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The Trainmaster The Trainmaster The Official Publication of the Pacific Northwest Chapter July 2010 National Railway Historical Society Portland, Oregon PACIFIC NORTHWEST CHAPTER TIMETABLE #576 Board of Director’s meetings: July 8 and August 12, Thursdays, 9320 SW Barbur Blvd Suite 200, 7:30 pm (Note address for Board meetings; follow instructions posted on the door for entry.) Lending Library is open two Saturday afternoons from 1:00 to 4:00 pm: the Saturday following the membership meeting (July 10) and also the following Saturday (July 17). It is also open every Monday morning from 10 am to noon. A wealth of material is available for PNWC member check-out. Archives work parties on Mondays from 10 am until at least noon. Membership Meetings: St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 5415 SE Powell Blvd: July 16 – 7:30 PM – Program: Videos: America & the Passenger Train and So You Want a Model Railroad August 20 – 7:30 PM – Program: Oregon Electric Railway, Mark Moore July 28 – August 1 – Excursion: Glacier Park Centennial, www.pnwc-nrhs.org. August 4 – 8 – Excursion: Glacier Park Centennial (#2), www.pnwc-nrhs.org / 503.236.7826 Forward program ideas to Al Baker, 503.645.9079 or [email protected]. NOTABLE NON-CHAPTER EVENTS: April-Sept Logging Train Rides, weekends, Noon-4 pm, Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, Washington, www.camp-6-museum.org May 29-September 26 Chehalis-Centralia Railroad, weekend 2-8-2 steam runs, www.steamtrainride.com May 31-October Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad, Thursday = diesel, Friday-Saturday-Sunday = steam, www.mrsr.com June 26-September 6 Alberni Pacific Railway steam trips (Thursday-Sunday), www.alberniheritage.com /250.723.1376 July 4 Fireworks Spectacular, Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad, Tillamook, Oregon, www.ocsr.net July 9-11 & 16-18 Day Out With Thomas, Northwest Railway Museum, Snoqualmie, Washington, www.wcra.org July 10 Rails to Ales Brewfest, Cascade Rail Foundation, South Cle Elum, Washington, www.railstoalesbrewfest.com July 13-17 Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association Convention, Spokane, Washington, www.nprha.org July 14 SP&S Railway Historical Society Convention, Spokane, Washington, www.spshs.org July 17, August 14, October 2 Train to Trek, Tacoma Freighthouse Square to Northwest Trek, www.nwtrek.org July 24-25 & July 31-August 1 Great Oregon Steam-Up, Antique Powerland Museum, www.antiquepowerland.com July 28-31 Union Pacific Historical Society convention, Boise, Idaho, www.uphs.org August 14 Great Northern Day in Skykomish, Skykomish Masonic Hall, begins 9:30 a.m., [email protected] August 20-22 72th Annual Snoqualmie Railroad Days, Northwest Railway Museum, www.trainmuseum.org September 4-6 Steam locomotive Oregon in operation, 4-mile roundtrip, Oregon Zoo, www.oregonzoo.org September 8-24 Portland Rose, Pendleton Roundup Centennial Special, UP Steam, www.uprr.com September 11-12 Steamfest & Classic Car Show, West Coast Railway Association, Squamish, British Columbia, Canada September 30-October 2 SP Historical & Technical Society Convention, Sacramento, California, www.sphts.org October 16-17 Fall Foliage & Photographers Weekend, Sumpter Valley Railroad, www.svry.com October 19-21 Rail~Volution 2010, Portland, Oregon, www.railvolution.com January 2011 Brooklyn Roundhouse, yard vacated May 7, 2011 Amtrak’s National Train Day, Portland, Oregon, stay tuned June 9-13, 2011 White Pass Railfan Week, White Pass & Yukon Railroad, Skagway, Alaska, www.extra2200south.com June 20-26, 2011 Cascade Rails 2011, NRHS Convention, Tacoma, Washington, www.cascaderails2011.com January 2012 Brooklyn Roundhouse, vacated and steam locomotives moved PNWC – NRHS MISSION To preserve and interpret Pacific Northwest railroad history and historical artifacts for the education and enjoyment of current and future generations. July 2010 Pacific Northwest Chapter National Railway Historical Society The Trainmaster Page 1 NOTES FROM A MEETING Keith Fleschner, President Writing this, the Chapter and most of the other groups in the area are in a lull. It may be due to this wet- ter than usual Spring and Summer. • National Train Day 2010 at Portland’s Union Station was very successful. • The Excursion Committee has done a huge amount of work on the Glacier Park Excursion. While tickets are still on sale, the next big expenditure of labor will be the first excursion. • Preparations have begun for this year’s Holiday Express but it's far enough out that the work still moves at a leisurely pace. This will change as we get closer to the event. • The Rolling Stock Committee is getting ready to start new summer projects but it’s taking some time to line up the materials which are needed. • The Archives and Library folk continue to do excellent work every week. • Several Chapter members are busy assisting the Tacoma Chapter on Cascade Rails 2011. • Steam-Up will soon be upon us and the Chapter has a variety of activities that will require volunteer power. Al Hall would be glad to put YOU to work. MEETING SNACK SIGN-UPS All months are available. This is one area where the Chapter really needs your help. To volunteer, please contact Keith at 503.516.9272 or email to: [email protected]. The railroad related books available for checkout by PNWC members in the Lending Library are inventoried in 27 classifications. The holdings available in each of the classifications are: Alaska 9 Oregon 45 Burlington Northern 19 Overseas Railways 46 California 37 Passenger Service 61 Canada 20 Railroading, General 248 Colorado 51 Rio Grande 19 Diesel Locomotives 23 Santa Fe 27 Electric Railroads 91 Southern Pacific 77 Great Northern 14 Steam Locomotives 103 Logging Railroads 28 Union Pacific 65 Milwaukee 16 Western Pacific 12 Model Railroading 32 Eastern U.S. 101 Narrow Gauge RR 31 Midwest U.S. 59 Nevada 7 Western 43 Northern Pacific 10 Books available: 1,294 The Lending Library is open from 1 to 4 the two Saturdays following membership meetings and on Mondays from 10 to noon. Page 2 July 2010 Pacific Northwest Chapter National Railway Historical Society The Trainmaster PNW SHORT LINES by Arlen L. Sheldrake Congratulations to Willamette & Pacific Railroad employees for winning the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association President’s Award for best safety performance in the 150,000- 250,000 employee-hours category and for the most hours of injury-free operation in 2009. The Idaho Statesman reported May 19 that the City of Boise and Boise Valley Railroad (BVRR) are exploring the building an intermodal facility in Southeast Boise. As part of the partnership, BVRR will provide service and maintenance for all 18.2 miles of city-owned rail that would serve the facility. The WSDOT Point Defiance Bypass Project will now undergo a project level environmental as- sessment to ensure that community concerns are addressed. The project reroutes passenger trains to an existing rail line along the west side of Interstate 5 through South Tacoma, Lakewood and DuPont. Cur- rently, passenger trains share the freight route along the coastline around Point Defiance. The Denver-based American Railway Explorer (ARE) has announced plans to offer “rail cruises” showcasing much of the country and several national parks, including Grand Teton and Yellowstone, beginning in 2011. One offering being planned is the Northwest Explorer, an eight-day trip that will travel between Napa, California and Jackson, Wyoming with stops in Crater Lake National Park, Glacier National Park, Helena, Montana, and Yellowstone and Grand Teton National parks, including a daytime run through the Columbia River Gorge. Correction: The Oregon City 1910 former Southern Pacific freight station is not 21,000 square-feet as I reported in the May Trainmaster. It is more like 2,100 square feet, an extra zero. Sorry. Public comments about the recommended ConnectOregon III projects will be heard by the Oregon Transportation Commission at their July 21 meeting in Salem. The Commission will make the final selections at their August 24-25 meeting in Hermiston. The committee’s list of recommended projects is available at: www.oregon.gov/odot. While hosting a visitor from the East Coast to the Brooklyn Roundhouse, he asked about the his- tory behind the name Brooklyn. Not a clue hath I, so off to Oregon Geographic Names, Seventh Edi- tion: “Brooklyn is a southeast Portland neighborhood and the location of the Southern Pacific Railroad yards. Until the 1950’s these were their principal facilities in the Willamette Valley, but during the years after World War II they were eclipsed by development in Eugene. The Oregon & California Rail Road Time Schedule No. 1 of September 5, 1870, shows Machine Shop two miles south of East Portland and within the 1990 yard limits. In 1889, the place was named Car Shops and, in 1906, Ladd, apparently for the nearby Ladds Addition. The name Brooklyn was not adopted until 1912. In January 1869, Gideon Tibbets filed a plat for the Village of Brookland, but by 1874 it appears to be incorporated as the city of Brooklyn, part of East Portland. The latter name obviously comes from Brooklyn, New York, but the compiler has been unable to learn the reasons for the form Brookland or the change. Brooklyn post of- fice was established in 1939 as a classified station of Portland by change of name from Station D.” The Seattle Times reports that Seattle Center Monorail’s red train returned to service the week of May 17 after an overhaul including work on the suspension, interior electronics and the pneumatic sys- tem. The twin blue train received a similar overhaul in early 2009. The electric-conducting rail on the concrete trackway has also been replaced. The overhaul budget was $7.7 for both trains and trackway. Two-train service will be provided during the peak tourism season this summer. The red train has trav- eled more than 1 million miles since the one-mile line opened for the 1962 World’s Fair (is Elvis in the building?).
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