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It's opening day for light rail in San Jose, Calif., on Dec. 11, 1987. Santa Clara County Transit 80 1, bedecked for the occasion, heads a three-cor train southbound on 1 st Street, about to pass a northbound unit of the UTDC-built fleet. The overpass behind is U.S. 101. -F. H. WORSFOLD

SFSP to Sell would continue to pursue its own bid be­ thority to run cabooseless trains. The en­ Southern Pacific fore the ICC. tire document contains some to Rio Grande The Henley Group, which has sought 35 provisions or conditions. Major fea­ control of parent SFSP, reiterated its tures are: �anta Fe Southern Pacific Corp. an­ stand that Santa Fe Railway, the stronger 1. Trains must be equipped with a Digi­ nounced on Dec. 28, 1987, it has com­ of the two SFSP roads, should have been tair II End-of-Train-Information-System pleted a purchase agreement with Rio sold off. with a rear train emergency braking fea­ Grande Industries for sale of Southern ture and a red flashing marker light oper­ When Will The Dust Settle? Pacific Transportation Co. Gross price ated by an automatic light-sensitive was $1.8 billion in cash plus assumption Whether ICC approval of Rio Grande's switch, and with a distance measuring de­ of $780 million in SP debt. bid is quick, or whether continued wran­ vice where no other distance-measuring SFSP was to file its final divestiture gling by other suitors delays it, or wheth­ device is installed in that train. plan with the ICC by the end of 1987. Rio er Henley (or another suitor) ends up con­ 2. The conductor shall be in the operat­ Grande would file its petition with the trolling SFSP was up in the air at the end ing cab of the lead locomotive unit, which ICC to control or merge with SP within of 1987. The almost-daily developments shall contain appropriate seats for the en­ 60 days. Santa Fe Railway would not seek of late forecast a very interesting 1988 as gineman, conductor and leading train­ trackage rights or other protective rights concerns the saga of Southern Pacific. man; trailing units may be used to seat in connection with Rio Grande's applica­ additional employees. A permanent or tion. fold-out table with indirect light (i.e., not Canada OKs the cab ceiling light) shall be provided in Reaction Predictable Cabooseless Trains the locomotive cab for the conductor. Rejected bidders were quick to express 3. The train shall not make a reverse either their disappointment or disagree­ For CN and CP movement without an amployee on the ment with the announcement. leading (last) car; in other words, Kansas City Southern claimed its bid After a lengthy series of applications and. Rule 103 still applies. was actually better than that of Philip An­ hearings, the Canadian Transport Com­ 4. Hotbox and dragging equipment de­ schutz's Rio Grande Industries and mission on Dec. 14 gave CN and CP au- tectors must be located at least every

4. MARCH 1988 60 miles, otherwise standing inspections of the train must be made. Hot-wheel de­ tectors must be installed at all city-limit "gateway" detector locations prior to the commencement of cabooseless operation, and all other detectors must have hot wheel functions installed as expeditiously as possible. S. Dangerous commodities may be placed anywhere in the train (subject to marshalling rules) provided they are lo­ cated behind cars which are all equipped with roller bearings. If such is not the case, on trains over 4,000 feet long, they must be at least 2,000 feet from the tail end of the train; if train is less than 4,000 feet long, they must be within 2,000 feet of the locomotive. 6. Dimensional or special loads, or loads subject to shifting, must be within 2,000 feet of the locomotive. It is expected it will be late spring or Santo Fe's Sooner Chief carried the Operation Lifesaver message throughout the state of Oklahoma even summer 1988 before cabooseless on Nov. 10, 1987. Here FP45U 5998 leads the train through downtown Oklahoma City as port of the train operation in Canada becomes com­ day's festivities. -JOHN ARBUCKLE mon, as installation of hot-wheel detector equipment and acquisition of End-of­ Train Information Systems will take some time. Additionally, each railway is A federal appeals court had returned the South must be approved by General committed to providing extensive em­ decision to the ICC. Electric Credit Corp., major creditor of ployee training courses to ensure the re­ Amtrak President W. Graham Claytor the line, as well as the ICC. quirements are understood and main­ was the featured speaker at the 1988 An­ tained in all aspects. (John A. Rushton) nual Meeting of Region XII of the Na­ tional Association of Railroad Passen­ 25 Years Ago: gers, held Jan. 16, 1988, in West Pennsylvania Railroad Chairman Sacramento. Mr. Claytor's trip through James M. Symes said a merger with New Rail Briefs ... the West included rides on the California York Central could spark a resurgence of Zephyr, San Joaquin and San Diegans. He the heavy manufacturing sector on the On Dec. IS, the ICC heard arguments on also visited with Amtrak officials in Los East Coast. Helping to revive those indus­ worker-protection issues related to the Angeles. tries "is one of our main purposes-and 1984 creation of the Eureka Southern MidSouth Corp. has sought ICC ap­ we'll have the plant and service to back it over former Northwestern Pacific track proval to acquire the 732-mile Gulf & up," Symes said. (TRAFFIC WORLD) in northern California. The Railway La­ Mississippi Railroad by mid-February. Southern Pacific and Union Pacific bor Executives Assn. filed suit at the MidSouth would set up a new subsidiary, jointly announced they are looking at the time of the sale, because labor-protective SouthEastern Rail Corp., to handle the Rock Island, the major portion of which conditions were not imposed on South­ addition. MidSouth connects with Gulf would merge with Union Pacific. SP pro­ ern Pacific, the seller of the line segment. & Mississippi at Newton and Meridian, poses to acquire Rock Island lines south On Dec. 22 the ICC voted 4- 1 not to re­ Miss. Gulf & Mississippi has experienced and west of Kansas City. (SouthernPacif­ quire seller SP to impose the conditions. financial troubles. The purchase by Mid- ic)

The unusual combination of a Notional Helm Leasing (ex-BN) SD45 6546 and Paducah & Louisville (ex-MP) SD40 3042 pulls a Southern Pacific train south through Emeryville, Calif., on Oct. 11, 1987, with a ribbon-roil train. Another particularly unusual aspect of this train is the absence of SP power-only leased power is present. -JIM BRUCE

PACIFIC RailNEWS • 5 chased from D&RGW in late 1969 by the American Crystal Sugar Co. and used fo r LETTER about nine years as a switcher at the sugar I S I plant in Rocky Ford, Colo. -ED FULCOMER Binders LeHers to Authors

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APRil 17: Special Train from Los Angeles to Mojave, Col if., vio Soledad Conyon and Cajon Pass. Consist is five private cars Lamesa, Not Lemesa and two Amfleet cars. Fores $97 to $132. Details from Pacific Railroad Society, 1255 N. Michigan Ave., Pasadena, In perusingPRN 290,1 fo und a couple of CA 91104-2986 0' coil (213) 283·0087. 291-293

small errors on page 5. In the article on APRIL 30 and MAY 14: Round-trip passenger service between • A permanent file for Santa Fe's cluster sale it refers to the Le­ Campo and Son Diego, Calif., will operate in conjunction with mesa branch-it should be the Lamesa RailFair '88. Westbound on April 30: San Diego-Compo by bus, your Pacific RaiLNews then Compo-Son Diego by train via Tecate, Tijuana and San branch. In the caption under the picture Ysidro. Fore $65. Eastbound on May 14 (return by bus). Fore copies. of the C&NW 1385 it is referred to as a 4- S50. Limited seating. Son Diego Railroad Museum, 4695 Nebro D,., Lo Meso, CA 92041. Coil Rene Scheue,mon (619) 466· 4-2 and further as an Atlantic. This en­ 6500. 292, 293 gine is a 4-6-0 for which the usual desig­ • Durable and handsome APRIL 23: Southern Pacific Historical & Technical Society nation is Ten Wheeler. North Calif. Spring Meet. Noon to 10 p.m. (or later). Slide cobalt blue binder with -BILL GARNER shows and movies hourly. Model display. Swap tables. Food available. Gold State Model RR Museum/East Boy Model Engi­ our name gold-stamped. Bill is righton both counts. neers Society, 900 Dornan Dr., Point Richmond. Info: send SASE to Ken Harrison, 1809 Son Antonio Ave., Alameda, CA 94501. 292-294 Who Owned F-Unit? • Lies flat when open­ MAY 5-8: Son Diego Roilfair at Amtrak Station. No details at presstime, inquiries to PSRMA, 4695 Railroad Ave., La Meso, The caption under the picture on p. 29 of easy-to-use wire CA 92041 . 292 PRN 289 says the F7A is ex-D&RGW, binders. JUNE 18: UP Challenge, 3985 ove, She,mon Hill (diescllmm ex-Great Western Sugar and ex-Chicago, Denver to Speer and return). Price not yet known. Details from Madison & Northern. That is two-thirds Rocky Mountoin R.R. Club, Bo, 2391, Denve" CO 80201. 292· 295 • Holds 12 or more issues correct. The Great Western Sugar Co. JUNE: A series of Colorado trips to celebrate the 50th anniver­ never owned this engine, nor did Great (contains 12 wires). * sary of the Rocky Mountain R.R. Club. Details from Box 2391, Western Railway. The unit was pur- Denv"" CO 80201. 292-295

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6. MARCH 1988 EXPEDITED NEWS

ICC TO EXPEDITE REVIEW OF SALE OF SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRANSPORTATION: Rio Grande Industries will get expedited ICC review of its proposed purchase of SPT. Although the ICC could normally take up to 31 months for its decision, it plans to serve its decision within 180 days after RGI's planned application on Feb. 22. Some speculate that a year after a sale of SPT to RGI, today's D&RGW would simply disappear, becoming a small part of a larger Espee.

HENLE Y MAY ATTEMPT SFSP TAKEOVER: The Henley Group, which recently increased its SFSP stock ownership to 14.96 percent, wants court approval to talk with Olympia & York (now with two seats on SFSP's board and thus owner of 9.3 percent of SFSP shares) to combine forces. Henley may begin a proxy fight including an alternative slate of directors at SFSP's April 1988 annual shareholder meeting. In return for seats on the SFSP board, O&Y will support the direction of SFSP's current restructuring, which involves a payout (next item)

SFSP DECLARES BIG PAYOUT: Santa Fe Southern Pacific declared a special dividend of $30 a share ($25 in cash payable Feb. 16 and $5 in securities payable March 1) totaling about $4.7 billion. This would be accomplished partly by loans . against future income from sale of SPT.

SANTA BARBARA TRAIN ON HOLD (AGAIN): Multiple problems with the City of Santa Barbara on esthetics have forced indefinite delay of the startup of Los Angeles-Santa Barbara Amtrak service. It appears the city does not want trains to lay over within the city limits for extended periods of time (Le., it does not want F40 noise and air pollution). One solution may be to make a town east of Santa Barbara , perhaps Goleta, the turnaround point.

FATAL SANTA FE COLLISION: AT&SF experienced a tragic rear-end collision and resulting fire at Pico Rivera (10 miles east of LA.) on Jan. 22. Road Foreman of Engines Mike Mulligan, who was running the lead engine at the time of the collision, was killed; two other crewmen were able to jump to safety. Six locomotives (including GP35s 2846 , 2879, 2900 and 2964) and two trackside buildings were destroyed-damage estimates were $2.3 million. A faulty signal indication may be to blame.

CN BRIDGE OUT: Canadian National's bridge across the Fraser River at New Westminster, B.C., was knocked out again on Nov. 28, 1987, when struck by a tug owned by Crown Forest. Repairs are estimated to take three months. Meanwhile, BN and CN trains (including VIA) are detouring between Coquitlam and Mission City on CP rails.

SOO LINE DERAILMENT: Eastbound Soo train 204, an auto parts train out of the Twin Cities destined for Chicago, derailed near Dakota, Minn. , on Feb. 2, 1988. It was the third derailment on the stretch of ex-Milwaukee Road double­ track main line between La Crosse, Wis., and Red Wing, Minn., since November 1987. Because the derailment sent many cars into the Mississippi River, cleanup was especially difficult, closing the line for nearly three days. Soo freights and Amtrak's Empire Builder detoured between Hastings, Minn., and La Crosse over BN's ex-Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Chicago-Twin Cities main.

EMD TO EXIT LOCOMOTIVE PRODUCTION AT LA GRANGE: EMD formally announced on Jan. 12 that it would move locomotive production from its famous La Grange (McCook), IlL, plant to the General Motors plant in London, Ont.­ which historically produced EMD units for Canadian railroads only-by 1991. The move will eliminate 2,000 of the suburban Chicago plant's 4,269 jobs. EMD believes new domestic locomotive orders won't exceed 300 per year for the foreseeable future-not enough for economical production at the four-million-square-foot McCook facility-and expects to save money by taking advantage of the smaller London plant's lower operating and labor costs. Another factor is EMD's precipitous loss of market share to competitor General ElectriC; GE has captured well over half of railroads' locomotive orders over the past year. Although present plans call for continued manufacturer of diesel prime movers at McCook, that too can change, as EMD is looking at fabricating prime movers in Brazil or Argentina.

WISCONSIN CENTRAL NOTES: WCL has secured an exemption permitting it to control the Sault Ste. Marie Bridge Co., which owns the international bridge at that point. The purchase will enable WCL to restore connections with CP Rail and Algoma Central at "The Soo." Meanwhile, WCL train operations have greatly stabilized since our report on the WCL in the January 1988 PRN (issue 290).

ROARING FORK RAILROAD CLOSES: Denver-based RFRR closed its doors Jan. 26 saying it was unable to reach an agreement with D&RGW to operate RFRR luxury rail passenger train service to (or near, actually) Aspen and other pOints on the D&RGW. "We're going to be leaving Colorado," RFRR president John Parten was quoted in the DENVER POST. He blamed W. J. Holtman , president of the D&RGW, for forcing the 22-month-old company to close. "[Holtman] has decided that there are going to be no more passenger services at any price," Parten said. "Until the Rio Grande gets better management, we don't have any choice." Plans for the associated Denver Railway Car Co. were to be announced at the end of February. The company had already started trial service on RFRR cars attached to Amtrak's California Zephyr.

ANOTHER COLLISION: On the morning of Feb. 4, Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr rear-ended a standing BN freight three miles east of Omaha. The wreck derailed the train's F40s and some head-end cars , but crew and passenger injuries were minor.

PACIFIC RailNEWS • 7 RAILROADS

A rare sighting on Dec. 8, 1987, was the second unit of this motive power consist, ex-MP U30C 2986 (still in MP blue). On the point is MP-Iettered B23-7 4668; the third and fourth units are ex-MP SD40-2s 2928 and 3492, now in Armour yellow. The scene is at Taylar, Texas, as a northbound rock train from San Antonio heads for Fort Worth. -KEITH THOMPSON

has been an infusion of C&NW and BN UP GP38 2009 and a UP caboose. The units. One interesting train to watch is carrier had also been using an ex-GN GP7 the Yermo-West Colton transfer run, without dynamic brakes, but it proved which during December featured some unsatisfactory on the line's steep grades UNION very interesting combinations of pooled (induding a switchback). Opening cere­ PACIFIC power in both EMD and GE variations. monies took place on Nov. 2. SYSTEM New Centralized Dispatch Center The Union Switch & Signal Division of American Standards Inc. has been award­ ed a contract to consolidate all dispatch­ ing operations for UP into a new CTC Ken Meeker center in Omaha. Work is already under­ way on the project, and UP is now look­ SANTA ing at the old freight station in Omaha as a possible site for the new dispatching cen­ FE Motive Power Notes ter, to be in service by late 1989.

UP started taking delivery of 75 new Gen­ Oregon Subsidiary Sold eral Electric model Dash 8-40C locomo­ tives, numbered 9100-9174 in December The Mount Hood Railway, a UP sub­ (see photo last issue). About a third of the sidiary for many years, has been sold to a Dave Busse order was received in December, with the group of local investors. The line, which balance to follow in January and Febru­ runs between Mount Hood and Parkdale, ary. These 4,000-h.p. units can be found Ore., has lately been primarily a lumber Streamlining Continues running systemwide on piggyback and hauler; part of it is presently inactive. container expedited trains. There is possible interest in initiating ex­ Santa Fe announced in December a re­ One variation to the common fare of cursion train service. structuring program that will consolidate SD40-2s on the South Central District Initial operations required the lease of maintenance facilities, reduce the num-

8 • MARCH 1988 ber of operating divisions on the railroad Diamond Bar in eastern Los Angeles and continue the elimination of several County. Carl Loucks crew-change points across the system. Consolidation of crew districts will Of particular interest to railfans is the continue in 1988 with Cleburne and San .. .sELLING RAILROAD TIMETABLES plan to downgrade the Cleburne, Texas, Bernardino being the latest targets. By locomotive shop to a light repair facility. the time this appears in print, engineers 199Wayland St., North Haven, 006473 The shop that created CF7s, and more will operate trains between Brownwood recently implemented the nation's only and Dallas and between Gainesville and SPECIALS OF THE MONTH ... major GE rebuild program, will be down­ Temple without changing at Cleburne. a few of the more than 100,000 items graded to a running repair fa cility, with Conductors and brakemen are expected in our stock. We do NOT sell any re­ an eventual layoff of about 170 employ­ to work under a similar arrangement later prints. All are original railroad issue. ees. All future locomotive rebuild pro­ in the year. Discussions are underway be­ You'll learn about railroad operations grams will take place at San Bernardino, tween the railway and operating unions from these.. Calif., and all car repair work will be con­ regarding creation of a Barstow-to-Los solidated at the railway's Topeka, Kan., Angeles crew district, eliminating San RULE BOOK - facility. Bernardino. There are already 15 run­ SEABOARD SYSTEM 1984. Over 200 "Santa Fe's heavy locomotive and car through assignments on this route. pages with operating, signal and com­ munications rules. repair work may now be performed at two The company points to fi erce, low-cost Hard Cover Binder $20. shops because the scope of our equipment truck competition as the reason fo r the maintenance program has changed in re­ continuing necessity for run-through ar­ CONDUCTOR'S INSTRUCTIONS - cent years," said Santa Fe Vice President­ rangements. Amtrak 1981. Fare Rules. Safety Rules, Operating Rules, PA Announcements, Operations J. R. Fitzgerald. "We are doing the best we can to struc­ etc. 200 + pages, Hard Cover three ring Fitzgerald said Santa Fe is running out ture Santa Fe for long-term survival in Binder ...... $20. of suitable candidates for rebuilds among this difficult industry by making the rail­ its active fleet of 1,637 locomotives. Only way as lean and efficient as possible and AMTRAK EMPLOYEE TIMETABLE 100 units are scheduled for remanufac­ these changes are part of that effort," said Northeast Corridor, Schedules, Instructions. maps, Over 400 pages, ture or heavy repair in 1988 compared Fitzgerald. Binder ...... $20. with 264 in 1987. Additionally, mainte­ Los Angeles Division Locals nance needs have decreased because the EMPLOYEE TIMETABLES: Line by line railroad is utilizing its locomotives more With the continuing emphasis on trackage, instructions, speeds etc.. CN-Prarie 1986 $ 8. efficiently and needs a smaller fleet to point-to-point intermodal freight, locals GTW-System 1982 $ 6. operate trains. are slowly going the way of cabooses. ICG-Midwest 1983 $ 6. Freight car repairs can easily be con­ Here is the current (late December 1987) MILWAUKEE RD Syst-82 $10. solidated at one location because of the list of Los Angeles Division local freights N & W-Pocahontas 1981 $ 6. changing nature of the car fleet. Flatcars including on-duty times and other infor­ NS-Crescent 1987 ...... $ 8. for the railway's growing inter modal ser­ mation on operations. We would greatly PRR-Eastern 1965 $ 8. PC-Eastern 1971 vice require fewer heavy repairs than do appreciate contributions of this kind of $ 8. SBD-Florence 1984 $ 6. traditional boxcars, whose numbers are information from other fo lks across the SBD-Nashville 1985 $ 6. shrinking. system. Of particular interest here is the SBD-Raleigh 1985 $ 6. Six new, larger Santa Fe operating divi­ Escondido Local on the Fourth Subdivi­ SOO-SYSTEM 1986 $10. sions, each headed by a division manager sion. Chasing this train is the only sure­ SSW-Kansas City 1981 $ 8. and two or three superintendents, are be­ fire way of shooting freight trains during SP-Eastern 1986 $ 8. SP-Northern 1986 ... .. ing created . Headquarters for the new daylight hours on the busy surf line to San ...... $ 8. UP-System (with MP) 1986 $ 8. divisions will be in Kansas City, Kan.; Diego. the Dallas-Ft. Worth area; Newton, First Fullerton road switcher: On duty PUBLIC TIMETABLE SPECIAL: Kan.; Albuquerque, N.M.; Winslow, Fullerton 7 a.m., daily except Sunday The history of your favorite road told in Ariz. ; and a location in the greater Los and holidays. Works between Fullerton timetables. One from the 1940s. one Angeles area. The new offices will house and milepost 140 on the Third Sub. (Los from the 1950s, one from the 1960s ... 3 administrative as well as all train dis­ Angeles), milepost 21 on the Third Sub. System timetables for only $12.00. Choose from ATSF,ACL,CB&Q, patching, crew-calling and freight office (south Riverside area), milepost 190 on MILW,CRIP,CV,C&O,B&O,IC,GN,NH, fu nctions for the divisions. Smaller satel­ the Fourth Sub. (El Toro area) and be­ NYC,N&W.NP,PRR,SAL,SOU,UP. Six lite offices are expected to remain. tween Olive and Orange on the Olive sets for $60.00 Losing their status as division head­ Sub. EMPLOYEE TIMETABLE quarter cities will be La Junta, Colo. ; Third Fullerton road switcher: On duty STARTER KIT: Ideal for the new col­ Clovis, N .M.; San Bernardino, Calif.; Fullerton 9:30 p.m., daily except Friday, lector. Ten employee timetables, hours and Fresno, Calif. The Fresno dispatch­ Saturday and holidays. Works same areas of interesting reading about railroad op­ ers office may be history as early as May as First Fullerton. erations. One each from the SP, 1988. Fifth Fullerton road switcher: On duty UP,ICG,SCL,SOU,ATSF,BN,MP, In Los Angeles, the actual location of 5:30 a.m. at Fullerton, daily except Sat­ ROCK ISLAND, and CPo All ten for the new office has yet to be announced. urday, Sunday and holidays. Works same $25.00. Most of the administrative offices in the area as First Fullerton. San Bernardino depot will be relocated . It Sixth Fullerton road switcher: On duty Our monthly catalogue lists hundreds is fairly certain the company will vacate 5 p.m. at Hobart yard, daily except Sat­ of items. No charge, sent with each the Santa Fe Plaza facility adjacent to Ho­ urday and holidays. Works between Ho­ order, or send a SSAE. bart Yard in City of Commerce due to bart and milepost 40 on the Third Sub. damage from the October 1 earthquake (Atwood), milepost 170 on the Fourth and because the facility is simply too large Sub. (Anaheim Stadium) and milepost and expensive for the railway's needs. 22.2 on the Harbor Sub. (Torrance area). Sources say the company has looked at a Seventh Fullerton road switcher: On Carl Loucks number of off-line office facilities in a duty 4 a.m. at Hobart, daily except Sat­ ... SELUNG RAlLROAD TIMETABLES wide range of locations, from Pasadena to urday, Sunday and holidays. Works same 199 Wayland St., Nonh Haven, cr 06473 Brea in northern Orange County and area as Sixth Fullerton.

PA CIFIC RailNEWS • 9 Eighth Fullerton road switcher: On duty Ya rd. Works between Watson and San Pe­ round trip Hobart to Long Beach East 7:05 a.m. at Hobart, daily except Satur­ dro Berth 49-50 on the Harbor Belt Line, Yard, one round trip Watson to Berth 49 day and holidays. Works same area as Long Beach Pier "A" yard, Agrex, Met­ on Harbor Belt Line and one round trip Sixth Fullerton. ropolitan Stevedore terminals. Watson to Alcoa. Ninth Fullerton road switcher: On duty Second Wa tson road switcher: On duty Escondido Local: On duty 7 a.m., daily 11 a.m. at Hobart, daily except Saturday, 3 p.m. at Watson Ya rd, daily except Sat­ except Sunday and holidays at Oceanside. Sunday and holidays. Works same area as urday, Sunday and holidays. Works be­ Works one round trip Oceanside to San Sixth Fullerton. tween Watson and Hobart, Long Beach Diego and one round trip up the Escon­ First Rivera (pronounced "rye-veer-uh") East Yard and Berth 49 on the Harbor dido branch. road switcher: On duty 9 p.m. at Ho­ Belt Line. First Sub. Local: Operates daily between bart, daily except Friday, Saturday and Fifth Watson road switcher: On duty San Bernardino and Barstow and makes Christmas Day. Works same area as Sixth 6 p.m. at Watson, daily except Saturday. one round trip daily on Lucerne Valley Fullerton. Works same area as First Watson. District. On duty 12:01 p.m. at San Ber­ First Watson road switcher: On duty Wilmington Turn: On duty 3 p.m. at nardino, 7:10 a.m. at Barstow. 7:05 a.m., daily except Sunday at Watson Hobart, daily except Sunday. Works one First San Bernardino road switcher: On duty 10 a.m., daily except holidays at San Bernardino. Works Redlands branch, to Cajon on First Sub. , Corona on Third Sub. and North Perris on the San Jacinto branch. Second Sub. Local: On duty 8:30 a.m. , daily except Saturday, Sunday and holi­ days at San Bernardino. Works one round trip between San Bernardino and High­ land Park and works industrial spurs en route. Third Sub. Local: On duty 9 a.m., daily except Sunday and holidays at San Ber­ nardino. Works to Prado Dam on Third Sub. and to milepost 2 on San Jacinto District. Works industrial spurs en route. San Jacinto Local: ("San Jack" on the radio) On duty 8 a.m., daily except Sat­ urday, Sunday and holidays at San Ber­ nardino. Works Third Sub. to High­ grove, one round trip on San Jacinto Subdivision. Usually only one or two trips per week past Perris.

System Shorts

The long-awaited test of the CN SDSOF cowl unit was postponed until February due to a difference of opinion between AT&SF and U.S. Customs. Apparently the SD40-2-for-SDSOF swap raised the eyebrows of customs officials who demanded duty payments in excess of $100,000 fo r the deal. Santa Fe attor­ neys went to work to straighten the mat­ ter out, but the demonstration had to be put aside fo r at least six weeks ...Santa Fe has a new TOFC yard at San Bernar­ dino in he old "X" yard area, complete with straddlebuggy and concrete loading/ unloading platforms. The facility re­ places the old, cramped yard behind the freight office on Third St. ...December storms fo rced the railway to bring out a rotary snow plow to clear lines in Texas. In California, a pre-Christmas storm dumped more than two fe et of snow at Cajon Summit; snow was falling along Cajon Pass as far south as Verdemont. l­ IS was closed for more than 24 hours ... The Belen, N.M., roundhouse, last bas­ tion of Santa Fe steam, fe ll to the wreck­ ing ball in early December ...A few BN units helped make train sightingson San­ ta Fe more colorful during December­ they were running off miles owed to Santa Fe. Thanks LO Elrond Lawrence, Keel Middle-

10 . MARCH 1988 lOn, L. A. "Bud"Jeu, Mike Martin, SAN­ tory caboose law, recently revoked such Other Schedule Changes TA FE RAILWAY NEWS, G. Gregg, Dick requirements, allowing the BN to operate Recent schedule changes have generat­ Slephenson, Reid McNaught, Jim Speaker with end-of-train devices as of late No­ ed a new wrinkle in the successful taco­ and Norm Peterson. vember on the high line. nite movement between Minnesota's Iron Washington Central and BN have been Range and Granite City, Ill. The pro­ negotiating the possible WCRC lease of cessed ore is loaded at the Minntac plant the fo rmer NP line across Stampede Pass. located on the DM&IR, complete with Should the agreement be consummated, BN run-through motive power, with oc­ the short line would be allowed to take casional usage of DM&IR ore jennies. over the BN's Auburn Yard, although the These trains are designated as BURLINGTON engine servicing facilities have been re­ DM400/40 I and have been operating moved. Operations between Cle Elum since November. NORTHERN and Auburn could begin as early as the The scheduled limits of new symbol spring of 1988. 154 reported in last month's column have As reported in PRN 290, the BN spent already been modified ; the train now ter­ the summer installing concrete ties on the minates in Galesburg, Ill. Effective mid­ fo rmer GN main line across northwestern November manifest No. 164 originates Montana. The final project statistics are out of Galesburg and operates as a GTW Karl Rasmussen in: Completed in October, some 120,000 run-through, bypassing Cicero Ya rd in ties were placed between Sandpoint, Ida­ Chicago. ho, and Riverview, Mont. In the Twin Cities Region, trains Company Tackles Long Haul The BN/Chrysler motor vehicle trans­ 2311232 now operate between Willmar, Expeditor Concept loading fa cility located on a portion of the Minn., and Minneapolis, providing Burlington Northern has expanded the fo rmer CB&Q Dayton's Bluff Yard in St. through service to Kansas City . Symbol scope of one of its subsidiaries, the Win­ Paul opened on schedule on Dec. I. 808 has been added between Grand ona Bridge Railway, to offer long-haul Switch service has been provided by cap­ Forks, N.D., and Minneapolis (via the ExpedilOr service between St. Paul and tive SW I200 199. Staples corridor) to handle the normal Seattle. With ICC approval, the paper The company 's experiment with satel­ winter rush of potatoes out of the Red subsidiary will lease BN trackage be­ lite navigation control (ARES project) has River Valley. tween the two major markets, with equip­ been progressing well on Minnesota's Operational Highlights ment assets provided by the mother com­ Iron Range. GP38- 2 2108 has been pany. The Winona Bridge Railway will be equipped with special communication de­ With delivery of the LMX B39-8s, the allowed to originate or deliver trailers and vices. Special 9500-series track warrants assignment of GP50s and SD40-2s to Chi­ containers only at St. Paul, Spokane and are used by Twin Cities Region dispatch­ cago/West Coast trains has increased, al­ Seattle. Furthermore, the subsidiary will ers for this testing. though the cabless B30-7As and a few of be allowed to solicit only new business the new 8500s do break the EMD mono­ contracts, since existing loadings must be Update on Unit Coal Train Schedules tony from time to time. The BN has made handled by conventional BN long-haul an effort to keep the fu el tenders at the inter modal trains within the corridor. BN As described in recent issues of P RN, rear of most power consists, hopefully re­ hopes to tap the considerable market BN has been running experimental trains ducing the structural fa tigue experienced from paralleling highway routes, a goal fo r several electrical power utilities of by some cars earlier this year. only achievable with the use of reduced late, hoping to land new long-term coal Despite the delivery of the new GEs crew sizes and increased mileage between hauling contracts. Perhaps the most in­ and the rash of shortline sales, the BN change points. teresting of these involved three test The proposed new service could begin trains operated to the Central Illinois during the first quarter of 1988, although Public Service Company's generating sta­ it may never come to pass. During the tion at Newton, Ill., located 24 miles east '88 ACTION second week of December, the BN and of Effingham. The first two trains, sym­ UTU had begun negotiating a possible boled as SD358, operated from a Mon­ new agreement to facilitate the movement tana mine to the D&RGW in Denver, east of new intermodal traffic using existing to the BN in Kansas City, with delivery to BN employees. More details pertinent to the ICG in the St. Louis area for final these discussions will appear in next movement to Newton. The third train, month's column. designated as an SD568, originated on the D&RGW at Energy Spur, Colo. It was Secondary Lines in Oregon to be Sold handled on the BN between Denver and Speculated about for a few months, it St. Louis, complete with a pair of Rio appears that definite sales agreements Grande SD50s. The ICG handled the last may be in the works for two pieces of leg of the trip into Newton as with the secondary trackage located in Oregon. first two trips. Santa Fe & Southern Pacific The 97-mile Portland-to-Astoria line may Two other recent experimental oper­ 1WO black & white calendars be sold to the Columbia-Astoria Rail Ser­ ations fo und unit coal trains moving to featuring unpublished views vice, while the 19 1-mile Oregon Electric points in the Lower Peninsula of Michi­ $6.50 each. may be sold to John Gray, operator of the gan. NN626 to Flint ran over the GTW At dealers or direct. BN's Stacy Street Intermodal Terminal from Chicago. Concurrently, NN726 ran Add $1.50 for 1 st calendar. 50¢ each additional. (CA residents add 6.5% sales tax) in Seattle. Both of these proposed sales to a Detroit Edison plant located near St. remain in the negotiation stage, with no Clair, using CSX trackage east of the specific conveyance timetable available as Windy City. of mid-December. A final test operation (VV 182) fo und whistlest op the BN delivering unit trains of coal to the Business Briefs Iowa Southern Utilities plant located just PUBLICATIONS :1745 E Colorado Blvd . Pasadena. CA 91 107 Montana, the last state with a manda- south of Burlington, Iowa. ______IHIH ) 7%-779 1 _____ ",

PAC IFIC Rai1NEWS • 11 continues to lease motive power from a of the unit. U30C booster 4500 has been Replacement Crew Hiring Continues multitude of sources. While the 20 sold to PNC, leaving Burlington on While the North Western would prefer D&RGW SD45s were returned in early Nov. 25. to resolve the crew consist issue short of a November, nine DM&IR SDs, 50 EMD Much SP and MP/UP pool power has strike, it is determined to continue oper­ GP38-2s, nine GATX SD38-2s and 15 been operating on the BN during late No­ ating trains even if a strike is called. Dur­ Helm Leasing (ex-MP) GP38-2s remain vember and December, perhaps balanc­ ing the fall, C&NW conducted refresher on the property. ing outstanding credit hours. Other oddi­ courses on train operations for about 600 Quartets of DM&IR SD9118s are often ties have included DW &P SD40 5907 on supervisory employees and ran ads seek­ assigned to trains 897/898 between Supe­ No. 108 through Newport, Minn., on ing out-of-work railroaders to serve as rior, Wis., and Grand Forks, but a real Nov. 25, as well as HLC (ex-ICG) SD40A temporary train crews in the event of a mixed bag of borrowed units can be found 502 1 at Northtown Shops on Nov. 21. strike. on trains between the Twin Cities and Thanks to R. C. Anderson, Mike Clemy, C&NW's efforts to find replacement Twin Ports. On Nov. 22 for example, Bill Ewinger, ]ejj Hendrichs, Damn Hill, workers extended well beyond its service First 835 left Minneapolis with EMD NORTHWEST RAILFAN, and Michael Ra­ area. For example, Railfinders, Inc., a GP38-2 761, BN GP38 2131 and HLC posa. Pittsburgh company retained by C&NW GP38-2 2040, while the second section to find experienced but idle railroaders, featured DM&IR SD9s 163 and 167 set up shop at a motel in Cleburne, Texas, bracketing HLC GP38-2 2369. on Nov. 11 to interview laid-off Santa Fe One of the more colorful lashups was employees. Railfinders told the Cleburne found on the point of a massive 142-car TIMES-REVIEW that it would pay each No . 884 into Minneapolis on Dec. 5, in­ successful applicant from $12 to $15 per cluding GP38-2 2107, GP18 1991, GPIO CHICAGO hour while working, plus $15 to cover 14 13, GP39-2 2724, HLC GP38-2s & away-from-home living expenses and air 2369/2040, EMD GP38-2 787 and GP40- NORTH fare to and from the location at which the 2 304 1. Out in South Dakota, the Oak­ employee would be based. In addition to way SD60s have been spotted in general WESTERN replacing striking C&NW workers, Rail­ freight service lately. Number 9074 led finders may hire these employees out to BN GP38-2 2286 and GP20 2012 on local other railroads during labor disputes. 31662 at Aberdeen on Nov. 17. Three The national unions are discouraging days later, the same unit assisted SD40-2s Michael W. Blaszak potential employees from meeting with 6830/6824 and B30-7AB 4012 on a heavy Railfinders, but apparently without great 127-car GG2 grain train out of Aberdeen. success. of federal mediators, Motive Power Shorts Despite the efforts C&NW spokesman Fred Bloedorn said the North Western has been unable to in mid-November that C&NW would The LMX B39-8s are used primarily reach an accord with the United Trans­ need 4,000 temporary workers in addi­ on Chicago and Denver Region trains, portation Union on reducing train crew tion to management employees to operate with units noted as high as the 8565 as of sizes. Mediation is required by the Rail­ the railroad in the event of a strike. He Dec. 7. Wreck-damaged units 8503 and way Labor Act before a railroad can uni­ claimed C&NW had already received 8540 (see last month's column) passed laterally effect work rule changes, or a 5,000 applications from would-be em­ through Chicago in late November, union can strike over them. Mr. E. B. ployees by that time, but due to the com­ bound for Erie and rebuilding. Meredith, one of 20 mediators employed pany's concerns that applicants from SD60s 8300-8302 were returned to by the National Mediation Board, was as­ warm climates may not report to work in EMD in mid-November upon expiration signed to the C&NW-UTU dispute on C&NW country in the dead of winter, of their two-year lease. Speculation has it July 21, 1987. Mr. Meredith conducted when any strike over the crew consist is­ that the trio may emerge in demo colors, meetings between the two sides in Chica­ sue is likely to begin, it would line up with the title transferred to Oakway as go on Aug. 25-26 and Oct. 27-29. In these more than the minimum numberof work­ happened with the 9000s. discussions, the company revised its pro­ ers required. It was reported in late No­ As of late November, GP40 3017 and posal to provide that buyouts of vember that between 2,500 and 3,000 SD40 6300 were at the West Burlington, ground service employees resulting from temporary employees had been engaged Iowa, shops being cannibalized for parts. reduced train crew sizes (covered by ItS by the company. GP38 2135 arrived at Burlington on original bargaining proposal) would be New BofLE Agreement Dec. 8, withheavy damage to the left side offered in seniority order, but UTU con­ tinued to demand a crew consist arrange­ In July 1987, C&NW said it had com­ ment conforming to the "pattern" agreed menced negotiations with the Brother­ upon by the other major railroads. hood of Locomotive Engineers toward a Another meeting was held in Milwau­ new collective bargaining agreement pre­ THE kee on Dec. 1-2, but no significant cluding strikes by the company's engi­ change in the parties' positions occurred. neers in return for management-level em­ "CAB's EYE-VIEW" C&NW and UTU representatives were ployee benefits and monthly inexpensive, HIGH-QUALITY, home VIDEO JOURNEYS scheduled to meet in Washington on compensation. C&NW announced in No­

MIAMI Mello/ail · PHILA M"',·Fkd . SEPTA W Chesler ' Dec. 17 with Mr. Meredith and a mem­ vember that it and BofLE general chair­ BUFFALO nita Trolleys 01 MUNICH $1 5.00 ber of the National Mediation Board in a man G. L. Ruppert had reached a tenta­ BOSTON green 8. lb ue. Orange ' PHILA Norristown (P&W) . Trolleys 01 AMSTERDAM 8.THE HAGUE · further effort to resolve the matter. If Mr. tive understanding on a new agreement. $20.00 PORTLAND max ' CHICAGORavenswood, Evanston · SAN DIEGO Trolley ' TORONTO YOflgC Subway Meredith determines that the parties can­ The company said it and the union had

E o 8. 2 . Trolleys 01 COLOGNE ' $25.00 �3���ts ��'b� �ri��� not reach an accord, he will discontinue "agreed to postpone discussions of a no­ his mediation efforts. After a 30-day strike clause pending further events," VHS . BETA · VIDEO 8 "cooling off' period following the media­ but the understanding does extenda prof­ and many more, similarly priced I tor's withdrawal, if no agreement IS it-sharing and retirement savings pro­ SEND SASE. TO: gram, sick pay, salary continuation and CARSON HOME VIDEO reached, C&NW can implement new long-term disability plans to the engme­ POST OFFICE BOX 42582 work rules calling for two-person crews PHILADELPHIA, PA 19101 and UTU can call a strike over the dis­ men, as well as converting their regular pute. pay to a monthly salary.

12 . MARCH 1988 FROM THE Legal Developments closing Mills, towards which C&NW will WILLIAM P. PRICE Threaten Line Sales undoubtedly be receptive. amm FILM COLLECTION

The momentum of the railroad indus­ Locomotive Notes try's line sale movement slowed consider­ Canadian National SD40 5026 was ably in October and November following spotted at Proviso in mid-November, ap­ federal court decisions finding that rail­ parently just off a potash train. Early in roads have a duty to bargain with union 1986 the North Western arranged for employees regarding terms of severance run-through power on potash trains origi­ before selling lines to new carriers operat - nating on CN in Saskatchewan, which re­ ing either without or with fewer unions sulted in a number of CN units roaming under simplified contracts and work the Midwest, and selected C&NW SD45s rules. Previously, under Interstate Com­ (stenciled "CN Pool") visiting Canada. merce Commission policy, railroads had However, subsequent action by the De­ been able to effect such sales without bar­ partment of Commerce against alleged gaining with their employees or compen­ dumping of Canadian potash caused the sating workers losing their jobs in accor­ provincially-owned Potash Corporation dance with the standard "New York of Saskatchewan to raise prices, which in Dock/Oregon Short Line" formula. FIlmed 10 1953 and 1954 by WIllIam P Pflce on Ihe PlIIsburgh turn choked off mostof C&NW 's traffic, Now, as railroads face either strikes for DIvIsion over Sand Patch Grade and the Cumberland making the CN unit's cameo appearance DIvISion's west end See these classIcs In action "Slg SIX" failure to bargain or costly settlements, noteworthy. 2-10-2. EM-I 2 -8-8- 4. P-Id 4 -6- 2. Olba 2-8-2 Alco FA Diesels short line sales are likely to become con­ 8&0'5 famous "Washingtonian" and other passenger trams Because many of the potash trains ter­ are also featured Documentation provided by Harry siderably less attractive to the old-line minated on the former Seaboard System, Stegmaier Jr and 8111 Price Narrated by Rege Cordle carriers. Presenled wllh a musical background 55 mlnules $49.95 SBD and later Chessie/CSX units occa­ Caught in the middle of these develop­ sionally appeared on North Western rails. ments is the North Western, which has This continued into November, when completed just one major line sale (to Da­ Seaboard SD40-2 8028 appeared at Provi­ kota, Minnesota and Eastern) and has not so. been able to close two others which have A number of locomotives rebuilt by been publicly announced. Worse, the Morrison-Knudsen for NewJersey Tran­ company's management agreed in No­ sit and Maryland Area Rail Commuter vember to a buyout proposal from invest­ ment banker Gibbons, Green, van Amer­ have been spotted in eastbound C&NW ongen, which apparently intends to trains originating at Union Pacific's finance the acquisition out of line sale North Platte Yard . MARC 74, a rebuilt proceeds. These developments have led GP38, spent the weekend of Dec. 12-13 at the Proviso diesel ramp. to speculation that Gibbons, Green may Finally, just to prove a point, we sup­ not be able to complete the deal and may pose, the North Western assigned SD45 attempt to back out of it. 6543 to a Proviso switch job that same In an effort to break an impasse with its Photos by Bill Price weekend. That's a mighty big unit for Filmed In 1953 and 1954 by William P Price on the Mainline to unions over the proposed sale of 208 switching chores. Connellsville and the Elkins SubdiVIsion at famous locallons roure-miles of track between Milwaukee such as the Salisbury Viaduct. Big Savage Tunnel. Thanks to THE NORTH WESTER I DIS­ Helmstetters Curve. Black Fork Grade and morel Features and Green Bay to Itel Rail Corporation PATCH and Bob Stein. Decapod 2- 10-0. Challenger 4-6-6-4. H-9 2-8-0. PaCIfic 4 -6-2 subsidiary FRVR Corporation, C&NW Potomac, 4·8·4 F· 7 and Alco RS·2 HistOrical documenlatlon offered on Dec. 7 to pay a $30,000 sepa­ by Harry Stegmaier. Jr and 8111 Price Narrated by Rege Cordlc Musical background 52 mlnules .. $49.95 ration allowance to any employee affected by the sale who is unable to continue em­ OTHER TITLES AVAILABLE o Challenger '82 - UP 3985 1982 Trips 55 mlO ...... $49_95 ployment with C&NW or secure a job o U.P. "Ch.llanger" 3985 - 1981 Coverage 55 min ... . . 39_95 with FRYR. C&NW believes that of the o Diesels West · UP D&RGW. Utah Rwy 55 min ...... 39.95 270 employees currently assigned to the o Legend 01 the Rio Grande Zephyr · 52 min ...... 49.95 o Ole.el. on Ihe U_P_ - DDA40X. SD-40. U30-C. 60 min .. 49_95 lines to be sold, all but 20 should be able AMTRAK/ o Diesels on the Union Paclflc... The Sequel · 60 min . . .. 49.95 to find work with either C&NW or o Steam Over Sherman · U P Steam In '50'5 55 min . . . . 49.95 FRVR. As of mid-December the unions PASSENGER o Rio Granda OI1he Rockl. . - '50'5 Sid. & N .G 59 mlO . . . . . 49.95 o Excursion to the Thirties · Rare8mm Colo N.G. 52 min ... 49.95 had not responded positively to this pro­ o Rio Grande N.G. in the Aftin . 8mm N G 58 min ..... 49.95 posal. o A Fonle. Memory - D&RGW. ATSF. S.P . RGS. 24 m,n ....34.95 o Narrow Gauge Video Vignette · Colo N G . 55 mm .... 39.95 Towers Closing o O&RGW N.G_ Fn_ Train. - 1967 (Sllenl) 60 min _. 49.95 o O&RGW N.G. Stock & P.... Tr. - 1967 (Sllenl) 60 mlO ....49_95 The North Western participated in the o Ralls Acro.s The Summit · Cumbres & Tollec. 28 mm ....34.95 operation of two of the last towers in the Dick Stephenson o Doubleheader '83 · Cumbres & Tol\ec 28 min, ...... 24.95 state of Iowa: Short Line Tower in Des o Snow Tr.ln: Rio Grenda', Ski Spacl.l - F-9 28 min ... 34.95 o TheSugar Cane Train · Hawall's 3' LK&P 20 min . . . .. 24.95 Moines and Mills Tower at Iowa Falls. Why The Train Was Late? o Last Steamers 01 the C&S . 1958 Sid Ga 52 min ..... 49.95 The efficiencies of centralized operating o Tehachapi Pt. I: The Ssnta Fe · Diesel 57 mLn •...•.• 49.95 control, however, made these operations Sometimes events conspire to make a o Tehachapi Pt. 11: The Southern Pacific · 52 min ...... 49.95 o The Rio Grande Today · 2 Hr Special 120 min ...... 59.95 prominent targets for the company's cost­ train late, and it seems as though nothing o The Aftles Express · Steam on 15 roads 52 min .. . .. 49.95 cutting management. Short Line Tower, can be done to improve on the situation. SPECIFY VHS or BETA (I • DEALERS WELCOME an ex-Rock Island facility east of down­ One such train was the eastbound Sh,pplng & handling 52 50 ( U . S. & Canada) F o re'gn 55 00 town, was reported closed as of Sept 30; SOUlhweSl Chief from Los Angeles on FREE DESCRIPTIVE BROCHURE the CTC panel there, controlling portions Nov. 28. East of Victorville, Calif., the __ VISA or of the Des Moines-Kansas City line, was train struck an object that punctured the =. .55. MasterCard to be relocated to Central Division head­ � fuel tank on one of the two F40s. After (303) 770-8421 quarters at Boone. The new, economizing stopping for inspection (which took '5!5' i!!!!!!F VIDEO PRODUCTIONS management of Chicago Central and Pa­ awhile), the train continued on to Bar­ cific, meanwhile, was taking steps toward stow. Amtrak officials hoped to hold the 6447 S. Heritage PI. W'/Englewood. CO 801 J J

PACIFIC RailNEWS • 13 from Austin, Texas, which moved to and from Los Angeles on the rear of the S Wisel Limiud. It arrived on Dec. 28 and de­ parted on Jan. l.

The View Ahead

In an interview in the December 1987 issue ofRAILWAY AGE, Amtrak President W. Graham Claytor commented on the improved financial performance of Am­ trak during the last year. He indicated he expects an order for new low-level equip­ ment (based on the View liner prototypes) in 1990. He suggested designating a pen­ ny of the fe deral gasoline tax for Amtrak use which would raise over $1 billion per year (more than the amount of the current subsidy Amtrak receives). Such funds Amtrak sleeper No. 2300, prototype for the proposed Viewliner single-level cars, recently released would assist in fi nancing capital projects, from the Beech Grove Shops, is seen in Chicago on Nov. 1, 1987. It rides on trucks of Japanese design. including new equipment. -JOHN H. KUEHL One of the best success stories Amtrak has to tell is the AUlO Train (running be­ tween Sanford, Fla., and Lorton, Va .). It train there so that power could be sition car. This took about two hours to is now Amtrak's number one train in fi­ swapped with westbound No. 3. Number complete. Arrival in Los Angeles was sev­ nancial performance. Since 1985 rev­ 3 had a few problems of its own and kept en hours late. The Amfleet coach was re­ enues have increased from $25 million to getting later. Number 4 was so late that a turned in the same set of equipment that $37 million. It far more than covers its relief crew was needed for it to complete evening. Power into Los Angeles was a avoidable costs and makes a substantial the run to Needles. They were called at Santa Fe SD39U and three F40s. contribution to company revenues. Fans Los Angeles and dispatched in a taxi, can appreciate the AUla Train, which gen­ Motive Power Notes which broke down near Ontario, about erally runs 45-46 cars and is powered by 50 miles east of Los Angeles, still about Reliability problems with the P30CH three P30CHs. an hour from Barstow. A relief taxi was units led to F40s making frequent appear­ called out to rescue the crew. In the mean­ ances on the Sunsel Limited during No­ time, No. 3 arrived at Barstow about vember and December. The SOUlhweSI three hours late, power was swapped, Chief into Los Angeles on Dec. 14 was crews were changed, and both trains led by Santa Fe red F45 5980. Three days started out. Number 3 was so late, that to earlier Santa Fe GP50 3829 was added to avoid a conflict with a parade in Pasade­ No. 4 at San Bernardino to replace an na, the train was routed over the Third ailing F40. Soo Subdivision via Fullerton and arrived in Private Car Moves LINE Los Angeles at 12 :53 p.m. Number 4 departed Barstow 8 hours December was a quiet month for pri­ 39 minutes late and made up very little vate car moves. One brief flurry of activ­ time on the remainder of the run, arriving ity took place the weekend of Dec. 12-13, two days later in Chicago 8 hours and as five private cars moved on San Diegan 23 minutes late. trains at once. This included Nalive Son, Karl Rasmussen Another very late No. 3 arrived in Los Silver Palio, La COlldesa, 5011 and Cyrus Angeles on Dec. 20. One of the coaches K. Holliday . Nalive Son and La Condesa Corporate News Highlights had to be set-out at Kansas City; in its made Los Angeles-Oakland round trips place an Amfleetcoach was picked up and around the New Year's holiday. Also vis­ In its third quarter report to its stock­ switched into the train ahead of the tran- iting the southland was the Boonesborough holders, Soo emphasized the im-

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14 • MARCH 1988 provement in its debt structure with the Paul Yard , making crew changes and fuel­ DW &P run-through train 40 1 via Lady­ sale of the Lake States Division to Wis­ ing stops as required. An example of the smith, Wis., on Nov. 20. The shortage of consin Central Limited. Neglecting the new run-through operation occurred on crews and increased mileage certainly one-time tax loss of $24 million taken Nov. 21, as No. 498 arrived in St. Paul made this a difficult option fo r transpor­ with this sale, the company would have with a 114-car, 10,900-ton consist for tation control personnel to authorize. realized a small profit for the quarter. Chicago. GP40 2007 was tacked in front The continued heavy movement of Officials continued to be dismayed over of the through power (SD40 750 and grain traffic on the Soo during November the fact that despite a net increase in car­ SD40-2 775) on the adjacent main line and December has significantly cut into loadings of approximately fo ur percent, trackage; the resulting 9,000-h.p. consist the fleet of six-axle, high-horsepower the net revenue per unit declined by sev­ was readily able to move the primarily road power. Many through trains have en percent. Canadian-oriented drag to the Windy been spotted with trios of GP38-2s and With the long-range goal of improving City. GP40s in lieu of the customary pair of its operational efficiency (and hopefully As reported in last month's column, SDs. Trains fo rtunate enough to draw a its bottom line), Soo proudly opened the schedule of fo rmer Milwaukee sym­ pair of the big SD60s are often over­ its new motor vehicle transfer facility in bol 205 has been extended west of St. loaded, as exemplified by a 15,000-ton Cottage Grove, Minn., in mid-Novem­ Paul on the old Soo, handling traffic for No. 670 into St. Paul on Dec. 5. Units ber. The proximity of this large center to Glenwood and eventual CP interchange at 6015 and 6000 handled the 90 loads of the Chicago to St. Paul main line has Portal, N.D. This schedule complements potash and 25 loads of grain with com­ helped cut transit time on the transload­ long standing symbol 943 within this cor­ parative ease. ing of new cars and light trucks. The Cot­ ridor. The Soo has not initiated a corre­ The Oakway cousins to the Soo's 6000s tage Grove site is capable of handling sponding eastbound symbol, although (SD60s) are now allowed to run through nearly 40 auto racks at one time during former Milwaukee designations 484 and on coal trains bound fo r Columbia and the unloading process. 498 are regularly used east of Glenwood to Weston Spur, Wis. On Dec. 2, No. 286 denote run-through trains beyond St. was observed leaving St. Paul with Oak­ Operating Revision to Continue Paul . Another new symbol observed in way SD60s 9094/9002 leading BN SD40- In a constant search for better methods this route was unit coal train No . 862 on 2 6739. to streamline its operations, Soo has Nov. 13, passing through the Twin Cities Over the Thanksgiving holiday, the fo und that closing the yard in Glenwood, with a 100-car, 13,000-ton train. Soo dispatched a couple of notable trains Minn., was counterproductive. Because out of St. Paul. On Nov. 29, a short 48- Significant Operations Highlights of the serious bottlenecks which subse­ car No. 937 had a true power balancing quently developed in the St. Paul termi­ With an extremely heavy flow of BN, lashup, induding SD60s 6005/60 13, nal, the company decided to put a yard­ C&NW and Soo traffic on BN's single­ GP40s 20 1 1/2020 and SD40s 7461755. master back on duty at Glenwood. This track line between Minneapolis and Su­ Shortly behind , a monstrous liS-car No. step allows several trains to bypass S t. perior, Wis., the Soo was fo rced to detour 602 took off for Mason City, Iowa, fe atur-

PACIFIC RailNEWS • 15 ing GP40 2036 and GP38-2 4515/ 626). When the firstfo ur GP20s returned of the Mexican peso against the dollar, the 4407/45 10/4446. from the CC&P, they immediately re­ price of rail travel in Mexico has remained As is the custom in this column, we'll ceived the infamous "black patch" treat­ stable in terms of dollars. The cost for keep you abreast of activities with that ment, but the second group remains two persons to travel from Mexicali to vanishing breed of equipment, cabooses. stored in the modified green diamond Mexico City in a bedroom was 212,695 On Nov. 19, MKT crummy 205 was ob­ scheme. GP40 2000 also received the pesos (or about $96.68). served in St. Paul. Soo has renumbered patch paint job, while SD40-2 187 was Passenger News yet another pair of the older. style Milwau­ renumbered to 6353 and MP15AC 484 A railcar service was started between kee bay window waycars to 178 and 183. became 1550. The latter unit is the first Chihuahua and Madera on Nov. I. The known ex-Milwaukee MP to receive the Motive Power Status Report single autovia leaves Chihuahua daily at "banditized" paint scheme. 7:20 a.m. journeying west on the fo rmer The last eight of the former Milwaukee Thanks LO L. W. Andreessen, Mike CHP main line to La Junta where the GP20s leased to the CC&P have been re­ Cleary, and che Soo Line Railroad. train turns north for a 12: 10 p.m. arrival turned to Soo and were stored at Shore­ at Madera. The train leaves for Chihua­ ham as of mid-December. The 947/950/ hua at 2:00 p.m. and pulls in at 6:48 p.m. 952/960 were turned over in Dubuque, Early ridership has been reported to be Iowa, on Nov. 20, while sisters 95 11954/ low. It is again possible to ride the entire 956/959 made a similar transfer on Ciudad Juarez-La Junta line in the day­ Dec. 2. These Geeps were replaced by a light with a layover in Madera. The train fleet of eight fo rmer CR SDP45s in the MEXICAN is called Bavicora. 6685-6699 series, leased from V M V ou t of The El Jaraclzo began operating with Paducah, Ky. (These are the engines RAILROADS new and upgraded cars on Oct. 24, as an which were stored at Shoreham for over advance section of overnight Mexico six months earlier this year.) City-Ve racruz trains 53 and 54. The new The status of the last five units of the 40 train departs 30 minutes before the old ex-Milwaukee SD40-2s to be returned to schedule and has a consist that includes their lessor remains in limbo. The 162 fo ur coaches, a lounge and two sleepers. remains stored at Shoreham in mid-De­ C. R. Prather The second train also carries a sleeper cember, while the 146115511571167 re­ that may be used for pass riders or for main unaccounted fo r. This last batch of travel to points at which EI Jaroclzo does EMDs was to be returned to their owner The consolidation of the Sonora-Baja Cal­ not stop. by year's end. ifornia Railway into the National Rail­ The evening departures from Ciudad The last two of 26 units conveyed to the ways of Mexico was evident during a visit Juarez's single track station create some Wisconsin Central left Shoreham on to the border city of Mexicali in early interesting movements. After south­ Dec. 6: GP30s 709 and 72 1. Coincidental December. The sign on the Mexicali rail­ bound train 56 leaves for Chihuahua, to this movement, WCL has been regu­ road station that spelled out FC SONORA­ train 8 and El Rapido de la Fran/era are larly returning leased Soo SW 1200s, BAJA CALIFORNIA has been replaced with placed in the station with Mexico City­ GP9s and GP20s to their owner. GP20s blue letters that proclaim FCC bound No. 8 at the south end. Since the 955/957/958/962/963 were immediately NACIONALES DE MEXICO-DIVISION BAJA Rapido departs first, the Chihuahua­ placed into yard and transfer service in CALIFORNIA. bound train must back out of the station we Twin Cities Terminal, allowing the Two units were seen that have been to get around the other train. storage of all GP7s except Nos. 376 and repainted from the SBC scheme to the The Guadalajara-Nogales/Mexicali El 377. Several GP9s in the 400- and 4200- NdeM blue, although with some modifi­ Cosceno, also known as La Bala (the bul­ series have also been stored at Shoreham, cations. GP18 2305 and high-nose GP40- let), will be upgraded in early 1988 as cars but some of the formerly leased Geeps 2 2105 have yellow shields on the front become available. The Empalme shops were immediately integrated into Soo's nose rather than the orange shields that has released the following rebuilt sleeping active fleet. are on units used on other lines. The loco­ cars: Lago Camecuara, Rio Mololoa, Li­ Recent shop activity at Shoreham motives seen at Mexicali did not have an bra, and Aires. Passenger loads on the up­ fo und at least three of the fo rmer CR NdeM herald within the shield. In addi­ graded El Purepecha, Mexico City-Urua­ GP38-2s on hand (EMD 7471748/810). tion, the 2305 had a silver band rather pan, and Expreso del Mar, Nogales­ The repainting of the third ex-KCS SD40 than the lighter shade of blue, and the Guaymas, have been light. has commenced, new No. 6404 (former 2105 had a round logo behind the cab that Shorts combined the SBC Indian and the NdeM eagle with a pair of rails connecting the The NdeM has added faster freight symbols plus the letters N and M. The schedules between Mexico City and Nue­ logo was also seen on a passenger coach in vo Laredo, as well as between Mexico train No. 1. City and Guadalajara ... The narrow­ freight service is another change that has gauge lines to Peto and Sotuta in the Yu­ occurred since the merger. A northbound catan are being standard gauged. The r1 freight was sighted with three C30-7s, Oriental to Teziutlan narrow-gauge line of the  will become the last NdeM narrow-gauge �l!:�! two with FCP lettering and one with CALIfORNIA STATE RAILROAD MUSEUM NdeM. Previously, the SBC freights were operation. The railroad is talking to ship­ Over 1000 Titles Always In Stock! pulled by GP35s and GP40-2s. pers on the line about building a 36 km. � CALL US FIRST! � The express train to Guadalajara, La standard-gauge line between Perote, on Bala, is running with two sleeping cars the Ve racruz via Jalapa line, and Teziut­ Milepost 1 and the State Railroad Museum are open 7 days a week 10 AM . 5 PM and a dining car, when available, plus Ian. This new line is planned to one day several primera especial coaches. The train connect with a proposed line along the PHONE ORDERS (916) 447·9665 VISA/MC has not been using rebuilt cars, and the Gulf of Mexico ...The railway system 115 "I" STREET ' OLD SACRAMENTO, CA 95814 sleeping cars are not operating through to received 250 boxcars fo r fo od service, 50 SEND $1.00 FOR CURRENT CATALOG Mexico City, although there is through TOFC flatcars, 60 regular flatcars,and 55 ticketing with a change of cars in Guada­ PACifiC COASI CHAPI[R RAILWAY & LOCOMOIIV[ HISIORICAL SOCIHY.INC. Continued on page 32 lajara. Despite the recent fall in the value

16 • MARCH 1988 K A I S E R S TEE L' S

__ fagle A(oalttailtM ine Railroad_-

A trio of Kaiser Steel U30Cs bring a string of ore hoppers to the Ferrum, Calif., interchange with Southern Pacific on Nov. 30, 1969. -GORDON GLATTENBERG

by David E. Laag roster research by David A. Dallner

ven though it is the second day of spring, one can still train down the short steep grade leading from the Eagle feel the cool nip of the early morning air as it moves Mountain Mine into the waiting morning landscape. Sitting down the slopes of the surrounding hills onto the at the control stand of unit 1031 with today's consist, sister desertE floor. The warmth of the bright sun shining through 1034 and 20 cars of pelletized ore in tow, he again applies high wispy clouds and the sparse vegetation of this arid land power as he reaches the bottom of what past crews have remind you that the unbearably hot days of summer are just a named Caution Hill. Conductor Bill Williams, sitting on the few months off. The yellow blooms of the creosote and left side of the cab, alternately watches the tracks ahead and encillia and the red blooms of the ocatillo blend with the rich the string of cars behind as they make their way up the grade browns of the hills and the sandy grays of the desert to fo rm a toward Summit. Though hard at work, the big red GEs pleasing mixture of earthen shades. This day, March 24, sound sure of themselves as they pass through the curve and 1986, is like many others that the men of the Kaiser Steel rocky cut at Telephone Pass as they had done thousands of Eagle Mountain Mine Railroad have witnessed for almost times before. 40 years. But the two crew members on today's train have The tracks of the Eagle Mountain Mine Railroad the sobering knowledge that this will be their last run. (EMMR) are located about 165 miles east of Los Angeles The refreshing desert silence is broken by the noisy rattle near the town of Desert Center. The entire 52 miles of track­ of a motor car sent ahead to patrol the rails fo r gifts from work lie within the boundaries of Riverside County-thus nature or reckless vandals. The sound of the motor car is making it the only railroad that this California county can quickly replaced by that of dynamic brakes from a pair of call its own. The rails begin at Kaiser Steel's Eagle Mountain General Electric U30Cs. Engineer Frank Palomarez eases his Mine which lies about ten miles north-northwest of the town

PA CIFIC RailNEWS • 17 of Desert Center. The tracks travel in a southwesterly direc­ process, he became the youngest passenger engineer on that tion toward the interchange point with Southern Pacific at same division. He enjoyed running the 375 1 class 4-8-4s, Ferrum, located on the northeast shore of the Salton Sea 3800 and 3900 class 2-1O-2s and remembers several trips about 30 miles southeast of Indio. behind the 3751 now undergoing restoration at California Steel in Fontana, Calif. In 1964 he became the railroad Two "Old Timers" foreman at Eagle Mountain, a position he held until promo­ Bill Williams and Frank Palomarez are both "Old Tim­ tion to railroad su perin tendent in 1972. ers" when it comes to railroading. Frank hired on to work as a track maintenance person shortly after line construction The train continues upgrade through Victory Pass which was completed. During his long career with EMMR he was looks like a giant V which was cut through the solid rock of a promoted to track maintenance foreman and supervised small mountain. Today's train is short and makes good time workforces ranging from ten to 60 men. After the discon­ compared with the 100-car trains run during the 50s, 60s and tinuance of mining at Eagle Mountain, he became the last 70s. The train crosses Eagle Mountain Mine Road and con­ engineer on the line. tinues almost straight as it makes its ascent toward the Bill Williams' first railroad experience was with the Santa undercrossing at Interstate 10. This curveless stretch per­ Fe Railway's Los Angeles Division. He hired on in 1940 as a haps allows both crew members time to reflect on the history fi reman trainee and was promoted to engineer in 1944 at the of EMMR and their respective roles in shaping it. end of the minimum required time. At age 26 he was the Eagle Mountain's Beginnings youngest engineer on his division, a position which he held for several years. In 1949, through a fluke in the bidding On December I, 1941, only days before the Japanese at-

Construction was sti II underway on the holding yard track at the SP interchange at Ferrum in fall 1948 when Baldwin unit 10lOA, one of the pair of locomotives delivered to begin the Eagle Mountain rood, was seen at this desolate location. -JOHN R. SIGNOR COLLECTION

Baldwin DRS6-6-15 No. 10lOA was photo­ graphed at Los Angeles on Aug. 14, 1948, before it was delivered to its desert home. -STAN KISTLER COLLECTIONI DAVID A. DALLNER COLLECTION

18 • MARCH 1988 The rugged desert scenery along the Eagle Mountain Railroad was enjoyed by those aboard the Railway Club ot Southern Calitarnia's "Eagle Mountain Holiday" excursion on Oct. 22, 1950. Harriman-style SP coaches plus an open-air gondola, with Baldwins 101 OB and 1 OlOA, pose on a wood trestle at milepost 14.4. -STAN KISTLER/DAVID A. DALLNER COLLECTION

tacked Pearl Harbor, Kaiser Steel was incorporated for the vided transportation facilities fo r materials from the Vulcan purpose of steel manufacturing in Southern California. The Mine. Its ore, however, was not of good enough quality to finished product was needed to supply the many ship-build­ satisfy Kaiser and a better source was sought. ing fa cilities on the west coast controlled by Henry J. Kaiser. In 1910, shortly after the death of E. H. Harriman, the Ships being built under contract fo r the English government management of Southern Pacific Railroad purchased the were currently using eastern-produced steel, which was cost­ Eagle Mountain mining claim fr om a pioneer prospector ly to ship and in short supply. After determining its econom­ named L. S. Barnes. Over 30 years later a declaration of the ic feasibility and obtaining the necessary $125 million fi­ U.S. Government Strategic Materials Program confirmed nancing by mortgaging all of his shipbuilding operations, the existence of a large deposit of high grade ore at the site. Kaiser began construction of the mill in Fontana. In August Kaiser Steel purchased the site in 1944 and began its devel­ 1943 the first steel plate rolled off the production line at the opment after the end of the war. Fontana facility. In 1947 construction of the 52-mile railroad was begun- Coal for this early production came from Utah Fuel Com­ 50 miles of line from Ferrum to the mine yard and another pany Mine No. 2 at Sunnyside, Utah, transported via the two miles of in-plant trackage. This was one of the longer rails of Union Pacific . In 1950 Kaiser purchased the entire privately built standard gauge lines constructed in the Sunnyside, Utah, fa cility; in 1955, with an eye for expanded American southwest in the post-World Wa r II era. In August fu ture production, 500,000 acres of land near Raton , 1948 the first carloads of raw iron ore were rolled over the N. Mex., were purchased. The existing mine at the Raton newly laid rails to Southern Pacific at Ferrum. fa cility, named the Koehler Mine, was operated and up­ graded until the nearby newer and more modern Yo rk Can­ yon Mine could be completed. Coal from the Raton area was transported via Santa Fe. The Yo rk Canyon Mine served as the major source of coking coal until the Fontana Mills closure in 1983. Also needed for the production of steel was a reliable source of limestone. Until 1955 this material was purchased from various sources in California and Nevada. In that year the company purchased a large deposit located at Cushen­ bury, Calif. (near Hesperia), only 75 miles from Fontana, near the Santa Fe main line-an inexpensive and reliable source of limestone. The last ingredient needed fo r the steelmaking process Typical ot ore hoppers used on Kaiser moves from the Eagle Mountain Mine to was a reliable source of iron ore. The company purchased the its smelter at Fontana was SP No. 345095, part ot a train at Colton, Cal it., on Vulcan Mine located near Kelso, Calif. , which served as the Aug. 19, 1958. main source of ore until 1948. Union Pacific Railroad pro- -ROBERT E. SMITH/DAVID A. DALLNER COLLECTION

PA CIFIC RajlNEWS • 19 Above: Baldwins 101 2B, 1 OIOA and 1020 cross over the Coachella Canal (see map) an Sept. 25, 1965. Right: Bringing up the rear of the train shown above, behind the bay-window Eagle Mountain Railroad caboose, are helpers SP 5258 and 5259, both BLH AS616s. -BOTH: GORDON GLATTENBERG

The ore mined at the facility, called hemetite (Fe203), due proper grade, it passes through a cut made directly into the to impurities had a relatively low concentration of iron per desert floor, protected from a nearby wash by a large dike. volume. In 1954 the company completed an ore benefication The wash shows evidence of uncontrolled flash-flooding plant at the mine, which improved the iron content. In 1957 from summer thunderstorms. From the cab windows Frank a concentrating plant was built to further increase the iron and Bill can see the yellow blooms of the pal a verde, mes­ content. Finally, in 1965, the ore pelletizing plant was com­ quite and catsclaw, whose edible pods once provided suste­ pleted, which boosted the ore content to almost 65 percent nance for the local Indians. The right-of-way is also decorat­ and produced uniform pellets about one-quarter inch in ed with smoke and ironwood trees along with many kinds of diameter. Increasing the iron concentration in the ore result­ cacti. The engineer's side of the train is flanked by the t ed in lower shipping costs, more efficient use of the blast Orocopia Mountains whose dark brown and black rocks furnaces at the Fontana Mill and a higher price from other provide a striking background for the fa ded red GEs. ore users. Most of the ore mined was consumed in the fu r­ Motive Power naces of the Fontana Mill, but from the early 60s until 1971, ore was also shipped overseas. Though this landscape has changed little over the years, the motive power and train handling techniques have. The Back On The Run original power for the railroad came in the form of a pair of The train passes under Interstate 10 and begins the final Baldwin DRS 6-6- 1500s, delivered in 1948, fo llowed by leg of its ascent up to the plateau at Summit. To maintain the three AS616s, purchased between 1950 and 1952. All but

20 • MARCH 1988 BLH AS616 1 012B heads a quartet of power, one still pointed in Eagle Mountain's original block-and-orange scheme, on April 1, 1960. -GORDON GLATTENBERG

. one of these units wore a spectacular red-orange-silver-black painted to match No. 1020 (in the C&O blue scheme). Dur­ paint scheme that resembled Southern Pacific's Daylighl ing 1966- 1967 all units were renumbered 1025-1029, num­ paint scheme. The fifth unit, No. 1020, wore the blue and bers they retained through the end of their service on the yellow of its previous owner, C&O. Heavy shopping fo r all EMMR. By this time, the five Baldwins were showing their power was done by SP at its shop facilities in Los Angeles; age and frequently needed repairs. Their unreliability began running maintenance was done by Kaiser at the mine shop. to seriously affect the railroad's operations. Between 1961 and 1964, all fo ur Daylighl uni ts were re- Once all five of the Baldwins were on the property, a

Ge�erol Electric locomotives 1034, 1032 and 1033 snoke a string of loaded ore hoppers around one of the many curves on the Eagle Mountain Railroad on April 1, 1980. -GORDON GLATTENBERG

PACIFIC RailNEWS • 21 standard of train handling was set. When adequate power discovered that heat radiated from the desert floor caused was available, four of the Baldwins were placed on the front temperature sensors in the battery compartment to malfunc­ of the train and the fifth was put on the rear behind the tion . As a cure, the undercab area from the battery box caboose. This was barely enough power to move the stan­ covers forward on all five units was repainted white in early dard 100-car 7,000-ton train up the hill to Summit. Since all 1982. five of the units were not often available, power had to be When the GEs arrived, the leased power was returned to leased from SP in the fo rm of additional Baldwin AS 616. It SP. Trains were run with the GEs, and the Baldwins were was still common, even with the leased power, to have inad­ used only if needed. By 1971 trains were run with only the equate power fo r the train . The solution was to break the GEs, three on the front and one on the rear of the train. string of cars in two at the bottom of Caution Hill, double the Moving the Ore hill to Summit, and reassemble the train for the descent to Ferrum. When six working units were available, the stan­ During early operations, ore was loaded into SP gondola dard train would have fo ur units on the front and two on the and open-top hoppers of 50-, 60- and 70-ton capacity. Start­ rear. Starting in 1958, with the delivery of newer cars, the ing in 1958 these cars were replaced by about 700 closed­ carloading changed to 100 tons (10,000 tons per train) thus bottom 100-ton ore cars. The latter cars, built by SP at further taxing the available power. Sacramento, closely resembled a shortened version of the Urgently needing newer, more reliable power, the EMMR modern Coaliner. During the middle 60s, these cars were set out to purchase five new 3000-h.p. units. It borrowed fi ve modified to give them an increased height, needed to carry GE U30C production slots and specifications from SP. In pelletized ore (which was less dense and increased car load­ spring 1968 the five U30Cs were delivered and put immedi­ ings to 108 tons). From the early 60s until the early 70s, two ately to work. They wore the same road numbers and paint loaded 100-car trains a day left the mine seven days a week. scheme with only one minor change. In the early 1980s it was During the early 80s, operations varied from three to five

Kaiser Steel U-boat 1013 leads mate 1034 plus 20 cars past an ocotillo plant a mile southwest o"f Summit on March 24, 1986, moving the last loads taken from the Eagle Mountain Mine. -DAVID E. LAAG

22 . MARCH 1988 KAISER STEEL EAGLE MOUNTAIN MINE Locomotive Roster

Original Second Builder Builder Date Date Notes road number road number Builder model number built delivered

10lOA 1025 Baldwin DRS6-6-15 73749 6/48 8/48 1, 2 IO lOB 1026 Baldwin DRS6-6-IS 7445 1 6/48 8/48 1, 3 IOl2A 1027 Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton AS6J6 75356 195J 6/52 J, 4 IOl2B 1028 Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton AS616 75357 195J 6/52 1, 5 1020 1029 Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton AS6J6 74917 11/50 12/50 1, 6 1030-1034 General Electric U30C 36762-36766 3&4/68 7

Notes: 14. 1985 1. All unilS built with dynamic brakes and all repainted as necessary into the C&O blue 196 I through 5. Sold in 1971 [0 Rainier, Inc. at Grays Harbor, Wash ., where it was numben:.d Sold lale to 1986. 1964. Ali renumbered in 1966·67. Trona Railway, Trona, Calif. , where il became No. 54, enlering service in laIc 2. Sold March 1972 to Railway Supply Co. of Montgomery, Ala. Rebuilt for Pcabody Coal Co. for usc at 6. Built new as C&O 5533. Sold January 1958 to Pan American Engineering, a locomOllve dealer in its River King Mine (Marrisa, III.) as No. 1025. Sold for scrap to Hyman-Michaels at Alton, III., and Dallas, which resold it to KaiserSteel, Sent to PA Engineering in 1971 and shipped to Kaiser Bauxite at scrapped August 1978. Discovery Bay, Jamaica, where it became No. 5107. 3. Sold March 197210 Railway Supply Co. of Montgomery, Ala. Rebuilt for Peabody Coal Co. for usc at 7. These U30Cs were built to the same specifications as SP Nos. 7900-7929. StOred al California Steel 'its River King Mine (Marrisa, 111.) as No. 1026. Sold AuguSl 1978 to Koppel Bulk Te rminal al Long Corp. (former Kaiser Sleel plant) at Fontana, Calif., as of late 1987. Nos. 1030· 1032 built Mardl 1%8; Beach, Calif. In carly 1980 it was sold 10Chrome Crankshaft, Alhambra, CaliL, which scrapped i[ in late Nos. 1033 and 1034 built April 1987. 1980. Roster data by David A. D"liner. 4. Sem in 1971 [0 PA Engineering for repairs. Later shipped to Kaiser Bauxilc, Discovery Bay, Jamaica, where it became No. 5108.

trains per week, with as few as 40 carloads per train. After a western flank of the Chocolate Mountains by the Salt Creek short suspension of operations in early 1985, trains were run Wa sh. The wash is crossed by the large steel high bridge . once a week until the complete discontinuance of operation Looking back over his train Bill exclaims "all black" just in March 1986. loud enough for Frank to hear him over the ambiant noise of The only interruptions in operations occurred when the the cab. line was washed out or the trains derailed. Summer flash­ Still almost 20 miles away, the Salton Sea now becomes floods frequently washed the roadbed out from under the visible on the horizon. The train makes its way along the ties. In 1976, ten miles of railroad were washed out in three north edge of the valley and passes through a large horseshoe large sections. The original high bridge, a spectacular wood­ curve before finally meeting the desert floor once again. The en structure, burned down on May 6, 1963, and a new steel vegetation on this part of the trip begins to thin out, with the structure was built in its place. Even though the line crosses exception of an occasional clump of palm trees located the highly active San Andreas fault, earthquakes never around natural artesian springs. In the summertime the closed the line. crews have seen large numbers of rattlesnakes around these During the era of two trains per day, a major derailment holes, looking perhaps for water and an occasional meaL was averted through the alert senses of Bill Williams. He Soon the train passes over the Coachella Canal, and the monitored all nighttime train activity from a radio set up at sparse vegetation finally gives way to a large dried mudflat his house. A loaded train which had left the mine at midnight that resembles the surface of the moon. This mudflat, was making its way down the hill toward Ferrum near the marked with crater-like sinkholes, lies directly on top of the high bridge when the engineer reported seeing a flash on the San Andreas fault. Due to the extremely active fa ult and the horizon ahead. A sleepy Bill Williams instructed the engi­ instability of the clay soil, the once-straight rails wander neer to proceed to the next set of small twin bridges, pre­ back and forth. After passing through the fault area, the rails pared to stop short. As the train approached this location, curve and climb slightly over a small ridge, then make the the head end crew was able to see that one of the two bridges descent to the Southern Pacific main line at Ferrum. had burned out from under the rails, and the motor car was The motor car operator has already lined the switches and hanging precariously sideways on the unsupported track. begins his return trip back to the mine. Normally, Frank The motor car crew had been thrown ou t of the car and was and Bill drop their string of loads and runaround them to relatively unhurt after landing on the bed of a dry creek pick up the waiting cut of empties. Today, they take the two about 12 feet below. The flash seen by the head end crew was units back to the mine light, where they will be held for a one of two cans of gasoline carried on the motor car which short time with sister 1030. The trip back to the mine light had broken open on impact and had been ignited by the marks the last full run Bill and Frank will make together. glowing embers of the burned-out bridge . They are proud of their long careers on the EMMR. Bill is The arrival at Summit is marked by the deafening hiss of openly proud of the safety record of the railroad during his the brake valve as Frank sets the brakes for his air test . time in charge. Summit marks the midpoint of the railroad and has a siding Over the years, the line has seen several interesting non­ where the trains once were re-assembled. Upon leaving the Kaiser operations. A Railway Club of Southern California flatlands of Summit the railroad begins its descent toward excursion named Eagle Mounwin Holiday was operated on the Salton Sea through a large valley cut through the north- October 21 and 22, 1950. The train consisted of five SP

PACIFIC RailNEWS • 23 The effort of their engines evident in the oir above, U-boats 1031, 1032 and 1034 lift a string of loads to Summit on March 6, 1971 . -HANK MILLS/GORDON GLATTENBERG COLLECTION

Four Boldwins cross a large steel bridge near Ferrum on the Eagle Mountain Railroad with a cut of empties on Sept. 11, 1965. -GORDON GLATTENBERG

24 . MARCH 1988 Harriman coaches and a gondola car pulled by then-relative­ up to Summit. When construction of the set was completed, ly-new EMMR Baldwins 1010 A and B. A movie called The units 1030, 1031 and 1034 were coupled together, and on Professionals was filmed by Columbia on the line during early April 8 run fo r the last time to Ferrum fo r delivery by SP to 1966. Motive power for this train was Great We stern 2-10-0 the Fontana Mill for storage. On April 9 they joined sisters No. 75. The Professionals' producers wanted a realistic 1032 and 1033, already stored there. wooden trestle so, since the only large bridge that the rail­ The future of the Kaiser Steel Eagle Mountain Mine Rail­ road had was steel, it was painted to look like wood ! road is still uncertain. The possibility exists for some change During April 1986 Wa lt Disney Productions filmed The in the worldwide steel market calling fo r renewed local steel To ugh Guys, starring Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster and SP production. There is also talk of a new steelmaking process 4-8-4 4449 . This production included construction of an that produces less pollutants and is more economically feasi­ unconnected track and water tower a short distance from the ble. In the more immediate fu ture is the possibility of mov­ EMMR at Summit which was used with a fu ll-scale wooden ing mine equipment and even the mine tailings (gravel sized mock-up 4449 . An identical water tower was constructed rocks) out of the area by rail to potential markets. Even if alongside the EMMR to allow filming with the "real" 4449. there is renewed interchange traffic by a future operator of The Daylight GSA (re-Iettered The Gold Coast Flyer) was the EMMR, the potential fo r fi ve big GEs to ever run again refueled by truck at the Interstate 10 overcrossing and taken on their home rails is left in the uncertain hands of fa te. to the Eagle Mountain Mine for water. When filming was completed, the entire train (consisting of the auxiliary As reponed in PRN 290, the Eagle Mounlain Railroad may tender, five Daylight-painted passenger cars and two SP fl at­ serve a new fu nction, 10 transport waste from Los Angeles 10 cars) was backed down all of the way to Ferrum. landfi lls to be established al the abandoned iron mine. However, During the construction of the sets fo r The To ugh Guys, this is only a slUdy of the fe asibility, and the reality would be EMMR units 1031 and 1034 were used to haul railroad ties years away, if ever.

PA CIFIC RaiiNEWS • 25 CANADIAN NATIONAL'S "MUSKEG" TRAINS

Once clear af St. Paul Jet., Train 91 speeds up ta its 35-mph maximum on Oct. 13, 1986. The train will make good time until its arrival at Lac La Biche; on the trip's second leg the track is incredibly rough and the train will stop often. It will finally arrive in Waterways some nine hours later. -CHARLES BaHt

eN inherited this unusual operation from the Northern Alberta Railways

by Les S. Kozma and Charles W. Bohi

orthern Alberta Railways' mixed train service be­ New Passenger Service tween Edmonton and Wa terways (Ft. McMurray), N Alta.-affectionately dubbed the "Muskeg Indeed, in what could be considered a strange twist, CNR Mixed"-was a bi-weekly ritual that had remained virtually dropped one of its bi-weekly mixed trains and inaugurated a unchanged since its inception in 1967.1 Fortunately, even new weekly passenger service in its place. This new service after Canadian National acquired 100 percent interest in began on June 2, 1986, when trains 90/9 1, the last full pas­ NAR, these mixed trains survived. The service inherited by senger train service operated by CNR, began its run from CNR was the only link fo r a handful of isolated communities Edmonton to Wa terways. While changes had been expected along the railway's right-of-way in northeastern Alberta. when NAR was acquired by CNR on Jan. 1, 1981, the

26 . MARCH 1988 Northern Alberta Railways decapod No. 51 and its train (probably No. 8), sit at the Lac La Biche water tank at an unknown date. Since its completion in 1925 the Edmonton­ Waterways ( Ft. McMurray), Alta., line has presented a fascinating look at rural passenger service of almost every kind­ mixed trains, full passenger trains, as well as unsuccessful attempts to use McKeen cars and RDC Dayliners. -ARCHIVES OF ALBERTA

institution of a passenger train on the line to Wa terways was between Lac La Biche and Wa terways. Being their only link likely the last thing on anyone's mind. to the outside world, the Muskeg Mixed performed services once common to rural passenger trains everywhere. It was, to cite one example, one of the last trains in Canada contract­ The Muskeg Mixed ed to carry mail. Moreover, these trains were used by local inhabitants to visit friends, to shop in larger centers and to Indeed, when CNR took over it was not even known receive supplies that would now come by truck in less isolat­ whether the former NAR lines would retain their separate ed settings. As with most public services, these trains lost identity. However, in a few months it became clear-as money. In its last year under NAR management, the service equipment began to be renumbered into CNR's system and lost $61 ,439. By 1984, under CNR control, these trains lost when logos began to be painted out-that NAR was to join $2 16,610 for the year. As might be expected, the service was the ranks of the "fallen flags." In addition, by 1982, the heavily subsidized. Under provisions of the Transportation Muskeg Mixed originated at CNR's Calder Yard, a few miles Act, to qualify fo r subsidies, the railway was required to down the track from its former terminal at NAR's Dunvegan make application to discontinue the service. Ya rd . Nevertheless, the Mixed still made its first stop at CNR submitted an application for abandonment of the Dunvegan Yard , so it is unlikely that passengers noticed Muskeg Mixed to the Canadian Transport Commission much difference. The next significant change occurredin late 1983, with the TEXT CONTINUES ON PAGE 30.::;;;l construction of a short connection between CNR's Coronado Subdivision at Kerensky and the ex-NAR Lac La Biche Subdivision, just south of Egremont.2 After Nov. 23, 1983, the Muskeg Mixed ran east from Calder yard, across town to North Edmonton where it ran briefly on CNR's Table l/Route Profile Vegreville Subdivision until the Coronado Subdivision was Station Milepost Population Subdivision reached at St. Paul Junction. Running over 34.9 miles of Egremont 30.6 61 Lac La Biche CNR trackage, the Mixed did not regain the ex-NAR Lac La Thorhild 38.8 566* Abee 46.0 30 Biche Subdivision until it reached the new connection. Newbrook 52.9 92 While this route was about five miles longer than the old one Ellscon 65.1 9 72 .5 703" and while it eliminated Dunvegan Ya rd as a stop, it also gave Boyle Caslan 86.8 34 riders the opportunity to see the long trestle spanning the Hylo 100.0 31 broad valley of the Sturgeon River just north of Gibbons. Ve nice 104.0 28 Lac La Biche 113. 1 2,124' Also, with the switch in routing, passenger service was re­ Tweedle 129.0 4 Wa terways stored to the south end of the Coronado Subdivision, a line Imperial Mills 137.5 58 that had seen its last passenger (read RDC) train on April 22, Conklin 193.5 116 Anzac 261.4 165 1977. Wa terways 285.5 36,810* As necessary as these trains may have been, however, the (Fr. McMurray) fact remamed they served a sparsely populated area and Subtotal: ridership remained low (see table 1). Between January 1981 (without Fl. McMurray) 4,021 Total: 40,83 1 and June 1985 these mixed trains averaged less than 29 pa­ trons per trip. The majority of the passengers originated in "Source: Canada Census.- 1981. Other source: Albena Municipal Affairs- 1985. the isolated communities sprinkled along the right-of-way

PACIFIC RailNEWS - 27 While F-units still make an occasional appearance an the Mixed, they are disliked by crews since the "covered wagons" are not suited for switching along the line. A classic A-B combination of F7 AU 9167 and F7BU 9192 pose in front of the Lac La Biche depot with an abbreviated consist of only 13 cars on April 24, 1987. By the time this train reached Edmonton-1 13 miles and seven hours later-the consist had only increased by five corso -LESLIE S. KOZMA

Inougural Train No. 91, hauled by an ex-Northern Alberta Railways Geep with its former owner's logo blotted out, enters the Coronado Subdivision at St. Paul Jet., near Edmonton, on June 2, 1986. -LESLIE S. KOZMA

28 • MARCH 1988 Northern Alberta Railways Train 26 is at Waterways (Ft. McMurray) ready for its southward trip on May 24, 1979. Standard power for the "mixed" under the NAR banner was a pair of Canada-only model GMD 1 s. On this day, GMD 1 s 303 and 305 have in two two boxcars, a baggage car, and three combooses. -LESLIE S. KOZMA

Classic prairie ra ilroading-Train No. 91 posses through Thorhild, Alta., a flagstop station on the Lac La Biche Subdivision, on Aug. 4, 1986. Numbers 5501 and 5515, Canadian-built model GP38-2s, are following by a mixed bag of varnish­ caboose 79 101 bringing up the rear! -LESLIE S. KOZMA

PACIFIC RailNEWS • 29 Table 2/Equipment on CNR's "Muskeg" Trains, 1986

Current Former Current class Year number number(s) former class built Builder Remarks

CNR 4977 CNR 5084 70-seat 1969 CNR In CNR black and commuter coach 1924 CC&CF white. Use only briefly CNR 5095 Coach (1 1-1985) VIA 2500 (Cafe-car-lounge) (12-198 1) CNR 2500 (Cafe-car-lounge) (5- 1971) CNR 3019 (Coach) (1964) CNR 5612 (E. M. coach) 1954 CC&F CNR 5099 VIA 5209 Coach CNR 5209 1942 CC&F CNR 7855 NAR 1454 Mail-express 1930 CC&F CNR 7856 NAR 1460 Mail-express 1948 CC&F CNR 7857 NAR 1602 Baggage 1942 CPR Angus rebuild Pullman CBaggage-buffet- Eagle Spring club-smoking) 1925 Pullman CNR 79 101 NAR 13020 Bay-window 1973 NAR rebuild; last caboose NAR caboose in service NAR 13020 Standard cupola 1948 CPR Angus caboose VIA 72 10 Baggage-coach 1919 CC&F CNR 7988 1 Steel caboose 1977 CNR Built from boxcars in 472000 series at Point St. Charles Shops, Montreal.

Note: CC&F refers to Canadian Car and Foundry.

(CTC) in late 1985. Representations made on behalf of resi­ could be fo und running to and from Wa terways. By late dents along the line complained about the timing of these summer 1986, however, single GP38-2s were the main trains. Under the previous schedule, the mixed left Edmon­ source of power.4 Any questions dealing with motive power ton on Sundays and We dnesdays at 5:30 p.m. It took over were merely academic after that time-would the GP38 be a fo ur hours to reach the intermediate divisional point at Lac standard low-nose or a safety cab unit. La Biche, where the train laid over and resumed its journey The "Combooses"-combination coach-cabooses-stan­ the fo llowing morning at 9:30. Since the train was scheduled dard fixtures gracing the rear of the old mixed trains, have to arrive at Wa terways late in the afternoon and depart early been retired. Three ex-NAR headend cars, the sole-surviv­ the next day for its return trip, passengers who wished to ing operational NAR bay window caboose and an oddball shop in Ft. McMurray were greatly inconvenienced. The assortment of CNR passenger equipment were available to CTC asked CNR to investigate means of dealing with this flesh out the consist of both the remaining mixed schedule scheduling difficulty. and Nos. 90/9 1 (see table 2). Most of these cars are "tarted­ This problem was solved by maintaining one of the exist­ up" in pseudo-VIA colors, and most carry CNR logos. Some ing mixed trains (Nos. 289/290) and the introduction of a of this equipment dates back to the mid-I920s while, until fu ll passenger train (Nos. 9019 1). Since Nos. 90/9 1 were not recently, the newest was a "mere" 38 years old. Early March required to do freight work along the line, its performance 1987 saw the introduction of refurbished coach No. 5095- was a great improvement over the mixed runs it replaced. 3 palatial by comparison to anything that had run on these Train No. 91 left North Edmonton at noon on Mondays and lines fo r a long time-whose rebuilding reportedly cost began its return trip from Waterways at noon Tuesday. With $70,000. Recently, the fo rmer NAR van relinquished its tail­ a running time of roughly eight and one-half hours to cover end service to a more modern CNR extended-vision steel nearly 290 miles, trains 90/91 were hardly speed merchants. caboose. Even so, given the casual nature of a train which stops Most recently the CTC approved CN's application to drop whenever required to pick-up or drop-off passengers, the trains 90/9 1, which made their last run up on April 27, 1987, nearly 35 mph average was quite respectable. Indeed, com­ and returned the following day. These two trains, part of the pared with the performance of its mixed predecessors, "new improved service," had lasted less than a year and Nos. 90/9 1 were appropriately called "The Muskeg Flyer" made a total of only 48 round trips! The reasons cited fo r by their crews. discontinuing this service were improved road conditions In the early days of CNR operation of the Muskeg Mixeds, and reduced demand. power could include GMD-ls and F7Au's. For a time trains For the short term at least, anachronistic mixed train 90/9 1 too, sported a similar variety on the head end. Single service is safe. However, construction of the much-talked­ GP9s, running long hood fo rward, or a pair of GMD-ls about highway between Lac La Biche and Wa terways is

30 . MARCH 1988 Not for from Carbondale, GP38-2W No. 5592 hustles Train 91 north an the Lac La Biche subdivision past a local farmer harvesting his crap an Oct. 13, 1986. -CHARLES BOHt

apparently underway and scheduled for completion within probably because of the warj it was n:vived during the rcccn! boom years. Numerolls slUdics recommended retention of CNR 'sCoronado Subdivision since the rebuilding of the Sturgeon River the next year. Rumor has it that once this highway is opened, !rest Ie was less expensive than relaying the Lac La Biehl' Subdivision between Carbondale and CNR will apply to discontinue the mixed train once and for Egrcmolll with 8S-pound steel. The Jack of freighl traffic between these laller points did nOi hdp matters. Thus on August 14, 1986, three years after the connection was opened, the 22.3 miles of the all. In the meantime, rail fans can only wait ...ride ...and Lac La Biehl' Subidivisoll bctwet:n BOil Accord und Egremont were abandoned. Removal of the rail photograph this remnant of another era of passenger train and lies was put Olll to tender in May 1987. service. 3For the most part, freight traffic along this line is confined to grain and sulphur, all moving south. Empty covered hoppers arc spOiled at the remaining elevators ( Thorhild, Boyle, Lac La Biche), and the loaded cars are lifted on the return trip 10 Edmoillon. Heavy machinery is now rardy hauled on Notes this linc. Numbers 883-884, dedicated sulphur/coke trains running between Lynton and EdmonlOn from olle to three times a week, arc Ihe only other trains llsing this line. IBi-weekly passenger service on these AR lines was displaced in April 1967 by Ihis mixed train, which originally ran three times a week. In October 1967 the mixctl train was rcduccLi [0 a bi-weekly -'Recelll iashups for the mixed (trains 289/290) show great variations: two or Ihree GP38-2s; GI'9 and schedule. IwO Glv\D-ls; one GP38-2 and one or [wo GP-9s; or F7Bu's sandwiched by GP9s. Unfortunately, mosl of Ihe F-unils have been moved to\X/innipcg ( SyminglOn), Man., and lines cast. so [hey arc now lAs carly as 1938, a connection joining CNR and NAR at this point was iI maHer of dis(ussion. rarely seen. The crcws dislike the F-unils hecause [hey arc 1101 conducive 10 wayfreiglll swill-hing Planned as a rationalization of duplicate lines, it involved the abandonfficllI of the 30.6 miles of along the line and, because of [heir lendency Iu bounce 011 [he rough [rack, the GMD- Is arc e4ua1ly NAR's Lac La Biehe Subdivision between Carbondale and Egremont, with NAR receiving running unwel1..:ome. "Mo[ivc Power Control" at Montreal, Que., assigns powcr on Ihe basis of availabilil}' rights overCNR to gain access to its line. The proposal was formally dismissed by the ere in 1940- and traffic re4uircmen[s.

PA CIFIC RailNEWS • 31 Railroads columns California, with extensive land holdings continued from page 1 b in Texas and other states as well.

ballast hopper cars during 1987 ...The Rio Grande's Gas Pains FCP's employee magazine FERRO RIO Coal is the primary on-line originated TRIBUNA has become the Pacific Region commodity transported by Rio Grande. employee magazine. GRANDE Of late, coal usage and related coal ton­ Thanks LO Ed Vo n Nordeck, Bill Farmer, nage transported by Rio Grande have R. PrallJr. , and FERRO TRIBUNA. O. been in the doldrums due to declining costs and cleaner combustion by-prod­ ucts associated with the use of natural gas as a power generation fuel. To make mat­ R. C. Fa rewell ters worse for Rio Grande, all three of Denver's primary power generating plants have begun a series of three two­ D&RGW + SP-When? week tests, burning natural gas instead of coal as fuel, as part of an effort to help SHORT LINES The announced decision of Santa Fe ease Denver's severe smog problem. The Southern Pacific Corp. in December Arapahoe, Cherokee, and Valmont gener­ 1987 to sell Southern Pacific Trans­ ating stations all normally receive coal portation Co. to Rio Grande Industries originated on Rio Grande rails. Quasi-dai­ (reported in PRN 291) was only the ly Rio Grande unit-train Nos. 7011702, "opening hand" in a tumultuous series of composed of 73 PSCX hoppers, and train events expected in 1988. ICC approval is Nos. 7411742, 705/706 will not operate required for the sale, and Kansas City during the test periods. Not unexpected­ Southern Industries, which says its offer ly, Rio Grande has begun a significant Early December 1987 brought a major is larger (more, perhaps, but not in terms lobbying and advertising effort to make proposal to use the San Diego & Imperi­ of cash up front), plans to contest the sale the public aware of the benefits of coal as al Va lley to relieve San Diego's growing before the fe deral regulatory body. It ap­ fuel source and to sway public support trash problem. Within two years, what­ pears Rio Grande is in a strong fi rst-place away from permanent conversion of the ever company or agency is responsible for position to own SP. power plants to natural gas. Ve ry signifi­ disposal will run out of landfill space near Rio Grande Industries has quickly cant Rio Grande revenues derived from the city. The Plaster City area is located in urged the ICC to speed up its review of the operation of these trains would be lost the western Imperial Va lley. Unit trash the sale, asking to apply by Feb. 23, pos­ if the conversion to natural gas occurs. trains of 40 cars would circulate between sibly resulting in a decision by the end of San Diego and Plaster City from twice summer. SFSP filed papers with the ICC On and Off on Tennessee Pass weekly to daily (depending on the volume for its final plan of divestiture, urging With the coming of winter and weath­ of refuse). The same agency would also acceptance of Rio Grande's application. er-related problems associated with try­ presumably finance rebuilding of the da­ Meanwhile, SPT ownership remains in a ing to keep clear the Tennessee Pass main maged Carriso Gorge trackage and facili­ voting trust under control of LaSalle Na­ line and its crossing of the Continental ties. The gorge is now protected by metal tional Bank of Chicago. Divide (at an elevation of 10,246 feet) ob­ fe nces installed at each end of the first Not only would the combined rail sys­ servers have wondered if the line would tunnels by the Pacific Southwest Railway tems serve 14 states with 15,500 miles of be closed for the winter. December 1 Museum. routes, but the combined companies fo und only two trains running over the (Walt Stringer) would be one of the largest landowners in Pass, hotshot No. 179 westbound and drag freight No. 138 eastbound. By Dec. 4, there were no through trains scheduled over the Pass. However, traffic was restored on Dec. 6 with a single west­ bound operation. Beginning on Dec. 7, through eastbound traffic was restored. Other changes: Minturn, Colo.-based helpers are no longer used to help shove eastbound tonnage up the three percent ruling grade on the western side of Ten­ nessee Pass found between Minturn and the summit proper. Also discontinued is the photogenic Malta Turn, a legendary Minturn-based local that worked east from Minturn over Tennessee Pass track­ age and the Leadville Branch, located just east of the summit. Traffic needs fo rmer­ ly serviced by the Malta Turn are now handled by eastbound drag freight No. 138.

Goodby Rio Grande Ski Train, Hello ANSCO Ski Train

With the recent sale of all eight remain­ Dakata Rail SW1 200 No. 1206 (ex-Milwaukee Road) moves three carloads at New Germany, Minn., ing Rio Grande Ski Train coaches to Napa on Nov. 6, 1987. Va lley Wine Train in California, the Rio -ROBERT M. BALL Grande's Ski Train became history. Rio

32 . MARCH 1988 Grande owner Phillip Anschutz has re­ 3050. Due to their electrical complexity, placed the railroad's venerable train with the GP35s have always been high-mainte­ a new business venture, defined as a mod­ nance units, and the first to be stored Answering an ad? ern, upscale alternative to driving to the when traffic levels decline. The entire Ski Country. Under Anschutz's subsid­ fleet has been in storage at Burnham iary ANSCO Corp., a group of 17 ex-VIA Shops since 1982. The units have not of Canada TEMPO coach, cafe and parlor been left out in the weeds to decompose, Please ment ion cars have been acquired and are being however, for routine checks have been refurbished at Roaring Fork Railroad made on each unit on a semi-annual basis. passenger car shops in Denver. The cafe As of Dec. 1, 1987, the complete fleet you saw it in cars are scheduled to serve pastries and remains stored intact; no units have been juice on the westbound morning run to retired or stripped . Over the years the Winter Park: the evening return will fea­ only GP35 candidate for potential retire­ ture sandwiches and cocktails. Round­ ment was No. 3048, involved in a wreck � trip coach fa re is targeted at $20. For up­ in 1970. Rather than retire the unit, Rio Rail� scale patrons, parlor cars are available Grande had it rebuilt by EMD and re­ and can be added to the train for a mere turned to service. $3 ,000 per round-trip. Each parlor car seats 39 passengers in relative elegance: the coaches seat 80 or 82, depending on the car. The new trainwill be operated by Rio Grande for ANSCO. Westbound de­ 7?iOG,an(Je parture is scheduled fo r 7:30 a.m. from SOUTHERN Denver Union Station, eastbound return Ih�(TION railroad arrival at Denver is targeted at 6:30 p.m. PACIFIC Service could begin in December if snow conditions permit. Motive Power: SD45s

During the fall of 1987, the marjority of Rio Grande's fleet of 26 SD45s was leased to BN for grain-train service, returning in Joseph A. Strapac early November. Rather than immediate­ ly storing the big growlers, Rio Grande It is becoming more clear as time passes used a number of the units fo r its own that the entire railroad industry is faced mainline operations. The fi rst Rio with enormous, portentous decisions. Grande SD45 to see service on home rails The very nature of the business, as em­ after returning from BN was No. 5333, ployees and enthusiasts once knew it , is noted on Nov. 10 working east over the undergoing a massive change right now. Colorado Division in the head-end of As usual, the culprit is money-or the train No. 128. Eight units in Rio lack of it. Grande's SD45 fleet were refused by BN What made logical economic sense in due to significant mechanical ills. All the '70s simply cannot survive in the de­ eight were repaired by Rio Grande and for regulated '80s-competitive pricing of a short while were used in Rio Grande TRAVEL THE RIO GRANDE SYSTEM, FROM transportation service has been holding SALT LAKE CITY TO DENVER AND service. Unfortunately, the return of steady (in terms of real dollars and in BEYOND. WITNESS MOUNTAIN SD45s to Rio Grande service was short­ spite of inflation), while operating costs RAILROADING AT IT'S FINEST. FROM THE lived; the fleetwas back in storage at the FRONT RANGE WITH IT'S NUMEROUS (labor, fuel, taxes, etc.) have continued to Burnham Shops by late November except TUNNELS TO IT'S FAMOUS WINTER SKI escalate. An important casualty of this TRAIN, THE D&RGW IS ONE OF THE WEST'S for 5317, 5321, 5327, 5333, 5334, and situation is the traditional railroad back GREAT RAILROADS. 5336. shop and the fa miliar services it rendered. Highlights Include: The last SD45 observed in service on A number of roads have shown an in­ the Colorado Division was one of the Freight Operations terest in leasing power rather than main­ Amtrak Passenger Service units refused by BN and repaired by Rio taining units in the traditional sense. Winter Ski Train Grande, No. 5321. On Nov. 22, No. Whether or not SP will fo llow the trend Tennessee Pass 532 1 worked east over Tennessee Pass on Royal Gorge started by Burlington Northern with its train No. 146, arriving at Pueblo at Front Range lease of Oakway-owned SD60s is not Joint Line Operations 11:45 p.m. Then the big unit was dis­ known. Certainly BN has learned a con­ and More! patched north up the Joint Line helping siderable amount from its experiences THIS tS THE MOST COMPLETE to pull the tonnage of train No. 166 to with Oakway and, more recently, LMX COVERAGE AVAILABLE OF TODA Y'S Denver, arriving at North Yard at D&RGW. leasing. One other aspect of leasing vs. 4:30 a.m., Nov. 23. The evening of the owning locomotives is that more and 90 Mtnutes 23rd fo und No. 5321 working west up more roads are getting away from expen­ $60.00 VHS or BETA the Moffat Tunnel main line on hotshot sive and labor intensive rebuilding pro­ Check or Money Order No. 101. The unit was worked back to grams. SP can be expected to rebuild "WRITE FOR FREE CA TA LOG" Denver. On Nov. 30 No. 5321 was re­ P.O. Box 9491 1 Pasadena, CA some additional SD45T-2s in 1988, but corded idling at the Rio Grande's Burn­ 91 109 other than that, most shop time will be ham Shops after an appointment fo r rou­ devoted to running repairs . tine servicing. Santa Fe recently announced the Motive Power: GP35 Status planned reduction of activity at its shop at Rio Grande purchased a total of 22 Cleburne, Texas, a center for locomotive GP35s during 1964 and 1965, Nos. 3029- upgrading up to that time. SP has re-

PA CIFIC RailNEWS • 33 duced its upgrading activity to one pro­ Inc. of Vinton (EI Paso), Texas, has pur­ ICC Probes Placerville Surcharge duction line at Sacramento, turning out chased 29 retired SP units as of early The ICC has launched an investigation three SD45T-2 units per month. SP is December. Most are assumed to be in into SP's imposition of a "light density continuing to utilize power from leasing near-scrap condition, but many could be line surcharge" of $750 for each car mov­ companies (to the delight of color photog­ made to run again if MPI finds an inter­ ing over the 38.6-mile Placerville Branch raphers, who have recently been treated ested buyer. They are: near Sacramento. The Commission sug­ to a veritable palette of colors in locomo­ Model Number(s) gested that there is reason to believe the tive consists). SW9E 2301 surcharge (which became effective In addition to leasing outside-owned SWI500 2675 Nov. 8) is in violation of the law. What locomotives to supplant owned units that GP9 SWL 2897 GP9 3712 the ICC appears to be implying is that SP need repairs and are out of service, SP has GP9E 331 1, 33 12, 3334, 3335, 3340, has unilaterally raised its freight rates adopted the position that fu ture additions 3341, 3345, 3355, 3357, 3371, without a hearing. to its owned fleet will be from outside 3374, 3376, 3397, 3406, 34 11, sources, not locomotives rebuilt or up­ 3746, 3770, 3805, 38 18 GP20E 4143 New GP60 Units for 1988 graded in its home shops. The net result U33C 8773 of this position is that retired locomotives SD45 8977, 8994, 9046, 91 13 Work continues at the General Motors are no longer valuable as a pool of poten­ Diesel plant in London, Ontario, Canada tial rebuilds for future programs. Their Another buyer has surfaced for retired on SP's order for GP60 locomotives, only value, thus, is as scrap metal. SP locomotives-Gray Supply Co ., locat­ which has been subcontracted from GM's ed on Cotton Belt trackage in North Lit­ Electro-Motive Division at LaGrange, Locomotive News tle Rock, Ark. We presume that Gray in­ Ill. Delivery is scheduled for February "Throw 'em out" seems to be the tends to overhaul at least a few of these 1988, with numbers in the 9600 series. watchword today. Fond hopes for a re­ units for sale and fu rther service. So far (Note that these diesels aren't SP's first naissance of the "old SD45" grading pro­ this year, Gray has purchased NW2Es imported locomotives-that honor be­ gram were recently dashed when more of 1307, 1311 and 1321, along with SW 1 200 longs to the Krauss-Maffei diesel-hydrau­ the flared-radiator SD45 hulks held at (SSW) 2289, plus U33C 8751. lics imported fr om Munich, Germany, in Sacramento in "GRIP Candidate" status Others buying SP units in this second 1959 and 1964.) We expect to see EMD's were written off the books and sold for round of the 1987 selloff include Chrome GP60 demonstrators back on SP in Janu­ scrap to Levin Metals in Sacramento. Crankshaft , San Bernardino , Calif. , ary, as well; EMD has apparently refined Units included in the transaction were: which picked up SW1200 2284, GP9s the concept and wants road experience 2877 and 3885, and GP30 5012. Helm prior to delivering the new locomotives. Model Number(s) Financial Corp. acquired SD45s 8830 and SWI500 2554, 2669 GP9E 3838, 3882 8936 for the Utah Railway; these may be Leased Power Count is Down SD9 43 11, 4325, 4385 used to supply parts for the other ex-SP Most principal engine terminals cur­ SDP45 3205 SD45s that Utah uses. Southwest Car GP35 6660 rently have leased power tied up in antici­ Parts (near Longview, Texas) purchased U33C 8724, 8760, 8774, 8776 pation of its return to leasing companies. one additional unit: SW9E 2304. SD45 88 15, 88 16, 8859, 8874, 8889, Now that the fa ll rush is over, SP can 8897, 8900, 8909, 8910, 8927, Quite a number of the units sold during operate effectively with its own locomo­ 8947, 8974, 8984, 8991, 8997, 1987 started moving during late Novem­ 9002, 90 14, 90 19, 9024, 9025, tives for the most part. During December ber and December. We should have addi­ 9027, 9030, 9034, 9053, 9063, there still were units from Helm Leasing, tional sales to report in upcoming issues. 9067, 9072, 9082, 9087, 9101, Paducah & Louisville, and National 91 12, 9125, 9129 Holiday Slowdown Helm Leasing in use on SP. A number of leased units were stored-a reflection of Levin has its yard abutting the north Southern Pacific traditionally exper­ lower traffic levels. side of the Sacramento Locomotive iences a slowdown in business from late Wo rks, so it is a simple procedure to move December through the New Ye ar's week­ Future Service Improvements rolling stock and locomotives to their fi­ end. Most of the industries it serves oper­ Two important stories have lately nal destination. Although there are al­ ate at less than capacity during this peri­ crossed our desk,either of which will be­ ways locomotives present at the Sacra­ od, so there is no reason to maintain a full come very exciting if implemented. At mento Locomotive Wo rks, this action staff-therefore fewer trains operate in this point, however, we have neither con­ "cleans out" many longtime residents of late December. Agreement-covered em­ firmation nor denial from official SP its yard. ployees are granted an opportunity to lay sources, so consider the following to be Locomotive scrapper Metal Processing off without pay during this time. rumor for now. We understand that SP crews are busy with curve superelevation improvements in order to raise the speed limit on the 1988 CATALOG READY Coast Route for through Sprinl trains be­ The Portola Railroad Museum, operated by the Feather River Rail Society, is one of the tween the Bay Area and Los Angeles. At fastest growing museums in the country. NEW!! present, there are no through freight We specialize in Western Pacific and Western Railroading, now with 65 pieces of trains routed along the Coast, only locals rolling srock, including 20 locomotives. "inside" and turns-and Amtrak's Coase Sear­ Our sales are what keep us going. ALL lights. The apparent intent is to compete PROFITS go back into the museum. OUT I YSH catalog is now ready and we pro railroading with truckers in the hotly-competitive would love to send it to you. Hundreds of Oakland-Los Angeles corridor. Again, nc\\' items were added this year. Our items WHERE YOU LEARN TO HANDLE are DISCOUNTED: T-Shirts, Mugs, THE MODERN FREIGHT TRAiN' this story is presently an unconfirmed ru­ Buckles, Hats, Books, Photos. Timetables, AND MUCH MORE mor. Printed Matter and much morc ...... -:== SI.OO Another project which is supposed to SEND FOI� UNIQUE. MULTI·PAGE FORMAT' CATALOG be cooking for 1988 implementation is (REFUNDABLE FREE BROCHURE' double-tracking of the Sunset Route be­ ON FIRST INSIDE PRO RAILROADING tween Tucson and EI Paso. This area, ORDER). 16701 MAIN STREET SUITE 175 HESPERIA. CA 92345 which includes a non-obvious crossing of P.O. Box 8 Portola, CA 96 122 the Continental Divide, has long been a

34 . MARCH 1988 bottleneck, and certainly deserves atten­ sion for the following Western lines: The MLW 16-25 1 E engine replaced with a tion-if the requisite money can be Furness Sub from milepost 0.0 to 19.5; Caterpillar engine. Preliminary work will raised. the Colony Sub (milepost 0.0 to 24.6); be done at CP Rail's Angus Shops in Thanks to ]. F. Banker, Dewey Slevens Kisbey Sub (milepost 43 .6 to 60.9); Montreal before the unit is shipped to and Baron Levine. Altawan (milepost 65.7 to 122.1); and the Peaker Services in Brigh ton, Mich., to Neudorf Sub (milepost 82.0 to 53.5). All have the Caterpillar engine applied. IF of these lines are located in Saskatch­ this conversion is successful, all 79 of the ewan, and all should be protected by 4500 and 4700 series 630s and 636s Transport Canada until the year 2000. MIGHT have their engines replaced over The fa te of these lines, however, rests a three-year period . with the Railway Transport Committee. GP9 8835, which suffered from a fire, RAIL For the fo urth straight year, CP Rail should emerge from Montreal's Angus CANADA was rated the safest railroad in North Shops in 1988 as 8205, not 8835 as America, according to data released by incorrectly reported in a previous col­ WEST the United States Railway Administra­ umn. tion. A southern British Columbia firm is negotiating with CP for the acquisition of the Boundary Sub between Midway and To m Higgins We stley, B.C. The 145-km route is all that is left of CP's fo rmer Kettle Valley Line. Railwayman John Meade of Revel­ CN News stoke proposes to acquire the line and op­ A wind sock flying over CN Rail's Thun­ erate it with 20 employees. John feels that der Bay yard is one of hundreds being put the lumber business would provide a up all over Canada to let workers know profit. He is also considering acquiring which way the wind is blowing. That the Burlington Northern line between way, if there is a chemical spill, the work­ Grand Falls and Kettle Fa lls, Wash. Of ers will know which way the fumes are course this line will have its share of engi­ blowing and can head for safe air and take neering and maintenance problems, and other appropriate actions. CP Rail would have to make application The Railway Transport Committee has fo r abandonment and have it approved ordered Canadian National to continue before the deal could be finalized. operating its Va ncouver Island Service over the Cowichan (milepost 57.90 to 81.90) and Tidewater Subdivisions (mile­ CP Power News post 0.00 to 6.12) pending the outcome of The plan to offer commuter service on CP a hearing on Dec. 18 to abandon oper­ Rail's main line between downtown Va n­ ations on Va ncouver Island. couver and Port Coquitlam is again in the Farther to the east, CN Rail would like news. CP would approve such a service if to abandon the Acadia Va lley Subdivision the commuter operation provides its own between Eyre Junction, Sask. (milepost locomotives and passenger cars. Several 0.0) and Acadia Valley, Alta. (milepost GP9s (ex-QNS&L) are still in the North 23.67). In 1985 the line had a loss of Bay, Ont., yards, originally Nos. 133, $305,098 (Canadian). 147, 157, 167 and 169. These units were GP40-2LW 9400 was seen in the Tas­ sold in 1982 to Metro Canada of Kings­ cherau yards spliced between two switch­ ton, Ont. , for this planned commuter ser­ ers. No one seems to know where it was vice. going on Oct. 4. Can anyone help? Toronto, Hamilton & Buffa lo GP9 403, Part of the CN station area on the north the last TH&B road-switcher, went into side of the depot in Va ncouver will be­ the shops and will emerge as CP switcher come VIA's Maintenance Center. Tracks 1690. The fo llowing RS 18s were remanu­ 1 and 2 have been removed for this con­ fa ctured and renumbered by CP Rail: struction. The Cranbrook museum con­ 1837 (8785), 1838 (8736), 1839 (8783), sist was stored here during EXPO '86. 1840 (8789) and 1841 (8750). CN Power News The planned lease of Bessemer & Lake Erie SD9s 825, 827 and 829 was Virtually all serviceable road units are cancelled. Only fo ur of the seven ex­ now in operation in order to meet in­ We stern Pacific (now Chicago, Missouri creased traffic demand. This includes & We stern) GP40 units were delivered to most of the 40 RS 18 units and the 15 CP Rail. Numbers 3517, 3521, 3522 and F7Au units that were stored during the 3525 were leased, with the latter being summer. sent back to Helm Leasing for repairs. Central Vermont has asked Grand The lease of 35 19, 3520 and 3524 was Trunk Western for six GP9 units to per­ cancelled because of various mechancial mit CV to retire its remaining Alco RS 11 ailments. As of Nov. IS, CP Rail was units. As of early November, GTW GP9s leasing 55 units as fo llows: three BCR 41 35-4 1 38 had been transferred to Cv. SD40-2s, five QNS&L SD40s, ten ex­ CP News MP SD40s, three CM&W GP40s, and 29 ex-B&O GP40s. SD40 5537 was returned CP Rail has filed abandonment papers to service in mid-November. with the Canadian Transport Commis- M -36 4711 has been chosen to have her

PA CIFIC RailNEWS - 35 Shortline and Industrial News passenger cars were purchased from VIA treal Ville St. Pierre shops were GM for either resale or company use: Club: Rail passenger ticket sales on BC Rail FP9A 65 14and MLW FPA4s 6769, 6778, 663-Club de la Garrison, 665-HamillOn have increased by 50 percent since 1983 6785, 6791, FPB4s 6866, 6868, 6869 and Club. Diner: 1370. Coach: 5309. Six (the year the province began to subsidize 6870. Stored at nearby Pointe St. Charles Section/Six Roomette/Four Double­ passenger service). From late June until were MLW FPA4 6784 and FPB4 6865. Bedroom Sleepers: 1190-Green Gables, Labor Day 1988, BC Rail will run daily The MLW units are reportedly for sale 1 I 92-Greendale, 1194-Greenhursl and service between North Vancouver and for C$1 4,000 each. 1195-Greenwald. Ten Roomette/Six Prince George. BC Rail has targeted VIA has acquired EMD SWI000 Double-Bedroom Sleepers: 2083-Ri­ American markets for its train service, switchers 200-203 (ex- 1I5-1 18) from In­ viere Rouge, 2090-Srnoky River, 2131- expecially tour groups from "the States." land Steel at East Chicago, Ill., for use at Grand Codroy River, 2133-Ecum Secum "Bullet Nose Betty" No. 6060 has re­ Mimico (Toronto) and Montreal mainte­ River. Club Lounge: 2323-Sans Souci, ceived extensive work on its wheels, and nance centers. This will allow VIA to re­ Vogue. they are now back under the engine. 2324- turn to CN leased SW900s 7942 and 7943. Modifications are being done on its oil­ More F40PHs Delivered burning system at the BC Rail shops in A newspaper release Dec. 12 an­ North Va ncouver. This locomotive is an The latest batch of F40PH units, 6420- nounced that VIA will spend C$63 mil­ ex-CN 4-8-2 Mountain-type Locomotive 6429, have all been delivered; the first lion to buy 26 new diesel units from GM built by MLW in 1944-Class U-l-g. five-6424, 6420, 6422 , 642 1 and 6423- Canada Ltd., most likely F59PHs, suc­ BC Rail's main line was blocked for moved light London to Mimico via CN cessor to the well-known F40PH. several days as the result of a 16-car de­ on Sept. 1; 6425 followed later by itself. FPA4 6779 on train 2 hit a truck and railment on Oct. 30. Four of the cars Delivery was concluded by a repeat light derailed Sept. 18 at a crossing at Ashton, plunged 30 meters off a bridge into the engine move of 6426, 6427, 6428 and Ontario, milepost 23 ofCP Carleton Place Cheakamus River. The cars were loaded 6429 Sept. 30. While it was first thought Sub. The unit was interchanged back to with sulphur and burned all night before the newcomers would remain in the east­ CN via Parsley in Montreal Sept. 23, its rail crews could put the fire out. ern Windsor-Sarnia-Toronto-Montreal pilot missing, bound for VIA's repair fa­ The Canadian Federal Government is corridor, they have been showing up oc­ cilities. reportedly ready to provide C$6 million casionally as lead units on trans­ November 22 saw Ottawa-Toronto to rehabilitate a shorter grain route from continental trains 1 and 2, the Canadian, train 45 with an LRC unit failure at the Peace River District to West Coast operating through to Va ncouver. Smiths Falls, Ontario. The rescue unit ports. This will allow fa rmers in this area The F40PH units have not been used turned out to be a rebuilt CP RSI8, be­ to ship grain through BC Rail's Dawson yet on trains 3 and 4, Super C01!linelllal via lieved to be the 1809. Creek connection and will provide them Edmonton, nor on trains 5 and 6, Skeena RDCl 6134 left Victoria Oct. 30 en with a shorter route to Prince Rupert and (Edmonton-Prince Rupert), except on route to Wellcox for transfer to Vancou­ Va ncouver. Dec. 4. That day, eastward No. 4 left ver, for fo rwarding to Toronto for instal­ Alco-built C425 ex-EL No. 807 has Jasper at 1:20 p.m. , with F40PH/F9B lation of an event recorder. In an abrupt been retired due to an electrical cabinet combo 6407/6634 and No. 6 coupled on change of plans, the unit was removed fire. Her main generator will be salvaged behind with FP9A 6307 (idling) and SGU from CP freight train 404 at Medicine to keep other C425s going. A speeder 15404; the ten-car train arrived Edmon­ Hat, Alberta, and returned to its Va ncou­ complex will be built in Pemberton, ton 6:30 p.m. With No. 6 cut off, ver Island (Esquimalt & Nanaimo Rail­ B.C., complete with buildings, electrical 6407/6634 continued on from Edmonton way) territory. Another RDC move has fa cilities and plumbing! with six cars, leaving 7:55 p.m., arriving put all six VIA RDC9s, 600 1 -6006, into BC Rail RDCs grace the cover of the Biggar, Saskatchewan 12: 15 a.m. on storage at Cedars, near Montreal, along winter 1987 edition of BEAUTIFUL B.C. Dec. 5, with about a third of the Edmon­ with retired RDC4 6401. magazine. Inside there is a feature article ton-Winnipeg miles behind them. Rolling Stock about the ride from North Vancouver to Four Alcos To Napa Prince George, with several striking pho­ VIA is planning to refit 17 baggage cars tographs. VIA sold fo ur FPA4 units in August to by installing self-service take-ou t food the Napa Valley Railroad, the same firm counters in a 30-fo ot rebuilt section in the which bought D&RGW (ex-NP) Ski back of each car, which will then be used Train cars. The California-bound quartet on the Canadian between Toronto and was 6760, 6775, 6787 and 6790 which will Vancouver, the Super COlllinelllal between work with the venerable coaches in tour­ Winnipeg and Vancouver via Edmonton, ist train service. To replace the ex-NP and the Skeena between Edmonton and VIA RAIL cars, D&RGW in turn bought from VIA Prince Rupert. Included in the program 18 Te mpo cars which had been in storage are all 14 remaining ex-CP stainless-steel CANADA for some time: club cars 32 1-323, cafe­ 600-series baggage cars, which were ori­ bar-lounges 340-344, cafe-coaches 350, ginally built as baggage-dormitory cars. 35 1, 353, 355 and coaches 362, 366, 371, Two other ex-CP stainless steel cars­ 373, 375; one more coach is to fo llow. coach 104 and 14304 Aylmer Manor, the VIA is still using fo ur Te mpo cars in week­ latter the sleeper which burned in Toron­ end Toronto-Sarnia service (cafe-coaches to Jan. 18, 1987-are to be the test cars John Rushon 352 and 354 and coaches 370 and 372), for a two-year VIA head-end power con­ but expects to retire them early in 1988 version program, with work to be done at when nine of the ten LRC coaches which Ville St. Pierre in Montreal. If success­ Car Sale Correction were leased to Amtrak 1980-1982 have ful, the tests will lead to conversion of all First, a correction is in order regarding been refurbished from their long-term the remaining 155 ex-CP stainless steel the sale of VIA passenger cars to a firm storage and are placed in Toronto-Chica­ Budd-built cars and up to 35 ex-CN reported in PRN 288 to be Mid-Ameri­ go service to alternate with Amtrak smooth side cars to head-end power. can Railcar Services, led by Les Kastin. equipment on that service. As CP has no immediate plans to re­ The gentleman is in fact Les Kasten of build a collapsed bridge at milepost 166.8 Other Locomotive Notes Kasten Railcar Services located in of the Trois Rivieres Sub in Quebec, VIA Edwardsville, Ill. The fo llowing ex-CN Stored as of mid-November in Mon- has reduced Montreal-Trois Rivieres

36 . MARCH 1988 RDC service to one round trip daily, in­ breakthrough on this politically sensitive the number planned at this time. In re­ bound to Montreal as train 159 in the transit issue. gard to bodywork, the cars will be pat­ morning, returning from Montreal to Compton Freight Bypass OKed tcrned as closely as possible after Port­ Trois Rivieres as train 164 in the evening. land's fa miliar Council Crest cars One daily VIA bus connects Trois Ri­ Construction of a connection to divert (double-truck, semi-convertible Brills, freight traffic away from central Comp­ vieres with Quebec City, leaving Trois dating from the early 1900s). The degree Rivieres in the morning and Quebec City ton has been agreed to by that city and the of "exactness" of the duplication work in the evening, so doesn't offer a through Los Angeles County Transportation will be limited, to some extent , by the fa ct connection with the solitary RDC service. Commission, it was announced in No­ that the cars must use bow collectors (or vember. The so-called "Mealy St. diver­ pantographs) and have powered gates in sion" would carry freight tracks over the doorways. "Semi-newly built," Rosecrans Av e. on a $67 million bridge means that it is intended for the cars' (Compton has pledged $10.5 million for running gear to be acquired used-for this project). example, from Melbourne W2s or other TRANSIT This would divert all SP freight activity cars-then new frames and bodies will be to the original SP right-of-way along Ala­ fi tted. The cars will be double-ended. meda St., while the one-time PacificElec­ Council Crest car No. 506, which still Light Roil Update tric route will be reserved for passenger has its original (narrow-gauge) trucks, is rail service. Through SP freights present­ owned by the City of Portland and stored by Herb Horton ly approach the harbor by way of Los at Glenwood. This is the only Council Nietos and the former PE La Habra Crest car besides the 503 to have been San Jose Opens Branch, which connects with the old PE saved, so it will be used as the pattern for The first segment of the Santa Clara Long Beach line near Slauson and Alame­ the new cars. After standard-gauge trucks County Light Rail Transit line opened da streets in South Los Angeles. have been acquired, new steel frames and amid festivities on Friday, Dec. 11, 1987. Long Beach Line Progress floors will be fi tted, then the wooden There was an 11 a.m. VIP train, then free body and interior fi ttings of No. 506 will Portions of the replacement line for SP rides were given the balance of that day as be duplicated as much as possible. The fr eight trains are now in service as the well as on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 12- motors acquired will most likely have to first step toward construction of Long 13. An estimated 50,000 rode free on a be rewound for 750 volts d.c. As for cur­ Beach light rail line tracks. ten-minute headway over the weekend. rent collection, the intention at this time The fi rst portion of the new line that Monday, Dec. 14, was the fi rst day of is to use bow collectors (rather than pan­ will be completed is between Willow St. revenue service; most trains were rela­ tographs), if at all possible. Car 506, it­ in Long Beach and the abuilding shop tively empty. self, will not be used, since 80 to 90 per­ and yard complex at the Los Angeles Riv­ Two-car trains were operated on the cent of the materials in it (including the er, next to the Union Pacific line to the 14th, but as of the next morning, all trucks) would have to be replaced, ac­ harbor. Subgrade and trackbed is now trains were cut to singles due to low rider­ cording to Tri-Met engineers. ready for track and overhead wire struc­ ship. With a 50-car fleet and a six-car This alternative was selected mainly tures, and this segment will be used as a peak requirement, there had been talk of because (1) these cars will have a higher test track when cars begin arriving fr om the Portland LRV system leasing several capacity than the single-truck Porto cars, Japan in 1989. San Jose cars for a few years, to benefit (Dick Stephenson, Art Wheeler) and (2) it was fo und that rehabilitating both properties fo r now. The Santa Clara old streetcars and making them compati­ (Old Ironsides station) to San Jose (Youn­ ble with the platforms, signaling, and so ger station, north of downtown) segment on, of Tri-Met's LRT sytem would cost now in service travels through sparse de­ "virtually the same" as building new, velopment, mostly industrial and com­ pseudo-old cars. It was also fe lt that semi­ mercial. new cars will be more durable and reli­ PORTLAND able. And of course the Council Crest de­ Sacramento Cutback LIGHT sign has tremendous public appeal in Sacramento's RT Metro light rail route Portland. It is also thought, probably cor­ has cut trains to singles during base peri­ RAIL rectly, that most users of this service will od service, expanding to two- and three­ not be able to tell-or won't care-that car trains during peak hours. the cars are not true vintage ones. The single-truck, ex-Porto Brills are owned Steve Morgan by Portland businessmen Bill and Sam Naito. They should be able to sell them Los City Center Trolley Decision elsewhere, eventually, since there is clear­ Over the past several months, the board ly a market fo r such cars in this country ANGELES of Vintage Trolley Inc.-the non-profit nowadays. METRO group set up to oversee the start-up of Once again, the anticipated inaugura­ Tri-Met's vintage trolley service-has tion date of the service has been pushed been studying the various options avail­ back-this time by another full year. It is able for cars which could be used on the not expected to begin until at least late service, which will run on the LRT tracks 1989. Realistically, this probably means it between downtown Portland and Lloyd will not happen until at least spring 1990. Va lley Light Rail On Hold Center. Around the end of November, it Initial operation will cover all summer If we had to summarize the status of light­ was decided the service will use semi­ weekends and holidays; any expansion rail transit in the San Fernando Valley, it newly built, replica-old cars, instead of beyond that will likely depend on rider­ would be best portrayed as "shelved." the single-truck, ex-Porto (Portugal) Brill ship and, therefore, not be implemented Loud and stiff opposition from one cars which everyone had originally ex­ until after the service has run for a time, if homeowners group or another has met pected to be used. at all. every proposed route (at least fi ve so far) , The available budget is estimated to be The vintage streetcar service will have so it appears there will not be an early sufficient to build only two cars, so that is its own carbarn,alongside (and partly un-

PA CIFIC RailNEWS • 37 derneath) an elevated stretch of the 1-5 it is now even more likely that when the Both increases are in response to de­ freeway, adjacent to Coliseum MAX sta­ last litigation is through, if the ruling in mand fo r service, and hopefully will also tion. The cars will have to be fully com­ fa vor of SP stands, the governments will produce new riders. There is still talk of patible with the MAX system, since any purchase the Line. improved rush hour service, but no con­ heavy repair or maintenance work will However, all of this does no! mean that crete plan of action beyond fo ur-car have to be carried out at the Ruby Junc­ the "Willamette Shore Railway" vintage trains. tion ligh t rail facili ty, near 199th and tram service will return next year. The Record Ridership Burnside. This compatibility will also en­ city has had to pay the costs of mainte­ able the cars to be chartered for trips over nance to the line (keeping trees cut back, A new ridership record was set the Fri­ any part of the light rail system. trackway clear, etc.) and claims that there day after Thanksgiving, when 34,320 rid­ Serving a route 2.2 miles in length, the would be other maintenance expenses in­ ers were carried. Eleven four-car trains vintage cars will run from IIth Ave . to volved if the line were to be put in suit­ operated that afternoon, their fourth cars IIth Av e.-rhat is, from the downtown ably-good shape for a continuation of ser­ turned at Imperial. Still no word on all­ MAX terminal at S. W. IIth Ave. and vice. Therefore, according to THE night South Line service. Yamhill St. to a stub terminial on N.E. OREGONIAN, "A special cost study ofany MTS Tower Begins IIth Ave. at Multnomah St., opposite the future trolley operations will be made by Lloyd Center shopping center. The route the city's engineering department. The Groundbreaking ceremonies were held will be shared with MAX, so most of the report, expected to be ready for the joint on Nov. 19 for the new MTS Tower at trackwork for it is already in place. How­ committee in February, will be a key fa c­ 12th and Imperial. The Trolley's transfer ever, the vintage service will have its own tor in any decision to continue the trolley station was relocated on the north side of separate terminal spur at the outer end, so next year." Imperial in early November, and an old as to be removed from the light rail "main Problems with the trailer-mounted office building on the new building's site Line" on Holladay St. For this, a two­ generator which is used to power the Wil­ was demolished around mid-month. The block section of new track will be laid on lamette Shore Railway's double-deck ceremonies included a daytime fireworks N . E. IIth Ave. between Holladay and streetcar fo rced the cancellation of all display which brought curious police to Multnomah streets. In order to avoid runs on the weekend of Nov. 28-29 and the scene. having to disrupt the light rail line to in­ again on Dec. 6, but a new (used) gaso­ stall this new spur, the pointwork and line engine and drive train were installed, Trolley Shop Expansion Plans curves for the turn from Holladay onto and service was then expected to continue Until late 1988, there will be a major IIth were built three years ago as part of uninterrupted through the last weekend construction area at the intersection, the light rail construction, as was the in December. caused not only by MTS Tower, but by switch fo r the track leading off the light The Oregon Electric Railway Histori­ the Trolley shop's Phase One expansion. rail line and into the future site of the cal Society, operator of the service, re­ This project will see the shop building vintage-trolley carbarn. ported that nearly 6,000 passengers had expanded north, with additional inside Vintage Trolley Inc. will oversee distri­ been carried on the line by the end of tracks. A new wheel-grinding machine is bution of the fu nds which have been set November, distributed over approxi­ also due for installation. aside for construction and operation of mately 100 round trips and at least 12 the project, while the conSlnlcLion of the charters. Unseasonably warm weather Future East Line Notes carbarn, trackwork, cars, etc. will be su­ (sun fo r six straight weekends fo llowing Expansion of the shops ties in with the pervised by Tri-Met, with approval on the opening one) helped to produce the East Line project to La Mesa and El Ca­ important elements from the V. T. board. high patronage. If the line is purchased jon, which will see 20 cars arriving from Tri-Met will operate the service. and the city allows the trolley service to February 1988 onward . Our sources re­ resume, OERHS officials are contemplat­ Lake Oswego Vintage Trolley port that an addi!ional order for up to ten ing starting up again as early as March of cars may be placed soon, as demand for The judge in the case involving the this year. service on the new lines may well exceed Lake Oswego line (in which Rev. Thomas the resulting 50-car fleet (sardine subway W. Cummins, a resident whose property conditions are not considered acceptable is crossed by the line, claimed that South­ service in San Diego). ern Pacific forfeited its right-of-way In early December, two public hear­ through his property when it abandoned ings were held in Santee and Grossmont service in 1984) issued his ruling on to publicize the proposed East Line bus Dec. 4, in fa vor of SP and the City of SAN DIEGO fe eder network. A grade separation at Portland. This means that, unless the de­ busy Jackson Dr. in La Mesa, near Gross­ cision is overturned in a later appeal, the TROLLEY mont Center, is a recently-added fe ature right-of-way will remain intact, and the of the project. We 're not sure whether the city and other government jurisdictions road or railway will take the high route, involved will be able to buy it from SP. but the Grossmont Trolley shop will be Rev. Cummins has said he will appeal the very close to the area, and some type of rUling. THE OREGONIAN quoted him as shuttle will link the mall with the Trolley saying, "We intend to go as far as the Herb Horton stop. judicial system will allow us to go. We 'll Progress Toward El Cajon findout just how fa r a railroad and a city Trolley Headways Increase can push people around ." However, the Your correspondent recently took two judge's 26-page ruling agreed with virtu­ New schedules will appear on Feb. 1, tours on the EI Cajon (East Line) project ally every one of the arguments made by 1988, as the Trolley expands service on and got an eyeful of construction pro­ the railroad and the city. This gives rea­ both lines. gress. In many places SD&IV freighr son to believe that, more likely than not, The Euclid line will fe ature IS-minute movements are operating on a temporary any appeals will be unsuccessful. A com­ headways all day Monday through Fri­ track while the roadbed is prepared for mittee of officials which had been study­ day, using fo ur single-car trains until permanent rail. New welded rail is down ing, on behalf of the six government enti­ 7:30 p.m. The South line IS-minute in orher spors. ries, the proposal to buy the right-of-way, headways will be extended one hour later Here is a capsule summary of primary recenrly recommended purchase. Thus, (unril 8:30 p.m.) seven days a week. irems as of early December 1987:

38 . MARCH 1988 SWlions-Grading, foundations, and may be ready long before trackage fa rther canopies are in at Massachusetts Ave . and east. Spring St. in La Mesa. Encanto, La Mesa Blvd. and Lemon Grove are just starting to be staked out. There was no evident A Novel Sun Kink Solution activity in the Grossmont area. Riders on the Euclid line may have not­ Roadbed Preparalion-Temporary ed an unusual rail phenomenon-painted Brian Norden track is in service at Encanto (due to tracks. At the suggestion of a board mem­ creek channeling) and El Cajon (due to ber, the Trolley tried to solve a sun kink subsoil replacement). New welded 120- problem in the horseshoe curve just east lb. rail (from Colorado Fuel & Iron) is in of 32nd St. station by painting white a 50- Union Pacific is moving the Big Boy at service in Lemon Grove and La Mesa. fo ot stretch of rail. The theory apparently the Omaha shops to a new park location. Concrete ties are in place on curves of five is that the white color of the rail will re­ Because of time needed to complete the degrees or more in the La Mesa hills (con­ flect rather than absorb heat, and thus preparations, the move was delayed from crete ties will be standard on such curves, reduce rail kinking. This rather novel the originally planned start at the end of according to a recent decision related to idea has not been effective, probably be­ November. As of mid-December, Union the sun kinks in the horseshoe curve (see cause the situation in the curve is very Pacific was planning to move the 4-8-8-4 sometime after the first of the year. paragraph fo llowing this report)] . Rail complex and needs a more thorough solu­ storage areas in the Euclid and Grossmont tion. The job has been put out for bid (Union Pacific) areas have plenty of stock on hand to con­ twice and both times costs were way too tinue projects. Remember that lwO differ­ high-in part due to the nighttime work The State of California has obtained a ent contractors are responsible for the "window," which may require higher concessionaire for Railtown 1897 . For work , with segments divided in La Mesa. wages for workers. two years the railroad display at the for­ Several freight sidings have been pulled mer shops and roundhouse of the Sierra "DTC" Blocks To Be Tried up or isolated by the work. Railway at Jamestown, Calif. , have been Calenary-No overhead wires have At night, when both Trolley and without an operator. During that period been installed yet, but numerous poles SD&IV freight movements are seen, the of time local volunteers have kept the have been delivered in Encanto. No poles Trolley plans to institute its own version park open without any rail operation. A have been delivered yet to the contractor of Direct Traffic Control on the South contract for one year has been negotiated doing the La Mesa-El Cajon segment; Line, dividing the IS-mile route into with We stern Railroad Service Inc. of there are no signs of substations yet. three blocks. Occupancy of any given Soulsbyville, Calif. We stern Railroad Ser­ In summary, based on existing work block by freight or passenger trains will vice is arranging with Sierra Railroad, the progress, the Euclid-La Mesa segment be restricted. owner of the track to Oakdale, to activate

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PA CIFIC RailNEWS • 39 the access the state and its concessionaire have to the line to Oakdale. It plans to open the park fo r weekend tours begin­ ning mid-January and expects to an­ nounce a schedule for steam train oper­ ations by Easter. Western Railroad Service has been rebuilding and restoring the Santa Fe engine and cars at the Kan­ sas State Historical Society in Topeka, Kan. (SA FRA 'CISCO EXAMINER AND CHRO ICLE; We slern Ra£lroad Service)

A number of Northwestern Pacific Railroad passenger cars still exist, some of which are capable of being operated. Some of these are even narrow gauge cars over 100 years old . Various passenger cars-e lectric commute and steam train-which operated on the NWP and its associated lines are located at such di­ verse locations in California as Perris, Jamestown, Sacramento, Rio Vista Jct. and Duncan Mills, and as fa r away as the suspended White Pass & Yukon Route yard in Skagway, Alaska. (NorlhweSlern Pacific Railroad HislOrical SocielY)

DOODLEBUG. A term of ridicule-and endearment, yet nothing penetrated so The Eastern Nebraska Chapter, Na­ deeply into the folklore of American rail­ tional Railway Historical Society has re­ roading as the rail motorcar. Temporary ceived a donation from the Casey 1'. Al­ savior of rural railroading, the "gas bert O'Neil Foundation of $25,000. car" sputtered and jolted its way These funds will be used to restore the along the branch lines of our youth. rail line from Hooper to We st Point. Its Doodlebugs came in all sizes and shapes, and were built by hundreds of manufac­ newsletter reports that it carried more turers and backshops. Brill and EMC were the giants, but there was tiny Skagit and than 30,000 people on the excursion and versatile Hall-Scott, not to mention Mr. McKeen and his knife-nosed rail torpedo. dinner trains this past year. The newslet­ Interurbans Without Wires surveys all major and most minor railcar builders and ter also notes that it is now the "State their products and is, we believe, the first comprehensive book to appear on the subject. Railroad Museum." We range from Maine to California with extensive documentation, including complete (RAILWAY POST OFFICE, construction lists compiled with the help of such experts as P. Allen Copeland, Al Easlern Nebraska Chapler, NRHS) Barker and the staff of Ex tra 2200 South. Many, many rar9 photos-a few in color. Scale drawings, vintage ads, too! San Diego & Imperial Va lley CHAPTERS include early steam cars ... gas cars-the pioneers ... the The high lightweights (battery cars, trucks, railbuses) ...gas cars-the standard era ... trestle over California Highway 94, near the railcar goes streamlined ...railcar rarities. Jacumba, was the site of work train activ­ ity in mid-December 1987. The immense ' 200 Pages, 320 Photos and Illustrations, 8Y2xll"hardcover with color bridge was in need of painting and rust­ . Harlan Hiney jacket painting, Endsheets, Index (Special 66) proofing, and the contractor hired decid­ CALIFORNIANS ed that the best access was by rail. PLEASE ADD 6% TAX 2995 SD&IV made arrangements with Pacific $ Southwest Railway Museum to charter a SHIPPING: train (composed of the museum's military -01 $1.50 .. EMD and a flatcar) to shuttle workers and supplies. (Wall Stringer)

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DEALER CP Rail F7A units 1424 and 1418 are INQUIRIES INVITED preserved in Medicine Hat, Alberta. In 1985 the two units were placed on display in Riverside Park in the old paint scheme with the beaver herald on the nose. This , city of 33,000 people is located on CP Rail ' ', :' , INTERURBAN in southeastern Alberta along the South , . TRANS-ANGLO BOOKS Saskatchewan River. '. ; '''''''- P. O. Box 6444 • Glendale. CA 91205 (THE MARKER, Alberta Pioneer CI� Railway Associalion)

40 • MARCH 1988 several years ago. I went to several old aerial photography and their per-hour pHOTO FOCUS haunts soon after I bought the lens in­ cost is usually reasonable. The trouble is \ I cluding the place in Missouri where I shot finding a pilot who will fly low enough my first train picture a long time ago. and fi nding a photo location wide enough Talk about making a worn-out photo spot to do it safely. With airplanes you are come alive! A fellow photographer here in limited by the fact that the plane must Southern California bought the same lens have fo rward speed to stay in the air. a year or so later and had a similar experi­ For those who don't care about money ence. and really enjoy getting good pictures, Californians who think they have helicopters are the ultimate railfanning lensed every shootable inch of Cajon and tool for getting new and exciting angles Tehachapi should go up there determined on moving trains. to findshots using only the big telephotos Imagine. No more bumpy roads, poi­ or a wide angle. One of my fa vorite spots son ivy or speeding tickets. Instant access in Cajon I discovered just a couple sum­ to even the most remote locations and the Dave Busse mers ago with the 200mm lens. It's so far ability to land anywhere. And no one else from the tracks I doubt the crews of pass­ will have the shots you have. ing trains have ever noticed me shooting It's not as crazy as one might think, Different Angles, Familiar Spots there. particularly out West, where there is so The train approaches. Just last month I fo und a "new" spot in much wide-open space and so many com­ You lift your camera with its 50mm lens Cajon where the 300, 200, 85 and 17mm mercial helicopter fi rms are in business. and wait. Slowly, the train fills the frame, lenses can all find use-on the same train. In an unpopulated area, you can hover a nicely lit, three-quarters view, with the I'll bet I'd driven past the place fifty times the chopper at phone-pole level or scrape front of the engine about to touch the and never pondered its photographic po­ the treetops. Legally. You shoot your right edge of the frame and the rest of the tential. shot, move on at 125 mph to the next train disappearing to the left. Which leads us to the next suggestion: good spot and shoot again. I've tried it The classic action view. The "wedgie" Change your vantage point. How about several times and highly recommend it shot. getting away from trackside and fi nding right up there with the best "E" ticket There's nothing particularly wrong some hills. There's nothing like a little rides at Disneyland. with shooting every train shot as a wed­ elevation to make a train shot a bit more The bad part: Turbine choppers go for gie. And I suppose there's nothing wrong dramatic. Overpasses are neat fo r this. about $425 an hour. (I had someone else with spending a Saturday night rearrang­ And, if you do have some telephotos, pay!) Also, low-level flight in helicopters ing your sock drawer. move away from the tracks to get eleva­ has its inherent dangers. The good part: Wa tching an evening slide show of tion from a nearby but not necessarily A machine like the Bell Jet Ranger seats "wedgies" might be slightly less interest­ trackside hill. three plus a pilot so several people could ing than the socks, though. Sometimes that extra elevation need split the costs. It's still expensive, but Bored with shooting the stuff in your only be a few feet. Standing on your car definitely something to consider if you "backyard"? Convinced you've shot ev­ can be a good vantage point, although it ever want to really get unique angles on ery conceivable angle on all your favorite tends to damage the paint. Carrying a six­ inaccessible areas of the West (Colorado's haunts? fo ot step ladder is a little bulky bu t can Ruby Canyon on the D&RGW comes to I dare you to do something different. also add just enough extra height, par­ mind). Go out with your camera and a bag full ticularly if you have a pickup truck to Anyone who provides helicopters for of lenses. Don't fly to Alaska or drive mount it on. fire-fighting or other government work 1200 miles to do it. Just go to your favor­ Other fa ns have utilized trees (not rec­ usually has choppers equipped with ite local spot a couple times and arm your­ ommended for the timid), tall buildings multi-channel radios which are generally self with an open mind. and telephone poles (using pole-climber's capable of monitoring railroad frequen­ Try hard to eliminate wedgies. equipment) to get better elevation for cies-so you don't need to take your scan­ Your first move might be to leave the photography. In agricultural areas, the ner along! And if you want to flyduring a 50mm lens at home. The tried and true tops of grain elevators are fine places to slow business period, hourly flight rates "standard lens of railroad photography" make photographs, and you would be are sometimes negotiable. certainly has its place in roster photogra­ surprised how receptive elevator manag­ Obviously this last option of airborne phy, but we're going to try something ers can be when you request to use their chasing is not fo r everyone. But next time new today. roof for photography. How about a wide-angle? Humbug to One of my great ambitions is to "manu­ the nay-sayers who complain about the facture" elevation at several places on distortion. Use it to accentuate fo re­ Santa Fe's First Subdivision in Califor­ grounds or reveal wide expanses of scen­ nia. These are fairly average spots that ery. Shoot people pictures: the track fo re­ would be spectacular photographs if there CERA man giving the "highball" to a passing were a tree, hill or building handy to caboose, the crew change or other such stand on. There are good roads to the invites typical scenes of railroading. (You will be spots and a local construction equipment surprised how nicely "people" pictures dealer rents twin-bucket 45-foot Hi­ dress up a railroad slide slow.) Ranger cherry pickers for $235 a day, nTClrTTlarlve mE:etin�!s and The 85mm and 100mm mini-telepho­ mileage included. If ! can find someone as region's tos are two personal favorites which seem crazy as I am, we might split the cost, take Wolp4"triir railways ... to really pull in backgrounds like moun­ one out on a weekend and see what we can M!:m,c)rilil Day week- tains and buildings without giving that come up with. 27-30, 1988. extreme telephoto distortion that East­ Taking to the air in helicopters or fixed­ erners seem to hate and we West Coast wing aircraft to get a better angle is prob­ shooters revel in. ably the ultimate in seeking new vantage Ce1f!rlIl ElectrIc l@iJfa'l.s'c..Associatioll. Another of my favorite lenses is a fa st points. Fixed-wing airplanes with high Post Office Box 503 Chicago, Illinois 60690 (f2.8) 200mm telephoto I bought used wings like the Cessna 152 are the best [or

PACIFIC RailNEWS • 41 you think about heading out for a day or It's difficult to determine which part is in 1949. Mrs. Retinger's remmlscenses two of shooting trains, don't be so quick best, as there are numerous scenes which reflect the warm relationship she enjoyed to discount what's in your own backyard. are framable in their own right. Be pre­ with her husband, sharing his problems If you think you've shot everything from pared fo r pleasant viewing and a book and accomplishments, while the final every possible angle, you will be pleasant­ that will be long remembered for the chapter updates the story to the present. ly surprised at what a little imagination quality of its color reproduction. This is no dull, dry engineer's account; and some ingenuity can produce. -DICK STEPHENSON to the contrary, it is an appealing blend of And don't be afraid to send us the fruits fact, detail, humor and personalities that of your labor to share with others. at the same time portrays the impressive -DAVID R. BUSSE account of building a hydroelectric sys­ THE STORY OF BIG CREEK, by Da­ tem with the human side of such an en­ Since the birlh of his second child inJul y, vid H. Redinger, with new material by deavor. While the author cannot be de­ Edith Redinger and William A. Myers. lhe awhor can oflen be fo und "close 10 1. scribed as objective in the traditional home" in the Cajon or Te hachapi areas of 1987, 232 pages. $32.95 + $1.50 postage sense, his memoir history is accurate and Califo rnia looking fo r new phOIO angles. from Trans-Anglo Books, Box 6444, sufficiently detailed, yet presented in a Glendale, CA 91205. layman's language. Supplementing the In 1910, Henry Huntington's Pacific text are over 250 photographs, clearly and Light and Power Corp. began construc­ sharply reproduced, with intelligent cap­ tion of several dams and powerhouses in tions, which reflect all stages of the pro­ the Big Creek area of the High Sierra to ject through the years. An endpaper BOOKS provide electricity to the growing central drawing and several maps make clear the and southern areas of California. In the magnitude of the project. fo llowing year, a young engineer named This is not a typical railroad history, David H. Redinger would begin a life­ although railroads were an integral part of time of labor on this project, which has the operation. It is a tribute to man's de­ continued to expand down to the present termination to use nature to his own ad­ day. In 1949, Redinger, then retired, vantage, and at the same time it is a highly wrote a colorful, anecdoted history of the readable, personal account of a successful project, which has now been expanded by effort to conquer the high Sierra. two additional chapters. One, by his wife -JAMES N. J. HENWOOD Edith, give a woman's view of life as shared with a mining engineer; the other, by William Myers, carries the story of Big Creek to the present. This revised version UNION PACIFIC'S STROMSBURG has been republished by the Southern DAYLIGHT REFLECTIONS, A Picto­ BRANCH by James J. Reisdorff and California Edison Co. in celebration of its rial Album, Nils Huxtable. 104 pp., Forrest H. Bahm. Paperback, 52 pages, centennial. $49.95 (U.S.) plus $3 postage. Steam­ 91/z x 8'12" , 97 photos. Av ailable from The story of Big Creek, as recounted scenes, 2254 Lawson Ave., We st Va ncou­ South Platte Press, Box 163, David City, by Redinger, is an interesting mixture of ver, B.C., Canada V7L 2E4. NE 68632. $14.95. history, statistics, facts and personal re­ What better way to celebrate the 50th miniscences, told in cheerful, humorous Subtitled "A Pictorial Review of a Ru­ anniversary of SP Daylighl service than prose. The author progresses in chronolo­ ral Nebraska Rail Line," this horizontal with an all-color book loaded with old and gical fashion, from the original idea of a fo rmat booklet provides excellent photo new photos of SP steam and diesel service hydroelectric plant advanced by John S. coverage of a 75-mile-long Union Pacific fo cusing on the Daylighls? You can hardly Eastwood in 1886, through the fo rmation branch which was built in two stages from wait to get home, unwrap the book, and of the San Joaquin Electric Co. and the 1876 to 1907. The impressive cover photo browse through the pages filled with out­ beginning of construction of three dams is in color, all the rest are black and white standing color photography. and two power plants in 1910. Seven and about postcard size, but they well In its own way, the older color photos years later, Southern California Edison convey the flavor of the line which was are probably more remarkable. Current absorbed Pacific Light and Power and be­ built to exploit the grain production of cameras and fi lms being what they are, gan raising the height of the dams and southeastern Nebraska. The branch also more and more outstanding photos are building more powerhouses. In 1949, fur­ serves as an alternative route westward being taken today. To find quality color ther expansion of the system was under­ from Omaha in case of emergency. It was shots from 35 years ago is more difficult. taken, and in the 1980s, a fo urth project recently rerailed with secondhand 133- Even if you weren't around for phase I was started, with the goal of generating pound rail to enhance its capacity. Daylighl action (that's steam with match­ 1,288,000 kilowatts of energy by the Major weakness of the booklet is the ing cars), this book will acquaint you with 1990s. Along the way, we learn of the San single map which appears to have been what things were like. And, it isn't all Joaquin & Eastern Railroad, built a dis­ drawn with a ruler. It shows the stations 4400s either-there's a solid selection of tance of 56 miles in 157 days, with maxi­ but none of the geographic fe atures (such the various models and combinations that mum curvature of 60 degrees and grades as the Platte River) and all other railroads were typical of SP service. (And if you up to 5.6 percent, which required Shays are omitted. Mileposts are sometimes were around you can appreciate the vari­ and Climaxes to negotiate them. The used to identify photo locations, but the ety and quality of the scenes just as much problems and methods of the construc­ mileposts are not indicated on the map. or more.) tion of dams, powerhouses, water tunnels A good feature is the arrangement of Contained within the 104 pages of this and pipes; camping out in the rugged the photos. The first group shows the sta­ fine volume are 153 color photos. They mountains; coping with severe winters; tions from east to west (with mileposts detail Dayliglu service of old, including bunkhouse antics; building roads, tem­ indicated). Next the history of the line is diesel-powered trains, the American Free­ porary narrow gauge railways, and traced chronologically in pictures. dom Train, the S acramenla Railfa ir Excur­ fl umes; raising transmission towers; occa­ Though there is only a single page of text, sion (198 1), Wo rld's Fair Dayliglu (1984), sional accidents; the division of streams, the photo captions are generous and thor­ and the Gold Coasl Flyer movie work of and many more details are presented by oughly tell the story of the branch. 1986. Mr. Redinger in his account, which ends -JAMES KINGMAN

42 . MARCH 1988 Long before reverse commutes were a household word in the Boy Area, Southern Pacific train 110 graced the southbound run five mornings a week. Here on July 22, 1951, Pacific 2474 makes easy work of a two-cor Son Jose-bound train in Son Bruno. The 192 1 -built closs P-8 Baldwin engine hod two sisters in the Boy Area, Nos. 2472 and 2467-both good candidates to be seen in steam again in the next few years. -VIC F. REYNA

FROM THE PAST

The more things change, the more they stay the same-so the saying goes. Here SP 4600, a TR6A, handles a Pacific Electric freight train south through Compton, Calif., in January 1956. The 4600s were common power on PE lines until the early 70s. Number 4600 later became the 1100, which finished its SP career as the Sacr(Jmento Shop switcher before being sold in 1985 to a private party. The trackage through Compton is currently receiving considerable attention because of the construction of the Long Beach Light Rail Line. Freight traffic through Compton will be routed off this old PE trackage onto nearby SP tracks along Alameda St. on a diversion known as the Mealy St. Bypass. In this case, the passengers come first, then the freights. Maybe we have seen things finally come full circle. -JIM WA LKER

PACIFIC RailNEWS • 43 C What looks like 0 classic winter scene from some other port of the country is actually milepost 60 in Cajon Pass. The westbound Southwest hief, running about four hours late, glides down the south track on Dec. 18, 1987. The heavy head-end business this Amtrak train carries is evident. The first Hi-Level coach is a transition cor showing off a recently modified point scheme that drops the stripe to moke it motch between conventional and Hi-Level equipment. -ROD HIGBIE

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There was plenty of snow on the ground at Summit in Cajon Pass on Dec. 20, 1987, as Santo Fe Extra 8076 East crests the grade. The cut through which the train is passing has weathered considerably since completion in 1972 as port of the realignment of the line through Summit. -ELROND LAWRENCE

44.MARCH 1988 There is no question that Wyoming has a lot of snow in the winter. The proof is in this Dec. 14, 1985, view of UP Extra 3731 East, headed by the SD40-2 of that number and fellow SD40-2 3367, with a long string of hoppers near Centennial, Wyo., on UP's Coalmont branch. The misty quality of the scene is caused by blowing snow on this windy day. -DAVID A. STICKLEY

The winter of 1987- 1 988 will be remembered for bringing snow to a number of Southern California locations where it is not that common. Here, westbound SP symbol LABAF has just crested the grade of Soledad Canyon at Vincent and heads toward Palmdale in December 1987, through a fresh coating of the white stuff, with Cotton Belt SD45T-2 9391 leading four other units {including an ex-MP SD40-2J. -WILLIAM T. MORGAN HOUSTON HOTLINE: Texas' largest city, which has For what it's worth, Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. had some success in building and operating bus lanes in its Dukakis is the only declared presidential candidate from extensive freeway system, has decided to try again for rail either major party who has a plan to push passenger train rapid transit. Metropolitan Transit Authority directors expansion. Dukakis wants to spend $300 million to approved a 13-year, $2.6 billion capital program including establish a three-hour turbo service between Boston and a 20-mile light rail system costing $1 billion and New Yo rk and has said generally friendly things about $560 million for more busways. Approval of the plan came expanding Amtrak. Dukakis, incidentally, often after Houston Mayor Kathy Whitmire changed her commuted to his State House office on the MBTA Green previous stand against rail, but funding will depend on a Line, although that is probably a thing of the past. massive dose of federal and state money. The rail line's first segment would run along Main St. (in a subway JERSEY JOTTINGS: Big plans are afoot to ease the downtown) from Buffalo Bayou to the Texas Medical daily commute of passengers from points in northern New Center and east to the Old Spanish Trail. A spur line to Jersey in Manhattan. New Jersey Transit plans to spend the Astrodome/AstroWorld would be a possibility. By the $1 billion on rail improvements over the next few years. year 2000 a second line would link downtown with New junctions will allow passenger trains to switch from Galleria-Post Oak, a huge shopping complex on the West lines feeding into Hoboken Terminal to the main line Side. This plan must still be approved by Houston's running directly to Penn Station. The Montclair Branch of the Morris Essex (ex-DL&W lines) would be the first voters,who rejected a proposed $1.5 billion debt-financed & to tie in. NJ Transit also plans to revive passenger service heavy rail system in 1983 . . . add Salt Lake City to the on the old New York Central We st Shore line, serving honor roll of places gearing up for light rail. Pushed by Bergen County, N.J., and Rockland County, N.Y. influential Sen. Jake Garn (R-Utah), a bill to provide $3.8 million for a feasability study is working its way Abandoned railroad yards just across the Hudson River from lower Manhattan are being ripped out and replaced through Congress. The line might parallel Interstate by condominiums and shopping centers, and there are Highway 15, which runs north and south through Salt firm plans for a light rail line in this area, too. It won't be Lake City. Of course, until after Wo rld War II, Salt Lake the same old Joisey! ...The Toronto Transit City had electric railway service in this corridor with the Commission is trying (thus far unsuccessfully) to collect Bamberger Electric interurban running north to Ogden the difference between the cost of the Scarborough and the Salt Lake & Utah Railroad running south. In Advanced Light Rail Transit line, mandated by the some places, the tracks ran close to what is now I-IS. province, and a light rail line using regular streetcars, Thanks to Norman Holmes for this news. which the TIC wanted to build. For streetcars, the TTC had budgeted C$103 million. The line as built, with DATES TO WATCH: 1988 promises to herald much advanced linear induction motor technology and dedicated electric traction progress, and thanks to NARP, we have right-of-way, cost C$196 million. When the political some dates for you to watch: Jan. I8-Long Island Rail decision was made to use the advanced technology, the Road extends third-rail electrification from Farmingdale government of Ontario agreed to meet any increase in to Ronkonkoma, 18.1 miles. February-Pittsburgh cost. activates downtown light rail branch in subway to the

Amtrak station and the old Pennsylvania Railroad WAY DOWN YONDER IN NEW ORLEANS . . . terminal. May-light rail service begins from Civic Center there's talk of one, and perhaps two additional electric rail to the downtown San Jose Transit MaU, including loop operations, to join the historic St. Charles streetcar line. operation. June IS-heavy rail extension of Atlanta's RAIL TRAVEL NEWS reports that a riverfront tourist north-south line opens to Hartsfield International Airport. streetcar line will be built utilizing ex-railroad switching July-electrified suburban rail service opens from tracks, with completion expected in two years. Three Matawan to Long Branch, N.J., 16 miles. December­ vintage cars would travel the 1.9-rnile line. On a bigger New York City inaugurates subway extension to Archer note, New Orleans transit officials are very interested in Ave ....Boston's MBTA is in the process of receiving the constructing an areawide light rail system and so far have last of its initial order of 50 type 7 light rail cars. talked with officials of the French company Alsthom Meanwhile, Ray McMurdo informs us, the T has received concerning the $400 million proposal. The system would permission from the feds to scrap its wrecked Boeing link the New Orleans International Airport on the west, LRVs and wrecked rebuilt PCC cars. ELECTION YEAR: downtown, and the eastern part of the city.

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Payment in advance. 3201 New Mexico Ave . NW, Washington, or coal stove, IIO-voh lights, nO-voh baseboard DC 20016. 292 hear. Orig. wood interior. No trucks or wheels. Lo­ NEW 35MM SLIDE SETS. High-quality roster and cated Sacramento, Calif. Call (212) 766-2243. 292 scenic action slides. Great for the modeler and collec­ THE SHORT LINE, a great source of news of short line tor. Over 60 diffe rent sets; AT SF, DRGW, MKT, and industrial railroading. Published bi-monthly. SECOND PRINTING, 5,000 sold. Camp car living CNW, KCS, SP, CSX, UP, BN, SOO, GBW, GT Annual subscriptions: 1st class to U.S., Canada and over Donner Pass in the 1940s. Steam, snow, summer Guilford, CR, Zephyr, Shonlines, 4449, 8444, 3985, Mexico $16.50. 2nd class to continental U.S. $12 heat and trains. Good armchair reading about real J611, 614-T, Trolleys, Cabooses, Milwaukee and (Canada and other countries $13). The Shon Line, people and you are there! 25 photos. Free brochure. more. 20 slides $9. Catalog, Samples are FREE. Bled­ P. O. Box 607, Pleasant Garden, NC 273 13. 292-294 Fisher, Box 714, Colfax, CA 957 13. 292-294 soe Rail Slides, P.O. Box 377, Crowley, TX 76036. 283-293 APRIL 10, 1988, Los Angeles, 7th Cornfield Meet­ Southern California's premier railroadiana show and FOR SALE: 40 original Kodachromes of BCR excur­ World Gazetteer of Tramways, Part 2. Lists 800 sale. L.A. County Fairgrounds, Pomona, Calif. sion Sept. 13-19, 1987, $20. WI' Industry Guide, tramways, past and present, in USSR, Asia, Austra­ 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. General Admission $3. Dealer ta­ 120 pp. inc!. 7 pp. of maps, lists every industry lia, Africa. Also trolleybuses, rapid transil. 83 loca­ bles $30, inquiries invited. Write for details: Possum served at every station, $S postpaid. Jay Lentzncf, tion maps. Price $13.20. US$ checks accepted. Rapid Belly Caboose, P. O. Box 1285, Glendora, CA 91740 Box 1182, Minneapolis, MN 55458. 292 Transit Publications , 37 We llesley Road, liford, GE­ or call 818/963-8845 before 9 p.m. PST. 290-292 IGI 4Jx, England. 290-292 AT LAST! High-quality and accurate lapel pins of PA SSENGER CARRYING miniature trains. the West's railroads by the premier supplier of pins to 10 35,000 LOCOMOTIVE SLIDES. The First Section Sleam, gas, 71j( 24" gauge. Partly built locomo­ the airlines, railroads, rail museums and railway his­ duplicate slide catalog and reference book: 142 pp. , tives, cars, pans, wheels. Ride your hobby like Casey torical societies. Not the poorly done cheap jewelry perfect bound, alpha-numeric for mat, 1,620 compa­ Jones. Photos, details, 55. Write only, John Laugh­ normally encountered, but first-class representations nies, engine numbers, models , paint schemes, dates. lin, 169 Knight Ave ., Attleboro, MA 02703. 290, 292 of railroad heralds, name-train logos and builders' Class I, Shonline, Industrial from U.S., Canada, logos. RAILROAD HERA LDS: SP, UP, SF, BN, Mexico and other counuies. Special offer $5.95 (in­ RAILROAD RADIO SCANNERS. Car mobile and WI', "M LW, CB&Q, Np, GN, SP&S, D&RGW. cludes sample and $1 coupon). Porreca & Associates, hand-held-Bearcat and Regency. Several crystal and NAME-TRAINS: (then) Daylight, Empire Bllilder, (now) Inc., Box 22, Boulder, CO 80306. 289-296 programmable models in stock from S1 19.95 to Sall.loaqllill, Lark, SlIper Chief, Coast Starlight, $299.95. Crystals for most We stern railroads in stock Piolleer, Desert Willd, SOUlh,"est Chief, Califonlia at $5.95 each. Stop in or write for your railroad radio Zephyr, Sail .loa'lllill, Empire Bllilder. OTHER: UP shield with wings (found on E- and F-units), SF RIO GRANDE ZEPHYR. A ten-slide duplicate set needs. Send SSAE for information. Iron Horse Hob­ "Warbonnet" (F-unit yellow on red or current blue taken between Denver and Glenwood Springs during bies, 3529 Clayton Rd., Concord, CA 94 519. 267tf on yellow), EMD "cigar" builder's plate, Pullman the last week of operation in 1983. $6.50 postpaid. "heavyweight" logo. New pins added regularly­ Order Slide Set #8311. Larry Eastwood, Box 41, LOCOMOTIVE ENTH IAST Debuting in US S- send SASE for update. Pins average lj," and are $4 Huntingdon Va lley, PA 19006-004 1. 292 1988, a NEW motive power periodica!. News, histo­ each. Add $1 per order for postage. Satisfaction guar­ ry, modeling, rosters, resource guides. Glossy paper, anteed. Custom pins for railroads, club and societies photo-illustrated for mat. Send LSASE to: David GREAT GIFT IDEAS. Two eye-catching railroad are our specialty. Sundance Marketing, 1'.0. Casdorph, Box 1458, Monrovia, CA 91016. lover's conversation pieces. Hardwood music boxes Box 4957-S, Portland, OR 97208. 292, 293 292-293 finished in beautiful medium pine. Animated RR Sta­ tion plays "Those were the days," 6% x 4V1 x 47/� . FA IR BY ELEVEN, a vivid portrait of railroad po­ Caboose with brass handrails plays "John Henry," liceman experience. Softcover, 87 pages. $6.95 post­ 6\1, x 2'/, x 4\1•. $19.95 each plus $2 handling. Ill. res. paid. Hagan Moore, 324 So. 5th, Klamath Falls, OR add 6.5% tax. VISA/MC/MO/Ck: The Chicago Kid, I. 9760 292 B.lek '" bu.",",•. ..THE WESTERN RAILROADER P. O. Box 529, Deerfield, IL 60015. Serious Rail HislOr,. 0111,.' RIO GRANDE SKI TRAIN. Enjoy an eight-slide Sill m 11111..':'-T racril In-L, )g!ll'r�·S(C<1m- Ell'el ric· Dll" l' I LOOKING FOR data and photos of Santa Fe's San duplicate set with the lOs and ex-NI' coaches, taken in Flfl\' \'l'ar� lIt" :,anct' hy the \Vl'SI'S :;l'nlor hb(llricai J(lurtl,li Jacinto branch. What do you have) Jim Walker, PA­ March 1984. $5 postpaid. Order Slide Set #8401. 1\11\\· Puhil::heJ Quaneriy-S10.00 rer P-'.lr CIFIC RAILNEWS, P. O. Box 6128, Glendale, CA Larry Eastwood, Box 41, Huntingdon Va lley, The Western Railroader 91205. 283-292 I'A 19006-004 1. 292 Post Office Box 2168 Huntington Beach, CA 91647-0168

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