on a tourist line, the Cass phia to Washington. Her territory extends as "Now that you mentioned it," I joked, Scenic Railroad. I didn't like it at all." far south as Virginia. "working yard jobs means that you save a bun­ How did she end up working for B&O? "Just last week, I was doing an evaluation dle since you don't have to join a health spa "A friend working for B&O as an assis­ of an engineer who told me 'I don't know how for exercise, right?" tant conductor told me about openings on much you know. ' I informed him that I'd been "Right," she laughed. "Since you have to the railroad," Tressler said, "so I applied. running Amtrak passenger trains for 10 years, take a physical to determine that you can in­ Since I was a college graduate, they accepted and before that, I ran freight trains in territory deed do what is required of you on this job, my application to become an assistant engi­ so rugged that it required helper service. I've you can't come out here later on, lay down on neer/engineer trainee. The idea of not being paid my dues. He got real quiet." the job, and say, 'Hey, I'm not able do this.' confined to an office, working outdoors My opportunity to speak to Carrie Brooks The guys know you're capable of doing it; they made the job sound attractive." and her mother, Ann Clauson, came the very expect you to do it, and you have to do it. It's next day, when I entered the crew base lunch not always easy either. ]'11 go get a crowbar or BECKY TRESSLER WAS ONE OF TWO females in room at Washington with my son, Ryan. Ann sledge hammer, if I have to, rather than ask engine service on the Cumberland Division in was due out on a Metroliner, and Carrie's crew anyone for help." 1980. Two years later, there were 12 women in was eating. "How do the guys you work with handle engine service and 20 working as trainmen. "I told her you were legit," Ann Clauson having a woman, or women, on their crew?" Nonetheless, single gender facilities were the laughed. I asked. norm, and this surfaced as a minor problem "I didn't know who you were at fi rst," "It's all in how the woman handles it," she and provocation in Becky's early employment. Brooks explained. "When you whipped out quickly pointed out. "The fe llows treat me "After about three years, when I stood for that camera and asked to take my picture, I fine. In fact, knowing that I was Ann Clau­ daylight work with some of the more senior thought maybe you were kind of a weirdo or son's daughter, they were even a bit protective men, they griped about the fact that I was al­ something. But my engineer, Jay, said that you of me at first." lowed to use the restroom in the supervisor's really do write for a magazine and take a lot of Her impression of the railroad after her office," she said. "They said I was getting pref­ pictures of trains." first day? erential treatment. Well, they had this huge After Brooks finished her meal, the four of "Scary, dangerous," she said. "I could see 10ckel'1showerlrestroom facility for men, but us headed out to 19 track where I pho­ right away that I could be hurt if I wasn't care­ nothing [or women. I had to be allowed to go tographed the mother-daughter railroaders be­ fu l, whether I was a man or a woman." somewhere, didn't I?" side the AEM7 Clauson would handle over the I questioned her further, wondering how a Tressler's leadership abilities became ap­ corridor to New York at 125 mph. woman without a connection to the railroad parent to her fellow employees when she "You know," Carrie Brooks said, "It's to ease her into the boys' club might fare. served as an officer in the railroad employee's strange, but Mom and I have never worked "How's she treated?" credit union. When working on the B&O, she on the same crew together in the three years "It depends. If you're one of the guys, if was also elected local chair of Division 934 of that I've been out here. It's such a big place, you do your part, the fellows respect you, and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and there are so many people working here you get along just fine. I didn't come out here representing engineers working between Cum­ that we've never been matched up on the as a crusader-you know, singing 'I am wom­ berland and Brunswick, Maryland. same assignment." an, hear me roar. J am invincible.' [ just want­ "[ was on the line between being the "[ hope we will some day, " Ann said, look­ ed a job with a good paycheck." youngest engineer and oldest assistant engi­ ing proudly at her daughter. "I'm sure we will." "How about working with other women on neer each week for quite a while. Every Sun­ The next day, Sunday, when I arrived from the same crew?" [ continued. day, I had to compute the mileage, determine Riclm10nd on train 86, Brooks was working, "There's camaraderie," Carrie responded. how many engineer and assistant engineer po­ and we had a chance to chat between moves. "Lisa Harris is one of the few female engineers sitions were justified [according to the work­ "This isn't your first job, is it?" I asked. working here in the terminal, and [ think she's ing agreement], and either demote to assistant "No," Brooks answered. "I've tended bar, one of the best." engineer or promote myself to engineer." worked odds-and-ends jobs for the most part." What does she dislike most about working Is it easier now for women to be hired and "How'd you end up working for the rail­ for Amtrak? advance on the railroad? road?" I inquired. "Were there any other rail­ "The politics," she said. "1 wish we could "It's a hard job. It's physically demand­ roaders in the family besides your mom?" be removed from them. J hope we get the half­ ing," Tressler said. "Today's women have the "I've got a brother and a sister, but other cent per gallon tax on gasoline so that we can than Mom, we're not railroaders," she said. concentrate on operating a railroad to erve "Mom told me to get a real job, that she was people, and worry less about economizing to tired of supporting me. I have an l1-year-old stay in business. DURHAM BOOKS daughter. When I used to work the road up to "I don't think that my complaints and con­ READING New York and back, I could take her along, cerns are any different that any other railroad­ and she liked it. Now that I work the yard, she er-safety, pay, job security. In that respect, hates it. She can 't understand why she can't we're all alike." come out there on the yard engine with me." "Hey, Carrie," a voice called. "Lunch is over. 51 72 "Since men traditionally have left the kids We've got a move to make. Better cut it short." Black pages & II x 8.5 at home with their wives, child care has nev­ Regardless o[ our age, our gender, or why White Softbound er been much of a problem for them. How we choose to work for Amtrak, we are rail­ Phoros about you?" I asked. roaders with an important job to do. While "Oh, I don't know about that," she said, the presence of females in the modern rail­ smiling. "I see your son with you all the road operating workforce may be termed rev­ TRAINS AND LOCOMOTIVES time. Me? There are babysitters. Mom helps olutionary by some, Becky Tressler, Ann STEAM 1931·1958 out, which is rather amazing when you con­ Clauson, Carrie Brooks, and thousands of FROM THE COLLECTION OF R.K. DURHAM sider we both work for Amtrak and have other women holding positions formerly re­ FIRST Tll\llE IN PRINT crazy schedules. served exclusively for men simply see rail­ Send check or m/o (or 14.95 + $2.00 s/h ($4.00 C,nadaho: Durham, P. O. 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ICON VIDEO PRODUCTIONS PO. Box 3873, Thousand Oaks, CA 91359 TRAC� BULLETIN RailNews· rl ngton Northern Santa Fe SUBMISSIONS: Articles, news items, and pho- Bu i tographs are welcome and should be sent to our Wis­ & consin editorial office. RAIL EWS does not assume re- sponsibility for the safe return of material. Payment is made upon publication. LOCOMOTIVES builders. Another 22 SD70MACs and 10 DASH 9-44CWs were expected in July. Railroad Columnists New Paint Former Frisco GP40s 3040-3064 were rounded up in the Pacific orthwest in early AMTRAK-Leo King P. O. Box 379, Waukesha, WI 53187 During July, Burlington Northern & Santa Fe August and sent to Kansas City for delivery to E-mail: Train1812®Woridnet.att.net directed General Electric to modify the red­ Kansas City Southern. The last locomotives (Amtrak West) Dick Stephenson and-silver Warbonnet paint scheme being ap­ ordered by Frisco were returned to their 72 19 Sununitrose St., Tujunga, CA 91042-1942 plied to its 170-unit order of 700-c1ass DASH lessor, which in turn sent them to RailTex's In­ BNSF (AT&SF)-Michael W. Blaszak 9-44CWs. Instead of centering the words diana & Ohio Railway for use on the fo rmer 211 South Leitch Ave., La Grange, IL 60525 "Santa Fe" in the yellow-and-black nose her­ Detroit, Toledo & Ironton. E-mail: [email protected] ald, "BNSF" is being applied-stretched out Natural gas-powered locomotives appear to BNSF (BN)-Karl Rasmussen to match the design contours. Burlington have an uncertain future on BNSF. In 1991- 11449 Goldenrod St. l\rw, Coon Rapids, MN 55448 Northern & Santa Fe lettering will appear in 92, BN converted SD40-2s 7149 and 7890 to CANADIAN PACIFIC-Karl Rasmussen black (using the same typeface as the long­ operate on either liquefied natural gas (carried 1 1449 Goldenrod St. NW, Coon Rapids, MN 55448 hood lettering), The design of the "cigar between the units in a tender) or diesel fuel. In CANADIAN NATIONAL-Mike Cleary band" will not be changed. Reportedly, the 1996, the LNG refueling site in Staples, Min­ 565 Mariner Way, Woodbury, MN 55129 first locomotives painted with the new letter­ nesota, shut down when BNSF and Air Prod­ CENTRAL OREGON & PACIFIC-Daniel J. Sheets ing were 718 and 722. llCtS could not agree on a price or a permit. 220 I Brittany Dr., Eugene, OR 97405 The railroad is considering unspecified Since then, the pair of specially painted units E-mail: [email protected] changes to the orange-and-green merger has been rUlU1ing on diesel fuel, and BNSF is COMMUTER/TRANSIT-Julian Wo linsky scheme before the final 70 DASH 9-44CWs considering converting them back to garden­ P. O. Box 379, Waukesha, WI 53187 from this year's order hit GE's paint shop. Ob­ variety SD40-2s. Former Santa Fe MK 1200G CONRAIL-George Fletcher servers have been dismayed at how quickly gas-powered switchers continue working on 16 Edlie Ave., No. 2, East Norwalk, CT 06855 units from the 1996 order faded and retained the Los Angeles Junction Railway (BNSF sub­ E-mail: [email protected] grime. An internal report places the last 70 sidiary), but their lease is up soon, and it may CSX TRANSPORTATION-Mark Sublette units in the 4700 class, but officially BNSF said not be renewed. 2119 Reynolds St., Falls Church, VA 22043-1609 that paint and numbering for the final 70 had Despite Fort Worth's decree that BNSF GENESEE & WYOMING-Mike Zollitsch not been determined. Incidentally, the official freight cars will be painted mineral brown, 37 Taft Ave., Lancaster, NY 14086 name for the orange-and-green paint is the Havelock Shops released sugar hoppers in BN E-mail: [email protected] Heritage scheme, not the Rainbow Warrior. green through early August. Havelock was also ILLINOIS CENTRAL-Erik Coleman The first SD40-2 to wear the Heritage preparing to apply much bigger BNSF heralds to 2728 Hetitage Dr., Champaign, [L 61821-2378 scheme was BN 7079, which had been repainted cars-65 inches in diameter as op­ E-mail: [email protected] wrecked at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, in posed to 19 inches through 37 inches. Heralds KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN-Michael Hasbargen 1996. The unit was repaired by VMV at Padu­ are cut from adhesive-backed plastic by a sign 1718 King Eider Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47906 cah and repainted in early August. machine driven by a personal computet; allow­ MODERN POWER-Sean Graham-White During June, BNSF reported receiving 17 ing the shop to make them just about any size. 1816 S. Kenilworth Ave., Belwyn, IL 60402-1613 SD70MACs and 10 DASH 9-44CWs from the The heralds are expected to last seven years. E-mail: [email protected] MONTANA RAIL LINK-David A. Franz OPERATIONS P. O. Box 379, Waukesha, WI 53187 MIDWEST REGIONALS­ Argentine Congestion (CC&P and IAIS) Dave Kroeger 5720 Johnson Ave. SW, Cedar Rapids, IA 52404 Crucial to operation of BNSF's manifest (All others) Andrew S. Nelson freight service is the efficient operation of 341 S. Main, Pearl City, IL 61062 newly rebuilt Argentine Yard. However, com­ NORFOLK SOUTHERN-Chris To th puter problems prevented the $95 million yard P.O. Box 30 I, Spencer, OH 44275 from sorting cars as quickly as planned. Ac­ E-mail: [email protected] cording to yard crews, computers controlling SHORT LINES EAST-Ken Berg the hump could not weigh each car, determine P. O. 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3 2829 LEFT: Heavily damaged Burlington Northern & Santa Fe GP 9M No. was a sorry sight on May 1 G, as it limped toward the Livingston Rebuild Center in Livingston, Montana. RIGHT: But by July, No. 2829, resplendent in orange and green, was ready to resume revenue service.

Despite these problems, BNSF began shift­ Trinidad. Freight from southeastern Colorado timetable, southward Highline trains are west­ ing traffic into Argentine in late July. By July now moves on Kansas City-Albuquerque man­ bounds and northward trains eastbounds. 23, the yard was building trains for former ifests M KCKABQ 1 and M ABQKCK 1. By the end of July, BNSF announced that BN destinations. Increasing Central Corridor traffic caused the new north-south trains were averaging 40 Responding to UP's new trains between BNSF to restore through freight service be­ cars in length versus an expected 30 cars. Ex­ Memphis, Dallas, and California, BNSF issued tween Denver and Riverbank, California, July tra trains appeared as early as July 30. a press release announcing its own service im­ 14. Trains are symboled M DENRRBI and M On July 21, BNSF announced that the win­ provements in this corridor. According to the RRBDEN I. Previously BNSF trains on the ner of the Pensacola, Florida, line sale compe­ release, BNSF now offers twice-daily premium Central Corridor had originated and terminat­ tition was StatesRail of Dallas, which agreed train service between both northern and ed at Provo, Utah. Through trains average 50- to buy the 139-mile branch from Kimbrough, Southern California, Dallas, and Memphis 80 cars out of Denver and often rate helpers Alabama, for undisclosed terms. The new rail­ with shorter transit times. up the Front Range: a pair of units cut two­ road will be called Alabama & Gulf Coast No new transcontinental trains were added thirds of the way toward the rear or a "Joint Railway. Closing is set for early fa ll. StatesRaii to achieve these results. Instead, BNSF in­ Line" helper set shoving on the rear. will re-open the former Frisco trackage be­ creased frequencies, tightened running times, tween Atmore, Alabama, and Cantonment, and added connections to existing service. LINE SALES Florida, which BN had mothballed because of Four hours were cut from the schedule of bridge problems in favor of trackage rights eastbound Z LACMEM (former 896) from Highline Trains Roll over CSX between those points. Hobart Ya rd to Harvard, Arkansas, by shift­ A July 15 sale conveyed 92 miles of the ing its Alliance traffic to Q LACMEM (former When the Keddie-Biebel� California, Highline former BN A Line Sub from north of Will­ 894), which now runs five days per week (up of former Western Pacific became BNSF prop­ bridge (near Portland) to Tongue Point, Ore­ from four). This train drops the Alliance cars erty July IS, BNSF trains were ready to begin gon, three miles east of Astoria, to Portland at Clovis, New Mexico; they are toted to daily operations between Barstow, California, & Western Railroad. This Genesee & Texas by the Z CLOALT. New trains Z STO­ and Klamath Falls, Oregon. Lumber for Wyoming subsidiary already operates 54 BAR and Q STOBAR provide expedited con­ Southern California and Arizona construction miles of former BN lines south of Portland. nections from Stockton. is expected to be the primary commodity The price was not disclosed. Westbound, the primary Memphis-Califor­ moved by these trains. Internal B SF correspondence indicates nia trains are Z MEMLAC (former 698) and Z Trains operating over the old Oregon Trunk the Bangor and Harbor Line Su bs west of MEMRIC (former 699). The latter train drops still have cabooses. Generally, the southbound Centralia, Washington, have been sold. The L.A. cars at Barstow for connection Z BAR­ train runs over the High line and through the last day of BNSF operation was scheduled for LAC. Westbound Alliance-California traffic Feather River Canyon during daylight, while August 29. However, by press time, the buyer runs to Barstow in Q ALTCLO trains and is the northbound runs at night. Under the had not been publicly identified. folded into California trains at Clovis. The long-awaited Triple Crown RoadRail­ er trains serving Texas were set to begin Au­ gust 17. However, they will operate over the former Santa Fe from Kansas City rather than the former Frisco from St. Louis. Southbound train Q KCKSAGI will operate Sundays, Mondays, We dnesdays, and Thursdays, leav­ ing Argentine Yard at 2:30 a.m. and arriving at Saginaw Yard near Fort Worth at 10 p.m. the next day. Train Q SAGKCK1 will be its northbound counterpart beginning August 18, leaving Saginaw Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays at 10 p.m. Another route has been devised for those wandering denizens of the Front Range, Den­ ver-Barstow trains H BARDEN 1 and H DEN­ BARI. These former Santa Fe runs now by­ pass La Junta, Colorado, by using former Col­ orado & Southern between Pueblo and RaiiNews·19 RailAmerica will acquire two more Min­ forced BNSF trains to detour over TRRA's The railroad elected to house former Santa nesota branch lines: the Amber Sub between MacArthur Bridge and poke along the Illinois Fe desks, staffed by about 150 management Hinckley and North Branch (34.7 miles) and riverfront to the Merchants Bridge or continue employees, in the NOC right alongside former the Mora branch from Mora Junction (1 I northward over Union Pacific trackage rights BN desks attended by 450 unionized dispatch­ miles). RailAmerica operates two other former between Mitchell and To land, Illinois, reach­ ers. That led to conflict. On August 8, former BN short lines in Minnesota, the Minnesota ing the Galesburg-Centralia line. Because of BN dispatchers set up a one-day informational orthern and Otter Tail Valley railroads. increased use of the latter route, traffic de­ picket line outside the NOC, passing out creased on the West Quincy-St. Louis K line. leaflets complaining that overworked nonunion ENGINEERING New power turnoutswi ll be installed at the dispatchers and the new Digicon dispatching north end of the yard in Auburn, Washington, system are compromising rail safety. "Some un­ Capital Program Progress by the end of 1997. This will allow trains en­ represented dispatchers are required to spend tering or exiting Stampede Pass to operate at as much as sixteen hours in the chair without Investments continue on the Minnesota Divi­ 20 mph, hopefully reducing grade crossing de­ breaks or meal periods," the leaflets claimed. sion, including the $4 million addition of a sec­ lays and the anger of Auburn's city govern­ Citing the railroad's improving safety record ond main track at Northtown Ya rd. The $5.5 ment. Previously, B SF had reconstructed the and the addition of seven new dispatcher posi­ million installation of CTC on the Midway yard with four long running tracks that can tions since the Santa Fe merger, B SF Subdivision between Northtown and Westmin­ hold siding-length trains. These should come spokesman Jim Sabourin disagreed, telling the ster Street in St. Paul will be done by the end in handy as traffic over Stampede Pass grows Fort Worth STAR-TELEGRAM that dispatchers of the year. At Rochelle, Illinois, $2 million has from the six trains per day seen at mid-year to are expected to work just under seven hours of been set aside to modify the block system and an anticipated 10 per day at year-end. each eight-hour shift. Union general chairman install double crossovers, while yard improve­ During the July 23 supervisors' conference Gary Melton said he hoped the picketing ments are planned for both Northtown and Su­ call, Chairman Rob Krebs said BNSF will would encourage an "honest attempt to make perior, Wisconsin. The railroad also plans to in­ spend as many capital dollars in 1998 as in [dispatching] equipment safe," but had not de­ stall cantilever signals at the west approach to 1997 because of the need for more locomo­ cided on whether to take further action. Coon Creek Junction in Coon Rapids (replac­ tives and second track. ing signals on masts) to improve visibility for As new fa cilities are built, old ones disap­ ADMINISTRATION eastbound trains on the Staples Subdivision. pear. In mid-July two steam-era water tanks at The Terminal Railroad Association High­ Ya rdley (Parkwater), near Spokane, were torn Bad Ride Kills Division? line running north from Gratiot Street inter­ down. The former West Hump tower at Ar­ locking through the tunnels in front of the St. gentine was demolished August I, along with Interested in looking at the former Burling­ Louis Arch and then above the Mississippi many of the old light standards for the bowl. ton line between Laurel, Montana, and River on steel trestles was removed from ser­ Casper, Wyoming, as a possible manifest­ vice for rebuilding July 22. A contractor had LABOR train bypass around the coal-heavy eastern already started installing concrete supports half of the former orthern Pacific, Rob and columns to replace century-old steelwork. Dispatchers' Move Sparks Picketing Krebs scheduled an office car trip over the The project, expected to take three months, route in early July. It turned into the prover­ July 21 saw the first cutover of dispatching con­ bial trip from hell. Krebs' business car was trol from the former Santa Fe System Opera­ coupled to 25 loads behind five locomotives, tions Center in Schaumburg, Illinois, to BNSF's and slack action violently shook the occu­ BNSF &MRL Network Operations Center in Fort Wo rth. The pants all day. A washout near Greybull � seven desks responsible for California opera­ caused local management to stop the train �Locomotive Directory tions shifted from SOC to NOC in 80 minutes and taxi its important passengers around the 1997 that morning, 40 minutes faster than planned. weak spot while the consist tiptoed through,

"The Rallfan's Motive Power Annual and Field Guide" Cutover of the former Santa Fe Central, East­ causing several hours' delay. ern,and Southern Regions desks took place July The company won't say whether this deba­ Compiled by RobertC. Del Grosso, this is a complete line­ by-line listing of BNSPs fleet of 4,400+ owned and leased 28, August 4, and August 11, respectively. cle led to the July 18 announcement that locomotives listed according to the new BNSF renumber­ BNSF would eliminate the Glendive, Mon­ � vvth an interim AT&SF/BN conversion table, plus tana-based Yellowstone Division that MRL's entire locomotive fleet The 215 photos include at least one 5" wide roster shot of each locomotive model included the Laurel-Casper line and the orth and number series (great for modelers). Besides basic Dakota Division, based in Fargo. Officially, builder's info, technical performance data for each model Operate this is provided. 146 pages, 6")(9" forma� Perfect bound, the purpose of the Northern Lines realign­ designed for use in the field and at home. The new BNSF Locomotive ment was "to provide improved service to motive power era has begun and this book will take you BNSF customers." Routes managed by the there to vvtnessthe changes. $25.95. doomed divisions were split among the nine Burlington Northern survivors, with the Laurel-Casper line going to the Colorado Division. Santa Fe Railway 1996 D1I!M1111 By P.trk:k C. Dorin andRobert C. Del Cro.. o SHORT ITEMS A comprehensive historical profile of the BNSF In 1996 including detailed reviews on merger operations, spin-offs, Farewell, and Thanks re-opening of Stampede Pass, global intermodal concept, new BNSF rolling stock, the "pumpkin" units, motive power review and the final BN and Santa Fe locomotive Mike Martin left BNSF in August after a 20- rosters . Feature stories include BN passenger train year public relations career. Ever since this operations before Amtrak, BN-Amtrak operations from column began, Mike has been checking ru­ 1971-1990, and BN COFCfTOFC and BN America histories. And more. This book is the next In the BN and mors and confirming or correcting field re­ BNSF annual series as authored by Del Grosso since ports as our primary contact point inside the 1980, and the start of a new historical perspective on covering the BNSF. 266 pages, over 300 photos, 16-page railroad. Whatever accuracy this column has color section, hard cover, 6'')(9''format $48.95 achieved in reporting Santa Fe and BNSF ac­ tivity is largely because of his work. Thanks, ORDER BOTH BOOKS FOR $64.00 Mike, and good luck. (Save $10.90) Ready Nowll Thanks to Mike Cleary, Jim Gilley, Steve Prices Include 4th Class P&H Glischinski, Steve Habeck, Jayhawk, Ben Kerr, Glenn Lee, Bill Maltby, Joe McMillan, Roger Rassche, Dan Schroedel; and Steve Wi lhelm.

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NORFOLK SOUTHERN - Vol. I - Chicago to Fort Wayne Covers the ex-Nickel Plate line from Chicago to Fort Wayne, InJiana. Locations include the East End of the Belt Railway of Chicago, State Line crossing, Hammond, Van Loon, Hobart, Spriggsboro, GT\\I crossings, Valparaiso, Fort Wayne, and other locations in between. See Triple Crown Road Railers, stacks, manifests, locals, transfers, a ribbon rail train, and more. Lots of new wide-cab DASH 9-40CWs. MVP#71 0 ..... 60 Min ...... $29.00 available in OClOber

UNION PACIFIC Geneva Sub Vo L 3 In 1997 Chicago & North Western color is still present on UP's high-traffic route out of Chicago. Lots of new locations shot in 1997 including Malta, Creston, III., Meredith, Elburn, Sterling, Glen Ellyn. See new trains and a variety of power with SP, CNW, and UP. MVP# 473 ..... 70 Min ...... $29.00 available in Ocrober THE BELT RAILWAY OF CHICAGO (BRC) NEW! East End Seriesfo r 1997

The BRC East End - 1997 Chicago is THE HUB of railroading and the Belt's Clearing Yard is the center of action. See the busiest junction in Chicago with arrivals, departures, and operations at several locations inside the East End including Hayford, Pulaski, Cicero, and the east yards. See mainline trains, transfers, and jobs from Conrail, NS, SP, BNSF, CP Rail, CSX, UP, CN, GTW, and the Belt's own jobs. Over 50 trains and incredible variety of new as well as classic power including ALCO C-424s and 1st-generation EMDs. Includes a visit to the new dispatching center in Bedford Park.

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Motive Power on the BRC - 1997 The Belt has the widest variety of well-maintained classic power-GP7s, GP9s, SW9s, SW1200s, SW1500s, MPl5s, GP-38-Zs, TR 2&4 cow-calf lash-ups, ALCO C-424s, S-6, and more. We show the majority of the roster including all classes, operating and in the engine terminal. See actual repairs inside the diesel house including replacement of traction motors. Outside fueling and lubricating. In addition to the BRC roster, we show lots of road power in and out of the engine terminal from SP, CNW, UP, CN, NS, GE Super 7s, and more. See and hear (in the cab) all throt­ tle notches of an ALCO C-4Z4. Extensive views inside and outside the diesel house.

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A Day with BRC #525 This is real railroading! See coverage of the working day of a Belt Railway Co. of Chicago industrial switch job with an SW I ZOO and its crew. We had one camera in the cab AND one camera on the ground fo llowing the action - flat witching, kicking cars, mainline running, and the action of passing trains and operarions along the way. MVP# 525 ..... 90 Min ...... $ 29.00 available in October

-Other videos of SP, BNSF, UP, C&NW, BRC, WC -Quality color shot & mastered on professional format equipment -Live stereo -Narration Add $5 S/H per order. III. residents add 6.75% sales tax. VHS only. Send check or money order to: f r call o ite Of wr l Midwest Video Productions f ee cata og r p.o. Box 6533, Aurora, IL 60598 To order by Me or Visa, call toll free 800-528-41 76 TRACK BULLETIN VIA Rail Canada

ELIMINATING POSITIONS presently 260 BLE and 250 UTU members at one hour earlier at 7 p.m., and arrive in Toron­ VIA. Regardless of the outcome, VIA is to at 9:35 p.m. and change its schedule from What about the Unions? adamant that the conductor and trainman po­ Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays to Sun­ sitions will be eliminated. Some people feel days, Tuesdays, and Fridays, It is believed that While VIA's March 7 announcement of the that if VIA is successful, the second engineer this will reduce crew layover times. plan to merge the locomotive engineer and position will be next. At this time, the future The Edmonton City Council has endorsed conductor positions definitely concerned its of the redundant employees is unclear. Some VIA's plan to move Edmonton Station, On july employees, no one predicted the fight that are already trained as Engine Service employ­ 8, VIA advertised for architectural services for would occur between the two unions repre­ ees, while others may end up back in freight the new structure, Once the depot is complet­ senting these groups. The United Transporta­ service at Canadian National. ed, time-consuming back-up moves would be tion Union, representing the tail-end, and the eliminated, and CN could remove its remain­ Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, repre­ SUMMER ing downtown trackage. The new station senting locomotive engineers, were fighting 1997 could be in operation by early 1998. for their future at VIA. An early September Season of the Mega-Canadian vote was scheduled to decide which union OTHER CANADIAN NEWS would survive. In the meantime, the running Throughout the summer, VIA's Ca nadian trades were bombarded with pamphlets, spo­ turned heads with its spectacular consist. Run­ New Car on Algoma Central ken opinions, and accusations. There are ning 19 cars between To ronto and Edmonton, Alberta, and 23 cars across the Rockies, the Algoma Central is very satisfied with the re­ train is a photographer's delight. The only sponse to its Premier Dome Car Service, first complaint is that with all the brush and trees tested on the Snow Tr ain. The Trempealeau in the East, it's nearly impossible to get a pic­ River, a former Union Pacific car, came to ture showing the entire consist! Wisconsin Central with the Green Bay & RAIL CITY TRAVEL Two of VIA's FP9Aus headed west after re­ Western takeover. The cm; now appropriately ffASl- ceiving head-end power generators in Montre­ named Algoma COLintry, has been completely RAil TRAVEl CENTER TOURS al. They are to be u ed in service on the Win­ renovated and painted in the distinctive AC Your Agent fo r Trair. Tra vel­ nipeg to Churchill, Manitoba, Hudson Bay, re­ silver-and-maroon livery. WORLDWIDE leasing that route's assigned F40s for other du­ Another Ontario passenger carrier, Water­ ties. The first revenue run for one of the con­ loo & St. jacobs, successfully started revenue verted units occurred july 20, when it teamed service July 12. With its green, black, and yel­ fFFf3-pe*..�ti¥iiIJ up with F40PH 6455 to haul the five-car con­ low paint scheme, the train looks like a mini Amtrak, VIA, BC Rail, Eurail, BritRail, sist of VIA train 693 to Churchill. Super Continental. Trains run between Water­ Railwaysof Australia, Rail Tours With release of the Winter/Spring timetable loo and St. Jacobs, Ontario, in the heart of (We directly issue Eurail Passes with no service charge) in early November, VIA will once again adjust Mennonite country, a popular tourist destina­ AIR, SEA & RAIL-We Know Tra vel the schedule of the Canadian. While there are tion. Operation is daily until October 13 2 Federal Street, 51. Albans, VT 05478 virtually no changes for the westbound opera­ (Canadian Thanksgiving), then weekends only l Free USAICanadd (800) 458-5394 Tol tion, the eastbound wi ll now depart Vancouver until November 23. The railway has tied in (802) 527-1 788 Anywhere with a number of local tours and a theater group to offer packages. Special trains for Oktoberfest, Halloween, and Christmas are also planned. As a money-saving measure, Quebec's TIle Trac/xs 0/ tIle Agence Metropolitaine de Tra nsport has told St. Lawrence & Hudson that trains 1 I I and 112 (serving about 100 passengers each day) BLACK BEAR will be terminated in early September be­ tween Dorion and Rigaud. These are the only two trains operating on this trackage, yet it v I D E o still features block signals and 70 mph speed Todays Algoma Central is a far different railway than the one documented by Rail Innovations in limits. The only other station on the line is 1988. With a new owner, new power, new business and a totally new way of doing things, our Hudson. A mini bus will replace the train ser­ popular "The Algoma Central Railway" tape needed an update. vice and operate all day with convenient train connections at Dorion. With the full support of WC/AC, we captured the "new" Algoma Central during both the beauty of Four GO Transit F59PH locomotives left fall and the harshness of winter. Rail Innovations once again takes you behind the scenes, Toronto during the last week of July for their journey south to Dallas. Numbers 565, 566, aboard the trains and to trackside as WC SO-45's and AC F-units move freight and passenger 567, and 568 were part of the 1994 GO or­ trains across Algoma Country. der from General Motors. The units had been deemed surplus because of cutbacks on 58 Minutes - Colour - Sound - Narration routes when government funding was re­ $29,95 plus $4.00 shipping duced. Upon arrival in Dallas, they'll be used CDN orders 7% GST ONT Res 8% PST, Visa-order To ll Free 1-800-61 3-3792 in new commuter service, Th anks to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, United Tra nsportation Union, magazine, and Bill Miller. Rai/ lnnovations BRANCHLINE PO Box 225. Schomberg. ON. Canada. LOG 1 TO Steve C. Bradley

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FREIGHT SCHEDULES Philadelphia Division Restructuring

On July 21, Conrail implemented a major re­ structuring of train operations on the Philadel­ phia Division. Tra ins abolished include Allen­ town, Pennsylvania-Oak Island Ya rd in Newark, New Jersey; Buffalo, New York-Oak Island; Chemical Coast Secondary to Pitts­ burgh; and Oak Island-Camden, New Jersey. New trains established include OIPI, CCAL, ALCA, and Buffalo-Selkirk, New Yo rk. One of the most interesting changes is the newly established Allentown, Pennsylvania, to Camden, New Jersey h'ain, operating via Oak Is­ land yard, and replacing both ALOI and OICA. The train leaves Allentown and heads east on JeH Hampton the Lehigh Line for Oak Island. After working Oak Island, the tTain uses the Lehigh Line again heading west to reach the Trenton Line at Port Enola yard in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, will undergo intense scrutinyby thestate's DeparbnentS of Reading Junction in Manville, New Jersey. From Environmental Protectionaher severe contaminationwas discovered at theHollidaysburg Car hops. there, ALCA continues on to Philadelphia, then Camden. Here's the fun part: The first time an HOLLIDAYSBURG SHOPS clean up anything else it fi nds. Among the ALCA runs extremely late, there's a possibility problems uncovered during the DEP inspec­ that an eastbound ALCA will meet a westbound Pennsylvania Orders Clean-Up tion were buried drums of hazardous wastes ALCA at Port Reading Junction, or CP-Potter. and visible soil contamination from paints, de­ Dispatcher headaches will no doubt abound. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmen­ greasers, and solvents. By July 9, Conrail had Another change is the institution of train tal Protection dubbed Conrail's Hollidaysburg submitted a clean-up plan for OEP approval. BUSE, running from Buffalo to Selkirk not via Car Shops "the largest illegal hazardous waste The department plans to conduct extensive the Chicago Line, but instead via the Southem disposal site we've discovered in Pennsylvania inspections of Conrail facilities throughout the Tier Line, Oak Island yard, and the River Line. in the last 10 years" after an inspection of the state, including Juniata Shops, Conway yard, This tums, as one wag put it, what would be a facility showed extensive contamination of the Enola yard, Meadville yard, and numerous simple five-hour trip into a two-day affair. area. James M. Seif of the DEP told local me­ present and former engine fueling locations. On July 3, trains ML-40 1 (Multi-Level, dia that his office would require Conrail to im­ largely auto racks, and auto parts boxcars) mediately begin removing waste and stabilize MOTIVE POWER and TV-78 (intermodal) saw their schedules the area to prevent run-off into nearby streams and routings changed. ML-40 1 also had its and wetlands. Further, Conrail is required to C40-BWs Renumbered western endpoint changed. ML-401 now runs perform a complete environmental study to de­ to Columbus, Ohio, via Harrisburg, Pennsyl­ termine the extent of problems at the site and Conrail has begun renumbering its low-num­ vania, and uses the Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, bered General Electric C40-8Ws into the same Fort Wayne, and Columbus lines. TV-78, a series as the rest of the C40-8W fleet (6050- Chicago-to-Kearny, ew Jersey, train now runs 6265). Units 740-759 will receive numbers via Harrisburg and Pittsburgh before reaching S 1164 Scale 6266-6285, with 747 the first unit completed as the Chicago Line at Berea, Ohio. 6273. At press time, No. 744 (to become 6270) Over 500 cataloged locomotives & was the only other unit on Conrail property, UPDATES freight cars. (Too many for magazine ads) with the other 18 units on lease to Canadian Na­ Final limetable Printed? Scale and Flyer AC Flyer compatible items. tional. It is not known if the LMS leasing C40- Color catalog & S information Web Site: 8Ws, 700-739, will also be renumbered. On July I, new employee timetables were is­ sued for all five divisions, along with a new www.americanmodels.com RAILROAD VS. NATURE set of System Special Instructions. The docu­ ments are all Number 5, replacing the Num­ World's Largest 3116 = l' Manufacturer Selkirk To rnado ber 4s that went into effect February 1. These As Seen on Na tionwide TV On July 3, a tornado touched down in Selkirk are likely to be the last employee timetables Send $1 for information yard damaging two B23-7s. The funnel cloud issued by Conrail. AMERICAN MODELS passed through the yard midway between the Thanks to Conrail Te chnical Society, Andy 10087 COLONIAL IND. DR. hump tower and the fueling plant. It blew Kirk, John Krattinger, Lou M. 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warded to the White House Office of Manage­ February 1997 % vs. GUILFORD AGAIN 2/96 ment and Budget for review. They will then be NORTHEAST CORRIDOR BUSINESS UNIT Purchase Offer Rejected published in the FEDERAL REGISTER to allow Metroliners ...... 160,270 -5.2 for public comment before becoming final. Ethan Allen Express ...... 3,253 N/A Amtrak has dismissed Guilford Transportation The board met July 15. Ve rmonter ...... 5,930 +12.1 System's bid to buy the Northeast Corridor. According to the Association of American NortheastDirect ...... 368,565 -5.7 Amtrak spokesman Kirk Rostron told RAIL- Railroads, representatives of rail labor and Clockers ...... 1 1 3,909 -22.3 EWS that "Amtrak believes Guilford's offer is Keystone Service ...... 43, 983 +2.7 management reached an agreement on joint

Empire Corridor...... 76,8 12 +8.8 unrealistic. The company is committed to recommendations to the Railroad Retirement

Adirondack ...... 5,3 12 -12.7 freight operations and has consistently demon­ Board to reform the current occupational dis­

Special Trains ...... 5,600 +3 1.1 strated the low priority it gives passenger ser­ ability system. The recommendations were de­ Total NEC: 783,634 -6.2 vice. At one point in the 1980s, Guilford main­ veloped through consultation with physicians INTERCITY BUSINESS UNIT tained track used for passenger service at a lev­ specializing in occupational disability and rep­ el that restricted speeds to as low as 10 mph. A Sillier Star ...... 18,91 I -25.5 resentatives of the board.

Sillier Meteor ...... 18,398 -27.4 1986 strike against a Guilford subsidiary The Railroad Retirement Act, which cov­

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Capitol Limited ...... 8,698 -4.8 mising safety, speed, and customer service." cal standards.

California Zephyr ...... 29,072 +3.6 In response, Guilford's newest position During fiscal year 1996, the board paid

Southwest Chief ...... 13,409 +29.9 was set forth in a letter to Department of more than $8 billion in benefits to 818,000 City of New Orleans ...... I I , 157 + 15.2 Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater by beneficiaries, including $1.2 billion for dis­ +0.5 Te xas Eagle ...... 5,413 Guilford Rail President David Fink, urging ability benefits to almost 80,000 employees. Sunset Limited ...... 7,093 -12.0 the secretary to "immediately begin the pro­ The average monthly amount paid to those International...... 8,613 +3 1.5 cess of privatizing Amtrak." receiving benefits based on occupational dis­ Lake Shore Limited ...... 22,033 +9.8 Fink cited research performed by Guilford ability was almost $1,400. Silver Palm ...... 13,754 IA and listed alleged conflicts of interest existing Crescent ...... 15,200 +14.9 within the department because of its multiple Kansas City-SI. Louis ...... I 1,383 +88.4 MORE BOXCARS Pennsylvanian ...... 9,208 -36.2 roles as safety regulator, budget overseer, and

Auto Train ...... 16,88 1 +2.7 member of Amtrak's board. Express Fleet Grows Gulf Coast Limited ...... 1,2 13 N/A Fink stated, "The Group [referring to a re­ Pere Marquette ...... 6, 191 + I 12.0 port by the House Working Group on Intercity By the end of September, Amtrak expected to Caro linian ...... 13,128 -7.7 Passenger Rail] described Amtrak as awash in receive 250 70000-series express cars for mov­ Piedmont ...... 2,083 +63.3 red ink, buffeted by conflicting missions, and ing various kinds of bulk express shipments Special trains ...... 00 -100.0 To tal Intercity: 348,956 -6.2 ballooning in debt. Amtrak faces a major liq­ across the country. uidity crisis and probable bankruptcy. " Amtrak's Kirk Rostron said the purchase WESTERN BUSINESS UNIT was made possible through a lease agreement Coast Star/ighl ...... 27,8 16 +73.3 with Greenbrier Freight Car Corp. and Gener­ San Diegans ...... 1 09,374 +9.3 LABOR FRONT al Electric Capital Services. In essence, Green­ Pacific 'orthwest Corridor . .. 18,440 +5 1.2 Disability System brier will sell the cars to GE Capital, who will Capitols ...... 34,546 + 1 2.2 San /oaquins ...... 38,844 +2 1.0 lease them back to Amtrak.

Special trains ...... 10,080 -10.8 The Railroad Retirement Board unanimously Amtrak acquired 200 new cars and 50 re­ To tal Western Unit: 239,100 + 18.2 voted to adopt new standards, which were for- built cars with a purchase price of $70,000

SYSTEM TOTAL...... 1 ,37 1 ,690 +0.8 City Key

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26· October 1997 each, and 200 new 60-foot, $80,000 boxcars. At the continued operation of the train," Magliari press time, lease terms had not been disclosed. said. He added that the loan agreement gave ineteen of the used cars have been deliv­ Amtrak the opportunity to develop a broader Amtrak ered to Portland, Oregon, for system distribu­ customer base for the Te xas Eagle, including tion, and 31 more were expected by August 22. more passengers and express customers. Ridership Several of the initial 19 cars have since been dispatched to Oakland, Dallas, and HALFWAY THERE Update Chicago. Cars in all four cities have been placed in service and are currently moving and Poles, Power Stations Rise accepting express shipments from across the March 1997 % vs. 3/96 country. The express cars will be used primal'i­ Amtrak is halfway through its $32 1 million NORTHEAST CORRIDOR BUSINESS UNIT ly on long-haul trains traveling between the electrification project to install catenary poles Metroliners ...... I 77 ,426 + 1.2 east and west coasts. and power substations to power its American Ethan Allen Express ...... 3,3 18 NIA The 250 additional express cars are higher Flyer trains, scheduled to make the Boston- ew Ve rm onter ...... 7 .024 +3 1.5 in weight capacity and nearly double the num­ York trip in three hours starting in 1999. NortheastDirect ...47 1 ,944 +4.5 ber of mail handling cars. The work is part of Amtrak's $2.2 billion Clockers ...... 125,28 1 +8. 1 According to Ed Ellis, senior director of plan to electrify the rail line from New Haven Keystone Service . . .. 58,464 +25.7 mail and express and business development, to Boston, a project stalled for one reason or Empire Corridor ..... 85,995 + I 0.6 Adirondack ...... 6, 129 -0.4 "Growth in mail and express is key to the sur­ another since 1914, when the New Haven Rail­ Special Trains ...... 3,400 +226.9 vival of long-distance trains." road ran out of cash. By late t 999, the tracks To tal NEC: 938,981 +6.7 will carry electric-powered trains, designed to put American rail travel on an equal footing INTERCITY BUSINESS UNIT NEW PAINT Silver Star ...... 23, 133 -25.3 with the much-vaunted European rail systems Silver Meteor...... 21 ,825 -27.0 P42 Gets NorthEast Direct Scheme Much of the work is done at night, especial­ Three I?ivers ...... 9,686 -52.6 ly from Groton to Stonington, Connecticut. Cardinal ...... 5,7 18 -3.3 The first P42 being delivered with the North­ Residents living near the tracks flooded Chicago-St. Louis ...... 20,227 +7.3 East Direct paint scheme, No. 101, led Key­ Amtrak with calls, complaining about noise Hiawatha Corridol ...... 30,794 +28.7 stone Service train 644 east from Harrisburg, and high-intensity spotlights. A local newspa­ Chicago·Pontiac ...... 33,848 +2 1.9

Pennsylvania, July 12. The engine was cut off per urged annoyed residents to call Vice Presi­ IIlini ...... 8,343 +7.2 in Philadelphia and taken by a yard crew to dent David Carol at home in the middle of the Illinois Zephyr...... 6,979 +1 1.6 Race Street Engine Te rminal to await its next night. Carol is Amtrak's point man for the pro­ Empire Builder ...... 22 ,737 -3.8 Capitol Limited ...... 1 2,200 -2.7 assignment. An AEM7 took the train to Penn­ ject, and lives in Old Saybrook. Ca liJomia Zephyr ...... 34,878 -8.8 sylvania Station in New York City. Amtrak has put about 50 families in hotels Southwest Chief...... 1 9,00 I +16.8 The lOI will most likely be used in Keystone while work is completed in their neighborhoods. City of New Orleans ...... I 1,900 -2.4 service between Philadelphia and Harrisburg. Te xas Eagle ...... 8,87 1 +0.9

Leo King Sunset Limited ...... 8,826 -2 1.5 TEXAS EAGLE CONTINUES International...... 10,026 +16.8 Lake Shore Limited...... 28,322 +9.0

Express Business Helps Silver Palm ...... I 8,430 N/A cami"K October 1st . Crescent ...... 20, 127 +34.5 The Te xas Eagle got a new lease on life in late Kansas City-SI. Louis ...... 12,335 +15.9 Pennsylvanian ...... 13,567 -11.9 July. Amtrak's Marc Magliari stated that the Auto Tr ain ...... 21,072 +3.8 carrier will continue operating the Te xas Ea­ Gull Coast Limited ...... 3,658 N/A gle for an indefinite period beyond September Pere Marquette ...... 4,29 I -2.8 30, the date specified in a loan agreement be­ Ca rolinian ...... 19,094 +0.7

tween Amtrak and the State of Texas, because Piedmont ...... 3,541 +2 1.5 of the growing express shipment business. Special trains ...... 8,460 +53.3 The loan agreement provided $5.6 million To tal Intercity: 441,889 +4.6 to continue operating the Te xas Eagle (trains WESTERN BUSINESS UNtT 21/22), three-days-weekly between Chicago Coast Starlight ...... 38, 142 +46.5 Th e Liollel lnspiration is a new I 28-page all­ and San Antonio beyond its previously sched­ San Diegans ...... 155,316 +27.0 uled discontinuance May 10. color hardcover book illustrat.ing the actual Paciric Nonhwest Corridor ...24 ,77 1 +5. 1

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RAIL SAFETY the two-hour, 90-mile run that the trailer could As of june I, CSX rostered 2,746 active be a problem. Investigators are trying to deter­ units plus II SD70Ms on lease from Electro­ More Trouble for CSX mine if the load became even more unbalanced Motive Division. Of the fleet, 2,587 now after its inspection at Riclunond. wear one of the nine variations of the CSX Rail safety questions were raised again, this Damage to the physical plant was more livery; 57 are Pumpkin orange; 37 wear the time in the wake of a CSX freight accident in extensive than initially thought. The wreck Chessie colors; 28 are in Seaboard System Arlington, Virginia, july 8, in which an un­ destroyed a major signal-control box and gray; 27 carry the Family Lines scheme; one balanced truck trailer carrying heavy paper wiped out a pair of crossover switches. Offi­ unit is still in Seaboard Coast Line black, and rolls caused three flatcars to derail. The top­ cials estimated that repairs would take a two wear Louisville & Nashville gray. There pling equipment sideswiped a passing Am­ month. During that time, a 15 mph speed re­ is one unit each in gray-with-yellow-nose; trak train, uncoupling the last two of the six­ striction was in effect where trains usually black-with-yellow-nose; Baltimore & Ohio car consist, doing minor damage to the Am­ operate at 35 to 60 miles mph. Virginia Rail­ blue; Chesapeake & Ohio blue; Guilford fleet equipment, and slightly injuring three way Express commuter operations were ex­ gray; and one still marked for Richmond, Amtrak employees. pected to be affected during repairs, but Fredericksburg & Potomac. Investigation showed that the car with the CSX and VRE officials took the opportunity unbalanced load had derailed a mile south but to install high-speed crossovers and update COMMUTER NEWS did not topple until the train went into emer­ antiquated signal equipment. gency braking. As three consecutive cars over­ Weather systems related to Hurricane Long-Term Support in Maryland turned, they struck the Amtrak train. All Am­ Danny dumped 10 inches of rain on the Char­ trak equipment remained on the rails, and no lotte, North Carolina, region july 23, resulting CSX has assured Maryland transportation offi­ passenger injuries were reported. in widespread flooding. Little Sugar Creek cials that it will give commuter rail in the Subsequently, it was reported that the un­ washed out supports to a CSX trestle, dump­ Washington-Baltimore area long-term support, balanced load had been observed before the ac­ ing AC4400CW No. 237 into the muddy tor­ including expansion of service to Frederick, cident. A CSX supervisor had even broken the rent below. The crew of the 90-car coal train Maryland, and restoration of baseball trains to seals on the trailer during an inspection at Rich­ had abandoned the locomotive and were not Camden Yards. However, commuter traffic mond after noting that the trailer had shifted, injured. A nearby housing project was evacu­ will be capped at that level. but had decided that it posed no danger. The ated when 2,500 gallons of diesel fuel spilled In a july 25 letter to Maryland Transporta­ crew was warned twice by passing trains during into the creek. tion Secretary David L. Winstead, CSX's new­ ly hired Vice President of Passenger Integra­ tion Paul Reistrup stated the railroad "had gone the extra mile" in dealing with commuter operations competing for track space on busy freight routes. eve body fgves Chessie! "Frankly, I do not see that we can give any Mostry items have special sale prices. more than we already have," said Reistrup, who headed Amtrak in the 1970s. The Chesapeake & Ohio Histodcal Society has a complete line of Chessie and The proposed contract would likely run through December 31, 1999, replacing one C&O related merchandise. that expires january 1, 1998. Negotiations got The 1998 Chessie Calendar will feature off to a rocky start with CSX threatening to kill all MARC service at one point. However, Chessie and the Children; 11 great scenes state officials observed that the railroad be­ from 1936-1958 showing Chessie and came more conciliatory as Conrail merger her favorite young people. talks progressed, and as the state agreed to re­ duce trains from 40 to 37, pay more for the This is one of the most nos­ service, grant the railroad better liability terms, and decrease the Brunswick line fre­ talgic calendars yet! Only quency "window." $8.95 plus $3.00 SIH CSX will allow three trains to operate to Frederick over the existing single-track freight Other Chessie items include afghans, prints, carni­ branch although the state will have to pay for val glass, porcelain figurines, dining car china, glassware, coffee mugs, signal upgrading. 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ard to believe, but regional Wisconsin Cen­ C&NW route, bought the newly useless Soo route, tral is 10 years old this month. If you've and combined the best of both into one line. followed WC at all since its start-up on Oc­ Wisconsin Central also had an appetite for other Htober 11, 1987, then you already know that the railroads, fo reign and local. In its 10 years, it has ac­ essence of its first decade can be captured with one quired rail operations in Great Britain, New Zealand, word: epic-its tribulations and triumphs not unlike Canada, and, in its own backyard, the Fox River Val­ those of Homer's Odysseus. With such battle scars, ley and Green Bay & Western railroads and Union Pa­ Wisconsin Central has earned its bragging rights. It cific's former C&NW ore lines. And all the while, it took Soo Line's unwanted, marginalized Lakes gobbled up more of its now-signature SD45s, along States Division and turned it into the busiest, most with a few F45s, each decked out in classy Dupont powerful regional carrier in North America. And Imron maroon and gold. If you had money to invest I'm sure the Soo managers who negotiated the deal and purchased stock when WC went public in the are still scratching their heads, and wondering, early 1990s, you've already made a bundle. "How'd we miss what Ed Burkhardt saw?" It wasn't Along with this rapid growth, however, came an easy birth though, as Wisconsin Central's first problems. The axiom "Bigger is not always better" days were marked by severe power shortages, a sab­ occasionally rang true. The new business caused ca­ otaged car-tracking system, and new hires unfamil­ pacity problems at hub points and on the main line, iar with the territory. particularl y between North Fond du Lac-Chicago, The power shortage created wild lash-ups, includ­ which now sees 20-25 trains per day, a far cry from ing everything from Soo GP9s to Conrail GP35s to the eight to 12 during Soo Line days. And then there Green Bay & Western RS-27s. Irregular service was was the disastrous wreck at Weyauwega, Wisconsin, the norm, thanks in part to Soo Line's car tracking in March 1996. system mysteriously going down the night of start-up, But, through it all Ed Burkhardt has continued "losing" thousands of cars on WC's system. When one developing Wisconsin Central as a maverick: a rail­ customer in northern Wisconsin asked where its car­ road that pushes one-person crews, and gobbles up load of Oregon lumber was, the loading was traced to its neighbors. It is definitely not the same railroad in Stevens Point, where it was lost, routed to Iowa, dis­ character or size that was born in 1987. covered, and then finally delivered. Then there were This stark winter image of a simple consist cap­ the new hires, asking dispatchers over the radio in ac­ tures WC's humble beginnings. It's December 5, cents ranging from Deep Southern to Korean how 1987, WC's first winter, and train No. IS is drifting certain spots were worked, and where such and such downgrade along the Bad River between Morse and a place was. It was interesting. Cayuga, Wisconsin, on the Ashland Subdivision. The By that December, operations had settled into a lead unit, GP35m 4004, is still a novelty; this locomo­ routine, and WC began proving to both Soo Line and tive and its nine siblings were the only units then competitor 'Chicago & North Western that railroading wearing WC paint. The trailing Soo GP9 will only be in Wisconsin and Upper Michigan was profitable­ on the property for another month or so, to be dis­ and then rubbed their respective noses in it. This up­ placed by incoming SD45s. start went after new business aggressively, running Compared to the WC of 1997 with its ore trains circles around the Soo and C&NW. It capitalized on and multi-SD45 lash-ups, the WC of 1987 was almost the loads-in, loads-out nature of the papermaking in­ quaint-a mischievous monkey-quite unlike the dustry, and then tackled the all-rail taconite move­ 900-pound regional gorilla it would become. ments coming off the Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Hard to believe it's the same railroad, and hard, bound for mills in the East and South. When WC too, to believe it's been 10 years. grew tired of being hamstrung by Soo's ownership of RAILNEws' Midwest Regionals columnist, Andrew the Ladysmith-Ambridge, Wisconsin, segment of its S. Nelson is a high school English teacher in Illinois line into Duluth/Superior, it purchased the pat'allel and avid enthusiast. RailNcll's

30· October 1997

Knox Station (jed

& R.. A Bed·and·Breakfast fo r Railfans a i /5

Text and any serious railfans dream of owning a "I believe in giving people the kjnd of service I )7)1{ home within sight of a railroad. Now for would want. The railfans are really a great bunch of Photography by the price of an overnight stay, they can live people, mostly men. I don't find a whole lot of Steve Smedley the dream at Knox Station Bed & Rails, seven miles women railfans. A couple comes to the Bed & Rails, east of Galesburg, Illinois, and 100 yards from the and the guy can go railfan, and I'll recommend an- double-track main line of the Burlington tiquing in Galesburg for the woman. It's quite Northern & Santa Fe Railroad. the neat little town," noted Rita. Ron and Rita Hatch operate the When I arrived on a Friday new bed-and-breakfast in their afternoon, Rita invited me onto quad-level home, built on the the large deck where our in­ foundation of a station terview was interrupted agent's house that burned several times by a parade to the ground in the of afternoon westbounds. 1970s. Just to the east is a Rita is something of a hu­ section laborer's house, man trackside detector­ now a private residence. her hearing consistently Ron Hatch is a rail artist proved more acute than ei­ whose acrylic paintings are ther Ron's or mine. displayed in each room. For 12 "Can you hear him?" years, his paintings have been fea­ she'd ask. "A westbound. Boy, tured on posters advertising the annual they're busy today." Galesburg Railroad Days. He also supplies the art­ A short time later, the faint sound of a train could work for clothing produced by J-Bar Rail of Rock­ be heard as it struggled to climb out of the Spoon ton, Illinois. River Valley at Dahinda, then tripped the trackside Rita Hatch worked in the restaurant business and detectors at milepost 159. Another detector was trig­ often dreamed of operating her own establishment. gered at m.p. 168, and, seconds later, the train burst Thus, Knox Station is a perfect Hatch match. into view. Rita picked up her trusty binoculars, and 32. October 1997 On that night mil­ O OS S lions of stars could be PP ITE PAGE, INET: seen, but I could only This beautifully appointedS count three lights mark­ bedroom at KnoK tation ing other homesteads. has a terrific view of& Rita called the area SBurlington Northern along Mine Road, which anta Fe'sO Obusy main line. follows the BNSF from MAIN PH T : In a photo­ Yo st to Knox Station graph taken from the Road, a "no-man's driveway of KnoK Station, land." Much of the area was once dotted with a westbound stack train coal mines, gravel pits, glints in the mornOing's and the remains of a first light. LEFT: wners coal tipple load-out Ron and Rita Hatch pose foundation poke out of in front ofa swiftly mov­ Knox Prairie, a small na­ ing westbound. ture preserve west of the B and B. Te stament to times past, the Purington Paver brick factory is in ruins, but its huge smokestack still looms over East Galesburg. Before I retired to my trackside room, Rita told me, "You have to tell me what you'd like for break­ fast. You have your choice: homemade blueberry pan­ cakes, waffles?" After staying up for the next four westbounds, running on each other's blocks, their headlights paint­ ing quick moving flickering shadows of light over the limbs of the box elder and elm tr ees, I easily fell asleep. The only sound between each train was the wind chimes hanging near the deck. I awoke to the rich aroma of freshly ground coffee wafting through the house. I carried that steaming first cup to the front porch, and sat wrapped in blan­ kets watching the purple hues of a fa ntastic sunrise burn offthe morningmist. Breakfast (l chose the blueberry pancakes) was deli­ cious and included grapefruit slices, orange juice, and muffins. The to a.m. checkout arrived far too soon. Potential guests who suf fer from allergies should be aware that the Hatches share their home with a dog, and that this is a rural location. (In fa ct, farm machinery easily equals vehicle traffic.) There are several photo opportunities close to the B and B, and you are free to come and go as you spied west to the crossovers at Yost-the Santa Fe please, within reason. An outdoor charcoal grill is timetable name for East Galesburg. available, if you want to barbecue while watching "High green," she said. "We've got another one." trains from the deck. Ron, just home from work as an industrial engi­ And if hanging out around the Bed & Rails isn't neer for Maytag in Galesburg, grabbed a cold drink enough, a seven-mile drive west lands the traveler in and sat down as a triangle of light rounded the curve Galesburg, founded in 1834, home to Knox College, one mile to the east. Soon the crossing gates at Knox and birthplace of Carl Sandburg. With the huge Station Road tripped, and triple Warbonnets Burlington Northern & Santa Fe classification yard, the screamed through at 65 mph plus, running upgrade new Cameron Connection (linking the main lines of the and out of the Cork Creek Valley. fo rmer Burlington Northern and fo rmer Santa Fe) and The price of an evening's lodging is more than rea­ seven mainline routes fanning out of this West Central sonable, considering the extra benefit of being able to Illinois town, plenty of action awaits the rail fan. view Ron's work. His basement studio constantly A stay at Knox Station Bed & Rails is strongly rec­ holds a work in progress. ommended; Ron and Rita are gracious hosts. We shared If the parade of trains is not enough , there are several interesting local stories, and I learned about lo­ geese flying overhead, and numerous other birds, cal ghost railroads, a fa vorite passion of Ron's. whose calls Rita, an avid bird watcher, gladly identi­ Surrounded by a rural setting and heavy train traf­ fies. Their songs add to the home's relaxed and un­ fi c, and decorated with quality ra ilroad art , Knox Sta­ spoiled atmosphere. tion Bed & Rails is a place J will visit again-and After a leisurely evening drive through Galesburg, soon. I'd love to see the place in autumn ! viewing yard operations from the Thirwell Road over­ Reservations may be obtained by calling (309) pass, and dinner, we again sat on the deck to train­ 289-4047. Address correspondence to Knox Station watch. Like dogs barking at crying babies, a few coy­ Bed & Ra ils, 976 Mine Road, Knoxville, IL 61448 otes could be heard howling their disapproval at the An avid railfa n since 1971, Steve Smedley is a sound of air horns from the passing trains. A set of photo journalist fo r THE PA NTAGRAPH in Bloomington, well-maintained approach signals for Yost pierced the Illinois. Th is is Steve's second RN byline; his first cov­ misting night air before a chill drove us indoors. ered the Union Pacific Sedalia Subdivision. RaiiNews

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OPPOSITE PAGE: A 1986 visit to Transkentucky TransportaUon, based in PariS, Kentucky, reveals a busy coal hauler that sta­ bled an impressive array 01 U25B and U28B locomo­ tives operating amid the horse larms 01 central Kentucky. LEFT:Nickel Plate 765 thunders through Thurmond, West Virginia, deep in the heart 01 the New River Gorge in 1986. BELOW: CSK 8969, sUII in somber Clinchfield black in this October 1987 image, awaits its next helper assignment under an abandoned coaling tow­ er at Chaska, Tennessee.

came at a Denny's in Paducah, Kentucky, where r our past railfanning escapades together had always left was suddenly surrounded by Dixie accents. plenty of time for wine, women, and song. I did more After a few days of music, parties, and good times homework on railfan places, and Saluda Mountain on in Nashville, I scooted down 1-24 to Cowan, at the base the former Southern looked promising. I also discov­ of Cumber1and Mountain. What a fine location-a ered the Clinchfield division of CSX via a video tape. small, well-kept downtown business dishict facing the After landing in Nashville, there was good and bad tracks; a fledgling railroad museum at the old depot; news awaiting us at the rental car counter. and a main line through town that seemed to have 'We're sorry, but we've sent out the last compact, dropped light off the mountain. At the small yard, two and none are in sight until morning.... But here's SD40-2s idled, awaiting their next push. It was late the deal. If you'll take a Towne Car, we'll give it to morning-warm, muggy, a few fall leaves hanging you at the compact car rate." around, and unlike anyplace in the West I had been. Not being much into cars, I was thrown for a mo­ Over the next couple of days, I explored both sides ment. However, coming from a Ford-Lincoln-Mer­ of the pusher district, and hiked into the area around cury family and being quite the mechanic, Mike the summit tunnel, which I learned had played quite an looked at me and said, "Take it ...it'll cost us more important role in the Civil War. I made friends with Bil­ ly Sansom, an engineer who worked out of Cowan, who took time to explain district operation and history. As trains requiring assistance were few and far between, we sat in the yard office listening to the dispatcher's phone speaker, with Billy trying to guess in advance which trains were heavy enough for a push or pull over the mountain. Since the district between Chattanooga and Nashville straddled two time zones, the railroad op­ erated on what was labeled under the standard clock as "Unified Trme," but I don't recall whether it was central or eastern. All too soon, it was time to drive west and back to railroading (both for my living and as a hobby) in California. But I knew 1'd be back. A Backroad's To wne Car

Not eight months later, the skies erupted into a fierce air fare war ...and this time, my buddy and fellow Western Pacific employee Mike Magazin was talked into going along. He wasn't the biggest of country mu­ sic fans, but Hank Williams, Jr., and other progressive­ sounding acts were catching his ear, so Nashville and the South sounded interesting to him. And, of course,

RailNews·37 Following a weathering in gas, but what the heck." Tooling around Music boxcars as receivers. It took awhile getting used to job that would make any City that weekend, we looked like record producers, that long-hood first operation, especially with those modeler proud, the depot and got strange looks from valets when we parked it bat-winged General Electrics. And what was the deal at Thurmond, West Vir­ ourselves. It was also, no doubt, one of the few times with Nathan P5 chimes mounted front and rear? Off­ ginia, played a supporting such a car was parked at Motel 6! the-beaten-path driving had taken its toll however, as Come Monday morning, it was time to railfan, and we suffered a flat tire that day. Boy howdy, do those role in the movie Mate­ we rolled down to Cowan for two days of heavy ac­ bike-sized temporary tires look funny on a To wne during the author's wa n tion on the pusher distlict. As two western railroad­ Car! New rubber in Knoxville, and then we were on visit. 1988 ers/railfans, what struck us as odd about Cowan was to Asheville, North Carolina, for the night. that such a bottleneck (and such a small one at that) Next morningwe ventured down to the dispatching was still around in 1985, casting kind of a "back­ office at the NS yard, looked around, and shot the bull woods" feeling on the operation. Then it was over to­ with my fellow union brothers. Naturally, I grilled the wards Chattanooga, where we ran across our first dispatcher who handled Saluda and learned how it ran train featuring new Norfolk Southern SD60s and the from his perspective, and when. The southbound tum former Southern's remote consists with old converted to Spartanburg, South Carolina, was ahead of us, so 38-0ctober 1997 course) in Erwin, Te nnessee, we found our way into North Carolina and the amazing scenery in the Toe River Valley and the Great Loops. Crews (not to men­ tion residents) must have found it very interesting to observe our huge Lincoln navigating the tortuous, and mostly unpaved, backl·oads of remote "hollers," then see two men jump out and start taking pictures! After following the old Clinchfield to its southern terminal at Spartanburg, we retreated toward our home-bound flight from Nashville. Appalachian railroading certainly had me hooked.

Steam, Switchbacks, the Rathoie, and Surprises

Another year passed, and there was little doubt where I would spend two weeks vacation in Octo­ ber 1986. Working solo this time, I mapped out a rough itinerary that would really show me what coal railroading was all about. Thrown in for good measure would be fan trips with three different steamers; a modern switchback operation (now there 's a contradiction in terms); and the Rathole. Flying into Cincinnati, [ started working my way south along the old L&N, which had a reputation for heavy train frequency. I must have hit a real lull, for after leaving De­ coursey Yard in Coving­ ton, Kentucky, I didn't see a train for hours, all the way into Paris. Hey, what's this yard oller to the east fu ll ofcoal cars, and is that a set of V-Boats way down there? A sign proclaimed the Transkentucky Trans­ portation. Pulling into the roundhouse area, I hit the jaGkpot! Over a dozen U25/28Bs sat chugging away, in a mix of attrac­ tive TTl silver and blue, and previous owner black and yellow (Pittsburgh & Lake Erie). Better yet, a brace of these "baby boats" was heading out the lead to tie onto a coal drag. [ chased it north till overcast skies and the set­ ting sun took over. As I had no real schedule, just target dates when the steam ABOVE: For a western we drove leisurely south, checking out photo locations trips would run, I decided to stay overnight in Paris to railroader, the sight of for the northbound chase. Needless to say, when we allow more time fo r this unexpected good fo rtune. Norfolk Southern locomo­ got out of the car at Melrose and looked up that hill, In this small town, the most convenient lodging tives running long hood we were speechless. Yeah, we had railfanned (and turned out to be a small family-run motel. It was get­ forward took some get­ Mike had worked trains) on WP's 2.2 percent grade ting late when I checked in, and I barely made sup­ ting used to. This one was from Greenville to AlmanOl; but this 5.1 was unbeliev­ per call at the adjoining co-owned restaurant and bar. photographed between able! Watching the manifest do its triple of the hill, and But what fantastic southern cooking came out of that observing a loaded unit coal train descend at a crawl little kitchen ! After paying my bill to a person who Knoxville and Chat­ was awesome, but it was time to move on, and we turned out to be owner, cook and bartender, I asked tanooga, Tennessee. aimed that big Lincoln north towards the Blue Ridge. if I could get a beer, even though it was nearly 10 Mike and I had been especially drawn to the Clinch­ p.m. (closing time), and I was the sole patron. He field because even though it was technically part of the simply turned the "closed" sign over towards the out­ huge CSX kingdom, it had kept its family roots and side, and we headed i.nto the small lounge, where the heritage alive, much like "our" WP before Union Pacif­ baseball playoffs were on TV. Turned out the fellow ic. Starting out with a visit to the dispatcher's office (of was a transplanted Southern Californian and fellow

RailNews·39 ABOVE: With locomotives Dodger fan, and he evidently hadn't run into anyone along the Cumberland Va lley line. Having run well recalling several prede­ else who "bled Dodger Blue" since moving east! The ahead of the h'ain, I set up at a rural grade crossing at cessor roads, a CSX unit game went extra innings; the beer kept flowing (free Artemus. Five minutes later, a lady emerged from a coal train bellows across after the first one); and I ended up with about fOUI; nearby back porch ami ambled across the backyard. an overpass near Reliel, hours of sleep bef01'e chasing the TTJ all the way to When I told her what was coming, she ran back into the Ohio River the next morning. her house, and phoned family, fliends, and neighbors. North Carolina, in the Toe The Rathole lived up to its reputation as an ex­ Within minutes, there were at least lO cal's full of folks River Valley. tremely busy, mostly non-coal, single track. Although waiting for the "old-timey train." I took down the lady's tile line was now firmly in the NOlfolk Southern family, address, and eventually had a print made and sent it off power was still heavily Southern. For two days, it as a Christmas card to her. No doubt it's above the fire­ seemed I had to try very hard not to encounter train ac­ place on the mantle between scads of family pictures! tivity. The best plan was to find the end of one of the From there it was a quick trip over a ridge and numerous short stretches of double track where I was state line to Hagans switchback on the old L&N's guaranteed to catch a meet within a half hour or less. back-door route out of the Cumberland Valley. As Heading back north to rendezvous with L&N 152, J with most of the region, the foliage is quite thick. At checked out L&N's old Knoxville & Atlanta line over either eNd of this operational feature, you would have Duff Mountain near the Kentucky/Tennessee bordel� no idea that a switchback exists, especially since it's which provided the spectacle of heavy coal trains with spread out in a triangular shape, rather than the more manned helpers, and my first glimpse of a RoadRailer typical stair-stepping design. I set up at the lower end, as well. Then it was on to Corbin, Kentucky, where the and didn't have to wait long for the show to begin. welcome sign proudly proclaimed it as the location of And what a show! High-horsepower hood units the first Kentucky Fried Chicken take-out. Deciding smoked their way upgrade out of a tunnel, and pulled where to eat that night was a no-brainer. into one of the h'acks at the lower end of the switch­ The next morning's trip east from Corbin with the back, known as Smiley. A cut was made about t1u'ee­ L&N 152 was in thick ground fog that lifted after a quartel's of the way back, and the rear-end pushers then couple of hours. After being around steam the l.ikes of shoved their portion of the train into a second track at Southern Pacific 4449 and UP 8444/3985, this attrac­ Smiley. Switches were thrown; the helpers started up­ tive little engine was a nice change. Coupled in behind grade on the switchback itself; and after cleating Smiley, the steamer for protection power was a BL2, a first for they stopped to allow the train to be recoupled. To geth­ me. Excuse me BL2 fans, but even with that nice er again, 12,OOO-plus tons of Kentucky coal continued Monon paint, I still think it's a very ugly design. backing up toward the top tail track of the switchback, While well-publicized in the railfan journals, the to Hagans. There, direction was changed once again; L&N 152 trip managed to surprise many residents the throttle placed in Run 8, and this exercise in archaic 40-0ctober 1997 railroading ended. Sure, I had seen pictures of the Den­ ABOVE: Chessie-painted ver & Rio Grande Western's Monarch, Colorado, locomotives lead an im­ switchback in both narrow-gauge steam and later GP7 pressive assembly of diesel eras, and had railfarmed the Oregon, California & motive power through an Eastern's Bly Mountain switchback in 1976, but to wit­ October fog at the south ness this type of operation on a medium-density main end of Green Mountain line in the mid-1 980s with SD50s was unbelievable. siding in North Carolina. Big steam caught my attention on this trip as well, with successive week-end trips featuring Norfolk & The blue light to the right We stern 61 1 and Nickel Plate 765. I was somewhat of the main signal is a fa miliar with those NKP Berkshit'es, and had always dummy mast signal-a liked their looks. However, my feelings toward the once-common practice. 611, a.k.a. "bullet-nosed Betty" needed some work. LEFT: Norfolk & Western To my western eyes, those J-class Northerns appeared 81 1 rests near its home to be an eastern rip-off of Southern Pacific's classic shops in Roanoke, Vir­ GS series, such as the 4449. ginia, in 1988. Needless to say, T was converted, but the 611 made me work hard at it. I got some bad information regard­ ing departure time from Charlotte, and it had a 20- minute head start on me. And naturally, of all the areas West Virginia terrain (known as the Grand Canyon of I had researched, this one was the least detailed. Previ­ the East), the old Chesapeake & Ohio had built a fair­ ously planned photo stops were thrown out as I tooled ly high speed line; and winding roads meant you had north on the interstate, flirting with radar cops, slow to choose your shots carefully. For years, I had seen traffic, and road construction. I overtook the Roanoke­ pictures and read about the unique right-of-way at bound steamer well across the Virginia state line, with Thurmond with doubletrack main line just a few feet good results the rest of the day. That night, the party life away from the front steps of the downtown business of Roanoke beckoned, so it was through rather bleary district. This was the shot I had to get! eyes the next day that I finished my chase of 61 1 over Though I had allowed extra time for weaving the Blue Ridge and back as far as Danville. Yeah, that roads "down the holler," my dreams, and those of fel­ N&W streamlined steam looked pretty good after all! low fans in the caravan, were jolted by barricades and My experience with the NKP 765 promised to be guards set up on the btidge just short of Thurmond. better organized. Research showed that while the New Seems a movie company was in production, shooting River Gorge line passed through incredibly rugged a film about the miners' strikes and union battles of

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PREVIOUS PAGES: Fall col­ the early 20th century. Fortunately. we were allowed had taken out an ad offering his vacation home at ors, a busy section of to park our vehicles and walk into town , not onlY get­ Green Mountain, North Carolina, for rent. Being in railroad, and the Toe Riv­ ting "the shot," but also pluoto opportuLlities with the middle of the Toe River Valley, and not far from er highlight this 1987 pho­ Hollywood-style movie props, including the depot the Great Loops, it seemed the perfect place to work tograph taken near masquerading as Matewan. from. At the end of a one-lane road, just around tbe To ekane, North Carolina. curve from the north end of Green Mountain siding, Time to Relax-Once More it was ma¥be 20 feet above rail level and not more ABOVE: The Cowan pusher than 40 feet from the track. 1 arrived at dusk, pre­ runs light as it returns I took a different approach in fall 1987. After three pre­ pared the place for my stay, and waited for a train. home from a run up Cum­ vious expeditions, two favorites had emerged-Cowan And waited ...and waited! The living room scanner berland Mountain. and the Clinchfield. And with the mileage-heavy trip of was silent. After fixing supper with groceries J had 1986 behind me, I wanted to keep travel down to a hauled in from Erwin, I gave up and went to bed. minimum, but have plenty of railroading nearby. About two in the morning, I was awakened by the Nearly a week in Cowan, staying with Billy and obnoxious blaling of a Leslie five-chime that rattled my Betty Sansom, let me get an insight into the life 0f a eardrums and sat me straight up in bed. That was fol­ "pusher," as Billy jokingly referred to his job. By now, lowed by the bass throb of SDs giving way to the work rules had been changed, and instead of being screech of flanges h'ying to lead 120-ton hoppers of coal paired with another qualified engineman, Billy was through a ribbon-rail curve. The same thing happened assigned a conductor. Between pushes and pulls over three more times before dawn. No doubt about it, I Cumberland Mountain, they'd handle local switching would not miss any h'ains at Green Mountain! chores for miles on either side of Cowan. Billy's hours That first morning brought temperatures in the became more regular, but only because he was COD­ low 20s, and while stoking up the heat source for the stantly being worked the maximum 12 hours, and bouse-a wood-burning stove-I heard a metallic then getting another 12 off before going back to bang emanate fr0111 the direction of the tracks. Fur­ work. In spite of this, the Sansoms' southern hospital­ ther investigation revealed a rail with a jagged break ity prevailed. When I wasn't around the tracks, I was running fr0111 top to bottom. A signal maintainer treated to wonderful companionship (I think J was in­ (called out by the dispatcher to search out an unwant­ troduced to just about all their neighbors for miles) ed "track light" on his CTC panel in Erwin) hirailed and Betty's outstanding cooking. up shortly afterwards. The section gang wasn't far be­ The following week on the Clinchfield was spent hind, ready to angle-bar the break. in a comfortable home setting as well, courtesy of You couldn't ask for a better location. The King Steve King, a model railroader of some renown. He house had a front porch facing the river and the 44-0ctober 1997 tracks, with the required Appalachian rocking October 1987 was the last time I was in "coal ABOVE LEFT: A Norfolk chairs. There was a defect detector just north of the country," and I'm certain that much has changed dur­ Southern unit train eases house that gave advance notice of southbounds, and ing the intervening decade, with new traffic patterns, down the 5.5 percent since it was CSX practice to have crews call the in­ paint schemes, locomotives, and mergers on the hori­ grade at Saluda, North dication and location of each signal they encoun­ zon. But trains still triple Saluda, and coal trains still Carolina. ABOVE RIGHT: tered (along with their engine number) over the ra­ dance around the switchback at Hagans. This western Freight trains frequently dio, nothing could sneak up on you. Each morning railfan was very impressed , and like General must triple Saluda Hill. BE­ I'd be up before sunrise, fix a big tote-along lunch, MacArthur, "J shall return !" LOW: Having completed its and head out for a new location where I'd just sit Patrick Flynn began his dispatching career with passage over Blue Ridge back and let the trains come to me. Each evening We stern Pacific in 1979. As a Burlington Northern & would be spent out on the porch, cool drink in Santa Fe dispatcher, he recently moved fr om Mountain, a CSX unit hand, rolling those coal trains by. And yes, I eventu­ Schaumburg, Illinois, to Fort Wo rth, Te xas. This is train rolls through North ally started sleeping through the entire night! his fi rst RAILNEWS byline. RailNcws Cove, North Carolina.

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Compiled by Sean Graham-White Source: Union Pacific Railroad

hat was once the relatively simple task of integrating Chicago & North Western's locomotive fleet into its larger gray-and-yellow mass became much more complicated Wwhen Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific. Finding and inte­ grating the number series for the myriad locomotive models must have been a daunting task. The railroad's goal is placing locomo­ tives of the same model together in number series-and with a few exceptions-it has succeeded. The roster below is a con­ densed renumbering plan and does not separate number series where retirements have occurred. It is current as of June 1997 and includes additional units acquired from lease fleets and other railroads since the merger. Randy Garnhart

OPPOSITE PAGE: Renum­ Premerger Model Quantity Premerger Road Postmerger Road Notes Owner Numbers Numbers bered and repainted lor­ mer Chicago & North SP SL4B Slug 3 1010-1013 S1-S3 Western S040-2 3037 UP SL1 Slug 23 S9-S31 same awaits its next assign­ UP S4B Slug 1 S300 same ment at Proviso Yard in UP S5-2B Slug 3 S301-S303 same the Chicago area. Sean Graham-White photo SP TEBU Slug 9 1600-1613 S310-S318 2 ------ABOVE: A corner road sign UP MK1200G 2 1298, 1299 98, 99 3 stands guard at Davis UP B23-7 81 100-184 same Junction, Illinois. Ironical­ ly, Davis Junction is not SP B23-7 14 5100-5114 185-198 located on the Union UP B30-7A 58 200-259 same 4 Pacific. BROW: Two trains SP B30-7 102 7774-7883 260-361 meet at Princeton, Col­ SP B36-7 16 7754-7770 384-399 orado, on Union Pacific's lamed crossing 01 Ten­ UP C30-7 132 2400-2538 400-531 nessee Pass. All six loco­ UP GP40-2 1 568 same motives in the two con­ UP C36-7 60 9000-9059 600-659 5 sists will be renumbered and repainted. The models Frank Powell include AC4400CW, 8040-2, S040M-2, and S040T-2.

RaiiNews-47 Peter Ruesch

Chicago North Western 55338. Premerger Model Quantity Pre merger Road Postmerger Road Notes GP40 crosses Wis- Owner Numbers Numbers consin Central trackageat UP GP40 17 667-684 same Weston, Wisconsin_ These locomotives-acquired GP40 33 5500-5537 685-717 6 from Conrail-may sur- GP40 26 3060-3093 718-745 vive a little longer as UP GP40 12 581 -597 800-81 1 Union Pacinc 5 88 -717_ UP GP40 36 850-887 same UP E9A 2 949, 951 same UP E9B 1 963 same 7 SW1 500 36 New 1000-1 035 UP SW1500 4 1324-1327 1036-1039 SW1 500 3 1315-1 317 1040-1042 SP SW1 500 174 2451-2689 1060-1233 HLCX MP1 5DC 2 2692, 2691 1289, 1290 SP MP15DC 9 2690-2701 1291-1299 UP MP1 5DC 15 1300-1 314 same C&NW MP1 5DC 14 1302-1316 131 5-1328 NREX MP1 5DC New 1329 8 UP MP1 5DC 62 1330-1392 same UP MP1 5AC 36 1393-1428 same KCC MP1 5AC 2 121, 701 1429,1430 SP MP15AC 57 2702-2759 1431-1487 HLCX MP15AC 1 1000 1488 CFNR GP15-1 3 100-1 02 1542-1 544

4S-0ctober 1997 Steve Gllachlnski

Even some existing Union Premerger Model Quantity Pre merger Road Postmerger Road Notes Owner Numbers Numbers Pacific locomotives will be renumbered. Union Pacific C&NW GP15-1 10 4400-4410 1545-1554 2359-seen crossing the UP GP15-1 160 1555-1714 same Mississippi River in St. UP GP1 5-1AC 30 171 5-1744 same Paul-will wear 2709. UP GP38 18 1979-1 999 1780-1799 UP GP38-2 29 1800-1 828 same HATX GP38-2 17 200-216 1830-1 846 UP GP38-2 15 2076-2108 1849-1 863 C&NW GP38-2 35 4600-4639 1865-1 899 C&NW GP38-2 10 4701-4710 1900-1909 EMO GP38-2 61 740-839 191 0-1970 SP GP38-2 28 4845-4873 1971-1 998 UP GP38-2 63 2000-2063 same SP GP38-2 44 4800-4844 2064-21 07 UP GP38-2 238 21 11-2348 same C&NW GP38-2 471 1 2349 UP GP38M-3 15 New 2400-2414 8 UP GP38M-3 25 New 2500-2524 8 UP GP39-2 29 2350-2378 2700-2728 9 GTI GP39-2 20 350-369 2729-2748 HLCX GP39-2 2 3950, 3951 2749,2750 C&IM S038-2 6 70-75 2800-2805 C&NW S038-2 10 6650-6659 2806-2815

RaiiNews·49 C.R. Davis

Southern Pacific's GPOOs, Premerger Model Quantity Premerger Road Postmerger Road Notes onen used in high-speed Owner Numbers Numbers intermodal service, will UP SD38-2 4 SD40-2 Conversions 2816-2819 10 be renumbered aner Rio Grande's three GPOOs, SP SD38-2 6 2971-2976 N/A 11 from 5703-5893. SP SD39 2 5298, 5316 2850, 2851 UP GP40 2 3000, 3001 2900, 2901 UP GP40-2 6 3002-3007 2902-2907 C&NW SD40R 1 6564 2951 12 C&NW SD40-2 48 6801-6834, 6851-6865 2952-2999 C&NW SD40-2 84 6835-6850, 6866-6935 3015-3098 UP SD40-2 3 3300, 1896, 1996 3099-3101 13 UP SD40-2 705 3123-3843 same 6 UP SD40-2 69 3905-3973 same D&RGW SD40T-2 69 5342-5385 4000-4068 UP SD40-2 165 411 5-41 63, 4202-4321 same 6 SP SD40T-2 231 8230-8573 4369-4599 SP SD40M-2 133 8574-8706 4600-4732 SP SD45T-2R 94 6793-6892 4800-4893 SP SD45T-2 104 9189-9404 4896-4999 UP SD50 60 5000-5059 same C&NW SD50 35 7000-7034 5060-5094 D&RGW SD50 17 5501 -551 7 5095-51 11 SP GP40-2 130 7240-73, 7600-7677, 7940-7966 5200-41 , 5273-5344, 5349-5360 14 D&RGW GP40-2 35 3094-31 30 5242-5272, 5345-5348 UP GP40-2 9 906-914 5361-5369 15 GP40-2M 65 71 00-7138, 7274-7299 5370-5434 GP40X 6 954-959 5500-5505 50-October 1997 Notes Premerger Model Quantity Premerger Road Postmerger Road Owner Numbers Numbers C&NW GP50 48 5050-5099 5510-5557 16 UP GP50 30 960-989 5558-5587 SP B39-8E 40 8000-8039 5609-5648 SP B40-8 51 8040-8093 5649-5699 D&RGW GP60 3 3154-3156 5700-5702 SP GP60 191 9600-9794 5703-5893 C&NW SD50 55 8001-8055 5945-5999 UP SD60 84 6000-6084 same UP SD60M 280 6085-6365 same SP AC4400CW 170 100-271 6380-6549 17 UP AC4400CW 150 New 6550-6699 8,17 UP AC4400CW 3 9997-9999 6700-6702 C&NW AC4400CW 35 8801-8835 6703-6737 17 UP AC4400CW 150 6738-6887 6738-6887 17 SP AC4400CW 46 272-317 6888-6933 17 UP DDA40X 6936 same SP AC4400CW 61 318-378 6939-6999 17 UP AC6000CW 10 7000-7009 same 18 UP AC6000CW 70 7010-7079 same 19 UP SD90MAC 179 8000-81 78 same 20 UP SD90MAC-H 8 8200-8207 8500-8507 21 C&NW C40-8 42 8501 -8542 9023-9064 C&NW C40-8 35 8543-8577 9065-9099 22 UP C40-8 256 91 00-9355 same UP C40-8W 40 9356-9395 same UP C40-8W 85 9396-9480 same 23 UP C41 -8W 79 9481-9559 same SP C44-9W 101 8100-8200 9564-9664 C&NW C44-9W 35 8601-8635 9665-9699 UP C44-9W 40 9700-9739 same C&NW C44-9W 95 8636-8730 9740-9834 SP SD70M 25 9800-9824 9900-9924

Notes: 1. Adding S to UP reporting marks denotes the unit as a slug. 2. UP records model as SL6. 3. UP records model as MK12GL (natural gas-powered). 4. UP records model as 830-7. Units 257-259 are 823-7s upgraded to 3000 horsepower (h.p.). 5. Some units moved to 2600-2659 series as partof initial renumbering plan. 6. Some units within series are 8-units and add 8 to reporting marks-no cab signals or cab appliances. 7. Some units moved to 633-665 series as part of initial renumbering plan. 8. "New" denotes unit was not a part of the roster prior to mergers. 9. Units have GP49 carbodies. 10. Units convertedfrom S040-2s and S040-2Bs. 11. Units were to occupy 2816-2821 , but S040-2 conversions have displaced them to a series not yet confirmed. 12. Unit upgraded by C&NW to S040-2 standards. 13. Series contains units specially painted in United Way and 1996 Olympic scllemes. 14. 7600-7602 built as GP40P-2. 7960-7966 are GP40R. 15. Some units moved to 2908-2916 series as part of initial renumbering plan. 16. Some units moved to 900-948 series as part of initial renumbering plan or renumbering plan finalized to include SP units. 17. UP records model as C44AC. 18. UP records model as C60AC. 19. UP records model as C6044AC. Delivered with 4390 h.p. FDL-engine, to be upgraded to 6,000 h.p. HOL-engine. 20. UP records model as S09043AC. Delivered with 4300 h.p. 71 O-engine, to be upgraded to 6,000 h.p. 265H-engine. 21 . UP records model as S090AC. 22. UP records model as C41 -8. Units were C42-8A on C&NW because of horsepower upgrade to 41 65. 23. UP records model as C41 -8W because of horsepower upgrade to 4135. 24. Units not shown on roster and to be retired include SW1 0, SW1 000, SW1 200, GP7, GP9, GP30, GP35, S07, S09, S018, S035, S040, and S045 - regardless of whether they are re built. RaiiNews

RaiiNews·51 and il1the C!Jial1ite State

, ' ' Text and Phot�graphy by' MOli�tain Division �t lntel'va[e, any interchange was 'OPPOSITE PAGE: A north­ handled at Rigby Yard in Portland, Maine. bound empty gravel train George S. Pitai'ys The freight the line did carry was gravel. After waits for the 7 a.m. New all, New' Hampshire is aptly nicknamed tl�e Granite Hampshire Northcoast State and, what is gravel but ground-up granite? crew on Guilford's No. 2 The' plentiful gravel around Ossipee was used by ommon as dirt" des�ribes something of little main line in Dover, New or no value, However, the ,"dirt" owned by B&M as ballast, and also hauled to Boston for "0 Hampshire. ABOVE: In a Ossipee Aggregates is a valuable commodity Boston Sand & Gravel. Why, you might ask, would a photograph taken from for 'an uncommon railroad, Situa'ted in east central company specialize in sand and gravel? These ingre­ ew Hampshire, Ossipee is home to one of the ,state's dients are used to manufacture concrete, and there Berwick, Maine, a north­ more interesting shortline railroads: the ew Hamp­ is an enormous market for concrete in metropolitan bound empty train skirts shire orthcoast. With its stable of six GP9s, the areas. Today's New Hampshire Northcoast exists to the Somersworth, New Northcoast OWllS and operates,approximately 40 feed that insatiable appetite. , Hampshire, side of the tlliles of the fonner Conway branch of the Boston & By the early 1980s, despite these gravel ship­ Piscataqua River, on Maine, Running to the heart of New Hampshire's fa­ ments, B&M had given up on the Conway branch. April 4, 1997. mous White Mountains, the line was very popular , However, the line only lay dormant for about six with Boston's skiers ,until the mid-1950s; " passenger 1110nths before an entrepreneur, in conjunCtion with extras were added to the regularly scheduled daily Boston Sand & Gravel, purchased the line north of trains during the height of the, season, Rochester, New Hampshire, and formed the New ' ' The branch never was a major freight contributor, Hamps[lire Northcoast. Boston Sand wanted grav­ Th,ough' it did conn�ct with Maine" Centra['s legendary el-and ' �anted it as soon as vossible-so the mas-

RaiiNews·53 sive task of clearing brush and ance of tbe Conway branch between Rochester and trees and re-opening the line Rollinsford. Each day except Sundays, between mid­ was undertaken immediately. April and mid-November (the height of the construc­ The first train operated within tion season), a Northcoast crew reports at Dover at 6 days to Boston Sand's plant in a.m., picks up an empty train, runs to the pit at .ossipee, Somerville, Massachusetts, and services or swaps powet; loads the .train, rind retums to during the following spring, ex­ Dover in early afternoon. .often, a stop is made north of tensive track rehabilitatioll pro­ Rochester to service a large propane gas dealership, jects brought much of the line NHN's other customer. At 7 p.m., a Guilford crew re­ up to 30 mph standards. ports at Dover and handles the train-sYJuboled D.oB.o The regular train opel:ated on its westward leg-to Boston's Ya rd Seven, where it from the .ossipee pit to Rochester spots the loads at fl Boston Sand & Gravel plant, pulJs on NHN's own line�. then over the empti�s together with empties from BS&G's Everett . Guilford between Rochester and plant, and· 'returns to Bover, arriving in' time for the '7 : . Tw o \IIHN Geeps are .. Rollinsfqrd, New Hampshire,. where. it joined the Guil- : a.m. NHN crew-'-beginning the cycle anew. pulling hard tiibring a foi·d. main line. At Dovei·, the train was re-crewed with .on average, the train hauls about 40 .loads of grav­ loaded train up the ramp . a Guilford' crew, who operated to Boston and return ' el each trip, more or less split evenly between BS&G's from the. Ossipee Pit spur. over track owned by the Massachusetts Bay Trans­ Somerville and Everett plants. Early in the evening, a to join the NHN main line portation Authority between the New Hampshjre­ Guilford switcher in Boston runs to Everett, via Con­ Massachusetts state line and Somerville Junction. rail's East Boston branch, and pulls the empties, in Aug�st 1993. Today's · operation is basically unchanged, although bringing them back to Boston. After D.oB.o's arrival, in fall 1993, NHN purohased and rehabilitated the bal- this switcher returns to Everett with D.oB.o's loads.

"a ROUTE OF THE - � GRAVEL TRAIN � <§>'<,i-\t. OTHER . NORTH - RAILROADS �� BARTLETT ". CONWAY (NOT ALL SHOWN)

&� : •• _---.... ABANDONED !fi " TO �((; , PORTLAND OR NOT IN USE ":J� N E '\IV ;) HAM P S H/I R E \ OSSIPEE NHN's Gravel Train � �

MAP BY TOM DANNEMAN, HEATHER BAHR, AHD DEAH SAUVOLA As tt.Je consti'uction season wanes, the trajn drops boundary between Maine and New HampshirE;) and ' to five round trips per week. Shortly after New Year's is easily shot from the highway bridge. Day, it has an approximate five-week hiatus from grav­ So if you're ever zooming north on Interstate 95 to el service while continuing to pull liquified propane catoh Cape Breton & Cenh'al Nova Scotia in Nova gas cars frOlp thy Guilford connection at Dover to the Scotia or the new Iron Road operations in Maine, gas dealership north of Rochester several times a don't overlook the quick sidetrip to Dover and the week. By mid-February, gravel service is resumed, New Hampshire Northcoast. It's an intriguing piece of building in frequency as the construction season un­ New England railroading that's likely to be in business folds. At the peak of the season, the h'ain numbers 70 for as long as the Granite State lives up to its name. cars, with five of tbe.venerable Geeps in charge. George Pitarys, trains operations manager fo r Guil­ The ,trai n is difficult to photograph on the Dover fo rd Rail Systems, lives in Hudson, New Hampshire. to Boston segment of its h' ip, except duririg the long Drcqving upon. His 21-year career as a railroader, days of summer' when its schedule keeps it from George is a fr equent contributor to RAILNEWS. RaiiNews cO]l,flicting with the MBTA's busy western route commuters.' However, the NHN segment , of the trip ' , offel."s outstanding shots and is well ' worth the "ef­ fort. On the northern end of the' ,line he�r Ossipeej ' it is fairly easy to incorporate views of the White ' Mountains. PUl:,ther south, in the Milton vicinity, several causeways are traversed; and at Somer'­ worth, the train inserts itself between the ' town 's older buildings and the Piscataqua River (the

ABOVE: Th,e bucolic ,sereni­ ty of Union; New Hamp­ shire, is shattered twice ' daily whe� NHN's gl'avel train,pounds through. On May 30, 1997, a south­ bound train passes within feet of The Old Fly Shop. LEFT:Its proximity to wa­ ter is a NHN hallmark. In August 1993, a south­ bound loaded train cross­ �s the outlet to Union Meadows at South Union, New Hampshire.

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MAIN PHOTO: On May 7, Just the sight of the gleaming railheads and the Then came the Big Silence. 1997, a westbound grain brand-new signals is a thrill. All the little things taken But the fa ns couldn't stay away. Even in a state of train-led by a trio of for granted elsewhere seem remarkable here. It is a suspended animation, Stampede continued to exert a General Electric DASH 9s, tremendous kick, for instance, to switch on your scan­ magnetic pull. It didn't hurt, of course, that 1-90 par­ threads its way along the ner and actually hear something besides meaningless allels a 20-mile segment of the line between Easton static. It's been a long, long time since a dispatcher has Yakima River between Cle and Cle Elum. If you drove across the mountains, a spoken names such as Easton, Lester, Cle Elum, and brief stop or two was irresistible, as was the chance to Elum and Ellensburg, Ya kima. Remember, Stampede Pass had been given up point your camera at those famous NP semaphore Washington. OPPOSITE for dead. Watching it come back to life-watching it masts. Has any group of defunct signals ever been PAGE, INSET: Northern Pa­ get up off the bed and start to move around the room photographed more? If you lived in the orthwest cific's logo-albeit a bit a little-is a powerful and undeniably affecting expe­ and loved trains, it was something you almost had to faded-still graces the rience, in part, of course, because the old Stampede, do-a railfan rite of passage. Ellensburg depot. the classic Stampede Pass of the orthern Pacific A little time spent communing with the ghosts of era, meant so much. This was not just any railroad. railroads past never hurt anyone. It was one of the holy places in the northwestern rail­ Of course, some people enjoy torturing themselves road universe. It is difficult to imagine a trainwatcher with tantalizing visions of what might have been, and anywhere in the state who didn't feel some sort of personal connection. For one thing, the location is right: virtually in Seattle's backyard on one side of the mountains, and Ya kima's on the other. Almost as soon as a train pulled out of town, it began slicing through tall timber, threading deep canyons, coiling up­ ward toward the summit. Riding over Stampede in a dome car (still possible during the early Amtrak years) was a truly wonderful expe­ rience, all the more so because pas- senger trains provided the only way ABOVE: In May 199G, just for the general public to see much of the western before rebuilding began, slope of the pass, part of a large, severely restricted the Stampede Pass route watershed area owned by the city of Seattle. You waits forlorn but not for­ can't drive inside the boundaries. You can't even go in on foot. According to some stories, the bath­ gotten. Today, there are rooms of the North Coast Limited and other trains two main tracks complete were locked while rolling through the area. Anyway, with concrete ties and after passenger service ended, and most freights 13G-pound welded rail. had migrated to other routes, Stampede enjoyed a final burst of glory as one of the last redoubts of Burlington orthern F-units. Long will the faithful remember the sight and the sound of those aging war horses at full bellow on the 2.2 percent.

Stampede Snohomish Monroe BN Pass

Lester - Eas..f OrF_ .. Cle Elum ! �(�> . '''ba'-'' Ellensburg

• "Il.) • • • � • To Rainier Stampede Pass To Beverly

MAP BY TOM DANNEMAN

58-October 1997 they could get off the interstate again at Cle Elum and line along the Yakima River between take the backroad down the Yakima River to Ellens­ Cle Elum and Ellensburg. Ta lk about burg, gazing sadly at the railroad all the way. This sec­ a resurrection ! Pumpkins and War­ tion belonged to Washington Central, and appeared on bonnets roll along at 40 to 50 mph, maps as an active line, but saw virtually no use. Every­ and these two sections of line (both thing about it suggested eventual abandonment. The of which offer countless photo op­ situation improved a bit at Ellensburg, however, thanks portunities without trespassing) are to a daylight Wa shington Central local scheduled to far and away the best bet for a one­ come up from Ya kima three days per week. It is true day visit to Stampede Pass, especially that the little train was often just one or two cars long, during winter and spring when high­ with no caboose on the rear and an ugly, hulking CF7 er elevations are snowed in. Besides, on the point, but still, it traversed the awesome depths when the snow finally gets around to of the Ya kima River Canyon, one of the most spectacu­ mel ting-u sual l y by mid-June, perhaps a little lar landscape features on any railroad in the state. later-train-watching opportunities at the summit are To day, much of the Yakima Canyon line has con­ limited. No, to get the most bang for your buck, the crete ties and heavy welded rail, as does much of the Cle Elum-to-Yakima segment is the safest bet.

RaiiNews·59 ABOVE: On May 7, 1997, a So, what's it like? Seattle to downtown Easton in just a hair more than Burlington Northern 8. Well, if you've watched the television show North­ an hour. And another 20 minutes or so will put you Santa Fe grain train ern Exposure you already have some idea, because trackside in Cle Elum, ready to start burning up fi lm. passes through a rich even though the show's setting was supposed to be Because this line has been in use for such a short agricultural area near Alaska, most of the exterior scenes were shot in period, operations and schedules are still very much in West Ellensburg, Wash­ Roslyn, an old coal mining town about five miles from a state of flux. However, on each of two forays in early Cle Elum. And it worked. Parts of this region really do spring I saw three trains. The most important thing to ington. BELOW: The main look like Alaska. Or maybe it would be more accurate know is that all trains change crews at Ellensburg. If a drag of Roslyn, Washing­ to say that parts of Alaska look like a typical slice of fresh crew is ready and waiting, the hand-off may take ton (a.k.a. Ciceley, Alas­ the mountain West-the area around Cle Elum and El­ just a few minutes. If not, a train can cool its heels for ka, of Nopthepn Exp o­ lensburg. Down in the lowlands, you find a classic mix an hour or two. Ellensburg is also a frequently used supe fame) sits in snowy of ponderosa pine, cottonwoods along the streams, site for meets between eastbounds and westbounds, stillness in March 1993. sagebrush hills, and irrigated fields. As for the high although long sidings (some equipped with dispatcher­ country, the Cascade Range doesn't controlled signals and switches) exist at several other need much introduction. The Alpine points too. But don't be deceived by what appears to Lakes Wilderness, which straddles be, at first glance, an operating CTC system. That may the Cascade Crest between Sno­ well come in the future, but at present, most of the qualmie Pass and Stevens Pass, is the Stampede Pass line is "dark," unsignaled territory reg­ third most heavily used Forest Ser­ ulated by track warrants. vice wilderness area in the United If you come during the winter, bring tire chains (or States. The towering peaks, including a 4x4) and watch the weather forecast like a hawk. a 9,000-foot titan named Mt. Stuart, Although 1-90 is a major highway, it is often closed the second highest non-volcanic because of heavy snowfall, avalanches, avalanche mountain in Wa shington, provide a danger, and avalanche control operations. During magnificent backdrop for railroad winter 1996-97, for example, Snoqualmie Pass en­ photos in the Ellensburg area, partic- dured 19 closures lasting more than three hours. One ularly in the morning. closure lasted three days. Basically, this is a place that makes you feel good. It Secondly, don't be taken unawares by the brisk is beautiful, yes, but not in overtly touristy way. It pace of most trains. Forty mph may not sound very seems more authentic than pretty. It is the kind of fa st, but it doesn't leave much time to be choosy place, with its quiet grandeur and laid-back atmo­ about your next photo spot. A little advance scouting sphere (not to mention Ellensburg's average rainfall of does wonders. Since everything here is right out in nine inches per year), that makes you feel as if the the open, you don't even really need a map. Just get malls, the traffic, and the overbearing yuppies of nasty on the road closest to the track and stick with it. old Seattle are on some distant planet. Except they However, if picture-taking loses some of its charm, as aren't. Now that the speed limit has been upped to 70 it often does when the light starts to go flat in the mph on much of 1-90, you can get from downtown middle of the day, two other activities recommend

GO-October 1997 themselves. The most obvious is tracing the route of the abandoned Milwaukee Road main line, which is easy to do. An even more satisfying option is hiking a trail that goes way, way up on the south rim of the Yakima River Canyon and provides mind-boggling aerial views of the ra ilroad. The climb (about 600- 700 vertical feet) is steep, sweaty work, but well worth it. To find the trailhead, look for the well­ marked "Umtanum Creek Recreation Area" between highway mileposts 16 and 1 7, park your car and cross the little suspension bridge. Be advised, that while fears of rattlesnakes are usually exaggerated, the ven­ omous reptiles are here. So are ticks. Bear in mind, too, that the narrow, twisting highway through the canyon is one of the most dangerous roads in the state, mainly because people flock to the river on hot summer weekends, drink, and then get behind the wheel. Most of us would probably prefer facing a rat­ tier than a drunk driver any day. Fall is the most appealing time for photographers BELOW: The Stampede in the canyon, with windblown, heartsick blue skies route traverses diverse and cottonwoods that turn a breathtaking shade of scenery Irom dry desert gold. It's awesome. Of course, we haven't had a to lush lorests. On June chance to put a diesel in our viewfinders-aside from 15, 1997, just east 01 the one pulling that little Washington Central local, Easton, Washington, a plus a few BNSF SD40-2s on work trains last year­ westbound Ireight sinks along the Yakima in autumn for a long, long time. its teeth into the 2.2 per­ Hundreds of able photographers are no doubt champ­ ing at the bit, and with all of that pent-up enthusiasm cent climb to Stampede unleashed at once, some spectacular images will \11- Tu nnel. The Yakima River evitably result. Here's to good shooting. RaiiNews lIows in the background.

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ASPEN, COLORADO bardier and GEC Alsthom consortium. The Ridership on Metra's year-old North Cen­ units will be similar to those ordered last year tral commuter rail route to Antioch has been LRT Gets ROW by Amtrak and will operate on MARC 's so strong that the agency is readying a five­ Northeast Corridor commuter rail route be­ year program to double-track the entire Wis­ The proposed light rail system for the Aspen, tween Baltimore and Washington, D.C. consin Central line north from Franklin Park. Colorado, area received a boost July 1 when Scheduled non-revenue test service on the During the first full month of service last year, Union Pacific sold its 33-mile Aspen Branch to Hunt Valley extension of the Central Light Rail eight trains were carrying a daily average of the Roaring Fork Railroad Holding Authority Line started July 21. This increased the rolling 2,125 passengers. By June of this year, the to­ for $8.5 million. Supporters were anxious to stock requirement from 10 two-car trains to 12. tal had surpassed 3,600 on 10 daily trains. purchase the former Denver & Rio Grande The line was scheduled to open September 8. The conversion of the O'Hare airport stop in­ We stern right-of-way, last used in 1991, fear­ to a fu ll-fledged station with longer platforms ing Union Pacific would sell it off for develop­ CHICAGO is complete. Double tracking will be accom­ ment. Light rail is widely supported because of plished in stages, first by lengthening the increasing tourist traffic and decreasing air Service Cuts line's four sidings, then connecting all the sid­ quality. However, before any LRVs can start ings into a full second track. First to be ex­ running, a special taxing district would have A tight budget and low ridership triggered tended will be the siding at Lake Villa with to be formed to supplement anticipated feder­ widespread reductions in service by the Chicago others to follow as funding is received. The al funds for construction. If lightweight diesel Transit Authority despite protests by community entire program will cost $125 million and will cars are used, the total cost is estimated at activists who claimed that senior citizens and include upgraded signals, new stations, and $200-$300 million. the poor will be hurt. Reductions on the L sys­ expanded parking. When completed, there tem are limited to weekend and early morning will be a daily capacity of 22 trains. BALTIMORE trains, with bus passengers affected most. "There just doesn't appeal' to be any money FORT WORTH More Locomotives, LRT Extension (from federal or state sources) in the pipeline," said CTA President David Mosena. Closer Connections The Maryland Mass Transit Administration "The alternative to the service cuts would have has awarded a $52 million contract for six been a fare increase ...that would have af­ Trinity Railway Express facilities in downtown high-speed electric locomotives to a Bom- fected 100 percent of our riders." Fort Worth have been modified to provide a

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RaiiNews-S3 more efficient bus transfer facility and, at the days later, allows both the Las Vegas Regional million. Now, the MTA will have to use its re­ same time, save $10 million. The city council Transportation Conmlission and the private sec­ serve funds to cover the shortfall in 1998. The has approved placing the transfer center on tor to build compatible monorail rapid transit question now being asked is how long the re­ Jones Street, adjacent to the Ninth Street sta­ systems. The measure specifically authorizes the serves will last. A final decision on how much tion. The original plan had placed the bus sta­ RTC to consider turnkey proposals for a $1.1 funding L.A will get was to be made by a tion on Vickery Boulevard, more than 700 feet billion line connecting the city' casino strip, House-Senate conference committee prior to from the former Texas & Pacific Railroad sta­ downtown, convention center, and airport. In the passage of the federal budget. Meanwhile, tion. The T&P station will still be restored and addition, the agency would not be forced to ac­ July 1 saw midday headways on the 5.3-mile will serve as the western terminal for Trinity cept the lowest bidder. The RTC, which has se­ operating segment of the Red Line extend from trains when service is extended next year. lected monorail as its preferred transit technolo­ every eight minutes to every 10 minutes as part gy, insists it could build a better system if it had of the MTA's cost reduction program. At LAS VEGAS the option to shop around for the best hard­ 35,000 boat'dings a day, subway ridership is ware. The bill also allows development of pri­ about 10,000 below projections. Monorail Plan Advances vately funded but government-supervised mono­ rail systems, such as those proposed by the casi­ NEW JERSEY A complex bill approved by the Nevada legisla­ no operators to connect one hotel with another. ture July 5, and signed by Gov. Bob Jones 10 One short monorail is already running between South Jersey LRT Advances the MGM Grand and Bally hotels. The RTC will be asking the federal government for $405 mil­ A light rail system for the Trenton-Camden lion to fund its proposal, but it will need another corridor came a little closer to reality June 14 Comin in 5e tember ... $550 million in state or local matching funds to when the New Jersey Transit Board of Direc­ g p complete the project. Sources for that money tors appropriated another $22 million for ad­ have yet to be identified. The initial segment will vanced design, engineering, and contract de­ be the 5.2-mile northern leg, running from near velopment work. Consultants Daniel, Mann, Cashman Field, through downtown Las Vegas Johnson, and Mendenhall started the job un­ and out to the Convention Center on Paradise der two earlier contracts totaling $17.5 mil­ Road. Another section is being planned by the lion and expect to finish by the end of 1998, Hilton/MGM group to extend service to the Las when the board will decide whether to move Vegas Hilton, adjacent to the convention centet: ahead with the next phase: selecting a consor­ tium to construct the 33-mile line under a de­ LOS ANGELES sign-build-operate-maintain contract. The route is expected to follow the Delaware River Red Line Funding Cut waterfront through Burlington County, provid­ ing multiple connections to New Jersey Tran­ The Metropolitan Transportation Authority sit, Amtrak, SEPTA, and PATCO and bus ser­ may face a funding bind if Congress continues vices in Trenton and Camden. reducing annual appropriations for Red Line construction. The Senate Appropriations Sub­ NEW YORK CITY committee recommended spending just $51 million on the troubled project next yeat; signif­ State OKs Funding icantly less than the initial House figure of $76 Alco � Glamour Girl. million and far less than the MTA would like. A massive $12 billion transit program for the Andy Romano's definitive study of Two years ago, the $6. 1 billion Red Line was New York City region that will pay for 1,080 everybody's favorite passenger Diesel. given $100 million, and the agency said then it new subway cars and numerous other im­ wasn't enough. But after hearing of the Senate provements was approved unanimously by AII-color - 1 28 pages - Hardcover subcommittee vote, the MTA's Interim CEO New York state officials July 12. The cars, 680 ORDER No w Linda Bohlinger tried to sound positive. 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64-0ctober 1997 Italy in Manhattan. The station serves more ing policy after a second accident resulted in 519,000 recorded in 1990. Metro officials than 17,000 riders a day yet has only a single the write-off of a brand new Breda LRY. Both credited the increase to a booming economy, entrance. The program, the most expensive in wrecks occurred at the same spot-a steep fare stability, and land use planning that con­ MTA history, contains $15 million to restore and curving section of the J Line near 18th centrates development around many stations. reductions in transit service made two years and Church streets in the Mission District. The report was issued prior to the June 29 ago. Also included is $30 million to start the The first accident last December involved two opening of the Franconia-Springfield station, slimmed-down, $315 million conversion of the of the agency's older Boeing cars that were where more than 10,000 weekday boardings former central post office adjacent to Penn towing a disabled unit to the Green mainte­ are being recorded. To handle these new rid­ Station into a new Amtrak station. The New nance facility at Balboa Park. A coupling ers, and those to be generated by extensions Yo rk City Transit Authority will receive about failed, and the 'dead' car rolled backward, de­ now under construction, Metro is seeking bids $9.08 billion with Metro-North and the LIRR railed, and smashed several parked cars be­ on 80 new aluminum cars costing about $2 splitting the remaining $2.9 billion. fore overturning. Then, on June 23, two of the million each. $2.2 million Bredas were towing a third LRV Thanks to Leo King, Steve Morga n, To dd NEW YORK up the same incline, but this time they were Sestero, Va n. Wi lkins, Darrell Richards, an.d apparently traveling too fast when they crest­ fames Bow. Cooler Subway ed the hill. One car derailed, and all three rolled downhill. Unable to stop, they crashed Julian Wolinsky Long-sweltering New York subway passengers into an automobile and wiped out a boarding using the IRT's Grand Central station will be platform for the handicapped. 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Passen­ 120 B&W Photos. item No, RR003 $29.95 gers, elected officials, and community activists WISCONSIN CENTRAL LIMITED SAN FRANCISCO 1987-1996 Photo Archive pressured the SEPTA board so intensely that it not In only 10 years, the Wisconsin Central Limited has grown only saved the line but approved increased service BART Gets Airport OK, New CalTrains from a ragtag collection of castoff engines & railcars oper­ and incentive programs, such as free tickets, to ating along former Soo Line routes, to become one of the most successful, aggressive, & exciting regional railroads stimulate patronage. In less than a year; tidership On July 1, the federal government finally in the U.S. This is a photo history of the equipment & op­ increased by 67 percent. Now SEPTA, with fm an­ signed a long-anticipated full funding agree­ erations that have served this railroad through its first de­ cial help from towns along the line, is Sptucing up ment with the Bay Area Rapid Transit Dis­ cade. 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cars back to the plants. The problem, accord­ ing to Davis, was an ongoing locomotive shortage and a shortage of train crew . It didn't help that the financially strapped SP hadn't hired operating employees locally for about a decade, or that a number of SP work­ ers had joined Burlington orthern & Santa Fe to run its new Houston-New Orleans and Houston-Memphis trains. Congestion made it more difficult for UP to serve its customers. Louisiana & Delta report­ ed in early August that the carbon black plants it serves were on the verge of shutting down because SP was picking up outbound loads just once a week. With sidings used for storage and main lines overburdened with trains, it became nearly impossible to get across the two Hous­ ton-New Orleans routes, as passengers on the routinely hours-late Sunset Limited learned. One eastbound BNSF train from Silsbee, Texas, to New Orleans sat 11 hours at the SP connection in Beaumont waiting for authority to enter the line. To keep transcontinental traffic from disappearing, UP rerouted many Bruce Kelly New Orleans-California stack trains via for­ mer Texas & Pacific through Dallas beginning In a rare circumstance, Union Pacific train OIllEP uses the Coeur d'Alene Branch to clear the in july. Southbound trains were sidetracked in main line to meet another train on May 1 G, 1997. The OLVEP is stopped at milepost 1 on the branch. Oklahoma and Arkansas because there was no room for them in Te xas. When shippers such as Exxon, Chevron, SERVICE caused by the continued strong demand for and Dow pick up the phone, UP Chairman chemicals and plastics. "This is pure boom busi­ Dick Davidson listens, and you can bet their Gulf Coast Meltdown ness in the Houston market. The petrochemical complaints rated his full attention. By early business has just taken off," UP spokesman August, UP claimed "the downward spiral in During june and july, Union Pacific and South­ Mark Davis told the HOUSTON CHRONICLE. Houston has been stemmed" and publicized a ern Pacific operations congealed into gridlock Unfortunately, UP didn't have the resources new plan to address the congestion. In partic­ from an unanticipated increase in local traffic to move additional carloads and cycle empty ular, UP hoped to implement new Houston hub labor agreements by September 16 per­ mitting UP and SP crews to operate over each other's territory. Immediate fixes include origi­ * A NEW SUPER VIDEO RELEASE * nating more eastbound trains at SP's Strang Ya rd, allowing traffic to bypass Englewood Ya rd in Houston, and moving carloads of Three D's Rail Videos stored in transit plastics from Strang and En­ Presents glewood to UP's Spring, Texas, and Alexan­ dria, Louisiana yards. Longer-term measurcs involve hiring 200 new employees and asking BNSF KANSAS 100 others to relocate from other UP sites to AUGUSTA TO EAST JUNCTION Houston, establishing directional running on UP and SP lines between Houston and Fort

Imagine a stretch of single track, 14 miles long with two 6700 foot sidings. Then, add 45 to 70 + trains Worth, completing the Livonia Yard expan­ in a given 24 hOllr period and you have Augusta to East Junction, one of the most saturated sections sion, and building additional tracks at Engle­ of single track in the world. Almost all BNSF hot lntermodals, Auto and Manifest traffic funnels into wood and the Coady, Texas yard. this area to and from New York, lIIinois, Kansas, Oklahoma, Te xas, New Mexico, Arizona and Meanwhile, UP reported August 13 that ser­ vice to Mexico via Laredo, Texas, was improv­ California. It's a dispatcher's nightmare --- and a railfan's dream' There's lots of new power as well ing after problems associated with transfer of as the fast fad ing blue & yellow. You'll also see Union Pacific coal drags. We are pleased to be able Mexico's northeastern lines to Tra nsportacion to bring you this fast-paced action and let you see for yourself the non-stop parade. It's a I hour and Ferroviara Mexicana had reduced volume by minute adventure that you won't fo rget any time soon. (Available in VHS only) Inunediate delivery. 45 two-thirds during june. Because TFM initially was short of power and crews, it couldn't ac­ $33.95 (Add $3.00 Shipping, $1.00 All major credit cards accepted or send check or money order to: cept most of the southbound traffic UP wanted for each additional tape.) Three D's Rail Videos to deliver. At one point UP had I I trains tied Te xas Residents add 8.25% sales tax P.O. Box 57867 up north of Laredo. By mid-August, the num­ ber of cars entering Mexico had returned to E-Mail: [email protected] Webster, TX 77598 300-500 per day, lip from a low of 136, and Website: www.three-ds-rail-videos.com Call To ll Free:1-888-271-1726 most of the backlog had been eliminated.

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• Unit by unit roster of the newest UP On August II, the CHICAGO TRIBU E reported will be elimination of the wall-sized video Locomotives. Includes C&NW a UP proposal to build a new intermodal ter­ displays in the HOC "bunker" showing the merged Locomotives. minal on land leased by the DuPage County location of trains on the railroad; they will be Airport Authority adjacent to the West Chica­ replaced with individual desktop screens for go, Illinois, yard. The $97.5 million facility each dispatcher. • Unit by unit history including renumbering, rebuilding and would employ 450 people and permit UP to The 18-mile remnant of C&NW's Cowboy continue expanding its Chicago trailer and Line in the Casper, Wyoming, vicinity, along disposition. container volume without cannibalizing more with the trackage rights over BNSF from Orin, carload trackage at Proviso Yard. Trains bound Wyoming, to reach it, were put up for aban­ • Complete UP roster for: for eastern connections would use the Elgin, donment by UP in July. April, 1996 Joliet & Eastern east of the new yard, notwith­ Reconstruction of SP's line between Whar­ standing the stalemate currently existing with ton and Victoria, Texas, abandoned in 1993, is • Current C&NW renumbering West Chicago over construction of a new con­ the objective of the Gulf Coast Rural Railroad nection there. Union Pacific says use of EJ&E District. After SP pulled up the track, the dis­ • Spotting features - body panels, fa ns would reduce the number of freight trains on trict obtained an injunction in 1994 prevent­ and pilots. the commuter line east from West Chicago by ing SP from selling the right-of-way, which re­ 20 percent. Construction of the terminal is not mains in force. The district is now trying to

• 224 pages with even more photos. definite; two hotel developments also have condemn the property. Te xas Mexican is inter­ been proposed for the land. ested in using the right-of-way as a possible Another new intermodal terminal is cutoff shortening its present trackage rights Only $29.95 planned on the Central Corridor east of Reno, over SP via Flatonia. However, the $60 million Nevada. Meanwhile, UP is building new vehi­ cost of constructing new track on the 62-mile Plus $4.00 shipping/handling cle terminals at San Antonio and Amarillo, corridor remains a substantial deterrent. Order from: Texas, and at Santa Rosa, New Mexico, in an­ Correction to our August column: The John ticipation of the Ford mixing center program, Larkin associated with the Missouri Central Willamette Falls Publications scheduled to begin January 1. Existing termi­ shortline proposal is not the John Larkin who 11831 S.W. 3rd nals at Las Vegas, Phoenix, Denver, Tu lsa, is president of Escanaba & Lake Superior. Thanks to Mike Abalos, Brad Alexandel; Beaverton, Oregon 97005 Galena Park, and Mesquite (Dallas), Texas, are being expanded. Ford shifted certain Michael M. Bartels, Daile Burton, Dallid R. Chicago-Texas traffic from BNSF to UP in Au­ Busse, Rob Carlson, Chuck Donaldson, Still available: gust in recognition of UP's efforts. Michael Ellis, Bill Farmer, Te d Ferkenhoff, Vo lume 1: Diesel Cabs $29.95 President Jerry Davis visited Roseville July Ken Fitzgerald, FOAMER LIS.,; Larry Gibbs, Plus $4.00 shipping/handling 26 to look over the yard reconstruction project. Maury Gibson, Paul Grice, Tim /ohnson, Ken By that time, removal of old trackage was near­ Kirgan, Bryan Loftin, OS Lis.,; /oe McMillan, ly complete, and yard buildings were scheduled Chris Palmieri, Mike Pee/mel; Bryan Pieper, to come down next. Reconstruction began in RS LIST, Tim Ten nant, /ohn To lmachoff: September, on an announced budget of $128.9 STREAMLINER LIST, THE MIXED TIIAIN, UP ON­ million. The project includes 85 miles of new LINE, UP UPDATE, Bill Wa ldrop, Rich Wa llace, track, installation of new switches, construction and Evan Werkema. of five new buildings , and landscaping. Ro­ seville yard was built by SP in 1906 and rebuilt Mike Blaszak and Brian Jennison

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Chad O'Connor has built or reconstructed SECOND QUARTER Canadian Pacific hopes to begin construc­ his own operating steam boat, tugboat, auto­ tion of a new $27.5 million intermodal termi­ mo bile, truck, Plans for the Future nal in the southeast side of Calgary. In late July, and locomotive. the city council approved the sale of 100 acres He designed Canadian Pacific increased revenues and prof­ of land along CP trackage for the new facility, itability during second quarter 1997. Operating which will initially benefit Alberta and eastern steam power income rose by $14 million to $130 million. British Columbia, but ultimately could support plants, rebuilt Freight revenues increased 3 percent to $903 North American Free Trade Agreement-driven over a dozen million because of higher Canadian grain, north-south traffic moving between Canada steam locomo­ potash, and intermodal volumes. For the bal­ and the United States (estimated to have in­ tives, and con­ ance of 1997, CP expects cost reductions and creased 43 percent in the past three years). The structed the strong movements of coal and grain to continue. railroad's current intermodal terminal at Alyth The railroad's financial position was aided Yard is running out of space and may be con­ Jupiter and by three mid-summer transactions that netted verted to additional trackage. The new facility No. 119 that more than $1 billion: the sale of its stake in will operate around the clock, employ 27, and operate today Laidlaw, a transportation company based in handle 400 truck movements per day. at the Golden Burlington, Ontario; the selection of Genesee Spike Nation­ Rail-One (GRO) to lease the line between Sault SOO LINE al Historic Ste. Vie and Sudbury, Ontario; and the sale of various lines in Quebec, including the Quebec More Investment in Soo Line Site. 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74· October 1997 ILLINOIS & MIDLAND Equipment Update

Illinois & Midland logos have been applied to the front, rear, and cab sides of the five former Illinois Central SD20s. On several of the units, the white Chicago & Illinois Midland lettering on the long hoods has also been painted out and replaced with black I&M sten­ cils. The new SW1 500s are the only units to be painted in the Genesee & Wyoming Inc. corporate colors, and the five SW1 200s (18, 20-23) they replaced have been sold to the David J. Joseph Company and stenciled DJRX. The SD9s (50, 52-54) are for sale. At least one, No. 53, is set up for remote control oper­ ation as is one of the former C&IM cabooses. It has been repainted orange, relettered as I&M 273, and is used at a coal unloading fa­ cility. All units remaining on the roster are to be repainted, but the SD20s will most likely be the last to see orange, as the green-and-red paint scheme is just over a year old. The two venerable RS 1325s remain in ser­ Jell Hampton vice; o. 30 was being rebuilt and will probably be repainted in orange GWI corporate colors. On June 9, 1997, a Wisconsin Central Geep ushers the Burlington Local as it passes its name­ sake depot. Wisconsin Central engineers and conductors recently voted lor union representation. Mike lOllitsch

WILLAMETTE & PACIFIC 6. The former Burlington Northern caboose will also be used as a meeting center for Federal New Acquisitions RAILFANS! Railroad Administration training and classes. Watch for the 1998 locomotive Bob Steele & Associates of Forest Grove, Ore­ The sale of Burlington Northern & Santa Fe gon, rebuilt the car, installing paneling, carpet­ rosters COMING SOON! trackage in northern Oregon was completed ing, electric heat, a standard toilet, and com­ DPA-LTA Enterprises Inc. July 1 1, wi th Portland & Western assuming plete rewiring. The caboose will receive a spe­ po Box 3000 Champlain, NY 12919-3000 control on July 12. (The United Transportation cial version of GWI orange and black. Union had opposed the sale in front of the Former P&S SW1 200M 1774 will be the Surface Transportation Board.) first unit to be repainted by the W&P Albany The base of operations is at St. Helens; Shops, emerging as W&P 1202, the St. He­ W9RLD TRAINTRA VrU weekday service will be offered with a unit lens, after its assigned town, assuming the As­ ... is our specialty. The Society of International Railway Tra velers offers carefully crafted rail itineraries. 549.95 based at Linnton and St. Helens. Initial motive toria Line is purchased. annual membership i ncludes trip discou nts, newsletter power was former Pittsburgh & Shawmut \k�i:;' �ISil�,,;��I��Oblt6d; SW 1 200M 1201 and W&P 2304. Portland & Mike lollitsch Louisville, KY 40205. Money­ We stern caboose 4 was also moved to the new back guarantee. Visa, Me, check. Call (800) IRT-4881. line. Trackage rights from P&W/B SF at WISCONSIN CENTRAL Brooklyn (near Portland) to Wall bridge were to be furnished by BNSF; however, the railroad Welcome the Union was unable to do so. As a result, the new P&W xperience the Golden Age of section will be isolated from the remainder of On July 18, Wisconsin Central lost the Railroading as you journey the system, relying on B SF to move P&W distinction of being the largest non-union rail­ through spectacular Crawford equipment. Portland & Western is working to road in the United States. According to UTU ENotch (51/2 hrs.) or travel through the expedite negotiations with BNSF on acquiring International President Charles L. Little, the scenic New Hampshire countryside on the "Valley Train" with departures to and re-opening the dormant 7 . I-mile Cornelius ballots cast "showed that Wisconsin Central Conway (55 min.) or Bartlett (W4 hrs.) Pass line running from Bowers Junction on the conductors and engineers were concerned P&W to United Junction on the newly acquired about their futures and concerned about their Astoria Line. This connection will provide jobs." Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Two Great Trains, seamless P&W trackage, allowing direct access International President Clarence Monin said Three Unique Excursions! for shippers on the Astoria Line to the rest of safety concerns were a major factor, stating VA LLEY TRAIN the P& W IWillamette & Pacific system. "we have an agency responsible for safety, but Weekends: mid-April to mid-May, Nov. & Dec. Daily: mid-May thru October Genesee & Wyoming Inc. submitted its bid it is the workers who have to make sure their for the BNSF Grays Harbor lines in Washing­ jobs are safe ....Their vote was necessary. NOTCH TRAIN Tues.-Sat., June 24-Sept. 8 ton. If G&W is successful, it will create a new They had a need to join themselves together Daily: Sept. 9-0ct. 17 railroad to work closely with established affili­ and speak collectively with one voice." Send SASE for free brochure. ates P&W and W&P. The Grays Harbor lines Only 12 votes kept the UTU from repre­ are just west of Seattle and include the 56.8- senting all of WC's train service employees. . - .. mile Centralia-Elma-Hoquiam line, 68.4 miles The recent FRA safety audits and WC's previ­ of line from Elma through Shelton and Bremer­ ous attempts at using one-person crews may CONWAY SCENIC ton Junction to BangOl; and a 5.3-mile line from have influenced WC's train service employees, RAILROAD Bremerton Junction to Bremerton. However, Both UTU's Little and BLE's Monin com­ approximately 48 miles of the line north of mended the efforts of their organizations. At Shelton is owned by the U.S. Navy and will be press time, no official comment had offered by operated under obligation by the new catTier. WC management. Willamette & Pacific recently completed work on its new conference car, lettered WPRR Mike Abalos and Ray Weart

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was a natural nucleus for the network of electrified interurban railroads appearing after the turn of the century. The interurbans thrived briefly at the rail­ Relics Battle roads' expense, even building a monumental terminal of their own in 1904, before collapsing under the on­ slaught of motor vehicles and paved roads. Railroad activity at Union Station waned as well: 64 daily passenger trains in 1946, 43 in 1953, 19 in Today's Economy 1963, and a mere six when Amtrak began operation in 1971. Deteriorating Penn Central track forced Amtrak to reroute the Floridian and lames Whit­ comb Riley/George Wa shington (later the Cardinal) around Indianapolis, and the sole remaining east­ west train, the National Limited, died in the Carter Administration cutbacks of October 1979. Though Amtrak meekly returned to the Indi­ anapolis market with its Hoosier State in 1980 and rerouted the now-triweekly Cardinal back through town in 1986, the maintenance, staffing, lighting, and heating of a large century-old building built to serve hundreds of trains can't be paid from the pas­ senger revenue of two. Discontinuance of the Hoosier State eventually reduced that to one. The city of Indianapolis, to its credit, decided Union Station was too important to be reduced to landfill like the depots in neighboring Dayton and Columbus, Ohio. It acquired the structure and spon­ sored a plan to revive it as a shopping center. Or "festival marketplace," to employ the buzz­ word made famous by developments such as Balti­ more's Inner Harbor. Over $17 million in govern­ ment grants and loans anchored a $50 million recon­ struction of the building in the mid- 1980s. Stuffed into the ancient edifice were upscale restaurants, Mike W. Blaszak niche-market retailers, and a railroad-theme Holiday Inn offering hotel accommodations in retired passen­ Shown in November 1975, Indianapolis Union Station is now facing an uncertain future. ger cars. All this exiled Amtrak-an afterthought of this urban renewal scheme-to a walled-off sliver of the trainshed. Re-opened in 1986, Union Station was rown glass bottle in a paper bag. Abandoned quickly rediscovered by tourists and locals alike, log­ �under the steel viaducts supporting the main ging 8 million visitors in its first year. lines of the Pennsylvania and the New Yo rk Could this be, I wondered during my first visit to ommercial Central, this relic remains my most vivid memory from Union Station after the re-opening, the same forlorn my first visit to Indianapolis Union Station on a fa ll af­ building that once functioned mainly as a magnet for ternoon in the late 1960s. Like the bottle, standing in­ alcoholics? Happy crowds swirled through the restored reuse of tact above a crunchy expanse of broken glass, the de­ station to the ringing of cash registers and the sliding of serted station had somehow survived the disastrous credit card imprinters. I'm glad I was wrong. In spite of Cold railroad decline of rail passenger service and avoided the fate my 1960s fears, the story of this nearly abandoned ter­ of the derelict buildings surrounding it. For how much minal had reached a glorious end. longer I wondered, as I emerged into the sunlight stations re­ warming the station's red-brick walls. BUT MY JUDGMENT ONCE AGAIN proved too hasty. Indianapolis claims it invented the Union Station What I was witnessing was not bedrock economic vi­ mains a risky concept, a tremendous convenience to travelers who tality, but a trend, a fad. Times were good in the late were no longer forced to tote their baggage from one 1980s, and festival marketplace shopping for novel­ railroad terminal to another to make connections. By ties, knick-knacks, and fancy toys in historic sur­ business the 1880s, railroading's golden decade, a new build­ roundings was a new experience for the suburban ing was needed to handle the passengers, mail, and middle class. The newness soon wore off. express flowing through Indiana's capital city. The Foot traffic through the station never again railroads serving Indianapolis settled on a magnifi­ reached first-year heights. Tenant receipts stagnated, cent Romanesque revival structure with a tall clock then dropped. By the recession year of 1991, the two tower and commodious trainshed. Opened in 1888, private developers who oversaw the station's redevel­ the new Union Station soon hosted more than 200 opment had suffered enough. They sold out to Balcor daily trains of varnished wooden passenger cars Corporation, the real estate arm of American Ex­ pulled by the spindly American and Ten-Wheeler press, for about $22 million, losing their entire in­ steam locomotives of Indianapolis's 13 railroads. vestment. Baleor couldn't reverse the tide, particular­ However, decline was inevitable as technology ad­ ly after a brand-new downtown shopping mall, Circle vanced. Located in Indiana's flatlands, Indianapolis Centre, opened a couple of blocks away in 1995. Cir-

7S-0ctober 1997 c1e Centre boasted trendy retailers and restau­ Fortunately for the Rouse Company, which evitably more expensive and inconvenient to rants that didn't even exist when Union Sta­ manages the building, there hasn't been a maintain and operate than a "big box" retail tion opened in 1986, and it quickly became steep drop-off in the 5 million shoppers pass­ center erected in a cornfield at the city's edge. the "in" place to shop downtown. ing through St. Louis Union Station each year. Indianapolis, for example, faces a $2.7 million The city of Indianapolis bought the station Rouse hopes consolidating small shops into bill to reroof and tuckpoint its Union Station. for just $3.2 million that year to keep the doors larger more profitable blocks and luring a des­ For a redeveloped terminal to maintain its from closing, but its economics kept getting tination restaurant such as a Hard Rock Cafe, prosperity, continual freshening and a healthy worse. In 1996 only 2.7 million visitors passed will keep the storied building from becoming flow of foot traffic are vital. through those doors, and they found less and another Indianapolis Union Station. I t's no surprise that the station renovations less to see or do. Shops and eateries closed or Or Kansas City Union Station. The saga generally judged most successful-Washing­ moved away, creating a stagnant, menacing at­ of Kansas City Union Station since Amtrak ton, Philadelphia, Los Angeles-are those that mosphere inside the old monument. Late that pulled out in 1985 has been a civic embar­ coincided with revival of the rail passenger year, just a third of the building's 163 ,000 rassment. Rescue plans fa iled miserably as service that the stations were designed to han­ rentable square feet remained under lease. It the great limestone hulk became embroiled dle in the first place. These buildings don't cost the city $50,000 a month just to keep the in litigation. Finally, in last November's elec­ face the challenge of converting unused train­ landmark on life support. tions, frustrated local voters approved a sheds to rentable space, and the trains supply "We're dropping below critical mass in the sales tax increase to pump $118 million into a continuing flow of customers to whom sta­ station," Mayor Stephen Goldsmith observed in the abandoned building, converting it to a tion retail is a convenience. Contrast rail traf­ ovember 1996. Concluding "I have a responsi­ science museum. The restoration is supposed fic at these locations with the nearly nonexis­ bility to reduce. the taxpayer cost," Goldsmith to be completed by 1999, but Amtrak won't tent schedules at Indianapolis, St. Louis, or decided Union Station's retail and restaurant ar­ be a part of it. In place of the west train­ Kansas City, and it's easy to understand why eas would close in April 1997, after the NCAA sheds-the east sheds already have been dis­ those station conversions have struggled. I'd men's basketball finals in the RCA Dome, unless placed by office buildings-will rise a plane­ like to be more optimistic about the fate of a viable redevelopment scheme materialized tarium and an [MAX theater. these fine old buildings, but I'm afraid they'll from the private sector by February 14. end up as three brown bottles standing incon­ The odds against that happening, of THE COMMON THREAD IN THE RECENT histories gruously above a deserted wasteland. RailNcws course, were as long as those facing the more of these aging landmarks is that commercial obscure participants in the round-ball tourney. reuse of old railroad stations remains a risky "[t obviously is a tough structure to build out business. The initial euphoria over conversion in any adaptive reuse," conceded City Devel­ of the buildings to retail inevitably wears off. RAIL INVESTMENT SERVICE opment Manager Evert Hauser. "Originally, it Over the long run, shopping centers in sta­ For free research repons on investment opportunities was a train station and it worked well as that." tions have to compete with suburban malls in the Rail Sector, please call K. Eric Crook toll free: The city dismissed proposals to convert the for customers' dollars, just as the trains they ===1-800-456-5794 === or Write K. Eric Crook, Assistant Vice President building to an Indiana state museum or a once housed fought battles to the death with . MERRILL LYNCH storehouse of Coca-Cola memorabilia. "All the autos and jets. Sadly, an old station is in- � 877 East Main Street proposals are soft, all are speculative," Gold­ Riverhead, NY 11901 smith complained at one point. The best available option, the city an­ nounced in March, would be to eliminate most of the station's retail space, enlarge the hotel, and build more parking. Like the station's retail space, the 275-room hotel has been unprof­ itable for years. Hospitality industry experts think that's because the hotel is too small. Un­ der the new plan, 70 suites with kitchens, living rooms and bedrooms would be built in the west end of the trainshed, while stores and restau­ rants in the east end would be replaced by a two-level, 240-space parking lot. The hotel hopes to lure a well-known restaurant into the old waiting room, but the festival marketplace of past years will vanish in favor of a pedestrian bridge leading toward Circle Centre Mall.

A FA ILURE IN ITS FIRST REINCARNATION, Indi­ anapolis Union Station faces an uncertain fu­ ture as it awaits its second. And it has compa­ ny. Just 250 miles west, the vaunted redevelop­ ment of St. Louis Union Station is also falling flat. Completed in 1894 and later enlarged to become perhaps the biggest facility of its kind, this station lost its last trains in 1978 and was redeveloped as a festival marketplace and hotel in 1985. Enormously successful at first, St. Louis Union Station has grown "tired," in the argot of shopping center developers. The hotel changed management, the movie theater closed and landmark restaurant Dierdorf & Hart is planning to move to a livelier venue. Upscale retailers such as Eddie Bauer, which opened its first St. Louis-area store in the station, now have additional outlets in the suburbs. Nega­ tive perceptions about public safety and the $4 charge for parking don't give suburbanites much of a reason to shop downtown.

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Train Master At the time of its introduction in 1953, the Fairbanks-Morse Train Master was the most powerful single-engine road-switcher unit available to the railroad industry. Train Master The MostUseJllI Loc:omorwe £"cr Built Marketed by FM as "the most useful locomotive ever built," the TM hauled Southern Pacific commuters up and down the San Francisco peninsula, moved coal on the Virginian Railway from West Virginia mines to Atlantic Ocean ports, and pushed trains over the Appalachian mountains on the Pennsy. The 2,400-horsepower H24-66 lived up to its billing, but on a much smaller scale than that for which its designers had hoped - 127 Train Masters were built for eight U.S. and two Canadian customers. 112 pages with 24 in color, 250+ crisp color and black-and-white photos, 8.5" x 11" vertical format on 80# heavyweight stock, four-color cover, perfect bound, price $29.95 plus $3.50 p&h

EMD's SD60 Series - Steppingstone to the 21st Century An in-depth look at the locomotive model that was the predecessor to today's SDBOMA Cs and SD90MA Cs.

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GE's Dash 8 - C Series: The Diesel Era's Third Generation With this model, GE became the country's number-one locomotive builder.

In November 1 987, General Electric assembled the first locomotive of what many consider to be the third generation of America's diesel era. Painted and lettered for its owner, Union Pacific, the 391 ,OOO-pound giant introduced the latest in computer technology, coupled to a 4,000-horsepower, 16-cylinder prime mover. This highly illustrated volume covers all the six-axle Dash 8 owners (U.S. and Canadian) in action, roster, and detailed views. 120 pages, 250+ color and black-and-white photos, 8.5" x 11" vertical format on 80# heavy­ C-Liners weight stock, four-color cover, perfect bound, retail $24.95 plus $3.50 p&h

C-Liners - FM's Consolidation Line of Locomotives We offer a salute to each of the seven U.S. and Canadian railroads that operated these distinctive streamlined units.

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