January 1987 No. 278

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246 Historic Trolley Fe stival in San Fran- 258 Kaiser Iron Ore Train s Roll. , . The 269 UP 's GP35s. Snow' Steam- Oct. 1983 cisco ... Last Call for D&RGW 17 . . May 1985 Purdy Co. Morrison-Knudsen April 1986 EXPO Facts ... Fort Collins Munici­ Morrison-Knudsen 1982 1984 pal Railway, Then and Now 247 Hello Ye llow, Goodbye Green . . 259 Cal Cable Car on Powell St. Lines, . 270 Thank sg iving in Sonora , .. Historic Dec. 1983 Alfred Perlman Memorable June 1985 What About Cabooseless Tra ins? . May 1986 Niles Tower Is Closed ... A Railfan's Images from Albert C. Phelps SP 's Kentucky House Branch Guide to the Vancouver Area 248 Winter in the Colorado Rockies. Santa Barbara's Street Railway- 271 Water Woes ... Locomotive Devel- Feb. 1984 The Weyerhaeuser Tw ins ... Three 18 75-1929 June 1986 opments Morenci . . . Caspar Gauges for Copper 260 Th e Spirit of the CH IEF Is Alive on Lumber'S Iron Horses 249 The Old Road to Los Angeles . July 1985 the Santa Fe Seattle & North 272 Another California "Encore" for 4449 April 1984 Motive Power of the Iowa Railroad Coast Finale , , , San Ardo, Popula­ July 1986 .. . The Blue Mountains ... Oregon's Company ... Confessions o f a Rail tion 445 Shortest Shortline ... History on the Book Writer 261 The North Coast Daylight ... Santa Move 250 Light Rail in the West Part One: Aug. 1985 Fe 's Venta Spur ... Millbrae: 35 Years 273 Santa Fe Salutes Dese rt Centennials June 1984 Edmonton and Calgary ... Virginia & Later, , . No More Train Orders at Aug. 1986 . San Diego Trolley's East Line . Truckee Is Alive and Well ... Morri- Santa Barbara The San Diego Trolley ... Western son-Knudsen 1983 262 Southern Pacific's Altamont Pass Line Railroading in the 1910s ... Mid­ 251 Light Rai l in the West-Part Two: Sept. 1985 , , , Today's Railroading on Espee . States Port Authority/ Kyle Railroads Aug. 1984 Portland SP's Tillamook Branch ... A Miss Katy Meets Her Suitor 274 SteamEXPO Album ... Santa Fe Ti llamook Steam Album 263 A Slice of the Santa Fe . .. Sta lking Sept. 1986 Behemoth Moved . . . Copper Basin 252 Daylight Photo Gallery ... Light Rail Oct. 1985 Locomotives at Ajo Tracing Rai lroad Off and Running.. " Oct. 1984 in the West-Part Three: San Diego Sacramento Northern's "Ghost" Miracles Take a Little Longer" Milwaukee Road Snoqualmie 264 Varied Live ries ... Railroads Across 275 To Merge or Not to Merge ... Chi- Pass Snowplows Nov. 1985 the Divide 21st Century Dis­ Oct. 1986 cago, Missouri & Western ... Arkan­ 253 Light Rail in the West - Part Four: San patching on the Santa Fe sas & Missouri. Yakima Trolleys Dec. 1984 Francisco Muni. Tacoma Short ­ 265 San Diego Trolley - Success & Return .. Morrison-Knudsen 1985 lines Combined ... Cajon Pass Dec. 1985 Growth ... SP & SF Renumbering, 276 C&NW Consist Comes West. . Dry 254 UP Challenger Steams Again ... Ven- Spokane's Rai l Action Nov. 1986 Valley Railroad Suspends Operation Jan. 1985 tura County Railway (Part One) . . . 266 Challenger 3985 B.C. Electric · .. When Empty, Return to Playas Mainline Electrification in the West Ja n. 1986 Commemorative Run ... Portrait of · .. "Coyote Special" Remembered 255 Eurek a Southern Inaugurates Freight the SJM , , . Pass the Sa lt, Please, 271 Moves to Campo Mina Line's Feb. 1985 Operation . .. Ventura County Rai l­ Very Wide Rai lroading at the VLA Dec. 1986 Future Clouded ... CB&O Interlude way (Part Two) ... A McKeen Sur- 267 UP 's GP30s Fade Away . . "Red­ · .. C&NW Special Inspects Powder vives Feb. 1986 Bird" Locomotive Fleet Grows . River Basin New Washington Central Emerges Goodbye 256 Last of the D-D Locos Pinole Yakima Fi na le ... Shortline Album Orders- Hel lo, Track Wa rran t Mar. 1985 Passages ... New Year's in Los .. Steaming to the Last Spike Control Angeles 268 In Search of Electrics . . . Rio Grande's 257 Amtrak in the Rio Grande's Desert Mar. 1986 Big Ten Curves ... U30C Phase-Out April 1985 ... B.c. Railroading . .. The "Wa lkin' on Union Pacific ... A Unified Roster Da yl ight". . Super Bowl Extras for Union Pacific

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A rare sight on the Santa Fe at Wellington, mates that grain and grain products should the rear of No. 5 at Denver. Kan., is BN train FBN0506, detouring due account for 60% of DM&E's revenues. At Salt Lake City the Colorado and Kan­ to a washout north of Ft. Scott, Kan. This Other commodities handled should include sas were removed, and UP business car 110 was a first for the Santa Fe tracks in this coal, sand, cheese, cement, fertilizer, added. It was removed at Las Vegas while area; the train was handled between Kan­ canned goods, wood chips, iron and steel, the remaining guests laid over for a day, sas City and Avard, Okla. Power for the train was SD40-2 7811, U30Bs 3472, 5483, and paper and paper products. Anderson and then was placed on the rear of the 5796 and SD40-2 7127, seen here on Octo­ admits that while some of DM&E's track­ Desert Wind at Las Vegas on October 25 for ber 8, 1986. -KEEL MIDDLETON age is in pretty poor shape, plans to spend the run into Los Angeles. An extra F40 about $10 million over the next five years operated on No. 35 on October 25 . (John for track improvements should help. Arbuckle and Dick Stephenson) C&NW had planned to abandon some of Dakota, Minnesota & the line segments involved. The state of South Dakota may supply some additional Bradley "Whistlestops" Eastern Operations funds for track rehabilitation. (Railway San Joaquin Valley Details Outlined Age) Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley cam­ We reported last issue on the completion of paigned from a special train on November the sale and start of operations of the Congressional Staffers 1 in the closing days of his unsuccessful bid Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern. This spin­ Ride the Rails for the governorship of California. off by Chicago and North Western is the The special operated from Bakersfield to largest one so far, with 836 route miles and A group of congressional staffpersons from Stockton, with stops at on-line cities. Mayor an additional 139 miles of trackage rights Washington, D.C., had the opportunity in Bradley spoke to the small crowds from the between Rapid City, S.D., and Winona, late October. to actually get out and ride platform of private car Caritas. The re­ Minn., included. Amtrak, and to see a variety of rail loca­ mainder of the consist included Chateau Operations are based at Brookings, S.D., tions in four major cities as part of a tour St. Jean Winery cars Sonoma Valley and for the new regional carrier, which employs that operated October 21-25. Burlington Golden Mission, and Golden Spike dome­ 140 persons, mostly former C&NW work­ Northern, Denver & Rio Grande Western lounge Native Son. ers. At this point there is no union repre­ and Union Pacific joined in the operation This equipment and F40 360 were pre­ sentation, but this could change in the with Amtrak. pared at Oakland, and deadheaded to future. Officials for the DM&E likewise Starting from Chicago, the group occu­ Bakersfield on the rear of the San Joaquin are mainly ex-C&NW: DM&E's president, pied a Superliner sleeping car and BN staff on October 31. After its last stop in Stock­ J.c. (Pete) McIntyre, is a former C&NW cars Stevens Pass, Stampede Pass and Big ton, the train returned to Oakland. assistant vice president and division mana­ Horn Pass, plus track inspection car Glacier Cars Native Son and Caritas moved to ger. The vice president of operations is View (see PRN 277 p. 44 for photo of cars) Los Angeles on the rear of the Coast Star­ Mark Schenewerk, former general manager on the rear of the Cahfornia Zephyr from light leaving Oakland on November 2. The of the Kyle Railroad. Three other mana­ Chicago on October 21. The cars were re­ Caritas laid over in Los Angeles until gers are also from the C&NW. moved at Denver the next day. On October November 5 when it departed on the rear DM&E's vice president-traffic, Lynn 23, the Superliner sleeper and D&RGW of the Southwest Chief (John Arbuckle and Anderson (formerly with C&NW), esti- cars Colorado and Kansas were added to Dick Stephenson)

4 • JANUARY 1987 The new Houston-Denver Quality Service Rail Briefs Burlington Northern plans to install train on the Santa Fe speeds through 3.5 million concrete ties as an expansion of Friedel Klussmann, the tenacious crusader Kenney, Tex., on October 25, 1986, behind the program started in 1986 with purchase who saved San Francisco's fabled cable GP39-2 3693. Consists are expected to ex­ of 150,000 concrete ties. They will be cars, died peacefully on October 22, 1986, pand as the new service becomes better placed on curves of over two degrees and known. -REID McNAUGHT in her shingle house on Telegraph Hill. on routes handling 20 million or more She was 90. (Harre Demoro) gross tons annually. The concrete ties have an expected life of 50 years, so while the initial cost may be higher than wood ties they last longer. (Railway Age) Efforts to increase the number of cabooseless trains in Canada continue. A series of public hearings on the matter concluded in Moose Jaw, Sask., on November 26. Both CP and CN would like to have the number of cabooseless trains increased, but railway labor is opposed. (Railway Age) The Col­ ton, Calif., City Council approved plans in early October for a railcar dismantler on a portion of Southern Pacific's Old Colton Yard. The Council required that attention be given to the route trucks would take in getting to and from the yard, and that the facility be fully fe nced. When viewed in early November, both the fence and a rail­ mounted crane were in place. The facility is to be jointly operated by State Iron and Metal, S&A Rail Dismantling and Orange County Steel. Rail access to the facility will help the operators to bid competitively for A fresh new look on the SP is fuel tender 700, seen at Roseville, Calif., on November 2, equipment to be scrapped. (Ed Von Nor­ 1986. It is expected that the new cars will be used with GP40-2s. - VIC REYNA deck and Dick Stephenson) Figures compiled

PACIFIC RailNEWS • 5 by the Economics and Finance Department Roaring Fork RR bother them, as they partook of its vista of the American Association of Rail­ dome viewing. roads show strong spending in the last few Passenger Special The special departed Denver late, due to years by American roads in-plant. With Runs on 'Grande delays getting the D&RGW engine to the spending for equipment down by as much station. Once under way, the train made its as 50% of total expenditures in some years, Roaring Fork Railroad Co. ran a three-car way up the Colorado Rockies Front Range roadway, signals and communications have passenger special October 3, 1986, over the and through Moffat Tunnel under heavy been the recipients of large increases in Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, clouds. Snow was encountered at Fraser, spending. Burlington Northern emerged promoting a proposed Aspen passenger Colo. At Range Siding, on the Dotsero as first in all but one of the categories train service. Cutoff, the train was put in the siding for measured: BN produced 21 % of all reve­ The trip was to stimulate in vestor inter­ four trains: Sperry Rail car No. 137; nue ton miles, operated 16.66% of all road est and help get passage of an Aspen refer­ D&RGW train 134; D&RGW train 100; miles, and earned 27.32% of all net in­ endum critical to the proposed operation. and Amtrak's eastbound Cahfornia Zephy r come. BN also ranked first in total spend­ The Pitkin County measure, if passed, train No.6. Out on the main again, it ing at $678.6 million, followed by Sea­ would allow rebuilding of some seven traveled through Glenwood Canyon to board, Conrail, Santa Fe, Missouri miles of track on the old D&RGW grade Glenwood Springs. There the train moved Pacific, Norfolk Southern, Southern between Woody Creek and Aspen, Colo. onto the Aspen Branch, going almost 13 Pacific, Union Pacific and CSX (the top Approximately 75 invited guests were miles to Carbondale at the line's 20-mph 10). Some figures can be combined due to aboard the special on its Denver Union speed limit. systems now being merged. Return on Station-to-Carbondale, Colo., trip. The Carbondale residents turned out to meet investment for railroads dipped below 4% proposed Roaring Fork RR Co. train's the hour-and-a-half-late special. The local for the 12-month period ending June 30, route would start at Denver's Stapleton radio station kept the residents abreast of 1986, a disappointing year for investors. Airport and run via the Union Pacific and the train's progress. The special's passen­ The figures were strongly influenced by D&RGW to Aspen. gers disembarked into a festive crowd of large write-downs taken by Union Pacific 150 to 200 people. They were met by the and Burlington Northern. (Railway Age) Created by Houston Oilmen school band, a dance group and free beer. Gunderson, Inc., now owned by the Roaring Fork Railroad Co. is the brain­ Carbondale residents, many of whom work Greenbrier Cos., is presently at work on child of two Houston oilmen, Randy at the Aspen and Snowmass ski areas, sup­ three SP orders: 175 Twin-Stack® double­ Parten and Noel McGaughey. They pre­ port the commuter rail alternative to U.S. stacking container cars, 300 center-parti­ sented their plans to the Aspen City Coun­ "Killer" Highway 82 driving. The tion lumber-carrying cars, and upgrading cil and Pitkin County commissioners back special's passengers boarded two waiting and conversion of 150 flatcars to lumber in March 1986. Talks with Amtrak, Rio buses for the journey to Aspen. flats . Grande and Union Pacific have also shown The D&RGW engine and caboose left promise. the passenger cars at Carbondale. They Roaring Fork envisions Rio Grande continued north and then west to Grand '87 Rio Grande Diesel-powered trains, featuring 1940/50s ' Junction, Colo. Ski Trains Will Operate stainless steel passenger cars, making the The Roaring Fork RR Co. used the three seven-hour airport-to-Aspen trip. Some passenger cars that weekend to further The famed Ski Train on the D&RGW (the Union Pacific track at the airport, and Rio promote its plans to Pitkin County resi­ subject of a feature in this issue) will defi­ Grande tracks from Denver to Aspen dents. The D&RGW returned the cars to nitely operate during the 1987 season . would be the route. Commuter railbus ser­ Denver Sunday night, October 5, over the The only question is whether it will run vice would be operated from Glenwood route they had come by. out of Denver Union Terminal or North Springs to Aspen (45 miles south). Roaring Fork's ambitious schedule to Yard. implement its service projects a startup Rio Grande freights now bypass DUT, Aspen Voters Approve date of November 1987. and there is no longer a direct connection Aspen last saw railroad passenger service -"CHIP" SHERMAN between DUT and Burnham Shops-most in 1949. Since then, seven miles of Rio AT&SF and BN freights also bypass the Grande track have been removed and the depot on a new double-track line. (R on right-of-way was made into a bike and Hill) hiking trail. Aspen and other Pitkin County voters approved a proposal for the city to Noted PE Historian give the railroad a right-of-way over two to Bob McVay Killed Train Stops, one on November 4. Although final ap­ Out of Fuel proval is not yet a fact, as this was only a We were shocked to hear of the highway referendum-and critics have already com­ death of Bob McVay, noted Pacific Electric What could be more embarrassing than plained it would destroy a popular hiking historian, and photographer of many rail­ running out of fuel on the main line? Well, trail- fingers are crossed. way and traction systems for four decades. probably doing it in downtown at rush His vehicle was struck, apparently by a hour. Train Consist drunk driver, near Fresno, Calif., on Octo­ On November II, 1986, SP's Blitz local, The special's consist was D&RGW loco­ ber 21. which works in the Antelope Valley (based motive 3121 (GP40-2); D&RGW caboose McVay, born July 21,1927, was raised in at Mojave), lost first SD45R 7468 from 01435; Anschutz Corp. lounge cars Colo­ Southern California. At the time of his lack of fuel. It tried to limp back to Mojave rado (a Budd rear-end observation) and sudden death, his family owned cable tele­ on the power of SD45R 7519, but it, too, Utah; and D&RGW dome-observation­ vision systems. He was very active in col­ ran out of fuel, near Rosamond. The local lounge Silver Sky. A Roaring Fork RR Co. lecting PE timetables and other memora­ fuel supplier in Mojave (Standard Oil deal­ drumhead adorned the Silver Sky's rear. bilia and, in fact, a letter to the editor from er) was closed fot the holiday. The Anschutz cars have Diesel gener­ him about rail transit appeared in the Los To the rescue came SD40T-2 8341 off a ators for heat and light. Silver Sky gets its Angeles Times a few days later. work train which had been working on the lights from batteries, but since the train He was very generous by sharing his Searles branch, and was returning light to didn't have steam heat, it was not heated on photographic and other material with Los Angeles. (Don and Dick Stephenson) the trip. Hardy passengers didn't let that many who wanted to record Pacific Electric.

6 • JANUARY 1987 CALL BOARD

APRIL 25-26: Annual Rail Festival, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. ARIZONA NEVADA both days, at Orange Empire Railway ,'vluseum, 220 I So. " A" St" Perris, Calif. Steam and Diesel trains, Arizona Chapter, NRHS-4th Friday (except Carson City Railroad Association-4th Friday trolleys, music, displays. $5. P.O. Box 548, Perris CA Nov./Dec.) at Vista del Camino Recreation Center, (most months). 7:30 p.m. CCRTA Mills Park Station, 92370. 278-282 7700 E. Roosevelt, Scottsdale AZ 85257. Carson City NV (enter ofT Saliman Rd., opposite high school). ContacL Box 2245, Carson City NV 89702. APRIL 25-26: 5th Cornfield Meet Railroadiana CALIFORNIA Show & Sale. L.A. County Fairgrounds, Pomona, TEXAS Calif. Sat. 5-8 p.m., Sun. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Write P.O. Bay Area Electric Railroad Association-1st Fri­ Box 1285, Glendora CA 91740 for details, admission . day. 8 p.m. Hospitality Room, San Francisco Federal 278-282 Gulf Coast Chapter NRHS-8 p.m. 3rd Tuesdays Savings, Shattuck & University Ave., Berkeley, CA. aboard railroad cars on T rack I of Gulf Coast Trans­ Contact John C. Plytnick, Pres., Box 3694, San Fran­ portation Museum, 7390 Mesa Rd. , Houston, Tex. cisco CA 94119. Write PO Box 547, Houston TX 77001. California-Nevada Railroad Historical Society- 1st Tuesday (except July and Dec.). 7:30 p.m., Sumitomo Bank Bldg., 20th & Franklin Sts., Oakland. UTA H Contact Ed Graham, 316 Innisfree Dr., Daly City CA Promontory Chapter, NRHS-Ist Friday month­ [LETTERS [ 94015. ly, 7:30 p.m. Salt Lake Hardware Building, 105 N. 400 Central Coast Railway Club-3rd Friday, 8 p.m. West (one block north of Union Pacific station), Salt Community meeting room, Santa Clata Public Library, Lake City. Contact Lester Tippie, 1965 Lindsay Dr., 2635 Homestead Rd., Santa Clara. Bob Terkelsen, Salt Lake City UT 84 11 9. Commute Cars to Sacramento Pres., Box 434, Santa Clara CA 95052-0434. We were surprised to note in the Rail Electric Railway Historical Assn. of So. Calif.- WASHINGTON Briefs column of your November 1986 3rd Friday. 7:30 p.m. Community Rm., Calif. Federal Savings, 1900 Sunset Blvd. (Echo Park), Los issue that the "commute coaches which Northwest Railfan Group-1st Friday, Septem­ Angeles. Write Box 24315, Los Angeles CA 90024. had been reported sold off to the ... Cali­ ber through May. 6:30 p.m. Room 1-1- 32, North Feather River Rail Society-3rd Saturday bi­ Seattle Community College. Contact Carl E. Weber, fornia State Railroad Museum have instead monthly (even-numbered months) 7:30 p.m. at the 1277 NE 69 St., Seattle WA 98115. (206) 523-1630. been sold to other buyers." museum, Portola, Calif. Write P.O. Box 8, Portola CA Puget Sound Railway Historical Association- The California State Railroad Museum 96122. 2nd Friday. 7:30 p.m. North Seattle Community successfully bid on five commute cars, SP Southern California Chapter, R&LHS-Ist Tues­ College, Room R C 1-1-31 Lecture Hall "D". Contact Nos. 2101,2114,2118,2125 and 2154, day. 8 p.m. Basement, 401 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale Box 459, Snoqualmie WA 98065. built 1923 and 1924. The cars left San Jose CA. Contact W.B. Fletcher, Chmn., 7515 Yankey St., Tacoma Chapter, NRHS-3rd Friday. 7 p.m. Downey CA 90242. on December 20, 1985, and were received South Park Community Center, 485 1 S. Tacoma Way, at Sacramento on December 22. We have Northern California Railroad Club, Inc.-4th Tacoma WA. Contact Dale Kraus, Pres., Box 340, Tuesday monthly except January. 8 p.m. Auditorium, T acoma WA 98401. not pursued purchase of any additional cars San Francisco Community College District, 33 Gough from the SP commute fleet. St. (just ofT Market), San Francisco CA. Contact -STEPHEN E. DREW, Curator Ronald Vane, Secretary, Box 668, San Mateo CA BRITISH COLUMBIA 9440 1. California State Railroad Museum Pacific Coast Division, Canadian Ra ilroa d His­ Pacific Coast Chapter, R&LHS-4th Friday, 7:30 torical Association-3rd Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. p.m. Clift Hotel, Geary & Taylor Sts., San Francisco. Vet's Room, eN Terminal, Vancouver, Be. Contact Where Is the Train? Contact Stuart Forsyth, 100 Cedro St., San Francisco Box 1006, Station A, Vancouver BC, Canada V6C 2P I. CA 94127. In your November issue, "Coyote Special West Coast Railway Assn.-Contact them for meet­ Remembered," the photo of this train states Orange County Railway Historical Society-1st ing schedule. PO Box 2790, Vancouver, BC V6B 3X2. Monday, monthly. 8 p.m. At Santa Ana Regional it is "hurrying across the California desert Transportation Center (new Amtrak depot), 1000 E. near Barstow." In the book Sanra Fe, [he Santa Ana Bl vd ., Santa Ana. Contact Steve Dona ldson, PO Box 51, Balboa Island CA 92662. (714) 642- 1864. Railroad Tha[ Buil[ an Empire, by James Marshall, this same picture appears in the Northwestern Pacific R.R. Historical & photo section captioned, " Engine #478 Technical Society-3rd Thursdays. 8 p.m. Whis­ EXCURSIONS tlestop (former NWP Union Depot) at 4th & Tamal­ pulling the Scotty Special west of Grants, pais Ave., San Rafael. Contact Jack Farley, PO Box New Mexico. 4413, San Rafael CA 94913. (415) 479-2126. EVENTS -EDWARD MAHONEY Pacific Locomotive Association-3rd Friday. 8 p.m. Social Hall, St. Christopher's Church, Hacienda Who knows where [his was raken? Is Marshall JANUARY 18: Rail Book Authors' Autograph Party, & Hathaway Sts., San Lorenzo CA. Write Box 2465, correa? Please send your reference. Thanks. I :30-4 p.m. in " Town Hall " at Orange Empire Rail­ San Leandro CA 94577. way Muse um, 22 01 So. "A" St., Perris, Ca li f. Special Pacific Railroad Society-2nd Friday, 8 p.m. guest is Harre Demoro, and many So. Cal. authors will Story Park Re creation Center, 210 No. Chapel Ave., be present. Details: P.O. Box 548, Perris CA 92370. Alhambra, CA. Contact Marti Ann Draper, Pres ., Box 278-279 80726, San Marino CA 91108. (213) 283-0087. Gremlins FEBRUARY 28: Winterail '87, a railroad photogra­ We suppose that if there were no errors, COLORADO phy exposition, 10:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. at Scottish Rit e Temple, 33 W. Alpine Ave., Stockton, Calif. 700 there also would be no humans involved in Mile High Railway Club-4th Monday (except tickets available in advance for $7 each + 200 more at this magazine. What a trade-oill June, july, Aug. & Dec.) & 3rd Mon. in May. 7 the door for $10. Order now: Dave Stanley, P.O. Box On the photo caption at the bottom of p.m., Rossi's, 4301 Brighton Blvd., Denver. Contact 8771, Stockton CA 95208-0771. 277-280 p. 16 (PRN 276) Randy "Keeler" is really (303) 428- 1802 or 466-8558. Randy Keller. Intermountain Chapter, NRHS-3rd Friday MARCH 7: Annual outdoor railroadiana swap meet, 9 The price of Nils Huxtable's 1987 Pass­ (except june, july, Aug., Dec.). 6:30 p.m. Rossi 's, a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission included wirh aU·day pass 4301 Brighton Blvd., Denver. Contact Box 5181 , ($3.50). Orange Empire R~ilway Museum, 220 1 So. ing Trains calendar (p. 42, PRN 277) is Terminal Annex, Denver CO 80217. (303) 623-6474. "A" SI., Perris, CA. 277-280 US$7.95 postpaid.

PACIFIC RailNEWS • 7 A Meet in The Funnel

TWO IN THE HOLE AT ATHOL, IDAHO

Text and Photos by Bruce Kelly

HEY CALL IT THE FUNNEL. THE 68 MILES well as the short stretch of double track at Algoma, see T of highly polished steel between Spokane, Wash., quite frequent use. and Sandpoint Jet., Idaho, are perhaps the busiest on any Siding rails are every bit as shiny as those on the main of Burlington Northern's main lines. Trains running line. BN's Boyer West dispatcher (at Seattle's King St. between the West Coast terminals of Pasco, Portland and station) tends to launch a half dozen or more eastbound Seattle, and eastern points beyond Havre and Missoula from Spokane at any given time, especially on Friday bunch together and share that one piece of track 'round and Saturday afternoons. Such parades have each train the clock, so naturally the five CTC-controlled sidings­ running as little as three minutes apart, at speeds reach­ Otis Orchards, Rathdrum, Ramsey, Athol, Cocolalla- as ing 70 miles per hour. And you can bet there'll be some opposing traffic somewhere along the way. Welcome to the Spokane Division's 1st Subdivision. The funnel is only about a 20-minute drive from my home above Lake Coeur d'Alene. I find myself making the trip at least once or twice a week now. After a while, the five-mile-per-hour, back-and-forth/bang-' em-together antics of the BN and UP (subsidiary Spokane Inter­ national, actually) locals in downtown Coeur d'Alene lose their intrigue. Speed, frequency and tonnage gener­ ally spell out a winning combination for photography or just plain watching. At Trackside It's April 8, 1986, and once again I'm drawn to track­ side on the funnel. Northbound on Hwy. 95 I turn ofTto the left a few miles short of the crossroads at Athol. This is the back route to Athol siding, longest passing track (13,247 feet) west of the Bitterroot Range (with the exception of 14,620-foot Cle Elum, Wash.). I stop, look and listen, then drive across Spokane International's main track, continuing over the empty fields toward Athol's west switch. The last few cars and caboose of a BN westbound have just departed from the scene. No problem- there'll be more trains to see. Before I even reach the siding, my scanner is picking up unusually long transmissions from the Boyer West dispatcher. He informs the engineer of train 22 that he'll be pulling in behind another eastbound at Athol to clear for a priority westbound. "Burlington Northern Railroad ... Ramsey, Idaho ... No Defects." Something has just passed the talking wayside detector at milepoint 39.5, and the distant roar of locomotives in Run 8 tells me it's an eastbound (trains climb a slight, continuous hill from Otis Orchards to Athol). No doubt that westbound I caught a glimpse of earlier has cleared at Ramsey siding BN train is seen from the caboose of train 196, both in sidings at Athol, Idaho, on April 8, 1986. Both are meeting 3133 West. by now. The early afternoon sun provides a harsh, back-

8 • JANUARY 1987 Burlington Northern train No.4 is between Rathdrum and Ramsey, Idaho, powered by units 3161131381 FT4117185, on May 14, 1986.

BN train 3/13, headed by No. 3133, passes trains 196 and 22, both on the siding at Athol, Idaho. All the black and white photos on these pages were taken on April 8, 1986.

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10 • JANUARY 1987 Opposite, above: The caboose of train 3/13 (at left on main track) passes the caboose of train 196. In the distance is the power of train 22, also on the Athol siding, milepost 32 on the 1st Subdivision of BN's Spo­ kane Division.

Opposite, below: The brakeman of train 196 watches his train leave Athol siding; he will soon board the caboose. Behind is train 22, which will follow onto the main.

Right: Finally, train 22, with a lash· up of SD40-2 No. 7029 on the point, followed by a B30-7 A and a second SD40-2, enters the main track at East Athol, as the meet is completed.

lit setting for my head-on shot of No. 196 as it rounds the horn for the employees and myself on the ground near curve and negotiates the 35-mile-per-hour turnout at milepost 32. The predominance of containers at the head West Athol. I realize most hardcore roster shooters end means this could only be the consolidated train 3/13. would sooner die than be caught aiming their cameras At Spokane, the containers and some of the trailers will into the sun, but since 70% of my photography is black split off as train 13 and continue west to Portland by way and white, I occasionally enjoy rendering my subjects as of Pasco. The rest will receive new road power for the graphic, abstract images of an otherwise familiar theme. run to Seattle as No.3. Here at Athol, the westbound got Class dismissed. quite a rollby from the crews of 196 and 22 . Train 22 ought to be joining the 196 in Athol siding The moment 3/13's caboose rushes past, the 196 gets any minute. Capturing three trains on one frame of film under way. There wasn't time for the rear brakeman to becomes my primary goal, so I drive over to the now walk his train's entire length, and I spot him rolling her motionless caboose of No. 196, and before I can even by from a speeder car ramp before hopping aboard the pull out my scanner (don't leave the car without it!), the caboose. Two SD40-2s and a B30-7A waste no time rear end crew gestures for me to come on over. Immedi­ accelerating the 196 out onto the main and up to track ately, one of them-the brakeman, I assume-starts out speed. A scant 16 minutes after the passage of 3/13, the on his inspection of the train. The other guy spies my second eastbound-No. 22- wheels out of Athol siding cameras with a curious eye and requests my presence on behind SD40-2 7029, a B30-7 A, and another SD40-2. board the caboose. Turns out he has a recent issue of a The switch motor growls a bit and finally engages to line major photography magazine and has been thumbing the turnout back to its normal, closed position. Come to through it in search of a good camera buy. Yikes ... I think of it, an open switch is really quite normal for the haven't got all day for this! My three-train shot is in funnel, with so many drag freights and merchandisers jeopardy. A brief sermon on the pluses and minuses of leapfrogging from one siding to the next as their more various 35mm SLRs and their features ends just in time lucrative counterparts get free run of the main track. to shoot out the rear window at No. 22. Our westbound can't be far off now. One Last Photo A voice barks from the caboose radio in regard to the My departure from the 1st Subdivision is not complete wayside detector at Granite (mile point 22.6). Time for without a final check of the westward ABS signal be­ me to jump down to trackside and figure out my shot. tween Ramsey and Athol. Sure enough, it's red, and in Too late . .. the hotshot's headlight crests the hill near minutes the Extra 3108 East is approaching. Okay, one East Athol and his air horn blows for the town's only last photo, then I must be on my way. You've got to major grade crossing. Closing in at high speed, the engi­ know when to quit, because the endless flow of trains on neer of Extra 3133 West gives a few warning notes on the the funnel often does not.

PACIFIC RailNEWS • II DESTINATION NACOZARI

Text and Photos by Dick Stephenson

he Destination Nacozari special train, because of a copper smelter there. The Railroading on the second day was com­ T which was operated on September town of Cananea appears relatively pros­ posed of an Agua Prieta-Nacozari round 26-28, 1986, by Let's Travel Tours, pro­ perous in an otherwise depressed area. trip; it included some outstanding scenery, vided an opportunity for three days of Operation on the entire branch is by three photo stops, and a chance to see the "hardcore" train riding on the Ferrocarril timetable and train order, one of which set ex-Santa Fe CF7 2431 at Calabazas. The del Pacifico. The trip between Nogales and up a meet with westbound freight No. 33 climb over the mountain and down into Nacozari, Sonora, was broken into three at Mina Gro siding, near Naco; passengers Nacozari is impressive, complete with a segments. While the train spent two nights could detrain to photograph the meet. winding river canyon, many curves, lots of at Agua Prieta on the international border, Number 33 had M424Ws 562, 567, 565 trees, and some great views. At the town of the passengers were lodged in Douglas, and M42DTR 522 on the point; on the Nacozari, which is spread around hillsides Arizona. rear was instruction car 11832, a very and canyons, the railroad abruptly stops. After being bused from Tucson to No­ Harriman-looking passenger car complete The station building has a familiar SP style gales, the 100-plus passengers boarded the with open platform and striped awning. to it, although built of brick instead of four-car special, composed of Primera (This train derailed later that evening on wood. Especial coaches 1225, 1251 and 1276, soft track west of Del Rio, but caused no On the way south, we met the north­ Segunda coach 1551 and FCP caboose delay to the special.) bound mixed, which was powered by 15221. Power for all three days was FCP M420TR 529 and M424Ws 564 and 574. U23B 539, painted in the red/gray scheme Second Day: Nacozari Round Trip The southbound mixed, No. 28, followed reminiscent of the Espee. This proved to Before leaving Douglas the second morn­ us, so for a short while there were two be a worthy locomotive, handling the train ing, there was an opportunity to look trains in Nacozari. It had U23Bs 541 and uphill, downhill and at speed with ease. around the old El Paso & Southwestern 546 and M424W 569, power which we had depot, now owned by the city. The local seen the day before in Nogales. historical society has plans for its restora­ It was interesting to see the fireman take First Day: To Agua Prieta tion-quite a challenge. But underneath down the indicators when No. 28 arrived. The first day's journey covered Nogales­ the drab paint inside is some gorgeous While this was once a common practice in Cananea-Agua Prieta. The 15km branch marble-there is even a dome-ceilinged North America, now the FCP is the last from Del Rio to Cananea is important waiting room. road to use train numbers-and display them in the indicators. On the return trip to Agua Prieta, a pleasant late-afternoon ride, some hearty souls even rode on top of the caboose ... the ultimate in scenery seating!

Third Day: To Nogales On the third day return from Agua Prieta to Nogales, perfectly warm, pleasant weather greeted us. Photo stops at Naco, Del Rio, Santa Cruz and the two crossings of the Santa Cruz River made the day com­ plete. After an early-afternoon arrival in Nogales, our crew caught FCP No.2 home to Empalme; a switch engine later arrived to pull our train right up to the U.S. border. In the meantime, No. I arrived behind C36-7s 441 and 460, while departing No. 2 was headed by C36-7 425, U36C 411 and M636 665; each of these trains had 10 cars. It was unusual to have three passenger trains at the Nogales station all at once. After return to Tucson by special buses, some continued the rail tradition with a The seven-man Pacifico train crew poses in front of GE locomotive 539 while the Special ride back to Los Angeles on Amtrak's sits at Cananea. Sunset Limited.

12 • JANUARY 1987 Surely one of the most interesting events their assigned cabooses fixed up; they cook, Great Trip in the town of Esqueda, Son., was the ar­ eat and sleep aboard the car, much like While it was not an inexpensive trip, and rival of the Special on September 27. American practice of many years ago . was tiring due to some long days, it was Many locals gazed at it, while the passen­ The locomotive was available to passen­ unforgettable. I wouldn't have missed it for gers photographed it in the front of the gers. Fans could ride on the front or sides anything. The crew was very friendly, the quaint station, which also is an order office. as well as inside the cab. Literally the only scenery was more impressive than ex­ place that was off limits during the trip was pected. When do we leave for the next the engineer's seat. Mexico fan trip?

The Crew While much has been said about the equipment, the story would not be com­ plete without some comment about the crew. Called from the extra board at Empalme, the crew deadheaded to and from Nogales. When we talk about the crew, it was far larger than even the concept of the "full crew" in the States. We had an engineer, fireman, three brakemen, and two conduc­ tors (one in charge of the train and one to collect tickets). A road foreman of engines and a trainmaster were aboard, and two men from the car department rode as well. The crew proved to be very friendly and helpful. On the Nacozari leg of the trip (the second day), they pointed out many inter­ esting scenic views along the way .

Many Places to Ride Some of the passengers spent a great deal of time on the caboose and/or the locomo­ tive . It was a rare opportunity to experi­ ence what the life of a working railroader is Making a photo run-by at a crossing of the Santa Cruz River, east of Nogales, on Septem­ like. On regular runs, FCP crews have ber 28, the Special mixed a rare riding opportunity with great scenery.

PACIFIC RailNEWS • I3 By Harre W. Demoro

HEN THE NORTH SHORE RAILROAD Above: Northwestern Pacific 170, ex-Las Vegas & Tonopah 4, scoots past the high school on the Mill Valley Branch, with Mount Tarnal­ W standard-gauged and electrified its Marin County pais in the background. - HARRE W. DEMORO COLLECTION commuter zone in 1902-03, it constructed the Electra) a steeple-cab electric motor, to handle freight traffic. Below: NWP 140, with a blind on its Vanderbilt tender, nudges a However, the engine took too much power and found its Civilian Conservation Corps special into Mill Valley's depot. Num­ way to San Francisco and ultimately became Pacific ber 140 was the last steam locomotive on the property, and a hoped­ for preservation did not pan out; it was cut up at Tiburon in 1957. Electric 1544 and is preserved today on static display at - WALDEMAR SIEVERS/HARRE W. DEMORO COLLECTION Travel Town. With Electra 's departure, freight service was assigned to steam locomotives in the third-rail zone and, with the creation of the Northwestern Pacific in 1907, mainline steam also appeared in the commuter district. These photos show the steam operation in twilight in the late 1930s, when the third rail is still energized for the trains that met the ferry at Sausalito and Ten­ Wheelers like these Northwestern Pacific engines, rather than leased power from parent Southern Pacific power, are still in use.

14 • JANUARY 1987 Above: NWP 139, a product of A1co's Schenectady Works in 1914, Below: The same train, with 140 in command, is at Alto station in hurries train 3, the overnight from Eureka, out of the Alto Hill Tun­ 1939. Note the third rail in the foreground. nel in the early-morning light, in 1939. BOTH: WALDEMAR SIE VERS/HARRE W. DEMORO COLLECTION

PACIFIC RailNEWS • 15 A RIO GRANDE TRADITION Five Decades of the Ski Train Part One:

by Ronald C. Hill

ITH NO FANFARE OR CELEBRATION OF But even the all-season road did not eliminate the W any sort, the Moffat Route Ski Train quietly and hazards and uncertainties of travel throughout the long, unobtrusively observed its 50th anniversary on February cold, snowy winter season. 9, 1986. The auspicious occasion was seemingly un­ So it was only natural that the Moffat Road would noticed by the news media as well as the D&RGW itself, eventually attract the attention of winter sports enthu­ but the history of the unremarked train is fascinating. siasts, as its line ran through some of the very finest ski Colorado is now world famous for its many glorious ski country. The Denver, Northwestern & Pacific Railway slopes, superb snow conditions and elegant winter re­ (later reorganized as the Denver & Salt Lake Railroad) sorts, but Colorado skiing actually began during the had been constructed from Denver to Craig from 1902 to early 1880s in the rugged Rocky Mountains west of 1913. Completion of the Moffat Tunnel under the for­ Denver. Soon ski clubs were formed, and the sport began bidding Continental Divide in 1928 greatly speeded and to grow dramatically in popularity. In 1921 the National facilitated travel to the western slope of Colorado. Ski Association held its national tournaments in Colo­ rado for the first time ever. Major ski areas were devel­ oped on Genessee Mountain just west of Denver and in First "Snow Train" Hot Sulphur Springs and Steamboat Springs. On February 9, 1936, the Denver Rocky Mountain In those days it was not easy for people to reach the ski News sponsored the first "snow train" over the Denver areas, as roads were primitive and poor. Highway travel & Salt Lake RR from Denver to Hot Sulphur Springs. through the mountains was seldom attempted except Over 2,200 train tickets were easily sold out well in during summer and early autumn months. It was not advance, and legendary railroad photographer Richard until 1931 that the precarious road over Berthoud Pass H. Kindig was among the lucky passengers. Round-trip into Middle Park and beyond was kept open all year train fare plus admission to the U.S. Western Ski Tour­ around. Soon skiers would be able to hitchhike to the top nament and Winter Sports Carnival cost only $l.75! The of Berthoud Pass in order to ski back down. And in 1933 snow train operated in three sections with the first leav­ the first ski tow in Colorado was constructed atop ing Denver bright and early at 6:00 a.m., while another Berthoud Pass by the city of Denver, and was to enjoy a special D&SL train brought 500 more enthusiasts from long-term relationship with skiers and the ski industry. Steamboat Springs. Flushed with success, the newspaper

16 • JANUARY 1987 promptly sponsored a D&SL Pullman train with dining Lake operated a single 14-car snow train with double­ car service to the Winter Sports Carnival at Steamboat headed locomotives. Springs on February 15-17, 1936. The snow trains became annual attractions under the continuing sponsor­ More Trains Sponsored ship of the Denver Rocky Mountain News. In 1937, 1938, Other organizations wasted no time in operating snow 1939 and 1940 two sections of D&SL specials trans­ trains of their own. Safeway Stores, the Denver Post and ported skiers and winter sports fans to Hot Sulphur Montgomery Ward all sponsored snow trains over either Springs during the month of February when snow con­ the D&SL or the D&RGW. Some of the most elaborate ditions were usually best. In 1941 the Denver & Salt trains were those on the D&RGW overnight from Den-

Above: A ski train powered by 2-6·6-0 No. 203 pauses for water at Coal Creek Tank on February 6, 1938. -R.H. KINDIG

Right: The nine-car second section of the Denver Rocky MOllntain News "snow train" arrives at Sul­ phur Springs on February 5, 1939. -R.H. KINDIG

Opposite: "Moffat Mallet" No. 201 sits at Sulphur Springs (later re­ named Hot Sulphur Springs) with the very first Moffat Road ski train on February 9. -R.H. KINDIG

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ver to Aspen via the Royal Gorge and Tennessee Pass. A flourished, winter sports actlvltleS at Hot Sulphur few years earlier the Rio Grande had run ski specials in Springs rapidly diminished. the Salt Lake City area and on the narrow-gauge line over Marshall Pass in Colorado. Postwar Ski Boom After the war ended, droves of skiers flocked back to Skiing Ensured Continuation the slopes, and many of them rode the scheduled D&SL Naturally, the snow trains were discontinued during trains from the Moffat Station. But the regular passenger World War II, and after the war had ended, the news­ trains could not meet the increasing demand. On April papers elected not to resume their operation. But dra­ 11, 1947, the Denver & Rio Grande Western RR matic developments at Winter Park-located at the west emerged from its second bankruptcy and absorbed the portal of the Moffat Tunnel-would ensure the continua­ D&SL (actually, through Rio Grande trains had been tion of the popular trains for many years to come. As operating over the D&SL since the opening of the early as 1933, the first Mary Jane ski trail (named after Moffat Tunnel and completion of the Dotsero CutofI). an old mine) had been cut near Winter Park, and by 1939 Just before Christmas in 1947, the first Rio Grande several more runs had been cleared at Winter Park itself. Moffat Route ski train ran from Denver Union Station On January 28, 1940, Winter Park was dedicated as a to Winter Park. Thereafter the regularly scheduled Ski Denver-owned winter playground, and a special D&SL Train operated on weekends during every ski season. snow train left the Moffat Station in Denver at 8:00 a.m. that morning headed for Winter Park; Governor Ralph Winter Park Growth Carr was among the many dignitaries aboard. Skiing Winter Park achieved a great degree of permanency in became incredibly popular after World War II, and by 1950 when the city of Denver entered into an agreement 1947 Winter Park boasted three t-bars and four rope tow for the Winter Park Recreational Association, a non­ lifts-a far cry from the 1930s when skiers had to strug­ profit organization, to manage the ski resort. The associ­ gle up the mountains under their own power for only ation boasts an unpaid board of directors consisting of 15 one or two thrilling downhill runs! As Winter Park respected and prominent persons from the Denver area,

18 • JANUARY 1987 Opposite: On March 7, 1948, No. 1706-one of the beautiful D&RGW 4-8-4s-pulls the eight-car Ski Train around "Little Ten Loop" near Arena (now called Rocky) at 30 mph. - R.H. KIN DIG

Right: The biggest and best D&RGW steam power was occasionally as­ signed to the Ski Train. Here, giant 2-8-8-2 No. 3611 has the easy task of powering an l1-car Ski Train around "Big Ten Loop" and through Fireclay (now called simply Clay) on February 19, 1949. -R.H. KINDIG

all of whom are skiers. Perhaps one factor in the longev­ boot straps across the coach aisles, discharged fire extin­ ity of the Ski Train is that one member of the board was guishers, played with water pistols, littered the cars with also a director of the D&RG W! Almost overnight exten­ toilet paper, and pulled the emergency brake cord. Need­ sive improvements were made which guaranteed the less to say, Ski Train duty was not at all popular with the success and continued growth of the ski area. Winter trainmen! The problem with discipline became so severe Park does not offer the elegant and expensive accommo­ during the late 1960s that there were, occasionally, dations which are found at places such as Aspen and uniformed deputy sheriffs on board to maintain order. Vail, but it does offer some of the finest skiing anywhere Eventually, declining patronage, more adult chaperones, in the West. It is no surprise that Winter Park ranks and on-board games and other diversions helped to ease third among all ski areas in Colorado in terms of skier the difficulties. usage. The importance of the Moffat Route to Winter Park has not been overlooked by the Winter Park Recre­ Ski Train Coaches ational Association. The railroad enthusiast who skis at From the very first D&SL snow train, the Moffat Winter Park will be interested to find that the parking Road Ski Trains consisted almost entirely of heavy­ lots, ski lifts and trails bear rail-related names such as weight steel coaches and, occasionally, Pullmans. As Dotsero Junction, Prospector, Zephyr, Rainbow Cut, Little patronage soared during the 1950s, the D&RGW found Ten, and Vista Dome. that it did not have enough heavyweight equipment of its own to handle the crowds. Thus, at different times, it On Board Pranks was obliged to lease as many as six coaches each from the Many Ski Train passengers were juveniles who were Burlington, the Colorado & Southern, and the Santa Fe; too young to drive automobiles and whose parents were Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific cars were also seen unwilling to drive them all the way to Winter Park for a on the Ski Train from time to time. A snack car was day of skiing. Naturally, more than a few pranks were usually located in the middle of the train, and sometimes organized on board the train by the exuberant youths. a ski rack car was included in the consist. In order to One of the author's longtime friends-now a distin­ solve the equipment shortage, in 1960 the Rio Grande guished attorney practicing law in Ft. Collins-proudly purchased eight antique heavyweight coaches from the related the childhood story about the time he and a co­ Northern Pacific-all of which had been built in 1915. conspirator removed the light bulbs from an old coach The NP coaches were quite similar to the D&RGW's and then filled the light fixture globes with water. When own coaches but were destined to survive at least into the the train entered a tunnel and there were no lights in the late 1980s. However, it was still necessary for the Rio car, an unsuspecting trainman removed the globe only to Grande to borrow equipment from other railroads until receive a face full of water! Other daring innovators tied the end of the 1970 ski season. The banner year for the

PACIFIC RailNEWS • 19 Opposite: An SD50 and an SD40T-2 pull a shortened seven-car Ski Train through historic Tolland on March 29, 1986, near the end of the 1986 ski season. The fuel-efficient SDs just may be back on the train in 1987. -RONALD C. HILL

Left: On March 27 , 1965, during the era of big trains, six F units roar through Plainview with a 20-car Ski Train. - RONALD C. HILL

Below: Leaving Denver behind, the Ski Train accelerates through Pros­ pect Junction on March 24, 1984. Dome cars, including round-end observation Silver Sky, for the mayor and his party are in an un­ usual location at the rear of the train, where they are partially ob­ scured by the engines of the BN "Beer Train." -RONALD C. HILL

20 • JANUARY 1987 Ski Train was undoubtedly 1966, when four 22-car trains Private Cars Banned were operated. From 1962 until 1966, ex-CB&Q open-platform busi­ Never again would the Rio Grande handle such long ness car 96 of the Intermountain Chapter, NRHS, passenger trains. The huge trains were difficult to oper­ decorated the rear of the train a few times each year. An ate, and it was inconvenient and dangerous to unload unfortunate accident-entirely the fault of the railroad­ skiers so far from the ski area or within the confines of at Tabernash on February 6, 1966, when car 96 was on the Moffat Tunnel. After February 1966, train length the train, led to a ban against private cars on the Ski was restricted to "only" 19 cars! The train consist Train. (The Ski Train equipment was used on a series of steadily dwindled thereafter as the ancient heavyweight five "picnic specials" from Denver to Hot Sulphur equipment wore out and was scrapped. From 1971 the Springs during the summer of 1964. Ironically, an acci­ Ski Train has consisted only of the eight ex-NP coaches dent involving a picnic special at Tabernash on July 26, and an ex-Prospector combine car, except for times when 1964-again the fault of the D&RGW-resulted in the extra equipment was added for special occasions. discontinuance of all special trains for the general "Mayor's Train" public.) After Denver billionaire Philip F. Anschutz pur­ chased the entire Rio Grande in 1984, he acquired three One such special occasion occurs every year when the private cars which frequently graced the Ski Train dur­ "Mayor's Train" is operated as part of the Ski Train. ing the 1985 and 1986 seasons. Although the common Following the establishment of the Winter Park Recrea­ carrier D&RGW steadfastly refuses to handle private tional Association in 1950, its board of trustees has in­ cars on the Ski Train for other individuals or organiza­ vited the Denver mayor and city council and their guests tions, it never seems to refuse the requests of owner to ride the Ski Train to Winter Park annually to inspect Anschutz! the ski area and see how it is being run. Ordinarily, a couple of dome cars and a coach are added to the train Part 2 of this two-part article will appear in the next for the exclusive use of the dignitaries. issue.

PACIFIC RailNEWS • 21 RAILROADS

SD24m's; many 5500-series (ex-NYC) tons of Powder River Basin coal to the GP40s; and quite a few 4300-series Oel­ George A. Neal Unit 4 Generating Station wein-rebuilt GP7s and 4500-series rebuilt near Sergeant Bluff, Iowa. This unit was CHICAGO & GP9s. Other locomotives, including damaged by a tornado on July 28, 1986 (the SD40-2s 6808 and 6910, were noted mov­ same night an apparent tornado derailed a NORTH ing toward East Minneapolis with bad­ C&NW train atop the Kate Shelley Bridge), order prime movers, apparently for storage. and is expected to be repaired in May WESTERN As of mid-October, the North Western 1987, at which time shipments will com­ had not relieved the Ako C628s from their mence. Trains will originate at Carter ore-hauling duties in Upper Michigan. Mining Co.'s Caballo Mine, which By Michael W. Blaszak The company was reporting a slight power C&NW will serve after January 1 as a shortage due to increased traffic; it is ex­ consequence of its purchase of a half inter­ SD60 Arrivals pected that C&NW will assign EMD est in Burlington Northern's 9.5-mile line Delivery of C&NW's order for 55 SD60 power to the ore trade once all the SD60s north of Coal Creek Junction. C&NW, UP locomotives from Electro-Motive was com­ have received their signal equipment and and WRPI also signed a new contract with pleted on October 17, when units 8028, can be used in mainline service on an Iowa Public Service covering movement of 8048 and 8053 arrived at Proviso Yard . unrestricted basis. coal from UP-served mines near Hanna, Records indicate that 8001-8027, 8029- Wyo., to Units 1,2 and 3 at Sergeant Bluff, 8036, 8038-8041 and 8044-8047 were GP9s to DM&E and possible future movements of Powder delivered in September, with the balance On October 14 the Belt Railway of Chi­ River Basin coal to these units. arriving in October. cago delivered Norfolk and Western GP9s Assimilation of the new units into the 1463, 1471, 1477 and 1483-1484 to Abandonment Canceled locomotive fleet was disrupted by turbo­ C&NW for movement to Dakota, Minne­ C&NW notified the Interstate Com­ charger failures which began occurring sota and Eastern at Winona. As reported in merce Commission on September 30 that it shortly after the SD60s entered revenue our last column, these five Geeps will was withdrawing its application to abandon service. Reports indicate that at least one round out the initial DM&E locomotive its Casper Air Base-Riverton, Wyo., line SD60 turbo disintegrated shortly after the roster. because there is a new prospect for track unit was placed in operation. The defective North Western's passenger car fleet had upgrading. As a result, the Commission turbos were replaced at EMD or the another outing on September 30, when a canceled the scheduled October 21 hearing Oelwein Shops. Apart from the turbo prob­ IS-car train operated from Chicago to Bill, on the abandonment. lem, the new locomotives appear to be Wyo ., and return to show the railroad to Credits to Bruno Berzins, Bob Stein and running satisfactorily. Oelwein is also members of the investment community. Rich Wilkinson. installing ATC and CCS signal equipment The train was powered by executive F7s in the 8000s. During September, 8001, 400, 401, 402, 410 and 411 and included 8003, 8006, 8008-8009, 8011 and 8021- power car 490, coach 425, sleeper 410, 8022 were run through the Oelwein Shops business cars 402, 404, 401 and 400, sleep­ for one or the other of the foregoing rea­ ers 411-414, diner 450, dome 421, coach sons. By October 8, SD60s had been spot­ ("presentation car") 422 and theatre car ted leading freight trains on the east-west 420. It departed the Chicago passenger main line in the Chicago area, indicat­ terminal at 12:01 p.m., arriving at Bill at ing that some of them had received ATS 11:45 a.m. on October 1. Returning east­ RIO equipment. ward, the train was scheduled to leave Bill GRANDE at 4:00 p.m. on October 1; it was observed Retiring Older Units at Villa Park, Ill., at 6:45 p.m. on October 2. As the SD60s settle into the heavy-haul routine on North Western main lines, the More Donated Movements R. C. Farewell company is pulling older units, which are Following the precedent of its earlier no­ more expensive to operate and maintain, charge movement of hay bound for the Operations out of service and storing them at various drought-stricken South, the North Western Definitive changes have been few on the locations. Noted traveling dead-in-transit during September donated transportation Rio Grande lately. Rumors abound as to if to Oelwein in September, apparently for services for hay destined to farmers in the and when a trackage rights agreement over storage, were GP35s 854, 865 and 868; western portion of Upper Michigan, which the SP between Ogden, Utah, and the West SD45 951; GP7s 4348, 4392 and 4486; also received little rainfall this summer. As Coast will be worked out. GP40s (ex-New York Central/Conrail) C&NW no longer serves this area by rail, As of late October nothing was firm. 5504 and 5527; and secondhand SD45s the company moved the hay to Green Bay, However, if the Rio Grande gains trackage 6477,6490 and 6567. Through October 12 where it was transferred to trucks for ship­ rights west from Utah, a few interesting these units had been joined by SD40s 873, ment to the farmers. problems will immediately occur. One of 882, 892 and 926 (the latter was originally the most fascinating is: Where is the Rio a Chicago Great Western unit); GP7s Coal Traffic Agreement Grande going to get the power to run trains 4179, 4307 and 4408; GP40s 5511 and On October 9 the North Western an­ west of Ogden? At the present time, sys­ 5534; SD45s 6473 and 6543; and SD24m nounced that it, Union Pacific and temwide train movements and their re­ 6634. At present, around 300 locomotives C&NW's Western Railroad Properties sub­ spective motive power requirements can are in storage at Oelwein, including most sidiary had signed a coal transportation just about be balanced by the 'Grande's of the company's remaining GP30s and contract with Iowa Public Service Co. The fleet of late-model EMD GP40/40-2s and GP35s; most of the 6622-series deturboed contract covers movement of 2.3 million SD40T-2/SD50s. Filling in the blanks are

22 • JANUARY 1987 the road's GP30s and yard switchers. The Pueblo on October 18. The coal loading Don't miss the 5th massive need for additional power for point for this particular operation was the Utah- West Coast operations, however, Roadside Mine. CORNFIELD MEET would probably force the Rio Grande to Rio Grande Railblazer Notes reactivate the remainder of its stored The Rio Grande's Sprim trains, the R ail­ RAILROADIANA SD45s, the 'Grande's long dead GP35s, blazers, continue to gain tonnage, indicat­ and perhaps the dusty GP9/SD9s that still ing that the marketing concept makes sense SHOW & SALE remain on company property. Such a reac­ in this part of the country. On-time per­ tivation of stored power fro m the Burnham Sat. April 25 Su n. April 26 formance continues to follow the adver­ Shops dead lines would undoubtedly be 500 PM. POMONA 10:00 A.M. tised, even with this increased traffic. What short-lived, though, as the Rio Grande is truly unique about this pair of runs, CALIFORNIA would probably move quickly to acquire however, is the variety of rolling stock that L.A. County Fairgrounds more used power, as it did with the pur­ finds its way into Railblazer consists. Early chase of ex-Conrail GP40s some years Call (818) 963-8845 Dealer on in the history of the train, the consist of For InqUires back. Until any purchased units could be Or Write TOFCs/COFCs was elegantly blocked Details Invited put on-line in revenue service, however, Possum Belly Caboose with respect to car type and/or style. Not so Box 1285, Glendora. Ca 91740 the "good old days" of anything-goes Rio anymore, as seemingly anything goes! Grande motive power consists would be Indeed, ultra-new eight-wheel single-trailer back. flats from the C&NW have appeared, five­ The Rio Grande has joined the ranks of unit articulated permanently coupled car railroads using talking digit al drag detec­ sets have appeared, and the regular consist tors. One such unit is located at milepost can be expected to be a plethora of car 3.26, just west of Denver's North Yard on types and ownerships. Motive power is less the Moffat Tunnel main line. If triggered, varied, but always interesting. As the R ail­ the drag indicator repeatedly broadcasts its blazers are the hottest trains on the Rio specifi c location and a warning message Grande system, the latest and most modern over Rio Grande road channel No.1, of the road's GP40/40-2 fl eet is usually 160.92 mHz. assigned. When short-lived power short­ ages occur, though, anything can and does Unit-Coal Trains appear. October 13, for example, found the After a lengthy absence from the Rio The Colorful Streetcars We westbound R ailblazer's expected duo or Grande, unit-coal trains 725 and 726 have Rode / City streetcar designs trio of GP40/40-2s displaced by D&RGW returned. Operating on very roughly a in North America developed 5508, 5388 and 5515 (SD50, SD40T-2, once-a-week schedule, No. 725 rolls 100 from the horse car to the SD50), super power for the train's 27 trail­ empty CELX hoppers west from Denver PCc. This book features ad­ ers. Not to be forgotten, September 15 over the Moffat Tunnel main line to the vancements in streetcar tech­ found D&RGW 3016 (GP30) helping to nology. The 103 photos- all Craig Branch and thence to loading near boost the R ailblazer's trailers west. in full color-show the cars Hayden, Colo. Train No. 726 returns the in use in 68 cities. $28 now-loaded hoppers eastbound to Denver, Foreign Motive Power thence south over the Joint Line to Pueblo, As we noted in an earlier column, the 30 Years Later: The Shore Colo., and transfer to the Santa Fe. The Rio Grande has reactivated and loaned Line / Frequent curves, slow speed restrictions, numerous Santa Fe continues the hoppers to the some of its long-stored SD45s to the BN to passenger stops and general­ Celanese Corp. at Kingsmill, Tex. An ex­ help equalize run-through hours on Rio ly difficult operating condi­ ample of motive power assigned over the Grande trains 707 and 708 on the Denver­ tions made this part of the Moffat Tunnel mainline segment of the Pueblo Joint Line segment of their runs. North Shore Line as unprofit­ run was on October 16, when eastbound As the Rio Grande is presently a pure­ able as it was busy. CERA No. 726 rated the following units: EMD railroad, the BN's big General Elec­ memorialized the thirtieth D&RGW 5385, 5514 and 5501 (SD40T-2, tric coal-service growlers used in 7071708 anniversary of its closing two SD50s) on the point; Nos. 5511 and run-through operations were excluded with a 32-page photographic 5404 (SD50, SD40T-2) as a mid-train from continuing on Rio Grande rails west remembrance of the line. $6 helper set; and Nos. 5502 and 5510 (two over the Rockies . Once in a very great Gary Railways, by James J. SD50s) as a rear helper set placed behind while exceptions did occur. Lately, though, Buckley / In 1908, northwest­ the last hopper. No caboose was utilized. these exceptions have been more frequent. ern Indiana's trolley system Officially, unit-coal trains 787, 788, 789 For example, on October 16, eastbound began with city streetcars. and 790 have disappeared from the Rio loaded unit-coal train 708 had the follow­ Soon it extended interurbans Grande due to the loss of contracts by the ing motive power: D&RGW 5409, 5381, in six directions. One was the Chicago-New York Electric parent corporation of the originating 5380, BN 5046, BN 5002 and BN 5537 Air Line! In the 1920's hand­ mines. However, due to user supply prob­ (three SD40T-2s, three C30-7s) on the some new cars lent a light lems, we can expect that through the end of point; BN 5501, BN 5133 and D&RGW interurban flavor to the the year there will be transferred from the 5379 (two C30-7s, SD40T-2) as a mid-train whole system. 36 pages, $4 Missouri Pacific in Pueblo either a 7871788 helper set; and finally, another rarity on the set, going to and from the Roadside Mine Rio Grande these days, a caboose, specifi­ These soft-cover books are near Grand Junction, Colo., or a 7891790 cally orange D&RGW 01456, brought up generously illustrated. We set, destined to run to and return from a the rear. The following morning, October pay the postage! Discounts coal loadout at ACCO, Utah. The cycle to current CERA members. 17, eastbound loaded unit-coal train 718 Trade terms. In Illinois add times for these operations supposedly will was observed high in the Rockies west of 8%tax . be about one per week. The first of these Denver with a rear helper set consisting of cycles occurred on October 17 when a No. D&RGW 5364, BN 5344 and D&RGW 787 rolled empty hoppers westbound from 5374 (SD40T-2, U30C, SD40T-2). The Pueblo and No. 788 returned the loaded head-end suite was pure Rio Grande SDs; hoppers back over Tennessee Pass to no caboose was used on this operation.

PACIFIC RailNEWS • 23 Departed Power train. The K ansas City train was powered Carl Loucks One of the Rio Grande's departed GP9s by GP39-2 3698 and GP50 3832, and de­ ... SELLI NG RAILROAD TIMETABLES has turned up, with a greatly altered car­ parted La Junta with nine cars. Both trains body, working for the LORAM railgrind­ left promptly at 4:00 p.m. 199 Wayland St., North Haven, CT06473 ing outfit. Rio Grande 5911 was built by The Denver terminus for the new service SPECIALS OF THE MONTH ... EMD as cln 205 19 in May of 1955. There is the Santa Fe intermodal facility at Big a few of the more than 100,000 are still quite a number of the 'Grande's Lift, south of town. There are no facilities items in our stock. We do NOT sell original GP9s and SD9s in very dead con­ for turning the locomotives there and the any reprints. All are original rail­ dition, stored on company property. Their lack of a wye or turntable is creating an road issue. eventual disposition (whether sa le, scrap or interesting operating problem. Ideally, the the distant chance of reactivation to trains would leave Big Lift headed south PUBLIC TIMETABLES: These are D&RGW service if trackage rights to the with two locomotives facing forward. At full system timetables with maps, West Coast requires a quick shot of power) La Junta, the power would split, with one ads for the name trains and com­ is highly open to question. One ominous locomotive continuing to Houston and the plete schedules for main lines and note is that these vintage units are 1101 listed other continuing to, say, Phoenix. branch lines. These are true col­ in the specified tonnage rat ings for all But with no turning facilities at the lector's items that document the classes of Rio Grande motive power in the Denver end of the line to accomplish this, history of the American passenger latest employee timetable, issued Sunday, several options are being studied, including train. May 4, 1986; thus, chances for their use on building a wye or equipping a captive fleet ATSF "Santa Fe" 1944 ...... $8 the 'Grande should probably be considered of locomotives for this service with dual­ ATL COAST LINE 1967 "Last" $3 slight at best! direction controls. In addition, officials are CANADIAN NATIONAL 1968 . $3 Special 1!tanks are in order 10 R aben R. looking at a modification of the BN "fuel CANADIAN PACIFIC 1968 .. $3 H armen for Pueblo, Tennessee Pass and tender" concept to eliminate fueling stops C B & Q 1967 ...... $3 LORAM informazion. en route. CHI NORTHWESTERN 1969 $3 This represents a significant step for D L & W 1958 ...... $5 Santa Fe in competing with the trucking ERIE 1958 ...... $5 industry. At the same time it is a very ERIE-LACKAWANNA 1960 . . .. $4 logical one for the railroad that first oper­ FRISCO 1938 ...... $9 ated freight trains on passenger train time­ L & N 1943 ...... $8 tables. Let's hope the concept spreads. MISSOURI PACIFIC 1947 ... $7 NEW YORK CENTRAL 1957 . $5 Midwestern Mess NEW HAVEN 1939 ...... $9 SANTA While Spn'nt was on the minds of Colo­ NORFOLK & WESTERN 1956 $5 rado and Middle Division railroaders in NORTHERN PACIFIC 1964 .. $4 FE early fall, the most common words on the PENNSYLVANIA 1957 ...... $5 Santa Fe in Kansas that month were SOUTHERN RWY 1966 $3 "washout," "flood" and "detour," accord­ SEABOARD COAST 1967 . . . $3 By Dave Busse ing to correspondent Keel Middleton. S P "Last Issue" 1970 ...... $3 On Friday, October 3, there was a train UNION PACIFIC 1968 $3 Sprint Trains stranded just east of Winfield, Kan., by WABASH 1961 ...... $5 The concept of short, fast and frequent high water on the KC Division. WESTERN PACIFIC "Last" .. $3 Sprim trains has arrived on the Santa Fe . The Douglass subdivision was under . . . Buy ANY 10 ded uct $5 from the Dubbed Quality Train Service, Santa Fe's water, as was the Enid Subdivision be­ total order ... newest hotshots handle mail, parcels, con­ tween Guthrie and Cherokee, Okla. This PUBLIC TIMETABLE SPECIAL: tainerized freight and automobiles, utiliz­ means that all trains heading to east Texas The history of your favorite road ing three-man crews on extended crew from Kansas were cut off. told in timetables. One from the districts and short (10-20 car) cabooseless Late that evening, the 1-1 85-03 en route 1940s, one from the 1950s, one from consists, with one or two locomotives for to Houston stopped at Winfield, power ran the 1960s ... 3 System timetables power. They also borrow a routing concept around the train and headed west for for only $12.00. Choose from ATSF, from the airline industry. Wellington. With no wye at Winfield, ACL, CB&Q, MILW, CRIP, CV, C&O, The new service links Phoenix, Ariz., units 8098, 8084 and 8136 (C30-7s) all ran B&O, IC, GN , NH , NYC, N&W, NP, with Kansas City, and Denver with Hous­ long end first into Wellington where 3690 PRR, SAL, SOU, UP. Six sets for ton, Tex. You might think of La Junta, (GP39-2) was added to the point. The train $60.00. Colo., as the hub for these two trains, with then ran all the way west to Amarillo, segments radiating out from there. Both south to Lubbock, east through Salton and EMPLOYEE TIMETABLE trains operate over the northern route from Brownwood to Houston, with several other STARTER KIT: Ideal for the new La Junta through Dodge City and Hutch­ trains following similar detours the next collector. Ten employee timetables, inson, Kan., to Newton, where the Texas­ day. hours of interesting reading about bound train diverges to the south. Two days later the flooding around railroad operations. One each from For rail fans, a major benefit of this new Cherokee, Okla., subsided and a new the SP, UP, ICG, SCL, SOU, ATSF, operation is the addition of two trains to detour route began. From Wellington, BN , MP, ROCK ISLAND, and CPo All the northern route, and daylight operation trains ran to Kiowa, Kan., then over a ten for $25.00 over Raton Pass. For railroaders it means branch line to Enid, Okla. At Enid, trains Our monthly catalogue lists hun­ additional jobs on lines that have seen big were handed over to BN and ran to Perry, dreds of items. No charge, sent with drops in traffic over the past few years. Okla., where they rejoined Santa Fe rails each order, or send a SSAE. On October 21, reader Robert H armen for the trip south. Ten miles of washed-out noted the Houston-Denver train at Las AT&SF track near Guthrie, Okla., made Carl Loucks Animas, Colo., with GP39-2s 3673/3624 the BN detour necessary. By Wednesday, .. . SELLING RAILROAD TIMETABLES and three cars . This train met the Phoenix­ October 8, the railroad had been pieced Kansas City train at La Junta, where 10 back together and the detouring was over. 199 Wayland St., North Haven, 0647 3 cr cars were transferred to the Denver-bound BN had problems of its own-detouring

24 • JANUARY 1987 at least eight trains over Santa Fe lines in the same area due to flooding. All trains utilized BN power.

Bakersfield Roundhouse Closed October 15 saw the closing of Santa Fe's roundhouse facility at Bakersfield, Calif., on the Valley Division. In the past, trains from the Bay area and the San Joaquin Val­ ley added power here for the climb over the Tehachapis; westbound trains dropped much of their power here. Trains will still drop and add power at Bakersfield, but the consists will be planned and coordinated in Richmond, Calwa (Fresno) and Barstow. Employees in the area see the potential here for a real bottle­ neck. On paper, it means that fans will probably see a lot of unusually big power consists running through to Calwa and occasionally Richmond. This move is yet another in the railway's attempt to economize. The memo an­ Working at Vernon, Calif., in its maze of industrial trackage in summer 1986, Los Angeles nouncing the cutback put it simply: "This Junction Ry. 2571 retained its original Santa Fe number when purchased from that road is going to work because we have no option along with two other CF7s. And, it wears a clever adaptation of the original Santa Fe but to make it work." design. -J. C. BLACKWELL/FINER ENTERPRISES

Motive Power Notes Santa Fe's SD45B 5502 emerged from was assigned to Pueblo several years ago, the San Bernardino Shops on October 24. the slug was behind. A number of the This is actually the third locomotive to Geep/slug sets are used for switching wear that number, with the first being a chores throughout the midwest. UNION straight SD45 unit, the second a booster destroyed in last summer's head-on crash System Shorts PACIFIC in Missouri, and the most recent a replace­ In New Mexico, the York Canyon coal ment for that unit, rebuilt from SD45R mine, owned by Kaiser Steel Corp. is load­ SYSTEM 5340, itself a wreck victim . ... With the ing at least one train per day for the Fayette completion of rebuilt U36C 9569 on Octo­ Power Project at Halstead, Tex. The coal is ber 31, the rebuild program for that class at moved over Raton Pass to La Junta, then By Ken Meeker Cleburne Shops ended. It was significant down the Boise City cutoff (which helps because it represented the first major re­ explain the welded rail on that line). Big Who's Moving? building program by a railroad of a major trains are doubled over the stiff grades of When asked about rumors that UP is plan­ GE class of locomotive. Other roads have Raton Pass. Kaiser hasn't made steel in ning to move its headquarters from Omaha shown an interest in the program, includ­ four years, but its coal-mining business to St. Louis, newly named railroad chair­ ing Burlington Northern, Union Pacific remains active .... Big time on the Valley man and CEO Michael H . Walsh (see story and Conrail, because of the large fleets of Division: October 22 at 10:00 a.m. the in issue 277) said, " I'm buying a home in GE units that they operate. With the up­ Santa Fe opened and closed the Middle Omaha. I have no plans to leave Omaha." grading of both EMD and GE units in its River drawbridge just to prove to the Coast own shops, Santa Fe has deferred for some Guard and local wags that it still worked. Midwest Water Woes time any purchases of new power. A rough Heroic efforts a few months back by a During late September and early October estimate is that it has gained an almost new bridge and building gang saved the bridge excessive rainfall in the midwestern states unit at about 60% of the cost of a new from fire, although the lift mechanism was caused serious flooding and washout prob­ locomotive. It will be interesting to see damaged. The repair efforts were success­ lems at many locations on the UP in Kan­ what emphasis Santa Fe will put on re­ ful. The Middle River Bridge hasn't seen a sas and Missouri, particularly on the building in the coming two or three years. regular bridge tender since the 1950s . ... Carthage, Sedalia and River Subdivisions. Oakland Terminal Railway leased Santa August and September saw the removal of Many UP/MP trains were detoured via un­ Fe GP35R 2903 for a day on October 8 to rails and ties from the Santa Fe's Redondo affected system routes, or in some cases via spot loads of containers. Want to rent a District in the cities of Redondo, Hermosa other railroads. Several Amtrak trains were GP35 for a day? It cost Oakland Terminal and Manhattan Beach. Last train on the annulled and passengers had to be bused $550. line was a movie special in 1981 .. .. Still around closed sections of trackage. By mid­ Tourist-hauler Santa Cruz, Big Trees and no word on why that Upland Turn has October most of the storm-damaged track­ Pacific at Felton, Calif., has taken delivery been operating on the Los Angeles age was returned to service. of former Santa Fe CF7 2641. The unit Division. We understand it may be a was delivered via the SP in mid-October. Second Subdivision job based in Armour Yellow Shorts When it first opened in July, the SCBT&P Claremont in the near future. UP System Employees Timetable No.4 used SP GP9 3712 for a short period of Thanks 10 our /a ieh/ul concribulOrs, includ­ was issued effective with the changeover time. It was returned to the SP, and is once ing G. Hale Bosman, Mike Martin, Kim from Daylight Saving 'Time on October 26. again stored in Los Angeles. Larsen, Mick Dundee, Russell Czuleger, The booklet features a grey cover and is Pueblo slug set 1312/slug had the slug Steve Gartner, K eel Middleton, Robert similar to previous issue No. 3, but reflects moved to a position in front of the cab of Harmen, Ron Welch, Jim Speake1; and Dick the newly realigned divisions and subdi­ the GP7 earlier this year. When this set Stephenson. visions .... UP 4-8-4 8444 was on display

PACIFIC RailNEWS • 25 under steam at Omaha on October 11 in cations will be made in the near future .... changed to the Illinois Central Gulf Rail­ conjunction with the National Model Rail­ Special passenger trains have become very road at Kansas City during early October road Assn.'s 19th Annual Convention. popular on UP System trackage this year. for delivery to their lessor, General Amer­ This was the last public appearance of the Another such train, operating as an "Offi­ ican Transportation Co. at Dixmoor, Ill. year for the big Northern. Upon comple­ cer's Special," ran between Council Bluffs, (These units could be picked up by another tion of its display duties it was scheduled to Iowa, and Oakland, Calif., October 2 Class I road, or one of the new regional move under steam on October 23 and 24 to through 5 behind GP40Xs 90 and 94 . The carriers like Chicago Missouri and West­ Cheyenne, Wyo., for its winter hiberna­ train left Oakland on October 6 bound for ern. -Ed.) tion ... . UP announced in October that it Seattle, Wash. Consist was : power car 206; Effective September 30, 1986, all of the was delaying final abandonment of 66 boiler car 302; Cabarwn; Wyoming; dome remaining former Western Pacific GP40s miles of former MP trackage between lounge 9004; business car Ill; and busi­ in the 3527 through 3544 number series Parnell and Frankfort, Kan., until Novem­ ness car 100. (see PRN 274 for list) were officially re­ ber 15, to help hard-luck farmers with the tired when their lease expired. The 16 season-ending grain harvest. The Interstate Locomotive News units had been in storage at Fort Worth Commerce Commission had just recently The massive housecleaning of older and Spring, Tex., for the past few years. given its approval for abandonment of this Union Pacific System locomotives con­ They are now scheduled to be sent to the portion of MP's Concordia Subdivision tinues. In late September the following UP North Little Rock shops where they will be (PRN 276) . . .. In a related matter, UP has GP30Bs were sold to St. Louis Auto readied for return to their lessor. shipped for free almost 1,000 carloads of Shredding: 700B-702B, 707B, 709B, 711B, Units stored unserviceable, awaiting re­ hay from midwestern and western rail sid­ 715B, 717B, 722B-725B, 729B, 732B, tirement for the month included C30-7 ings to financially distraught farmers in the 733B, 735B-737B. These 18 units have 2536 (one of three GEs wrecked in the southern states, a project which has re­ been out of service for several years, most North Platte derailment on July 10, PRN ceived complete cooperation from many of recently in storage at Yermo, Calif. Of the 275), GP30s 711, 720 and 868; GP40s MP the country's major railroads . . .. UP has 152 G P30s purchased by UP in 1962 and 606 (ex-RI 346); and MP 629 (ex-RI 372). modified many of its hotshot piggyback 1963 (PRN 267) 40 were of the cabless or Additionally, the following six units that train symbols to include a special designa­ "booster" design. This latest transaction were sold to St. Louis Auto Shredding last tion for trains that carry United Parcel will remove all of the remaining GP30Bs year were finally removed from the prop­ Service (UPS) shipments. As an example from UP property. There are currently 15 erty: GP30 806; SDP35 1400; and U30Cs westbound symbol NPOAT (North Platte­ GP30s left in .service, mainly in the 2811 , 2814, 2817 and 2830. Oakland Trailers) will be known as the midwest. MP to UP Renumberings and Repaintings NPOAZ when it has any UPS traffic. The The 20 ex-Missouri Pacific SD40s (3070- "z" designation will identify trains that 3089) that were previously listed as retired Slug MP 1401 to UP SIO carry this cargo. Additional symbol modifi- (PRN 274) effective June 10, were inter- GP15-1s MP 1661 to UP 1661 MP 1670 to UP 1670 GP38-2s MP 2087 to UP 2087 MP 22 16 to UP 2216 MP 225 2 UP 2252 Picture yourself at the controls ... to SD40-2s MP 3160 to UP 4160 MP 3244 to UP 4244 MP 3315 to UP 4315 Train B23-7 MP 46 22 to UP 122 B30-7A MP 4827 to UP 227 Handling SD40-2C MP 6021 to UP 3921

and UP Loco Shorts Flange oiler-equipped MP SD50s 5014- Operation 5016 are being kept together as a set and used primarily on the Powder River Basin at Coal trains ... . Seventeen MP GP38-2s have been moved from various locations RALES/IiTR I across the system and placed in long-term storage at Fort Worth and Spring, Tex . . .. UP GP40X 95 was freshly painted in late RALES Resea rch/ Locomotive Simulator September and delivered to the M-K-T during early October for annual report O ur sho rt courses provide training in freight and passe nger train operati on photos at Jefferson City, Mo. (Bill Dickey) usin g recommended guidelines. Topics include: .. . Sister GP40X was stored serviceable • Operating Pr ac tices • Tr ain M akeup • Locomotive Contro ls during late October, and will be used to • Braking Techniques • Helper and Remo te Control Operation test starting procedures during the upcom­ Courses are gea red for operations training, or fa m iliari zation o f resea rch, sa les ing cold weather season. .. . UP SD60 and safety personnel. Tr aining is based on the use o f the rea listic Resea rch and 6004 suffered a major turbocharger failure Locomotive Eva luator/ Simulator (R A LE S) . on September 16. As a precautionary mea­ For more information about a training program suited to your needs, contac t: sure, many of the railroad's SD60s were removed from service shortly thereafter Commitment Mr. Add Whattam pending safety modifications by UP and RA LE S EMD personnel. . . . The majority ofloco­ liT Resea rch Institute to 10 W 35 th Street motives stored unserviceable at the UP's Chicago, I L 60616 Salt Lake City Depot property since the Excellence 312/ 567·4454 PN early days of the merger have been moved to the railroad's Ogden Yard where they

26 • JANUARY 1987 TEHACHAPI await disposition. This includes the re­ sharply reduced earnings for the third DOUBLE FEATURE maining WP GP7s and GP20s. (Blair quarter of 1986, as compared with the Kooistra) ... Two groups of Missouri same period in 1985. The per share profit Pacific locomotives have been turned loose of $1.25 constitutes a drop of over 40% in the system freight pool including the from last year's results, largely attributable new 9000-series C36-7s and also the road's to a 21 % drop in revenues during the same SD40-2 fleet, many of which lack dynamic period. The continued softness in profits brakes and thus are not ideally suited for this year has prompted the company to service in UP's mountainous territory. consider additional cost-cutting programs Those units, not equipped with dynamic for its railroad segment, including the sale brakes, are restricted from operating on the of marginal branch and secondary line points of trains. The brand-new General segments to shortline operators. Electric C36-7s are currently being Another positive method to shore up equipped with Coded Cab Signals (CCS) sagging profits is the continued solicitation that will permit them to be used every­ of long-term coal contracts. A recent exam­ where on the UP System. Recent examples ple is the 20-year pact reached with North­ of MP units operating in unusual MP terri­ ern States Power and the Southern Minne­ tory include symbol LAPC on July 13 at sota Municipalities Power Association, San Bernardino, Calif., behind UP 3549/ governing the Sherco 3 plant currently MP 6065/MP 3151 (three SD40-2s), and under construction at Becker, Minn. This I an empty coal train on Cajon Pass on 800-megawatt unit will commence opera­ August 8 behind MP 9006/MP 9033/MP tions in 1988 and will receive from 700,000 9003 (three C36-7s). (Elrond Lawrence) ... to 1. 2 million tons of Montana-originated MP GP38-2 2121 was leased to Union coal under the provisions of this contract. Photos By DaVid L. Gross Yet another means of reducing operating Carbide's Sea Drift plant at Bloomington, Two new video programs preserve forever the Image 01 Tex., during early October. . .. Other UP costs while generating one-time capital TehachapI when both the Southern PaCIfic and the Santa Fe had separate Idenlltles but with a glimpse of the luture units leased during early October included ga ins is the abandonment and rerouting of Photographed In 1984 and 1986. thiS IS modern railroading SWIO 1238 to J.R. Simplot at Don, Idaho, traffic over parallel line segments. Such through the green mountains and canyons from Ca liente over the engmeerlng marvel 01 TehachapI Loop to the MOjave and MP15 1371 to Granite Mountain action is currently being studied by the BN Desert TEHACHAPI PART I fealures Ihe Santa Fe including a Quarry at North Little Rock, Ark .... and the Washington Department of Trans­ pacing sequence South 01 TehachapI Summit 10 the MOlave Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey's portation, in the area south and east of the Desert TEHACHAPI PART II leatures Southern PacifiC trams including tne unit "Tank Train" As an added allractlon yOU 'll Circus Train operated between Denver, Seattle metropolitan area. In an effort to see Southern Pa CIfic's " Daylight" engine #4 449 With the 1984 passenger special. all In " Daylight" colors These two Colo., and Fremont, Neb., on October 13 upgrade a geometrically deficient stretch of programs capture the power and scenery of thiS bustling and 14 behind SD40-2s 3253 and 3622, 1-405 near its interchange with the Renton­ mountain diVISion and included 44 circus cars and C&NW Maple Valley Hwy. (State Hwy. 169), the TEHACHAPI PART I - The Santa Fe cab 10381. At Fremont the train was DOT is working with the BN to abandon 57 minutes $49.95 the trackage between Tukwila and Trude. TEHACHAPI PART 11 - The Southern Pacific turned over to the C&NW. 52 mi nutes $49.95 A four-mile connection will be built south­ Feather River Shorts NEW LOW PRICES A tragic derailment occurred on October westerly from Trude to Ravensdale, inter­ ON ALL TITLES! 13 at Robbers Creek, Calif., when symbol secting the former NP main line (which o Challenger ·82 . UP 39854·6·6·4 ·82 tripS 10 Pocatello· extends eastward from Auburn over Stam­ Salt Lake· Provo. UT Plus·8 t tripS 55 min 4995 freight STBR (Stockton-Bieber) struck a o Union Pacilic ·· Challenger"· 3985 . ·8 t coverage LaSalle loaded log truck at the Hwy. A-21 road pede Pass). This construction would allow frelghl and double headed With .8444 55 min 3995 o Diesels West · UP and D&RGW . R,o Grande Zephyr crossing near milepost 43.8 on the Bieber the BN to continue servicing the large Pass . Utah Rwy RSD4. RSD t 2. RSD t 5 55 min. 3995 Weyerhaeuser sawmill and plywood plant o Legend of the Rio GrandeZephyr · Tribute 10 last privately Subdivision (also known as the Highline). owned streamliner Denver to Salt Lake 52 min 4995 at Snoqualmie, Wash. Pending ICC ap­ o Diesels On The Union Pacific · SD·40·s. U30·C"s DDA40X The northbound train (railroad eastbound) "Centennials" on Sherman HIli 60 min 49,95 derailed all three of its units, C30-7s 2432 proval by late 1987, this rerouting could be o Diesels On The Union Pacific .. ,The Sequel - "New Line" physically in place by the fa ll of 1988. It action Ride DDA40X. Snow Scenes 60 min. 4995 and 2424 and SD40-2 375 1. Damage to the o Steam Over Sherman · Steam·s last days on U.P. Big Boys. two GEs was extensive, and it is possible remains to be seen how this proposal will Challengers. 9000·s. 800·s. Early diesel. 54 min. 49.95 o Rio Grande Of The Rockies · t 950 D&R GW Std Gauge they will be cut up on the spot. Injuries to impact the potential expansion of the 2·8·8·2·s Narrow Gauge Acllon. 59 min. 49.95 Washington Central Railroad westward to o Excursion To The Thirties · Colorado Narrow Gauge C&S. the engineer and head brakeman of the UP RGS. D&RGW From 8 mm taken ·37 to "4 t 52 min 4995 train were surprisingly minor; however, Auburn. It is felt by local co mpany sources o Rio Grande Narrow Gauge In The Fifties - "San Juan" passenger train See K·27. K·36. C·16 action 58 min 4995 the truck driver was killed. No trains were that this proposed sale to the Washington o A Forties Memory · 40·s steam on D&RGW. ATSF. S.P . Central may take place, with the BN re­ Narrow Gauge on D&RGW and RGS 24 min 34 .95 detoured and the railroad was opened up o Narrow Gauge Video Vignette · Colo RR Museum 2·8·0 within two days. taining trackage rights to provide the Great Frelghl 79 Winter on D&S 55 min 3995 o D&RGW Narrow Gauge Freight Tra ins · 1967 Durango. service described above. Chama. Cumbres. Farmington (Silent ) 60 min 4995 o D&RGW Narrow Gauge Stock Train and Kolor Karavan · Stock Passenger Train (Silent) 60 min 4995 Ritzville Derailment o Rails Across The Summit - Awa rd winning 1976 film on Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad 28 min 3495 On September 27, 21 cars of train 100 o Doubleheader ·83 . D&RGW K·36·s battle grade over derailed at the east switch of the siding at Cumbres Pass on Cumbres & Toltec 28 min 2495 o Snow Train: Rio Grande's Ski SpeCial - First Generation Ritzville, Wash., resulting in $20,000 dam­ F-9 on Ski train to Winter Park In 1984 28 min 34 95 o The Sugar Cane Train - Ride Hawau's 3' gauge Lahalna ­ age to the track and $460,000 damage to _ Kaa nlpah & PaCifiC behind steam on MaUl 20 min 2495 the derailed cars (23rd to 43rd in the train) LJ Last Steamers 01 The Colorado & Southern · ~9002·10·2 . BURLINGTON "807 2· t O·2. #64t 2·8·0 Rotary 10 Chmax 52 min 4995 an d the lading contained therein. The Shipping & Handling $2.50 (U.S. & Canada) notable power set of SD40 6301, B30-7A All Foreign Order. $5.00 NORTHERN DEALERS WELCOME 4094 and Cotton Belt tunnel motor 9286 which led the 59-car drag were not in­ volved in the spectacular pileup. While the By Karl F. Rasmussen 1st Subdivision of the Portland Division was out of service (33 hours) traffic de­ Reflecting the continued weakness in its oil toured over the parallel 5th Subdivision, and gas subsidiaries, the BN reported which normally sees westbound traffic

PACIFIC RailNEWS • 27 only. During the detour phase, a nine-car BN's Midway Hub Center in St. Paul are sets across the Dakotas continues, high­ passenger special operated behind Amtrak experiencing some increase in carloadings, lighted by the 25TT 224-25 on September F40PHs 355 and 396, arriving in Spokane as evidenced by a 25-car No. 41 arriving St. 26, with SD40-2s 67481704617818, C30-7 on the afternoon of the 27th. This event, Paul on September 26, behind GP39-2 5105 and " pumpkin" cousin SD40-2s 131 / sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Chap­ 2701. The growth in tonnage prompted the 199 leading 116 cars. On October 9, the ter of the NRHS, returned to Seattle via BN to use pairs of the 2,300-hp EMDs on IIBCC274-0 9 featured ex-Milwaukee Wenatchee the next day. some trains during the month of October. SD40-2s 1941176 leading BN SD40-2 At the other end of the tonnage spec­ 7084, with 109 coal tubs and Soo caboose Operations Update trum, the BN continues to load many unit­ 62. Four days later, another CC274 had With the seasonal movement of grain grain trains for the West Coast. A mam­ C30-7 5070, SD40-2 7885, ex-Milwaukee peaking across the north end of the system, moth 14,000-ton drag was seen at Aber­ SD40-2 194, 109 coal loads, and once the BN experienced a minor motive power deen, S.D., on October 20, behind GP38-2 again, a Soo waycar, this time the 49. shortage during the month of October. 2101, GP38 2169, GP9 1918 and GPI0 Several unit-grain trains sat in yards in 1406. A much lighter 55-car train departed Motive Power Shorts South Dakota awaiting road power, while a Willmar, Minn., on October 4 behind the Resembling the "calm before the storm," number of manifest trains were similarly interesting power consist of GP39-2 2736, motive power activity during the month of delayed in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. B30-7A 4054, SD40-2 80 19 and F45 6643. October was quite mundane for the BN. This situation will hopefully be eased With the reassignment of many 7000-and On the 19th of the month, the dead line at somewhat with the delivery of the 100 new 7100-series SD40-2s to manifest fre ight Northtown had grown to 19 units, al­ SD60s, although the roster will be simul­ service, it has become increasingly rare to though most of them had been retired, taneously reduced by the return to their see GEs on anything other than unit-coal awaiting movement off the property. Units owners of all remaining U33Cs and F45s, trains. An exception to this policy was an stored included three LST&T switchers as well as many SD45s, upon the expira­ XII at Minneapolis on October 4, behind (10 1, 103, 105), seven assorted Geeps tion ofleases in November. The borrowed C30-7s 5118/5558, U30B 5474 and (1421, 1902, 1915, 1961, 2003, 2016, Rio Grande and Santa Fe power spotted SW1200s 170/212. Fanciers of the four­ 2252), six SDs (61 12, 6132, 6425, 6659, earlier in the year has apparently already cycle power would have enjoyed the 2nd 6673, 669 1), and three F45s (6628, 6633, been returned home to their respective 242 which departed Northtown on Sep­ 6634). owners. tember 27, featuring SD40-2 7042, B30-7 SW1000 384 has been recently reassigned While the level of pooled or leased 5489 and U30B 5798 for power. from Clyde Shop in Chicago to North­ motive power has diminished somewhat There are not yet enough SD40-2s or town, and is being used in switching and from that experienced in August, stray GP50s to go around for the top priority transfer tasks in the Twin Cities area. cabooses have shown up on the eastern end trains, however, as evidenced by No. 7 Contributors: Jeff Hendricks, Bruce K elly of the railroad, as typified by AT &SF car leaving Dilworth, Minn., on October 18 and Ron L utz. 999254 spotted at Willmar, Minn., on behind SD40-2 6365, B30-7 A 4036 and October 4. The BN has reduced its own GP38-2 2297, trailing 24 fi ve-platform caboose requirements with the expanded double stacks and two cabooses. Humor­ use of end-of-train monitors on scheduled ously enough, on an adjoining track, No. runs operating between Chicago and 884 was preparing to depart behind the Minneapolis. Almost all intermodal and eight-unit consist of SD40-2s 6925178811 some manifest trains in this corridor are 6748, B30-7 4021, GPI0s 140711418, presently running with EOTs. GP18 1993 and SW1000 443. The newly originated Expeditor trains The integration of former Milwaukee Soo between Cicero Yard in Chicago and the Road SD40-2s with various BN coal power LINE

MOT I V E By Karl F. Rasmussen P OWE R Twenty months after acquiring the physi­ I 986 cal assets of the Milwaukee Road, the Soo SP SF (subsidiary ofCP Rail) may be on the verge of integrating the trackage of another con­ necting road into its expanding system. The on-again, off-again study of the re­ --"'~'---AVAILAIl.E NOW FROM 4-WAYS WEST PUllJCATl{JIIS maining mileage of the ICG by CP Rail is back on the front burner, according to an A roMPRHENSIVE un AT TIt:: SP + ATSF PREPARIr-li TO Pt£RGE internal publication of a major shipper of by Joseph W. Shine agricultural commodities . A team of CP personnel is reportedly on the property, A close look at the motive power of the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific presented by locomotive type • Complete rosters of each examining the potential profitability of the road with anticipated merger numbers • Chapters on merger repaint­ "downsized" north/so uth orientation of ing and renumbering • Pooled power • Demonstrator locomotives • the present ICG operation. Should the Lists of locomotives painted In the pre-merger red and yellow Canadian road decide to proceed with the scheme • Hundreds of action and roster photos In both 8 & Wand purchase of these rail assets from IC Indus­ color • Color front and back covers • 128 pages • Soft cover 81/2 tries (assuming the appropriate ICC ap­ x 11 perfect bound + side stitched for lasting quality • proval process was successful), these lines could likely be incorporated into the pres­ Only $24.95 (Cal. residents add O"der from: 4-WAYS WEST PUB. ent 7, 700-mile Soo empire. 6% sales tax) P.o. OOX 1734 On news germane to the current Soo Plus $1.50 shipping + handling I.A MI RAM. CA. Foreign orders add $4.00 for postage 90637-1734 system, the engineering department has recently completed two projects in western

28 • JANUARY 1987 Minnesota on the main line extending 18th the colorful set of SDlO 534, GP20 tives was impacted during October, as westerly from Glenwood to the CP connec­ 959 and GP30s 70417121700 provided the SDL39s 582 and 585 were moved from tion at Portal, N .D. Ten miles of new con­ drawbar pull. A real assemblage of the Shoreham to St. Paul on the 17th. There is tinuous welded rail and its associated tie venerable " ugly ducklings" powered a no official word yet regarding the disposi­ replacement and ballasting were finished Southtown Transfer job on September 26, tion of these two units, although the seven between Glenwood and Lowry. Related to with the GP30 quartet of 716171317181705 remaining units of that model on the roster this rehabilitation project, a solar-powered leading GP38-2 364 and·dead-in-tow CNW are in a stored serviceable status at Shore­ grade crossing flasher system was installed GP15 4404. The Twin Cities Terminal is ham. The other six-axle oddities on the near the intersection of state highways 55 developing a history of remarkable assort­ roster, the SD lOs, were all on hand in the and 114 near Lowry. This is the first in­ ments of four-ax le EMD power on the vari­ Twin Cities area as of October 18. Units stallation of such a system on the Soo, ous switch and transfer assignments. A 532, 534 and 543 normally call Mason based on this editor's experience with the Southtown job on October 10 featured City, Iowa, their home base, so this was company's ongoing engineering projects. G P9s 4233/4228/404, G P40 2017, and indeed a very unusual circumstance. GP30s 7071719 on a healthy cut of98 cars Operational Update into St. Paul Yard. On the same date, the In the ongoing desire of this publication Humboldt Transfer utilized a trio of the to keep all information presented as accu­ soon-to-be-sold (see below) GP20Ms (959/ ~tiI" "BE wltifi rate as possible, it is necessary to provide a 954/956) led by the Milwaukee's first correction to the report in last month's GP38-2, the 350. NEW ENGLAND RAILROADING PRN concerning the initiation of Sprint CALENDAR train service between Bensenville, Ill., and Motive Power Dispositions 12 Full Color 8" X 10" Green Bay, Wis. These trains have been The big story at the Soo in the past captioned photos assigned numbers 218/219, not the 216/ month has been the dramatic change in the Space for Appointments 217 earlier reported. The latter two slots in composition of its motive power fleet. the Soo's master numbering scheme have After many years of predictability (small $4.25 postpaid u.s. only been retained for possible future expansion purchases and logical retirements), 1986 Con.

PACIFIC RailNEWS • 29 In terms of truly "retired" units lea vi ng 2125 and 2127); one F7A (220IA); three included in the project, and both Carson the property, SW1200s 323, 1210, 2120 FP7s (500A, 502A, 2500A); three GP9s and Dominguez Aves. will be blocked by and 2127 departed Shoreham in late Sep­ (409, 2556, 4226); one SD9 (2381); one trains even more than they are at present. tember; only a handful of retired switch SDlO (561); two GP20s (946, 948); two engines remain at the old Soo shop com­ GP30s (702, 720); three GP35s (722, 727, Cutbacks Merger or Not plex. Other action around Shoreham in the 729); and one GP40 (2006). Units so ld A ve ry large write-off of $60 1 million past month found GP38-2 4424 arriving in operable (51): 34 GP20s (947, 949-98 1) to will be taken for cutbacks to be carried out mid-October for minor wreck repairs, CC&P; 17 SD I Os (544-560) to DM&E. on SP over a period of several years. These while GP9 4228 and GP38-2 4400 emerged Leased units added to fl eet (11): six former cost reductions are unrela ted to the pres­ with fresh paint jobs. Speaking of paint KCS SD40s (622-627) and five former WP ently denied SP-AT&SF merger of rail jobs, a total of three former Milwaukee GP40s (35 19,3521-3523,3526). operations. More details will appear in the units (two MP15s and one SD40-2) are Informatioll sources: Mllu CleOlY and Sao next issue. currently sitting at Shoreham, sandblasted Line Railroad. and primed, awaiting red and white colors. "Redbirds" Worth Watching This work has been temporarily deferred A worthy goal for co ll ectors of color due to the need to work the SD lOs and photos would be to shoot or obtain slides of GP20s through the shops prior to move­ SP's non-pooled red-an d-ye ll ow units. We ment to their new owners. nominate four candidates: MP IS (DC) The paint on some former Milwaukee switcher 2700, which operates at present units is presently in such poor condition between Houston and Galveston; SD35E that variations of makeshift schemes have 2968, one of the hump locomotives at appeared on at least two units. GP40 2067 SOUTHERN Englewood Yard in northeast Houston; and was observed with a black cab, with a white General Electric B30-7 units 7859 and "SOO" and road number painted beneath PACIFIC 7874, which are generally confined to ser­ the windows. SD40-2 198 was in such poor vice between Pine Bluff and El Paso . None external shape that it received a black nose of these four has been spotted or photo­ and a black cab as well as a large black graphed so far in California. patch on the flanks of the hood. This By Joseph A. Strapac engine also received a white "SOO" and Retirements and Roster Changes road number on the cab, and a white "soo Has the Bloom Left the ICTF Rose? Locomotives recently added to the LINE" on the nose. This alteration was Even before it s completion, Southern "Awaiting Disposition" list: apparently considered so severe that the Pacific's new Intermodal Container Trans­ GP9 2897, 3853, 3858, 3882 unit now Sports its proper Soo road num­ fer Facility (ICTF) is being criticized for SD9 4325, 4385, 4435 ber, 6362. the noise and traffic congestion it is ex­ SD45 8942, 8944 In an effort to keep our readership up to pected to produce. Located northwest of Dropped from the ranks of retired units date with the mass ive roster changes which downtown Long Beach in the Southern and sold for scrap or further service: have taken place since January 1, 1986, the California industrial suburb of Carson, the TR6 1100 follo wing listing summarizes lo comoti ve soon-to-be-completed rail-truck yard is GP9 3389, 3874 dispositions at the Soo: already generating protests from nearby SD45 8816, 9020, 9058, 9060, 9090 Units retired (35): 18 SW1200s (321, residential areas. Part of the anticipated A rough check on how SP's traffic is 323, 326, 327, 1206, 1208, 1210, 1212, J problem is that no new east-west grade running can be made by counting Diesel 1214, 1215,1217, 1219,2120,2121,2123- separations between highway and rail are units in "stored serviceable" status. In early September, that number was lSI units; by mid-October the stored fleet had dropped to 112. The annual fall rush has been gathering some momentum, even Bluebirds & Minutemen amid the broader downward trend of BOSTON & MAINE: 1974-1984 BY TOM NE LLIGAN Southern Pacific's traffic. Two recent changes involve modifica­ tions to SP locomotive cabs. Little re­ .Black 8. white and color photography marked because of its exterior invisibility, .152 pages .Hardcover the five-man cab has definitely arrived on the Espee. At present, about 100 locomo­ .Color dustjacket • Map tives have been rearranged internally to provide for the entire crew to ride in the Once a down-and-out New England carrier. Boston & Maine became a maverick in contemporary railroading during the cab of a single unit. Such locomotives, year leading to acquisition by Guilford Transportation. mostly GP9 and SD9 units, have been sta­ BLU EBIRDS & MIN UTEMEN provides a look at a revitalizing dec­ tioned at locations where they can be ade of B&M. when B&M ushered in an era of new motive assigned to locals and roadswitcher jobs. Of course, if a second unit is required for additional pulling power, some of the crew members may ride there. There are 77 jobs systemwide at present that can use locomo­ tives with five-man cabs, but the plan is to modify more than the required number of locomotives to provide for protection duty and extra assignments. A new stenciled symbol is being applied

6% sales tax. to Southern Pacific engine cab exteriors: Sorry- no C.O. D.·s "TE," short for "telemetry equipped." Diesel units so equipped are assigned to

30 • JANUARY 1987 the point position on cabooseless trains equipped with rear-end or end-of-train devices. Inside the cab, a boxful of elec­ tronics is emplaced atop the control stand; it has the receiving/monitoring gear to read signals from the monitor attached to the One Man's last coupler and trainline. Locomotives Executive Moves American Pres ident Lines recently lured away SP's Senior Vice President for Mar­ keting and Sales, Jack Edwards, to take a similar position with that company in Oak­ land. Edwards joins a number of ex-SP executives in the employ of the shipping company.

Texas Branch Lines Sold In September, the city of Austin pur­ chased 162.9 miles ofSP branch-line track­ age in central Texas. A price of $9.4 mil­ lion was quoted for the Giddings, Llano The and Marble Falls branches, which com­ prise a rough east-to-west line with Austin Journal near the midpoint. With the sale of this of a Life trackage, SP-owned rails will approach no closer to the Texas capital than Giddings, With Locomotives 59.3 miles away. Much of this trackage was built in the late 1870s by one of SP's more obscure It was the best of times for a young man starting out in life: the exciting late predecessors, the three-foot-gauge Austin 1920s. When Vernon L. Smith found a job firing a locomotive in the rugged & Northwestern, most of whose locomo­ iron country of northern Minnesota. he knew he had found a calling. Soon it was the worst of times: the Great Depression. but Vern Smith kept on going. tives were constructed at Frostburg, Md., getting a technical education. reaching for knowledge. winning an by a truly minor locomotive builder named engineering apprenticeship at a major carbuilder. T homas Paul. Few, if any, photos were taken of the A&NW in its narrow-gauge Later he would labor on new designs at the Lima Locomotive Works in the days, and most of its early history appears full tide of Super Power steam development . . . be on the cutting edge of to be lost in the past. However, we do steam technology at Franklin Railway Supply. developers of poppet valve know that this company eventually became gears . .. work with the Pennsy during the development of the amazing Tl part of the Houston & Texas Central, then steamer ... put in 10 years with the Santa Fe during the transition from steam to diesel. Finally came those last 22 years with the Belt Railway of the T &NO, and fi nally the SP. In recent Chicago. where Smith capped his career as the boss of all motive power. years, virtually the only outbound revenue traffic over one-time A&NW rails has been Along the way there are priceless vignettes: poppet-valve experiments on rock and gravel. Pennsy's famed K4s; fire. flood and derailment hazards from Minnesota to With a fi ne sense of history, the line's Maryland to California-and acquaintance of the closest sort with the new owner has renamed the trackage the apogee of steam (AT SF 3752) and the pinnacle of diesel esthetics (ATSF PA-l Austin & Northwestern (!), and has con­ No. 51). tracted with Rai l-Tex to be the actual oper­ A remarkable career. and we'll hear all about it from a remarkable man. ating agency. (This is the organization Vernon 1. Smith lived it. and now you can. too. Many of the photos are his which also holds the contract to operate the own. and this journal bears the expert editing touch of Louis A. Marre. who San Diego & Imperial Valley in California.) wrote the introduction and supplied many additional photos. A must book for Informed sources predict that the new anyone who likes locomotives and would like to meet a man who lived them. A&NW will use four fo rmer Norfolk & Western GPl8 units to provide service on ONE MAN'S LOCOMOTIVES some segments of the line; other urban By Vernon L. Smith trackage is expected to be reserved by the city fo r future transit and/or street im­ 188 pages. 238 illustrations. appen­ dix, index, 8 Y2x II ", hardbound with provements-as yet it is too early to trum­ color jacket. ISBN 87046·079·X. pet the arrival of light rail in Austin. Trans·Anglo 279 ...... S33 95 (Shipping $1.50; Freeway Widening to Take SP Rails? Californians plec:.se add 6 % sales tax) It would appear at present that the re­ TARGET DATE: cently announced bus way system fo r Late Dec.-January Orange County in Southern California will utilize a significant portion of SP's Santa Ana Branch right-of-way, presently little used below Katella Ave. (near Disneyland). Local highway officials seem to be leaning toward purchase or condemnation of some miles of SP right-of-way, which is parallel and alongside Interstate 5 through this

PAC IFIC RailNEWS • 31 area, almost all the way into downtown Three units should reappear again on Nos. of the Private Car Owners Convention Santa Ana. SP still has a significant cus­ 3-4 around the holidays to handle increased held in Milwaukee October 10-13. We tomer base in the industrial area of Santa consists. mentioned this, and other events last issue, Ana, and would presumably reach those and now can update the story with these customers via Santa Fe rails (which by the UP Equipment Stored additional moves: time all this takes place are hoped to be In October a group of about 20 Union Chapel Hill in C&O dress was on the rear SPSF anyway). Pacific passenger cars was placed in stor­ of the Sunset Limited arriving Los Angeles age, including coaches, sleepers, boiler­ October 20. It laid over until October 22, dorms, lounges, diners, the dome coach when it went north on the rear of the Coast and instruction cars. While this may reflect Starlight. Charter Wire Co.'s two cars, a cost-cutting measure on the UP, it re­ Imperial Leaf and Golden Moon (both sleep­ mains to be seen if this will affect the avail­ ers, one ex-C&NW, the other ex-SP) ar­ ability of equipment for specials such as rived in Los Angeles on the rear of the the Oldtimers or Junior Oldtimers conven­ Desert Wind on October 27, and departed tions next spring, or for the Rocky Moun­ on the rear of the Sunset L imited on Octo­ AMTRAK/ tain Railroad Club excursion planned to ber 29; they are based at Milwaukee, Wis. PASSENGER operate out of Denver next May. Limita­ While in Los Angeles, they shared a park­ tions on equipment availability may force ing spot with converted GN sleeper North the club to seek to use privately owned cars Stm~ which departed on the Desert Wind along with the UP equipment. The Rocky on October 29. Coupled with the previous By Dick Stephenson Mountain Railroad Club is asking to use three while at LAUPT were a Superliner UP's 4-8-4 8444 for its trip. coach, an AmFleet coach and Amtrak San Joaquin Equipment 10504, a technical training car, all of which We mentioned last issue the switch from Am Briefs were used for training Amtrak employees. Am Fleet to Hi-level equipment on the San A group from the American Association Pacific Northwest Chapter-NRHS's car Joaquins was effective October 26. In that of Railroads used Amtrak between Seattle MI. Hood operated Portland-Seattle-Port­ switch, Hi-level diner-lounges 39983- and Denver on October 19-20. They occu­ land on November 2 for a Seahawks game. 39985 were assigned to Oakland for use on pied a Superliner diner and two coaches The ex-SP&S car has proved popular with the San Joaquins. They provide a better attached to the Pioneer and Cahfornia groups. Finlay Fun Time Tours operated setting for snack and beverage service, Zephyr. The additional equipment required four cars on the rear of the Sunset Limited though no full meals are served aboard a third F40 on the California Zephyr. The from Los Angeles to EI Paso on November them. The AmFleet cars displaced from equipment deadheaded between Denver 2-3 in conjunction with a Mexico tour. The the run were split up and sent to Los Ange­ and Chicago .... A group of Amtrak offi­ cars returned to Los Angeles on November les, Chicago and Philadelphia. With cials toured the West recently aboard three 24 on the Sunset. The cars used included AmFleet cars in short supply, they are a cars: sleeper 2466-Silver Plain, and track diner Golden Katherine Ann (ex-SP), Audu­ welcome addition to the fleet and will be inspection cars 1000 I-Beech Grove and bon Park (ex-UP Julia Redfield [built for especially appreciated during the coming 10002- Corridor Clipper. They arrived in IC)), and Elihu C. Redfield (ex-Frisco sleep­ busy months. Los Angeles on the Southwest Chief on er-lounge-observation). Finlay plans an­ Oakland now services only Superliner October 22, then departed for Salt Lake on other Mexico trip February 1-23, 1987. and Hi-level equipment, allowing fewer the Desert Wind on October 26, where they San Diego continues to be a popular spare parts to be stocked. Besides the Cali­ transferred to the Cahfornia Zephyr for destination for private ca r moves from Los fornia Zephyr and San Joaquins, Oakland movement to Oakland, then returned to Angeles. A car recently returned to service will also be servicing the seasonal Reno Los Angeles. The trip was sponsored by is ex-CB&Q Silver Patio, a dome/coffee Fun Train during the winter months. The the engineering department of Amtrak .... shop/coach, which operated to San Diego equipment for each will be interchange­ Another of those tales oflocomotive failure on October 26, November I and 2. Native able. Cars requiring shop work will be and delay took place in late October when Son made three San Diego round trips handled by Chicago or Los Angeles. the eastbound Southwest Chief stalled on during November on the 15th, 16th and the grade between Canyoncito and Glori­ 22nd. Cyrus K. Holliday made San Diego­ Express Runs Increase etta, N.M. F40 250 died, and the 204 had Los Angeles round trips on November 5 The Southwest Chief added another ex­ traction motors cur out. To the rescue came and 22. press car effective October 26. The car Santa Fe C30-7 8151 off a freight train Native Son, Silver Patio and Amber Ti-ail operates between Boston and Los Angeles behind No.4. The only problem was that (coach) made a Los Angeles-Oakland with interesting handling along the way. there was no way to get the unit around the round trip on the Thanksgiving weekend, Between Boston and New York City it passenger train, so the unit coupled onto departing on November 27 and returning moves on the Night Owl,' between New the rear of the train, pushing it to Fox on November 30. The Coast Starlight on York and Washington it utilizes mail train siding, where it ran around the train, and that day was extra long with the addition of No. 13; between Washington and Chicago then was coupled onto the head end. Ordi­ a total of five private cars, the three named it is handled on the Capitol Limited; and narily, the move could have been accom­ above plus Imperial Table (ex-UP diner) between Chicago and Los Angeles it runs plished at Glorietta, but the westbound and Colonial Crafts (ex-PRR 7149, sleeper­ on the head end of the Southwest Chief Southwest Chief was in the siding there lounge). The Native Son was also used on a Initially it is being used for express ship­ waiting for tardy No.4. The 8151 was round trip from Los Angeles to Oakland on ments to and from the northeast, and for removed at La Junta after the 250 was the Veteran's Day weekend. It operated on handling company material. It may have restarted. . .. The eastbound Empire the Coast Starlight northbound from Los mail added later. This means that Nos. 3-4 Builder out of Seattle on November 8 Angeles on November 8, and southbound now have five headend cars. With a limit of handled seven passenger cars from the on November II. 12 cars for two F40s, the additional car has Alaska Railroad. meant that on some days a decision had to CalTrain changed the reverse commute be made to either bump a coach or add a Private Car News schedule to Santa Clara County on October unit. Given the general level of Amtrak October and November were busy 25, with the return to Standard Time. Four locomotive maintenance, the additional months throughout the West for private trains operating on five-minute head ways unit frequently wouldn't be a bad idea. car movements. Some were The outgrowth depart northbound between 5: 15 and 5:30

32 • JANUARY 1987 p.m. Most express trains now also run local after their first stops; two of the expresses now make their first stops in Hillsdale (south of San Mateo), with the locals fol­ lowing close behind. The first train out of San Francisco now leaves at 4:50 a.m., to better serve those ea rly shifts in Silicon Valley. (NorCa/ Railfan)

SHORTLINES

By Kenneth M. Ardinger

Boise Cascade has purchased ex-Portland Traction SWI 100 for use at its Wallula, The second standard-gauge engine for the new Big Trees and Pacific operation is Wash ., plant. It was brokered through a ex-Santa Fe CF7 2641. It is seen here backing up Chestnut St. about one-half mile north dealer. There have been reports that Soo of the former SP Santa Cruz depot, which is the terminal for the Big Trees. 2123, an SW1200, will be joining the 100 -HENRY ORBACH at Wallula. Former Pacific Transportation Services units are in the news. PTS 81 (SW8), for­ merly BN 99, has been acquired by the Mount Rainier Scenic Railway at Mineral, Wash. Continental Grain Co. at Tacoma, Wash., continues to use PTS NW2 102. This unit is ex-BN 594, for­ merly SP&S 41. It shares the duty with ex-SP S6 1236. In other grain-related news, two ex-B&O switchers have gone to new homes. Bart­ lett Grain Co. in Kansas City, Kan., re­ ceived NW2 9549 in October. Farmers Co-Op at Churches Ferry, N.D., recently acquired SWI 8414. In mining-related news, American Smelting and Refming Co. (ASARCO) has purchased the Ray Mines Division of Kennecott Copper. This will mean a change in paint scheme for locomotives working at the mine. The former Kenne­ cott Copper SD40-2s 10 1-1 07 which had been on lease first to Canadian Pacific Ry., and more recently to British Columbia The Big Trees and Pacific's first standard-gauge locomotive, Whitcomb No. 20 , heads Ry., were stored in North Vancouver, eastbound on street trackage in Santa Cruz, Calif., on September 14, 1986. B.C., as of late October. -KEN RATTEN NE BN SW7 140 has been purchased by the American Coal Co. at Windsor, Colo. Another unit finding a new home is GE tion. At the Richland location are two 45-tonner for Kerr-McGee Forest Products RSls, two MP15ACs and a GP7 (ex-Army). in Texarkana, Tex. The unit is ex-U.S. The GP7 had switcher trucks until 1980 Army, later Air Force 7168, a March 1943 when they we re changed out for Blomberg product of GE, which was sold to Texas trucks. This unit, numbered 5933, is paint­ Industries in 1971 . ed orange with black stripes and lettering, MEXICAN so mewhat like a reverse Rio Grande RAILROADS Hanford Nuclear Reservation scheme. It has large ashcan headlights on Railway operations inside the govern­ each end, plus two sets of five-chime horns. ment reservation at Richland, Wash. Another unit in the Richland area is ex­ (Hanford Nuclear Reservation) are handled BN SWI 55 now owned by Henningsen By C. R. Prather by the Department of Energy. This is Cold Storage-Lamb Weston. The top of the most recent operating name at the the cab and hood is painted black, while Agua Prieta nuclear facility, formerly operated by the below that are broad stripes of tan and Over the past year I have received several Atomic Energy Commission, and the Ener­ brown. The trucks, fuel tank and pilot are letters from readers who visited the Pacifico gy Research & Development Administra- also black (see photo on p. 44). (A/an Mille/) at Agua Prieta, Sonora (across the border

PACIFIC RailNEWS • 33 from Douglas, Ariz.), and saw no motive climbed to about 60 million tons. On the of tax-exempt revenue bonds Series A power. One reader stated that in the past he Pacifico the tonnage has increased from through E. Series A, with a 6.2 to 7.66% was able to observe several units at Agua 4,389,000 tons in 1965 to 8,260,000 tons in interest rate, mature 7-1-92 through Prieta. I had the pleasure of traveling over 1985. The FCP's passenger traffic is ex­ 7-1-2016, while Series B-E, with interest the FCP branches into Agua Prieta with pected to be down slightly from last year rates of 4.4 to 5.89%, mature 7-1 -87-7-1-90. the Let's Travel Tours' Destination Naco­ because of a shortage of coaches .... The Salomon Bros. purchased both Series A zari excursion and was able to observe the Chihuahua al Pacifico put the new Ciudad ($157,615,000) for $148,206,916.30, and assignment of motive power at Agua Prieta. Juarez-La Junta schedule into effect on Series B-E ($550 million) for $547,143,300. The FCP operates trains from Nogales to October 13, 1986. The northbound mixed The bonds received an excellent rating Agua Prieta daily except Sunday, and daily train leaves La Junta at 6:00 a.m. on Tues­ from both Moody's and Standard because except Monday in the reverse direction. days, Thursdays and Saturdays, while the the 75% of total Proposition A revenues The service consists of a triweekly mixed southbound train departs Cd. Juarez on pledged as security will be far greater than train and a triweekly freight. The line to Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8:00 the maximum debt service (35% of the Nacozari from Agua Prieta has daily except a.m . The CalP operates two autovia (rail­ Proposicion A rail account must be 1.15 Monday mixed trains in both directions. car) runs, Chihuahua-Creel on a daily times the debt service). This conservative The Nacozari mixed is due out of Agua except Thursday timetable, and a Saturday arrangement allows LACTC to reserve 5% Prieta at 7:30 a.m., while the Nogales train and Sunday only schedule between Chi­ of the rail funds for future operating ex­ leaves at noon, the mixto from Nacozari is huahua and Divisadero. The Creel train penses. No more than $100 million can be scheduled in at II :50 a.m., and the Nogales leaves Chihuahua at 7:59 a.m. and the train spent on the Metro Rail project. freight is due at 5:20 p.m. (or on the days to Divisadero departs Chihuahua at 7:00 that the mixed train runs, at 7:40 p.m.). It a.m. It is really busy at the CalP station at Federal Fund Commitment is common for the trains between Nogales Chihuahua on Saturdays and Sundays with On August 27, the California congres­ and Agua Prieta to operate behind sched­ the two autovias plus the express train to sional delegation and local politicians ule. The locomotives that bring in the train Los Mochis also due out at 7:00 a.m., and joined with Los Angeles business leaders to from Nogales lay overnight at Agua Prieta the mixed train to Los Mochis scheduled witness UMTA Administrator Ralph Stan­ and most, if not all, of the units take the out at 7:20 a.m. ley sign an historic agreement to release morning mixed south to Nacozari. The In/ormacion /rom Ed Von Nordeck, His­ $225 million in funds previously budgeted power off No. 29-61 (all scheduled trains pano and Ferro Tribuna. by Congress for the Metro Rail project. have a separate number between Empalme Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley traced Agua Prieta and Agua Prieta) from Naco­ the elusive agreement for federal assistance zari is combined with any units left at Agua to the Ford Administration. Prieta and takes the train to Nogales. From The day before the signing ceremony, the departure of the Nogales freight on LACTC's chairman was holding a special I Sunday to the arrival of the Mixto from I TRANSIT hearing at the County Board of Supervisors Nogales on Monday evening, there are to probe the reasons for the City of Los usually no locomotives on hand at Agua Angeles putting a cap on the amount of Prieta. funds to be spent on "cost overruns." A The most common type of unit operated local reserve fund was one of two unique on the branches to Agua Prieta, Nacozari, provisions necessary to reach a final agree­ and Cananea is the four-axle road unit. The Los ment with UMTA-increases due to infla­ railroad restricts C-C units with 2,850 or ANGELES tion or other excess costs may be paid by more horsepower to 40 kilometers per that agency. The LACTC also agreed to a hour; as a result they are seldom seen on METRO commitment of $203.7 million in the re­ these lines. M420TRs, M424 wide-nosed maining federal share; if Congress author­ units and U23Bs are the most commonly izes additional funds the contract will be used locomotives. Also used are RSD5s amended. which were remanufactured at the Em­ ByJim Seal palme shops (named API620 or BX620, Benefits, Higher Assessments depending on whether the parts were pur­ Future Goals UMTA Secretary Stanley stressed in his chased from A1co Products or Bombardier The Los Angeles County Transportation signing ceremony remarks that the forging Inc.), RSDI2s and the FCP's sole RSII. Commission has set a goal of building 75 of a strong private/public sector partner­ miles of a 150-mile rail system by the year ship will be needed to assure completion of Shorts 2000. Its staff concluded that funding the entire Metro Rail line. New property The 1987 budget for the national rail­ demands for this would require a combina­ tax bills for downtown businesses have road system is expected to be about 600 tion of equity (Proposicion A sales tax increased up to 500% due to the "benefit billion pesos, over 100% above the 1986 revenues) and some form of long-term debt assessment" tax districts created by the budget. Part of the funds will be gained capital. While the Long Beach and Cen­ SCRTD in connection with the future sub­ from the sale of scrap material, including tury light rail lines could be built in the way line. A special tax will be imposed on 19 locomotives, 233 freight cars and 74 early years through local sales tax revenues, about 2,000 properties near the downtown passenger cars. The railroad shops at the start of the Metro Rail project in fiscal subway stations for the next 20 years to Aguascalientes will receive a large portion year 1987 would necessitate the sale of generate $130 million. Some property own­ of the funds .... The NdeM :1as received a revenue tax bonds to meet the 75-mile goal ers are questioning how far the benefits ballast cleaning machine from Australia. without having to incur a loss of purchas­ will stretch from the stations as the tax is The unit was delivered to the port at ing power due to inflation. Bond sales will the same for all affected properties. Tampico. Its first assignment will be on the minimize construction delays due to insuf­ main line between Mexico City and Nuevo ficient funds. Metro Rail Groundbreaking Laredo. . . . The Mexican railroads have The above three projects are the first Details of the downtown groundbreaking 92,317 employees. . . . Freight traffic in recipients of bond proceeds while other for Metro Rail and favorable ruling to Mexico has increased greatly in the past 20 parts of the county will benefit later. begin construction without further envi­ years. In 1964 the railways carried about Last July, LACTC signed a bond­ ronmental impact reports were covered in 30 million tons; in 1984 the tonnage had purchase contract for sale of $707.6 million the last PaCIfic Rai/News.

34 • JANUARY 1987 Long Beach Light Rail After rejecting four of the 11 light rail car proposals in the initial evaluation as un­ acceptable, LACTC decided to allow the four bidders to submit supplemental mate­ rial. Breda, MAN/Morrison-Knudsenl Hyundai, and Kinki SharyolC. Itoh will supply the information to remain as quali­ fied bidders; ASEAlKaiser (which was con­ sidering a California site for final assembly) withdrew their bid. A short list of bidders is due by February 13, 1987. The revised schedule targets April 1987 for award of the contract for 54 revenue cars. This should not delay opening of any operable segment of the Long Beach line past late 1989.

Automation on Century Line? The possible use of automation involving additional control equipment on LRT cars and ways ide control and communication equipment for the 1-105 Century freeway line only has resulted from visits to other locales. LACTC staff is not favoring this approach because of delays to the vehicle Less than one week after it entered revenue service after being built at the Woods Divi­ procurement schedule and other cost sion Carpenter Shop, Municipal Railway cable car 19 approaches the turntable at Powell issues. Equipment costs alone for the and Market St., on October 13, 1986. -ALAN KLINE Century line would rise $36 million to provide driverless trains. Cal trans, the state transportation agency, has stated that I. 76,700 timber crossties and 9,340 tim­ front drawhead. However, after several to use a car requiring both a third rail and ber switch ties. unsuccessful attempts, Muni's General pantograph pickup (to switch to the access 2.9,600 net tons of section 115RE run­ Manager Bill Stead stepped in and com­ yard on the Long Beach line) will cut into ning rail, 100 net tons of high-strength pleted the job. Then Car 19 was officially the safety margin for weight limits for the 115RE running rail, and an option of up to active and began revenue service on the 1-105 median bridge structures. 7,150 net tons of standard 115RE for a Powell-Hyde line. firm fixed price. Freight Traffic Separation 3. Concrete ties for both the Long Beach More Rail Money The county agency's staff has deter­ and Century projects described as 148,000 The day before this event, Mayor Fein­ mined that LACTC has legitimate inter­ standard transit ties, 23,000 embedded stein had requested a $1 million supple­ ests in the Alameda Corridor to consolidate transit ties and 15,000 railroad ties. mental appropriation for this year's Muni and grade separate freight tr~ffic to the Monthly deliveries will commence in May budget so that service improvements could ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach via 1987 and continue until May 1989. be made to the N-Judah streetcar line, as the San Pedro Branch of Southern Pacific. A $66,000 contract has been awarded to well as two trolley coach lines. Additional Under the so-called MC5 alternative, L.B. Foster for frogs and diamonds for cars will be added to the N line, and lines freight would leave the alignment of the crossovers. 47 and 49 on Van Ness Ave. will receive old Pacific Electric line along which the more coaches to reduce the headways on light rail line is being built near Rosecrans these lines. Also included in the mayor's Ave. in Compton via the Mealy St. diver­ request is the first money for next sum­ sion to join the Southern Pacific line along mer's Historic Trolley Festival. Alameda St. It would rejoin the old PE line Muni apparently is slowly moving ahead under the light rail line overpass at Domin­ to acquire additional LRVs for the future guez Junction. J-Church line extension to Metro Center. No official word has come from Muni Washington Blvd. Elevated? sources, but reports from Boston indicate After an investigation of an elevated that 10 of its runnable Boeing LRVs have alternative for the light rail line along MUNI already been selected as candidates for sale Washington Blvd. in Los Angeles, LACTC to Muni for rebuilding to San Francisco staff is recommending construction at requirements. The Boston MBTA car grade, previously adopted in March 1985. numbers are 3413, 3414, 3417, 3420, 3423, Surface tracks will be in a 22-foot-wide By Don Jewell 3432, 3433, 3435 and 3439. It should be center reservation, whereas staff pointed noted that these are among the earliest out an elevated structure would require a New Cable Car built and delivered to Boston; many al­ 12-foot median for columns. Muni's newest cable car, Powell St. No. ready have high mileage. 19 , finally entered regular service on T ues­ Other Agreements and Purchases day, October 7, after being under construc­ 31-Balboa Conversion An agreement has been reached between tion for the past 19 months (see PRN, Sept. After public hearings, the City's Public LACTC and the SCRTD for location of 1986). A dedication ceremony was held just Utilities Commission approved the conver­ the maintenance-of-way facility. before noon on Powell St. with Mayor sion of the 31-Balboa St. line from Diesel The following contracts for purchase of Diane Feinstein expected to break the bus to trolley coach operation October 14; rail and ties have been awarded: traditional bottle of champagne on No. 19's an application is being made for state funds

PACIFIC RailNEWS • 35 for design of the overhead wire system. Some of my colleagues who write railway want the collection preserved and to be The conversion is expected to take about books are complaining that they are losing useful to historians. two years and to cost approximately $14 sales to "television" and that the market Look over libraries and railroad museums million. Muni still has a surplus of trolley for volumes on rail topics is diminishing. that might be a good refuge for your trea­ coaches, so no new vehicles will be pur­ I have no statistics to prove that, but I do sures but be sure to inquire if they have chased. The 31 line is ideal for electrifica­ know that video cassettes are having a sought foundation or federal grants to fund tion as it has a number of steep hills and significant impact. In my case, about two archival preservation and have professional runs parallel to an existing trolley coach years ago I agreed to help KTVU, Channel staff. The worst thing you could do is to do line, the 5-Fulton St., for power substation 2, prepare a documentary on the decline of nothing at all. requirements. This will be the fourth electric rail transit in the San Francisco Diesel bus line to be converted to trolley Bay Area. coach operation by Muni in the last four None of the film was mine but I assisted years-the I-California and 24-Divisadero in the research and was interviewed on are already in service; the 33-Ashbury camera. The program was edited to about extension will go into service in early 1987; 22 minutes, so it could run for 30 minutes BOOKS and now the 31-Balboa. Further lin.e elec­ with commercials. But before it was shown trification projects are currently under in that form, it was screened in sections for study including the 14-Mission extension a week during the station's 10:00 p.m. to the BART Daly City station and the news program. possible conversion of the 71-Sunsetl It was a smash and has been reshown Noriega Diesel line in the Sunset District. countless times. A local railfan group has rights to sell tapes and thousands of viewers have made their own copies on home sets. Here's what I fmd interesting about my participation: Dozens of persons, most of them strangers, have stopped me and said, "I saw you on television." ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WESTERN I have written 10 books and am a re­ RAILROAD HISTORY, by Donald B. porter on the second largest daily news­ Robertson. The Caxton Printers, Ltd., paper west of Chicago. However, I have Caldwell, Idaho, 1986. never gotten that reaction from any of my writings, even when they appear on page It is somewhat shocking to realize that one of the newspaper that is read by more books such as this may actually be quoted By Harre W. Demoro than one million persons every day . by future writers and historians who might So, there is something to this video thing think, in all good faith, that its information have no doubt there are readers who and maybe it will put a slump in the book was correct. This volume leads one to would prefer yet another picture of smoke­ business. However, I am not planning to wonder just how many books full of mis­ belching Southern Pacific 4449 with this embrace show business and won't abandon information and disinformation are pres­ column, and that these same people were the printed word and black-and-white still ently, in fact, in circulation. disappointed when the locomotive which, photography. But I wonder how soon what After noting a couple of the glaringly from my viewpoint has been photographed I do now will become obsolete. (The die­ obvious errors in the book's Arizona sec­ to excess, missed the Steam EXPO in Van­ hard 8444 and 4449 fans probably think I tion, namely the complete omission of the couver, B.C. am already an anachronism.) Black Mesa & Lake Powell railroad (which Ordinarily, steam shows bore me and I'll received widespread national coverage in root for the bad guys in the Disney movie We all have our private horror stories 1973 and 1974), and the fact that more that uses the 4449. But I found Steam­ about railroad historical collections that are than half of the Apache Railway locomo­ EXPO to be a delight because the big stars, lost because the collector made no provi­ tive roster was conspicuous by its absence, including the 4449 and UP 8444, were sion for his material to be preserved upon I decided to try to find one railroad whose missing. I came away from SteamEXPO his death. Too often, survivors toss the coverage did not have any errors. with the impression that the big engines collection into the garbage can because After careful perusal of such as the El would have detracted from the event by they think the hobby is weird or don't Paso & South Western, the Arizona & New overshadowing the magnificent locomo­ know that donating the items can often Mexico, the Magma Arizona Railroad, the tives that were on display. bring tax advantages. San Manuel Arizona Railroad, the South­ I was especially taken with Virginia & In recent months, several readers have ern Pacific, the Tucson, Cornelia & Gila Truckee Inyo, all polished and splendid asked me how they might dispose of their Bend, and the Gila Valley, Globe and and coupled to a vintage coach of Com­ collections, but I can offer little advice, Northern, I found not a single article stock times. The locomotive and car are except to follow common sense. which was error-free. proof that the Nevada State Railroad It has been my experience that huge Baldwin Locomotive Works No. 31889, Museum is in the major league. libraries rarely appreciate the material and a 2-6-0 Mogul, built in October 1907 stands Without the big engines, you could stand store it beyond the reach of railroad re­ today beside the AT&SF Peoria Station in back and appreciate the little Gypsy and searchers and authors, or they impose such McCormick Railroad Park, Scottsdale, replicas of the Best Friend of Charles lOn, strict conditions on its use that it might as Ariz. Prior to its donation in 1976, it had John Bull and Tom Thumb. And I had well have been burned. In some cases, been Magma No.6, following its acquisi­ room to study the Royal Hudson and libraries lack the funds to properly catalog tion from EP&SW on December 11, 1922, Stephenson's Rocket. and protect a collection and soon it is when Magma converted from narrow SteamEXPO is one steam show I am glad looted or so disorganized it is of little use. gauge to standard. Before that it had been I did not miss. A lawyer is the best source of advice. A&NM No. 26. The entire history of this As much as I hate to admit it, the video Discuss with him or her how valuable the locomotive has been thoroughly docu­ recorder is changing our hobby, nudging it collection is to you personally and to the mented in Rails to Carry Copper by Gordon away from books and the printed word. railfan community. Tell the lawyer you Chappell.

36 • JANUARY 1987 In Robertson's book the locomotive is the Confederacy, whose electric railway overall conclusions would have been variously listed as either a 2-6-0 Mogul or a sys tem was begun in 1888 by Frank J. useful. 2-8-0 Consolidation (twice), depending on Sprague, who is often regarded as the Rails in R ichmond is amply illustrated which railroad one refers to; no mention at father of the electric trolley. While perhaps with over 240 photographs, which are all is made of its current disposition. not the first streetcar line, Richmond's rail­ sharp and clear, with informative captions. Few of the locomotive rosters can hold way did prove, beyond any doubt, the prac­ The maps and roster are first-rate and the up under close scrutiny. For instance, on ticality of this new form of transportation, wraparound dust jacket painting by artist page 108 the Tucson, Cornelia & Gila and its success was followed by the rapid Jack Woodson is very appealing. The book Bend neve r owned a 2-6-2 from any growth of electric traction elsewhere in this is crammed with information, and the ' builder. The TC&GB did not "change to country. In this well-written book, Carlton author has done a commendable job of diesel in 1939-ten to twenty years before McKenney presents the story of the trolley simplifying the often complex Richmond the major railroads." In fact, its patron, the in the Richmond area, including nearby corporate evolution, not only in the text New Cornelia Branch Mine of Phelps Ashland and Petersburg. but also in an excellent foldout chart. Dodge bought a couple of Electro-Motive The author adapted a topical approach This book is informative and interesting, switchers in 1939, but they were trans­ and he has divided his book into 25 mostly and its strong features far outweigh its few ferred to PD's Morenci facility two years short chapters. The first six chapters cover weaknesses. I recommend it highly. later. On page 72, Robertson confuses Richmond, from horse cars to abandon­ -JAMES N.J. HENWOOD Arizona Eastern 6 with Arizona & South­ ment of electric cars by the Virginia Tran­ eastern 6, and lists AE 1001 as a Baldwin sit Co. in 1949. Subsequent chapters de­ when it was actually an Aleo. Page 187 has scribe lines in Petersburg, Hopewe ll, AN AMERICAN ORIGINAL: THE a large group of Alamagordo & Sacramento Seven Pines, the unusual Ashland line, PCC CAR, by Seymour Kashin and Harre Mountain engines confused with those of followed by sections on lines originally Demoro. Interurban Press (P.O. Box 6444, the Arizona & New Mexico. built to serve parks, such as Reservoir, Glendale, Ca. 91205), 1986. 8 1hxll", 208 The pictures aren't particularly new Westhampton, Forest Park and Lakeside. pp., $34.95 + $1.50 postage. either, but the real problem with this book Concluding chapters treat topics such as is that the information is not reliable. If power supply; trackage; carbarns and In recent years, as their numbers have Robertson and his publisher let mistakes shops; signals; operating problems; acci­ dwindled, the once-common PCC car has like those shown above slip by, how can dents; the unusual Marshall St. viaduct attracted increasing attention from writers. anyone trust the rest of the book. Of elevator; a primitive "trollibus" operation, This book, by two qualified authors, is the course, it is very professional looking and and an abortive conduit line. A roster, latest effort which documents the develop­ will obviously end up on many bookshelves bibliography, several detailed foldout ment of "an American original." Actually, -including those of libraries-but years maps, and an index bring the book to an the title of this book is somewhat mislead­ from now researchers are going to take this end. ing for, although the PCC is the central fatally flawed material as the gospel. There theme, the authors range beyond that and is a lesson here. Mr. McKenney is a good writer, who carry the story of car types and construc­ Considering that there are substantial employs a plain, direct style. He is particu­ tion up to the present day. mistakes in every entry checked by this larly adept at explaining technological The book is divided into seven chapters. reviewer, serious doubt is cast upon the terms and basic operating procedures The first is a concise summary of carbuild­ veracity of the remainder of the volume, which may be unfamiliar to younger read­ ing from the beginning of the electric age and for that reason this book cannot be ers. Occasion all y, he does not explain to the 1930s, including various experimen­ recommended. -DAVID A. WOOD enough, as on page 44, where he mentions tal designs. Next, the authors describe the the" ... coveted Coffin Award, established research efforts of the Electric Railroads by the General Electric Co ...." but he Presidents' Conference Committee, led by fails to say why it was awarded, nor does he Thomas Conway, Jr., and C.F. Hirshfeld. RAILS IN RICHMOND by Carlton N. clearly distinguish the difference between The car which resulted was" ... the single McKenney. Interurban Press (P.O. Box "streetcar" and " interurban." The empha­ most important technological innovation in 6444, Glendale, Ca. 91205), 1986. 8 1hxll", sis is on corporate charters, initial routes the urban transportation industry since 216 pp. $32.95 + $1.50 postage. and early operations; less detail is offered electrification." This section is a little Several American cities lay claim to the for later years. The topical approach con­ uneven, since the technical and mechanical title of establishing the first successful elec­ tinuously returns the reader to the late 19th aspects are treated separately in the last tric railway in the United States. One of century in most chapters, so the book has chapter. The placing of orders and the these is Richmond, the onetime capital of an uneven effect. Chapter summaries and arrival of cars on various properties are

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PACIFIC RailNEWS • 37 described, as well as their popularity with in the car, or a fan's back pocket for con­ the riding public. The authors claim the venient use. Binders handsome, double-end Pullman cars of Considering the amount of data packed 1940 for Pacific Electric were poor per­ into this volume, the price is modest. for Back Issues formers because of excessive weight and Those who are interested in train opera­ low speeds. Postwar improvements, prob­ tions, or who want to correlate radio trans­ lems and the decline of the streetcar are missions to train sightings will find this treated next, followed by chapters on the booklet useful. -DICK STEPHENSON PCC rapid transit car and foreign construc­ tion and use of PCC technology. The book is well illustrated with nearly BRITISH COLUMBIA INDUSTRIAL 250 photographs, a few of which have been LOCOMOTIVES (ALL TIME LIST­ published before, but most have not, in­ ING) by Mervyn T. Green, 8180 Fairlane cluding many by Mr. Demoro. They are Road, Richmond, British Columbia V7C accompanied by interesting and informa­ 1Y4, Canada. (U.S. $7.50), spiral bound, tive captions. There is an extensive bibliog­ Xerox reproduction. raphy and comprehensive lists of PCC street and rapid transit cars, as originally As microcomputers become more and ordered; truck construction; manufac­ more prevalent in our society, it was in­ turers' orders (including Brilliners); oper­ evitable that railway enthusiast applica­ ators; preserved cars; and demonstrators. tions would be found to use their many • A permanent file for Nine foldout drawings of representative facets. Actually, the use of micros in the cars and an index conclude the book. hobby is probably more widespread than your Pacific RailNews An American Original is well written, most people realize, ranging from word copies. comprehensive and intelligently organized. processing by authors of books and articles, At times, the authors use hindsight, as to the editing and production of complete when they state, on page 109, that " ... the periodicals and publications. Most of these • Durable and handsome electric railway industry was already efforts involve word processing only, bur cobalt blue binder with doomed when Hirshfeld ... embarked. the capabilities available with spread sheets our name gold-stamped. ..." on his research. This was certainly and data base management programs and not obvious at the time, and the fact that with a new generation of desktop laser the trolley survived, in some cities at least, printers make it evident that the micro­ • Lies flat when open - seems to belie this negative comment. The computer has yet to reach its full potential easy-to-use wire conclusions tend to be in the middle of the in publishing and small scale printing. binders. book, and some chapters end rather abrupt­ Mr. Green has recently compiled and ly. There are a few errors, such as on page reproduced for distribution his study of 68, where Philadelphia Rapid Transit 8157 industrial and shortline locomotives in the • Holds 12 or more issues was not a "Near Side," as stated, but a province of British Columbia. The prov­ (contains 12 wires). * Peter Witt type. ince has long been known for the many The question must be asked, in view of logging activities that are carried out on the the earlier effort by Schneider and Carlson, mainland and on Vancouver Island, but Due for shipment in is this book necessary? In this writer's just how many and how extensive these September. opinion, the answer is a qualified yes. One operations were cannot really be grasped of the earlier volumes is out of print, and without examining this computer-gener­ this book does provide a different slant, ated listing. The area was also the site of Reserve yours now! although, as is to be expected, the basic numerous industrial railways used for story is the same. An American Original is mining, plant and yard switching and other each (lor 2) succinct, readable and contains many activities, many of which are in use to the $7.50 appealing photographs and addendum. It is present time. The lists of locomotives are 3 binders for $20.50 a worthy shelfmate with earlier books on arranged by function (construction com­ the subject. -JAMES N.]. HENWOOD panies and equipment dealers, logging Or: operations, mining operations, museums, 5 binders for $31.95 etc.), and within each category the name or names of each operation are listed, with the location, the dates of activity and specific Add for shipping: UNION PACIFIC SYMBOL TRAIN LIST, 48 pp., 41/4x ll". Published by John information on each locomotive used at the 1 or 2 binders - $1.50 ea. Carr, 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas site, including road numbers, manufac­ 3 binders - $3.00 total TX 75236. $5.50 postpaid. turer, serial numbers, dates built and pre­ 5 binders - $4.00 total vious history. An index of operator names A system as large as the combined Union is included at the back, and a number of Pacific-Missouri Pacific has the potential Xeroxed pictures supplement the lists. * Extra set of 6 wires - for generating a large number of trains at Information on the tiny Nelson streetcar $1.50 ea. postpaid any given time. This guide can be of con­ operation is also included. siderable assistance in sorting out the maze This publication is a very useful resource Calif. res. add 6% sales tax of where all of those trains go. It includes to anyone interested in railway activities in some schedule and days-of-operation infor­ British Columbia. Even if abandoned log­ Pacific RailN ews mation. There also is a section on coal ging and mining lines are not to your inter­ trains. est, the up-to-date catalog of display P.O. Box 6128 The half-sheet size makes this booklet engines and the accurate rosters of con­ Glendale CA 91205 resemble an employee timetable; it would temporary active locomotives provide a fit readily into a camera bag or map pocket very useful guidebook to residents and

38 • JANUARY 1987 visitors alike. With many people still visit­ THE GREAT DAYS OF STEAM-27th SOUTHERN PACIFIC STEAM and ing the exposition in Vancouver, this publi­ CALIFORNIA SOUTHERN RAILWAY SANTA FE STEAM 1987 calendars from cation should be considered as a must refer­ CALENDAR, published by Orange Whistle Stop Publications, 3745 E. Colo­ ence for the railfan's trip. Dot matrix Empire Railway Museum, P.O. Box 548, rado Blvd., Pasadena CA 91107. Opens to printing and Xerox reproduction are not Perris CA 92370. Opens to 11/1x17/1. 12/1x I81f2". $5.95 + $1.50 handling (each). the ideal publication medium, but as an As always, this calendar has a great selec­ These are two spectacular calendars, inexpensive way to produce such useful tion of steam action from many railroads, with great black and white action shots by information it is hard to find fault with the plus two electric rail scenes and a bonus many noted photographers; most date from concept or the execution. "doodlebug" photo. Some of these black the 1940s and 1950s. Naturally, partisans -Po ALLEN COPELAND and white views date back to the 1930s. of the AT&SF and SP will prefer one or the Technical information accompanies the other, but both are fine productions. illustrations. -JIM WALKER -JIM WALKER DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE ROSTERS: U.S., CANADA, MEXICO by Charles W. McDonald, 2nd Edition, published by Kalmbach Publishing Co., 1027 N. 7th St., Milwaukee, WI 53233. Price $9.95. pRESERVATION This second edition of Diesel Locomotive Rosters is a big improvement over the pre­ vious edition. Where before only 91 roads in North America were covered, the new edition now covers over 400, with the im­ portant addition of shortline and military locomotives. The data includes an update with information as recent as January 1986, and a glossary of terms applicable to motive power. This volume is a valuable reference work, and its 5/1x8/1 size makes it convenient to carry in the car or camera bag. Whether for roster fans, or as a refer­ ence for photographers, this book provides plenty of information at a reasonable price. -DICK STEPHENSON

1987 CALENDARS NEW ENGLAND RAILROADING Northern Pacific F9 No. 7012A has been restored to its authentic livery by Brian Barnes CALENDAR, by Mystic Valley Ry. Soci­ at the Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad in Washington. The paint job, considered technically ety, P.O. Box 486, Hyde Park MA 02136. and historically perfect by NP purists, is a dramatic improvement over the poor facsimile the unit formerly wore. -KENNETH G. JOHNSEN 10/lx16/1 (open). $4.25 postpaid USA ($5.50 Canada). With so many railroad calendars on the market from which to choose, the ability of Congress has passed by voice vote legis­ photo selections to catch the viewer's eye lat ion adding Steamtown USA, a collec­ become very important. This calendar fea­ tion of railroad steam locomotives and tures 14 high-quality photos of New Eng­ memorabilia in Scranton, Pa., to the land subjects, including the Boston & National Park System. (Traffic World) Maine, Green Mountain RR, VIA, Bangor John C. Plytnick, serving his fourth term & Arostock, and Amtrak. The color repro­ as president of the Bay Area Electric RR ductions are excellent and the stock is Assn., has been selected as president of the good. This is the one for those looking for Association of Railway Museums. something different from the common rail­ Reelected to the ARM board of directors at road calendars. -DICK STEPHENSON the September meeting hosted by the Arden Trolley Museum at Pittsburgh, Pa., we re Rod Fishburn and Jim Walker; join­ 1987 SANTA FE-As Joe McMillan says, ing them is new director Dave Shore. Brian this has become an annual tradition and a Norden, a member of Orange Empire Rail­ great one at that. A fine selection of Diesel way Museum, is ARM's new secretary. views on mainline and branch including F units! 14 scenes, opens to 12x18/1. $8.95 Union Pacific Railroad and Omaha, ppd. from McMillan Publications, 292 1 Neb., mayor Michael Boyle announced in Two Paths Dr., Woodridge IL 60517-4512. November plans for a new city park to be named " Kenefick Park" in honor of John THOSE MAGNIFICENT TRAINS. C. Kenefick, chief of the UP for 17 years, Pub. by Cedco, P.O. Box 1807, Mill Valley who will be retired at the end of 1986 as CA 94942. $8.95. vice chairman of UP Corporation. Two UP Chuck Ditlefsen has again assembled a locomotives will be placed on outdoor John C. Plytnick selection of very dramatic color views of display. "Big Boy" No. 4023 will join New Assn. Ry. Museums President steam, Diesel and electric locomotives in Cenlennial No. 6900 in the display. UP will many scenic settings. Right up there with maintain the locomotives. (Union PacIfic past editions. -JIM WALKER R ailroad)

PACIFIC RailNEWS • 39 c===Jln Many Western Places

Left: New in 1986, SD60s 6015 and 6018 head up this 58-car PCHK (Pocatello-Hinkle) symbol train as it drifts westward down the 2% grade of the Meacham Creek Canyon in northeastern Oregon's Blue Mountains, immediately out of Meacham, on August 24 , 1986_ - JERR Y L. TORRETTA

Below: In the suburban Los Angeles basin, three SD60s (6000/60581 6030) head east with a mix of piggyback loads and conv'entional roIl­ ing stock, thundering over a bridge at Whittier Junction. The branch line at left heads toward Anaheim. - R ON BUTTS/FINER ENTERPRISES

Opposite, above: A westbound train passes through a lonely Nevada desert outpost about 25 miles east of Las Vegas on May 20, 1986. The 68-car train is powered by SD40-2s 3723 and 3526, and C30-7 2404. -WILLIAM T. MORGAN

Opposite, below: A quartet of Armour Yellow motive power leads a freight movement across the Feather River on the Keddie Wye, ex-Western Pacific territory, on May 20, 1986. Front and rear SD60s 6002 and 6023 bracket two SD40-2s 3623 and 3171. - LARRY J. BURMER

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Top: Santa Fe E2s Nos. 3 and 8 pull train 60, the morning Golden Below: It's a sparkling New Year's Day in 1940 on the Pacific Electric Gate, past the backyards of residents on Masonic Ave. in Albany, in Southern California, as a three-car train of "Hollywood" type cars Calif., just outside Oakland, on October 24, 1948. The houses gave (Nos. 640, 734 and 710) pauses at Sierra Vista on the Northern way years later to the BART right-of.way, and the AT&SF Oakland District's four-track line. It is packed with passengers en route from branch is no more. -JOHN C. ILLMAN the Pasadena Rose Parade. -C.E. WRIGHT/CRAIG A. RASMUSSEN COLLECTION

42 • JANUARY 1987 Above: On a day of lighter-read zero-tonnage, SN Baldwin V01000 407 cabhops for home near McAvoy on November 8, 1971. Stirrup­ stepped caboose 1633 was the oldest hack on SN, outshopped by parent Western Pacific in September 1916. In tribute to the venerable, still­ active caboose, the photographer provided suitable marker lamps for the occasion. The locomotive was no youngster, either. Built for WP in October 1945 as No. 584, it was transferred to SN in July 1970. It was retired in February 1973. -TED BENSON

Left: On a sunny February 26,1967, two GE 44-tonners are coupled to one ofSN's outside-braced cabooses at Pittsburg. The lead unit, No. 142, was built in 1946, but No. 147 was delivered in 1942 to the San Fran­ cisco & Napa Valley RR Co.; it came to SN in 1956. Both were retired in 1970. - KARL R. KOENIG

PACIFIC RailNEWS • 43 Once again we offer a selection of shortline scenes. In the age of merg· ers, acquisitions, standardizations, and removals of cabooses, fans need something with a little spark of variety.

Still wearing its Bicentennial paint, South Dakota Cement 4202, a rare Porter 65-tonner, is seen at the Rapid City, S.D., plant on June 14, 1986. -RANDY KELLER

Left: A recent acquisition from the Burlington Northern, American Coal Corp. SW7 140 is viewed at the Windsor, Colo., plant on September 23, 1986. The switcher served BN for 36 years. - ALAN MILLER

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Henningsen Cold Storage-Lamb Weston No. 55, an ex-BN SW1, is parked at Richland, Wash., on Sep­ tember 4, 1986. -ALAN MILLER

44 - JANUARY 1987 Peabody Coal SW8 801 has a string of in-plant coal hoppers in tow at Montrose, Mo., on September 8, 1986. -DALE ZEA

U.S. Steel's Pittsburg, Calif., plant has been a stronghold for Baldwin. Here, as seen in February 1986, is No. 17 (ex-1200), a Baldwin S12, one of the units transferred from Min­ nesota. -ROBERT HEDGECOCK

Below: While not a shortiine, some ofSP's operations on branches are a good approximation. On July 6, 1986, GP9 3732 and SW1500 2460 team up to carry the Riverside local from Colton, Calif., southbound across the Santa Ana River. Griffin Wheel Co., the industry in the back­ ground, has a long association with the railroads. -BOB HANGGIE

PACIFIC RailNEWS • 45 CHICAGO CALLING: The Windy City is alive with the Conrail lines. The new trolley line would be built in new transit developments these days. George Krambles tells two sections, linking parking lots, using a tunnel in the us that proposals to extend the Skokie Swift (George's Palisades, and serve PATH commuter rail stations in brainchild when it was built 30 years ago) about six to eight Hoboken and Jersey City. A two-mile busway extension miles north to Northbrook are now on the front burner. would serve the north end of the route .... Another The line would run along the Skokie Valley Route of the generation of completely rebuilt PCC cars has appeared in old Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee interurban, still Toronto: car 4600 was rolled out of Hillcrest Shops in intact as a power line right-of-way and a moribund Chicago September. . . . The TTC is asking for $27 million from & North Western freight branch. It probably would be the province of Ontario to pay for flaws and defects in the single track with turnouts and use regular CTA 'L trains, Scarborough ALRT line. Among other things, the TTC though speeded up. The area has grown tremendously in wants to rebuild the turning loop at Kennedy subway recent years, and demand for commuter service is building station, designed originally for streetcars and now said to be up rapidly. Nortran-the suburban bus authority-would "too tight" for ALRV operation. It has caused a derailment pick up part of the tab .... Work also is in progress to and much wear and tear on wheels and rails. upgrade the Dan Ryan 'L line with additional shop tracks south of the 95th Street Station and link it downtown with the Howard St. 'L through the State St. subway. This will THIRD RAIL IN TROUBLE: A spectacular require a short new subway near Chinatown .... As a part accident back on August 23 at SEPTA's 69th Street of the restructuring, the Lake St. 'L would link up with Terminal set in motion a crisis on the third-rail the Englewood South Side 'L, using the Loop 'L tracks, ex-Philadelphia & Western Norristown line which sawall thus better matching service demands on each end of the rail service shut down for a time and a scramble to secure lines. A third project now under design with construction the future of the interurban line. Car 167 rammed into the soon to start is the Midway Airport rapid transit line, bumping block, causing injuries and putting yet another which will more or less run parallel to Archer Ave., the Norristown car out of commission. At that time, only half of city's busiest surface bus line. IC ELECTRIC TO BE the 10 famed Brill Bullet cars were operable, and the SOLD: Metra, Chicago's suburban rail authority, plans to 160-series Trafford cars all have failed, one by one. What to purchase lllinois Central Gulf's 41-mile, electrified do? It was Chicago to the rescue as early November saw commuter system which operates (for the most part) on shipment of 10 CTA 6000-series subway-'L cars to Philadel­ tracks totally separate from ICG freight lines. The ICG's phia, the first four being 6151, 6152, 6161 and 6162. After brown, orange and silver electric MU gallery cars carry a checkout at Woodland shops, they were to be placed in 43,000 daily riders into and out of the Loop, most of them service as back-to-back married pairs. Meanwhile, Bullets riding the main line to University Park, south of Flossmoor. 202, 207, 208 and 209 were hurriedly reconditioned by the The long-term future of the two electrified branches is shops to enable partial service to be restored on October 6, somewhat of a question mark; the South Chicago branch using five cars, with bus service to all stops between 69th runs in the middle of several major streets and the Blue and Rosemont so the cars could run express in that section. Island branch carries few riders. But the ICG's main line is Full rail service restoration hinged on arrival of the Chicago true rapid transit, and has been progressively upgraded over cars, which were purchased as a short-term solution to the the years with new stations, platforms, tracks and even an Norristown line's troubles. Incidentally, very few 6000s are extension of service as recently as 1978 from Richton to the still in service on the CTA but a few trains can be seen in present terminus at University Park. rush hour service particularly on the Kennedy·O'Hare line .... There's more good news for the Norristown line: JERSEY JOTTINGS: It's official: the state has Russ Jackson reports that specifications are going out for 26 announced final plans for an $825 million light rail and new cars for the third rail that will be bigger than the busway system called the Hudson Transitway to be built Bullets: 65' long, 10' wide, double-end with third-rail pickup on Conrail right-of-way between Edgewater (near the west and pantographs for operation in yards and shops. SEPTA end of the George Washington Bridge) and Jersey City. It's is specifying a three-phase AC induction motor drive and all a part of a master redevelopment plan that includes 20 microprocessor propUlsion control. SEPTA also is looking million square feet of office space, stores, and 30,000 for a truck with limited steering capability, that like the housing units for 100,000 people. Somehow, the idea has Bullets will be able to M U in trains of up to four cars. The caught the fancy of the normally reluctant UMTA in prototype car should be delivered in the fall of 1988. Washington; Administrator Ralph Stanley praised the plan Sounds good, but as one supplier rep told us, SEPTA may and OK'd an immediate grant of $20 million to purchase just be asking for the first $2 million railcar in history!

46 • JANUARY 1987 Trivia Quiz 1. Name the one place on the SP where EXTRA BOARD ADS " remotes" are still used (remote-control locomotives, that is). 2. Between what cities does Amtrak oper­ ate a long-distance through-coach ser­ PACIFIC RailNEWS reserves the right to edit all NEW 35mm Slide Sets. H igh quality roster and vice? Name the three trains that carry copy and refuse any listings. Ads cannot be scenic action slides. Great for the modeler and coll ec­ acknowledged, nor can proof copies be sent. tor. Over 60 difT. sets: AT SF, DRGW, M KT , RI, this service . (Hint: It is not the Cali­ Closing date: 20th of 3rd month before issue KCS, SP, MP, U P, BN, Sao, GBW, GT, Guilford, fo rnia ZephyriPioneeriDesen Wind com­ date. Count a ll numbers, na m e and address . CR, Zephyr, Shortlines, 4449, 8444, 3985, J6 11 , 614-T, bined service.) Home/office street address must accompany ad trolleys, cabooses, Gel/wllliais, and more. 20 slides 58. order, even ifnot included in copy . R ATES: 13< a Catalog, samples available. Bledsoe Rail Slides, Box 3. Provide the number of the locomotives wordfSS.OO minimum. P ayment in a dvance. 377, Crowley TX 76036. 276-280 shown in SP's computer as class BF840.

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1987 NORTHWEST RAILROAD Wall Calendar. Color cover, GN articulated, 20 b/w photos of bygone IJrru~ lli1 ®[l~rruw~~~~[l[fll ~~CSn anCS scenes. $5 postpaid. 1986, 1985, 1984, 1980. 52.50 ea. Inland Empire Ry. H istorical Society, Box 5334, Spokane WA 99205. 278-279 ~~nO[l®~~ ~ W®O(!][ill~ ~ Last of NWP Steam • SP Steam • SP Diesels SHORTLINES, STREAMLINERS, Santa Cruz Life of Budd Car # 10 • P eta luma & Santa Rosa RR branches, S.F. Bay Ferries highlight Vol. II of Fred Eureka Sout hern Rail road Matthews' Norrhern Californ ia Railroads, along with NWP, Dunsmuir, San Luis, Pt. Costa, Peninsula rush 176 big 8'1z x 11 pages • 349 Illustrations hour, more. H ardbound 8x ll", 224 pp, brilliant ra re $31.50 postpaid (California residents add 6% tax) color, hundreds b/w. 545 from Sundance Publications, 250 Broadway, Denver CO 80203. 274,277 " ... a great sequel to author Stindt's earlier treatise on the NWP." - TilE: RE:vlE:lV. Bay Area Electric Railroad Assn. WANTED: CT C Board M agazine, original series (1 973 and before). Issues 1-78,81-87,92-93, 122. A.E. Fred A_ Stindt 3363 Riviera West Drive Roach, P .O. Box 7566, Washington DC 20044. Kelseyville, CA 95451 276-278 A journey to Mexico and Cuba of the I 950s, where steam ruled longer and in more exotic forms than anywhere else in North America. Vic Uzoff's talented camera captured' steam in standard and narrow Until the 1960s the Rayonier Co . logged a vast area of gauge, mainline and branch, NdeM to sugar trains-plus some of the washington State with Baldwin steam Mallet locomotives. weirdest doodlebugs you've ever seen! Color, narrated. Here's a color and sound celebration of those last days of FR80 1V or B, 25 min ...... $41.95 2-6-6-2 No. 38, Tank Mallets No . 110 and No . 111 , 2·8·2 No. 90. You 'll see the crews floating in replacement Baldwin road­ SOUTH OF THE BORDER IN TRACTION switchers and the beginning of the diesel era. Beautiful Uzoff's camera also chronicled Mexico 'S electrics Circa 1953, steam in a beautiful setting-don't miss this one! when hand·me·down U.S. trolleys (and home·built creations!) rolled in TampiCO , Veracruz and Mexi co City. This was before FR1 OOV or B, 20 min ...... $44.95 the arrival of PCC cars, although there is one brief PCC scene, NICKEL PLATE STORY and a glimpse of the Hershey Cuba interurban. Don 't miss the section on the Celaya, Mexico, mulecar-not a tourist line but In 1948 the Nickel Plate main line was humming with heavy freights, the real thing, still clip·clopping along in the 1950s! Color, powered by its famed Lima S-2 2-8-4s, and trim passenger trains narrated. headed up by Aleo PAs. This color and sound documentary captures it FE800V or B, 23 min ...... $41.95 all with mainline action aplenty. For openers, we ride three diff erent steam-powered freights, and there's lots more! ROPES AND RAILS FR330V or B, 20 min ...... $39.95 Over the hills and under the streets of San Francisco, you'll ride every line of The City's fascinating cable car system, and as a bonus get a fascinating insider's look at how it all works. Recorded in color and BLACK BULLETS sound by Transit Gloria Mundi Traction Videos. When Nazi Germany seized Europe's raw materials, the U.S. GE772V or B, 45 min ...... $49.50 coal industry responded with redoubled production . Our miners really "poured on the coal," and the ra ilroads hauled MINES, MILLS AND METRO it. A fine focus on U.S. heavy industry and its role in World Belg ium 'S Vicinal light rail system has something for every War II. B&W, sound . traction fan , from articulated LRVs in a brand·new metro in FR531V or B, 14 min ...... $19.95 Charleroi, to prewar cars on meandering single·track country tramway routes-reminiscent of Western pennsylvania in ANGELS IN OVERALLS the 1940s! Recorded in color and sound by Transit Gloria The P-38 story. This unique twin-fuselage lighter was America's not-so­ Mundi Traction Videos. secret weapon in World War II. It bagged the lirst German plane in the CiE771 V or B, 90 min ...... $59.50 conflict . .. was the lirst over Berlin. . could fl y 425 mph but dive MONTREAL STREETCARS faster than the speed of sound! Mission after mission is captured in this Canada's French-speaking metropolis abandoned a vast streetcar great B&W sound documentary. system in the 1950s, and toward the end they held a fa rewell parade of FA071 V or B, 15 ruin ...... _ ...... $29.95 just about every type of car. Northland Video teams this event with a small boy's fantasy trip aboard the Golden Chariot-the open-air RIDINC THE NO. 10 LINE sightseeing trolley. Sound, B&W and color. GE752V or B, 90 min ...... _ ...... $59.95 The Wells St. line to Wau· watosa and West Allis was Milwaukee's last streetcar ... AND 2 FILM FAVORITES line, and thanks to Chuc k NOW AVAILABLE IN VIDEO Westerman and t he Wis· DOWN MARKET STREET consin Electric Railway His· San Fra n cisco. 1905: P rior to the great earth qua ke. pioneer torical Society we have it in c in e photographer Jac k Kuttn er anc h or ed his h a n d -cra nk color and sound, from end 35mm ca m era to the front of a cable car! You'll see cable cars, to end as the orange trol· electric cars , ho~s ec ars . gas a nd stea m a utos and eve ry kind of leys of the Transport Co . horse·drawn vehicle . . . our thanks to Ward Kimba ll for pre­ make their way through serving this comple te vers ion . FE040V or B, 10 min ...... _. . . . _ . . , .. . . $29.95 the streets of t he Cream City and out along the rights·of·way. LAKE SHORE ELECTRIC FE220V or B, 30 min ...... $39.95 T his classic Oh io in terurban ran unlil lhe late 1930s .. . its hand­ some Niles ca rs sometimes made 80 mph on uncertain trac k . 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