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BINGHAMTON, N.Y.", A new videotape from Hopewell Productions The PA's and the Sharks may be gone, but the D&H is still a "rail fans' railroad." In this new tape you'll see how the D&H utilizes their fl eet of Aleo and GE power in road service north out of Binghamton over Belden Hill , south over ex-Erie and ex-Lackawanna lines and west on the old Erie main to Hornell , N.Y. Scores of action­ packed runbys will show you D&H country at its fin est in Dateline D&H: Binghamton, N.Y. $59.95 in VHS or BETA l ; nion Pacific's opera tional steam power at Cheyenne. W yoming in February. 19HZ. ~ . I \\ "III Now you can charge your I n Texas. they a re try in g to a rrange a major nited S ta tes. th is locomo ti lc mav ha lT been tape order! locomotive swap. At the Age of S team Museu m once of the ni cest pl aces to be o n a ny rai lroad. Use your VISA or MASTERCARD! in Dallas the one-time 'ell' York Centra l T ucked safelv away inside the roundhouse at Hopewell Productions Ra il road 300 1. a 4-X-2 turned out by C heyen ne where U ni o n Pacific ma inta ins \\'hat Schencctady in 1940 a nd on di spl ay a t the is no \\ their two-engine stea m rI ee l. the 39X5 345 Brandon Avenue muse um since 195 7. is being so ught by eastern kept both the roundho use a nd herse lf' warm h\' Struthers, Ohio int eres ts for a retu rn across the Mi ss iss ippi acting as probably the wo rld 's la rgest radia to r. 44471 R ive r a nd ho peful ly eve n a rebuild int o W ith tempera ture,. o ut side pl unging to -25 0 F in o pera ting co nd iti o n. The bi g Mo hawk. as the ea rl y Fe bruary. when the pho lograph a hole was I YC ca ll ed hcr. was purcha sed by t he Texas a nd ta ke n. the C ha ll enger lI as rece il'ing ro undhousl' Pacific Ra il way strictl y fo r disp lay a nd steam so t ha l ~ h c cou ld act a~ a giant radiator to renumbercd as the 2nd 909 The origi nal T& P wa rm the chill y in terior of th e faci lity. On the 909 was a lso a 4-X-2. but a Baldwin. and the l\ew adjacent track. 4-1<-4 1<444 was located oler the York Central engine was acqui red to substitute d rop pit in the midst of rather extensile repa irs for a too- rapid scrapping of stea m powe r when to her r unning gear. ANN UAL th e req uests fo r presenat ion a nd dis play ca me At the Pacific I. ocomotile Associa tion\ I'er\, a long la te in the 1950's. busy Cast ro Po int Rai lwav M use um in EDITION T he 300 I is the most accuratel y represe nted Richmo nd. o n th e shores of San Fra ncisco Ba y. o n the left sid e of the locomoti ve where New wo rk is a bout finished with the rest ora ti on of York Centra l lettering has hee n restored. O n the Ba ld win 2-6-6-2T logging ma llcy number4 ha ck engineer's side she still poses as T& P 909 . but if to her ori gi na l 1924 pa in t scheme as the Clol'n hoped-fo r plans a rc a success the Age of S tea m Va ll ey I. umber Compa nl' 4 . com ple te with a Museum. whic h IS at the Texas S ta te grcen clol'er on the ta nk. This locomotile has Fairground s. may be d isplavi ng the rece nth' bcen in o peration at Richmond since 197X. bu t 982 retired A mtrak GG I 925 in trade for the shc has hecn let tered for the Castro Poi nt M o hawk. T his wou ld he the former Penn Ra ilway: th e mu sL'um's trackage \ \ (1:-' originally STEAM Centra l 4932. origi na ll y bui lt fo r the Pen ns), bui lt in the I 920's as the Castro Poi nt Rai l"",,' with tha t sa me number. Thcre a re ma nl' a nd T ermina l Compa ny. The ma lky will PASSENG ER DIRECTO RY problems to such a huge undert ak in g. not the o pera te .I uly 4. whe nj ust about el cryt h ing at I he Includes description, timetables, fares least of whieh is the act ual for mal agreement o f museum II ill be pressed in to sen'ice fo r wha t has and photo of over 140 steam operated a ll the pa rties illl'olved a nd the pl1\'sica l hi slO ri ca li v become their busiest dav. rai I roads, trolley museums and rai I­ tra nsportati on. so in the meanti me the909 300 1 O ne of t he more ncwswort hv to pi cs of t he !,ast way museums in the United States and Canada. The standard guidebook stays o n display at Dallas in compa nl' with yea r has neen the lo ng legal road lea d ing. lie to tourist railroads since 1966. 168 Frisco 4-X-4 450 1. Un ion Paci fi c 4-X -X-4 40 1H. hope. to Stale of Califo rn ia acquisition o f the pages, full color covers. Also included Union T ermina l Company O-{HJ 7 a nd Eagle­ S icrra Ra il road's Railtown I X97 com plex. a long are dozens of Discount Guest Coupons P icher Mining Compa ny 2- 1O-{) 1625. plus some w ith it s locomoti\'cs and passL' ngcr equi p me nt. which save you money. niee ro ll ing stock. T here is no fina l lVo rd ve t o n the ncgoli a ti onsas Available at all tourist railroad gift By the time this iss ue of the maga7inc reaches of Ihis carll'-May writ in g. a nd th e sta te has " o{ shops, most hobby shops or write it s readers o n the cast coast a nd o\'erseas. the taken possession of a ny of the property or . direct. fi rst publ ic passenger ru ns of Union Pacific's cqu ipment in spite of frequent report s that the $4.50 postpaid restored C ha ll enger 4-6-6-4 num ber 39H5 will be la ker"'er is completcd. Ncgotiatio ns go on. and (Please add SOc for his tory. As a nnou nced in PA CI Fie.\' E M S last o n. Pa ti ence is req uired: they j ust ta ke time. If First Class Mai l if desired) month the 10comotilT. which has not bee n out successful. and the re is no a hsolute guara ntee' fo r a trip sin ce its retu rn in Mav. In I from the tha t they wil l he. negotiations wil l b id to the EMPIRE STATE openi ng of the California S ta te Rail road his toric .I amestown proPertl' becoming a unit of RAILWAY MUSEUM, INC. M uselil" at Sacra ment o. wil l t ravel to I ci a ho a nd ollr sta te pa rk system a nd rl.' l1 cwcd train P.O. Box 666-G o perati ons wit h stea m. I I' nor! W d I. time wi lilell Middletown, New York 10940 th en Sa lt L. a ke C it y in mid-June before returni ng to C heyen ne. Wyo ming. This past but We hope to repo rt good nCII', o n t his to pic winter. wit h record cold attac kin g much of the yc t this summer. •

4 U MBER 237 FORMER ARMY UNITS JOIN PSRMA MUSEUM ROSTER existing ra ilroad trackage in o rder to cut down The Pacific Southwest Rail way Museu m as much as possible the initial construction Association has acquired a pa ir ofU nited States costs. The resulting syste m. it is ex pected. will DAYLIGHT SHIRTS ARE BACK Army Electro-Motive MRS-I units for its be much like tha t rece ntly created in San Diego. P.L.A.'s Got 'Em! museu m at Campo. California. The first. Ca lifornia on the heavily rehabilita ted trackage & number 1809. has a lready arrived in San Diego o f the San Diego a nd Arizona Eastern Railroa d. 99 while the second. number 1820. has yet to be At San Diego. in fa ct. little of the o riginal $6. pdstpaid delivered to the group. D es igned to operate with SD&AE track was saved but. instead . a new (In California add the long hood forwa rd and fitted with a stea m doub le-track li gh t rail system was built on the 40DENVER'S NEWEST TRACKAGE RIGHTS Adults S-M-L-XL call ed " Back a nd Forth Railroad'" Actua l STEVE REEVES AND Women's Daylight V-neck T ·Shlrt. sizes S-M­ movement of the 1809 to San Diego. however. The Fort W o rth and D enver (Burlington L- and XL, $1 2.00 postpaId. was over the U ni on Pacific a nd Sant a Fe from Northern) has ent ered into one of t he newest a nd (In Calilornla add 7Qe lax) mi litary storage at Ogden. U tah. Early in it s perhaps s hortest trackage ri ghts agreeme nt-s in T St-SP 4449 Oayllgnl career. the 1809 worked fo r the government­ the west. The M issouri-Kansas-Texas mainline Pacific Locomotive Association owned Alaska Railroad o n a test program prio r south o ut of Wichita Fa ll s. Texas is a nearly c/o 1565 Seneca Lane, San Mateo, CA 94402 to 1955. For the time be in g. the 1809. a nd the (Continued o n page 24) 1820 when it a rri ves. will be stored in the San Diego a rea until the const ru cti o n o f the museum facilities a t Campo are s ufficiently completed to from the Colorado Railroad Museum protect the two e ngi nes. _ in cooperation with the Denver Public Library COLORADO NARROW GAUGE RAILROADING UPDATE a memorial pictorial volume R. C. FAREWELL !\arrow gauge news fro m the Colorado region includes the bui ld ing of fi ve new coaches fo r service this year by the Cumbres and Toltec Otto Perry: Scenic Ra il way. The cars are be in g constructed o n the fra me and running gear o fformer De nver a nd Ri o Grande 6500-series steel narrow-gauge Master Railroad Photographer natcars in the compa ny shops. The Durango a nd S il ve rt on Railroad. the Rio G ra nde's former Silverton Bra nc h through the To celebrate the life work of renowned railroad photog­ An imas Ri ve r Canyon between the two rapher Otto Perry , the Colorado Railroad Museum ha s pub­ namesake c iti es. is rebuilding work ca r0566and lished a handsome 336 page volume of 500 carefu lly chosen work train coach 270. The former was origina ll y black and white Perry photographs, together with seve ral a full postal car and after rebuilding both will be rare co lor views from the 1940's and a biographical sketch. used in rewn ue passenger service o n the Ea ch print was carefully processed from the original nega­ railroad this comi ng summer. Both cars are to tive, in cooperation with the We stern History Collection of retain the ir early c le resto ry-roofed appearance the Denve r Public Library. Major coverage of the Rocky in the rehabilita ti on work at Sih'e rt o n in the Mountain West includes the Union Pacific, Santa Fe, Burling­ compa ny shops. ton, C&S , Rio Grande, and many western shortlines and At Bo ulde r. Colorad o. the fo rme r Colorado narrow ga uges. Other areas covered include the West Coast, a nd Northeastern Brooks- built 2-8-0 number Midwest and Ea st, Canada ,. Mexico and Europe. 90% of the 30. la st o perated as Rio Grand e Southe rn 74. photos have never before been published. The book is a long wi th ex-Rio Grande open-platform coach 81hxll on quality 80 lb. coated paper, hardbound. 280 a nd boxcar- caboose 04990 have been moved to a new setting on relaid r ~i l a t the center of a $30.00 postpaid park away from an ea rlier tenuo us locati o n high on the ba nks of Bo ulder C reek. When built in 1898 the number 30 operated regularly through Boulde r on the Colorado and Northeastern. _ Colorado Rail Annual SACRAMENTO LIGHT RAIL PROPOSAL GETS CLOSER Utah & Northern • Union After a late A pril study a nd a meeting of the No. 15 Pacific, Montana Div. • Regional Tra nsit Boa rd in Sacramento. Gilmore & Pittsburgh RR Ca li fornia t he planned IS-mile li ght ra il system came a step c loser to the actual start of No . 15 in our se ries covers three interrelated railroad topics constructi o n. The study in vesti gated in deta il a ll in Utah, Idaho and Montana - a history of the narrow o f the opti o ns available to the transit district. ga uge Utah & Northern, operations of the succeeding stan­ includi ng a vast expans io n of the ex isting bus dard gauge Union Pacific Montana Division between Pocatello neet and even the operation of ex tra-lo ng and Butte, and the little-known tributary Gilmore & Pitts­ double-deck buses. Currently there are none o f burgh. A profuse ly illustrated 215 page 8 1/2 xll book with the latter in operation in the United States. carefully researched texts, hardbound. $19.50 postpaid Several possibl e sources of funding for the project are now be ing investi gated in deta il. in cluding the sale of a bond issue or even a ballot measu re to pass a specia l gas tax to finan ce the light rail line. T he Sacramento pl a n is ex pected Colorado Railroad Museum to cost the regional trans it district. thro ugh it s Sacramento Transit D evelopme nt Agency. DEPT. N, BOX 10, GOLDEN COLO. 80402 about $ 124.8 millio n. City. county and state mo nev is being set asid e for constructi o n o rthe light rail proiect. m uch o f whi ch would use

PACIFI C NEWS 5 Larry Bulli s: Mount Ra inier Scenic Ri.l ilroad MOUNT RAINIER SCENIC RAILROAD WESTERN WASHINGTON F OREST]NDUSTRIES MUSEUM

may have captured the public fancy, but in the runaways tha t c reated a unique way of life in the KARL R. KOENIG woods loggers lead lives far more vigoro us and woods. As a ll of t his took place usually on some every bit as fa scinating. Stea m was a n essential remote mou ntai nsid e, it never really ca ught the Steam ra il roadin·g o n an impressive scale has pa rt of this hi story o f logging. as were railroads. fancy of the public. Nei ther writers or returned to the sta te o f Washington. T rue, no Skidders. ya rd ers. saws. pumps, locomoti ves cin ematographers we re ever able to ca pture the longer can you find steam power waiting with a a nd mo re were a ll stea m powered. logge r. particularly of the Twentieth Century. fire in the fire box for the crew to return from Logging is the second largest industry in the and as a resu lt it was the cowboy that was the lunch and resume a day o f work in the state of Washington and it has become first in literature. o n the si lver scree n a nd in the Washington woods, a nd no lo nger d o the impo rta nt to p reserve today so that futu re heart s of America as a fo lk hero. The logger prod ucts of Baldwin. Climax. Heisler a nd Lima generations wi ll know of the role played by the languished . in a lmost total obscurity yet the roam logging railroad trackage in the Pacifi c lumber industry. and of its herit age. Steam average woods logger was tougher. mea ne r, Northwest, or anywhere else for tha t maller. power probably reached it s maximum breadth stronger. hungrier and certainl y much morc But, in Washington the past is bei ng preserved in and scope of appli cati o n in the woods. a nd fu ll resourceful than any but a ha ndful of the a most superb manner. And. you don't have to maturity came in the roaring twenties on the cowboys from America's past. be a log to go for a steam-powered ride o n a West Coast. Steam was applied o ne way or Coll ecting, preservin g a nd displayi ng the few logging ra ilroad. another to every p hase o f logging o perations, re maining machines of this va ni shed e ra has The pioneering spirit a nd inge nuity w hi ch a lthough railroad locomotives and log ya rders become impo rt a nt in the last decade. Today. in worked to create this count ry never ra n stro nger were the most visibl e. It was the power a nd the Washington, the past is being preserved fo r the or deeper tha n in the men w ho took to the fury, the unforgettable sounds and the ever future. We will not suffer the irreplaceable loss woods. Frontie r cowboys of the last cenlllry p resent da nger of fire. boi le r explosions and of th ose last majo r pieces o f stea m loggin g

6 NUMBER 237 Kc:nnl.:th (i. J ohnsen The former Hillcrest Lumber Company 3-truck Climax number 10, page opposite, poses at its new home on the Weyerhaeuser Company's C hehalis Western Railroad near Mineral Lake in a classic recreation of a popular logging industry scene. Beautifully restored, number 10 was built in 1928 and was the only locomotive used in the Mount Rainier Scenic's passenger runs out of Elbe in 1981 . Heisler 91 will handle this same work for the 1982 season with the number 10 available as backup. There are precious few wooden railroad trestles in use today. Of these, even fewer have full "S" curves and of the ones that do very few run right through the middle of a major cit y. And, of those that meet these requirements, infinitesimally few felt the weight of a steam-powered, heavyweight passenger train in 1981. Here, above, Heisler 91 trundles a 3-car special train across the Chehalis Western trestle in Tacoma on June 5, 1981 in a scene that can happily be repeated.

e4uipment or of the chance to preserve the the city of Tacoma o n the road to the main railroad operating plans. A favo rite but now .olU.mos phere in whi ch they existed. Saved. too. entrance of Mount Rainier Natio na l Park. scrapped locomotive, West Fork Logging's will ho pefully be the equa ll y irreplaceable and While the summer passenger season runs ta ke 1927-built W est Coast Special 3-truck Heis ler ind omit able spirit of the loggers w ho designed place in the woods, to date winter maintenance number 91 , has been reinca rnated with the them. worked them. rebuilt them. worship ped work and all restoration has been accomplished museum's sister West Coast S pecia l at Tom them and more o ft en than not trusted them wit h in Tacoma. Operating ri ghts over the entire Murray's request. The former Kinzua Pines their li ves. C heha li s Western provide for both the transfer Mills 102, built in 1929 is now renumbered as the The Western Washington Forest I ndust ries o f equipment to and from the Elbe- M in eral run 91. The present Mineral terminal, which Museum. headquartered in Tacoma. has a nd fo r interesting special train movements. features a new turning loop for 1982, is still a become an aggressive equipment co ll ector a nd Even locomotive testing has been conducted o n part of the vast Murray-Pacific Corp o ratio n outstanding railroad operator. There are the trackage ri ght out of downtown Tacoma. In holdings. The new number 91, however, has yet magnificent plans fo r future development of an the fu turc. an operat ional facility will be to reach Mineral as it was sidelined in favor of extens ive logging industry museum project that constructed in the woods. Also a head are pla ns C limax 10 after a mechanical failure in 198 1, will include the fascinating full story of timber to revis e t he operatin g trackage and eliminate which has si nce been repaired. A seri ous harvesting. A nd. a steam railroad is a lready in Elbe as one of the termina ls in favor of a change C hehalis Western trestl e fire earl y in 1982 is now its second year of summer passenger operati on to nearby Nat io nal where a museum wi ll be being repaired and will be ready just barely in offering a ride of spectacular bea uty. developed for presentation of a portio n of the time to enable the M ount Rainier Scenic The Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad made it s available eq uipment o n land presently owned by R a ilroad to move it s seasonal equipment from first pu blic passenger runs lastJ uly 3 (PA C! Fi e the lumber industry. Tacoma to E lbe in steam rather than by trucking NEWS, Issue 23 1), operating 3-truck Climax Mineral. located o n a sceni c lake and once as was once feared. H eisler 9 1, this year's num ber 10 for a seven-mile trip through some of headquarters for the loggin g rail road of the primary locomotive, is scheduled to steam out of Western Washington's most beautiful mountain West Fork Logging Company, wi ll be developed T acoma May 21 to be ready for passenger scenery. T he t rackage it self is part of logger as a destination term in a l for the Mount Rainier service starting May 22. C limax 10 will be the Weye rhaeuser Company's C heha lis Western Scenic Railroad's passenger runs originating at backup locomotive this year. and all is fo rmer Milwaukee Road track. The National. Tom Murray, a member of the board The Mineral site will be developed in the particular section now in use for the passenger of t he Western W ashin gto n Forest Industri es coming years to duplicate the complete logging runs was part of the Milwaukee's Morton Muse um. has been instrumental in la unching ex perience of the twenties and thirties. Branch, between Elbe and M inera!. southeast of today's developing loggin g museum and the according to the present proposals. A loggin g

PACIFIC NEWS 7 Completely rebuilt in T acom a during 1980, left, is Mount R aini er S ceni c R ailroad coach 601 . Serving thro ughout the in augural season, the very po pular car has an area fo r dancing and features a 1911 Seaburg ni ckelodeo n pi ano. Originall y, this was Southern Pacifi c 29 14, the C ascade, built by P ullman in 1930 and later Rules Car 112 . T oday, it is a superh example of the Mount R ainier's att ention to qualit y work and extreme detail. A passing track at [ Ibe, below, a ll ows Clim ax 10 to run around it s train o n Sept em her 7, 198 1 in the first passenger season before ret urning to M ineral wit h )'et another passen ge r train . A cahoose and wooden boxcar served as the statio n in 198 1 and will he joined by a former Burlingto n Northern baggage car in usc as a souve ni er shop fo r 1982.

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8 NUMBER 237 camp would be built with bun khouses. shop. additiona l displays o f logging equipment a nd trad itional seating and a coal-fired po t-bell y and so o n. lin ked by ra il to the woods opera tio n. perha ps even locomoti ves, as we ll as gift shops, stove for times heat is needed. Heavily reworked Three fu ll y- ri gged "sid es" a re pla nned. in a restaurants and camping facilities, wi ll attract fo rme r Southern Pacific commuter coaches are natu ra l timber sett ing to depict a variety of visitors. There are plans to provide a Forest a lso pa rt of the roster of rolling stock. logging systems: tree- rigged steam hi gh lead I nterpretive Center a nd eventua ll y even a For a ll of 198 1. the trains ran at capacity with side. a Lidgerwood skidder a nd a tractor si de demonstra ti o n forest. a hi gh percentage of repeat riders returning for with a locomo tive crane for loading. Also wit hin T he actua l railroad track in use. acquired by the adventure. The trains a re sure to be we ll the conte mplated six ty-acre sit e would be a n Weyerhaeuser from the Milwaukee R oad, was patronized again this year, operating every a mph itheatre for logging shows. a museum. origin a ll y bu ilt as the Tacoma a nd Easte rn a nd wee kend from M ay 22 through September 26. theatre and even a res ta urant se rving fo od in served for decades as an outlet for the logging F ro m June 30 throug h September 6 service will the atmosphere and with the bill of fa re of a n industry in the region. Log trai ns, in fact, were a lso be provided Wednesday through Friday early logger's cookhouse. o pe rated by the Mi lwau kee right until and fa res are $5.00 for adults, $4.00 for senior The Mineral site will be reachable only by thc o perations were discont inued. W eyerhaeuser, citizens and $ 14.00 for an entire family. steam trains o rig inating at Nati o nal and however. is presently not conducting regular The coming years will surely bring a host of powered by a sta ble of logging locomo ti ves service on the line although a log hau l at a future c hanges to the M ount Rainier Scenic Railroad represe nting each builder. Not a ll o f the mo ti vc date is ex pected. The town of Minera l. which as development begin s o n the museum portion power will be opera ti ona l. and it is planned to has been a loggin g community for over seventy of the project, creating a major regional have some loco moti ves for display only. but a years. is still active. The trackage passes o n destination around the steam-powered trai ns varied stable representing la te mod el logging th ro ugh Mineral to M orton. but pla ns to make which will in turn become a n important part of a equipment will be maintained in service. For use of t hi s segment for some form of longer much la rger a ttracti on. The future of the perhaps the fi rst time in his tory. a single passenge r run remain merely a potential that Weste rn Washington Forest Industries Museum railroad's roster conta in s a represe nta ti ve of awaits future study. as it creates facilities at both Nationa l a nd at each of the top-of-the-line locomo ti ve models There a re few passenger rai lroads today tha t Mine ra l wi ll surely be a dynamic o ne. The p rod uced by Climax, Heisler and Lima as d irect accomplish their projects with the competency museum a lready operates the short railroad at head-t o - head co mpetito rs: pis t on-va lved a nd attenti o n to detail fo und on the Mount Tacoma's Camp Six, usi ng the former Klickit at Climax 10. Wes t Coast Special Heisler 91 a nd as Rainier Scenic Railroad. Extensive rebuilding Log a nd Lumbe r Company Pacific Coast Shay ye t not serviceable Pacific Coast S hay 11. of passe nge r equ ipmen t has produced numbe r 7, a nd todays maste r pla ns can be traced Baldwin and Po rter rod engines joined the roster outstanding ro ll ing stock. superbly painted and to a proposed ex pa nsion of the logging museum in the spring of 1982 for move ment to the id eal for viewi ng the scenic ride. M ainta in ed at Camp Six. railroad later in 1982. impeccably clea n. a nd complete wi th a touch of T o m Murray is to be commended for takin ga­ The National terminal. which will be traveling music for the fo res t rid e hi gh li g hted by dream a nd turning it into a pla n and then into developed to replace Elbe. was once the original an im pressivc crossi ng of the Nisq ually River, the first stages of ex istence. T he logging displays home of the Pacific National Lumber Company a nd al l under the snow-capped dominance of at Mineral, on property his family once logged a nd just lih Elbe is on the main road to M o unt Mount Rainicr it self. the spectacular result is an and used for it s interchange with the Milwaukee Rainier Nati onal Park. In add iti o n to a railroad u npa ra lleled ex peri ence. T he open-wind owed Road, will be a tribute to the very way of life in station a nd ample parking. it is ex pected that coaches feature nat ural ma hogany inte ri ors, his own family hi story. T o Project Director

Assaulting what was once known as the Milwaukee Road's "Tacoma Hill" is easy work when you are running light as H eisler 91 is d o ing in this view a short dista nce from downtown on the C hehalis Western. The "M" on the oil tank stands for the Murray-Pacific Corporation and in this A pril 10, 1982 "iew the locomotive is making it s first o perational test run o f the current year. K I,' IIII1: th G , .IohnSl,' ll

PACIFIC NEWS 9 EQUIPMENT: MOUNT RAINIER SCENIC RAILROAD 2-8-2 Baldwin, 1922 Ex-Georgia Pacific Corporation Displayed at Toledo, Oregon; awaiting movement to Tacoma 5 2-8-2 Porter, 1924 Ex-Port of Grays Harbor Railroad Private display near Montesano, Washington; awaiting movement 6 3T Willamette, 1924 Ex-Crown Zellerbach Corporation Displayed at Cathlamet by CZ Corporation; awaiting movement 10 3T Climax, 1928 Ex-Hillcrest Lumber Co.; In service 11 3T Shay, Lima, 1929 Ex-Pickering Lbr. Corp.; Stored 91 3T Heisler, 1929 Ex-Kinzua Pine Mills; In service 838 EMD F9, 1956 Ex-Burlington Northern Railroad Now restored as Northern Pacific 7012A; Operational PASSENGER ROLLING STOCK: Ex-Chicago and North Western business car 403 (former dining car) built in 1915; two MINERAL ex-Southern Pacific commute cars restored as coaches 901 and 961 ; one ex-Southern Pacific commute car cut down as open car N 681; one Milwaukee Road flatcar rebuilt as an open car; two Milwaukee Road boxcars used as tool cars; one Burlington Northern baggage car rebuilt for gift shop use; one Milwaukee Road boxcar rebuilt as a station car. Leased rolling stock w+e includes ex-Southern Pacific business car Cascade, now numbered 601 ; ex-Canadian Pacific 1335 and 1854 rebuilt as s coaches 801 and 802 and for special service as an executive 'TO K ennet h G. Joh nse n parlor car is the former Canadian Pacific River Claire observation MORTON car Craigf/ower.

Kenneth G , Johnsen M oun! Rainit"r SCt"nie R.ti lroad

Climax number IO , page opposite, is on Chehalis Western trackage cast of Eatonville on May 25, 1981 enroute to Elbe for passenger service in a "once in" a nd "once out" special move that takes place at the start and end of each season. Here, high above the Michel River the locomotive steams with a varied consist and an assortment of passengers. In the view above the outbound season-ending train is seen on this same structure from water level, this time enroute back horne to Tacoma. Early in 1982 vandals started a fire that severel)' damaged the wooden trestle portion of the crossing of the Michel River. but repairs by owner We)'erhaeuser will be finished in time for the Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad to m ove its equipment into the woods with a special train. At Tacoma during the earl)' months of 1982. bottom. Climax number 10 receives a crankshaft overhaul by Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad crews as photographed April 10. Still apa rt being worked on as this is written. the locomotive will be completed and moved into the woods as the backup motive power for Heisler 91 for the 1982 season.

K t"n nt lh (i. John~en Terry F ergusson goes the co mplicated tas k o r making the d ream come true. and in a ge nuine. rirst-c1 ass. high-qua lit y manner. Both seem to have w ha t is needed ror success. In 198 1 the o perating season was o nly a sho n twenty-seven days. but over eleven thousa nd passengers rod e rrom Elbe to Mineral a nd return on the railroad. This year 3-truck Heisler 9 1 wi ll ha ndle the tra in s a rter tak in g a planned promo tional trip to Seal1le in pre-season M ay. The museum locomo ti ve collect io n. w hi c h has been growi ng and will co ntinue to do so. will not ignore diesels. eithe r. ro r Burlington Northcrn has w ithdrawn F9A 838 rrom service a nd res tored it to it s o ri gi na l as-deli ve red conditio n as Nonhern Paciric 70 12-A. A lso. rrom display in a public a rea or it s yard at Cathlamet Crown Zell erbach is making avai lable 1924 3-lruek Willamel1 e number 6 and private owner Carl Schare r has a 1924 P o n er 2-8-2 at M ol11 esano. the rormer P o n orGrays Harbor 5. that he. 100. has madc a vailable for acquisiti o n by the W estern W ashinglOn Fo rest I ndustries M uscu m and it s growin g coll ecti o n. The rUlllre can only continue to bring eve n more signi rica nt accompli , hments in the preservation of our own lumbering a nd railroad hi sto ry . •

PACIFIC NEWS 11 cha nges are pa rt of an equipme nt locati o n consolid a ti o n - ~DEnUERIRloGRAnDE JJil6n1_ rroject. Additio na ll y, the Moffa t Tunne l ve ntila ti o n syste m , da ting fro m 1927 a nd loca ted a t the east po rta l, is R. C. FAREWEll unde rgoing a n extensive modification program with completion ta rgeted for late in the summer of 1983. The E xte nsi ve effort has been expended by the Denve r a nd goal of the project is to allo w for b o th an increased a ir -Rio Gra nde toward completion of the siding extension vo lume a nd m o re a ir fl o w capa bility in eithe r directi o n, projects at Rollins and Bond (Colorado) during A pril ra ther tha n the present o ne directi o n ea st-to-west fl ow. a nd ca rl y M ay. At Rollins, where the siding is being Othe r plans include the eliminatio n of the restrictive exte nd cd both east a nd west, new tra ck pa ne ls a re in c urves a t Vista a nd Ced a r, Uta h, both of whic h will placc, ne w ma inline switches a re installed a nd the in volve extensive earthwork and majo r trackage corres[londing sig na ls have been m oved to the new relocati o n. U nfo rtuna te ly, bo th locations a re we ll known -locatio ns at each e nd of the le ngthe ned siding. Also, in fo r the ir pho togra phic po te ntia l. _mid-May, the fina l ba ll ast has been placed a nd spread. As of M ay I, the ra ilroad ha d the fo ll owing in sto rage: All tha t is left to do a t R o llins is to re m ove the old S D40T -2: 2 units: 5366, 5372 ma inline switc hes, co nnect the segments across the S D45: 17 units: 53 15-531 6, 53I R-5 32 1, 5323, 5330- resulting void s a nd accomplish the fina l siding a li g nment. 5335, 5337 -5340 A t Bo nd , whe re the siding is being extended to the east S D7: I unit: 5301 -towa rd thc ha mlet of Sta te Bridge, new trac k pa nels have G P40: I unit: 3058 bee n pl aced o n the new le ngthe ned g rade, but they have G P35: 22 units (a ll o n roste r a re sto red): 3029-3050 ye t to be a ligned o r connected and the ne w east siding G P30: 2 units: 30 22 . 3024 switc h has no t been in sta ll ed . Ca booses: 0 1405, 0 141 6 . 01420 , 01425, 10447, 0 15 00 , New ribbo n ra il in weld ed qua rte r-mile le ngths has 0 1501 . 01 5 10 , 0151 2. 01 5 14-01 5 16, 0151 8 , 0 15 20 - bee n insta ll ed o n the M o ffa t Tunnel line ea stwa rd fr o m 01 522. 10524. Pinecliffe, Colo rado toward C rescent. T his secti o n o rthe T he Rio Gra nde Zephrr has ex peri e nced a few c hangcs Rio Gra nde's F ro nt Ra nge trackage is blessed with late ly, includ ing the scasona l increase in t ra in le ngt h rela ti ve ly severe c urva ture, resulting in a hi g h ra te o f ra il du ring the mi d-wee k runs in respo nse to the coming of wea r and ra il j o int pro ble ms. It is ho r ed tha t thc ri bbo n wa rm wea the r. O f maj or no te, tho ugh, is the te mpo ra ry ra il will lowe r the wear ra te co nsid e ra bly as we ll as loss of the ra ilroad's last A-unit, F9 577 1, fro m it s norma l e limina ting the proble ms with j oints. O the r F ro nt Ra nge assig nme nt on thc [lo int o f the tra in since A pril 29 due to acti vit y includes the re m oval of the classic equi pment mecha ni ca l ill s. In the 577 1's a bse nce, the point location buildi ng a t Pinecliffe, Colo rad o, whi c h was o ve r sevent y and powe r loss ha s been filled by G P40-2 3 11 3 . Othcr yea rs o f age. a nd the relocati o n ofthc Coal C ree k speede r it e ms of interest inc lu de the reb uilding of the u nd crframe a nd equipme nt building to Pla in view. Colorad o. Both a nd trucks o n e x-Alco PB backup Ze/Jlnr stea m ge ne ra to r 252. Whcn thc ide ntica l ta sk was accomrlishccJ ca rl y last yca r o n stcam gene ra t o r 253, a lso a fo rme r A lcll SUPPORT ADVERTISERS PB, that unit emerged fro m D enver's Burnha m S ho ps WHO SUPPORT sans the la rger-wheelbase Alco six-wheel passenger trucks a nd it now rid es o n E M 0 fo ur-whee l t rucks with a PACIFIC NEWS corres po nding void filling the extra u nderframc sr acc. PLEAS E TELL TH E M YOU R EA D IT H E R E! W ith the reb uilding o f the 252 , howeve r. the A lc o truc ks THAT WAY EVER YBODY B ENEFITS wc rc recond iti o ned a nd re ta ined. A t prese nt. the Ri ll DID YO U MISS? (j ra nd e's fo ur steam ge ne ra to r ca rs a re assig ned: number WHITE PASS STEAM RETURNS , SP 2-6-01 744 25 0 (cx-stca m locomo ti ve tende r) is held a t Sa lt Lake ST E AMS FOR HEBE R C R E EPE R IN ISSUE 23 4? C it y as l e/lln r backur; numbe r 25 1 (ex-steam Il ACK ISSUES 0 1- PACIFIC .IUI'S A R E 1\V /II I. A Il I.! SSAf ~ O l( l iS-I loco mo ti vc te nd e r) is used o n tra in s II a nd 12. the Ski NEW for LOGGERS! The NORTHWEST LOGGERS, Volume One 8Yz x 11 hard cover • 160 pages • 215 photos maps, drawings, illustrations. high-grade lacquered paper A full volume for each logging company ! Histroical treasures , anecdo tes, and in terviews with those who made Ameri ca's Pacific Northwest logging operations a uniq ue slice of railroadiana. 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12 NUM BER 237 Train; number 252 (ex-A leo PB number 6012) is held at subdivisions will increasefrom 13 ,500 t023 ,000 annually. Denver as Zephyr backup; number 253 (ex-Aleo PB The upgrading is financed by a mix of federal funds number 6002) is the primary Rio Grande Zephyr steam (36%), state funds (5 .5%), shipper contributions(26.5%) generator car. 0 and C&NW money (32%). If you want to see C&NW's fleet of AJcos this summer, head for Green Bay and Escanaba, Michigan. You will find a variety of units at either location. However, be forewarned that many of them are likely to be sitting idle. CHICAGO • Sluggish demand for iron ore means few extra trains a re likely to run. Trains which regularly receive Aleo power nORTH WESTERn include 936-937 (ESGBA-GBESA), operating between I ~ Green Bay and Escanaba six days weekl y; 934-939 MICHAEl W. BLASZAK (Escanaba-Ishpeming); the Antoine-Powers turn; the Antoine switcher and Green Bay yard and switch jobs. The schedule for the "Prosperity Special," Chicago Tra in 936 is a good bet for photographs, as it departs and North Western's steam-powered public relations Escanaba around 7:00 a.m. and meets the Antoine job a t train featuring the Mid-Continent Railway Museum's Powers around nine. Green Bay arrival is approximately ex-C&NW 4-6-0 number 1385 , has been tentatively set 3:00 p.m. (PS: don't forget about the all-Aleo Green Bay (PACIFIC NEWS, Issue 236: the release of schedule and Western.) 0 details was not early enough to meet magazine deadlines for advance information). The train is to debut at Green Bay, Wisconsin on May 15, being one of the prime attractions of the annual meeting of the C hicago and North Western Historical Society. The 1385 will be under steam and coupled to examples ofC&NW's most modern SAn FRAnCISCO Munl freight cars, including a 50-foot boxcar used to haul Wisconsin's paper products, a gondo la, covered hopper, DON JEWElL piggyback flatcar with "Faleon Service" trailers, an auto rack car, a caboose and two busi ness cars. Muni offidals a re currently finalizing plans for a T he train will operate from Green Bay to Butler, nea r major rehabilitation of the Geneva Car H ouse to Milwaukee, via Manitowoc and the downtown route accommodate the new Boeing LR V's due to arrive next near Sheboygan. On this trip, like most of the 1385's yea r, as well as the current overflow of cars from Metro longer jaunts, the 4-6-0 wi ll be accompanied by o ne or Center. The M uni plans to le vel the car house a nd two geeps as protection power. Top running speed is to be adjoining buildings to make way for a new LR V 30 mph, which means that with water stops the special wi ll take some eight hours to traverse this 115-mile distance. On May 17 the special wi ll make a round trip THE WESTERN LEADER FOR MORE from Butler Ya rd to Belton Wye, 6.4 miles, for the press, THAN TWENTY YEARS followed by a public display. On May 22 , two outin gs a re OF CONSECUTIVE PUBLICATION planned with trips from Butler to St. Francis, southeast of Milwaukee, and a trip to the Summerfest grounds on DO NOT MISS THE 238TH ISSUE! the Milwaukee lakefront for public display. T he lo ngest runs of the " Prosperity Specia l" will take place May 23 when the 1385 operates from Milwaukee to SUBSCRIBE J anesvill e. T he 195-mile route will take the train through TYPE OR PRINT YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS downtown Racine, Kenosha a nd Waukega n. At Lake ENCLOSE IT WITH YOUR PAYMENT Bluff the special will use the cutoff to KO Tower on the AND MAIL IT TODA Y Enter a direct-mail subscription to PACIFIC NEWS for years. New Line. then head to Des Plaines. Thereafter, the 1385 This is a 0 New Subscription 0 Re newal of expired subscription will operate to Janesville. As this run is 'expected to take SUBSCRIPTION RATES about twelve hours, the tra in will be parked in Janesvill e United States: $2000 for 1 yea r, $37.00 for 2 years Yard upon a rriva l. Foreign rates: $24.00 for one year. Foreign air mail rates on request o I have enclosed my payment On May 24, the special wil l be brought into downtown o Please bill with first issue (Above rates plus 50a: bi lling charge) J anesville fo r a short display. T he train will leave for o CHARGE TO 0 VISA (Bankamericard) 0 MASTER CARD Mad ison about I :00 p.m. and will be displayed there at Account Number Expiration date _ _ _ Master Card Bank No. ___ M o nona Yard. The following day, 1385 will depart about Si gnat ure ______11 :00 a .m. fo r the three-ho ur run back to its home at the Mid-Continent Railway Museum at North F reedom, Name .. Wisconson to end the tour. T he Iowa Department of Transportation has a pproved Address

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PACIFIC NEWS 13 preve ntative maintenance shop and a storage yard fo r this size, however the law was changed J a nuary I to fifty-si x LR V's. Reconstruction of the faci lity is ex pected conform wi th laws a lready permitting articulated diesel to begin this November at a n estimated total cost of$7 buses up to sixty feet in length. 0 million. To make way for the construction work, a portion of the pce car fleet wi ll probably have to be sold and removed from the property, perhaps leaving only the 25 to 35 pces that a re to be held fo r a future Embarcadero L ine a nd the possible shuttle line on the Union PACIFIC surface of Market Street. When the rehabilitation has GEORGE R. COCKLE bee n completed, the open storage yard across from the Geneva Car House will be closed and the LR V's stored there at night and on weekends will be moved to Geneva. In the continuing Union P acifi c-Missouri P acific­ The serviceable PCC fl eet continues to dwindle wi th W es tern P acific merger plan, an agreement has been barely enoug h cars now available to cover the weekend reached with the United States Justice D epartment over runs. The cars are no longe r receiving ma intena nce on a the "competitive problems" in the proposal. In a brief regular basis and brea kdowns occur faster tha n they ca n filed with the I nterstate Commerce Commission in April, be repaired . On recent Saturdays, severa l runs were the railroad said that it would not oppose trackage ri g hts mi ssed because not enough pces were operable. As a between Kansas City, Kansas and Pueblo, Colorado for result, effective on April 17 , diesel buses replaced the the D enver a nd Rio Grande W estern, thus preserving the streetcars on the N-J uda h Line on Sa turdays o nly. With Rio Grande's competitive positi o n. The merging the M-Oceanview Line still running as a bus shuttle on ra ilroads stated they could not justify trackage ri ghts Sundays, the available pces can still cover the S unday requested by other railroads. As pro posed, the merger o f se rvice o n the other four ca rlines. With the current the three carriers would create a 22,8 00-mile ra il system condition of this equipment, they could a ll be removed serving the western two-thirds of the nati o n. from se rvice by September. While western ra ilroads a re repo rting record income In late April the federa l government gave San losses (Santa Fe fe ll 57 percent), the U nio n Pacific has Fra ncisco a guara ntee of full fu nding of the federal sha re reported their first quarter earnings were d own 38 of the rehabilitation of the cable car syste m. The cit y perce nt. The railroad's net income was $25.7 millio n on charter required this commitment for the entire project in revenues of$490 million versus$43 . 1 millio n o n revenues writing befo re a ny of the work could proceed. T hc of $55 2.4 million in the same peri od o f 1981. guarantee had been needed before June, so that the A grand total of628 locomotives a re o ut of service as of reconstructi on could begin on schedule this fall. All ca ble mid-M ay, representing 1,344,694 horsepower. S tored ca rs are now expected to leave the streets a bo ut October serviceabl e are 534 units, while 84 a re unserviceable first and return in June of 1984. pending repairs. Ten locomotives a re in storage pending I n the current Five Year Plan the M uni intends to their retirement. One hundred fourteen ca booses were acquire up to 95 articulated trolley coaches for greater stored servicea ble with 102 unserviceabl e. Twenty-nine rush hour capacity, foll owing the trend of ma ny of the latter were awaiting repairs, 44 are due class American cities now using articulated diese l buses. With ma intenance, 17 are stored for mileage and 12 a re this in mind , a Crown-Ikarus 55-foot articulated trolley awaiting retirement. coach that had bee n testing in other North American The switcher rebuilding progra m at Omaha has cities arrived at Muni's Potrero Yard on J a nuary 15 a nd outshopped 1230 (ex-1833), 1231 (ex-1 8 17) a nd 1232 a fter a period of-servicing and testing on various lines it (ex- 1855). T he 123 1 received major modifications a nd entered regular se rvice on the very heavy 30-Stockto n was s hipped to Salt Lake City for presentation to unio n Line on May 3. This coach will be moved to other heavy representatives o n May 12 . The foll owing changes were lines for additional evaluation. An obscure California made after complaints by operatin g crews: contro l sta nd ve hicle law did not a ll ow a rticulated trolley coaches of was relocated (air lines disconnected a nd plugged); ha nd

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14 NUMBER 237 brake removed from cab and applied outside rear of cab to operate over the weekend of April 2-4 had just been using the ratchet-lever type of installation; installation of cancelled due to low advance bookings. a front-opening refrigerator; interior cab painting in new The last long distance train to operate with steam­ beige color scheme with seats upholstered in new brown heated conventional passenger equipment was the scheme. A total of eighteen modifications asked for by northbound Silver Star that departed Florida on March the unions and operating crews were made to the 1831 8 for New York. The seventeen-car consist, with and if satisfactory, the locomotive will return to Omaha equipment from a wide range of railroads, was pulled and have the changes made permanent. U nits now being behind SDP40F's 631 and 639 to Washington, where the rebuilt will receive these approved changes and those in diesels were replaced by GG I electrics 4877 in Tuscan the field will be worked back through the shops. Red and black 4881 leased from New Jersey Transit for Ready for scrapping at Omaha are TR5B's 1873B, the occasion. The pair pulled Amtrak's last steam 1974B and 1876B. The 1871 j 1871 B set was enroute to generator equipped train on its farewell trip over the Omaha in mid-May where the "cow" will become a SW I 0 Northeast Corridor. candidate and "calf' 1871 B scrapped. Already stripped, On April 25, a new timetable was issued with the G P30 734 is to be cut up for scrap at Omaha, while SW9 changeover to Daylight Saving Time. The major change 1054 and G P9 131 are now sched uled for retirement after in the new schedule was the rerouting of the Coast movement to Omaha. DD35A 79 was sold to General Starlight between Davis and Redding, California over M etals in Tacoma, Washington during April, while the Southern Pacific's East Valley Line with new stops at numbers 72, 77 and 93B await sale at Council Bluffs, Sacramento, Marysville and Chico. Only Orland, the Iowa. And, released from Morrison-Knudsen at Boise, only stop on the West Valley Line, lost service. The Idaho in mid-May reengined with a Sulzer diesel was rerouting required a 55 minute increase in running time in SD45 37. Salt Lake City (Utah) Shops will complete the both directions; the southbound train leaves Seattle 25 mechanical work and send the locomotive on to North minues earlier and arrives in Los Angeles thirty minutes Platte for painting to become number 65. later, while the northbound train leaves 30 minutes New toilet installations are being applied to G E earlier and arrives at Seattle 25 minutes later. U30C j C30-7 units. As the system is closed and set up for In other schedule changes in the west, the southbound single-point dumping, new plumbing juts from the Spirit ol California operates 30 minutes earlier over its carbody just aft of the fireman's side of the cab. The twin entire route from Sacramento to Los Angeles. Two San piping arrangement is different for the two styles of Joaquins, trains 708 and 709, also operate fifteen minutes U-boats and thus becomes another spotting feature for earlier over their entire route. The Desert Wind schedule these G E's on the Union Pacific. 0 has been speeded up by 45 minutes between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. A nd, finally, the northbound Mount Rainier leaves Portland at 8:00 a.m. permitting an arrival in Seattle before noon. 0

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PACIFIC NEWS 15 CHEHALIS WESTERN

WEYERHAEUSER'S NORTHWEST LOGGER

OAT A/PHOTOG RAPHY JOHN C. ILLMAN

place on the Milwaukee Road, and to allow for sequence ("road" numbers 7, 8, 9 and 10). Train future expansion on the so·called Morton operations are centered out of a new shop and Branch where presently there is no train service locomotive servlcmg facilit)' at Chehalis other than the Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad's .Junction, which opened late last summer. summer steam·powered tourist runs. Normall)', one mainline run works from the Toda)', lettered for Weyerhaeuser railroad south end of the former Milwaukee Road's subsidiary Chehalis Western, four Electro­ Fourth Subdivision of the Washington Division Motive GP38-2 units acquired from the builder into Tacoma itself with a loaded log train and When the Milwaukee Road folded its western specifically for this former Milwaukee Road returns that same day with empties to C hehalis railroad operations and retreated east' out of trackage are now the mainsta)' of railroad Junction. The former Vail Division log dump at Washington, the vast logging operations of operations in corporate yellow on rails that are South Bay and the woods trackage is now also the We)'erhaeuser Company southeast from exclusively devoted to logging needs, but where operated by Chehalis Western crews and Tacoma would have been left isolated without once Milwaukee orange ran with freight consists even the CW G P38-2's and the logger's geeps are any effective transportation between the woods as well. GP38-2's 817-819 and 810. in order, interchanged somewhat as needed. operations and the mills and shipping points. To went to work in the earl)' summer of 1981. The C hehalis Western's newest GP38-2. the 810. prevent this, the entire Milwaukee Road unusual numbering is easily explained by above. is enroute from Vail to the Weyerhaeuser trackage, nearly two hundred miles of it, was Weyerhaeuser's policy in Southern Washington log dump at South Ba)' on logging railroad acquired by Weyerhaeuser in order to both of using the first two digits to designate the )'ear trackage as it crosses over the Milwaukee Road continue the log hauling that was already taking of acquisition (1981) and the third digit the near Western Junction on a sturdy log overpass

16 NUMBER 237 that is well designed to prevent any falling logs The number 810. above left, is leaving the log with a former Milwaukee Road caboose, below, from landing on the Milwaukee Road trackage, dump at South Bay on the southern end of Puget have left their train of sixty-nine empty log cars now Wc)'crhaeuser's Chehalis Western, below. Sound with a long string of empt)' log cars brought out of Tacoma on the mainline at A trio of the new GP38-2's, page opposite destined for the woods truck-to-rail reload at Western Junction and the)' will now back up to bottom, consisting of the 817.818 and 819 in Vail on loggin g railroad trackage. This run was the yard and operate caboose hop to Vai l to tie sequence, idle in the new yard at Chehalis once the domain of Fairbanks-Morse switchers up for the weekend in this scene which predates Junction wait in g for the train from interchange and today is usually handled by geeps such as the the opening of the Chehali s Junction shop. The with another We)'erhaeuser subsidiar)', the 776, above right. which is seen heading from the remains of the former Milwaukee Road station Curtis Milburn and Eastern Railroad, to arrive C M& E interchange to Western Junction on here can be seen at the right of the photograph with cars of export logs which will then be fo rmer Milwaukee Road trackage. T his and look carefully, that's the old order post still moved into Tacoma for transloading to ships. particular train is headed for the dump at South in place among the weeds serYing as a reminder The new shop bui ld ing and locomot ive servicing Bay and in this vicw the 776 is about to cross of this new logging line's heritage. New ballast fac iliti es can be seen in the left background, under thc Burlin gton Northern mainline to the and new locomotives serYe as outstandin g from where the Chehali s Western also west of Offutt Lake. examples of the vast upgrading of the trackage dispatches its new railroad empire. C hehalis Western GP38-2 819, 818 and 817, that is being done by Weyerhaeuser .•

PACIFI C NEWS 17 NATIONAL MUSEUM

TRANSPORT

ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI

Both : National Museum of Transporl was donated by St. Louis-based Carboline a nd an eight-month closure to permit uninterrupted apprentice painters from a lo cal tra ining school construction work, the museum reopened in did the work as a training exercise. The 4460 was 1980 and has since gone on to dramatically At the National Museum of Transport in St. the first locomotive to receive the sandblasting revitalize the displays .• Louis, an all-new 15 ,000 square foot railroad and repainting. The Lima-built GS-6 has now building has been constructed as part of a major become one of the major importa nt displays at renovation of displays and physical plant the St. Louis museum. Constructed in 1943 , the improvements. A great deal of restoration work semi-streamlined locomotive was never fitt ed is being accomplished on the large collection with streamlining sk irts over the drivers or of transportation equipment, which includes paint ed in Daylight colors (PA CI FIC NEWS, Apprentices from Painters District Council airplanes, motor ve hicles a nd, of course, Issue 205). At the National Muse um of No.2 in SI. Louis, top, pose while working to rehabilitate ex-Southern Pacific 4-8-4 4460 at railroad locomotives and cars. An overall Tra nsport, the 4-8-4 keeps compa ny with over the National Museum of Transport. On the rearrangement of ma ny of the locomotives now two dozen stea m locomoti ves selected from ground are museum and union officials as well provides for a vastly improved location for ra ilroads a nd industry throughout the United as representatives of the Painting and visibility and photography. States. The transportation collection at SI. Decorating Foundation. One of the locomotives, the former Southern Louis is representative of the entire nation, Concrete supports have already been poured, Pacific 4-8-4 4460, which powered t he railroad's rather than a regional geographic a rea. below, for a new railroad display building at the final steam runs over Donner Pass in October of I n September of 1979 the St. Louis County SI. Louis museum in this October, 1981 view. 1958, was recently the subject of a great deal of Department of Parks and Recreati on formally Alongside the site of the construction work is attention and free professiona l repa inting assumed o peration a nd develo pment of the ex-Norfolk and Western Y6a 2-8-8-2 number protection through a cooperative public service museum through a lease with the non-profit 2156, built by the railroad in 1942 and not program sponsored by the local painting group that had founded the facility a nd which retired until 1959 at the close of a long and busy industry and the painters union. The paint itself now serves in a supportive capacity. Following seventeen-year career.

18 NUMBER 237 Will Wh iltakcr

Arri vin g from the west at Revelstoke, British Columbia on a June day in 1948 are two Canadian Pacific Selkirk 2-1 0-4's with a passenge r consist heavy with head-end equipment. Number 5929 leads a sister The from the same 1938 graduating class at the Montrea l Locomotive Works, sporting 63-in ch drive rs and 285 pounds boiler pressure. The Camera train is headed toward the summit of Rogers Pass and these twin steamers are ha rd at work rig ht at home on trackage that was ex tremely Car familiar fo r all of their working ca reer. With the first snows of winter, poss ibl y less than three months awa y. those pilot plows woul d begin a Photo long season of duty in an endless battle to keep the rai lroad open across British Columbia. Section

PACIFIC NEWS 19 The Camera

Car Santa Fe S040 5006 pauses alongside sister EMO 508, an Amtrak SOP40F that is no longer on the roster. This side-by-side scene is at Photo Barstow, California in August of 1977 at Santa Fe's locomotive terminal and shop facilities. Alas, scenes once as common and Section seemingly modern as this one can no longer be duplicated in the ever changing daily scene of western railroading.

Boh GOllier

20 N UMBER 237 \ \ " \. \

,

John C. Itlman

The O(vmpiall Hiawatha, Chi cago Milwaukee St. Paul and I'acific Railroad Compan)' train number 15, has just arrived in Seattle, Washington on the morning of June 29, 1952. Two of the Milwauk,ee Road's unique electric bipolar loco motives. numbers E-2 and E-I, have completed running around their train and will soon move the train backwards, with the observation leading, south to the final destination in Tacoma. A Un ion Pacific 0-6-0 switcher, number 4417, watches the passenger train's activities while patiently steaming on the adjacent track . Today, in 1982, the Milwaukee Road is totall)' absent from the west.

PACIFIC NEWS 21 The Camera Car Photo Section

The scene is Oil Junction, a station point at the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris, California as the ex-Ventura County Railway number 2, a Baldwin 2-6-2, steams past with the engineer reaching for his orders, left. The steamer has a former Union Pacific lounge car in tow and is operating under the overhead wires used by the museum's electric equipment. Three Chicago and North Western G P9 units, below, congregate around the turntable at Chadron, Nebraska while a string of GP35's rest in the background, below. The date is June of 1980 a nd the G P35's are used by the railroad with road slugs created from former F3 and F7 booster units.

Chris Rangford William T . M organ

22 NUMBER 237 A llt: n Rltkr

H eringto n, Kansas at train time in November of 1979, a boyc, finds Rock Island train 01 turning from the ma inline to head fo r such pl aces as Hutchinson, Li beral and Tucumcari behind 4379, newest of the railroad's G P38-2 units, a nd sister 43 03. H erin gton was the north end of t he Rock Island's Southern Divisi on and the south end of the railroad's M issouri-Kansas (Mokan) Division. Santa Fe tra in 858 passes Camp Cajon, California, below, with SD45 5554 and S D45-2 5702 leading an unidentified third unit followed in turn by new S D40-2 5090 in a solid ye ll ow paint scheme. T he railroad had opted to apply it s own blu e paint at San Bernardino S hops because of a backl og at builder EMD's La Grange , Ill ino is paint s hop, hence this unusual mi x of paint schemes was a fa miliar sight for a bri ef peri od of tim e as the Santa Fe worked the new deli ve ri es of SD40-2's west for the first time. Some, because of shop ca pabilit )' at San Bernardino, made several trips into and out of Southern California before the blue paint was fi nall y appli ed.

Ell (" harman

PACIFIC NEWS 23 (Continued fro m page 5) Light Ra il syste m for severa l yea rs a nd was the of the ex tremely "s pa rta n" facili ty is g rea tl y six-mile remna nt o f the line tha t once con nected first a ll-new line in Ca nada . • overdue. T he Lawrence stop provides access to Wichita F a lls a nd D e nton, a route the MKT ma ny compa nies employing tho usa nds of replaced with trackage rights from Wichita Falls NEW FARES AND PAINT FOR SP COMMUTE TRAINS pote ntia l tra in riders a nd is a ma jo r facto r in the to F o rt W orth in the 1960's. The d eteri o ra ting They n ow are going to call it Caltra in, a nd reve rse-directi o n tra in opera ti o ns ina u gura ted trackage has in recent years bee n used o nly for c ha rge mo re for the service, but riders w ill still w ith the C a itra ns-s ponsored sched uled revisio ns the occasiona l carload traffic to a few industries recognize the o pe rati o n as the Southern put into e ffec t la te last year ( PA C I FlC N EWS. a t the south end near the C lay/ Wichita county P acific's S a n F ra nc isco-San J ose commute Iss ue 23 I) The Lawrence "sta ti o n" is now line. Now, however, with Burlington Northern service. Caltra in fa re in creases we nt into effect scheduled ·to o pen fo r serv ice in June . • having acquired tra ckage rights the railroad has A pril 26 hiking rid ership ra tes a full 25 percent. begun to upgra de the trackage with new ti es a nd Parking ra tes we re a lso in creased a t the various JAPAN-STYLE BULLET TRAINS FOR CALIFORNIA PLAN relay I 15-po und weld ed ra il. New connecti o ns sta tio ns a lo ng the route tha t have pa rking lo ts. A mtra k has anno unced pla ns to study in have been built with the D enver mainline, w hich The o nly fare reducti o ns, if they can actua ll y be d etail a pro posal to construct wit h private s hould give this impo rta nt crew cha nge po int ca lled that, were the e limina ti o n o f ce rt a in pea k­ financing a 150 m ph J apa nese-style Bulle t Tra in mo re roo m to ha ndle the 14,000-to n unit coal h our restricti o ns thus a ll owin g the lower fa re to link Los A nge les with San Diego. Ifbuilt. the tra ins. The o pera tio nal res ult o f the BN 's use of ti c kets held by eld erl y a nd ha ndicapped rid ers to tra ins would cut ra il tra ve l tim es in ha lf betwee n the track will be tha t o f a long pass ing siding a nd be used a t a ny time. th ese two po ints whe re the present Sail D iegall ho lding track . • Even tho ugh a ll passengers will be payin g 25 service continues to g row. p ercent mo re to ri de the commute tra ins. the A study conducted a t J a r a nese cx pc nse a nd LIGHT RAIL CONSTRUCTION BEGINS IN VANCOUVER s po nsoring tra nsit agencies (the Ca li fo rnia recently completed no tes tha t constructi o n o f On M a rch I the city o f Vancouver, British D e pa rtment o f T ranspo rta ti o n runs the Caltra in j ust such a d ed icated ra il syste m usin gt hecente r Columbia held a groundbrea king cerem o ny to commute service fo r the Santa C la ra C o unty of Inte rsta te 5 fo r m uc h of the ro ute is e ntirely begin constructi o n of its a ll-new 13 !;2 -mile li ght Tra nspo rta ti o n Agency, the S an M ateo County fcasib le a nd would cost a n estima ted $2 bi lli o n. ra il system. Known as the Advanced Light Tra nsit District a nd the San Franci sco There would be no su bsid y of the tra ins by Rapid Tra nsit line, A LRT, the initia l project Municipal R a il way) a re count ing o n a fi ve tax pa ye rs a nd constructi o n would be by a involves co nstructi o n o f the first stati o n near percent increase in rid ershi p to meet revenue sepa ra te no n- r ublic comra ny. A mc rica n Hi gh d owntown Va ncouver. Actua l o pe ra tion is no t requi re ments. A vigorous ma rketing progra m S r eed Ra il Co rpo ra ti o n. scheduled to beg in until the summer o f 1986. will be ca ll ed upo n in future mo nths to po int out The pl a n to opera te the high-s r ecd tra ins Constructio n will a lso begin later this yea r for tha t eve n with the fa re increases r assenger costs a nticira tes a rid e rs hip of as ma ny a s twe lve the first secti o n o f track, on a n e levated structure are still o nl y pe nnies a mile. Peninsula service milli o n passenge rs eac h yea r. T ra ve l time wo u ld in d owntown, in o rde r tha t a d em onstra ti o n tra in fares rema in among the lowest in t he be reduced to o ne ho u r by use o f the ex tre me ly o peratio ns with two prototype cars ca n begin for U nited S tates. The new pa int sc heme, featuring s uccessful Japa nese techno logy. The frcque ncy testing purposes by the middle o f next year. The a sil ver to p ha lf o f a ny equi pme nt over blue, w ith of se rvice be in g suggested by the initia l A LRT project in Va nco uver is a functi o n of the seve ra l stripes a nd Caltrai n lett ering. w ill be a nno unce me nts wo uld ca ll fo r as ma ny a s four U rba n T ransit A utho rity of British Columbia. introduced in mid-May o n Southe rn P acific dozen tra ins in eac h d irectio n ca c h d ay. The A lthough this is the first new li ght ra il gee p 3 187 - whic h will a lso fea t u re wingless red equipment it se lf. if the p la n rca c hcs the constructi o n in the provin ce, Edmo nto n in e nds - a nd d o uble-d eck commute coaches constructi o n stage. would pro bably he built in a djo ining Albe rta has been o pera ting it s o wn 3700-3703. T he colo rs a re intended to c rea te a J a pa n a ltho ug h this is no t a requi re mc nt as o nl y new image for the se rvice. the J ara nesc tec hn o logy has bcen contra c ted QUALITY SLIDE SET C urrently in p rogress o n th e co m mute li ne is fo r. T he pl a n ca ll s fo r a firm decisio n by the e nd an ex tensive study of the p resent a nd fu ture o f 19R2 a nd if su ffi cien t fi na nc in g can bc ·Prem ier 36 Series--:J,6 slid eS- $18:S0 ppd Set36-4 Milw.Rd.Rocky Mtn.electriiied sta ti o n req ui re ment s. A sta ti o n loca ti on a nd a rra nged a test tra in co uld be in o pe ra tion o n an ' operations-trains - right of way impro vement repo rt will be presented a t mid­ initia l sccti o n o f tra c k by early 191\ 4 . • Set 36-6 Rock Island power and trains Set36-8 Dl\RGW- FT to SD 45 year to develo p a stra tegy for a ny fu tu re Set36-9 Dl\RGW-11 action Tenn.Pass, req ui re ments needing additio n. delet io n a nd TUCSON CORNELIA & GILA BEND HALTS OPERATIONS Soldier Smt,CastleGate more reloca ti o n of the com mute r ra il sta ti o ns. A n R. F. CRIST Set 36-10Minnesota's Iron Range railroads Set 36-17 FreightUnderWire-BMl\LP, earl y res ult of this study is the proposa l to T he 44-mile Tucso n Corne li a and Gi la Bcnd CNSf\M, Niagara Jet, YVT more discont inue the p rese ntly limited se rvice to two Railroad. o r e ra ting Iro m Ajo to Gila Bend. ·Series2o--20slides SJJ.:SOppd Set 20-1 A brief look at SantaFe- F$ E's PAts sta ti o ns, a ctua ll y o nly s hel ters. a t a n early date. A ri zona. has d isco ntinued a ll rcgu la r reyen ue RSn's FM fiBaldwin switchers Both P a ul A ve nue in San F ra ncisco a nd Butler o peratio ns as o f A pril 26. The ra ilroad is a Set 20-3 NYC Fs FAs Sharks l\ more R oad in South Sa n F ra nc isco a re now li ghtly s ubs id iary of the Phclrs Dodge Com pa ny and Set 20-' Shortlines of Colorado f\ Utah Set 20-8 FRISCO Power before BN pa tronized a nd future aband o nment is a lmost w ith the copper s melter at A io c losed because o f LSSAE for complete Jist-Mo.residents cert a in. A t the sa me time. a t La wrence R oad low co ppe r prices continued o pe ra tio n o f the add 35/8 % Mo.tax b e twee n Sa nt a C la ra a nd S unn yva lc. ra ilro ad was not deemed necessa ry o n a regu la r GOLDEN SPIKE PRODUCTIONS constructi on of a new passenge r stop for the basis. L.o st as a res u lt was the last rcg ul ar mi xed BOX 13142 Kansas CitY,Mo 64199 commute se rvice has bee n plagucd by the bad train passe nge r se n ·ice o n a n Ame ri ca n s ho rt former! - aut orlow slides wea ther o f the ea rl y mo nths in 1982 a nd opening line. fo r the ra ilroad still accom mo dated riders in its ca bo ose co ntinu in g a tradit ion that began o n the lin e in 19 16 when it first o pcned . SECOND RUN A r a ir o f E lectro-M o ti ve N W 2 u nits. numbe rs 52 a nd 53. com pri ses the rostci a nd NOW bo th will be re ta in ed lo r ma nage ment "hopes AVAILABLE tha t thc shutdown o f regu la r sen ·iee is o nl y a tem po ra ry necessiti ty By Roben J . Church Author of " Cab Forward" and " Those Daylight 4 - 8 -4 's" T he ra ilroa d o pera tes to connect the s melt er "The The complete story o f Southern Pacific M t Cla ss 4- 8 - 2'5. El even information filled w ith the Southern Pacifi c. at G il a Be nd . Parent chapters. De velopment of Locomotive. Fro m the Builder's includes detail erecting shop Phelps D odge is the o nl y custo me r o n t he lin e. scenes at Sacramento. five chapters covering each class including M t 2 ex EP& SW . except fo r the mixed-tra in passcnge r busin ess. M ai ntenance and M odifications. includes repai r schedules. detail shop scenes , etc 4300 Operations: covers M t use on each route, Tenders includes cla ssi fication and assign A s ma ny as twe nt y-two passenge rs could he menl , HO drawings of all tenders, detail photos. Data chapter. carried by the ra ilroad in the ca boose lo r thc XX­ 4-8-2'5" Over 260 photos, color photos showing 1920's (boil er jacket and ca b) and 1948 (Day · mil e ro und trip. a t a cost o f o nl y $ 1.94. T he " wit light) paint scheme. 152 pages plus foldout loco plans. Hardbound . Du st Jacket a nd wisdo m" o f conduct o r T om W y lie was ORDER DIRECT $30.00 ppd. ICalif. resident add $1.80 sales tax) p rovidcd at no a ddit io na l cha rge. draw in g u po n SP Central Valley Railroad Publications hi s D years working fo r thc ra il road. The MOUNTAIN CLASS P.O. Box 116. Wilton, California 95693 Send remittance w ith o rder ca boose itself was built by thc ra ilro ad in its (),,"n s ho ps in 1947 .•

24 NUMBER 237 c hairman and presid ent of A mtrak. is resigning to forma ll y discontinue service over the his post in o rde r to devote mo re time to his Dumba rton Bridge across San Francisco Bay. a duties as chairman of the American H igh Speed move whic h wi ll show little change o n SHORT STUFF R a il Corporati o n. which has plans to construct ra ilroading in the area as most traffic has a high-speed rail link usin g tec hno logy imported a lread y been rero uted a round the Bay thro ugh from J a pa n between Los Ange les a nd San Diego San J ose ra the r tha n using the II-mile ro ut e Freeway reconstruction work will begin this (see page 24) ... The ba nkrupt R ock Island has between Newark a nd Redwood C ity. - summe r in the P o rtla nd. Oregon suburb o f reached an agree ment w ith the Milwaukee Road Gresham lead in g to a Novembe r start-up of to se ll that line the R ock' s rout e b etwee n C ul ver th e first actual ri ght-of-way work for the a nd Was hingto n, Iowa fo r $4 million in o rd er GOLDEN STATE RAILS Banfield Light Rail Project: constructi o n work tha t thc Milwaukee ca n ga in access to a new A California Railroading Pictorial started in April a t the transit district's future coal-burning electri cal gc nerating plant now $8.95 postRaid 12.3 -acre Ruby .J unction maintena nce facilit y is under constructi o n at Fruit land ... The U nion Wesley Fox P. 6. Box 492 no w scheduled to be completed by .July of 19 R3. Pacific has d onated two U P FE ice bunker Brisbane. CA 94005 in time for the a rrival of the first new li g ht rai l refri gerator cars to the Orange E mpire R a ilway California Residents add 6% Sales Tax Dealer Discount Available ca rs in Septe mber of that year ... Califo rnia was Muse um at P erris. California: PFE 43535. built host to a pair of new and non- regula r stea m in 193 7 a nd one of the first a ll-stee l sheathed operations o n the first two weekends in May reefers constructed. a lo ng wi th PFE 20305 built when the California S tate R ailroad Museum as a co nve nti o nal two-bu nker ice refrigerato r o perated publi c runs o n the adjacent Sout he rn ca r in 1947. are both now at the museum NEW SLIDE SETS P acifi c Walnut G rove Bra nc h featuring the (George R . Cockle) ... Electric streetca r service "Family Lines 614" Castro Po int Rai lway's ex-SP 0-6-0 1269 and o n thc Alaskan Wa)' S treet Car Project in "Rio Grande Alco PA's" Short Line Ent erpriscs' 4-4-0 nUl11be r X. wh il e a t W as hingto n. Seattle's " W aterfro nt Trolley." "D&RGW Diese ls on Monarch Branch" M cCloud the McCloud River Railroad 2-6-225 w ill begin May 29 a ft er over eight yea rs of "Rio Grande Freight F Units" returned to occasio na l excu rsion duty with p la nning and reconstructi on o r suitable ex isting "Rio Grande Passenger F Units" ina ugural runs M ay X over thc hill to the S P trackage in this po pula r to urist-o riented area ALSO AVA I LABLE intercha nge at M I. Shasta City. . As of this using Burlington Nort he rn trac k tha t now mid-M ay writing. the State o f Calif ornia has no t sports newly-constructed O\'e rhead for the short "Boston & M aine cO l11pleted negoti a tions with C rocke r A ssociates I ~ - mil e run . The former San Diego and 1 st G enerat ion Diesels " for acq ui sitio n of the S ierra Railroad's Rai lt own A rizona Eastern 2-X-0 104 a nd busin ess car 050. "NYC Diesel Freight Power" IX97 complex a t James town British the tarris(} Gorge, have been p rese nted to the "PR R -Amtrak GG 1 4913" Columbia R ailwa)' Rural Hlldsoll 2X60 Pacific So uth wes t R a il wa y Mu se um Five 35mm slides in color, $2.25 per set. o perated o n a IS-car excursion frol11 Nort h Associati o n: the locomotive . built by Bald wi n in Order direct - a ll items shipped post paid. Vancouver to Wh ite R ock. Brit ish Columbia on 1904. is the o nl y survivin g cx-S D&AE steam New York residents must add sa les tax. Or, at selected deale rs. April 17. actua ll y vc nturing int o the U nit cd power a nd has been on display with the business S tates in o rd er to use the Bu rli ngto n Northern ca r. a 19 10 Pullman. at the San Diego County uiudio-lIiMtai f}/)~ \\'yc at Intalco. a fe w miles south of Bl a ine. Fairgrounds a t D el M a r. Califo rnia sin ce 1956 Washington (Davc Wi lkic) . Ala n S. Boyd. EITect i\"c .J u ne I. the Southern Pacific pl a ns P.O. BOX 24, EARLTON, N.Y. 12058-0024 SOUTHERN PACIFIC MOTIVE POWER ANNUAL 1977 - 1980 DONALD V. JEWELL

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PAC tFt C NE WS 25 Rerouted Western Pacific symbol freight OWPX rolls eastbound past the former site of Southern Pacific's Altamont depot on February 9, 1981 during the twelve-day detour ofWP traffic onto SP rails between the San Francisco 8a)' Area and Stockton. Western Pacific's own mainline can be seen behind the barn and to the right of the photograph as the trio .' . of EM D's, two GP40-2's spliced by a G P40 , ease through the abandoned townsite marked today onl)' b)' the signboard, the station palm tree and a few buildings.

CURT AIN CALL KEN MEEKER PHOTOGRAPHY ITHE AUTHOR

Southern Pacific's Altamont Pass line, FOR specifically the Tracy Line of the ra ilroad's N il es Subdivision, has bee n the subject of much discussion during the past few years. The railroad has plans to abandon the majority of SOUTHERN the forty-two-mile "alternate mainline" in fav or of obtaining trackage ri ght s over para lleling Western Pacific ra ils (PA CIFIC NEWS , November. 1978 ). Although there have been no PACIFIC'S physical steps ta ken as yet toward the pl a nn ed consolidation of operations and a bandonment of the SP trackage from Niles east to Tracy, the negotiations betwee n the two railroads a re ALTAMONT reportedl y nearing their fin a l sta ges. The trackage was ori gin a ll y built as the fin a l link in the ori ginal tra nscontinenta l ra ilroad. A lt a mo nt Pass currcntly is used by Southern PASS LINE Pacific for o nl y a n averagc o f o ne through

26 NUMBER 237 Passing under, instead of over (!), Western Pacific GP40-2 3555 crawls below its own mainline at the east end of Altamont Pass while running on Southern Pacific trackage in the midst of the railroad's twelve-day detour to allow crews unrestricted access to Tunnel One for rebuild work. This eastbound freight has just completed a meet with the westbound mail train around the curve, where the siding at Altamont had not previously hosted any meets in many years. westbou nd train per wee k between T racy and engineers a nd conductors fo r the e ntire journey low and the o ne scheduled weekly tra in is a Niles. and for local roads witcher use between and Espee di spatc he rs had to reve rt to war-yea rs cement drag opera ting betwee n Mojave in Ni les a nd the Pleasanto n / Li vermore area, the strategy o f stagin g meets on A ltamont Pass Southe rn Cali fornia a nd Newark. Eastbo und. eleven weste rnmost miles. During the beginning whi ch. as is muc h of S P's Cali fornia trackage, the empties fro m this consist return via the of Feb ruary. however. this Southe rn Pacific still is o perated as a train order di strict. Ma rtinez Line to Tracy a nd the n back to trackage witnessed an o utburst o f traffic but the Detours by either railroad over A lta m ont M ojave. Add iti ona ll y. the · Ba ys hore (Sa n trai ns we re not SP. Constructi o n work on the Pass d uring recent yea rs have been virtua ll y Fra ncisco)-to- East P leasa nto n Turn, whi ch Wes te rn Pacifi c's Tunnel One in Niles Canyon no ne xiste nt a nd as far as this a uthor can ha ndled the gravel traffic fro m Ka ise r a nd Lone had resulted in a pla nned detour of WP traffic re membe r the last wa s in the la te 1960's whe n a Sta r quarries a t Pleasanto n. has now been on the paralleling S P line. A total of sevent y-two d era ilme nt on WI' forced the Califurnia Zephrr aboli shed a nd a n Oakland-San J ose swit ch ru n tra in s were rerout ed over the Southe rn Pacific o nto S P rails fo r a t least o ne trip. now provid es se rvice wit h a side trip to between the San Fra ncisco Bay A rea a nd The extensive constructio n work in the Pleasa nto n as needed. The Southe rn Paei fi e's Stock to n d uring the twe lve-d ay pe ri od from Weste rn Pacific's T unnel One at the mouth of tra in o rd er stati o n and cle ri cal offi ce at East February I to February 12. Westbound Western Niles Canyon, nea r Frem ont . necessitated the Pleasa nto n will close June I. wi th necessa ry Pacifi c trains ente red S P ra il s at the west end of closing of the WP's mainline to a ll ow the pa pe r work after tha t date being ha ndled by the Stockton ya rd. where the two railroads have mai nte na nce-of- way fo rces to work double ya rd pe rsonnel from the Newa rk a rea . adjacent faci lities. and they the n operated to shifts for twe lve d ays. The project was to A ltho ug h it wi ll take so me time ye t fo r a ei the r Oa kl a nd o r Mi lpitas where the trains improve the drainage and road bed conditio ns in conve rsio n to a sing le mainline be tween Tracy returnn l to Wes tern Pacific rails via ex isting the 432 1-foot bore. a nd Niles, the Southe rn Pacific's A ltamo nt Pass interc ha nge tracks at va rd faci lit ies in those two D uri ng the deto ur pe ri od. Southe rn Pacifi c's route has doubtless received it s fina l curtain ca ll cities. T he sa me ro ut e in reverse wo rked for Alta mo nt Pass line witnessed mo re t raffic than as a busy rail road. It is now o nl y a matte r o f time ea,thound traffic. had bee n over the route in a ll of 19R I. Train before the fin al trackage link in America's 1\ 11 rerout ed WP tra in s received pil o t SP operati o ns o n the route a re now a t a n a ll-time tra nscontine ntal railroad is but a memory . •

PACIFIC NEWS 27 nEWS PHOTOS

Burlington Northern Electro-Motive F9 A-unit number 838, left, is seen at the railroad's Interbay Roundhouse in Seattle, Washington on May I as shop crews work to restore the locomotive to its original colors in a red-striped black-and-yellow paint scheme that approximates her first livery when delivered new in 1956 as Northern Pacific 7012A. The locomotive was presented to the Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad during ceremonies at Seattle's King Street Station where, at the same time, three-truck Heisler 91, which had steamed north from Tacoma, other scenic railroad passenger rolling stock and Amtrak S uperliner cars were all available for public inspection on May 15 and 16, after which F9 7012A will move south to join the growing Western Washington Forest Industries Museum collection. On Friday, April 23, Amtrak operated a pre-inaugural train press special over Southern Pacific trackage from Sacramento to Roseville and then north to C hico. a route that became part of the Coast Starlight service on April 25. although the train trave ls through this section at night in both directions. In the center of the bottom left "iew. with microphone at the Sacramento station prior to departure of the special train. is Caltrans director Adriana Gianturco who noted that the inaugural train marked the end of a four-)'ear struggle to reruute the Coast S tarlight from SP's West Vall ey line to the more populous East Va lley route. The special to-car train. led by F40PH's 245 and 287. seen below crossing the Feather River and entering Marysville. was actually the S pirit o.fCalifornia consist with an added ex-Sant a Fe conversion car and two Superliner coaches. The Spirit normall)' hl )'s over all day in Sacramento and was thus readily available for the inaugural run via Mar)'sville and Chico where more than a million additiunal people will now have convenient access tu the Amtrak s)'stem.

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28 NUMBER 237 In brand-new paint officiall y classed as a test to gain public opinion is Caltrain 3187 wearing platinum over blue with platinum trucks and three color bands along the middle that represent each of the three supporting transit agencies for this, Southern Pacific's San Francisco Peninsula commuter service now operated b)' the state. GP9E 3187 and double­ deck commuter cars 3700-3702 all now wear these new blue-and-platinum colors first shown to the public in May. The paint scheme as applied to the locomot ive also includes a solid -- red on the front carbody for high visibility. ------. PACIFIC NEWS

A fter twenty-five years of privat e storage on retired movie cowboy Gene Autry's Melody Ranch in Newhall. California the former Southern Pacific 2-6-0 1629 has been presented to the Santa Clarita Valley Historic Society and moved during the last week of April. Built by Schenectady in 1900 for SP. the locomotive was trucked. photos below, to Newhall's I-Iart Park and set up on new track at t he ex-SP Saugus station. which was itself trucked in to the park and restored OHr the past two years. Cost of the truck mOHo in excess of SI2,000. was paid by anonymous dunors associated with the Santa Clarita \ ' aile) 1-1 ist oric Society whil'h houses its main offices in the station adjacent to where the SO-ton locomotive is now displayed. Both: To ny Ma ~on. " 'j'ldwll Sixnal. H. K. Garges co lle ction

PACIFIC NEWS 29 How a nd why does this ha ppe n'! " Lig hts. camera. acti o n!," it 's the movies. Railroads have been involvcd with t he maki ng o f film s si nce s ho rtly after t he invention of the m ovie camera in 1890. Everybody with a n inte rest in railroadin g has no ti ced the H o ll ywood treatment o f tra ins, a nd it is usua ll y d ramati c, as well LETTERS TO as a lways being spectacu lar. M oder n e ngines ofl en subst itute fo r o ld o nes a nd it seems that to su it film directo rs locomoti ves o nly need to be lo ud. smoky and colorful. La rry J e nsen ex pl a ins it best by po in t ing out tha t most of t hese RIGHT CAR , WRONG PLACE inaccuracies a re fo rced by the limita ti o ns of sc ript. budget. scenery and the Rega rd ing Issue 233. page 22. the (Los Angeles R a il way) 1559 is not preserved relatio nship of the ra ilroad to the fi lm's othe r locati on s it es a nd available rai lr oad a t T raveltown. The 1559 is owned by the Pacific R a il way Society a nd presently equ ipment. These conditio ns fo rce m ost of the technical Oaws and "so m c tlln ~s res ides in the narrow-gauge carba rn at the Ora nge E mpire R ai lway Museum in d ressin g up a modern locomoti ve is the onl y opti o n. If a film story ta kes pl ace 111 P e rris. Cali fornia. W e a fe p la nning to cosmet ica lly res to re the car to its origin a l the Colo rado R ocki es d urin g the 1870·s. fo r insta nce. and the directo r wa nt s to Los A ngc lcs R a il way a ppearance. A lt ho ugh the car could be put in operating shoot the re. he's going to ha ve to sell Ie fo r a na rrow-gauge locom oti ve built in the cond iti o n. there a rc no p la ns t o d o so in the fo reseea ble fu ture. In ad dll lO ll. the I 920·s. O n the othe r ha nd. a sto ry ta king p lace in the Arizona desert . ci rca 1920. PRS-owned ex-L os Angeles R ai lway fun eral streetcar De.I"("(I II.'" is also a t the wi ll have to sell Ie fo r Old Tucson's Virginia and Truc kee II . w hi c h was built 111 Orange Empire R a ilway Museum. 1872. The res no happy medium." the a uthor po ints o ut. H erbert J o hnson. Secretary Ho ll ywood does its filming to provide enterta inment. This has kept some P acifi c R a ilway Society. I ncorpo ralcd locomoti ves in steam and we can be grateful fo r that a nd overlook accuracy w hen San M arino. California needcd. The need for acti ve steam locomoti ves by the movie in d ust ry wi ll ho pefully go on a nd o n. MORE D ATA ON NAVY WHITCOMB I Th e Movie Railroads is a fascina ting combina ti on o f w ha t a nd where, w ho a nd A frie nd in cw Yo rk sends me you r magazine. T he la tcst (I ssue 233) mentions when. The book is laced wit h studio pu b li cit y views. equip ment shots a nd action a Whi)comb. num be r 60326 of J u ne. 1944. U. S. avy 65-00252. scenes. A very info rmative tex t deta il s the rai lroads a nd the equipm ent. a nd the Back about 1960 I \' isited Ba ldwin-Lima-H a m ilt o n at Eddystone thi rty- fi \'e fi lm productio n compa nies. You will see S ierra R a ilroad's well -known 4-6-0 times a nd copied the Whitcomb card records. ' u m ber 60326 is listed as June. number 3 substitute as Virgin ia a nd Truckee 3 stagll1 g a meet wllh a n S 12 d iesel. 1944. w hic h is probably the shipping da te. This was a 50-to n B- B D , E. standard a nd even a pa ir of Southern Pacific geeps esconin g thc rormer Great \V~ste rn gauge. Whitcomb c lass 45 D E-27 b fo r t he U. S. Navy. T he card did not s how a Ra ilroad 2-8-0 75 thro ugh California. These scenes a rc no t part o f w hat num ber or where senl. P ossibly a d ivers io n fro m a cance ll ed order: it d id la ter moviegoers sa w, but rathe r are pa rt o f the fascin a ti o n of Th e A1u\';e Ra;lru,ad.\'. become 65 -00252 whe n Na vy locomo ti ves. steam a nd diesel. we nt into t he65 c lass. A nybody could havc ro unded up publicit y pho tos o f J o hn W ayne and S ierra H . L. G old smith Ra il road steam power and produced a n interest ing book. La rry J e nscn has d o ~ e Donipha n, M issollri much mo re a nd the res u lt is a n o utstanding look at a segment o f the m ovlc industry tha t is equa ll y fascinating to rcad. WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY .. Some ra ilroads rent their tra ins - the Sierra. De nve r a nd R io G ra nde. The contrast o f the F-unit scrapping a nd the muse um caboose savin g in the Naciona les de M ex ico. fo r examp le - som e a rc priva tely owned such as S han Kcws Photo secti o n o f Issue 233 was sta rtling, es pecia ll y with the backgrou nd Li nc Enterprises 4-4-0 nu m ber R a nd some st ud ios such as Pa ra mo u nt a nd \Va fIl cr sccne o f preserved cars a t C astro P o in t. Sad as it was to see the e nd of BN 626 why Brothers. among others. even bought their own. Universal S tud ios still own~ did n' t you say t hat Castro P o in t ha d recveived W estern P acific F-unit 9 1H'! It Ba ld wi n 2-6-0 nu m be r 5. bui lt in 1875 fo r the Carson and T ahoe Lu mber and woul d have made the B ' scra pping m ore pa la table. F lu ming Compa ny a nd later Nevada County Narrow Gauge num ber 5. This is the R andy Bufford last studio-owned locomotive in Ho ll ywood . Each of these categories is covercd in Fresno. Califo rnia good detail by this book. T he S ierra R a il road may be the best known of t he m ovie ra ilroads, but it is rar from the rull story a nd Tlw ,"'ode Ra;/roac/.\ plays no o bvious favo rites a lth ougb the S ie rra coverage is rather ex tensive. A fter cha pters o n each o f t hc majo r renta l rai lroads a nd t he stud io-owned equipment, ma ps. roste rs a nd, most impo rtantly, a fi lm li st concludes t hi s volu me. The laller tabula ti o n is very deta il ed and well worth the cost o f the book a ll by it self. The li sts a re a ppro priately bro ke n down by ra ilroad ma king it rat he r easy to sec what was film ed where a nd with wha t equipment. It is a little harder to go th e.: reve rse route though a nd find what railroad was used fo r a partic ul ar movie u nless thc show itself was covered in the tex t of thc book. - Karl R. Koeni g T he MO"ie Railroads. D a rwin Publicat io ns. K50 H o ll ywood Way. Bu rba nk. BOOK AnD ALL nEW C alifo rnia 9 1505. Ha rd bou nd. 8 ,;\ x II ". color dust j a cket paint ing. 258 pages. over 350 pho togra phs. ma ps. roste rs. tabulat ions. index. 534.95. This book is avail a bl e fro m C ha tha m's Book Sales D epa rt me nt. PRODUCT REVIEWS TRACKS , TIRES & WIRES C harles S. McCaleb RECORDS. BOOKS. FILMS. RAILROADIANA. SLIDES. ETC. F ro m horsecars a lo ng the tree-s ha ded Alameda to the pu blic-ow ned bus system in o pe ratio n d urin g the 19R 0·s. th is book is t he compl ete his to ry of pu blic Publishers are encouraged to submit copies of both new and reissued books, tra nsportati o n in C a liro r nia's Santa C lara Vall ey. F rom San J ose to Palo A lt o. records, photo sets, railroadiana collectibles, etcetera, that has not previ ously the e nti re story is told here. been reviewed in PACIFIC NEWS. There is no charge for this service; however, the materi al will be retained by the magazine for its reference library. We reserve Horsecars sta rt ed it a ll a nd whcn the G reat D epression a rrived San J o~ea nd it:.. the right to refuse any review without explanation. suburbs ha d bo th a local cit y streetcar system a nd a fine interurba n ro ut e in addition to commuter service no rth to San F ra nc isco. In 19R2 t he ta lk is ~e r io u ~ fo r constructing a n a ll -new Li ght R a il lin e in the Santa C la ra Va ll ey. T he sto ry of wha t o nce was is told betwee n the pages o f Tracks. Tires and " ~ Y i n's. A nice N ILES CA R add iti on t o the conte nt. altho ugb a bit u nusua l. is completi o n of the e lectric-era Catalog R eprint sto ry ri ght on past the last ra il o pera ti o ns to the public-ownership d iesel bus The Nil es C a r Compa ny was in corpo rated i n early 190 I a nd became a n industry syste ms tha t provide San J ose's present tra nsit needs. leader in the construction o f e lectric railway ro lli ng stock. The firm was T he text is q uite le ngthy and the a uthor has do ne a great deal o f researc h. pa rticu larly well knnwn for its interu rba n ca l'S, which cou ld be fo und o n such P ho tographic coverage is quite good. with c lassic scenes or P eninsul ar R ai lway weste rn lines as the Bo ise (Idaho) Valley Ra il way, Oregon Electric. Yakima Va ll ey inte rurba ns a nd S a n J ose streetcars. T here a re survivo rs - P eninsula r R a ilway 52 T ransportati o n Compa ny. Sa n Diego Electric R a ilw a~ . Fort D odge Des MOlll es a nd 6 1 a rc a t the Califo rnia R a il way Museum a t Rio Vis ta Junct io n but there i~ a nd Southern R a ilroad a nd the No rthern Electnc Ra il way (Sacrame nto o nly s li ght mentio n of this a nd no photogra ph o f the resto red e4uipmenl - a nd Northern). T he d istincti ve a ppearance a nd qua lit y of constructi on of the Nil es the rosters a rc exceptio na ll y dcta ile d . even to buses. - Nor ma n Saunders cars made the m po pula r througho ut the United Sta tes. Even st reet railway Tracks. T ires & Wires. Interurban Press. Post Office Box 6444. Glendale. e4uipment was produced a t the plant in Niles, Ohio prio r to the company's Ca li fo rnia 91 205. H a rdbound. 8 Y, x II ". colo r dust jacket pain t in g. 192 pages. wi thdrawal fro m the electric railway busi ness in 19 17. 152 photographs. rosters. maps. index. 527.95. This book is ava il a ble fro m This book. Niles Cars. is a reproductio n in bound fo rm of a n u nd a ted loose-leaf C h'llham's Book Sales Depa rtment. cata log. T he original was revised as necessary a nd in cludes the introducto ry comme nts " As we build novel. interesting or pa rtic ula rl y good sta ndard types of cars, we print additiona l sheets." O ld er sheets were not reprinted a nd thus whe n iss ued by N il es to a pros pecti ve new customer o nly the newest cars would be represented . Ano ther nota tion cove rs the potentia l t hat the desired ca r may not bc illustra ted : " If you do not find the style of car you desire. please advise us." Quite a few very interest ing Nil es prod ucts a re illustra ted in this re print. a nd usua ll v a t least o ne page is devoted to each. A p hotogra ph a nd Ooor pla n a re usua ll y a lways accompanied with specifications and a w ritt c ~ ex pla na ti on of the car and its constructi o n. A n inte ri or vie.w a nd even construCti o n scenes a re often a lso inc luded . To expand coverage. the re a re a lso several pages tha t delete the wri tten exolanatio ns and eac h the n conta in photographs a nd Ooo r plans for four EXCURSions AnD sepa ra te cars. T here a re pages of details o n trucks. w heels a nd the a lways present da ta require ments for prepa ratio n o f s pecifi cati o ns for the car you want to order. Ni le s built classic equipment a nd this is a n o utstand ing rem inder tha t wi ll provide ho urs of e nte rt aining study. - lorma n Saunde rs ' il es C ars. Caxto n Printers Ltd .. Caldwell , Ida ho 83605. Sadd le stitc hed . SPECIAL OPERATions lOx 14". colo r cover painting. 44 pages p lus cover. illustra ted. specifi cati o ns. technica l da ta. no index. $9.95. All listings herewith are made free o f c harge. and PACIFIC NEWS assumes no responsibility for errors, revisions in fares and schedu les or operat ional changes. a lt of whi c h a re subject to change wi thout notice. PACIFIC NE WS ,e,erves the HI E MOV IE HAII.ROADS ri ght to ed it materi al or to refuse any listi ngs. Insertions will no t be printed from Larry Jensen brochures. Deadline is 60 days preceding the date o f p ublication o f the magazine. Lo ng a ftc r the rai lroad wa:" ab and o ~l c d . many classic mcm bers or the Virgini a and T rucke.:e Ra il roLl d's tocornoti\'t: ro::, te r we re still in steam. T od ay. ( WO year~ Mont hl y. fi rst S u nday arta the last cxcurs io n ru ns. th e.: Sierra Rai lroad ~ti ll o paates steam pow!.'!' and C A STRO POINT RAILWAY Ml'SEl'M STEAi\1 not c\ay trai n on the CU l1lh re~ and T ollec St:c nic Rai lroad is a passengl'r run. T he Castro Point Railway Museu m at R ichmond. Calirornia. opL'fatcd b) the

30 N UMBER 237 Pacific Locom o ti ve Associa tion, resumed its a nnual season of steam-powered R AILROAD R A DIO SCANNERS - C ar M o bile and H and Held - Electra publi c passenger ru ns in Nove m ber. T ra ins a re scheduled to o perate on the fi rst Bearcat. Midla nd a nd P ace. S everal m odels in st ock fro m 599.50 to $169.50. S unday of each m onth until J uly 4, 1982 wi t h m otive powe r be ing selected from C rystals for most western railroads in stock at 55 .00 each. S top in or write for your the muse um's acti ve steam locomotives: 2-6-2T 2, ex-Quincy Ra ilroad ; 2-6-6-2T 4, railroad-rad io needs. I ro n H orse Ho bbies, 3529 C layton R oad , Concord. ex-Clover Valley Lumber Co mpa ny; 3-Truck Heis ler 5. ex-Pickering Lumber C a lifornia 945 19. Corpo ra tion. are ex pected to be the locomot ives in p rima ry usc. Tra ins lea ve fro m Mo la te Beach, near the Richm o nd-San Rafael Bridge. THE HEISLER LOCOMOTIVE, 1891-1941, 200 pages, 240 photos, 8Ylx l I". Pacifi c Locomoti ve Associa tion drawings, charts. six sca le d rawings. T he definit ive hi story of t he He isler gea red. P. O. Box 2465 fireless a nd d iesel-electric locomotives. Price: 52 1. 50. includes s hipping. Order San Lea nd ro, California 94577 from: Ben Kl ine, Jr.. 920 Wheato n Drive, La ncaste r. P en nsylva n ia 17603.

Season, April 17-Septembe r 5 PASSENGER CARR YIN G m iniature trai ns. S tea m. gas. bus iness or ho bby. YAKIMA INTER URBA N T R OLLEY LI NES Pans, w heels. 7Y." to 24 " gauges. S team Hudson. cab opera ted. 18" gauge. Ten A uthe ntic interurba n ra ilroading with vintage wooden trolleys is available by Wheeler. T ra in p hotos, deta ils. 55.00. Write o nly. Trai ns. 222 Sout h M a in Street. c harter fo r $96.00 per two ho urs. Also public rides o n Saturdays to Harwood a nd Attleboro. M assachusettS 02703. Sundays to Wi ley C ity. Evening rides Mo nday- Friday. J ul y 12 through A ugust 13 to Sela h. Fares, schedule a nd informa tio n from: EMPLOYEES TIM ETABLES AV AILABLE. A fe w st ill left fro m earl ier lists. Yakima Inl eru r ba n Troll ey Li nes S P. WP. S N ITidewater Sout hern. Send SSAE fo r list. J o hn Parson. P . O. Box P. O. Box 124 283. Burlingame. Califo rnia 940 10 . Yakima, Washingt on 98907 EA G ERL Y WA NT E D : Old st ock certificates a nd bonds. a nnua l passes. o ld J une 26, Sat u rday ti metables, stereopticon views a nd o ld post ca rds! Please w rite or phone: Ken RAIL R OADER 'S DA Y ON TH E YM -S PRR P rag. P. O . Box 53 1. Burlingame, Californ ia 940 I O. Pho ne (41 5) 566-6400. O n thi s da te. railroaders. model ra il roaders a nd ra ilroad e nthusiasts will receive a tc n percent discount o n t hei r Yosemite Mountain-Sugar Pine Railroad steam WI LL P A Y S5 for q ua lity I 940's- I 960's photographs of H H's fo r use in book. train fa res upon presentation of some form of ra il road identi fica tion or railroad P reviously u npu bli shed preferred. Write: J ay R eed, 1365 W arm S pri ngs R oad. cl ub mem bersh ip ca rd. M odel A railca r a nd steam trai n. powered by the fo rmer G len E ll e n, Cali fornia 95442. West S ide Lumbe r Com pa ny S hay 10. will o pe ra te from 9:00 a. m . to 4:00 p.m. o n th e Yosemi te Mountain-Sugar Pine Ra il road o n California's Highwa y 4 I. ncar BAC K ISSU ES of PA ClFlC N EWS remain ava ilable; some da te to the July, 1964 Fish Camp. "Cook ho use" lunc hes a re available. Museum. po tte ry sho p a nd gift issue. nu m ber 35. Quantit ies a rc li m it ed for many of these, however. T he wide sho p will be open . A I y," scale li ve steam model o f the Madera S ugar Pine vari ety of feature a rt icle topics covers m ost of the wester n ra il roading acti v ity fo r Com pany BelS", will be in o pe ra tion. Specia l moonli ght outdoor bar-b-que wit h this period o f t ime. Send a sta mped self-a ddressed envelo pe for comp lete detail s: steam Ira in ru n will take place in the even ing (discount does not apply). PA CIFIC N EWS, P ost Office Box 283, Burlingame, California 940 10. Information a nd reservatio ns fro m: Central Sierra C hapter. NR H S ALPHABETICAL LIST of a ll k nown S hay locomo ti ve owne rs. 95 typed pages. 4260 South F rui t Avenue spiral bound. S8.50 postpaid. G o rd o n S. Ramsey, 690 Rim R oad. P asadena. Fresno. California 93706 California 9 1 107.

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