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2 NUMBER 224 (JUNE, 1980) Pacific No. 224 JUNE, 1980 PUBLISHED LATE NOVEMBER Me s VOLUME 20 NO.6
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PACIFIC NEWS 3 TRANSFER OF SIERRA RAILROAD DELAYED BY COURTS however, is expected until at least spring of 1981, GOLDEN STATE RAILS The Chicago owner of a nationwide medical assuming satisfactory negotiations continue .• A California Railroading Pictorial supply company has bought the Sierra Railroad $8.95 postpaid in California and hopes to take advantage of STOCK CAR REVIVAL? CATTLE'S 'PULLMAN' DESIGNED rising fuel costs, which make railroads more Wesley Fox P. O. Box 492 DATA/C. W. ROWE economical, and the "Mom and Pop" service Brisbane, CA 94005 A former Chicago Stockyard commisioner small railroads can offer, to operate the railroad California Residents add 6% Sales Tax wants railroads to buy his innovative new design at a profit. "I did not purchase the railroad as a for "crates" that can make any railroad flatcar hobby," said James L. Foster, who bought the into a stock car, perhaps bringing cattle, sheep, Mother Lode Short Line that was famous for its and others back onto the trains. If successful, tourist trains until last year when the steam stock cars may reappear on Southern Pacific "'ES'!' SI))l� .. passenger service was ended (PA CIFIC NEWS, and other railroads following approval of a ��ll'll'I!llW «ii �l!.!I�e n!l'il February & May, 1980). tariff and completion of the crates by Wilson fclh\.e 3>ii�ll'!l'iaI Foster is buying all but the outermost 7!;2 Trailer Company in Sioux City, Iowa. by Mallory Hope Ferrell miles of the 57-mile railroad from Crocker The man behind it, Bill Gentleman, included Associates, whose heritage and control of the in his design 1500-gallon water tanks, hay racks ApPf"ODrnotety 320 page, - O'f'� 400 historic line can be directly traced to its building and self feeders. Air openings can be adjusted to WNt. photos, 16 PAGES Of COlea· d poin.. ;ng1 by Mike '.onol, Howard Fog m finneU. to promote development of this part of regulate inside temperatures. MOPI. PIons. D.toiil.d car 01. Ofowings' Cl California at the turn of the century. Under this design, two 42 .5-foot aluminum ckowingt by Colif04'nio c!l'l. • "dorkol Society ' "I checked into the purchase of four short line crates would be put on top of each conventional Oftd Tod S
4 NUMBER 224 (JUNE. 1980) The number 33 was last operated in 1966, the 1600 M-K Mate 1 only the one Morrison-Knudsen example, number 7 in 197 1 when it steam for three days of 4800-4844 EMD GP38-2 45 includes the twenty new G P40-2 units, numbers Sugar Pine Railway passenger service over the 5100-5 114 GE B23-7 15 7940 through 7959. These locomotives are all Labor Day weekend . Both now will require an 7658-7677 EMD GP40-2 20 equipped as "Mother" units to operate with road slugs - M-K calls theirs a Traction Motor extensive rehabilitation.• 7770-7799 GE B30-7 30 7940-7959 EMD GP40-2 20 Booster Unit - and they supply electrical power SOUTHERN PACIFIC MOTIVE POWER ACTIVITIES 8230-8299 EMD SD40T-2 70 to the slug's motors and can draw fuel from its DATAID. V. JEWELL The mate program, which at presently has (Continued on page 20) Delivery to the Southern Pacific System of two hundred one brand-new diesel locomotives All Color All three 10% Off for 1980 has now been completed, with the last All SuperB SIERRA MEMORIES new units coming during July. Many of these, Back in the fifties the Sierra was an aU steam railroad. It however, were in service only for their initial had consols, pacifies, mikes, even an articulated! Today break-in trials and then were placed into storage you can see them all under steam, plus the first Baldwin 5-8. Not only that, Heislers and Shays from connecting at widely scattered locations across the railroad, lumber lines get into the act and the last of the Santa Fe including Eugene, Oregon and Houston, Texas. Pacifics goes barreling down the main. All three films Motive power requirements, due mainly to the have the same meticulous allention to lighting and detail recession and a resulting severe traffic drop in as did the extraordinary series "Southern Pacific Steam" both lumber products and automobiles, are also produced by John Kirkland. And some real volcano run pasts! presently quite low creating a temporary surplus 28 SIERRA MEMORIES· Part I Starts with 28 on a 3 car excursion from Oakdale. At Fasslcr of units across the Southern Pacific. Most of the Pickering Lumber shay #8 takes over for the hill. Next comes 3, an 1891 Rogers restored in the original crimson stored power has been the newer deliveries. and gold by the Sierra in 1958 . one of the oldest operating steam locos in the U.S. She doublehcads with 28 to Three builders are represented in the 1980 Tuolumne. Here, West Side h-eisler #3 wyes the train for return. sil 156 ft. $29.65. deliveries, counting the single Mate unit 36 SIERRA MEMORIES· Part II #34 works a freight from Jamestown East to Tuolumne and Fe Pacific 3450 in one of the last steam constructed by Morrison-Knudsen. General returns to Oakdale. #36 follows with a similar move. Next comes Santa runs in the West as she arrives with an 8 car excursion for the Sierra. 36 tries to take over at Oakdale, but the Electric produced thirty B30-7 units and fifteen train is too much and 34 is sent down to doublehead. Some show! sil 103 ft. $19.50 smaller B23-7's. Electro-Motive built the 38 SIERRA MEMORIES· Partlll Mallet #38 picks up cars from the S.P. at Riverdale and makes up remaining one hundred fifty-five new units. Of her freight for Sonora. Beautiful road shots. Then Sierra #40, a Baldwin 5-8, is delivered at Oakdale by the Santa these 20 1 new locomotives, only thirty, the GE Fe. 38 nudges 40 into a mid· train position for transfer. More road shots. Finally, 40 is eased into the Sierra's B30-Ts, came lettered for subsidiary Cotton famous wood round house at Jamestown. In April 1955 we see 28 and 38 really smoking it up together with the 130 $24.75 Belt. Four of these, 7770 - 7773, are additionally first of the "Farewell To Steam" specials. sil Manyft. Su nday River films avaIlable for sale or rental in 16m. Write for details. i a an e involved in a test program and are currently CAll NOW·TOLL FREE ��� ./7J�t,�!':s �·:�:::ts�:�O �e��;��c::'c:�'t� u S����i� �U��%:n���.��·tu : operating at 3600 horsepower but will be 24 HOURS A DAY face 52.40 air UPS 52.20 extra. For credit card and COD Orders: derated back to the model's standard 3000 800-824-7888 horsepower when the tests, which are a joint except Calif. g�RUMnP� P.O. BOX 565, CONCORD, MASS. 01742 fIII!!I!II program of GE and the railroad, are completed 800·852·7777 (Calif. only) ,'. I Brochure S1.00. Fiee copy each new order. Ask for op. 945 Illustrated � in 198 1. Mass. Res. add 5% sales tax. Numbers Builder Model Quant. �1II111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 111111111111111111111111111111111111 III III II 111111 1111111111 111111111111 11111 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII§
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PACIFIC NEWS 5 R. D. Ranger
Built at the company's own shops in Sacramento, class S-12 0-6-0 switcher number 1269 thunders through Oakland, California with an inter-yard freight drag in the early 1950's. Constructed in 1921, the 1269 was one of a select few Southern Pacific steam locomotives to be preserved and after two decades in a Richmond, California city park she has been carefully restored and returned to active service. Today, nearly sixty years after she first rolled out of the Espee's Sacramento General Shops, the 1269 is again in action.
S-12 0-6-0 1269 THE RETURN OF SOUTHERN PACIFIC STEAM
For TheFirst Time In A Quarter Century Operating SP Steam Exists
6 NUMBER 224 (JUNE. 1980) and presented to the city in 1952 for display. its museum project in Richmond, on the former Twenty years later she was in deteriorating trackage of the Castro Point Railway and condition when acquired by the Pacific Loco Terminal Company, and revived the Castro motive Association for a rehabilitation at the Point name. No one yet knew it, but the future Castro Point Railway museum. would eventually return the 0-6-0 to trackage it C. G. HEIMERDINGER, JR. During the 1950's four homebuilt 0-6-0's and had already operated on, in steam. two homebuilt 2-8-0's were donated to various In May, 1969 the museum established steam During the "Age of Steam" the S.outhern cities for display in California and Arizona. All operation with 2-6-2T number 6, the former Pacific, and predecessorCentral Pacific, erected of these, except one which had been built in Los Howard Terminal Railway 6, and over the years many of their own locomotives. Most of that Angeles, had been produced in Sacramento at it has expanded the museum into a large construction was at the Sacramento (California) the system shops. TwoTexas and New Orleans collection of operational historic equipment General Shops. but Los Angeles was also homebuilt 2-8-2 locomotives were also donated that includes over a dozen locomotives. Most of involved in the building of many locomotives. for display, being presented to New Orleans, these have already been restored to service, Additionally, it is known that at least two steam number 745, and to Lafayette, Louisiana, the while extensive rehabilitation continues on the locomotives were erected at Ogden (Utah) and 743. A few years ago the Lafayette locomotive remainder. Harriman-era passenger cars and on the Texas and New Orleans system both the was scrapped after she had deteriorated beyond historic freight cars complete the rolling stock Houston (Texas) and Lafayette (Louisiana) repair, leaving ten homebuilt Southern Pacific collection at Richmond, which is operated for Shops were involved in the building of new steam locomotives in existence. the public on the first Sunday of each month. steam power as well. One of these is number 1269, built at the As operation atCastro Point increased, more From these various facilities the railroad sent Sacramento Shops. This heavy switcher was and more visitors suggested that the nearby 1269 a large variety of locomotives rolling off the originally one of 38 class S-12 locomotives built would be an outstanding addition. So, in early erecting noor. Under theCentral Pacific banner, between 1919 and 1923. Constructed in May, 1978 the association brieny turned away from its 4-4-0's, 2-6-2's, 4-6-0's, and 2-8-0's were among 1921 she has the unique Espee builder's number usual sources of equipment in junkyards, those constructed. When successor Southern of 123. abandoned rail operations and even operating Pacific started their construction program in While her early history is unknown, by the railroads themselves, and approached theCity 1917, 0-6-0's, 2-6-0's, 4-6-0's. 4-6-2's, 2-8-0's, mid-1930's the 0-6-0 was assigned to the Western of Richmond. In a short time the city donated it 4-4-2's, 2-8-2's. and 4-8-2's were to be eventually Division, headquartered at Oakland. She never to the association and the 1269 had a new home. built by the system's own shops. After the 4376, left, and during the final operating years of A thorough pre-acceptance inspection showed a large 4-8-2, rolled out of the Sacramento steam she served the division's various yards. that the 0-6-0 was in good shape, especially for a Shops in 1930. however, the construction of the Among other assignments, the locomotive static museum piece that had spent two decades railroad's own new steam power came to an end. worked the Richmond yard, which included the on a park lawn. She still had both headlights, the Many of the home-built locomotives were to Richmond Belt Line and its interchange with the whistle and bell. Only the windows, the gauges remain in sCrvice on Southern Pacific until the Blake Brothers Quarry, today's Castro Point in the cab, and the builder's plate were missing. coming of diesel locomotives, for it was not until Railway museum. The smoke box spot plate was intact. The city's the late 1950's when a number of them were at In 1956 her time ran out and she was retired in fence had done its job. last scrapped. However, at least eleven of these favor of diesel power. However, the little engine In September, 1978 Bigge Drayage, the same ' survived the torch. One of these, a 2-6-2T, met a fate better than most of her sisters for she company that delivered her to the park, began originally numbered 233, and built by the was donated to theCity of Richmond, across the two days of hard work to transfer the massive Central Pacific, is one of the oldest steamers to Bay from San Francisco, and in 1957 was placed locomotive and her tender to Richmond Belt be saved. Discovered out of service in Oregon into a city park. Shortly afterwards the city built Line trackage at Richmond's Chevron oil after having been sold by the railroad years a large cyclone fence around her as protection refinery, not far from the museum's own rails, earlier for a continued career in industrial from vandalism. under the arrangement of member Dave Burla. service, in 1936 the 233 was acquired for There she was to sit for twenty years. In 1967 Road construction blocked Bigge from moving preservation and in time returned to Oakland the Pacific Locomotive Association established the 0-6-0 directly to the museum tracks and a rail
Still a teenager, the 1269 here poses at Oakland in March of 1940 with a graphite smokebox and Southern Pacific Lines lettering. The tender, one of several worn by the locomotive over the years, was later swapped for the present tank, which sports a larger capacity for extended switching duties without stopping for either water or fuel. In fact, during assignment away from the Oakland roundhouse these 0-6 -0's could go for several shifts, or even days, without taking on fuel, depending on the actual work involved or the operational hours they were actually running.
Will Whittaker
PACIFIC NEWS 7 strike left Santa Fe, which takes five-year turns r'------....." with SP at operating the Belt Line, unable to immediately deliver the 1269 to the Castro Point Railway museum. Before her movement, all of the driving box bearings, cylinders and valve motion had been inspected and made to move freely, so by the SOUTHERN PACIFIC time she arrived at her new home most of the needed work in this area had already been done CLASS 5-12 0-6-0'5 by museum Superintendent of Motive Power P. H. Rogers, who rigged a special lubrication system for the cylinders for the short Belt Line move. The exhaustive restoration would be 20x26" cylinders / 57" drivers / 200 pounds boiler pressure another matter, however, and Rogers and his weight on drivers: 155,000 pounds / tractive effort: 31,0 20 pounds crew began almost immediately to remove not one, but two boiler jackets, followed by a Thirty-eight locomotives, road numbers 1247-1284 extensive rehabilitation of the entire S- 12, from 1247 - 1254 SP Sacramento Shops 1919 101 - 108 front to rear, top to bottom. 1255 - 1256 1920 109 - 110 Locomotives at the Castro Point Railway SP Sacramento Shops 1921 museum are inspected by the State of California, 1257 - 1262 SP Los Angeles Shops 7 - 12 which issues the boiler permits. But, because the 1263 - 1278 SP Sacramento Shops 1921 117 - 132 1269 had always been under the jurisdiction of 1279 - 1280 SP Sacramento Shops 1922 133 - 134 the Interstate Commerce Commission the state 1281 - 1284 SP Sacramento Shops 1923 135 - 138 had no records on the boiler, and neither did the Pacific Locomotive Association. Extensive testing, and detailed paperwork, were in order DISPOSITIONS' 1949: 1248 unless museum members could find as much Scrapped in information as possible for the state's boiler Scrapped in 1952: 1263, 12832 inspector for the certification. Scrapped in 1953: 1252, 1255, 1256, 1267, 1271, 1275, 1280 The museum railway contacted the California Scrapped in 1954: 1249, 1257, 1262, 1276 State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, and the Scrapped in 1955: 1247, 1264, 1278 Pacific Coast Chapter of the Railway and Scrapped in 1956: 1253, 1260, 1266, 1279, 1281 Locomotive Historical Society, to ask for any 1957: 1254, 1261, 1277 records that they might have. Luckily, both had Scrapped in information which proved invaluable in the Scrapped in 1958: None certification. A surprising revelr.:ion also came Scrapped in 1959: 1250,1259,1265,1268,1270,1274,1282,1284 from those records, for it was learned that the Scrapped in 1960: 1272 boiler came from not Sacramento, but had been Display: 1251 at Stockton, California in 1958; 1258 at Martinez, built instead at Ogden, Utah. California in 1959; 1269 at Richmond, California in 1957; and While the boiler was in good shape, a number 1273 1957. 1269 of the flues had to be replaced, the air pump was in Los Angeles at Traveltown in All but the are overhauled, and countless parts cleaned and still in their original display locations. checked, and even replaced. Once that was finished and inspected, it was time for steam NOTES tests. In November, 1979, for the first time since 1. Dates are when Southern Pacific sold the locomotive for 1956, the 0-6-0 had steam in her boiler. scrap. There is apparently no available record of which S-12 With that done, installation of new lagging on both the boiler and cylinders began. A new was the last to operate, Southern Pacific revenue steam jacket followed, and by February, 1980 the 1269 service for its yard switchers ended in the San Francisco Bay looked like her old self. Meanwhile, the tender Area, where most of these engines were working, in the was getting new decking on the water end and mid-winter of 1956. The final revenue steam run was 4-8-4 had seven or eight layers of old paint removed. number 4430 in San Francisco commuter service in January, The tender had originally been built for a 2-8-0 1957 (PACIFIC November, 1978), Several S-12's, and during its long career had served behind NEWS, however, remained on the serviceable rolls until 1958, but numerous steam locomotives including 2-8-0's, a 4-6-0, and at least one other 0-6-0. were never called and the railroad was slow to finally scrap In March and April of 1980 painting at last the last of its stored steam power. commenced, and when it was done the 0-6-0 2. Class S-13 0-6-0 number 2nd 1283 was scrapped in 1959 and looked just as if she had just rolled out of the thus confuses some tabulations. The locomotive was the Southern Pacific's Bayshore Shops after a former Texas and New Orleans 140, brought west and given routine overhaul, if not better. The S-12 the number of retired S-12 1283. switcher was to become the very first former SP locomotive to return to steam, anywhere, lettered for her previous owner. The void of SPECIFICATIONS operable Southern Pacific steam locomotives Length to chafing iron ...... 31' 9Ys" Driving axle journals ...... 9x 12" was about to finally end. Width over eaves ...... 10' 0" Diameter of boiler tubes ...... 2" & 5% " It was time for a test; and in April, 1980, sans Height over cab ...... 13' 11 'I,' Length of boiler tubes ...... 11' 6" Driving wheel diameter ...... 57" Number of boiler tubes ...... 129 & 21 her headlights and number plates, she was fired Rig id wheel base ...... l' 0" Heating surface, boiler tubes 1108 sq. ft. up for the first run in twenty-four years. The Cross counterbalanced ...... no Heating surface, firebox ...... 144 sq. ft. 1269 did precisely what her builders in Maximum speed . ... 20 mph Heating surface, evaporating . 1252 sq . ft. Sacramento some fifty-nine years before had Fuel type ...... oil Heating surface, superheater .. 263 sq. ft. intended her to do: operate in steam. While her Brake type ...... air, Westinghouse 6ET Total heating surface ...... 1515 sq. ft. new operators found a few minor problems, Data compiled by Chatham Publishing Company from Southern Pacific Company primarily with the air pump, she operated Diagrams of Locomotives and Tenders, personal records of C. G. Heimerdinger, beyond all expectations. D. S. Richter and Fred A. Stindt. In May the locomotive was steamed for a second break-in trip, now complete and sporting ______",_ _ _�
8 NUMBER 224 (JUNE, 1980) D. S. Richter
Seemingly the end of the line, above, the 1269 sits on the Oakland deadline February 1, 1957, her career over and the tender lettering painted out. This, in fact, is the way SP sent its locomotives to scrap, complete and often in need of only a "dry match." Two years earlier, left, the 0-6-0 switches the Oakland Mole passenger terminal. She was one of the last few steam locomotives in action at Oakland, but by the middle 1960's, below, she had been on display in Richmond for over ten years. Although nicely painted, and protected by a fence, only the spot plate on the smoke box front gave any hint to the 0-6-0's heritage.
Harre W. Demoro Karl R. Koenig
PACIFIC NEWS 9 everything to make her look complete. including brand-new builder's plates and two rebuilt headlights. Again she operated without problems. A formal dedication was set for June 22, to which a hundred invited guests gathered for a champagne bottle-breaking to honor the revival of Southern Pacific steam. Ceremonies over, the 1269 was placed into the rotating pool of locomotives available for service. The 0-6-0 joined the former Quincy Railroad Company number 2, an Alco 2-6-2T; the ex-KennecottCopper Corpo ration number 309, a Porter 0-4-0T; ex-Clover Valley Lumber Company number 4, a Baldwin 2-6-6-2T; and the one-time Pickering Lumber Corporation three-truck Heisler number 5. All of these locomotives were called into service July 5, 198 0 (PACIFIC NEWS, May, 198 0) providing a spectacular steam show unavailable at any other place in the West and a superb tribute to the museum's all volunteer work force and the dedication of Superintendent of Motive Power P. H. Rogers. One of the principal stars was
5- 12 0-6-0 number 1269 .•
Alive again in steam, the 1269 waits, left, at Molate Beach for another passenger run on the Castro Point Railway museum trackage on June 22, 1980. With her cylinder cocks open, a fresh paint job and a silvered smokebox front, below, the 1269, at the Castro Point Railway's interchange July 5, 1980, is a time machine that has turned back the clock for her Southern Pacific duties certainly called for her steaming before on this very same track. D. E. Burla
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10 NUMBER 224 (J UNE, 1980) percent. However, it is almost certain that second quarter 'I figures will not keep pace as industry figures show BURLINGTON NORTHERN revenue carloadings down nearly ten percent in August t • after a first quarter increase of four percent. Coal and MARK W. HEINZ agricultural products are the only commodities showing The BN-Frisco merger previously approved by the an increase over performance a year ago. In spite of the ICC and later blocked by the Katy (PACIFIC NEWS, downturn, at this point, BN has no plans to cancel or cut May, 1980) has yet to be resolved. BN-Frisco petitions to equipment acquisition. 0 both the appellate court and the US Supreme Court failed to get the injunction lifted . The Katy has alleged that it would lose some $6 .5 million in annual gross revenues fr om interchange if the BN and Frisco merge. DENVER & RIO GRANDE �NlniI. The merger is far fr om dead, though, and BN appears quite optimistic about its being resolved. Effective June I R. C. FAREWELL Richard M. Bressler, former executive vice president of Merchandise traffic volume has been down on the Rio Atlantic Richfield Company, assumed the position of Grande lately, with most of the "as needed" overflow president and chief executive officer of the BN, trains not being run. The hotshots, especially piggyback succeeding Norman M.Lorentzen, who became chairman traffic, have been running at a normal rate. Coal traffic, of BN's executive committee. Also elected to a BN post on the other hand, is up to record levels. Two new unit was Richard M. Grayson, currently chairman and coal train operations are now on line. The first, consisting president of the Frisco. Grayson will assume the position of train numbers 713 (empties westbound) and 714 (loads of vice chairman of the board - a newly created position eastbound), is operating from the Craig Branch, then - and become chief operating officer when the merger is over the Moffa t Tunnel line. The train usually consists of at last finalized. seventy-three cherry-red UCEX hoppers and is delivered While BN is fighting to complete one merger it may via Denver to the Missouri Pacific at Pueblo on a 4-day also be fighting to keep one intact - that which created turnaround cycle. the railroad in 1970 . Investigation by the ICC's Office of The other new operation, train numbers 707 (empties Special Counsel and the US Justice Department into the westbound) and 708 (loads eastbound), represents a new allegations of fraud and anticompetitive practices on the twist to the unit-train concept for the Rio Grande. In part of the BN involving the Milwaukee Road continues normal practice the 105 loaded black-with-blue-end as of late summer. The State of Montana has formally CCTX hoppers would be run in two sections over the charged the BN in this matter and a ruling against BN Rockies eastbound through the Moffat Tunnel and down could theoretically, but not likely, result in the into Denver. An example of this operating procedure is dissolution of the original merger. The whole matter is the consist of over one hundred AEPX hoppers somewhat confusing in that no accusations of originating at Castle Gate, Utah with eastbound loads wrongdoing had been issued by the Milwaukee's trustee, operating as trains 738- 1 and 73 8-2 over the hill. This new but rather by a Milwaukee Road attorney who was operation, however, has the entire consist of over 14,000 apparently in disagreement with the former and made adjusted tons of train 707 run as a single train. The available to the public papers suggesting BN had a massive motive power lashup thus required for 105 defi nitive plan to drive the Milwaukee out of their mutual loaded hoppers up and over the Rocky Mountains has competitive territories. five SD40T-2 units fr om the 5340-54 13 series on the point BN posted a first quarter net of $76 .4 million, and four more operated 25 cars ahead of the caboose as a representing an 88 percent increase over $40.7 million for mid-train helper set. In addition, a pair of GP40 helpers is the same period in 1979. First quarter revenues rose 38 added behind the caboose for the uphill grind eastbound
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PACIFIC NEWS 11 from Tabernash to Moffat Tunnel. That represents entire locomotive parts inventory. If the sale is 33,000 net horsepower available for the toughest part of consumated, Chrome Crankshaft will use the facilities the run. The G P40's are cut off at the crest of the grade at and equipment to expand its rebuilding operations. The Moffa t Tunnel and the nine SD40T-2's bring the train negotiations for this sale have been on and off all down the two percent grade on the east side of the summer, but after a change in the payment terms it mountains into Denver. Empties returning westbound, appears that the sale will go through. train number 708, are run up the hill as a single The Greyhound Leasing Company-owned U25B's, movement, but with the nine tunnel motors on the point numbers 225-238, have been sold to the Maine Central rather than being split up as on the eastbound run. Railroad. The locomotives had been previously stored at Other recent happenings include the ICC's granting the Oelwein, Iowa. The MEC plans to make ten operable needed approval to the railroad's request to stop the engines out of the fourteen. All ten of the Rock's SD40-2 directed service to the industries on former Rock Island units, 4790-4799, have been leased by their owner to the trackage in East Denver, near Sand own Junction. Poor Illinois Central Gulf and were delivered in August. track conditions were the reasons listed by the Rio By October I the Rock Island's employment had been Grande for the reluctance to continue service. The cut to less than one hundred supervisory officers. It is resulting void has been filled by the Cadillac and Lake ironic to note that the Rock Island's estate is making City Railroad, which is using a GE 44-tonner for the more money now by leasing its property to other lines service. The focus of the C&LC operation - the railroad than it did when the railroad was operating. 0 is a 4.5-mile Michigan short line with corporate offices in nearby Colorado Springs, Colorado - is the former Rock Island piggyback receiving and loading area near Denver's Stapleton Airport. 0 SAN FRANCISCO MUNI DON JEWELL
Light Rail Vehicle service began through Twin Peaks ROCK ISLAND Tunnel weekdays only starting Wednesday, June II, inaugurating full Market Street subway operations and ALLEN RIDER the opening of the Church and Castro Street stations. The Rock Island liquidation proceedings continue, but The service was initially provided by a K Ingleside line so fa r no major parts of the railroad have been sold. shuttle running from the Embarcadero Station to Saint There have been many lookers, but no buyers. The only Francis Circle. PCC streetcar service was discontinued formal sale which seems certain at this time is that of the through Twin Peaks Tunnel on weekdays at the same St. Louis-Santa Rosa, New Mexico-Tucumcari line to time, and a K Ingleside-L Taraval shuttle went into the Cotton Belt. Negotiations for that sale have been operation from the Balboa Park BART station through underway since 1975 and this Southern Pacific su bsidiary West Portal to the Zoo using PCC's to make the full K is already operating the line. and L line connections. This operation, of course, Operation of various segments of the railroad under required passengers to transfer between PCC's and directed service continues. There have been a few changes LRV's at West Portal, but was promised to be only for a as one railroad loses interest and another moves in, most short time as M uni wanted to use the LRV shuttle to test significant of which is the Missouri- Kansas-Texas full scale subway service. The new West Portal station Railroad's OKT operation. The Katy, through its newly was also opened for LR V's at this time, so that passengers formed Oklahoma Kansas Texas subsidiary, is now could transfer more quickly with the PCC's loading and operating over the Rock's sunbelt spine fr om Fort unloading just outside the station. Worth, Texas north through EI Reno, Wichita, Buses were substituted for streetcars on the M Herington and Topeka to St. Joseph, Missouri. The Oceanview line on June II also, so that the contractor MKT is also operating branches from EI Reno to working on conversion of the M Line overhead wire for Oklahoma City and from Herington to Salina, Kansas. pantograph operation could replace all the line poles and Morrison-Knudsen is now operating part of the Rock wire on the rig ht-of-way. The K Line LR V shuttle also Island in Kansas. MK's Wabash Valley Railroad is used a short portion of the M Line right-of-way at Saint operating from Phillipsburg, Kansas to Manhattan, Francis Circle as its terminal, and a portable crossover Kansas. Headquarters for the Wabash Valley's Kansas was installed about 100 yards south of the Circle for this. division is Belleville. Weekdays, only the J Church line continues to operate On May 31 the Elgin Joliet and Eastern Railroad on the surface of Market Street, and it still runs with PCC pulled out of its Joliet-to-Peoria operation. The Rock cars. On weekends, the subway remains closed until had doubled its asking price for the line, and the EJ&E additional station personnel are trained and all streetcar decided the new price, at reportedly $26 million, was too service is provided by PCC's on the surface as usual, high. Two months after the EJ&E pullout, the Chessie except for the M Line. System started operating from Joliet to Bureau, Illinois. Further streetcar service changes took place on Chessie is interested in eventually extending operations Wednesday, September 10, when the complete K west through Silvis and Des Moines to Omaha. If this Ingleside line was converted to LRV operation and the K happens, though, it will not be soon for the Chessie does subway shuttle was discontinued. The K-L PCC car not want to risk opposition from western roads to its shuttle was changed to an M Line - L Line shuttle with merger with Family Lines. service restored on the M Line and extended fr om its The most significant motive power news is that VarIan former terminal at Broad and Plymouth Streets over Company, owner of Chrome Crankshaft and Hyman brand new trackage on San Jose A venue to the Balboa Michaels, is negotiating to buy the Silvis locomotive shop Park BART station. Thus, Muni's first streetcar line facility, all Rock Island-owned locomotives and the extension has begun regular revenue serice. The M Line
12 NUMBER 224 (JUNE, 1980) cars also started running later in the evening, with service conventional San Fra ncisco Zephyr left Oakland on to II:00 PM instead of the previous 7:00 PM switch to September 24 with round-end dome lounge 93 10 buses. Weekend streetcar service remains as during the (PACIFIC NEWS, March, 1979) at the rear ofthe train's summer, with PCC cars on all lines, although the M Line consist, ending over forty years of single-level steam still has bus service on Sundays. The M Line cars run over heated streamliner operation on the Overland Route. the full route, including the new extension, on Saturdays. Reaccommodation of sleeping car passengers during Weekend LRV operations are not scheduled to begin the ten week transitional period when both types of until sometime in November. equipment were in service proved quite easy. The 42 With more LRV's now in service, the M uni has decided rooms in two Superliner sleepers exactly covered the to dispose of twenty-five more PCC cars, all from the rooms in the three conventional sleepers assigned to the 1100 series, which will still leave a fleet of 79 PCe's to Zephyr during the summer. The only major incident cover the J, M and L Lines, as well as for some unforseen during the period occurred August 11 near Fairfield, emergency. Of these twenty-five cars, five were set aside California when an electrical fire in the diner caused for permanent loan to railway museums and the considerable damage to the new car. remaining twenty were offered to the highest bidders As of mid-September Amtrak had received all 102 during July with a minimum bid of $2,000 per car, Superliner coaches, 27 of the 48 baggage-coaches, 13 of complete with trucks, seats, signs and trolley poles. The 39 diners and 12 of ni nety sleepers. N one of the 25 cars designated for museums are the 1120, 1122, 1147, sightseer lounge cars has been delivered, although one 1151 and 1159, the last becoming the first to leave when in has been completed and is undergoing testing. The late August it departed for The Trolley Park at Southwest Limited is the next train to be converted. Glenwood, Oregon. Amtrak held a Family Days open house in Los Angeles The twenty cars for sale are considered the worst ones September 13-14 for both employees and the general in the fleet, and several have accident damage. Some are public. Over 43,000 people visited the station to inspect a no longer able to run. The cars are 1 104, 1 107,1112,1114, variety of Amfleet, Superliner and "Heritage" equipment 1118, 1119, 1126, 1 129, 1 132, 1133, 1 138, 1146, 1 149, on display. Amtrak now uses the term "Heritage Fleet" to 1150, 1152, 1154, 1155, 115 7, 1162 and 1165 . Some of describe conventional equipment that has been rebuilt these are in the new paint scheme, having been and converted to head-end power. Many visitors also refurbished just two years ago, but they are not in enjoyed a demonstration ride on Superliner coaches, running' condition any longer. Car 113 2, for example, which were operating in shuttle service between Los was redone inside and out but had a bad control system Angeles Union Passenger Terminal and Glendale. which was not repaired, and it never ran in service after it A new national timetable was issued August 3, listing a was re painted. number of new trains including the Willamette Valley The two former Toronto PCC cars that were set aside service between Eugene and Portland, Oregon for museums, nu mbers 1182 and 1190, left the property (PACIFIC NEWS, May, 1980). A new train also began during June for their new homes. Car 1183 was trucked to operating between Chicago and Peoria restoring service the Santa Fe Railroad yard across San Fra ncisco Bay at formerly provided by the Rock Island's Peoria Rocket, Richmond for its journey to the Illinois Railway which was discontinued December 31, 1978. Amtrak's Museum, while the 1 190 went all the way by truck to the Prairie Marksman, however, operates over Illinois California Railway Museum at Rio Vista Junction. Central Gulf (ex-Gulf Mobile and Ohio) and Toledo Historic car I returned to service in late May with a Peoria and Western trackage. The schedule of the complete new front end after its accident in the summer southbound Inter-American was modified to allow for of 1979 . The car was also repainted and looks as well as it better connections from eastern trains in Chicago. It now did when first restored in 1962. The only differences in the leaves Chicago for Houston and Laredo at 5:20 PM, car now are that the roof and window sash are a brighter instead of 11:10 AM. red, and the car numbers are in a slightly different Transcontinental sleeping car service between New position. Car I also has roof-mounted letter boxes again, York and Los Angeles was discontinued in early something it has not had for several years because of September due to conversion of the Crescent to Heritage clearance problems during reconstruction of the Twin equipment. The through sleeper had operated on the Peaks Tunnel. 0 Crescent to New Orleans, where it was switched to the Sunset for the remainder of the run west. Both the Southwest Limited and the conventional San Francisco Zephyr operated this summer with their AMTRAK NEWS consists reversed. Sleepers were placed on the head end of the Zephyr to insure that the former Santa Fe cars with NEIL LANG their steam ej ector air conditioners would have a better chance of functioning properly. Placement of the high The most significant item of Amtrak news this summer level coaches on the rear of the Southwest Limited was the replacement of conventional steam-heated eliminated the need for a second transition coach. equipment on the San Francisco Zephyr with new bilevel An advance section of the Coast Starlight operated all-electric Superliners. Unlike the Empire Builder last non-stop from the San Francisco Bay Area to Los /a l/, the Zephyr was converted one consist at a time as Angeles on June 7 and returned the following day. The sleeping cars were delivered. The first consist of new seven-car train carried over 350 high school graduates to equipment left Chicago July 7, with the next two consists Disneyland for their grad uation night. appearing at approximately three-week intervals. The Some equipment notes: the ex-Pennsylvania Railroad conversion was completed shortly after mid-September double-unit diners which had always operated between using Empire Builder equipment released after the latter New York and Chicago on either the Broadway or train resumed its tri-weekly winter schedule. The final Lakeshore are now based in Los Angeles for service on
PACIFIC NEWS 13 the Sunset Limited. Delivery of the next order of 32 removed from their traction motors and are being moved F40PH locomotives began in August with the acceptance as of mid-October to Las Vegas, Nevada for long-term of number 329. The low-slung light-weight Canadian storage. As the units fare better with all liquids at proper LRC train began trial service between Boston and New levels, the decision to place them in storage in Nevada Haven in early October. was made in early October and expedited to beat the Finally, passengers at the Oakland, California station coming of winter weather. on the weekend of September 27 would have been Also stored are all six GP40X units at Salt Lake City, excused if they wondered whether they were at the right Utah. Nine of the ten SOP3 5's are at North Platte, as are station. Scenes for the upcoming movie "Chu-Chu and the thirty-one serviceable ex-Rock Island units. The nine the Philly Flash" were being filmed and the movie crew remaining 0035's on the system are in long-term storage had done an excellent job of disguising the station as the at Council Bluffs, Iowa. downtown San Francisco bus terminal. All Amtrak and Arriving on property in September were the first 17 G E Southern Pacific signs were covered with the logo of a C30-7's, 2500-25 16, which are part of an order for forty fictitious bus company. The most impressive addition units to be delivered during the third quarter of 1980. was a large specially constructed arrival-departure board These first 17 were built in August, and through the with over a hundred entries ! D middle of October September-built units had arrived up to number 2526 . The first five were equipped with an optional Eddy-current clutch on the radiator fan, which is designed to only operate the large fa ns when required, UNION PACIFIC rather than continually, resulting in a horsepower saving m and lower fuel consumption. GEORGE R. COCKLE, Editor A number of locomotives have been sold off by UP, Car and Locomotive Cyclopedia with Precision National buying 0035B 91 B, GP9's 171 The continued downturn in general traffic has and 186, NW2's 1063 and 1078 in July. 0035A 82; sidelined a large number of locomotives. Some 114 units 0035B 82B; GP9's 279, 285, 31 1 and 313 were acquired are stored serviceable across the system, for a total of by PN in August, then 0035B 77B and GP9 328 in 482,000 horsepower. Other units requiring extensive September. Sold to Naporano Iron and Metal Company maintenance have been recommended for retirement, during July were GP9's 141, 203, 312 and 325. while others are being stored unserviceable, for a total of Sold to Bargains Galore of Portland, Oregon and fifty-eight units stored unserviceable. shipped to J. Simon and Sons of Tacoma, Washington The 00A40X's represent the largest number of units during July were GP9 158, NW2 1025, U28C's 2800 and stored, with 25 at Council Bluffs, Iowa and 12 at North 2809, followed by GP20 496 in August and in September Platte, Nebraska. These units are having the brushes by GP9 330, GP20 475 and NW2 1027. Rail Car COrporation, Colorado Springs, Colorado purchased GP9 210 and U28C 2805 in July. In August THE WESTERN LEADER FOR MORE Hyman-Michaels of Madison, Illinois bought 0035B's THAN NINETEEN YEARS 74B, 89 B, 98 B; NW2 1093 and U28C 2808 . The Illinois Central Gulf acquired NW2 1090 in August, and had it OF CONSECUTIVE PUBLICATION. delivered to their Paducah, Kentucky shops. Awaiting disposition are GP9's 191, 223, 243, 249, 267, 293, 316, DO NOT MISS THE 225TH ISSUE! 324 and 347 . Retired in July were all remaining E-units. These had been in storage at Council Bluffs, Iowa. UP 95 1 will remain intact and become part of the Union Pacific's SUTYPE ORBS PRINT YOURCRI NAME AND ADDRESSBE permanent locomotive collection housed at Cheyenne, ENCLOSE IT WITH YOUR PAYMENT Wyoming. Number 928 will be gutted and the "shell" AND MAIL IT TODA Y given a complete Union Pacific paint job in preparation Enter a direct-mail subscription to PACIFIC NEWS tor ...... years. for donation to a museum. It appears that the Chicago This is a New Subscription Renewal ot an expired subscription 0 0 and North Western is interested in buying the remaining SUBSCRIPTION RATES two E9 A-units and four E9 B's. United States, Canada & Mexico: $15.00 tor 1 year, $27.00 tor 2 years Released fr om the Omaha Shops in July was SWIO Foreign rates: $16.00 tor one year. Foreign air mail rates on request 1207, followed in September by 1208 and in October by have enclosed my payment o I 1209. The 1205 has been sent to Albina. o Please bill with tirst issue (Above rates plus 50¢ billing charge) Released from Morrison-Kndusen's Boise, Idaho facilities during July was Sulzer-powered modified S045 Name ...... number 34. The locomotive was road tested and moved Address .. to North Platte for painting and renumbering as UP 60, returning to system service August 5. City. Part of the 8000-class "fast forties" were regeared and State and Zip Code .. renum bered back to their original 3000-class slots. July's renumbering were 8017 to 3257, 8042 to 33 12 and 8049 to MAIL THIS FORM, OR A FACSIMILE, TODAY CHATHAM PUBLISHING COMPANY 33 19. This program, however, how now been suspended Post Office Box 283 with no further units yet being regeared or renumbered. Burlingame, California 94010 Leased to the Western Pacific on August 29 were DO YOURall FRIENDS A FAVOR: Suggest they stop reading your PACIFIC NEWS fifteen S040-2 units, which carry a stencilled notation and subscribe. I ncreased circulation allows more color and more pages of Western Railroading coverage. Help us to grow even bigger - that way everybody benefits. under the cab window in 3-inch black letters: "Leased to Western Pacific." Units are: 3352, 3360, 34 19, 342 1, 3424,
14 NUMBER 224 (JUNE, 1980) 3475, 3476, 3478, 3504, 3519, 3528, 3536, 3542, 3546 and few of the GP35's have been completed. the 3565. On April 9, a tragic derailment at Hayward, California Signboards are being applied to SD40-2's 3609-3768, resulted in the death of two WP trainmen and destroyed mounted below the walkway handrail and aft of the cab, three locomotives. Symbol westbound freight RBW (Red measuring 30x98 W' and carrying one of fifteen different Ball West), with three units and a half-dozen cars, was fuel conversation slogans. The initial application was pushing a stalled 67-car Sealand Container train, symbol made to number 8013, now numbered 3408, in July. SEAL, over Altamont Pass and into the western terminal The Albina car shops has started applying a builder's at Oakland. Sixteen miles short of its destination, the badge on all the cars they manufacture. It is a six-inch caboose on the Sealand train, a Delaware and Hudson UP-styled shield stating "Built by UPRR Albina Shops." extended-vision model, derailed on the Industrial They are currently building open-top coal hoppers in Parkway overpass and fe ll into the street below. class HI00-20. Following the caboose over the embankment were all Electric trailer S4 has had DD35-styled sandboxes three of the RBW's locomotives and four freight cars, applied to both fr ont and rear at Omaha Shops. The toppling power lines and spilling diesel fuel, which work was done in early October and the unit, with SD24 ignited into a raging fire with one of the locomotives number 446, is now assigned to the ballast sled train crushing the caboose. All three units - WP GP40 3540, operating in Wyoming. The slug was continually running ex-bicentennial 1776, and sister 3527, and Union Pacific out of sand, thus the application of these larger boxes by U30C 2820 - were destroyed and sold for scrap. the railroad. All nineteen leased Union Pacific GE U-boats were The new CA II cabooses are having a number of returned during mid-summer. Originally, the lease was modifications applied which had been tested on the for twenty units, including the wrecked 2820. The "prototype CA 12" and approved by both the company railroad is now leasing fifteen UP EMD SD40-2's, which and the union. These cabooses will carry a red "Modified are stenciled "Leased to WP" under the cab (road CA II" stencil under the bay window as work is finished. numbers in Union Pacific column). These locomotives Mr. F. D. Accord retired as the Chief Mechanical are in addition to the normal flow of UP pooled motive Officer on June 30. Mr. John F. McDonough became the power and are used anywhere on the system. new Chief Mechanical Officer on July I, having been Mr. Burlington Northern pooled power continues to flow Accord's assistant since coming from the Penn Central's into Oroville and Stockton, although now new SD40-2 Collingwood (Ohio) Shops in the early 1970's. 0 units and older SD45's, GP35's and GP30's are the predominate models, instead of the recently-retired Alco fleet. Western Pacific's four F-units, 913, 917, 918 and the 92 1, continue to operate between Stockton and WESTERN PACIFIC Milpitas/ San Jose, although they now only make one trip each day as the afternoon San Jose Turn has been KEN MEEKER abolished. The night turn, known as the APF (Auto Parts The major Western Pacific news since the last column and Forwarders), is on duty at Stockton at 10:30 PM, has, of course, been the proposed merger between the daily except Saturday, and it usually arrives at Milpitas WP, Missouri Pacific and Union Pacific (PA CIFIC around 4:00 or 5:00 AM. Eastbound departure, as NEWS, March, 1980). The formal merger plan was fi led symbol SJM (San Jose Manife st), is about two hours with the ICC on September 15 and outlines that the WP is later for the return to Stockton. to become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Union Former General Electric demonstrator U30B units Pacific. Following consolidation, the Western Pacific 3070 and 3071, the ex-770 and 771 (P A CIFIC NEWS, would be operated as the Fourth District of the Union July, 1973), have been retired and removed from the Pacific with headquarters in San Francisco. The WP roster. These locomotives, which were built in 1966 as would continue to maintain its corporate identity. demonstrator U30B's 303 and 304, were later rebuilt to Under Federal law, the ICC had thirty days in which to 3300-horsepower U33B's, then to 3600-horsepower rule on the acceptability of the merger applications and U36B's, and fi nally they were rebuilt by General Electric has, in fa ct, now accepted the proposal. Within two years, back to 3000-horsepower U30B units. The locomotives the Commission must complete an evidentiary had not operated on the Western Pacific in the last consideration of the application and render a decision several years and they had been stripped of all of their within the subsequent sixty months. reusable parts fo r the remainder of the railroad's In the motive power department, during April the operable General Electric fleet. 0 railroad received ten new Electro-Motive G P40-2 units numbers 3550 through 3559. These locomotives ar� identical to the previous five received earlier, except that TheBE incredibleARCAT Bearcat®TING radio scannersPUT bringS railroadYOU action THEREright into your they are equipped with Gyralights on the short hood. living room. den. automobile. or anywhere. Both crystal and new crystalless Earlier this year, Morrison-Knudsen signed a contract programmable models are available from Chatham. The all new Bearcat® 220 automatic scanning radio offers complete coverage of all 7 public service with the Western Pacific to rebuild fifteen of the older bands. including aircraft! We handle all of the Bearcat® scanning radios. GP40's, numbers 3501-3504 and 3506-35 16, and all Write for details or use theorder blank on back cover. Bank cards welcome. nineteen remaining G P35's, numbers 300 1 -3006, 3008- Bearcat ThinScan 4·channel 1:rystal receiver ...... $129.95 Bearcat ThinScan 6·channel crystal receiver ...... S149.95 30 I 0, 30 12-301 5, 301 7-3020 and 3022. The vacancies in Bearcat a Track 4·channel crystal receiver ...... S89.95 Bearcat 210 programmable 10·channel receiver ...... S219.95 the number sequence are due to wrecked and retired Bearcat 211 programmable la·channel receiver ...... $269.95 units. In addition to a complete electrical rewiring, the Bearcat 220 programmable 2O·channel receiver (includes aircraftl ...... $319.95 Bearcat 250 programmable 5O·channel receiver ...... $329.95 M-K rebuilds sport cab-roof air conditioners and Bearcat 300 prQgrammable 5O·channel receiver (includes aircraftl ...... J 409.95 Gyralights on the short hood. All of the locomotives are �stal certiflca\!s�.OO Ship�1I2and insurance chartes at S8.00tor prD2TIlmmable mlldels a $4.00for Thll1Stan radiOS 11111 be added to chartes. Radios sent UPS. California residents add s.1les tal to your order. painted in the new-image green-and-orange scheme. As CHATHAM PUBLISHING COMPANY, P. O. BOX 283, BURLINGAME, CA 94010 of this early November writing, all of the GP40's and a
PACIFIC NEWS 15 An impressive six-unit string of United States Steel EMD F-units, The both pages, leads an eastbound unit train back to the mine at Atlantic City, Wyoming from the interchange with the Union Pacific at Winton Camera Junction, near Rock Springs. Number 723A is on the point of these June, 1977 views at milepost 54, page opposite, and entering the yard Car limits at the Atlantic City mine, below. In 1980, this string of builder Electro-Motive's first-generation motive power is still at work on Photo United States Steel's railroad, which operates in connection with the firm's steel mill at Provo, Utah where a neet of Baldwin switchers, Section several of which have been rebuilt by Morrison-Knudsen, still handle the plant's switching needs.
Both pages: Kyle Brehm
16 NUMBER 224 (JUNE. 1980) PACIFIC NEWS 17 Bob King
Brand-new in the west, above, is Southwestern Portland Cement Company The number 7, a 65-ton GE built in April, 1946 but here working its second day at Victorville, California in July of 1962. Today renumbered as SWPC 404, the Camera locomotive still works at Victorville, but now shares the enginehouse with a trio of Fairbanks-Morse units that have replaced GE 70-tonners once used on the cement Car plant's quarry railroad. This view, from July 30, 1936, shows a little fo ur-wheel Whitcomb locomotive Photo with fo ur cement cars. The equipment is narrow gauge, and the construction project, which features an abundant supply of hand labor, is paving work on the Section San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
Vic F. Reyna collection
18 NUMBER 224 (JUNE. 1980) On May 14, 1938 three-foot-gauge Colorado and Southern's only oil burner, 2-8-0 70, works on the point of a doubleheader making an even ten mph near Georgetown, enroute from Denver west to Silver Plume during the decline of the narrow gauge. Baldwin built the 70 in 1890, the Denver Leadville and Gunnison's number 272, while the same builder produced the 73 in 1896 as Union Pacific Denver and Gulf II. At Silver Plume, below, the 73 is readied to return light to Denver, her westbound helper chores with the train are completed, leaving the 70 to finish the day's work on the Clear Creek line alone. Both locomotives have been scrapped: number 70 went to the White Pass and Yukon for World War II and was then scrapped in Seattle after the war, while the 73 was sold for scrap by the railroad in 1940, even before this very trackage was abandoned.
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PACIFIC NEWS 19 & Railroad Antiques Artifacts (Continued from page 5) the Santa Fe was hard at work conslructing a An amazing selection of choice things from America' s auxiliary fuel tanks. More road slugs for the trestle across the break and the rai lroad was leading mail order dealer in diverse non-paper railroad Southern Pacific are expected, though none are restored to service on Friday, November 7. collector's items. Museum quality (Smithsonian a cus presently on order. tomer since 1972). satisfaction guaranteed. new RR The Santa Fe's main line between Richmond DISPATCH (sales publication) each month. Send $1 The delivery of the Electro-Motive GP38-2 and Stockton hosts not only the railroad's own for current issues. Top prices paid for fine items. units mark the first of this extremely popular freight service_ but trackage-rights Sacramento Scott Arden - 20457 Highway 126 locomotive model to appear on the Southern Northern and Amtrak trains as well. All four of Noll, Oregon 97461 (503/935-1619) Pacific. Sporting 2000 horsepower, all were the daily San Joaquin passenger runs_ delivered to the system between May and June Sacramento Northern trains for the steel mill at of this year. And, of special note, the four GE Pittsburg and Santa Fe freight were forced to RECORD of the MONTH B30-7"s rated at 3600 horsepower, 7700-7773, detour over Southern Pacific between Pittsburg_ SB 4504 A Royal Hudson were used by Southern Pacific for inauguration on the Santa Fe and Stockton, via the SP's line
of Cotton Belt service over the former Rock through Byron_ Tracy and Lathrop. _ A 8oya1ludson Island between Kansas City and Tucumcari. _ BART'S TRANS-BAY TUBE LEAKS BUT TRAINS RUN DELTA LEVEE BREAK REROUTES SANTA FE AMTRAK & A minor leak was located during September At 2:30 AM October 23_ 1980 a Sacramento in the Bay Area Rapid Transit District's River Delta levee supporting the Santa Fe's underwater trans-bay tube and although the mainline from Stockton west to Richmond, tube nor train service was never threatened by California gave way after being weakened for the water, an excessive amount of local publicity several weeks by nood waters from an earlier gave the leak national attention. levee break on the levee itself. Vast acreage of Early on October I the transit system farmland is now under water and the Santa Fe conducted a high-pressure air test through an suffered a break of nearly 225 feet in its main line observation hole bored in the three-foot cement plus the additional loss of two locomotives. liner of the tube to determine progress in sea ling STEREO/QUAD ICD-41 12" LP A beautifully restored locomotive. in equally beautiful Just west of Holt, in the San Joaquin Delta, off a leak in the J.'x-inch steel tube shell with a surroundings. No. 2860 docs her thing with five track side an eastbound Santa Fe train led by three units grouting process. A diver spotted the bubbles scenes, specifically planned for stereo/quad record ing. Then. side two takes us in the cab. cleverly edited for found the levee trackage bad ly undermined by from the air pressure test and was able to locate continuity, where stack talk and whistle sounds abound. the nood waters and plunged into the collapsing the position of the pin-size point of entry of There is no excuse for not adding this album to your fill. The lead unit successfully crossed the collection. Do it now! water into the tube so repairs could be finished. OtTer good only during month trackage as it gave way, but G P30 326 1 and a The high-pressure grollting process, using an of this magazine issue. sister, reported ly 3247, were not as fortunate epoxy compound, is used to seal off the water - FREE Catalog upon request - and both now rest on their sides badly damaged which is seeping into the walkway of the tube_ Mobile Fidelity Records and under water. Salvage operations are not which by mid-October had been reduced to four P.o. Box 336_ Burbank. Calif. 91503 expected to begin until after the nood waters are gallons per hour, less than half the amount or sec your HobbYI Record Dealer pumped out. The original delta levee break has which was originally observed in September. Stereo 8 or Quad 8 Track Tape - $9.50 Siero Cassclle - S9.S0 been repaired, but the break to the Santa Fe Cost of the project to eliminate water draining levee may be left as a trestle, rather than a new into the tube at a point 1.7 miles east of San r(IC:�:} o��i�°r'��id���d a� �' 560" r��',!agc railroad fill. Within a short time after the brea k. Francisco was approximately $65,000. Were BART attempts to correct the water draining problem through the grouting operation from A NEW and DIFFERENT RAILROAD BOOK inside the tube not successful, the next step would have been to remove the heavy rock The true story of a young wife obliged to live covering and expose the tube's steel shell in in a railroad camp car in the 1940s. The big order to apply a patch from outside. _ Cab-Forwards over famous Donner Summit rock her baggage car home as she copes with EDMONTON TRANSIT ACQUIRES EX-BC ELECTRIC train crews, switch engines, track laborers, oil 961 Former Oregon Electric Railway steeple-cab lamps, snowsheds and winter snowstorms. electric locomotive number 21 has, after long Softbound 7x9, 20 photos, l7 sketches by years in storage, gained a new life in operation. Bob Church_ Railroading from the inside. One of four built by Aleo in 1912. as numbers A book for the whole family. $7.95 postpaid. 21-24. the locomotives were all sold in 1947 to Californiansae ld 48¢ tax, for $8.43 the British Columbia Electric Railway and renumbered 96 1_ 960-962 . The number 24 was CA B & K FISHER - P.O_ BOX 714 - COLFAX, 95713 scrapped after serving as a parts source and was .' c· . not operated in Canada. Eventually_ in 1970, the o J . . :.-. • i . - .' ( . - � � ,: ----,--- . 11 P. '",F, \1- �. F- 1l f'" · -:0, i :::31- - �,... .I E �'j;j E lii : 1I British Columbia Electric gave up its electric - ,... - � t.i �»g =---� �.r� L....;- r��· �� &&P"iL!@!l!$., Wf-Ii? operations, by which time only the 960 and 96 1 remained in service. The surviving two locomotives were placed into storage when the wires came down over a small Vancouver yard that was the BCE's last electrified trackage. Over the nearly ten years that the two This_ is the�� bookL: you've!�:; been�L� waiting� �Sfor! See_/ the locomotives have sat out of service In contemporary, pre-embargo Milwaukee Road from Vancouver, many rumors and stories have . Indiana to Washington in over 300 high quality photos_ surfaced concerning their fate, but none came to Includes passenger trains, Indiana's "Southeastern" pass. However_ one. 96/. has been acquired by line C-Liners SW1 's in Minnesota, snowplows, SDL39's Ed monton Transit (PA CIFIC NEWS. May_ on Dakota b�anches Little Joes, loggers in Id aho and ' 1980) and made the journey from Vancouver Washington F-units and much more. It's all here in this earlier this year on board a nat car. At 200-page, 8;12 x 11, hard cover . volume with full color Fogg dust jacket $26_95 postpaid. Edmonton_ the locomotive becomes the 200 1 and goes back to work for work train service in Order today from: connection with new tunnel construction. The Publication MCMILLAN PUBLICATIONS project is ex pected to last until the end of 198 f, expected Sept 1980 3208 Halsey Drive Illinois residents add at which time the former Oregon Electric � Wo odridge, Illinois 60515 Railway locomotive will once again be out of 5% sales tax. work for the third time in her life. _
20 NUMBER 224 (JUNE, 1980) company that is very active in financing box car Pacific (Henry W. Brueckman) ... In late fleets for short lines, has reported over $9 August the Southern Pacific's Millbrae, million in revenue for the quarter ending California station was moved several hundred Short Stull September 30, as compared with nearly $7 feet south to allow for new highway The last two Fairbanks-M orse units on the million for the same period in 1979; the construction; the structure, built in 1907, serves Weyerhaeuser Company roster at its Vail, company's fleet consists of approximately 8350 commute trains and has been listed on the Washington operations number 714, railroad cars . . The Tandy Subway in Fort National Register of Historic Places ...On formerly Enumclaw operations I, and the ex Worth, Texas has begun scrapping efforts on October 31 the Nevada State Museum, as part of Chehalis Western 492 - have been sold off three ex-Boston PCC cars - numbers 3164, Nevada Day festivities, steamed former Virginia to Pacific Transportation Services and 3171 and 3196 -that it acquired for parts and and Truckee Railroad 4..{j..{) number 25 for the renumbered 121-122, respectively, for entry into other salvage at the time Boston began car first time in thirty years, fo llowing an extensive the leased locomotive market(J ohn Henderson) dispositions in connection with its acquisition of restoration; the museum is now closed for the ..The former Amtrak coach 5620 has been new Boeing LRV's ...At Utah's Heber Creeper season and though it is short on track the purchased by Harvey Aukes Trucking of steam passenger ra ilroad near Salt Lake City the locomotive should be under steam in 1981 at Woodland, California and remodeled into former Southern Pacific 2..{j..{)number 1744, last least for special occasions . . The California corporate offices; it is located adjacent to the operated in May, 1958 for excursion duty and Western's Skunk motor car M-IOO broke an Southern Pacific right-of-way in Woodland on display for many years at Corinne, Utah, axle in August at Northspur, midway to Willits, (Jack Matkin) ...The Denver and Rio Grande made her inaugural return to operation over the resulting in temporary use of conventional added an unusual movement of 34 stock cars Labor Day weekend fully lettered for Southern equipment and a diesel (Tom Moungovan) .• carrying 23 14 head of cattle to train706 October r------.. 6; Union Pacific supplied the cars, which comprise the only stock movement on the Rio The Grande for this year(Chuck Conway) ...The U. S. Navy's Port Chicago, California ammunition depot is giving up some of its stored 50-foot box New ! 4300 cars for the Alaska Railroad; 26 were shipped 4-8-2'8 November 2 via the Sacramento Northern to By Robert J. Church Sacramento then WP I BN to Seattle for transfer Author of "Cab Forward" and "Those Daylighl 4-8-4's" to Alaska now that the cars are no longer in 4-8'2'5 4300 The complete story of Southern Pacific Mt Class 4-8-2's. Eleven information filled military service (D. V. Jewell) ...The Seattle chapters: Development of Locomotive, From the Builder's includes detail erecting shop scenes at Sacra menlO,five chapters covering each classincluding Mt-2 ex EP and North Coast, 0 pera ti ng t he former &SW, Maintenance and Modifications, includes repair schedules, detail shop Milwaukee Road branch to Port Angeles, scenes, etc., Operations, covers Mt use on each route, Tenders includesClassifica- Washingt<>n, has repainted the ex-Milwaukee tion and assignment, HO drawings of all tenders, detail pholos, Data chapter. SW 1200 648 as their number 56 as of mid- Over 220 photos, color photos showing 1920's (boiler jacket and cab) and 1948 (Daylight paint scheme, Hardbound, Dust Jacket. October, but not their fo rmer Milwaukee SW I Order Direct $24.00 ppd, (California '''''�O' '''''_'"'K;'' .''.'' '�_'"'' residence add $1 .44 sales tax) 869 and the 502, an SD9 (John C. Illman) . . . Central Valley Railroad Publications " Robert J. Church The Brae Corporation, a San Francisco-based P.O. Box 116. Wilton, California 95693 Send remittance with order. transportation leasing and management ______... ______....
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PACIFIC NEWS 21 Santa Fe GP35 number 3333 works on the point of Amtrak train 711, the westbound San Joaquin, at Martinez, California August 14, 1980 on Southern Pacific. The geep's off-road operation was necessitated by damage suffered by A mtrak's own F40PH 254 when the train stuck a hay truck at Stockton earlier in the day on Santa Fe rails, damaging the cab and sending the crew to the hospital. Another crew, and freight engine 3333, finished out the run complete with the F40PH still supplying nEWS power for the train's internal needs. The final miles into Oakland are on SP rails, hence the one-time appearance of the Santa Fe GP35. Westbound out of Chicago September 21, 1980, below, the final conventionally-equipped San Francisco Zephyr begins its run to California behind SDP40F 643. With the departure of this PHOTOS consist, Amtrak would assign only Superliners to this transcontinental run ending an important era of passenger service on the nation's historic Overland Route.
Ed Randall
22 NUMBER 224 (JUNE. 1980) At Felton, California on the tourist-hauling Roaring Camp and Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad, top, is rebuilt Shay 1 on August 30. The two-truck three-foot-gauge locomotive was returned to service in late summer following an extensive rebuilding in the company shop which featured an entirely new all-welded boiler to restore the Shay's original 180 pound operating pressure for daily battles with grades over 8'1, percent on the steep climb up Bear Mountain. On an Arizona Chapter, NRHS excursion to Brian T. Wise Los Mochis, Mexico, the Mexicano del Pacifico steamed up 2-6-2 number 7 for a special Saturday operation that fea tured both switching and cab rides for this April, 1980 photograph. Originally Calcaseiu Long Leaf Lumber 68 and later Long-Bell Lumber Company 681, then Longview Portland and Northern number 681 (PA CIFIC NEWS, October, 1978), the locomotive gets a regular annual workout on the MdelP each new sugar season from December through June, working with ex-California Western 2-6-2 21, now number 6, and the number 4, a 2-8-2 built for United Sugar. Now completely rehabilitated and sporting a ' stainless-steel boiler jacket, below, is the former Kinzua Pine Mills 102 overhauled for eventual passenger service on the tentatively named Mount Rainier Railway (PA CIFI C NE WS, May, 1980). Photographed July 17 at Tacoma, Washington where the work was done, the completed West Coast Special Heisler has been steam tested and declared operational and ready for service on the planned tourist run between Elbe and Mineral on former Milwaukee Road trackage earmarked for passenger use.
Stan Schwcdler
Albert Farrow
PACIFIC NEWS 23 nEWS PHOTOS
A pair of former Southern Pacific Alco S6 switchers are seen here, two of several resold by locomotive dealer Chrome Crankshaft for a continued life. In Alhambra, California on May 23, top, the one-time SP 1233 is aboard a highway trailer enroute south of the border. She BOlh: Mark A. Denis now works as the 8003 for Compania Minera de Cananea SA. At the Port of Los Angeles, now in yellow-with-red paint, is American Bulk Loading Enterprises 500. The ex-SP unit replaces a Baldwin VO-lOOO .
North American Car NW2 number 50 was photographed enroute to Billings, Wyoming where she now works. Seen at Guernsey, Wyoming in May, the locomotive is now the switcher at a new N AR car repair fa cility.
A. R. Burns Mike Bledsoe
This 80-ton GE is ex-US Navy, last used at Norfolk, Virginia but here seen at the Inman Service Company facility in Baytown, Texas where it was being rebuilt for continued service. It has since been put back to work by Cargill switching grain cars.
24 NUMBER 224 (JUNE, 1980) Missouri Pacific 33 12, at Fort Worth, Texas, is the first of thirty brand-new S 040-2 units received during April and May of this year from EMO: 33 1 2-3321 and 6054-6073. The 3312 is from builder's order number 786269, the 6000's are order number 796311. J. Barrow
Lette{ed for the Sonora Baja California Railway, but wearing nationalized NdeM's paint scheme, is new GP40-2 2309 at Mexacali earlier this year. The unit is one of two, 2309 and 2310, built on EMO order 788029. C�==Si;;=';;:= Alan Miller
Southern Pacific GP38-2 number 4804, at Yorktown, Texas on August 3, 1980, is one of forty-five delivered new by Electro-Motive in 1980 to Espee as numbers 4800-4844. These units are the firstexamples of this popular EMO model to go to work on the Southern Pacific (see page 5).
Stuart Schroeder Thomas Carver
Burlington Northern F7 A-unit 724 was damaged in a derailment during February (PA CIFIC NE WS, March, 1980) but to the surprise of many was repaired and returned to service on the railroad. Seen at Auburn, Washington 2'/, months after the wreck, the immaculate cab unit was originally Northern Pacific 65 I3-C, built in 1950. L.:...---'::...... :::====:::._....,.;;;..::.;...... ��� :i.;..._...:���!!!!�=.ii
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QUALITY COLOR SLIDES for the western rail fa n. Southern Pacific,Santa Fe. All listings herewith are made free of charge. and PACIFIC NEWS assumes no Great orthern, Milwaukee juice, Rio Grande, Spokane Portland and Seattle. responsibility for errors, revisions in fares and schedules or operational changes, more, all pre-1970's. Set of five slides $2.25. Also soft cover books at savings. all of which are subject to change without notice. PACIFIC NEWS reserves the Catalog and sample slide $1.00. The Rail Image. Box 289. Denville. NJ 07834. right to edit material or to refuse any listings. Insertions will not be printed from brochures. Deadline is the first of the second month preceding publication date. BUILD A BEAUTIFUL. exciting train stamp collection. Send for our no obligation. postage-paid approvals. Repurchase guaranteed. Stamps Galore. February 15, 1981. Sunday Department PN, 2409 John Avenue, Superior. Wisconsin 54880. WASHINGTON MODEL RAILROAD SWAP MEET The Spokane Model Engineers will hold their Fifth Annual Swap Meet on "L.A.'S RAIL TRANSIT SYSTEM - The One That Got Away." Poster shows Sunday, February 15, 1981 at the Sheraton Hotel in Spokane. General admission. great network that once was. Photos. art. S5.50 (plus 33� in California) to W. Van at $2.00, is from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM and includes a half-table selling space. Doren, 336 North Oakhurst Drive. 2 '. Beverly Hills. California 9020 1. Refund Dealer space is also available, at $5.00. guaranteed. Spokane Model Engineers 4208 West Crown Avenue FO UND IN THE WAREHOUSE - a few copies of Bart. RIII/I/il/g. Spokane. Washington 99208 Orr L� Published in November. 1972, but out of print for the last four years. This book is a pictorial study of the first weeks of revenue operation includ ing the development of the Bart Car. SIO while they last, California residents must add tax. Chatham Publishing Company, P. O. Box 283. Burlingame. California 940 I O.
MICHAEL PEART, ROBERT W. ALM. Please contact Chatham Publishing Company as we have unclaimed mail for you. Chatham Publishing Company. Post Office Box 283. Burlingame, California 940 10. Railroading'SEKlra lowesl-coslBoar classilledd ad marMel CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING section for railroad-related items. PACIFIC NEWS reserves the right to edit all copy and to refuse any listings. Ads can not be Publishers are encouraged to submit copies of both new acknowledged, nor can proof copies be sent. Closing date is the 1st of the 2nd and reissued books. records. photo sets, etcetera not preceding month. Count all numbers, name and address. but not zip code. Rates previously reviewed in PACIFIC NEWS. There is no are 10¢ a word, $4.00 minimum. Payment in advance. Repeat ads 50% off for the II charge for this service; however, the material will be second month of each two-month period for continuing ads. retai ned by the magazine for its research library.
HOT SUMMER DAYS? Relax and cool off with a good railroad book. Books at B O 0 discount. Send LSSAE for list. Railroad Equipment. Department PN. 725 Fullerton Drive. Turlock. California 95380. ORIGINAL KODACHROME SLIDES. United States. Canada and Mexico. Reuieand other newws railroading -related products From Alaska to Nde M, U I' to M EC. Action, roster. equipment. stations. Traction too. $1.00 for 26-page list and sample. John Benson. P. O. Box 18526. Cleveland TEXAS AND PACIFIC Heights, Ohio 44 1 18. 0011 Watson and Steve Brown It is hard not to like the motive power of the Texas and Pacific, or even the ONLY ONE CHATHAM MINI BOOK LEFT. We have a few copies left ofju st railroad itself. The magnificent lines of its Ten Wheelers and the well-known fame one of the 16-page 5!!,x8y," mini books published several years ago by Chatham of its huge 2-10-4's has touched most of us with an interest in railroading. One of Publishing Company. Fully illustrated, available while the supply lasts at 52.50: the latter locomotives, the number 610. is still in operation for excursion service. Klamath and Hoppo\\' Valley Railroad. a piClorial .\·tlidy oI lhis nou'-inoperalive currently on the Southern Railway following a successful Texan tour with the California (ourist line sho wing bOlh o.fifS steam locomotives in aClion lhroux" the American Freedom Train. Number 316. a 4-6-0. operates for passengers on the redwoods and on an impressive SH'ifchback. Chatham Publish;lI!? Company. P. O. Texas State Railroad. Box 283. Bur/ingame. California 94010 (California residems III/lSI include lax). Six parts in this book explain the Texas and Pacific story, beginning with a reprint of a book. Frolll Ox TI'{JIIIJ 10 Eagles, first published by the T &1' in 1945. ORIGINA L SLIDES. Diesels of ATSF, Amtrak. BN. SP, UP. Milwaukee. short This booklet's title. gaining its name from the railroad's need to use ox power to lines, industrials and others. LSASE and 25� brings catalog. T. Dickinson, 1002 drag the original train as an emergency measure to preserve the new railroad's Eastglen Drive, La Verne, California 91750. charter, and its subsequent history leading to diesel-powered Eagle streamliners. also serves as the subtitle for this newTexas and Pacific history. The railroad itself STEAM BUILDER'S PLATES, (Southern Pacific) Cab Forwards AC-6 4127. was merged into the Missouri Pacific. its largest stockholder. in 1976. Other AC-IO 4239, S200.00 each. Ex-T&T 7 to T &G 53 $235.00. E. F. Failla, Post Office sections in this book relate the railroad's growth following the 1945 date of the Box 1179, Colfax, California 957 13. booklet. the T&P's steam locomotives, personalities. a random "scrapbook" photo section and the restoration of the 610 for its historic American Freedom THESE CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS ARE INEXPENSIVE. At only Train duties. 10¢ a word - with a fifty per cent discount for the second of each two-month Individual personalities play an important part in the text of Watson and period the ad is repeated - you can not afford not to be represented right here Brown's Texas and Pacific Railway history as they relate the railroad's life from its where a listing will find or sell anything from a true gem to a white elephant! very beginning to merger into the Missouri Pacific. The railroad was. and is, a major transcontinental link and its impact on Texas history has always been 1981 NORTHWEST RAILROAD CALENDAR. Seventeen photos of old and extremely significant. new railroad scenes of the Inland Empire. Full color cover. 53.50 postpaid. Photo captions are at times brief to the extreme throughout the book. "T&P Previous years $1.50. IERHS, P. O. Box 5334, Spokane. Washington 99205. 11243 a D-7," for example. leaves readers to count their own wheel arrangement, look the builder up elsewhere in the volume and guess at the date and location. RAILROAD RADIO SCANNERS - Car Mobile and Hand Held - Electra There is even a superb backshop scene with no caption whatsoever. But. the roster Bearcat, Midland and Pace. Several models in stock from $99.50 to 5169.50. is sufficiently detailed to at least identify the motive power on the Texas and Crystals for most western railroads in stock at 55.00 each. Stop in or write for your Pacific Railway during the steam era. There are not many dispositions. though. railroad-radio needs. Iron Horse Hobbies, 3529 Clayton Road, Concord. and for diesel data some other reference will be needed. There is not even a diesel California 945 19. photograph in this book. leaving a major segment of the railroad's history untouched except for a few comments in the text - an unidentified cab unit does EMPLOYEES TIMETABLES AV AILABLE. A few still left from earlier lists. appear in the background of one steam scene. though. SP, WP, SN/ Tidewater Southern. Send SSAE for list. John Parson. P. O. Box Readers also may wonder whether the authors are new to railroads and writing. 283, Burlingame, California 940 10. even railroading itself. Or. are they trying to write for a novice audience as they tell their story with an abundance of one-sentence paragraphs'! PORRECA'S FIRST SECTION. If you are a locomotive fan, you should have Even though the date of the Texas and Pacific Railway's last steam run seems to this catalog. 15,000 color slides, 775 companies, 60 photographers, short lines, have evaded the joint resea rching of the authors. many facets ofT&P history arc and industrials galore. Aleos, Baldwins, FM's, E-units. F-units. DD35's, U50's, told by Watson and Brown. The details of development work on 2-1 0-2 524 to fit it turbines and much, much more. 53.00 for catalog, sample. Porreca, Dept. 1',Box with a turbine-drive fan and air duct arrangement for controlled drafting in an 22, Boulder, Colorado. effort to burn lignite coal. of cowboy singer Gene Autry or Nellie. a horse, will each attract separate interests. as will a fairly thorough account of the 610'5 rise BACK ISSUES of PA CIFIe NEWS remain available; some date to the July. 1964 from display and a return to service. A historical synopsis completes the book. issue, number 35. Quantities are limited for many of these, however. The wide while scattered throughout the volume are various little reprint "goodies" to variety of feature article topics covers most of the western railroading activity for delight readers as they learn of the cows that rerouted survey crews and the this period of time. Send a stamped self-addressed envelope for complete details: Huntington-Gould Agreement. Enjoy. -Norman Saunders PA CIFIC NEWS, Post Office Box 283, Burlingame. California 940 10. Texas and Pacific. Boston M ills Press, R.R. I. Cheltenham. Ontario. Canada
26 NUMBER 224 (JUNE. 1980) LOP ICO. Hardbound. 256 pages. 8·)1, x I Iy,".fully illustrated. steam roster. series: we shall look forward to the next. - Norman Saunders map. reprints. synopsis. color dust jacket. $35.00. This book is available from Southern California and the Pacific Electric. Vol. I. published by the author. Chatham's Book Sales Department. available from Interurbans. P. O. Box 6444. Glendale, California 91205. Perl'e ctbound. 80 pages. 66 photographs. no eolor. $9.95. SEVEN RAILROADS Edgar A. Haine The author of this wordy text has scanned the world. studied Ilumerous railroads and dipped inlO his own trcasurchousc of vacation travels to pick out seven rail lines lhal he fee ls arc especially historic. All were built in the eighty years from 1844 to 1923. and all exposed remote regions of the world to development. Only one, the Alaska Railroad. is on United States soil. M alerial presented by the author is oftenti mes dry reading. but t he histories and construction problems he relates arc fasci nating. Not one of the seven railroads was easily built. Personal experiences of author Haine bring much or the data up LellersWRONG 10 CRED IT to reasonably current times to match his visits. Many readers. though. will fault I sec the credit line was not shown correct for the print of U. S. Gypsum 1203 in his generalities. lack of details and other fo rms of "accepted" railroadiana the March. 1980 issue of PA CIFIC NEWS. Note on the print where I listed interpretations. Locomotive information is lacking and photographs are usually collection of (myself) and photo by Bill Harmon. Please make a note in an either railroad publicity views or the author's snapshots. Even the cover upcoming issue showing Bill as the photographer. photograph is a tender-first scene! Captions are extremely short. and sans Ken Ardinger specifics. The author's own train photographs are fre4 11cntly terribly obstructed. Tigard. Oregon such as as unidenlified NdeM unit hiding behind concrete blocks on the Tehuantepec Railroad. An Alaska Railroad photograph eaption refers to the SEATTLE AND NORTH COAST "diesel electric locomotive and passenger cars." but the tightly cropped view is The embargo against heavy loads because of the condition of the apron at the actually four F-units. in three paint schemes. No passenger cars at all. barge slip at Port Townsend was imposed by the Milwaukee Road some two years Railroading on the West Indies island of Jamaica leads off the seven railroad ago. The embargo was eased by Icn tons by the Seattle and North Coast. who will topics. followed by the Panama Railroad. the 155-mile Transandino Railroad in make repairs as soon as possible. The embargo caused no startup delays. Court South America. the Trans-Siberian. East Africa's Kenya-Uganda Railroad. the and Interstate Commerce Commission delays were the problems. Tehuantepec Railroad in southeastern Mex ico with its spectacular success prior John C. Iliman to completion of the Panama Canal. and the Alaska Railroad. Nordland, Washington Se\"l�n Railroads relates seven separate histories. each with emphasis on the formative years. then jumps to generalities from the author's visit(s). The result is TIMELY BEYOND EXPECTATIONS an interesting look at seven difficult railroad projects in remote regions where. What a timely coincidence' Received latest (March) issue of PA CIFIC NEWS were it not for the coming of the train. development of the area would probably in the mail at noon. Saturday. May 17. Twenty hours later. on Sunday morning. have never been attempted. - N orman Saunders May 18. Mount St. Helens suffered the cataclysm of the century. Laid waste was Senn Railroads. A. S. Barnes and Company. Box 42 1. Cranbury. NewJersey much of the area delineated by C. G. Heimerdinger and the operations deseribed 085 12. Hardbound. 292 pages. 6Y,x9Y,". 134 photographs ( many are pcople in detail in the lead article "\Veyerhaeuser Longview." and trackside scenes). maps. timetables. index. two-color dust jacket. SI4.95. May we hope that PA CI FlC N £WS will devote similar space in an early issue as a followup. perhaps by the same author. In addition to the devastation of COLORADO RAIL ANNUAL NO, 14 extensive \V eyerhaeuser properties. it is obvious that other rail installations in the Gordon S. Chappell. Editor Pacific Northwest were affected in lesser degrees in the wake of drifting ash as well One of the longer running. and more popular, railroading book series is the as nooding tributaries of the Columbia River. We look to PA c/FIC NE WS for Colorado Railroad Museum's C(}loradu Rail Anflua/. This is number 14. and the best in news coverage of such events. once again several specific details of railroading in this particular state arc studied John P. Filson in close-up fa shion. The wealth of Colorado railroad history continues to be Sacramento. California seemingly endless. This book concentrates on a trio of stories: railroading at Creede. the Lake City Just how prophetic can you be? I am referring to the Inside Chatham comments Branch and three na rrow-gauge private passenger cars. Although these histories regarding Weyerhaeuser's Columbia and Cowlitz Railroad in the March issue primarily concern themselves with Denver and Rio Grande activities. the reader which states "Why not pay it a visit? Things arc sure to change again before you will learn of Rio Grande Southern and the San Christobal Railroad as well. The drop by for a second look." latter line. which had but a brief operating history on the D& RGW's former Lake Just two days after I read that magazine. Mount St. Helens "dropped by." City Branch. managed to produce its own Galloping Goose. The Rio Grande depositing Lons of mud and ash. Southern acquired the car and used it as the basis for a goose of its own. The Not only was this article interesting. but very timely and it will preserve a bit of Colorado Railroad Museum has the ca r today at its museum in Golden. sudden past history. Private three-foot-gauge passenger cars Cinco Anim(ls. General Palmer and loci Hancock Numad have become Colorado legends. In the final years of Denver and Rio Anacortes, Washington Grande operation of its narrow-gauge empire the cars were frequent additions to Silvertull service on a charter basis and they even made a crossing together all the **Allthor fleimerdinger /i\'es ill Cal{/(Jrnia and like mo.\·t ol us has not bl�en hack way from Durango to Alamosa. and return. They remain available for trips from to I-Veyerlweuser 's LOllgviel\' log� ill� line sin('e the sl�ver(1I " visits" (�r Mount St. Durango to Silverton even today. and Alexis McKinney weaves a fascinating flelens. L()gging culumnist Pete Rl�plillger has, though, including an airplane ridc' account of the good times and bad in the lives of these historic cars that is Ol'er tHe de\'astated area (Ifill pani('ularly the railroad above Green Mountain illustrated with an excellent assembly of photographs. ,\1ill. PetC" s repun is in our \'ery 1/l�xt issue. Two authors. Duane Vandenbusche and Walter R. Borneman.joined efforts to tell the Lake City Branch story. and it is an especially interesting one. The city MORRISON-KUNDSEN itself is in the San Juan Mountains, a mining region. and railroading arrived early The article by Norm Anderson on Morrison-K nudsen (PA CIFIC NEWS. in the form of the Rio Grande. As happened so repeatedly. the mining eventually April. 1980) was very informative. I have just one question that he did n ot answer: played out and the railroad's traffic vanished. The branch. however. led an If the Alaska Railroad bought some of those engines with Switzerland made interesting and slow decline. surviving floods and the depression. though the motors. would they be called Alaska-Sulzers? Plop. plop. fizz. fizz. railroad became ever slo\\'cr restoring service after storm damage. Finally. Steve Sloan a bandonment was granted. on May 25. 1933. but this was not the end for instead San Jose. California of scrappers buying the railroad it was purchased by mine owner Mike Burke who created his own San Christobal Railroad. Burke began service in February of 1934 with a 192R Pierce-Arrow - it had been his family car - reworked into a railroad vehicle. Borrowing the term Galloping Goose from the Rio Grande Southern. rail SANTA FE STEAM IN 1941! service to Lake City was preserved. brieny. The Rio Grande Southern later acquired the San Christobal's Goose and the rails were removed on the Lake City Branch in the summer of 1937 after several years of inactivity, but not berore Prof. Color & Sound Movie leaving a story well worth being studied in the 1980's. Super 8. 200 ' The last "chapter" in All/lIIal No. 14 takes liS to Creede. in a detailed accOll nt of $59.95 railroad ing in the area by Cornelius \V . Hauck. Once again the story is of Denver and Rio Grande activity. of mining and of narrow-gauge railroad construction in Calif. orders add 6 % tax the 1880·s. The branch was standard-gauged carly by the Rio Grande and it Overseas Airmail $2.00 add!. remains in service yet today. Hauck tells of the route's frequently troubled existence. and of the lifestyle of both railroad and communities. Separately any one of these three stories on Colorado railroading would make an outstanding STAN KISTLER book. together they arc irresitible. Karl R. Koenig Colorado Rail Annual No. 14. Colorado Railroad Museum. P. O. Box 10. Box 349 Grass Valley, CA 95945 G olden. Colorado 8040 I. Hard bou nd. 232 pagcs. 8 Y,x I I ". over 200 photos with six in color. maps. memorabilia. S 17.50.
SO THERN CALI FO RNIA AND THE PACIFIC EI.ECTRIC. VOl. I Danny Howard SUPPORT ADVERTISERS Gratefully. the supply of Pacific Electric photographs seems to be endless for here is yet another book on this once vast SouthernCalif ornia interurban empire. WHO SUPPORT Eighty pages in length. this book is actually a photo alburn. There is no text after the fo reward. All information is presented in photo captions. and the type is rather large. No roster. No map. \V hat the book does have. though. is a generous PA CIFIC NE WS quantity of large photographs. many of them running over two-page spreads. PLEASE TELL THEM YOU READ IT HERE! \V hile a portion of the photographs have been seen before. most are refreshingly new. The trend is towards early views oft he railroad's existence. and the emphasis THAT WAY EVERYBODY BENEFITS is delightfully on the era of \\'ooden cars and open fields. PCC's and one-time Interurban Electric cars from San Francisco-Oa kland service can be found. DID YOU SEE? though. carefully mixed with timeless scenes of downtown Los Angeles in the THE WEYERHAEUSER LOGGING I 920·s. or even earlier. Fou r sections comprise the book. including the early days of operation. Mount FEATURE IN THE MARCH I980 ISSUE Lowe. downtown Los Angeles and the subway operations. This is volume one ofa BACK tSSUES OF 1'..1 ClFleSUI' S ARE A Vi\II.i\lllE SSAE FOR UST
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