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2 MARCH,1977 Pacific No. 185 lie MARCH, 1977 s VOLUME 17 NO. 3

KARL R. KOENIG • EDITOR

HARRE W.DEMORO ...... EDITORIAL STAFF TOM GRAy ...... PRODUCTION STAFF

• • • HAROLD C.KOENIG ...... EDITORIAL STAFF Inside Chatham DANIEL B. KUHN ...... PRODUCTION STAFF I usually wish that I could begin these paragraphs "Good Evening, JOHN PARSON ...... OFFICE STAFF Reader" - the typewriter used for this part of PACI FIC NEWS seems D.S.RICHTER ...... EDITORIAL STAFF to only work at night- for what we are really after is frequently more of GARY VIELBAUM ...... STAFF LI BRARIAN an impossible fireside chat on a one-to-one basis than a monthly magazine column. The magazine's real columnists are those dedicated Kenneth M. Ardinger ...... •..•...... Contributing Staff reporters who regularly write on their favorite western railroads: you'll Edward M. Berntsen ...... •...... Contributing Staff find the four pages of this month's columns beginning on page 14, led George R. Cockle .....•...... •...... Contributing Staff off by a new, but temporary, eastern report with western flavor. Doug E. Cummings ...•...... Contributing Staff Harre W. Demoro is on leave from his usual job across Tom Eikerenkotter ....•..•...... •...... Contributing Staff Robert L. Hogan ...... •..•...•.... Contributing Staff Bay from here - none of the columnists work in this office, their Don Jewell ...... •.... Contributing Staff reports are delivered by the US Mails - on a half-year special task in Joe McMillan ...... •...... Contributing Staff Washington, D.C. The result, which will end when Harre returns to Ken Meeker ...... •.... Contributing Staff once again meet western railroading head-on, is Out East. There is a lot Peter J.Replinger ...... Contributing Staff of west in the east, as you'll be hearing about for the next several Virgil C. Staff ...... •..•...... •.... Contributing Staff months. No doubt this means PACIFIC NEWS has a Washington F. Hoi Wagner, Jr...... Contributing Staff J. Harlen Wilson ...... •...... •.... Contributing Staff Correspondent. No doubt a Southern Pacific SD45T-2 will soon show up there to make him feel at home. Pooled motive power, by the way, may prove to boost local interest for our readers everywhere, but pity the traveler as ©Contents Copyright 1977 summer approaches. We are frequently. informed when foreign-road qx wander through California, but feel sorry a bit for the ALL RIGHTS RESERVED photographer who recently reported managing to convince the family to make a brief stop adjacent to the Southern Pacific's main line in IN THIS MONTH'S PACIFIC NEWS

Nevada on the Overland Route to take pictures. A resident of Idaho, the WHITE PASS AND YUKON ROUTE ...... 6 allotted train-watching time resulted in westbound tonnage behind OUT EAST ...... 14 Union Pacific SD40's. Interrupting the family vacation a short time WESTERN LOCOMOTIVE NEWS/ ...... 15 later in response to a..-ed signal- this action takes place where Western UNION PACIFIC/BURLINGTON NORTHERN . .... 16 BC'S ROYAL HUDSON VISITS US ...... Pacific and Southern Pacific jointly share their trackage to create a 18 ESPEE RELOCATES MAIN LINE IN OREGON . .. . . 21 double-tracked main line - the WP rumbled past his camera with, you MISSOURI PACIFIC MOTIVE POWER ...... 22 guessed it, more Armour Yellow SD40's. Another reader, who flew to CAMERA CAR PHOTO SECTION ...... 24 California from North Carolina to visit relatives in Stockton reports SHORT STUFF ...... 29 taking his one and only look at Western Pacific's main shops there and NEWS PHOTOS ...... 30 finding, as the only road power on hand to photograph, Burlington EXCURSIONS/CLASSIFIED ...... 34 Northern locomotives. Western enthusiasts going east, of course, report BOOK REVIEWS/LETTERS ...... 35 Southern Pacific power virtually everywhere. The moral, if any, seems to be that run-through motive power is appreciated more by natives SUBSCRIPTIONS BY DIRECT MAIL than visitors. Union Pacific, Western Pacific, Baltimore and Ohio, In United States, and Mexico: $10.00 for one Penn Central, Norfolk and Western, and doubtless some others, have year, $18.00 for two years. Single copies $1.00. Foreign: all sent motive power west to wander past our office here in Burlingame $11.00 per year. Foreign - only - First Class and Air at one time or another in recent years, where Soutmrn Pacific Mall rates are available upon a specific written request. maintains the only railroad track between the Bay waters on the east CHATHAM PUBLISHING COMPANY and the Pacific Ocean on the west. We are waiting for our first look at a Post Office Box 283, Burlingame, California 94010 USA Conrail locomotive in Burlingame, but no doubt a visitor from New • York would rather see Southern Pacific. One unsuspecting, and NEWS PHOTOGRAPHS ARE PAID FOR UPON PUBLICATION vacationing, eastern enthusiast stopped at trackside south of here in PACIFIC NEWS is published monthly by the Chatham Publishing Menlo Park recently and not being a regular PACIFIC NEWS reader Company. 1012 Oak Grove Avenue. Burlingame. California 94010. (415) 348-0331. Printed in the U.S.A. Second Class postage paid at was totally surprised by the Royal Hudson on its way to San Jose. He's Burlingame. California 94010. PACIFIC NEWS assumes no responsibility for the safe return of editorial or advertising material. Acceptable a subscriber now, and that was one off-line locomotive that no one photographs are filed for potential future publication and are paid objected to, anywhere! -Karl R. Koenig for upon use. Advertising rates are available on request for rate card . • CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Post office does not regularly forward 2nd Class COVER: Three-foot-gauge White Pass and Yukon 110 awaits a Mail and PACIFIC NEWS will not replace copies not forwarded and southbound departure for Skagway with the mixed at Whitehorse destroyed by the post office - replacement copies, and post office notification charges will be billed. Please allow PACIFIC NEWS at least alongside the Yukon River. (C. G. Heimerdinger, Jr.) four weeks for al/ address changes.

PACIFIC NEWS 3 IlEAn FREIGHT CARS CREATEEXCESSIVE RAI. WEAR trackage on the Overland Route. Research is being conducted at the Pueblo Due to excessive rail wear, Union Pacific has Acording to the Union Pacific, the life of Test Center of the Department of discontinued loading 125-ton capacity freight tangent track under normal conditions should Transportation on their FAST test track . cars above the 100-ton mark to haul soda ash be up to 700 million gross tons; but with higher (PACIFIC NEWS, February, 1977) where products out of the FMC Corporation facility capacity cars, track life has been reduced to only excessive wear has been experienced on rail west of Green River at Westvaco, Wyoming. about 35 million gross tons. This was which has only carried about 30 million gross The railroad began using the larger capacity cars determined after the Union Pacific conducted a tons in trains consisting of cars with capacities in this service in 1965 to improve the economics series of tests on their mainline between up to 100 tons each. of transporting the ash. However, the Union Westvaco and Green River, comparing the It is uncertain at this time what the ultimate Pacific found that cars of this weight are too condition of the eastbound and westbound answer to this problem will be; more , . much even for their excellently maintained tracks. Rail on the eastbound main had been heavier rails, or new rail metallurgy. However, laid in 1964 and had carried 516 million gross lOO-ton capacity cars appear to be the RECORD of the MONTH tons, while the rail on the westbound main line economical limit for contemporary railroading had carried only 562 million gross tons and had SB 4502 Green Board South in the United States .• been laid way back in 1958. The railroad found to readers that the older westbound track was in fine shape, UMTA IOENTlRES TOP URBAN TRAIISIT AREAS IIUS of while the much younger eastbound track was The United States Department of PACIFIC worn out and in need of replacement. After Transportation's Urban Mass Transportation NEWS further research, the Union Pacific found that Administration - UMTA - has compiled and the extreme pressure of the 125-ton cars at the released a tabulation of the top-ranking 106 $649 p.oint of rail- contact,actually causes the urbanized areas of over 200,000 popUlation and railhead steel to become plastic and flow out identified all known transit operations serving this month from beneath the point of pressure. This stress within those areas. The relative size of the transit ONLY over prolonged periods of time causes fatigue in operators, and the passenger loads, is indicated to your the rail which results in rail deformations. by the number of passenger vehicles operated. DOOR When this situation became apparent, the Listings show rail cars, trackless trolleys and Union Pacific ceased loading the massive 125- motor buses; and, for San Francisco, cable cars. STEREO/QUAD [CD·4[ 12" LP ton cars to capacity. While creating a slight Where do western rail-oriented cities rank? A tribute to the Southern Hy. and the steam locomotives operated by thclll. No. 4501. No. 630. No. 722. No. 750. decrease in the overall efficiency of these large The former interurban rail capital Los Angeles and ex· Mississippian No. 77 ;He all featured. Included nrc cars, the savings in rail replacement is area now ranks a bus-only second behind New doublchc:lClcrs 7221750 and 722/630 and some York where the City Transit Authority alone mighty prett), whistle blowing by Mr. Walter Dove. Yours considerable by comparison. lor the price afadmission. any time of the day or night. The Black Mesa and Lake Powell, which has a massive 6700-car roster. Chicago ranks

Oller good only during month operates an entire fleet of 125-ton capacity coal third, where, including commuter railroad of this magnine issue. hoppers, has also experienced a great deal of service, 1945 rail cars are in service. Our own - FHEE Catnlog upon request - trouble with excessive rail wear and has red uced San Francisco-Oakland urban area is in sixth the loads being carried by those cars. Both the place: eighty-three commuter coaches on the Mobile Fidelity Records Southern Pacific, 350 BART cars and the 115 p.o. Box 336. Burbank. Calif. 91503 Burlington Northern and the Santa Fe have or sec your Hobby/Record Dealer shown an interest in the rail-wear subject as both Muni PCe's. Although this adds up to 548 rail Stereo 8 or Quad 8 Track Tape - S7 .49 railroads operate long, heavy trains over their cars, plus another thirty-nine cable cars, not all Foreign Customers add SI.50 postage of these are serviceable, let alone ever used. California resident:. add 6% tax lines in the west. Nationwide, there are 14,701 rail cars available for transit, 638 trackless trolleys and 43,908 buses. The privately-owned New Orleans THE WESTERN LEADER FOR MORE THAN Public Service's twenty-six streetcars are the only rail vehicles available for riders in this, by SEVENTEEN YEARS OF CONSECUTIVE coincidence, the twenty-sixth ranking urban MONTHLY PUBLICATION. area, and the only other western rail operator. Seattle with its sixty-one trolley coaches ranks seventeenth; added to San Francisco's, these are DO NOT MISS THE 186TH MONTH! the only electric buses in the west. Rail-hopefuls Denver rank twenty-fourth, San Jose twenty­ fifth and Honolulu fifty-fifth .• SUBSCRIBE NEW SCHEDULE FOR RAILROAD STREAMUNER Type or print your name and address, enclose it with your payment, ALASKA AND MAIL IT TODAY. Daily passenger service between Anchorage and Fairbanks, A[aska resumes on May 22 for Please entEr a direct-by-mail subscription to PACIFIC NEWS for...... years. the summer season. Trains 5 and 6, the Aurora, This is a 0 New Subscription 0 Renewal of an expired subscription will depart from Fairbanks and Anchorage at SUBSCRIPTION RATES 9:30 AM and arrive in the opposite terminal at United States, Canada and Mexico: $10.00 for one year, $18.00 for two years 8:00 PM with a running time of len hours and Foreign rates: $11.00 for one year. Foreign air mail rates on request thirty minutes which is almost an hour faster o I have enclosed my payment than previous schedules. In order to maintain o Please bill me with the first issue (Above rates plus 501t billing charge) this faster schedule, several flag stops will be

Name ..... omitted Monday through Friday. However, all flag stops will be observed on the weekend Address. passenger trains. The Aurora is equipped with dome coaches City ...... which were acquired from the Union Pacific in State and Zip Code ... late 1971. The Alaska operates four dome cars, MAIL THIS FORM, OR A FACSIMILE, TO PACIFIC NEWS TODAY all of which continue to wear their original CHATHAM PUBLISHING COMPANY Union Pacific numbers. The 7004, 7008 and 7013 were built by American Car and Foundry Post Office Box 283 in 1955, while the 7014 was constructed by Burlingame, California 94010 Pullman-Standard in [958 as one of the last new of and dome cars ever built. The domes, like the other DO YOUR FRIENDS A FAVOR: Suggest that they stop reading your copy PACIFIC NEWS subscribe for themselves. Increased circulation will allow more coverage of Western Railroading. streamlined cars on the train, wear the railroad's blue and yellow passenger paint scheme. The

4 MARCH,1977 normal locomotives assigned to the Aurora are Ogden, Utah with Amtrak's San Francisco fuel consumption rate in 1972, the last full year Electro- Motive FPTs. Zephyr traveling both east and westbound. before the energy crisis. According to the Union Four Alaska Railroad prospects for inclusion Between Portland and Seattle, the new train Pacific, those 30 million gallons are enough fuel in the National Register of Historic Places are will replace two of the current Northwest to heat over 3000 average-size homes in the the stations at Wasilla, Nenana and Palmer, as Corridor trains: the northbound MI. Rainier in midwest for an entire winter. well as the Susitna River Bridge at milepost the evening and the southbound run of the Pugel The Union Pacific has cut its fuel 264.1. The Wasilla depot was built in 1917 while Sound in the morning. This high equipment consumption rate by eight per cent since the the stations in Nenana and Palmer were built in utilization should both generate additional energy crisis started in 1973, with a total savings 1922 and 1935 respectively. At one time, the business for the new Pioneer and allow Amtrak by the railroad of over 85 million gallons. The Nenana station was also the focal point of to reduce its operating expenses between UP now produces 1000 ton-miles of freight riverboat operations on the mighty Yukon River Portland and Seattle as well. _ service with only 2. 15 gallons of diesel fuel. A and its tributaries. _ ton-mile is a measurement used by the railroads UNION PACIFIC IS WORKING TO CONSERVE ENERGY that equals moving one ton one mile. NEW SANTA FE PIGGYBACK TERMINAl. NEAR DENVER Through intensive energy conservation The Union Pacific has cut energy The Santa Fe is presently building a 60-acre, efforts, the Union Pacific Railroad saved over consumption in other ways as well, such as $2.5-million piggyback facility along the joint 30 million gallons of diesel fuel in 1976. The eliminating over 3000 40-watt light bulbs in its Santa Fe/ Colorado and Southern/ Denver and saving is based on the railroad's 1976 fuel Omaha headquarters and replacing them with Rio Grande Western main line about seventeen consumption rate as compared with the line's flourescent lights. _ miles south of Denver at Big Lift, Colorado. Construction began on the complex in August of 1976 and all grading, paving and track work have been completed. More than 250,000 cubic Here's what they said about yards of earth and rock were involved in the grading alone and more than 35,000 square yards of concrete and black-top pavement were included in the facility. A 35-by-72-foot one-story building will house about twenty-five employees who will man the new terminal. For maintenance work on the trailers there will be a 30-by-60-foot building and two 10,000- gallon underground fuel tanks each with its own DESKBOOK 1977 dispensing island for the truck tractors. When completed, the new facility will be coordinated ... tile first time Al1Itrak has beell featl/red ill a with the railroad's trucking subsidiary, Santa Fe calelldar/ diary." -E.E. Edel. Vice-President, AMTRAK Trail Transportation Company, whose terminal ..•

is presently ocated in downtown Denver. "all impressive piece of work ... a very Ilalldso11le The potential capacity of the two tracks at the book... installation will be 208 trailers per day with each -Brian Duff, Director/News Services, AMTRAK track holding twenty-six cars each. There is space available for the addition of a third ..... you WOlI't wallt to miss t},is 112 page book. 26-car track which would increase the terminal's Amtrak Covers mallY of tile behilld-the-scenes operatiolls capacity to 408 trailers per day. - statiolls. coac}, yards, alld mailltellallce SIIOPS The new piggyback facility will give Santa Fe - alollg with a healthy I,elpillg of traills alld equipmellt. Up-to-date ullique all ell­ complete control over the loading and joyable additioll to the collectioll of allyolle ill­ unloading of this type of shipment in the Denver terested ill Amtrak's America." area. In the past, all Santa Fe trailers were -Pacific News, December 1976 unloaded by the Colorado and Southern "Ullique ... for colltilllled perusal." Railway near downtown Denver. To further -Rail Travel News, January 1977 improve the railroad's intermodal service, the operating department has introduced new (Still Available at $6.95 + $1 postage and handling) expedited schedules for freight trains operating Not an official Amtrak publication. out of Denver. With these new schedules the Santa Fe can provide second-morning delivery to Chicago and Texas with third-morning delivery to Los Angeles. _ And now Announcing AMTRAK'S PIONEER TO UNK SEATILE AND SALTlAKE The 1977 AMTRAK ANNUAL Amtrak has named its new Seattle, All aboard for a comprehensive trip through the first six years of the National Washington-to-Salt Lake City, Utah Rail Passenger Corporation (AMTRAK) with maps, rosters, consists and hundreds streamliner the Pioneer. The train will have of photographs from New England to California. Over 150 pages in 8'/2 x 11 book number 25 westbound and number 26 format including full color. Amtrak through the pain of its birth, the shakiness of its eastbound and will be powered by an adolescence to its present maturity with new stations, computers, track and an ever increasing array of equipment. The AMTRAK ANNUAL shows and tells it all. Electro-Motive F40PH locomotive. The train 1977 itself will consist of leg-rest equipped Complete locomotive and car rosters (includes retirements)

Amcoaches, first-dass Amclub cars and an Consists of trains, including some of Amtrak's firsts. Amdinette for food service. An in-depth look at an Amtrak terminal city with maps, charts, etc. Train 25 will leave Salt Lake City at 10: 15 PM, stopping in Boise, Idaho at Up-to-date information including new bi-Ievel specs and photos. 6:40 AM and Portland, Oregon at 5: 10 PM Descriptions of all trains operated by Amtrak. before arriving inSeattle at 9:20 PM. Traveling Published June 1977 $11,95 in the opposite direction aboard train 26, (All orders received by May 30, 1977 may take a 30% pre-publicatioll. discount). departure time from Seattle is at 7:30 AM, with California Residents add 6% tax. stops in Portland and Boise at II :20 AM and 1l:35 PM respectively. The Pioneer is scheduled Rail Transportation Archives to arrive in Salt Lake City at 8:00 AM where a P.O. Box 1970 connection is made with the Rio Grande Zephyr San Francisco, California 94101 to Denver. Connections will also be made at

PACIFIC NEWS 5 THREE-FOOT -GAUGE RAILROADING ON THE WHITE PASS AND YUKON

C. G. HEIMERDINGER, JR. route for gold seekers wanting to reach the Klondike was to travel by sea to Skagway and For years, the narrow-gauge common carrier then to hike over the Chilkoot Pass, or the White rail lines located in and around Durango, Pass, to Lake Bennett. From the lake, Colorado have often been credited as the last prospectors first used boats on the lake itself, such trackage in the United States. Such a then down the Yukon River to Dawson City. statement, however, is not, nor has it ever been, The town of Skagway, which had been founded true. In reality, the liD-mile White Pass and in 1897, quickly reached a population of Yukon Route operates the last fully-operational between twenty and thirty thousand persons, three-foot-gauge common carrier in the United most of whom planned to hike and boat to the States. The Denver and Rio Grande Western Klondike gold fields. still operates its narrow gauge between Durango Almost as quickly as the miners reached and Silverton, Colorado, but in reality this Skagway, it was oovious that a transportation ,;ervice is entirely a tourist operation and system was needed over the mountains between handles little freight. The White Pass and Yukon· there and Lake Bennett, and the construction of Route, on the other hand, still handles a wagon road was started. In 1898, a Canadian passengers and considerable freight traffic year corporation was organized to build a railroad round between Skagway, Alaska and between Skagway and what was to become the Whitehorse, located in the Yukon Territory of city of Whitehorse, in the Yukon Territory. Canada, much the same as it has been doing for more than a half century. The history of the White Pass and Yukon In the company of a trio of sister units, begins during the summer of 1896 when gold General Electric number 98 struggles was discovered near the Yukon River in the upgrade through Glacier, Alaska, at milepost area now known as Dawson City. Word of the 14.1, with the day's mixed train bound for the discovery reil'ched the western United States north end of the railroad at Whitehorse in the following year, and the rush was on. One Canada's Yukon Territory.

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Construction started almost at once, and the Accelerating southward out of the railroad's it was not nearly so dramatic as that of 1898. The wagon road, which had never been completed, northern terminal at Whitehorse, locomotive roads that the war created in turn provided the was purchased by the new railroad line whith 93, built by General Electric in 1956, leads opportunity to develop the Yukon as never much of the right-of-way becoming the roadbed another of the unique White Pass boxcab units before. Slowly, the business for the White Pass for the White Pass and Yukon, on the Skagway-bound mixed train. and Yukon Route continued to grow, and by the Two years later, in 1900, the railroad was early 1950's it became obvious that completed, Transportation between Whitehorse improvements would have to be made to the and Dawson City, a distance of four hundred railroad's operations. miles, was handled by riverboats on the Yukon Pacific, and the Japanese occupation of two of The most notable change was the River, many of which were later owned and the Aleutian Islands, it was d ecided to build a development of a container system, and the operated by the railroad itself until this form of highway connecting the United States with purchase of diesel locomotives. As the number transportation faded from the water in 1953, Alaska, The new road ran through Whitehorse, of containers shipped over the railroad Trucks, now also operated by the White Pass, and the railroad was used to transport the tons increased, the requirements for the conventional today handle traffic to the north, of men, material and supplies required for the box car diminished and today there are only Between 1900 and 1941, the history of the construction and maintenance of the highway, seven of these cars surviving which are now used White Pass and Yukon was similar to many During the War, the railroad was administered mainly to handle baggage traffic for passengers narrow-gauge railroads which had been built in by the United States Army which invested on the mixed trains, Almost all freight traffic is haste to connect the mining booms, While the heavily into the line with men, rolling stock and handled in the various types of containers, mines at Dawson had been prospering so had motive power. Probably the best known of the including the vast ore shipments, White Pass the three-foot-gauge railroad, but after mining wartime locomotives brought to the White Pass trucks handle these containers to and from the reached its peak production and started to were seven former Denver and Rio Grande northern terminals of the railroad, while decline so did the railroad's fortunes, By the late Western K-28 2-8-2's, Three similar locomotives company-owned ships carry many of the 1930's, the White Pass was but a shadow of its remained on the D&RGW, and today they containers between Skagway and . former glory days even though the continued handle all of the traffic on the Rio Grande's Prior to the arrival of the first diesels, a production of the mines at Dawson and the lack surviving Silverton Branch, After World War II, number of 2-8-2's, 2-8-{)'s, 4-6-{)'s and a 2-6-2 of highways in the area at least insured the most of the locomotives brought to the White provided the motive power. Reminders of the railroa:d's survival. As the White Pass has no Pass for the war effort were scrapped, Much of days of steam are still very evident at Skagway, interchange points with other railroads, it the new rolling stock, however, and a few of the which is the principal terminal for the railroad. continues to exist as a narrow-gauge line. locomotives, continued on with the railroad Four of the 2-8-2's, numbers 70, 71, 80 and 81, l! was World War II that did more than which was once again administered under two of which came from the Sumpter Valley anything in helping the White Pass and Yukon private control. Railway in Oregon, sit in a deadline along the Route to revamp its image and survive into the The boom that World War Il brought to the waterfront, while 2-8-2 number 72 still sits where present times, As a result of the War in the Yukon did not end after the war, although it was caught in the disastrous 1969 roundhouse

PACIFIC NEWS 7 fire. A sixth 2-8-2, number 195, and 2-6-0 52, the same fire, rust away behind the new arrival, the roof was raised so that switch both of which are in poor condition, are on enginehouse. To replace the destroyed units, crews could stand in the cab while riding the display in Skagway. At the other end of the three similar locomotives, numbered 108 locomotive; the rebuild looks like a box resting narrow-gauge in Whitehorse, rests yet another through 110, were ordered from the on top of the cab. poorly-maintained 2-6-0, number 51, on Locomotive Works in 1971 as Aleo was out of All motive power on the White Pass and display. In fact, the only that the locomotive business by this time. The hood Yukon is based and maintained at Skagway. appears to be in good condition is 2-8-2 number units are usually assigned to freight movements Most of the power is needed for the Alaska 73 which is displayed at Lake Bennett. and only see passenger service when a motive Division, and only four units can be found north Today all rail operations are handled by diesel power shortage develops. These locomotives at of there at any one time. One hundred ten miles power with three different types of locomotives the present time will not operate in multiple in length, the White Pass and Yukon is divided handling assignments. First are eleven box cabs, with the although the railroad's into the Alaska and Canadian Divisions. The numbers 90 through 100, built by General management has plans to change that factor. Alaska Division is forty-one miles, and stretches Electric between 1954 and 1966. These are the The third type of motive power on the White northward from Skagway to Lake Bennett, units that replaced steam power. Although built Pass and Yukon is lone switch engine number81 . The Canadian Division by GE, the locomotives are fitted with Aleo which is the only locomotive on the present continues the railroad northward for another prime movers, just the same as all White Pass roster which was not purchased new. Instead, it sixty-nine miles into Whitehorse. Of the entire and Yukon motive power. These boxcabs are was obtained from the United States Army in trackage, only the first twenty miles are in the unique to the railroad, and the only other similar 1973 and is used to switch the docks and yards United States, but it is on that twenty-mile GE's were built for Brazil. How much longer of Skagway. While the 81 is designed to be stretch that the most spectacular part of the these boxcabs will continue working for the operated in mUltiple with other units, it has White Pass and Yukon ex ists. From the White Pass is unknown. A number of these units never operated as such on the White Pass. Like Skagway River bridge at milepost five, to the are showing their age and it is believed that all other WP& Y units, the 81 has a C-C wheel bridge and tunnel at Dead Horse Guleh, management is looking for replacement motive arrangement, but it is unique among White Pass milepost nineteen, the railroad climbs three and power for the railroad. motive power in that it is the only locomotive four per cent grades hugging the sheer wall of When the White Pass went looking for new not equipped with dynamic brakes. Upon her Skagway River Canyon, sometimes seven units in 1968, they selected a twelve-hundred­ hundred feet above the river. The climbing track horsepower hood unit. Ordered from Aleo, crosses four major bridges and passes through seven of these, numbers 101 through the 107, the railroad's only two tunnels. At milepost arrived on the railroad in early 1969. A few The only on the White Pass and nineteen, just before entering the second tunnel, months later two, the 102 and 105, were caught Yukon roster is convertible-gauge number 81, the railroad crosses Dead Horse Guleh and the in a disastrous roundhouse fire in Skagway and an 800-horsepower General Electric locomotive "trail of 98." It was here that some 3500 pack were completely destroyed. The two burned-out built in 1957 for the U. S. Army and here seen animals lost their lives while attempting to move diesels, along with 2-8-2 72 which was caught in switching on the docks at Skagway. supplies for gold seekers during the rush of 1898.

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B MARCH,1977 Both: David E. Surla

Built in 1972 by the Montreal Locomotive Works, above, White Pass number 110 leads a northbound train past a new track relocation project at milepost eight designed to aid in a fight against winter ice. The center of the railroad's ore-hauling operations is a few miles south of Whitehorse at MacRae, right, once the location of the only branch on the White Pass which ran some ten miles to mining activity at Pueblo. Today, more than sixty containersof ore are transferred from trucks to narrow-gauge flat cars each day at this yard which boasts some excellent track.

At one time the railroad crossed Dead Horse Gulch on a very high spectacular bridge. However, the capacity of that bridge was limited and in 1969 it was replaced with a new bridge , located a thousand feet north of the old span. The second tunnel was built at the time of this freights operate over the railroad during the late The rolling stock on the White Pass and relocation. There is little market for scrap in the evening and nighttime hours. It should also be Yukon is a blend of the old and the new, with the Skagway area, and the old bridge still stands. It noted, however, that during July sunset is not bulk of the freight equipment consisting of flat is this same lack of a scrap market that accounts until after 11:00 PM, and that sunrise is around cars designed to cary containers. Older cars for the retired and damaged locomotive 3:30 AM! At Bennett, the two freights are equipped with arch-bar trucks and UK" type air equipment still in Skagway. combined into one train behind a pair of hood systems, and newer cars equipped with rolJer­ It is the severe grade between Skagway and units for the remainder of the run to Whitehorse. bearing trucks and the latest in air brake White Pass which creates the most severe For the reverse, the freight that had operated equipment, can be found in the same train. The operating problems for the White Pass and between Whitehorse and Bennett is broken into passenger equipment on the railroad is also Yukon. Most trains on the grade are limited to two trains for its trip south to Skagway. a blend of old and new. During the recent about thirty-five cars. During the summer Train movements over the White Pass and summers an increasing number of cruise ships, months there are usually eight train movements Yukon are greatly reduced during the winter as well as increased tourist traffic on the Alaska a day up and down the grade. These include two months. There are no passenger operations in Marine Highway ships which call at Skagway, passenger, two mixed and four freight trains connection with cruise ships duririg this time, have taxed the passenger equipment to the limit, each day. The passenger trains are operated in and the mixed train does not operate on and every item of passenger rolling stock has connection with the various cruise ships that call weekends. Snow is a problem on the railroad been pressed into service. Included in that roster on Skagway during the summer months. and at one time two steam rotary plows were of more than thirty cars are a number of former Powered usually by boxcab units, the passenger maintained to keep the line open. In recent years narrow-ga uge cars that once rode the rails of train makes a roundtrip between.Skagway and both rotary plows have been retired and the task long-gone railroads in California and Oregon. Bennett. The mixed trains, also powered by of snow removal has been turned over to a group Equipment from the South Pacific Coast; North boxcab units, operate between Skagway and of bulldozers. One of the rotary plows is in the Pacific Coast, later the Northwestern Pacific's Whitehorse. One of the freights is handled by the deadline on the Skagway waterfront, while the narrow-gauge; the Pacific Coast Railway which newer hood units, while the second freight is other is now on display along with 2-8-2 number operated out of San Luis Obispo; and the again powered by boxcab locomotives, and both 73 at Lake Bennett. Sumpter ValJey Railroad, which ran out of

PACIFIC NEWS 9 EQUIPMENT ROSTER OF THE WHITE PASS AND YUKON COMPILED BY C. G. HEIMER DINGER, JR. LOCOMOTIVES NUMBER HORSEPOWER WHLS. WEIGHT CO NT. T.E. STARTING T.E. BUILD. YEAR SERIAL NO. 81* 800 HP 40" 152,000 22,000 45,600 GE 1957 32933 90 800 HP 34" 167,000 24,000 50,000 GE 1954 32060 91 890 HP 34" 167,000 24,000 51,000 GE 1954 32061 92 890 HP 34" 172,000 24,000 51,000 GE 1954 32709 93 890 HP 34" 172,000 24,000 51,000 GE 1956 32710 94 890 HP 34" 172,000 24,000 51,000 GE 1956 32711 95 890 HP 34" 167,000 24,000 51,000 GE 1963 34592 96 890 HP 34" 167,000 24,000 51,000 GE 1963 34593 97 890 HP 34" 167,000 24,000 51,000 GE 1963 34594 98 990 HP 34" 170,000 24,000 51,240 GE 1966 35790 99 990 HP 34" 170,000 24,000 51,240 GE 1966 35791 100 990 HP 34" 170,000 24,000 51,240 GE 1966 35792 101 1200 HP 36" 210,000 35,000 53,590 Alco' 1969 602301 102** 1200 HP 36" 210,000 35,000 53,590 Alco' 1969 602302 103 1200 HP 36" 210,000 35,000 53,590 Alco' 1969 602303 104 1200 HP 36" 210,000 35,000 53,590 Alco' 1969 602304 105** 1200 HP 36" 210,000 35,000 53,590 Alco' 1969 602305 106 1200 HP 36" 210,000 35,000 53,590 Alco' 1969 602306 107 1200 HP 36" 210,000 35,000 53,590 Alco' 1969 602307 108 1200 HP 36" 210,000 35,000 53,590 MLW 1972 605401 109 1200 HP 36" 210,000 35,000 53,590 MLW 1972 605402 110 1200 HP 36" 210,00G 35,000 53,590 MLW 1972 605403

* Ex-United States Army convertible-gauge locomotive; all other WP& Y diesel locomotives were acquired new from their builder. ** Destroyed in roundhouse fire at Skagway; remains still on hand in 1977. Note ': Ordered from Alco, built by Montreal Locomotive Works; units carry Alco builder's plates with Montreal serial numbers.

PASSENGER CARS 4 Combination Cars: Two of these are former Sumpter Valley Railway (Oregon). 30 Parlor Cars: Including former Sumpter Valley, North Pacific Coast, South Pacific Coast, Pacific Coast & Northwestern Pacific.

FREIGHT CARS 3 Cabooses. 8 Boxcars: Including two in baggage service and one in maintenance-of-way; ali are ex-Colorado and Southern. 5 Side-dump Cars. 14 Hopper Cars: All are ex-East Broad Top. 36 Tank Cars: Including ex-Denver and Rio Grande Western. 4 Depressed Center Flats. 351 Flatcars: Including former Colorado and Southern cars.

David E. Burla

10 MARCH, 1977 p � Whitel'ass & Yukon Route

/ Both: David E. Burla Resting between runs over the mountains, I Sitting along the Yukon River in Whitehorse, above, General Electric-built 93 sits in Skagway. locomotive llO awaits another run south to Five GE boxcabs, left, lead a mixed train I Skagway. Built by the Montreal Locomotive downgrade through milepost six as it nears the Works in 1972 with serial number 605403, the town of Skagway. I 110 develops 1200 horsepower.

III R WHITEHORSE K C OWL 110.7 5.2

105 25 ------UTAH .------105.5 1.5 104 43 MACRAE 104.0 8.9 1 MILE 95 26 COWLEY o 95.1 6.2

'89 ---.------______ROBINSON ------88.9 9.5

79' 24 ------LORNE ------79.4 4.5

75 ------. ---- LANSDOWNE .... 74.9 7.4 Sdg. 25 67 .------____C C Y 67.5 Yard CARCROSS 8.1

59 48 ______WATSON 59.4 7.8

52 22 ---- PENNINGTON ---- o 51.6 5.2

46 18 ______PAVEY ------46.4 5.8 SDG 57 OWYL 40.6 41 Yard ______BENNETT .------7.9

33 43 ------LOG CABIN ------32.7 5.0

28 ------_. ------FRASER ------OW 27.7 2.4

25 ------_ . ------MEADOWS ------25.3 4.9

20 21 ------WHITE PASS -----. OW 20.4 6.3 14 39 GLACIER OW 14.1 5.6 8 25 CLIFTON 8.5 6.6

2 Yard ------SHOPS ------WTLO 1.9 1.9 0 ------R._ SKAGWAY __ DI c 0.0

PACIFIC NEWS 11 - :. .

Both: David E. Burla

Still sitting in 1976 at the location of the railroad's Skagway roundhouse which was totally destroyed by fire on the evening of October IS, 1969, above, White Pass and Yukon Route Saldwin 2-8-2 number 72 plainly shows the effects of that tragic night. Until the fire, which claimed two new diesels as well, the steamer had been used when needed as a stationary boiler to meet occasional roundhouse steam needs. Mikado 72's three sisters also remain in existence: numbers 70 and 71 are both in the Skagway deadline, while the 73 is on display at Lake Bennett with one of the steam-powered rotary snowplows. Awaiting their departure time at Whitehorse for the return run to Skagway, White Pass 106 and 107, below, bask in the sunshine. Built in 1969, the two units were part of the railroad's original hood-unit order for seven locomotives from Alco, two of which, numbers 102 and IDS, were destroyed in the Skagway roundhouse fire soon after arrival. As with 2-8-2 72, the remains of the two hood units are still on hand. Weighing 210,000 pounds, these locomotives develop a total of 1200 horsepower and ride on thirty-six-inch wheels.

12 MARCH. 1977 Gliding downgrade in the rugged Skagway River Canyon, above, four General Electric boxcab units lead a train toward Skagway. With unit 98 in the lead, a southbound train rolls along Fraser Lake, left, in scenic British Columbia.

unknown, but always possible. The primary freight traffic on the White Pass and Yukon Route at the present tirtte is concentrated lead-zinc ore originating some three hundred miles north of Whitehorse and destined mainly for Japan. This traffic, of course, would not be affected by a British Columbia Ra ilway line into the Whitehorse area; however , the container traffic originating or terminating in Va ncouver would be anothu story. Only time will provide Baker, Oregon. The two former South Pacific Yukon must face. Older equipment, stub the answers to these ques tions. There is also the Coast cars were origi,pally built by Carter switches, and other operating characteristics possibility that the White Pass and Yukon Brothers in Newark, Califo rnia and may well be add to the nostalgia of this narrow-gauge Route will become standard gauge and there the only two Carter-built cars still in regular railroader. have been studies towards that end. At the passenger service anywhere. A number of the The long term future of the railroad avoids present time the ra ilroad's management is not original passenger cars built for the White Pass contemplation at the' present time. Scheduled seriously considering such a move, nor are they :lnd Y'lkon reo'ain in service as well. I n recent for completion next year is a road connecting now contemplating the extens io n of the railroad years, the railroad has ha d to purchase new Skagwa y with Whitehorse. At the present time north of Whitehorse, although studies have been passenger equipment to handle the increasing vehicles use the WP& Y as a connection between made concerning both ideas. For the present, it busi ness, the latest of which arrived on the the Alaska Marine Highwa y boats at Skagwa y appears tha t the White Pass and Yukon will railroad in 1976 and were immedia tely pressed and the Alcan Highway at Whitehorse and it is continue to handle passengers and freight on into service. Almost all are used as parlor cars, expected that this traffic will be lost to the new their three-foot-gauge rails. The present fare of and most of the older ro lling stock has been road. The grades on the new highwa y, however, $29.00 for a ride on the White Pass is high, but it rebuilt as such. Only a few of the coaches remain will not permit truck traffic, nor will the road be is worth the cost. The long-term future of the railroad avoids kept open during the long winters, so it is If you are interes ted in riding the White Pass contemplation at the present time. Scheduled do ubtful that freight traffic on the railroad will there are many ways one ca n reach the railroad. for completion next year is a road connecting be affected. The new road is expected to have A number of cruis e ships call on Skagway To day, the White Pass and Yukon Route little effect on the passenger traffic. The during the summer, and all schedule their time in narro w gauge is a prosperous railroad hauling approaching British Columbia Railway is port so that one can ride the ra ilroad. Also, the large numbers of passengers and a considerable another concern for management of the White Alas ka Marine Highway boats call on Skagway amount of freight traffic. Moreover, while Pass and Yukon Route. When the British daily, and the fa re is considerably less tha n tha t ha ving ins talled a number of modern devi ces, Columbia Ra ilway completes their branch into of a cruise ship. Once a week one of their ships the ra ilroad reta ins all the atmosphere created Dease Lake in the late 1970's, they will have a lea ves Seattle, while the rest of the ships sail by narrow-gauge railroading. The new railhead only two hundred fifty miles from from Prince Rupert, British Columbia. Air locomotives and cars can not change the heavy Whitehorse. Whether or not additional service is available to Skagway, and C PAir grades and sharp curves that the White Pass and construction is Projected towards Whitehorse is serves Whitehorse. _

PACIFIC NEWS 13 Pennsylvania red with Keystone emblem, await evening co�muters to Baltimore. On an adjacent track are [S---HA-R��-!.D-E�-R !---....J Umted States Department of Transportation/ Federal Railroad Administration cars T-I and T-3 . When last seen in Oakland on the Southern Pacific, and at the Wilmi�gton, Delaware is 108 miles from Washington, DC, and IS the only Amtrak stop in the state. For a brief Pueblo, Colorado test track, the Silverliners had moment, the three tracks on an embankment next to the pantographs. Now that they are under home catenary, red brick station and clock tower could have been the the 1966 Budd-built multiple-unit electrics, which are Wyoming cow town of Laramie on the Union Pacific ' used to check track, are without pantographs! rather than the joint Conrail/ Amtrak main line. On this day, the Silver Star also was western, though T�is is not western-style railroading. Catenary names can be confusing. For example, Amtrak 28 12, the provIdes 1 1,000 volts AC, single phase, which is collected Green River, has the ring of Union Pacific, but the 1949 by the pantographs of passing trains. Metroliners load Pullman-Standard car is ex-Louisville and Nashville. from the elevated platforms between two of the three The 4440 is in the consist, and it is formerly Union Pacific tracks and this is the end of the line for the Silverliner 5508 and was built by Budd in 1961. It is coupled to 4580, electric trains from Philadelphia, twenty-six miles to the ex-UP 5540, and built in 1964-65 by St. Louis Car north, which are operated by Conrail for the Com�any. And coupled to it is the 4594, built in 1954 by Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, Amencan Car and Foundry as Union Pacific 5554, the known as SEPT A. Alpine Scene. Next to this is Amtrak 4435, former Paired GG-I locomotives hustle symbol freights on the Southern Pacific 2371, and built by Budd in 1954 for the corridor in the company of newer E33 and E44 motors. Sunset Limited. The fans on the massive E44 electric are so loud that they �he Jam�s Wh itcomb Riley, a Washington-Chicago can often be heard a half-mile away. Flat-nosed Amtrak tram, contams mostly east-of-the-Mississippi equipment. E60CP electrics wheel the Minuteman, Patroit, and the There is, however, Amtrak 2559, the Windy City, in other Amfleet-equipped corridor trains between the the train. It is formerly Rock Island sleeper Golden capital city and New York. And there are still a fe w of the Meadow, built in 1954 by Pullman-Standard for the elegant GG-I's in passenger service on the corridor. Golden State joint service with the Southern Pacific. The But all of that changed for a moment on a chilly March bar-lounge is interesting. It is the 330 I and was built by afternoon as the stationmaster announced the arrival of Budd in 1948 for the Chessie, but spent most of its career the southbound Silver Star, one of the few trains under on the Atlantic Coast Line and Seaboard Coast Line. this section of catenary with conventional passenger cars. Other western cars in Union Station included: 44 15, a Pulled by an E60CP, the train screeched to a halt on the Sunset Limited car built by Budd in 1950, that formerly long curve leading from the north. And then it was carried numbers 2278, Texas and New Orleans 440 and Wyoming. The train contained mostly eastern coaches, Southern Pacific 2367; Pacific View, ex-Union Pacific but the diner-lounge, Amtrak 8340, had a fa miliar look. 5008, and built in 1950 by Budd; and baggage car 1000, It was former Union Pacific 5008, built in 1949 by St. restricted to Florida service, and fo rmerly Burlington Louis Car Company. Now it was in electrified territory, Northern and Chicago Burlington and Quincy Silver bound fo r Florida. There was that aroma from the diner. Chest. It was built in 1940 by Budd. One of Amtrak's Locomotive 955 whistled off and it was the East again oldest main line cars can be seen in the area, too. It is the along the Northeast Corridor. 8007, built by Budd in 1939 for the Atlantic Coast Line's Washington Union Station is also very East, or South Champion and once named Boston. if you prefer. There are Budd RDC's idling as they wait to Union Station is Aleo switcher country. There are run Potomac Valley service, to Martinsburg and Harpers seven RSI types in the blue paint of Washington Ferry. Creaky MP54E multiple-unit cars, one still in Terminal and one switcher, the 71 11, bought from the Army and now in Amtrak silver and red. RANDOM NOTES: Considerable track work is evident along the corridor and Amfleet cars especially benefit from the upgrading. Metroliners still suffer from suspension problems and are especially rough through �M� ��OW T!ml!D the crossovers. Stations are being cleaned up. A massive project is AM!) !��� J!Q�� under way in the old Pennsylvania station in Baltimore. The story of the Stockton Terminal & Eastern Tracks are depressed through the area and there is a landmark-type building at street level with three Railroad and its rough roadbed to success. magnificent stained glass domes, now restored. by Olive Davis The ticket-selling and waiting rooms of Washington Union Station with their soaring arched ceilings have A short line that grew despite adversity (an under­ been converted to the National Visitors Center. A statement) . First case of the California Blue Sky Greyhound bus-style waiting room has been built behind Commission. Its story tel ls what a small railroad the former passenger area and it is overshadowed by an and a busy community (Stockton. California) can incomplete parking garage. Work has stopped on the mean to each other. Details of rolling stock. Over garage because of a lack of funds. Tracks are being shifted and new platforms constructed. 100 pictures. 8V2 x 11 size. $12.00. (Residents of RAPID TRANSIT: The Metro in Washington, DC, California add 72¢ sales tax.) (PA CIFIC NEWS, January, 1977) now has about five miles running, between Dupont Circle and Rhode Island Through bookstores or from Avenue, but there is considerable discussion about not Valley Publishers, 8 E. Olive, Fresno, CA 93728 completing the planned 100 miles. It is generally believed around sixty-five miles will certainly be completed but

14 MARCH, 1977 buses may be used instead on outer ends. There also is in June. However, Amtrak does not expect to equip its interest in building some of Metro as light rail. first train, the Chicago-to-Seattle Empire Builder, until Meanwhile, forty-five miles to the north in Baltimore, September. The reequipping of Amtrak's western long­ work has started on about ten miles of heavy rail haul streamliners will be in this order: the Emp ire rapid transit. 0 Builder, the Chicago-to-Seattle North Coast Hiawatha, the Seattle-to-Los Angeles , the Chicago-to-San Francisco San Francisco Zephyr, the New Orleans-to-Los Angeles Sunset Limited and the Chicago-to-Los Angeles Southwest Limited. Amtrak is [.WE STERN LOCOMOTIVE NEWS I giving priority to the reequipping of the streamliners serving Seattle as they hope to make the Seattle coach

KENNETH M. ARDINGER yard the first all-electric-equipment yard on the entire Amtrak system. Butte Anaconda and Pacific has sold their two General Speaking of Seattle, ridership continues to rise on the Electric 125-ton electric locomotives to the Canadian Amfleet-equipped Puget Sound and Mt. Rainier which National Railway which will use them as a source of parts serve the Northwest Corridor between Seattle and to keep their own electric locomotives running. Built in Portland. These two trains carried a total of 10,483 July of 1957, the two units are numbered 20 1 and 202 and passengers in January versus only 7856 passengers have builder's numbers 32882 and 32883. Both were carried a year ago in January of 1976, an increase of shipped from Anaconda, Montana in late January and thirty-eight per cent. This total does not include the had arrived in Montreal by mid-March still wearing their ridership of the Coast Starlight which also serves this Butte Anaconda and Pacific paint. line. The Starlight showed an increase of eighteen per Cedar Rapids and Iowa City number 94, a General cent over its entire Los Angeles-to-Seattle run. Motors SW900 which was constructed in August of 1959 Further south, the Oakland-to-Bakersfield San with builder's number 25443, was rebuilt by the Illinois Joaquin carried 6556 riders in January compared to only Central Gulf at Paducah, Kentucky in July of 1976. 44 16 during that month last year, an impressive gain Rock Island slug number 284, formerly General of forty-eight per cent. The on-time performance of these Electric U25B number 222 which was built in June of short-haul trains has improved with the Northwest 1964 with builder's number 35 121, has recently made an Corridor streamliners running 93.7 per cent on the appearence on the Rock Island lines in Texas. schedule and the San Joaquin running 100 per cent Kaiser Steel operates the only Alco T -6 in on-time, the best in the nation. California and both units are currently stored in poor In recent months, Amtrak has suffered a number of condition in the scrapping area at Kaiser's Fontana mill. derailments across the country which, combined with the Numbered 1022 and 1023 with builder's numbers 83392 recent foul weather both the midwest and east, have and 83393, the 1022 was built in October of 1959 while the greatly reduced the number of available passenger cars 1023 was constructed in March of 1960. on the system. For example, one recent derailment Colorado and Southern/Santa Fe jointly operated involved the Seattle-bound Coast Starlight near switchers in Denver, Colorado are being repainted Corning, California on the tracks of the Southern without any Santa Fe markings. The ten units involved Pacific, and damaged both locomotives and nine of the are Colorado and Southern numbers 150-154 and 156- eleven cars on the train. In this derailment, which 160, all of which are Electro-Motive products. Numbers occurred shortly after midnight on March 9, there was 150 through 153 are NW2's with builder's numbers 4945, over $395,000 in damage to the equipment alone. Two 4946, 4947 and 7740 as 150-152 were built in September Electro-Motive SDP40F's, a deadheading sleeper, a of 1947, while the 153 was built in December, 1948. baggage car, a dormitory car, four coaches, a Engine 154 is an SW7 built in August of 1950 with builder's number 11475. Locomotives 156 through 160 are SW1200's built in February of 1959 with builder's numbers 25006 through 250 I O. a book service for Utah Power and Light at Castle Gate, Utah has leased

Denver and Rio Grande Western GP9 number 5923 to rail- oriented people • • • replace the company's General Electric 65-ton switcher which is out of service with an engine fa ilure (PA CIFIC NEWS, January, 1976). Built by Electro-Motive in June We handle the full rail lines of most leading publishers, as well as books and publishers that are not as generally of 1955, the 5923 is serial number 20525. 0 well known. Orders are usually shipped by UPS for fast, damage-free delivery, with no extra charge for shipping and handling on orders of over $5.00. We are continu­ ally adding to our catalog offering. Please give us a try -we think you'll be completely satisfied. We are rail­ AMTRAK NEWS fa ns ourselves and are interested in service.

DANIEL B. KUHN MOST CURRENT RAIL BOOK RELEASES IN STOCK The start-up date for Amtrak's new Seattle, Washington-to-Salt Lake City, Utah passenger service PLEASE WRITE FOR FREE CURRENT CATALOG has been moved back from May I to June 7, 1977. This new train will be powered by Electro-Motive F40PH BOX 339 JOHN H. WESTON WILMETTE locomotives and will consist of Amfleet equipment. Also ILLINOIS delayed is the roll-out of the first of the new bi-Ievel cars Bookseller 60091 being built by Pullman-Standard. Originally planned for April, the first of these long-distance cars will be unveiled

PACIFIC NEWS 15 dome-lounge car and a diner derailed in this mishap. 150B EMD GP9B serial number 19226 02/ 1 954 Both locomotives suffered $70,000 in damage while the 175B EMD GP9B serial number 19251 03/ 1954 passenger cars sustained damage ranging from $8000 to 191B EMD GP9B serial number 19267 04/ 1954 $50,000. The dome-lounge car on the train was Amtrak 193B EMD GP9B serial number 19269 04/ 1954 9370, formerly Southern Pacific 360 I, and it received 207 EMD GP9 serial number 19093 01/ 1954 $22,000 worth of damage. The cause of this derailment 242 EMD GP9 serial number 19128 01/ 1954 was a drunken driver who had driven his automobile 308B EMD GP9B serial number 237 14 09/ 1957 onto the tracks earlier in the evening, knocking them out 315B EMD GP9B serial number 2372 1 09/ 1957 of alignment. These recent derailments have gotten 333B EMD GP9B serial number 23739 09/ 1957 Amtrak quite a bit of bad press coverage, even though 344B EMD GP9B serial number 23749 10/ 1957 many of the derailments, such as this one, were not the Union Pacific 308B was turbocharged to 2000 corporation's fault. horsepower by UP in 1963, while 333B and 344B were Amtrak's headquarters in Washington, DC, will be turbocharged to 2000 horsepower by EMD in 1963. moving from its present location at 955 L' Enfa nt Plaza Omaha Shops are modifying DDA40X 6908 and 69 11 to a new location .across the Mall from the Washington along with SD40-2M 8060 in conjunction with Union Station at 400 North Capitol Street. The move will Department of Transportation engineering staffe rs be conducted in stages and should be completed by which will enable the engineer to shut-down unneeded August of 1978 when the lease expires in the present units in power consists as a cost/ fuel savings device. The building. The new location will give Amtrak more room control arrangement will reduce excitation so as to for future expansion of their headquaters. 0 unload the unit and then reduce the unit's control to idle. Omaha Shops also removed the prime mover from GP20 479, which has been stored unserviceable for some time, and installed the engine in GP9 344. It is noted that THE_U_NIO_N _PA_CIF_IC _RA_ILR_OA-----JD one-fourth of the G P20 fleet has been stored [II unserviceable for lengthy period of time. _ GEORGE R. COCKLE, EDITOR GOOD NEWS! Union Pacific 4-8-4 number 8444 has CAR AND LOCOMOTIVE CYCLOPEDIA passed the Federal and railroad requirements and will be The 1977 motive power acquisition program began operating over Sherman Hill again this summer and fa ll. right on schedule with ten Electro-Motive SD40-2 units Scheduled trips are being planned now and should be delivered in late February and twenty-five more arriving released shortly. The popular AIco locomotive is by mid-March. These are the extended low-nose versions currently housed at the Cheyenne roundhouse. and were delivered with decals and equipped with the The Kansas City Van - KCV - was established on 62: 15 gearing. The units came on system at Kansas City February 28 to operate from Kansas City to North Platte and were immediately placed into service as B-units. As handling piggyback traffic and automobiles. Operating units work into Omaha-Council Bluffs , they will be Monday through Friday, the train connects with many set up at the Omaha Shops with radios, rotating lights of the railroad's fa st freights to the west coast. and other equipment. On the property at this time are Special movements scheduled for this spring include locomotives 3335 through 3344, which were built in the Presidential Inspection Special, which will tour the February with serial numbers 766056-1 through system starting April I, with E9's 954 and 960 tentatively 766056-10. Also on the property are the 3345 through scheduled to provide the power; the Old Timers Special, 3369, serial numbers 766056-1 1 to 766056-35, which were departing Portland on April 3 for Los Vegas and built in March. The 3335, 3336, 3344, 3345 and 3359 were returning April 7; the Junior Old Timers Special leaving set up as of March 21, with the 3339 and 3364 following Council Bluffs on April 16 for Las Vegas, with the return on March 23. scheduled for April 20 . Another Junior Old Timers Special is tentatively supposed to leave Council Bluffs The twenty GP9's leased to Conrail (PA CIFIC on June 6 for Portland for their annual meeting, and NEWS, February, 1977) are being returned. The first another Old Timers Special will run from Council Bluffs units arrived on property March 19, and all should be to Denver in September for another annual meeting. back by the end of the month. The G P9 leased to Becker 0 Industries (PA CIFIC NEWS, February, 1977) was returned to the Union Pacific on March 13. The fo ur E-units leased to Amtrak when troubles developed with the SDP40F's (PA CIFIC NEWS, l. :I THE BURLINGTON NORTHERN I January, 1977) were returned to the UP on March I. The HOl WAGNER, JR., EDITOR Department of Transportation at Pueblo, Colorado F. BURLINGTON NORTHERN ANNUAL leased four GP35's, the 743 , 747, 750 and 760, on February 26. In what has become a common event in the past couple Leased to the Camas Prairie Railroad are G P9's of years, Burlington Northern has changed its mind on 245-249 and 293, the 249 having been the 204 prior to the numbering of new locomotives now on order and renumbering ill August of 1955. scheduled for delivery in May. The units, all SD40-2's, As of mid-March, Union Pacific has a total of were all to be in the 6700 and 8000 series, with a number thrity-nine units leased including twenty GP's leased to of them leased to subsidiaries Colorado and Southern Conrail and eight GP30's working for Kennecott Copper and the Fort Worth and Denver Railway. Now, however, in Utah. the plan has been changed and the locomotives will be The master sale of ninety GP9's to Precision National delivered as follows: EMD order number 766024 will Corporation has been completed with the last units include units 6773-6783 and 930-93 1; EMD order selected and shipped in early March. In a reversal of an number 766025 will include units 8000-8009 and earlier decision to sell PN C only G P9 B's, the Union 932-936. Obviously, the 900's will be C&S/ FW&D units, Pacific released GP9 cabs 207 and 242 for sale. The last but Electro-Motive has not been instructed to subletter group shipped consisted of the following units: them, and they will be owned by Burlington Northern

16 MARCH, 1977 and leased to the C&S. Later in the year, Colorado and heavyweight combines still being used as cabooses have Southern 937-949 and 960-96 1 will be delivered. These been assigned the numbers 11477-1 1478. 11477 is twenty-two 900-series units, all geared for coal assigned to Dilworth, Minnesota and has been retired service - as are all units BN is buying this year - are without actually being renumbered, but 11478 at being numbered around the existing 950-959 series Glasgow, Montana actually carries its new caboose coal-geared SD40-2's rather than being numbered above number in service. them, which would have necessitated renumbering the Burlington Northern has become a haven for F-unit two Colorado and Southern Locotrol units, SD40-2's fans in the past couple of years, what with its program to 980 and 996, which never received Locotrol equipment. completely rebuild aging F's to give them another five Burlington Northern itself will take delivery of additional years of life. This overhauling is continuing, and now 8000-series and 8500-series SD40-2's later this year, but comes word that the shop crews at Parkwater and at the moment all bets on actual numbers are off. Hillyard , in Spokane, have combined forces to Five of the SD40-2 order scheduled for April-May cosmetically overhaul the BN F-unit fleet in the West. delivery will actually come as SD40X's, incorporating the Many of the F's assigned to the western end of the system same improvements planned for the four GP40X's Espee were painted five or six years ago, especially the will be recieving this year. Burlington Northern, 800-series F9's, and today their appearence is pretty sad. however, will consider them as straight SD40-2's, and The Spokane shops are replacing damaged side panels, consequently they will be numbered in with the standard often eliminating portholes, stripping the units to bare SD40-2's. Which specific units will be the "X" models is metal and then completely repainting them. This not known at this time. program is being undertaken now that there aTe virtually On February I, the Burlington Northern and the St. no locomotives in service on the western half of the Louis-San Francisco Railway, also known as the Frisco, system that are still in old colors. The only units out west announced the beginning of a joint study into the that are still in old paint are a number of stored Ako fe asibility of unification. Frisco, based in St. Louis, RS3's - which may or may not run again - EMD's operates a 474 1 -mile rail system serving nine central, NW2 474 in Seattle and SWI 83, which is up for sale. southeastern and southwestern states. The company also Systemwide, the last GP7 in old colors, the 1543, arrived owns fifty per cent of the stock of the New Mexico and in Livingston, Montana for repainting in mid-April. The Land Company. For 1976, Frisco reported last SD in old paint, SD7 60 13, was repainted in March at revenues of $32 1.5 million and earnings of $12.0 million, West Burlington, Iowa. There are a few GP9m's in or $4.61 per share. One of the most attractive features of a Minnesota, a few switchers at Grand Forks and a few at combined BN-Frisco would be the ability to ship coal Minot still in old paint; but that's all, folks! over one line from Wyoming and Montana coal fields The last four unrebuilt E-units, E8's 9967, 9972, 9973 direct to the southeast, and especially to the and 9976, long stored at West Burlington awaiting a steel-producing city of Birmingham. decision on rebuilding, were finally turned over to the Having mentioned Frisco's 1976 earnings, it might be Union Pacific on April 7 for movement to Boise, Idaho well to now detail Burlington Northern's performance and rebuilding by Morrison-Knudsen. They will last year. Consolidated revenues for the transportation probably become 9905-9908. division and the natural resources division reached $1.9 Business is so brisk that currently there are only RS3's billion, up nineteen per cent from 1975's $1.6 billion. Net and switchers in storage. Of the six RS3's which had been income increased to $73 million, or $5.69 per share, up leased to Conrail, two were worked back west to from $52.9 million, or $4. 12 per share, the year before. Vancouver, Washington in January and stored, while the The increases were due chiefly to an estimated other four remained stored at Clyde Yard in Cicero, twenty-eight per cent increase in coal revenues, a Illinois. In early April two of these were sent west, and the somewhat higher volume of rail traffic generally over the last two will probably fo llow shortly. NW2 468, one of recessionary level of 1975, and $88 million derived from seven leased to Conrail, was returned, bad ordered, on freight rate increases granted in the second half of 1975 February 10; it is now stored at Clyde. and in April and October, 1976. The transportation In order to have all mainline freight power assigned to division itself had full-year 1976 revenues of$l.74 billion, two major locations, the U33C's previously assigned to up eighteen per cent from $1.47 billion in 1975, and Northtown near Minneapolis, and the SD40's and contributed $77.7 million - or fifty-three per cent of SD45's previously assigned to Interbay, Clyde and Burlington Northern's consolidated total - to net Lincoln have all been reassigned to Havre and operating income. Livingston. These two small Montana towns are now Burlington Northern's transportation division recently home to virtually all of Burlington Northern's U33C's, got a new president. He's Thomas J. Lamphier, 52, and SD45's, F45's and non-coal SD40's. he succeeds Norman M. Lorentzsen, who was elected Amtrak currently has six FPTs assigned to Interbay in president of Burlington Northern, Incorporated, a Seattle for service on the Portland-Seattle portion of the position which had been vacant. Lamphier, a Coast Starlight: former Southern Pacific unit 376, and railroad enthusiast of sorts, had previously been the leased Southern FPTs 6135, 6143 and 6146-6148. Kind of railroad's executive vice president, a position which has makes you wonder about Southern's old motto, now been abolished. An MIT graduate, he joined the "Southern serves the South." 0 Great Northern in 1949 as chairman of the engineering ************************** department. A couple of months ago we mentioned that Burlington Northern had acquired three bay window cabooses and � SUPPORT ADVERTISERS � numbered them ,11997-1 1999 when they more WHO SUPPORT appropriately would have been 11477-1 1479, just above � � the road's other two bay window cabooses for unit � PA CIFI C NE WS � taconite train service. Well, the reason for the unlikely * THAT WAY EVERYBODY BENEFITS * numbers is that the last two former Great Northern **************************

PACIFIC NEWS 17 BRITISH COLUMBIA'S ROYAL HUDSON VISITS THE WESTERN UNITED STATES

DATA/KENNETH G. JOHNSEN, DANIEL B. KUHN, DAVE WILKIE

A t (The) Request of Her Majesty The Queen: So read the opening words of the Burlington Northern teleprinter message on Saturday, March 19, 1977 which was to start the wheels rolling on a 3000-mile promotional tour of British Columbia's Royal Hudson Jubilee Display Train through Washington, Oregon and California to Los Angeles and return on three railroads: Burlington Northern, Southern Pacific and Santa Fe. Powered by the former Canadian Pacific Royal Hudson 4-6-4 number 2860, the train spent its first night in Seattle's King Street Station, r;ght, after having previously steamed proudly down the Seattle waterfront, below, fr om Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Both: Kenneth G. Johnsen

18 MARCH. 1977 Kenneth G. Johnsen Earlier that day, Royal Hudson 2860, with its auxiliary tender carrying an additional 14,400 gallons of water and 4000 gallons of PS-300 heavy fuel oil for added range, had presented the local citizens along its international route with a glimpse of the past as she sped southward across the flat farmlands near Mt. Vernon, Washington, as seen at the top of the opposite page, a view which also clearly shows the connection between the oil bunkers of the two tenders behind the locomotive. On Sunday, March 20, the locomotive and its eight-car display train roared down the fast double-tracked main line of the Burlington Northern between Seattle and Portland, stopping at Centralia, Washington for water. The train was kept at the Portland Union Station until Tuesday, March 22, when it departed early in the morning for San Francisco via Southern Pacific. For the run south on the Shasta Route, Espee added Cotton Belt BiCentennial SD45T-2 9389 behind the 4-6-4, and bay window caboose 4065 to the rear of the train. With the 3600 horsepower of EMD 9389 providing most of the power for the train, the 2860 was able to roll along without using much

Both: Dave Wilkie fuel or water. It was mid-morning by the time the Royal Hudson began the long climb to the summit of the Cascades south of Eugene. A water stop was scheduled at Wicopce, an isolated tank high in the Cascades above Oakridge where, shortly before stopping to quench her thirst, the 2860 glided across the Salt Creek Trestle at milepost 563.2, left, with a supply of photographers on hand to record the event. With the Cascades conquered, Extra BC 2860 West continued southward with a clear stack along the shores of Klamath Lake, bottom left, prior to making a stop at Klamath Falls, Oregon for both fuel and water. The journey beyond Klamath Falls was made mostly in darkness, much to the chagrin of those who had hoped to see the elegant 4-6-4 and its maroon-painted train steaming along beneath Mt. Shasta and the other locations for which the California portion of the Shasta Route is fa mous. Water stops were made during the night at Dunsmuir and Willows, California and, by the time the- special Canadian display train arrived at Oakland's 16th Street Station on the morning of the 23rd, Mother Nature was providing more water - in the form of a drenching - with a badly-needed rainstorm that was the hea viest in drought-stricken California in many long, dry

PACIFIC NEWS 19 Tom Gray

months. The sun, however, was again quickly British Columbia Display Train which followed remaining distance to the water's edge where she shining by the time the 4-6-4 completed the last commuter train 141 north from Redwood City went on display in the same location used by the leg of the trip to the train's initial open-house through Southern Pacific suburban territory American Freedom Train's ex-Southern Pacific stop in San Francisco. just before noon. Daylight 4-8-4 during that train's visit some The Royal Hudson was watered again in The skies had cleared by the time the fifteen months earlier (PA CIFIC NEWS, Oakland for the trip around the bay to San Canadian train rolled into the Mission Bay February, 1976) in December, 1975. Francisco; however, its departure was delayed yards in San Francisco, where diesel 9389 and The main purpose of the British Columbia by the three Amtrak trains which also use the caboose 4065 were removed. The train then Display Train's Pacific Coast tour to Los station every morning. Following the departures was backed by the Espee over to the interchange Angeles was to promote tourism in that of the Coast Starlight, San Joaquin and the San with the San Francisco Belt Railroad where the province during this, the Jubilee Year of the Francisco Zephyr, 4-6-4 2860 departed Oakland Belt Railroad's number 23, an Alco S2 built in reign of Queen Elizabeth II. The train's and headed down Espee's main line to Newark March, 1944 as serial number 70157, towed the operation was primarily intended to inform where it crossed the ancient Dumbarton museum train from the interchange near the local travel· agents and to encourage them to Drawbridge to Redwood City for the fast run up new passenger station to Fisherman's Wharf promote travel to British Columbia, thus the the Peninsula to San Francisco. The numerous adjacent to the sailing ship Balclutha which is train was open to the public only when av�ilable freights and commuter trains which serve this displayed there on the San Francisco Bay time permitted during the tour which ended busy line have seen many strange visitors, but waterfront by the Maritime Museum, above. April 13 when the 2860 returned to Vancouver, few were as unusual or as interesting as the Alco 23 then allowed the 4-6-4 to back the short British Columbia .•

Will Whiltaker

20 MARCH. 1977 Brian Humphreys

SOUTHERN PACIFIC RELOCATES MAIN LINE IN THE CASCADES

DATA/BRIAN HUMPHREYS In 1973, the railroad took steps to to form a sweeping curve so that the remedy the situation and to provide a downhill slope of the fill could be Railroads that cross rugged more stable footing for the many flattened with existing fill materials ' mountain passes commonly face the heavy freights which use this line. The where the old line had been. operational challenge of running their company installed surface and During late September of 1976, trains over steep ascending and subsurface drainage systems and Espee officials decided to go ahead descending grades. But for the past rearranged the upper driving forces of with this plan and hired Durbin thirteen years, the Southern Pacific the landslide. Workmen also drilled Construction Company of Eugene, has fa ced an added challenge how to exploration holes and installed Oregon to do the heavy grading while operate heavy freights over roadbed instruments to determine the type and Southern Pacific crews would relay that is sliding downhill due to a natural depth of the landslide. These measures the track. Total cost was $45,000 for landslide on the Cascade Subdivision partially succeeded in reducing the grading and $30,000 for the track near Fields, Oregon. slippage, although Jr. 1976 the work. Previous expenditures had The trouble started after the winter landslide suddenly increased roadbed averaged about $10,000 per yea r. rainstorms of 1964- 1965. The ground movement up to fifteen feet and Following completion of the project beneath the Espee began to move continued even into the drier summer in October, the first train to roll over slowly downhill, and fo r the next nine season. Naturally, more drastic the new track was Amtrak's Seattle­ years this movement averaged from measures had to be taken at once. bound Coast Starlight on the 28th of eight to ten feet per year with The exploration holes and that month. Hopefu lly, yet another movement only taking place during instruments showed that the best battle with the "Oakridge Hill" has the winter months. solution was to move the track inward been won by the Southern Pacific.•

PACIFIC NEWS 21 MISSOURI PACIFIC MOTIVE POWER SUMMARY EFFECTIVE JANUARY, 1977 J. HARLEN WILSON

ROAD NUMBERS BUILD MODEL H.P. BUILT NO. O 112, 1 15-1 16, 131, EMO GP7 1600 1950-51 35 134-1 36, 138, 140- 142, 144-1 45, 147-1 51, 153, 154, 156, 158- 1 62, 164, 165, 167-1 69, 295-2 98 1100- 1166, 1 175-1 199 SWI 200 1200 1963-65 92 1204- 1206, 1210-1 215 SW7 1950 9 1216-1251 SW9 1950-51 36

1253- 1299 SWI200 1964-66 47 Don Sims 151 8-1 52 1 SWI 500 1500 1972 4 1530-1 554 MPI 5 1974-75 25 A familiar face on the Missouri Pacific Railroad's trackage is the 1555-1 589 GPI5-1 1976 35 look, above, of its Electro·Motive S040 fleet, such as the number 3087 1600-1 604, 1606-1 608, GP7 1600 1951 -54 137 waiting on the ready track at the massive North Little Rock, Arkansas 161 0-1 628, 1631-1632, classification yard during September of 1974, Built in April of 1971 as 1634, 1637, 1640-1 667, builder's serial number 37560, the 3087 was originally delivered as the 1669-1 691,1693-171 1, 787 and later given its new number during the system's 1974 1713-1746, 1748-1 749 renumbering, The Missouri Pacific stables a fleet of ninety of these 1750, 1752 -1754, GP7u 1800 1951 -53 21 3000-horsepower units on its roster, all of which were built between 1756-1 758, 1760-1 764, 1967 and 1971. None of the railroad's S040's are equipped with 1766-1 774 dynamic brakes, although nineteen of the newer S040-2's, numbers 1776 GP7 1600 1950 I ' 3216 through 3235, are so equipped for jointly-operated coal train 1777- 1786 GP7u 1800 1953-54 10 service with the Burlington Northern such as the Oklahoma Gas and 1787-1 827, 1837-1 849 GP9 1800 1955-59 54 Electric unit train shown in the January, 1977 issue. 1850-1 854, 1856-1 874, GPI8 1960 27 Riding on the trucks from some traded-in Alco, red, white and blue 1876-1 878 GP18u 1976, below, arrives in Omaha, Nebraska in the company of 1879-1 882 2000 1962 4 2 sister BiCentennial GP7 1776 on the 18th of March, 1976. These two patriotic locomotives were operated with the ex-Southern Pacific 1883 -1 896, 1900-1 982, 1800 1962-63 107 3 GS-4 4-8-4 4449 on the American Freedom Train during most of its 1984-1 994 travels on the Missouri Pacific's lines in 1976. The 1976 - which did not 2000-2 001 GP2 8 2000 1964 2 have to be renumbered for the BiCentennial observance - was 2002-2007 6 GP3 8 1966-67 originally built in December, 1962 as the 48 1, serial number 27998; the I 2008 GP3 5m 1965 1800-horsepower locomotive is one of one hundred thirty-eight such 2009-2137 GP3 8-2 1972-76 129 units on th'e Missouri Pacific. One hundred of these - 400 through 499 2250-2278 GE U23B 2250 1973-76 39 4 in the pre-1974 numbering scheme - ride on trucks salvaged from Alco 2279-2288 B23 -7 1977 105 motive power. 2401 Ply. Hydraulic 240 1961 I

2500, 2502, 2504, 2506, EMO GP3 5 2500 1963-65 54 George R. Cockle 2508-251 1, 251 3-251 8, 252 0, 2522, 2524-2526, 252 8-2540, 2542, 2544-2564 2501 , 2503, 2505, 2507, GP35m 2000 1963-65 106 2512, 251 9, 2521, 2523, 2541 , 2543 3000-3 089 S040 3000 1967-71 90 3090-3235 S040-2 1973-76 1467 3330-3364 GE U30C 1968-74 35 8000-8007 EMO SW8 900 1952 8 TOTAL 1175 NOTES Twenty-five G P 15-1 's are on order for June, 1977 delivery. Ifthey are numbered sequentially behind the present G P 15-1 units, some G PTs in the low 1600's will have to be renumbered. • Horsepower in the above listing is given as rated by the railroad .• ' : Red, white and blue BiCentennial locomotive. 2: 645 prime-mover assemblies. 3: 1900-1 994 have Alco trucks; unit 1976 is red, white and blue. 4: 2257-2278 have FB-2 trucks. 5: 2279-2288 delivered January, 1977. 6: 645 prime mover assemblies, turbochargers removed. 7: 321 6-3235 have dynamic brakes.

22 MARCH, 1977 Both: J. Harlen Wilsonl Kenneth M. Ardinger collection

Built by the General Motors Corporation's Electro-Motive Division in May of 1969, Missouri Pacific GP9 number 1845, above, awaits its next assignment in Carthage, Missouri on April 4, 1975. Builder's serial number 25348, the locomotive was originally subsidiary Texas and Pacific's 1140, renumbered to Missouri Pacific 395 in 1962; the 250,850-pound locomotive became the 1845 in the renumbering of 1974. The largest locomotives on the Missouri Pacific roster are the thirty-five massive General Electric U30C's numbered as the 3300 through 3334. Built in April of 1968, below, the 3305 is seen working with a sister U30C, also in Carthage, on October 10, 1974 . Originally numbered 965, the locomotive is builder's serial number 36705. Used throughout the system, these 388,000-pound units are an important part of the Missouri Pacific's locomotive roster.

PACIFIC NEWS 23 James H. Harrison collection

Speeding through the Ozark Mountains in Missouri, the Missouri Pacific's Colorado Eagle is westbound on its daily run from SI. Louis, Missouri-to-Denver, Colorado in this railroad pUblicity scene from about 1950. Rolling over excellently maintained trackage between St. Louis and Kansas City, the nine-car train is powered by two of the MoPac's blue-and-white ETs, which, like all of the railroad's early The E-units, are equipped with portholes rather than the standard square engine-room windows. Leading E7 A number 7014 was built in June of Camera 1948 by the Electro Motive Division of General Motors as builder's number 5443 and, like all ETs, it develops two thousand horsepower. Car The sixth car on the train is a vista-dome coach built by Budd in 1948 as a part of a three-car order placed by the Missouri Pacific for the Photo Colorado Eagle. The three cars were sold in 1967 to the Illinois Central, which ran them on their streamliners until retirement in February of Section 1971. The Colorado Eagle itself operated over the MP from St. Louis to Pueblo, Colorado and then on the Denver and Rio Grande Western north to Denver. Although no longer on Missouri Pacific rails, the train usually retained its MoPac locomotives straight through to Denver.

24 MARCH, 1977 Richard Lovcman

Eastbound near Field, British Columbia on the 9th of July, 1976, C P Rail train number two, the Canadian, threads its way through the snowsheds and tunnels of the Canadian Rockies while climbing over the Continental Divide at Kicking Horse Pass. FP7 1400, built in April of 1953, is leading the streamliner over one of the most scenic sections of railroading on earth, in the shadow of snow-capped mountains on its route across Canada. The fa te of this train, by the way, is soon to be decided by a Canadian government commission which is formulating a nationwide rail passenger rationalization plan covering the future of passenger service on both Canadian Pacific and the Canadian National.

PACIFIC NEWS 25 I

\

Ken Meeker

In January of 1977, and for the first time since 1972, all four of Western Pacific's operational F-units made four trips into the Feather River Canyon north of Oroville, California. Here, at James Siding only minutes away from the famed canyon itself, the 913 leads sisters 921, The 918 and 917 eastbound on January 29, the third trip, while sporting a removable, magnetic herald� on her nose supplied by PA CIFIC NEWS WP columnist Ken Meeker briefly recalling the Feather River Route Camera era of Western Pacific's F-unit heritage. British Columbia Railway train 14, page opposite, rolls toward Car Vancouver, Canada on June 25, 1975 behind Century-630 704 south of Creekside, British Columbia. Built in June of 1969, the 704 was one of PhOIO the last Century-series locomotives built by the Montreal Locomotive Works before production of M-series units began. Behind the 704 is Secllon wide-cab M630 726, built in 1974, and conventional M630 714, which was constructed by Montreal in 1971. Out of sight at mid-train are three more locomotives running as helpers on this long southbound freight in the midst of scenic Western Canada's grandeur.

26 MARCH, 1977 Jcx McMillan

PACIFIC NEWS 27 ICOME FOR AMERICA'S RAlROADS UP II 197& fourth quarter occurred principally because the which was previously acquired at that location. The income for United States railroads during railroads spent 43.7 per cent more on It is anticipated that the coal will be hauled by 1976 totaled $273 million, up from $108 million . maintenance-of-way and nearly twenty-seven unit trains on a line of the railroad which has yet in 1975 but down from the $685 million recorded per cent more on equipment maintenance than to be constructed from the coal deposits to a . in 1974. in the fourth quarter of 1975. junction with the Santa Fe main line near Baca, Despite the continued low level of earnings, The largest maintenance-of-way increases for New Mexico. cash outlays for maintenance-of-way in 1976 the year were in the east, including the The flexibilityand efficiency of the proposed were up nearly thirty-one per cent over the upgrading programs of the Consolidated Rail distribution system will permit the economical previous year. Cash outlays for the maintenance Corporation, known as Conrail. Significant development of this New Mexico coal and of equipment for the year were up 16.5 per cent increases in maintenance-of-way expenditures facilitate the gradual shift from gas to coal as the compared with 1975. Higher rate levels and a also occurred in the south and west, while primary fuel used to generate electricity .• five per cent increase in traffic were responsible increases in equipment maintenance outlays for the $2.2 billion or 13.5 per cent gain in 1976 were spread almost evenly in all three regions. MAIl CAS-UIITS snLL SERVE THEMILWAU KEE ROAD operating revenues over those in 1975. The net railway operating income for 1976 In spite of having a sizeable roster of modern During the fourth quarter of last year, the was $430 million, compared to only $35 1 million hood-unit locomotives, the Chicago Milwaukee industry reported an ordinary income of $21 in 1975, but still below the $763 million for 1974. St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, more commonly million, down sharply from $236 million in The preliminary estimate for the average rate of known as the Milwaukee Road, continues to 1975, and $135 million in 1974. The drop in the return on net investment for the year was 1.56 operate a large number of streamlined per cent, up slightly from the 1.20 per cent diesel-electrics. As of early 1977, a total of recorded in 1975, but down fr om the 2.66 per fifty-six Electro-Motive F7 diesels were hard at cent in 1974. work for the railroad, along with eighteen COLOR MOVIE FILMS The net operating income for the fourth passenger-equipped FPTs and ten newer F9 quarter of 1976 was $102 million, compared locomotives. Although built for passenger "The Big Red Cars" with $274 million in 1975, and $148 million in service, the FPTs can usually be found lugging Pacific Electric an Lang Beach Blvd. the last quarter of 1974. freight on the Milwaukee's midwestern lines. Ordinary net income diffe rs from net railway Also in freight service are the railroad's five large operating income in that it is calculated after FP45's, which saw service on the famed Union "Los Angeles Trolleys" the income from non-railroad operations is Pacific domeliner fleeteast of Omaha, Nebraska Daily operations in 1962 added and interest on debt and other fixed as well as on the Milwaukee's own Hiawathas charges are deducted .• between Chicago and the Twin Cities. These 8MM, $5.00 ea. 50 ft., EMD cowl-units are the only examples of their SAlTA FE TO SERVE NEW MEXICO COAL DEPOSITS kind without dynamic brakes. A coal development project has been There are twenty-two streamlined New York residents add sales tax announced involving the lease of approximately locomotives used in the railroad's Chicago 300 million tons of coal by a Santa Fe Industries commuter service which are owned by local subsidiary to the Chaco Energy Company. transit districts and leased back to the

P. O. Box 24 Earlton, N. Y. 12058 About seventy per cent ofthis total is covered by Milwaukee Road. Among these units are fifteen a firm schedule of advance royalty payments of the rare EMD F40C locomotives, of which and mining is expected to begin in the early thirteen are owned by the Northwest Mass THE LOS ANGELES RAILWAY 1980's. The royalty and mining schedule for the Transit District - NWMTD - with the remainder of the coal will be determined at a remaining two owned by NORTRAN, the THROUGH THE YEARS later date. This operation will eventually employ North Suburban Mass Transit District. Also in several hundred people and will have an commute service for NORTRAN are seven By investment of several hundred million dollars. former Milwaukee Road E9's which, unlike the 51l'1"('1/ L. EllS/Oil Under the recently-signed agreement, coal blue-and-orange F40C's , continue to wear the properties owned or controlled by the Hospah yellow paint which was used on the Milwaukee's Coal Company, a Santa Fe subsidiary, in the passenger diesels in later years. Star Lake and South Hospah areas of New Perhaps the most unusual of the streamlined Mexico have been leased to the Chaco Energy locomotives are the Milwaukee's slug-units, Company, a Texas Utilities subsidiary. Payment which are former F-unit boosters. Mated to an for Hospah's coal through advance royalties will F7 A, these slugs are used primarily for transfer begin this year. Although the initial agreement duty where high tractive effort is a must. Three covering about 210 million tons will run through of the four cab/ slug sets are based at Tacoma, the year 20 12, the mining of the remainder may Washington and are the railroad's only F's on extend the delivery period to the year 2022. the Pacific Coast, seeing occasional service on Under the lease about one and one quarter the steep grade leaving Tacoma on the line to million tons of coal will be mined during the first Longview, Washington and Portland, Oregon. year of operation, with the total increasing to Like the Southern Pacific, the Milwaukee over seven million tons per year by 1991. Road has rebuilt two former F7 boosters into The British Thermal Unit - BTU - content rotary snowplow power cars which are used on of the coal varies between 8000 at Star Lake, and the railroad's western mountain passes. No study of the history of Los Angeles is complete 9500 at South Hospah. When part of the coal is Aside from the Tacoma-based slug units and without a study of the trolley system that was instru­ prepared as anticipated, before its the rotary plow power cars, most of the mental in its rapid growth. This fascinating book transportation, the average BTU of all of the Milwaukee Road's streamlined locomotives are traces the history of the colorful Los Angeles Railway coal will be raised to over 9000 BTU per pound, used in the midwest. Large numbers of F7's and from its feeble beginnings in the 1800's to its unfor­ thereby improving the economics of hauling it. FPTs can be seen hustling freight between tunate demise in 1963. 72 pages, large 8% x 11 format, Chaco has also announced the purchase of an Chicago, Milwaukee and the Twin Cities. Other with over 90 excellent photographs. undivided interest in certain coal properties held locations such as La Crosse, Wisconsin and under state and fe deral leases by Thercol and Kansas City, Missouri also see the streamlined others. It also entered into a joint development diesels in freight service. The FP45's on the other hand are used in transcontinental freight service S4.50 and operating agreement for the remainder of that coal. The coal involved in these all the way to Tacoma. Chaco-Thercol transactions may total more With the exception of the Chicago commuter units and a few yellow passenger diesels, all of DARWIN PUBLICATIONS than 200 million tons. A considerable portion of this coal is adjacent to Hospah's deposit at Star the railroad's cab-units wear the Milwaukee's HO.... .s�'29 SIU:.RMAN OAKS. CAUFORNIA 9UIJ Lake and will be mined along with the coal standard black and orange paint scheme .•

28 MARCH, 1977 Oregon Memorial Steam Train Association that activ ely being sought by the restoration group purchased the steamer from Rayonier and (George E. Hardy, Jr.) ... Great Western Tours moved it to Garibaldi, Oregon where it has been sleeper GRW 204 , formerly Western Pacific's Shorl Sluft on display (Harold F. ·Tortorelli, Ralph 862, the Silver Canyon built by Budd in 1948 for Vanscovich) More unusual locomotive service, has been sold by the CP Rail's Montreal-built S4 7118 went to sightings in the : San Francisco tour firm to the Southern Pacific work for Crown Zellerbach during the first week Conrail S D4 5 6085, in blue, of course, arrived in which is now rebuilding the car at its of February while the logger's own Ako RS3, Oakland on the morning of Friday, April I and Sacramento General Shops for track inspection number 4097 (PACIFIC NEWS, December, departed that same afternoon for the southern service along the lines of Santa Fe's enclosed­ 197 6), was temporarily undergoing repairs; the part of the Golden State (D. V. Jewell) ...The observation inspection car (Henry J. Luna) ... 7118 worked at log hauling on the Nanaimo Department of Transportation has awarded a There will be four Southern Pacific General River logging line near Ladysmith, British $7,440,436 grant to the city ofEI Paso, Texas for Electric U258's shopped by Morrison-Knudsen Columbia until mid-February ...The Santa Fe assistance in the acquisition of EI Paso City at Boise, Idaho this spring and experimentally has donated former parlor-observation number Lines, which includes the fleet of stored PCC equipped with Swiss-built Sulzer Brothers 1204, which was built by Pullman in December, cars . . The former West Side Lumber prime movers for evaluation purposes in a 1910 for service on the Los Angeles-to-San Company three-foot-gauge caboose number 6 testing program to involve a dozen Espee Diego section of the Los Angeles-San Francisco which was purchased by railroad enthusiasts locomotives; four new units each from both Saint and Angel, to the Orange Empire Railway from the lumber company after rail operations Electro-Motive and General Electric, all on Museum at Perris, California ...Nor folk and ceased and moved first to Camino, California four-wheel trucks, will be joined by the four Western GP9 880, built by Electro-Motive in and kept on the now-defunct Camino Cable and rebuilds from Boise: U25B's 67 13 built as serial July, 1959 as serial number 24 889, wandered Northern tourist railroad and more recently number 34705 in April of 1963, 6733 built as through Southern Pacific's vast West Colton stored on the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic serial number 34770 in January of 1964, 6745 yard in Southern California March 26, far from Railway at Chama, New Mexico, has been built in February of 1964 as serial number 34782 the locomotive's normal motive power duties . . . acquired by Earl F. Failla and moved back west and 6752 built in March of 1964 as serial number Southern Pacific ended operations on its to Auburn, California for restoration and 34 789 (David Ralph Butler, John Myers) .. Montpelier Branch south of the interchange preservation ...The Sumpter Valley restoration Leslie Salt abandoned their narrow-gauge with the Sierra Railroad at Oakdale, California effort that began steam-powered tourist service railroad at Amboy in Southern California in in late January; the final train operated January out of Dredge Depot, Oregon this past year has December, 1976, donating Plymouth 27 over the thirteen miles of track being acquired an option to acquire the two ex­ locomotive number 3 to the California Narrow abandoned (D. S. Richter) ...The former Sumpter Valley Ako-built 2-8-2's last operated Gauge Railroad Museum for preservation; the Rayonier Incorporated 2-8-2 number 90 - by the White Pass and Yukon Route and museum group also purchased a side-dump ore Baldwin, March, 1926, builder's serial number presently resting in poor condition at Skagway, (salt) car for display, moving everything to 5907 1 - acquired in 1963 following the logger's Alaska (see feature, this issue); $17,000 will have Palmdale, California on February I, 1977 for discontinuance of steam operations on its Grays to be raised to return the locomotives, WP& Y 80 restoration and eventual display at its future Harbor railroad in southwest Washington, is and 81 , originally Sumpter Valley 20 and 19, museum of slim-gauge railroading equipment currently reported as offered for sale by the same respectively, to Oregon and donations are now from throughout the US (Paul F. Eblen) . •

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PACIFIC NEWS 29 nElliS PHOTOS

Retired by the Pickering Lumber Corporation as its plant switcher at Standard,

Ken Meeker California when the work was taken over by the Sierra Railroad, top, General Electric 44-tonner 735 rests in storage on the property of the Modesto and Empire Traction Company at Modesto. Acquired by the lumber company from Western Pacific subsidiary Tidewater Southern Railway and never repainted or lettered, the locomotive - built in November, 1946 for the Tidewater as serial 28337 - was Pickering's last locomotive and is now the property of dealer Chrome Crankshaft. On the turntable at Cheyenne, Wyoming on March 13, middle, is Union Pacific steam rotary 900098 prior to its movement east to Sharon Springs, Kansas via North Platte and the Gibbon cut-off. The plow worked west from Sharon Springs to open the mainline between Topeka and Denver, returning home to Cheyenne on March 17. Awaiting c1earence into Cheyenne Yard, Southern Pacific rotary plow 205, below, holds the westbound main behind Union Pacific U30C 2832 on its way home to California. On the adjacent track, Union Pacific DDA40X 6939 leads three other units, including an SD40-2 and another DDA40X, on an eastbound freight. Both: A. J. Wolff

30 MARCH,1977 nEWS PHOTOS

The first Santa Fe F-unit to pay a visit to Denver, Colorado in more than a year, top, F7 A 328 leads an impressive eight-unit consist on the point of a southbound freight leaving town on November 18, 1976. Built by Electro-Motive in December of 1952 as the 309L, the locomotive is builder's serial 17437 and has the dubious honor of being V nde John's final F to visit the area. Working on the point for the first time, ' F. Hoi Wagner. Jr. brand-new Vnion Pacific SD40-2 3336, middle, leads sister 3344 and two SDP35's west out of Council Bluffs, Iowa past Tower A with symbol fr eight ACB on March 16, 1977. Built in February of this year, the new SD40-2's are Electro-Motive serial numbers 766056-2 and 766056-10 and had just been set up at the system's Omaha shops with radios, rotating lights and other self-applied UP equipment. As a result of the derailment of Amtrak's Coast Starlight near Corning, California on March 11,Amtrak E8345 and FP7 376 operated all the way south from Seattle, Washington to Eugene, Oregon with that day's Starlight. The fo llowing morning the two aging cab units returned to their assignments in Seattle coupled ahead of the the northbound streamliner's usual pair of SDP40Fs, below. Photographed at Eugene, 376 prepares to lead train 14 toward Washington state. The FP7 is the former Southern Pacific 6451, E8 345 was the Burlington Northern's 9952. The cab units normally are assigned to the Portland-to-Seattle portion of the Coast Starlight's Los Angeles-to­ Seattle TUI!. George R. Cockle

Eddie Collar

PACIFIC NEWS 31 SIan Jennings

Looking more like the waiting room of a modern office than a railroad car, the Dcnyer and Rio Grande's vista-dome buffet-lounge-observation number 1145, the Silver Sky, above, shows off its brand-new interior fo llowing the removal of the car's private rooms by the railroad in the Denver shops. Built by Budd in December of 1948 for jointly-operated service on · the Chicago-to-San Francisco Chicago Burlington and Quincy/Rio Grande/Western Pacific run of the California Zephyr, the car has been used since the Zephyr's March 22, 1970 discontinuance on the Rio Grande's tri-weekly Denyer-to-Salt Lake City Rio Grande Zephyr. Sandwiched between a Penn Central U25C and an Erie Lackawanna SD45, Burlington Northern Alco-built RS3 4070 sits at Conrail's Meadows, New Jersey 10comotiYe terminal in late 1976 . The Alco went on lease to Conrail in June of last year as one of six former Spokane Portland and Seattle RS3's sent to serve this eastern carrier. Still wearing pre-merger SP&S colors, the 4070 was built in October, 1955 as serial 81366 and was originally numbered 90. All of the leased Burlington Northern Alco motive power was returned by Conrail early this year.

Stephen A. Benkovitz

32 MARCH, 1977 nEUlS PHOTOS

Big Rock Stone and Material Company NW2 10028 awaits a truck and traction-motor overhaul, left, at the Missouri Pacific's shops in North Little Rock, Arkansas at the start of the new year (PA CIFIC NE WS, February, 1977). Originally Missouri and Illinois Railroad 51, then Missouri Pacific's 1028, the unit was acquired by Big Rock Stone in the early 1960's and later fitted with the massive overhead shield to protect it from falling rock . .I. Harlen Wilson

Back on home rails after a remanufacturing by Morrison-Knudsen in Boise, Idaho, right, is Simpson Timber Company SW1200 1201 at the logger's sorting yard near Shelton, Washington on March 4, 1977. Built by EMD in May, 1956, as serial number 20635, the locomotive had just returned from Boise on March 1. Leading a log train through milepost 28.5, below, on February 5, 1977, Burlington Northern NW2 478 was putting in its first day of work for Simpson Timber out of Shelton on a lease arrangement that would last a month until early March. Simpson's own SWI200's, the 1200 and 1201, were both briefly off-line together to Morrison-Knudsen prompting this first-ever leasing of a diesel by the Washington logger until the 1201 returned to work.

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PACIFIC NEWS 33 June 18-19, Weekend STEAMTOWN'S ANNUAL RAILFAN WEEKEND Excursions I , Two full days featuring special railfan-oriented activities, with lots of steam action guaranteed, will be held during mid-June. Many photo stops and run-bys Iii J I� will be held, also a night photo session. There will be door prizes, including cab rides. For complete details, write to: SpeCial Steamtown Foundation P. O. Box 71 I��_�':'O-d •• '". Bellows Falls, Vermont 05 101 Operations ' August 28, Departure Date fj,' WEST COAST CONNECTION, NRHS CONVENTION '77 �� .'-_-:-�� " /. A through Pullman is being operated departing Los Angeles August 28 for Roanoke, Virginia and the National Railway Historical Society convention. All listings herewith are made free of charge, and PACIFIC NEWS assumes no Operating first on Amtrak's Sunset Limited, then the Southern's SOllthern responsibility for errors, revisions in fares and schedules or operational changes, Crescent and finally to Roanoke on the steam-powered Convention Special, the all of which are subject to change without notice. PACIFIC NEWS reserves the tour package includes railfare, hotel accommodations in Roanoke and all right to edit material or to refuse any listings. Insertions will not be printed from convention activities with optional rail or air return. The convention program brochures. Deadline is the first of the second month preceding publication date. includes two all-day steam excursions, a branch-line diesel excursion, tours of the Norfolk and Western shops and separate non-rail activities. (Starting) May 7, Thirteen Different Days Trax Travel STEAM-POWERED EXCURSIONS FOR B&O'S 150TH BIRTHDAY 1506 West Grand Avenue A series of steam-powered passenger train operations on the Chessie System Pomona, California 91766 during the upcoming summer will be held in celebration of the Baltimore and Ohio's 150th birthday. The trips will feature the former T-l Class Read ing Company 4-8-4 number 2101 pulling open-window coaches, air-conditioned coaches, first-class accommodations and a snack-concessi on-baggage car. There will be photo run-bys on most of the trips. Dates of operation and routes: May 7, Circle trip out of Baltimore to Point of Rocks, Maryland; May 8, Baltimore to Harpers Ferry and return; May 14, Circle trip from Baltimore to Point of Rocks; May 15, Baltimore to Philadelphia and return; May 21, Baltimore to Harpers Ferry and return; May 22, Baltimore to Hagerstown and return via Western Maryland Railway; May 28, Ferry move from Baltimore to Cumberland; May 29, Ferry move from Cumberland to Exira Board Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; June 5, Pittsburgh to Wheeling, West Virginia; June 11, Pittsburgh to New Castle, Pennsylvania and return via P&W; June 12, CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING section ror railroad-related items. PACIFIC NEWS Pittsburgh to Rockwood, Pennsylvania and return; June 18, Ferry move from reserves the righ� to edit all copy and to refuse any listings. Ads can not be Pittsburgh to Cleveland, Ohio; June 26, Cleveland to Warwick via Lester and acknowledged, nor can proof copies be sent. Closing date is the 1st of the 2nd preceding month. Count all numbers, name and address. but not zip code. Rates return via Akron. are 10C a word, $3.00 mifi::'!'lUm. Paymentin advance. Repeat ads 50% off for the Fares and additional information from: second month of each two-mG�th period for continuing ads. Chessie Steam Train The Chessie System SP PHOTOGRAPHS: On approval in groups of one hundred or more. You pay 2 North Charles Street First Class postage both ways. No list. State wants. Size 616 - 70� each; size 122 Baltimore, Maryland 21201 - $1.10 each; 8x I O's - $6.50 each. Railway Negative Exchange, Post Office Box 408, Moraga, California 94556. May 21, Saturday RAILROADIANA SHOW AND SALE RAILROAD ANTIQUES AND ARTI FACTS. Ch"ice pieces from .'\merica's The National Association of Timetable Collectors is sponsoringa Railroadiana leading mail order specialist in diverse RR non-paper c()!lector's items. Museum Show and Sale at the Howard Johnson Motor Lodge, 4222 Vineland Avenue, quality (Smithsonian a regular customer), widest st!�ction, sat'sfaction North Hollywood, California from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM on May 21. Admission is guaranteed. Appraisals also available. Send $1 for 38-page i;!ustrated Catalog 50 cents. Timetables, hardware, paper items. Auction to he held. Tables available plus current issue of the monthly RR Dispatch. Scott Ac-ten. 20457B for $5.00 in advance. Further information from: Highway 126, Noti, Oregon 9746 1. Jeff S. Asay 5480 Ferguson Drive WANTED: Colorado employee timetables of the various roads, large and small. Los Angeles, California 90022 Also looking for old train registers and similar items for our library refe rence files. Colorado Railroad Museum, Box 10, Golden, Colorado 8040 1. May 21-22, Weekend SPRING SPECTACULAR TO SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON LOOKING FOR OLD PICTURES of Western Pacific Railway Company tugs A combination rail and bus tour to the scenic grandeur of Sequoia and Kings Vergil G. Bogne, Hercules and Hummacona for WP maritime history. Charlie Canyon National Parks will be operated by the Central Coast Chapter, National Hopkins, 115 EI Bosove Drive, San Jose, California 95 135. Railway Historical Society on the weekend of May 21 and 22. The tour begins in San Francisco and goes by train using Amtrak's San Joaquin RAILROAD RADIO SCANNERS - Car Mobile and Hand Held - Electra to Hanford where charter buses take the group to Sequoia National Park for an Bearcat, Midland and Pace. Several models in stock from $99.50 to $169.50. overnight stay at Giant Forest Lodge. Sunday morning is spent in Kings Canyon Crystals for most western railroads in stock at $5.00 each. Stop in or writ, for your National Park, returning on the San Joaquin departing from Fresno. railroad-radio needs. Iron Horse Hobbies, 3529 Clayton Road, Concord, Fare is $75, double, and $85 single, including transportation, meals and California 945 19. accommodations. Information and tickets from: Central Coast Chapter, NR HS BACK ISSUES of this magazine remain available as far back as the July, 1964 P. O. Box 8407 issue, number 35. Quantities are limited for many of these, however. The wide San Jose, California 95 155 variety of feature article topics covers most of the western railroading activity for this period of time. Send a stamped self-addressed envelope for complete details: May 29-30, Sunday-Monday, Labor Day Weekend PA CIFIC NEWS, Post Office Box 283, Burlingame, California 94010. SIERRA RAILROAD STEAM SPEC ....ACULAR Two spectacular days of special steam operations on California's legendary SOUTHERN PACIFIC GS-4 & GS-5 4-8-4, locomotives 4430 through 4459, Sierra Railroad have been planned, complete with unusual photographic color transparencies of any size are wanted showing the Coast Daylight passenger opportunities for the railroad enthusiast. This will be a rare chance to see four train at any location between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Transparencies Sierra Railroad steam locomotives under steam for a most unusual Memorial Day must be suitable for professional reproduction. Brad Miller, Mobile Fidelity Weekend spectacular. Records, Post Office Box 2157, Olympic Valley, California 95730. Phone number: SUNDA Y, May 29. Two steam engines, both built in the 1800's, hauling three (916) 583-2433. cars up the Sierra's Dry Creek Canyon? Impossible? No, for that is what has been planned for this special Sunday when Sierra Railroad 4-6-D number 3 and SLIDES WANTED of the following Amtrak "P' units: 115, 123, 375, 378; "B" 4-4-D number 8 team up to power a special three-car train from Jamestown to 160, 398, 399. Ralph L. Phillips, 1116 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Cooperstown and return. There will be photostopsaway from the public roads on Massachusetts 02 134. this special 6!h-hour trip departing at 9:30 AM. Bring your own lunch. MONDA y, May 30. Three mighty steam behemoths on a single train! There PICTURE POST CARDS railroads, trains, engines, depots, bridges, etc., sent on are few places in America where you can ride behind a triple-header, and this is approval. Art Petersen, 1948 South 50 East, Orem, Utah 84057. only the sixth time it has happened on the Sierra Railroad (the fourth since the railroad's 1971 steam revival, and the first since 1973!). This will be the very first YOUR FIRST CALL FOR DINNER. A Dining Car Association of collectors time that the Sierra's three excursion engines - 4-6-D number 3, 2-8-0 number 28 and travelers is now organizing. For information, please write: Dining Car, Post and 2-8-2 number 34 - will operate all of the way from Jamestown to Oakdale Office Box 124, Shawnee Mission, Kansas 66201. and return. This three-engine "Special of Specials" features a variety of vintage heavyweight passenger equipment, complete with snack and lounge service. A LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP, Before you subscribe to any publication that 7!h-hour trip, the train departs at 9:00 AM. covers the northeast United States, compare RAILS NORTHEAST. The facts Fares: $15 for Sunday, no half fares; $15 for Monday, $9 ages 2 through 12. stand on their own merit. 50 pages an issue, II times a year, $1.75 a copy, full color Special fare for both days: $25.00. Tickets are limited. covers, four color inside pictures, all solid content. If you are a doubting Thomas, Pacific Locomotive Association send your name on a post card for a copy of our free 8-page brochure; that's all, 54 Hancock Street your name on a post card, no stamp necessary. RA ILS NORTHEAST, Box 135, San Francisco, California 94 114 East McKeesport, Pennsylvania 15035.

34 MARCH, 1977 SUGAR PINE RAILWAY PHOTOGRAPHERS! Did you photograph any equipment, which was operated by the Pacific Electric after the 191 1 merger which portion of the operation of three-truck Shay number 7 over the Labor Day combined most of the transit systems in the Los Angeles area into one operation. Weekend in 1971, or any of the preparation efforts during that summer? Do you The interurbans last ran for the PE's passenger service successor, the Los Angeles have any photographs of the equipment in later storage or of the dismantling of Metropolitan Transit Authority, in 1961. the railroad? If so, please contact Karl R. Koenig, Editor, PA CI FlC NEWS, Post This book is not a history of the Pacific Electric, and it provides little historical Office Box 283, Burlingame, California 940 10. Any-type photographs are wanted background on the railroad itself. However, those interested in the details of the for personal collection; not wanted at this time for publication. system's interurbans will enjoy the wealth of technical information the book does provide. Diagrams, specifications, builders photos and action shots all depict the 3-D SLIDES WANTED - present-day scenes of PCC's and trolley coaches in cars of the Pacific Electric. There are even reprints of pages from the Electric San Francisco and Seattle. Will buy or trade for Chicago-area material - John Railway Journal covering the PE's all-steel interurban cars. Tomisek, 9822 South Lawndale, Evergreen Park, Illinois 60642. Some of the equipment on the Pacific Electric came from diverse locations such as parent Southern Pacific's Interurban Electric Railway in Oakland, California and the Northwestern Pacific electrification in Marin County north of San Francisco. Among the relocated interurbans were the famous "Blimps," those popular round-windowed cars which became the symbol of the PE in later years. If you have ever wondered what happened to those cars once they arrived, this It Publishers are encouraged to submit copies of new and book will provide the answers. reissued books, records, photo sets and etcetera not Cars Of Th e Pacific Electric not only discusses the operations of the interurbans previously reviewed in PACIFIC NEWS. There is no charge for this service, however, the material will be of the PE, but examines how these cars were scrapped in the fifties and sixties as B '"' m.,.,,", ,,' '" re�,," '''reo the trackage was slowly replaced by buses and the maze of freeways which now 00 "' strangle Los Angeles. Retirement dates and scrapping locations are provided for those fans who might want to know where their favorite car ended up after it was retired from service. R l w's On a happier note, the back portion of this publication is devoted to the lavish eu e parlor cars which the interurban provided for its customers who wanted extra comfort on their trips through the Los Angeles area. Even more luxurious than the BLACKIE'S RAILROAD HANDBOOK parlor cars, however, was the private car Alabama of Pacific Electric's founder Dale "Blackie" Gould Henry Huntington. Huntington used this car to commute from his San Marino Have you ever listened to railroaders converse and wondered what was meant home to the Main Street Station in downtown Los Angeles. by terms like "Goatherder," "Nut Busters," "Manifest" and others? If this is the Although confusing to the average railway enthusiast who is not that familiar case, you will enjoy Blackie's Railroad Handbook as it explains just about any with the Pacific Electric, this book with its many rosters, diagrams and photos is railroad slang term you are likely to hear while listening to a scanner or talking an absolute must for anyone interested in interurbans. Photo quality is basically with railroad men. Not only does this book explain the almost endless list of slang good, although some too-dark views do creep in, and the many old and rare scenes terms associated with the railroads, but it provides definitions of railroad terms give a good look at the interurbans which were a way of life in Los Angeles during and abbreviations as well. the era of the Big Red Cars. -Daniel B. Kuhn The rear section of the book explains lantern signals, engine whistle signals and Cars or The PacificElectric, V olume II, 223 pages, coated paper, softbound, other items which the fledgling railroad enthusiast is likely to find confusing. In fully illustrated, Ilx8Y, oblong, Interurbans, P. O. Box 6444, Glendale, this section of the book there is also a puzzle which is given to trainmen in order to California 91205, $10.00. This book is now available from the Chatham book test their reactions to certain switching moves and problems. sales department. Although many terms included in this volume are obsolete, and others are highly localized from various parts of the country, thi, book would beenjoyed by the railway enthusiast who is interested in the terminology associated with the railroad industry. -Daniel B. Kuhn Blackie's Railroad Handbook, published by the atithor, Post Office Box 193, Yorba Linda, California 92686. 32 pages, uncoated paper, few illustrations. 5Y,x8Y" $2.50. LOS ANGELES RAILWAY THROUGH THE YEARS L tt rs to Steven L. Easlon e e One of the largest street railway systems in America, the Los Angeles Railway and its successor operator� was a continuous source of excitement and interest for SORRY, WRONG STATE both young and old alike in Southern California. The citizens of the West's largest My sample copy arrived and I am very pleased. However, on page seven of the city not only used the little narrow-gauge yellow cars as a means of getting to December issue of PA CIFIC NEWS, the caption at lower left reads, "through the work, but rode them to go shopping and for pleasure as well. A sunny, warm day interlocking at Harrison, New York in July of 1976." would once have seen hundreds of people riding the cars just to be out enjoying The interlocking is Harrison, New Jersey just outside Newark. Metroliner 860 the weather. has ju.t departed Penn Station in Newark, passed over the drawbridge visible in From its horse-

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