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STEAM News PHOTO PAGE, Railroading Columns, CAMERA C R PHOTO Section, and More PUBLISHED LATE NOVEMBER WITH NEWS TO MID-NOVEMBER qx NO. 224 (JUNE, 1980) $1.50 ALSO In THIS ISSUE: STEAM nEWS PHOTO PAGE, RAILROADinG COLUMns, CAMERA C R PHOTO SECTion, AnD mORE. 1981 GRailroad Calertdar by GRichard C£. Cox 13 SCENIC TRAIN PORTRAITS FROM THE U.S. AND CANADA ... Calendar is 13%" x 23" (picture size, 9" x 12"), superbly printed in full, rich color on high grade paper. Each picture represents a cross section of North � _. American railroads, steam and diesel ... a panorama of vistas of the past. FEBRUARY 19S1 $7.95 plus $1.00 ea. for postage in U.S. 1\ Foreign orders include $2.00 ea. extra. U.S. funds only. Calendars are shipped in sturdy container via First Class/UPS. VISA and Master Charge accepted. Past year calendars in stock: 1973, '74, '76 and '77. The supply is limited. California residents add 6% Sales Tax. GRailroadHeavy Paper. High Portraits Gloss Lacquerill . 5112"Color x 8314" • Over 65 railroads - all areas including Canada and Mexico. • Steam, Diesel, Electric, Main & Short Line, Narrow Gauge. • Detailed historic data prepared by professional writers. Imagine ... brilliant quality color reproductions, many of rare and previously unpublished photos, complete with detailed histories. A complete illustrated catalog is available at $2.00. Vanishing Vistas is located at 1771 Tribute Rd, (916) 929-3855. California Residents add 6% S. Tax "Va.n.ishin.g "Vista.s® BY RICHARD E. COX P.O. BOX 15902PN, SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA 95813 2 NUMBER 224 (JUNE, 1980) Pacific No. 224 JUNE, 1980 PUBLISHED LATE NOVEMBER Me s VOLUME 20 NO.6 � Association of Railroad Editors � Tourist Railway �O�i�J �orporated KARL R. KOENIG • EDITOR * TOM GRAy ................. PRODUCTION STAFF * HAROLD C. KOENIG ..... , ..... EDITORIAL STAFF * JOHN PARSON .................... OFFICE STAFF D. S. RICHTER ................. EDITORIAL STAFF • • • * * Inside Chatham * Kenneth M. Ardinger ........•...........Contributing Staff hatham Publishing Company continually receives George R. Cockle ............... ........Contributing Staff C * Harre W. Demoro ................ ........Contr ibuting Staff credit for being much larger than it actually is. I suppose we * R. C. Farewell .........•..•..............Contributing Staff should be flattered, but that is not really the case for there * Mark W. Heinz .. ......... .... ... ... ....Contribu ting Staff always seems to be a considerable amount of explanation Don Jewell ... ... .......... ... ..........Contr ibuting Staff * Neil Lang ............ ... .... ......... ... Contributing Staff needed as a result. * Joe McMillan ............. ............... Contributing Staff First-time visitors to this office always seem to have * Ken Meeker ............•.....•..•..•....Contrib uting Staff expected a landscaped parking lot with Southern Pacific * Peter J. Replinger ......•................Contrib uting Staff Allen Rider ......................•....... Contributing Staff commuter trains rambling across the lawn - they are across * J. Harlen Wilson .................... ... .. Contributing Staff the street, which of course is paved, and there's a stopsign on * three of the four corners so it is not rural California, either. * * Virtually all of the adjacent trees are eucalyptus, not sugar qx pine. So rry. * © Contents Copyright 1980 * ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Then there's the matter of the building. We do not occupy * the penthouse of Burlingame's tallest skyscraper, nor even * IN THIS MONTH'S PACIFIC NEWS 1269 ...................... 6 the top floor of a litle high rise. Not even the entire floor of this * SOUTHERN PACIFIC small, single-story building. No, the fact is Chatham is but RAILROADING COLUMNS . .......... ......... 11 * 16 one business among several located in a small commercial * CAMERA CAR PHOTO SECTION ... ..... SHORT STUFF . ........... ...... ............... 21 zone surrounded by streets, railroad, high school and * NEWS PHOTOS ..........................•..... 22 bordering on a residential neighborhood. The entire area was * EXCURSIONS/CLASSIFIED ...............•..... 26 once a dairy, but that goes way back. * REVIEWS/LETTERS . ... ..... ....... ... ........ 27 Next comes our reception area. To be sure, we have the * necessary plant life, and even a rug, but no receptionist and * SUBSCRIPTIONS BY DIRECT MAIL no telephone switchboard (though there is more than one * In United States, Canada and Mexico: $15.00 for one $27.00 $1.50. button on the green phone). We do not even have a meeting * year, for two years. Single copies Foreign: $16.00 per year. Foreign - only - First Class and Air room, although there are occasionally skulking re ports of * * Mall rates are available upon a specific written request. clandestine meetings in the warehouse. * Our one-room office has more than one desk, however, and CHATHAM PUBLISHING COMPANY * Post Office Box 283, Burlingame, California 94010 USA the plea mentioned last issue is stated again. That desk is * empty, just as it has been for many years. Yes, occasionally * • part timers have filled it for many months now and then to the TO REACH A PACIFIC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Enclose your own letter * in an envelope with the name of the contributor you wish to reach. add great benefit of the magazine's production schedule, but it is postage and enclose this envelope in another envelope and mail both to * PACIFIC NEWS. We will forward for you. but can not guarantee any reply. the lack of any such help as th is is written that is forcing the * • delayed publication. PACIFIC NEWS can not at this time * ALL PHOTOGRAPHS (ONLY) ARE PAID FOR UPON PUBLICATION ARTICLES IN THIS MAGAZINE ARE CONTRIBUTED BY ITS READERS compete in the inflated local wage market, for the magazine * PACIFIC NEWS (ISSN 0030-879X) is published monthly by the Chatham has been hurt by its untimely cover dates. If you want to help, Publishing Company, 1012 Oak Grove Avenue, Burlingame, California * 9401.0. (415) 348-0331. Printed in the U.S.A. Second Class poslage paid al write us. I can not promise an answer, but I will study every * Burlingame. California 94010. PACIFIC NEWS assumes no responsibility for the safe return of editorial or advertising material. Acceptable proposal and reader participation is always encouraged, * photographs are filed for potential future publication and are paid today and in the future, just as it always has been for twenty * for upon use. Advertising rates are available on request for rate card: Rate * Card Number 7, April, 1980, is now in effect and supersedes all others. years. -Karl R. Koenig • * CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Post office does not regularly forward 2nd Class Mail and PACIFIC NEWS will not replace copies not forwarded and COVER: Southern Pacific 0-6-0 1269, back in steam at the Castro * destroyed by the post office - replacement copies, and post office notification charges. will be billed. Please allow at least Point Railway museum in May, 1980 (PACIFIC NEWS). * PACIFIC NEWS * four weeks for any address changes to insure uninterrupted mail delivery. 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<hn. f. \.Urtf' ALSO 100 old Ii fogropt",. mott n ..... r b.'or. railroads and selected Sierra because it was the railroad flat car. Each crate would have deck . pvblnh.d. ind� fn0ny .arty H.tchy He1chy and best," Foster noted. "This is a tightly run rails for up to four decks. For hogs and sheep the Yos.mit. von.,... Railroad WEST SIDE Flume aMI railroad, and I plan to keep it that way. Like any decks would be 38" apart, for cattle they would l_t- Co. ORDER well-run small business, the employees wear be 51 ". For backhauls, all decks could be R� YOURS NOW! several hats and know a lot about the business. removed and stored in the ceiling of the crates -. �29.50 $1.50 postage (eolit. •••.dd • .'" ,tate. t.. 0.01. .. ;ft4I..... i" M"".� A clerk doubles as a brakeman and a diesel and they could then be used for dry freight.
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