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Issue Month Features Issue Month Features Issue Month Features 209 Mar79 California Baldwin Logging 248 Feb84 Winter in the Colo. Rockies 292 Mar 88 Kaiser's Eagle Mountain Mallets 250 June84 Light Rail in the West - PI. 1 CN's "Muskeg" Trains 210 Apr 79 PE Red Cars Remembered Morrison-Knudsen 1983 294 May 88 Super Bowl Super Trains Morrison-Knudsen 1978 251 Aug 84 SP's Tillamook Branch Eagles in the Canyon - UP 212 Jun 79 British Columbia Steam 253 Dec84 Light Rail in the West - PI. 4 298 Sep 88 Variety at Porteau Coor's Golden Brewery RR Cajon Pass Blue Shadows on the Rail 213 Jul79 The Utah Railway, Black 255 Feb85 Eureka So . Freight 316 Mar90 Alcos in the Ozarks Diamonds and Pinon Pine Ventura County Railway Burlington Northern at20 214 Aug 79 Stalking the Shortlines 258 May 85 Kaiser Iron Ore Trains Roll 317 Apr90 Farewell to the Canadian 215 Sep79 Coal and the Railroads Morrison-Knudsen 1984 SP's Coos Bay Branch Plaster City's Narrow Gauge 259 Jun85 Santa Barbara Street RR 318 May90 We Don't Know 217 Nov79 PCC Cars of San Francisco 261 Aug 85 The North Coast Daylight UP's Sedalia Subdivision FMC The Custom Car Builder Santa Fe's Venta Spur 320 Jul90 Santa Fe's Warbonnets 219 Jan 80 C&NW Alcos in South Dakota 262 Sep 85 SP's Altamont Pass Line The Disappearing Rio Grande 220 Feb 80 Sierra RR Passenger 263 Oct 85 A Slice of the Santa Fe 321 Aug90 BN's Mississippi River Route Farewell SP in the Rio Stalking Locomotives at Ajo Feather River GP35 s Grande Valley 264 Nov85 Railroads Across the Divide 323 Oct 90 Railroading the Inland Empire 221 Mar 80 Weyerhaeuser Longview 267 Feb 86 UP's GP30s Fade Away 324 Nov 90 Gateway Western Logging 268 May86 In Search of the Electrics Oregon Timber Short Lines 222 Apr80 Morrison-Knudsen 1979 Rio Grande's Big Ten Curves 325 Dec90 UP/SP in Nevada Union Pacific Shows the Flag 273 Aug86 AT&SF Desert Centennials Kaiser Bulk Loading Facility 235 May81 Manitou & Pikes Peak San Diego Trolley 326 Jan 91 Eisenhower Centennial To Whittier, AK3 Times A Day 274 Sep86 Steam EXPO Album SP's Siskiyou Line 236 Jun 81 Morrison-Knudsen 1981 275 Oct 86 Morrison-Knudsen1985 327 Feb91 Montana Rail Link Rise & Fall of SP's GE U5 0s 276 Nov86 C&NW Comes West Thebes Bridge 237 Jul81 Mt. Rainier Scenic RR, 277 Dec86 Washington Central Emerges 328 Mar 91 Railroads of the Iron Range Chehalis Western 278 Jan 87 Two in the Hole at Athol, D&S Narrow Gauge 238 Aug81 Winter of '81 Five Decades of Ski Train, 329 Apr 91 Union Pacific's Bailey Yard, Railfair Sacramento1981 Part1 SP's West Valley Line 239 Sep81 Cumbres & Toltec 489 280 Mar87 Los Nietos Diamonds 330 May 91 Milwaukee Road Streetcars Roll in Seattle SP Purges Roster BN in the Missouri Ozarks 241 Nov 81 UP3985 Again Rolls West 284 Jul 87 Great S.F. Rail Fair 331 Jun 91 SP's Black Butte Cutoff Silverton NG 100th Birthday Darrington Branch Revisited Discovering UP's Ogden Sub 242 Dec81 Granby Consolidated 285 Aug87 Morrison-Knudsen 1986 332 Jul 91 BN Beyond the Funnel Mining Co. The Cochise Coal Train Railfair '91 : Celebration North Central Texas RR 286 Sep87 Feather River Rail Society 333 Aug 91 The Delta - Santa Fe 243 Jan82 Amtrak West in 1982 Denver! - PI. 1 North Willamette Short Lines BC Tumbler Ridge Electric 288 Nov87 Pueblo Varieties 335 Oct91 North Dakota: BN's SD60Ms 246 Oct83 San Francisco Trolley Yakima Flashback UP in Pocatello Last Call for D&RGW17 289 Dec87 Lake States: Hello, Good Bye Morrison-Knudsen 1982 CalTrain Beyond Commuting

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C&NW's Adams Line in Wisconsin 16 The former route of the 4005 remains a photogenic main line Steve Glischinski

24 Utah Railway Comes Full Circle A colorful Western short line and its evolving paint schemes Dave Gayer and Jim Belmont

34 Focus Texas: The Gregory Switcher An isolated Southern Pacific branch line in the Lone Star State Arthur I. Dietz

3 Focus California: Dunsmuir 6 A historic mountain railroading tradition continues Randy Woods M.D,

Images: Spanning the West Featuring Utah's new red-and-gray scheme, S040-2 48 9008 exits one of the Nolan Tunnels. Dave Gayer A look at railroad bridges, big and small, throughout the West

PACIFIC RA/lNEWS and PACIFIC NEWS are registered trademarks of Interurban Press, a California Corporation. I DEPARTMENTS I PUBLISHER: Mac Sebree EXPEDITER SHORT LINES EDITOR: Don Gulbrandsen 4 42 ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Andrew S. Nelson 6 BURLINGTON NORTHERN 43 AMTRAK/PASSENGER ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Carl Swanson 8 TRANSIT 44 CHICAGO & NORTH WESTERN CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Elrond G. Lawrence SANTA FE 46 REGIONALS EDITORIAL CONSULTANT: Dick Stephenson 10 12 CP RAIL SYSTEM 47 MEXICO ART DIRECTOR: Tom Danneman 14 SOUTHERN PACIFIC 48 IMAGES OF RAILROADING ADVERTISING MANAGER: Richard Gruber 34 FOCUS TEXAS 54 THE LAST WORD CIRCULATION MANAGER: Bob Schneider 36 FOCUS CALIFORNIA 55 PRN CLASSIFIEDS © 1993 INTERURBAN PRESS UNION PACIFIC PRN ADVERTISING INDEX Mac Sebree, President/CEO 40 55 Jim Walker, Senior Vice President Don Gulbrandsen, Vice President COVER: Everything that typifies Chicago & North Western's Adams Line through Wis­ consin is seen in this month's cover photo: single track, semaphores (until 1990) and wooden overpasses. Here, S04S-led East Minneapolis-Proviso train EMPRA splits the semaphores at Woodville, Wis., in June 1989. Steve Glischinski

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BN ANNOUNCES HUGE LOCO­ a.c. locomotives. Individual rail­ but were stopped at the last MOTIVE ORDER: Burlington roads will negotiate directly minute by Dana Point officials, Northern has signed a letter of with the builders for acquisition who said that moving the de­ intent with General Motors to of the units that will be part of bris could cause more slippage acquire 350 new locomotives the test fleet. AAR, through its on the hillside. -a $520 million deal-that research and test department, Santa Fe officials were re­ may be the largest locomotive will get back into the picture portedly frustrated by the order in history. The units will when testing begins. work stoppage, but said the • be a.c.-powered, 4,000 h.p. Ten railroads have express­ railroad would comply with • SD70MACs. They will be deliv­ ed interest: Santa Fe, BC Rail, Dana Point's request. The San ered over the next several Burlington Northern, Chicago & Diegans were stopped in both years, allowing BN to retire as North Western, Comail, CSX, directions south of San Juan many as 600 locomotives as Kansas City Southern, Norfolk Capistrano, affecting as many the new power arrives. Southern and Union Pacific. The as 1,500 daily riders. Train rid­ BN moved quickly, hoping to manufacturers have to state ers who normally take the San to gain an advantage over UP their intent to bid on the loco­ Diegans from San Diego, Del and other competitors. In addi­ motives by Feb. 8, and individu­ Mar, Oceanside or San tion, EMD gave BN a "mission­ al railroads have to verify their Clemente found themselves ary rate" as the first railroad to part in the testing by March 8. taking the bus. The line re­ make a wholesale purchase of mained closed for a week be­ the new technology. What that SLIDES CLOSE SAN DIEGO fore service resumed. means, according to rail industry LINE: Heavy rains in Southern watchers, is that the next California have again played UP ANNOUNCES IDAHO SD70MAC buyers will pay havoc with that region's trans­ BRANCHLINE SALE: In mid­ around $2 million per locomotive. portation network. On Feb. 22, February, Union Pacific an­ a mud slide at Dana Point near nounced that it was offering AAR REQUESTS A.C. DIESELS: San Clemente blocked Santa 269 miles of branches for sale The American Association of Fe's Los Angeles-San Diego in Idaho. The lines will be of­ Railroads has approached four main line, home to Amtrak's fered as two groups. The first builders, Electro-Motive Divi­ popular San Diegans. Crews will be a 153-mile package in sion, GE, Morrison Knudsen were ready with bulldozers on the Magic Valley which con­ LLI and Republic Locomotive for 26 Feb. 24 to begin the clean-up, nects to the UP main at

4. APRil 1993 Minidoka and include lines to ready slim profit margins. Wendell, Buhl, Martin and De­ But what about the predicted clo. The second group of Western coal boom brought on branches is northeast of Idaho by the 1990 Clean AirAct? Some Falls. The 116-mile package in­ basin area producers call those cludes lines to St. Anthony, predictions overly optimistic. Ashton, Newdale, Egin, Menan And if the bottom lines of basin and Ammon. coal producers are marginal, so too could be the bottom lines of KCS REPORTS RECORD those railroads who rely on Pow­ EARNINGS: Kansas City South­ der River Basin coal for a great ern earned a record $17.2 mil­ deal of their revenue. lion in 1992 for its parent cor­ poration, KCS Industries. KCS's TALKS OFF BETWEEN WSOR operation ratio also improved AND SOO/CP: As mentioned in over last year, coming in at a PRN 347 Expediter, Wisconsin healthy 82.3 percent. KCS also Southern was talking with announced that it had reached Soo/CP to gain trackage rights an agreement with Illinois to connect its original lines with Central whereby IC would its newly acquired Wisconsin drop its opposition to KCS' in­ Calumet routes. Talks between The engine that has everybody talking, lettered Gateway, is ex­ tention to merge MidSouth into the two companies broke off in Conrail GP38 No. 2029, renumbered and painted into a new blue its own operations and support late February and are not likely scheme. Shown in East St. Louis, III., the blue unit is not a replace­ the merger at upcoming ICC to resume in the near future. ment for the existing black, but rather was an inexpensive way to proceedings. Reportedly, the Currently, the only way WSOR pay homage to the Conrail heritage of the Geep ... and could agreement assures IC of addi­ can move cars from its Northern serve as power for an eastward appendage of GWWR. Rick Newton tional interchange traffic that it Division, based in Horicon, Wis., does not currently handle from to its Southern Division, based MidSouth interchange points. in Janesville, Wis., is via track­ since it still faces both a state before it returns to the same POWDER RIVER BASIN COAL age rights over Wisconsin Cen­ and federal lawsuit concerning condition it was in before the PRODUCERS IN TROUBLE?:rr tral between Slinger, Wis., and the 1991-wreck at Cantara spill. Paul Wertz, an information Waukesha, Wis. Loop, just north of Dunsmuir, officer with the CDFG, said, you've observed the constant Calif. SP's own studies show ''I'm not surprised by the public parade of coal trains moving TO FISH OR NOT TO FISH?: that the river has recovered relations move on SP's part. I through the Wyoming's Powder Should the California Depart­ enough to support a stocked would hope the organization River Basin on both the Burling­ ment of Fish and Game allow trout population and also stat­ would acknowledge and recog­ ton Northern and Chicago & fishing on the 40-mile stretch ed that, for the sake of Duns­ nize its positive role in this and North Western, you might find of the Sacramento River deci­ muir the river should be acknowledge and recognize it hard to believe that many of mated by a chemical spill stocked and fishing allowed. that this river is a long way the coal producers that load caused by a derailed Southern But, according to the CDFG, from where it was before the SP those trains are in financial Pacific freight on July 14, while the river is recovering train turned loose metam sodi­ trouble. Among the problems 1991? SP thinks so, especially nicely, it still has long way to go um (a weed killer) on it." PRN cited are soft prices and the dis­ appearance of long-term con­ tracts. According to Sam Scott, the government and environ­ mental affairs director of Kiewit CALTRANS NEW EMD F59PH LOCOMOTIVES Mining Co., "The contracts for $12 and $14 a ton are going to go away, and you'll be left with a lot of contracts in the $3.60 to $3.80 range." That's a decrease of about 60 percent. Currently, there are many coal companies in the basin that are either for sale or have already been sold. Some mines are either barely making mon­ ey, or not making a return on their investment. Currently, two or three companies are do­ ing well finanCially, but the rest are marginal. It is not uncommon for Western coal companies to win contracts with profit margins between 3 to 5 percent per ton. So, when legislators talk about LEGEND raiSing current severance tax­ The California Department of Trans­ 1. CABIN MODULE ROOF AREA NO. es (a tax on coal mined in the 7. 3 portation has signed a $20.8 million 2. NOSE SECTION ROOF AREA NO. 4 basin), coal producers become 8. order to buy nine state-of-the-art 3. COUPLER COVER 9. LOWER PANEL NO.1 General Motors Electro-Motive concerned. A company may 4. ROOF AREA NO.1 10. LOWER PANEL NO. 2 F59PH locomotives. The drawing win a contract only to discover 5. SIDE DOOR PANEL 11. SIDE FLUTING 1-8 shows the roof section and a side that the severance tax has 6. ROOF AREA NO.2 12.STORAGE PANEL view. Courtesy of Coltrons been raised, eating into al-

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this unlikely route by year's end. As expected, BN has formalized plans to move more than 100 dispatchers to Ft. Worth, Texas, during 1993. Three offices immediately impacted by this decision are Lincoln (20 employees). McCook (40) and Alliance (45-50). BN plans to move all dis­ patching operations to a central facility in Ft. Worth by the end of 1995. For the fourth quarter of 1992, BN re­ ported an increase of earnings to $1.23 per share, a significant improvement from the 51 cents per share recorded for the same period in 1991. Grain traffic was down 8 percent from 1991 levels, but general man­ ifest business increased by 7 percent. With this positive finish to 1992, BN plans to increase its capital spending in 1993 by 11 percent to $660 million.

eN Traffic Expands

Traffic levels on the Canadian National contract trains are slowly growing, as marketing forces attract new business to the corridor. Both BN and CN expect to di­ Rounding through the east departure tracks in Lincoln, Neb., is a BN coal train heading vert business from Chicago & North West­ eastward with a load of low-sulfur coal. The lead C30-7 has had its nose modified as evi­ ern, Soo and Wisconsin Central trains as denced by the lack of a light covering. George Cockle well as to attract intermodal business from the highways. A strong effort is be­ sion (Cheney to Coulee City, Wash.) on Jan. ing made to move unit trains of bulk com­ Storms Blast Northwest 11, the Couer d'Alene Sub (Hauser Junction modities via this contract whenever possi­ to Couer d'Alene, Idaho) on Jan. 15, the ble, primarily potash and sulfur. After a series of major snowstorms blasted Palouse Sub to Moscow, Idaho on Jan. 18 While the general marLifest trains con­ the Pacific Northwest during late December and 19 as well as the Kettle Falls Branch on tinue to draw mostly CN SD40s and Grand and early January, BN was forced to acti­ Jan. 20. In addition to the rotary, the divi­ Trunk Western SD40-2s, the unit trains do vate its Interbay rotary snowplow (972651, sion spreaders were busy plowing sidings occasionally turn heads. A 104-car sulfur former GN X-1510, constructed in 1927 by and branch lines snarled by heavy snows train into Chicago on Dec. 22 was powered Brooks). For the first time in 17 years, the and bitter temperatures. by C40-8Ms 2415/2437, SD40 5077 and venerable rotary attacked the CW Subdivi- To further complicate matters, BN suf­ SD40-2 5934, while a conventional 340 out fered a number of derailments in Washing­ of the Twin Cities on Feb. 4 had SD40 5029, ton, including a serious incident with train SD40-2 5933 and DW&P SD40 5910 leading 7 at Wenatchee on Dec. 29. Amtrak suf­ 68 cars, including 11 flats of trailers. fered a number of delays caused by the Because of a wreck on the CN in north­ snow and cold, forcing cancellations, ern Ontario during the first week of Febru­ turnarounds and bus substitutions. The ary, CN detoured several mainline trains weather was so bad in January that Chair­ via BN and GTW. On Feb. 5, CN train 304 man Gerald Grinstein commented that was spotted in St. Paul with CN SD40s IIIAR'"PRESENTS first quarter earnings would likely suffer 5100/5222 leading 93 cars, while the next TRAINS OF KANSAS CITY VOL 1 2 hrs because of delays and revenue loss be­ day No. 305 was held at Northtown Yard Visit railfan hotspots ...... 17 $28.00 cause of equipment problems. for an available crew, powered by CN UP MARYSVILLE SUB 2 hrs SD40s 5206/5219. Fast paced action from Kansas City to the Nebraska state line ...... $28.00 Alternative Route to Northwest? MAINLINES INTO KANSAS CITY 2 hrs APL Traffic Through Seattle to Grow All the mainlines that make Management continues to be frustrated by Kansas City the nations 2nd the lack of union cooperation in reducing The number of APL containers handled largest rail center ...... $28.00 crews on the northern lines (former GN through the Port of Seattle is expected to SANTA FE IN KANSAS CITY 1 hr and NP). Because of strong competition double by 1995-96, certainly a marketing Experience the excitement as from both UP and the trucking industry, opportunity for both BN and Union Pacific. AT&SF trains move in and out BN is looking at a number of means to re­ Each carrier will have to find ways to re­ of Kansas City ...... $20.00 duce operating costs. One proposal being duce costs and guarantee tight delivery -Titles - Narration - Music considered in the development of a Twin schedules to meet contract requirements. -Recorded in HI-S - Available in VHS only Cities-Spokane routing via Twin Cities & BN may have to consider shifting the bal­ -Add $2.00 S/H for each tape -MO residents add 6% sales tax Western and Montana Rail Link, using the ance of its manifest traffic from the former -If ordering 2 or more tapes, deduct $1 per tape former Milwaukee Road main line across GN High Line to MRL to keep operating MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO: South Dakota and Eastern Montana, speeds high. To that end, much west­ MO-KAN VIDEO owned by the State of South Dakota. It is bound manifest traffic is being moved on 42S Leslie Drive possible that two-person, non-union crews trains 19 and 203 via the former NP corri­ Independence, MO 64055 could be operating overhead traffic across dor. Trains 101 and 207 provide the only

6. APRIL 1993 long-haul westbound service on the High given preliminary approval to the four Line, with companion trains 106 and 110 overpasses to be constructed by BN as moving eastbound boxcar traffic. part of its grade separation project with PACIFIC RAIL Despite speculation to the contrary, BN UP. An additional structure over U.S. 30 NEWS expects to increase the number of contain­ must be approved by the state. Construc­ ers loaded at its International Falls, Minn., tion could begin early in 1994, with work Boise-Cascade mini-hub to 10,000 units in completed by the end of 1995. NEWS STAFF 1993. Around 7,800 units were loaded in 1992 and the paper company apparently is News/information submissions: If you would like to pleased with the distribution afforded by Motive Power: 10 SD70MACs in 1993 share items on any of the topics listed below, please BN's hubs located throughout the country. contact the appropriate columnist at the address list­ Because of feedback from employees, BN will apparently be acquiring only 10 ed for each section. NOTE: Do not send photos to the columnists. the Precision Scheduling System has been SD70MACs in 1993, as General Motors is modified to allow trains to leave up to two still working on improvements that must be hours ahead of their assigned window, an time-tested before any large purchases are RAilROAD COLUMNISTS improvement from the former 30 minutes. authorized. In the meantime, BN plans to Taking advantage of the reduced crew purchase 20 secondhand SD40-2s from AMTRAK/PASSENGER-Dick Stephenson size requirement on former CB&Q lines, EMD, including all 10 ex-Illinois Central, 444 Piedmont Ave. #128. Glendole. CA 91206 BN has been rerouting many coal trains nee Rock Island units (6040-6049) and the AT&SF-Elson Rush bound for Northern States Power's Becker, last 10 former Soo, nee Milwaukee units in P.O. Box 379. Waukesha. WI 53187 BURliNGTON NORTHERN-Karl Rasmussen Minn., power plant via Alliance and Lin­ the 6300 series (this does not include the 10 11449 Goldenrod St. NW. Coon Rapids. MN 55448 coln. Trains RC006/007 and TT006/007 are units presently on long term-lease to BN). CANADIAN NATIONAL-Doug Cummings regularly operating via the Central Corri­ These units were previously leased to SP 5963 Kitchener St .. Burnaby. BC V5B 2J3 dor, with a variety of C30-7s, SD40-2s and and will get shopped prior to delivery to BN. C&NW-Michael W. Blaszak Oakway SD60s for power. In early January, the 6046 was at Conrail's 211 South Leitch Ave .. La Grange.IL 60525 As reported in PRN352, a major collision Altoona Shop, while the 6345 and 6381 COMMUTER-Dick Stephenson at Eola, Ill. at 12:55 a.m. on Jan. 20 involved were at Livingston, Mont., for overhauL 444 Piedmont Ave. #128. Glendale. CA 91206 CP RAil SYSTEM-Karl Rasmussen BN train 17 and SP hotshot RVCHX. No. 17, EMD GP38-2 748 has replaced wrecked 11449 Goldenrod St. NW. Coon Rapids. MN 55448 led by SD40-2 7072, was making a pickup of sister 816, maintaining an active fleet of D&RGW-Richard C. Farewell auto racks at Eola and pulled into the path 35 such units on BN ... Six Norfolk South­ 9729 W. 76th Ave .. Arvada. CO 80005 of the eastbound SP train, consisting of ern GP40s are currently assigned to BN for ILliNOIS CENTRAL-David J. Daisy GP60 9710, CSX SD40-2 8444 and GP40-2 power equalization, including units 1329, 746 N. Bruns Lone Apt. A. Springfield.IL 62702 6017 as well as tunnel motors 9287 and 1330, 1334, 1339, 1345, and 1349. BN had MEXICO--clifford R. Prather P.O. Box 925. Santo Ana. CA 92702 9346, pulling 92 cars. The SP conductor was shipped SD40-2 6329 to NS for two REGIONAlS-Dave Kroeger killed, its engineer injured, while BN's crew months, with a pair of LMXs provided in 525 6th Ave .. Marion. IA 52302 members escaped harm. Metra trains were late December and early January ...The SHORT liNES WEST-Wayne Monger handled by means of an adjacent yard track, remaining 17 E9s remained stored at 14th 1409 Tillmon 51., Suisun City. CA 94585 while BN and SP freights were held until 4 Street Yard in Chicago pending disposition SHORT liNES EAST-Bob Thompson p.m., when one main could be opened. ...Methane-powered SD40-2s 7149 and Route 6, Box 207, Paris. TX 75462 7890, and companion tender BNGT10l, SP/SSW-Joseph A. Strapac P.O. Box 1539, Bellflower. CA 90707 are working coal trains between Montana BN Purchases SP Trackage in Texas TRANSIT-Mac Sebree and Superior, Wis. The set was spotted at P.O. Box 6128, Glendale, CA 91225 Dilworth, Minn., on Jan. 31, working a UNION PACIFIC-Wayne Monger On Feb. 11, 13.45 miles of Southern Pacif­ DD226 with SD60Ms 9204/9295 ...Desert 1409 Tillmon St.. Su�un City, CA 94585 ic's Dallas-Denison, Texas, line was to be­ Storm commemorative unit 1991 has been come the property of Burlington Northern. assigned to the southern coal pool ... CONTRIBUTING TRANSIT COlUMNISTS The line segment involved is between SP EMD SD70M 7002 was at Cicero Yard from Robert Blymyer, Chris Cucchiara, Don Jewell. milpost 324.39 at South Sherman Junction Dec. 23 to 29, while sister 7001 operated Richard R. Kunz, Matthew G. Vurek and milepost 337.84 at Denison. Prior to on No. 63 through Burlington, Iowa on the sale, BN (and predecessor Frisco) op­ Dec. 29 ... C30-7 5055 has been rebuilt as FOCUS CORRESPONDENTS erated on this line via trackage rights over BN's 35th C33-7, while sister 5576 be­ SP. As a part of the sale, SP's Tower 16, in comes the seventh C36-7 .. . Maine Cen­ Mike Abalos, Greg Brown, Rich Farewell, Paul Sherman, will fall under BN control; Tower tral GP38s 256 and 263 worked No. 442 Fries, Dave Gayer, Wayne Kuchinsky, Carl M. 16 is tentatively scheduled to close when from Galesburg to St. Louis on Jan. 19, Lehman, Scott Muskopf, Dan Pope, Ken Rat­ all BN dispatching is moved to Ft. Worth. bound for Alton & Southern ... Slug set tenne, Dick Stephenson The tower sits at the interchange with 6265/6290 was teamed with SD9 6121 on Texas Northeastern's east-west line. the Soo transfer in the Twin Cities as of SUBMISSIONS: Articles, news items and photographs TNER currently operates between Sher­ early February. 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PACIFIC RAILNews • 7 Line crossing at Church Street. Track is in on Noe Street for the F-Line loop, and new double track was being laid on 17th Street, replacing "temporary" trackage dating from the 1970s. The line will loop via Noe, 17th and back to Market at Castro; this curve had not been started in February. Overall, the project is six months aheadof schedule. Replacement of old trackage on Market between 11th and Duboce was scheduled to begin by April. If all goes well, F-Line street­ car service could begin in the fall of 1994. Also scheduled soon is letting the con­ tract for the Embarcadero extension of the Market Street Muni subway. This will bring LRT service out of the subway onto the surface of the Embarcadero near Howard Street and provide better turnback and storage facilities for the five subway­ surface lines. And, it will permit some cars to continue toward the Caltrain station and the planned Mission Bay Development. Construction of the new Embarcadero Boulevard is now underway south of Howard; included is double-trackage forming part of the line, which will even­ tually run from Fishermans Wharf on the Bound for the city on a training run, St. Louis Metrolink car 1001 glides by Bethany Cemetery, north to near the Caltrain terminal on the a little south of st. Charles Rock Road. The location is not for from a spot where the last St. south. Current construction runs from Louis streetcar line, Hodiamont, last ran in 1966. Andrew D. Young Howard to Berry streets; the old San Fran­ cisco Belt Line switching tracks are being Another major potential problem is Bi­ removed and replaced by LRT trackage. St. louis State's challenge in finding operating When all this is finished, heritage street­ money for the LRT. Operations may have cars and the F- Market Line will use the COMING UP A BIT SHORT • The opening to be financed from the bus service bud­ tracks north of the Ferry Building and LRVs of Metrolink will be the major debut of a get, which is okay for the trips that will be from the Market subway will traverse the new light rail system in 1993, and it is withdrawn and replaced by rail services. tracks south of the Ferry Building. scheduled to open in July. But it will open Bi-State plans to feed buses into the LRT Fourteen ex-Philadelphia SEPTA PCC only as far as the North Hanley Station. stations instead of sending them down­ cars are at Morrison Knudsen in Hornell, The two airport stations and the branch to town, which will save some money, but N.Y., for rebuilding. Muni acquired 20 Berkeley will remain closed because of an the LRT shortfall will still be huge unless a SEPTA cars, but some may not be rebuilt. unresolved dispute over how and where to new funding source is found, or unpopular Instead, Muni may restore some of the 10 relocate the remains of 1,600 people buried systemwide bus cuts are made. 1016-class St. Louis Car PCCs and/or the in a neglected cemetery near the airport. Deliveries of the 31 Siemens-Duewag seven 1006-class PCC double-enders. The The impasse has turned into a scandal, modified U2 cars are on schedule. SEPTA cars are to be numbered 1041-1054. punctuated with the suicide of the ceme­ tery's owner, allegations that remains were improperly sited and marked, difficulties in San Francisco locating relatives of the departed, and the Portland need for cemetery property not only for MUNI MOVES AHEAD • Upper Market light rail but for an airport runway exten­ Street. trackwork for the future F-Market TRI-MET SEEKS EXTRA CARS • Instead sion. Litigating this mess may take years. Line has been completed, except for the J- of the 32 new low-floor cars mentioned

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8. APRIL 1993 between Minneapolis and St. Paul and a last year, Tri-Met now will seek 37 six­ Station, has resulted in a dramatic drop line to the airport. axle cars for the new West Side Line and in accidents-from nine two years ago to to beef up service on the 1986 Gresham one last year. Line. The unit cost submitted by bidders will determine the exact number to be - Salt Lake City purchased. Meanwhile, a $100 million­ Seattle contract for the three-mile, twin-bore UTAHANS KEEP TRYING • Though the tunnel under West Hills should be let RAIL PLAN SCALED BACK • King County voters turned thumbs down on a quarter­ this summer with construction to begin Executive Tim Hill advocates a scaled cent sales tax to build a north-south LRT early in 1994. down $2.4 billion rapid transit plan rather line, Utah Transit Authority has agreed to than the $9 billion-proposal due to be pre­ buy 23 miles of Union Pacific's Provo Sub­ sented to the voters this fall. Hill's plan division for $18.5 million for future light rail Los Angeles envisions only one LRT line: from down­ use. The deal is subject to securing federal town via the electric trolley bus tunnel, funds to pay about two-thirds of the cost. RED LINE STARTS UP • The first segment out to the Lake Washington Interstate 90 of the Red Line subway began service Jan. bridge, partly in subway, then across the 30 after a three-week postponement and lake to Bellevue. Chicago initial weekday ridership, at about 25,000, Existing railroad trackage would be was much higher than the official estimate used to create a commuter train corridor NEW LINEMAY BE DELAYED • Opening of 7,500. For the first month, fares were 25 from Everett on the north to Tacoma on of the CTA's Southwest rail line had been cents instead of the $1.10 bus tariff. Open­ the south. Both Burlington Northern and scheduled for March 1993, but could be held ing of the subway caused Metrolink com­ Union Pacific are already on record as fa­ up to June or later by delay in installing sig­ muter train patronage to jump 14 percent. voring this idea. naling equipment. The contractor, Union Two four-car trains were sufficient to The $9 billion plan would pay for sever­ Switch & Signal, sued the city alleging that provide the advertised 10-minute service al lengthy subway and surface electric the city is responsible for the delays. as the entire three-mile ride from Union railways as well as additional busways, Station to MacArthur Park takes only sev­ but would take years to implement assum­ en minutes. In another milestone, tunnel­ ing that recession-shocked voters are will­ Industry ing work on Segment 2 to Wilshire/West­ ing to spend that much. Hill says his bar­ ern was completed just before Christmas. gain system could be in partial operation BIG BUCKS FOR TRANSIT • President Pasadena officials have decided they in only two years. Clinton's new economic stimulus plan pro­ want the Blue Line LRT in a trench where vides $750 million in supplemental fund­ it is to cross the city's main drag, Colorado ing for federal transit programs, including Boulevard. Santa Fe and Amtrak use this Twin Cities $480 million for capital grants, most of route now and cross Colorado at grade, which are rail-related. APTA, the transit but LRT traffic will, of course, be much STATE SUPPORTS LRT • Though it industry association, said at least $5 bil­ more intensive. This will cost an extra $50 would take until 1998 to even break the lion in transit projects are "ready to go" million at least, and no one is certain first ground, Minnesota Transportation and could yield 300,000 jobs. where the money can be found. Commissioner Jim Denn says the state Transit came out relatively well in last LACTC and RTD have been merged as would be willing to build light rail, bus year's appropriations, but not all funding the Metropolitan Transportation Authori­ and carpool lanes when Interstate 35W is has been appropriated by Congress. ty, a name used 30 years ago when the reconstructed from downtown Minneapo­ Th anks to AndrewD. Young, Don Jewell, privately-owned bus and rail companies lis to suburban Burnsville. This is one of Wheel Clicks , Richard Skelnar, APTA, SALT were taken over. the principal corridors proposed for light LAKE TRIBUNE, Sacr am ento RT, MINNEAPoLIS Opening of bids in February for 87 rail; the others include intercity service STAR-TRIBUNE, Tom Lowry; and Tri-Met. "standard" light rail cars for the Green Line and future lines created a case of sticker shock. A consortium of Siemens AG, AAI Corp., and TRW Inc. was low bid­ der at $3.01 million per car compared with local estimates of $2.5 million. INTERURBAN HISTORY SYMPOSIUM However, LACTC director Neil Peter­ son said he thought the price would fall October 14 -17,1993 after negotiations. TRW has local facili­ ties and personnel that could be used, thus helping the ailing L.A. economy. gathering in California of recognized electric railway Second-lowest bid came from Bombardier historians to examine the history, technology, eco­ and L.A.-based Northrop Corp. Also bid­ A ding was Morrison Knudsen, teamed nomics and impact of the interurban with emphasis on with two firms with local plants, Hughes the American West. Presentation of professional papers Aircraft and Lockheed. and lectures coordinated with demonstrations of interur­ ban cars operating at the Western Railway Museum. In­ Sacrame lto ternational presentation planned by Russian specialists reviewing developments in their country. Registration FIVE YEARS OF LIGHT RAIL • Regional fee: $175, plus accommodations (special rates for sympo­ Transit completed five years of LRT last September, carrying 27.6 million passen­ sium) at Red Lion Hotel, 2001 Point West Way, Sacramen­ gers since start-up. The U-shaped route to, CA 95815. Most credit cards accepted. Space limited now averages 23,000 weekday riders, an and early registration suggested. Upon receipt of regis­ increase of 57 percent since the line opened. Four double-tracking projects tration fee by sponsoring Bay Area Electric Association have been completed and a fifth, from Inc., P.O. Box 192986, San Francisco, CA 94119-2986, ma­ Stockton Boulevard to 59th Street, starts terial for hotel discount will be sent promptly. this year. The most recent one to be com­ pleted, Arden Way/Del Paso to Swanston

PACIFIC RAILNews • 9 SA NTA FE ELSON RUSH

service, poor freeway access and deterio­ rating neighborhoods near the tracks. In­ stead, Santa Fe is considering sites along the main line between Corona and Devore. Devore is favored because it is near the junction of Interstates 15 and 215, providing good access to the entire county, and is about as "green field" as sites get in South­ ern California. Indeed, Santa Fe is mOving ahead with plans to build a General Motors vehicle unloading facility at Devore whether or not the intermodal terminal goes in there. Operating personnel, however, are con­ cerned about building yards on the sub­ stantial grade at Devore. Also, under the 1915 joint facility agreement that governs UPoperations over Cajon Pass, UPwould have the right to serve new facilities at De­ vore if it chose to contribute toward the ex­ pense of building them.

AT&SF Does Right By UPS

United Parcel Service formally advised Santa Fe that it had achieved the fewest service failures of any major railroad dur­ ing the Christmas 1992 peak season. San­ ta Fe handled more than 13,000 UPS trailer An eastbound train of stack cars, TOFC flats and auto racks rolls alongside Metropolitan loads during this period, aChieving a 19 Avenue in Kansas City, Kan., on its way to Santa Fe's Argentine Yard. Leading the train are percent decrease in package failures and a B23-7 6395, rare S045 booster 5501 and GP39-2 3683. George Cockle 46 percent reduction in incidents causing service failures from comparable 1991 fig­ ures. Amazingly, not a single flat car carry­ nulled until the track could be cleared, ing a UPS load during this period was set Rain Disrupts California Operations which was accomplished at 1:35 a.m. on out bad order. Overall, only one failure per Jan. 17. Various CTC outages, including the 1,380 UPS loads was recorded. For the first time in at least six years, Cali­ temporary shutdown of a microwave tower fornia is experiencing a wet winter. in Arizona, added to train delays. High wa­ Though the precipitation is welcome to ter at milepost 2.9 forced SDN to pull the drought-weary denizens of the Golden Escondido Sub out of service. Other Intermodal News State, the rainfall is wreaking havoc on Meanwhile, Southern Pacific was expe­ Santa Fe's operations. riencing even more difficulties, with both Santa Fe plans to place 2,500 new 48-foot On Jan. 13, Union Pacific train LANPBZ the Coast and Sunset routes out of service intermodal containers in service during reported water over the rails on the north on account of washouts and high water. SP 1993, with about 760 in service by the end track at Lugo on the east slope of Cajon rerouted at least three Chicago-Los Ange­ of February. By the end of 1993 Santa Fe Pass. By the time Santa Fe could get track les trains via Union Pacific east of Colton; will have 7,280 containers in its fleet, com­ inspectors on the scene, the north track at these trains used Santa Fe's Daggett-West pared with just 3,900 in February 1992. Lugo was covered with mud. Both main Riverside joint trackage. Three westbound The new Sheila Street checkpoint at Ho­ tracks of the Cajon Subdivision were re­ Sunset Route trains detoured over the San­ bart Yard in Los Angeles opened on Jan. moved from service until the water sub­ ta Fe/Arizona & California from Phoenix to 27. This faCility, with six inbound phones sided and the mud could be cleared. Colton on Jan. 17. Two westbound SP con­ and seven lanes, replaces the old Indiana A variety of problems were reported on sists were diverted onto the Santa Fe at Street entry to the intermodal terminal. Jan. 16. The bowl and departure tracks at Vaughn, N.M., running through to Colton. Thanks to Santa Fe, Mexican tile is Barstow Yard were out of service because SP trains diverted from the Coast Route moving to Canada the intermodal way. of high water, with all trains requiring over the Tehachapi Mountains increased C.H. Robinson de Mexico began shipping hump classification held outside the yard. congestion in that area caused by a back­ trailers full of tile from its Chihuahua fac­ Ten carloads of ballast were held at Sum­ log of delayed trains. tory to Montreal by truck and rail in mid­ mit for emergency use as the maintenance January. The trailers are moved to EI Pa­ department kept an eagle eye on the track so, Texas, by road, then ride Santa Fe's between Cajon and Keenbrook for a possi­ New San Bernardino Intermodal Terminal rail service to Detroit, where they are un­ ble washout. The Lucerne Valley, Red­ loaded and drayed over to the CP Rail ter­ lands and San Jacinto subdivisions were In addition to the intermodal terminals un­ minal at Windsor, Ont., for movement to out of service due to washouts. Over in der construction at Willow Springs, Ill., Montreal by train. Potential volume is es­ Arizona, the bridge at milepost 401 of the and Alliance, Texas, Santa Fe is planning timated at five to 10 trailers per month. Phoenix Subdivision near Ash Fork was to build a new transfer facility in San Santa Fe is relocating its New York inter­ taken out of service due to high water, de­ Bernardino County, Calif. Although com­ modal terminal from Cornail's Croxton Yard laying train V-KCAZ for four hours. pany press releases refer to the new ramp to Kearny Yard. Kearny has a later cutoff for At 3:55 p.m., washouts and mud slides as the San Bernardino terminal, it's not westbound containers and is open 24 hours were discovered on the San Diego Northern likely that it will be built in San Bernardi­ a day, an improvement over the limited between mileposts 204 and 207 east of San no because of the pending sale of much of train and checkpoint service at Croxton. Clemente, Calif. All Amtrak trains were an- Santa Fe's property there for commuter Cornail has handled Santa Fe-billed contain-

10. APRIL 1993 ers between New York terminals and Chica­ operation of a business car train from ping in time to avoid the collision. On Jan. go under contract since 1988. Kansas City to Los Angeles for Burlington 29 Chicago Ridge police found the teenag­ Northern. Symboled O-KCLA, the BN spe­ er turning angle cocks on another train cial left Argentine on the afternoon of Jan. stopped at the Chicago Ridge Tower C30-7s Coming and Going 25 with an 800-class Santa Fe unit leading (NS/Metra-IHB/B&OCT crossing) ; he con­ BN-3 (ex-BN E9 9919), BN executive F fessed that he had turned angle cocks on In 1989 Santa Fe turned most of its fleet of units 1 and 2 and 13 BN passenger cars. the date of the IHB-Santa Fe collision. General Electric C30-7 locomotives back to Santa Fe authorized the train to operate at Construction of the new System Opera­ GE for remarketing. Santa Fe was unhappy 70 mph. BN-3 was shut down over Cajon tions Center on the eighth floor of Santa with the high maintenance cost and low re­ Pass due to concerns that it might throw Fe's Schaumburg office building com­ liability of these haulers. Since then, the sparks and start a brush fire. menced in January. Meanwhile, Schaum­ C30-7s (which remain in Santa Fe colors, in­ Just after midnight on Feb. 1, Santa Fe burg is sending out notices covering cleri­ cluding a few in SPSF "Kodachrome" paint) started the BN train back to Missouri as cal positions to be transferred from the field have turnedup on short-term leases to San­ the O-LAKC, again behind a single Santa to the new Customer Quality and Support ta Fe and other railroads, notably CSx. Fe unit. Incredibly, BN deadheaded the system agency at Topeka, Kan. Not every­ Caught short on motive power pending train both ways over the Santa Fe, with one will get a job; about 125 out of 395 cler­ arrival of the 60 new C40-8W units on or­ only the train crew aboard. ical positions will be eliminated sys­ der for 1993 delivery, Santa Fe leased 40 of temwide. The CQ&S center is expected to the C30-7s in mid-February. During Jan­ open about mid-October; the excess jobs uary, a different group of about 40 C30-7s Santa Fe Wins San Joaquin War will be abolished about mid-November. (mostly earlier ones from No. 8010 up) During February, Metrolink-related work gathered at the McCook Yard, Ill., headed As mentioned in PRN 352's Expediter, for continued as Santa Fe laid rails between for scrapping at nearby Pielet Brothers. the past year observers have been treated the May and Arlington sidings west of to the odd spectacle of Santa Fe and South­ Riverside, Calif. , to create a four-mile ern Pacific competing to become the route stretch of a new second main. The second New Slab Steel Trains of Amtrak's San Joaquin passenger trains track probably won't be built east of Arling­ between Bakersfield and Fresno, Calif. ton for some time, as a large fill has to be Santa Fe began moving solid trainloads of Late in January, Caltrans announced widened. The current target date for sever­ imported steel from the Port of Los Ange­ the winner of the competition: Santa Fe. ing the Pasadena Sub and rerouting all les to the California Steel facility at Kaiser Caltrans said it would spend $57.2 million through-freight trains (and Amtrak's South­ (Fontana) on Jan. 3 after winning this to double-track portions of Santa Fe's line west Chief) via Fullerton is February 1994. business away from SP, reportedly for a and construct additional sidings to pro­ Santa Fe Pacific Corp. reported net in­ three-year term. About ten 64-car trains vide for an increase San Joaquin frequen­ come of $46 million during the fourth quar­ (7,680 tons each), operating five days a cy from four trains per day each way to ter of 1992, up 40 percent from $32.8 mil­ week, are required to carry a shipload of six. According to Jim Drago of Caltrans, lion from the same period in 1991. For the steel from Watson Yard at the end of the Santa Fe's plan for upgrading its line was year of 1992, corporate income rose to Harbor Subdivision to Kaiser. "far and away superior" to SP's, which $147.5 million, up from $96.5 million in During the day, the road switchers at carried a $64 million (not $57 million as re­ 1991, excluding special charges. Santa Fe Watson Yard pull 32-car cuts of loaded cars ported in PRN 352) price tag and did not Railway operating income (again net of off the Harbor Belt Line and assemble the assure additional train service. special charges) was pegged internally at train. A GP50 or equivalent high-horse­ SP didn't take Caltrans' rejection grace­ $306.5 million for 1992, allowing non-union power, four-axle road unit must be as­ fully, however. SP Vice President Robert F. employees to claim 96.5 percent of the Signed to this service, as the track configu­ Starzel publicly blasted the decision in a maximum performance bonus for the year. ration permits only one unit to be used. letter to Gov. Pete Wilson, branding Santa Thanks to Starpacer, D.R. Bixlerand A road crew goes on duty at Watson at Fe as SP's "jail keeper" during the failed Mike Kiriazis. 7 p.m. to pull the loads from Watson to San SPSF merger proceedings and complaining Bernardino B Yard. Meanwhile, the night that Santa Fe shouldn't be rewarded with Kaiser road switcher pulls the empty cars the state's largess because it "employs few THE U.S. RAIL from the previous night's train from the people and takes few risks in" California. California Steel facility back to the B Yard. (Starzel's remarks conveniently ignored MASTER ROUTE STUDY If everything goes right, the two crews SF's systematic relocation of key depart­ LEADING THE WAY FOR swap trains in the dead of night at B Yard, ments from San Francisco to Denver under * A WORLD CLASS RAIL SYSTEM * with the Watson crew hauling the empties the Anschutz regime.) Because Caltrans to the port and the Kaiser road switcher refused to help SP, Starzel continued, SP o CONVENTIONAL AMTRAK delivering the loads to California Steel. now won't allow Amtrak to use its Stock­ o HIGH SPEED RAIL Both loads and empties must be delivered ton-Sacramento line for San Joaquin service o RAIL TRANSIT by early morning or Santa Fe must pay and won't work with the state to relocate o COMMUTER RAIL penalties. The loaded train is symboled U­ Santa Fe's street-running trackage through o INTERMODAL WAKA and the empties are U-KAWA. Fresno onto its own right-of-way. Caltrans AMERICA'S PARTNERSHIP OF didn't seem concerned about Starzel's FEDERAL, STATE AND PRIVATE EX­ saber-rattling ; it's talking to Union Pacific PERTS AND SUPPORTERS Super Bowl Passenger Specials about routing San Joaquins over the ex­ Western Pacific line to Sacramento. This year's Super Bowl in Pasadena wasn't LIFETIME MEMBERSHIP as interesting as the business car trains rail­ o CORPORATE $199 roads operated to and from Los Angeles to Chico Chatter o RAILROAD ASSOCIATION $99 entertain their guests. Santa Fe provided o EXECUTIVE COMM. $79 important shippers with a ride from Glen­ A 14-year-old was blamed for a Jan. 21 col­ o PROJ ECT MEMBER $49 dale, Ariz., to Williams Junction over the lision between Santa Fe train 133 and an o SPONSOR (NON-VOTING) $29 Phoenix Subdivision on a special train, with Indiana Harbor Belt freight train at Sum­ ONE YEAR FREE SUB. TO U.S. RAIL UPDATE the business cars subsequently traveling to mit, ill. The two locomotives of the IHB Offer Expires 41S/93 Hobart Yard on the rear end of train 198. train plowed into the side of the Santa Fe Mail To: Consist of the Santa Fe special was bag­ MASTER ROUTE STUDY consist, derailing several cars and causing do DP Wilkinson gage car 77, business cars 50, 51, 52, 53 and about $140,000 in damage. An angle cock 86-25 Van Wyck Expy, Suite L-2 diner and track inspection car Briarwood, NY 11435-2913 1869, 62 89. had been turned in the middle of the IHB Phone/Fax (718) 526-9067 The big event, though, was Santa Fe's train, preventing the IHB crew from stop-

PACIFIC RAILNews • 11 CP RA IL SYSTEM

tracks 2, 3 and 4 shifted and improved Burying the Hatchet with CN Roberts Bank, B.C., should again appear with ties and ballast. Considerable work on CP's western lines. was done to improve yard trackage and Canadian Pacific's traditional rivalry with turnouts at St. Paul, Humboldt and Shore­ Canadian National dates back to the days ham yards in the Twin Cities, as well as Operating News Shorts of Van Horne and Hill, when undeveloped at Mason City. territories and resources were the primary On the Gateway Division (former Soo After successful testing of clearances in topics of conversation at executive board Southern Division). engineering forces are the remodeled tunnels in western Canada meetings. The continued dismal state of focusing on a very busy year in 1993. Work in early December, CP inaugurated dou­ the Canadian economy, coupled with the at Tunnel City, Wis., was to be completed blestack service out of Vancouver on Dec. need for global cooperation following the in February, with the quarter-mile bore 22, operating as train 412. A Vancouver-to­ approval of the North American Free ready to accommodate doublestack traffic. Chicago test train was also planned for the Trade Agreement, has forced the Canadi­ Work will commence on a five-year, $37 second week of February, intended to ex­ an rail giants to coordinate their efforts­ million project converting Bensenville Yard amine corridor clearances, in anticipation consequently, plans to significantly reduce to a modern flat switching facility. About of the March 1 start of regularly scheduled parallel physical plants in eastern Canada $1 million has been budgeted to improve service competing with CNIBN. Soo has are underway. trackage in the vicinity of Terre Haute and been operating five-coupled sets of well With the recent shakeup of top execu­ Latta, Ind., to better serve coal mining cus­ cars between Chicago and Minneapolis in tives at CN, it is reported that coopera­ tomers. A 20-mile single-tracking project early 1993, although containers are set on­ tion with CP will now extend to major en­ between Davenport and Muscatine, Iowa, ly at the lower level. gineering and marketing projects. CN has should be completed this year, improving Operations on CP's Bridge Line Divi­ determined that the only way it can pro­ operations through the Quad Cities termi­ sion have been shifted to Milwaukee, in­ ceed with its Port Huron tunnel project is nal district. More than 55,000 new ties will volving 13 traffic control employees. An with the full commitment of CPo Accord­ be installed between Powersville and Polo, updated traffic control system has been ingly, both systems are examining the lo­ Mo., indicative of CP's desire to improve installed that includes features such as gistics of routing CF's growing Montreal/ service in the Kansas City corridor. Single­ automatic signal clearing, auto clearing out Toronto/Chicago traffic via CN and Grand tracking between Watertown and Du­ of siding areas and automatic train track­ Trunk Western. This talk is fueled by plainville, Wis., will be completed in 1993, ing. One hundred miles of field wire were CP's frustration with moving tonnage via with the last gap in the Hastings, Minn.­ replaced with electronic track circuits and CSX to Detroit and the limitation of 28 Duplainville corridor (290 route-miles) to a state-of-the-art radio system has also trains per week. Recent initiatives to be completed in 1994. been placed into service. move intermodal and automobile traffic via Norfolk Southern and Conrail are in­ tended to send a clear message that CP Canadian Grain Coming South? Motive Power News intends to find a more suitable partner in this vital corridor. Because of much higher terminal han­ CP's recently announced new paint In an attempt to improve its operations dling costs at Canadian ports, Alberta scheme, based on Soo's "candy apple red" (and reduce costs) between Montreal and grain shippers are considering shipping attire, should force a system wide engine Chicago, CP has rerouted Railrunner products via American seaports. Pacific numbering. Soo units in the red scheme trains 501 and 503 via D&H between Rim customers could be served via eleva­ may only require a new set of decals to Rouses Point and Buffalo, N.Y., then west tors located at Longview and Kalama, conform to the new dress ... Soo GP9 2553 to Chicago utilizing the haulage agree­ Wash., while European markets could be may be the last Soo painted locomotive, ment with NS. accessed via U.S. East Coast terminals. emerging from Shoreham in January ... In another operational change involv­ The Canadian federal government is re­ Ten of the former Milwaukee MP15ACs, ing CN, Thunder Bay, Ont.-Superior, Wis., ducing subsidies given to wheat farmers, long stored at Shoreham, have been sold. paper traffic is now handled on CN/DW&P forcing grain companies to look at ways Units 1500-1509 will become UP 1397-1406. trains 413/414. This rail route replaces the to reduce handling costs. CP could devel­ Units 1504 and 1505 were noted dead in Incan Superior ferry on a year-round basis. op arrangements with either BN or UP to tow on No. 223 out of St. Paul on Jan. 25 . Finally, CP has obtained trackage rights move wheat to the West Coast, while an 44 six-axle MLWs should be in service by over Indiana Harbor Belt between GTW all-CP routing to Philadelphia or Balti­ early February, working trains between Tower at Blue Island and Calumet Park in more is possible today. With that routing Montreal and Chicago as well as from Mon­ Calumet City, Ill. This action should im­ presently available, Alberta shippers are treal and Toronto to Winnipeg ...Soo has prove the movement of east/west traffic considering the rail haul of 29,000 jumbo been paying back horsepower hour credits through the busy south side of Chicago. hoppers of grain via CP during the first to both BN and C&NW with its best power six months of 1993. (SD60s) in early 1993 ... Crews are com­ CP has successfully captured 99 per­ plaining that the 670-series ex-KCS SD40-2s Engineering Project Update cent of the paper products moving by box are in poor mechanical condition ... Solid car out of Boise Cascade facilities at Inter­ sets of Soo SD40, SD40-2 and SD60s were On the Heartland Division (former Soo national Falls, Minn. BN has concentrated commonly seen on the Bridge Line Division Northern Division). 1992 was a busy year its energies on containerized shipments (D&H) in late 1992, but traffic increases out for engineering forces, with resources and was undercut by CP in the boxcar west prompted Soo to take back its 6400- spread over several projects. Some of the market. Traffic is moving via DW&P to Su­ and 6600-series units in January. On the notable accomplishments included plac­ perior, Wis., in a variety of CPID&H/Soo Soo, the new regimen was exemplified by ing 80,000 new ties between Enderlin and and Guilford equipment as well as Boise No. 201 at St. Paul on Jan. 9, with SD40-2s Cathay, N.D., necessitated by the rerout­ Cascade-subsidiary Minnesota Dakota & 6607/6610/6612 and 6618 teaming up with ing of traffic to the Portal Gateway. More Western's fleet of cars. SD60 6050. than 50 miles of welded rail was installed, Fording Coal Ltd. has purchased the Thanks to Burt Arneson, Thomas including 10 miles in western Minnesota closed Greenhills Mine in southeast Beckett Jr. , Mike Cleary, CP Rail, Fred and 12 miles east of Mason City, Iowa. British Columbia from bankrupt Westar Hyde, Pete Johnson, Glenn Lee Jr. , New departure Track 1 (7,320 feet long) Mining. After logistical problems are NORTHWEST RAILFAN, PROGRESSIVE RAILROAD­ at St. Paul Yard was completed, with worked out, export coal bound for ING and TRAFFIC WORLD.

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Interestingly, SP plans to borrow $200 million by the end of March, using Cot­ ton Belt lines as collateral. The money will be used to reduce other debts and to service a revolving credit balance. On a positive note, SP's debt rating was re­ cently upgraded from stable to positive by Standard & Poor's Corp. SP's long­ term plans also call for reducing overall employment by 2,500 people. The cuts will begin with the layoff of 116 locomo­ tive repair employees, none of whom will be from the ranks at SP's Burnham facili­ ty in Denver.

Win Some, lose Some

SP recently lost two mid-sized transporta­ tion contracts to Santa Fe. The first was for the movement of steel slabs from Cali­ fornia Steel's Long Beach Mill (ex-Kaiser Steel) to Fontana, Calif., for processing (the Santa Fe column offers details of the new service on that railroad). The second was potash movements from Mojave to Long Beach, Calif. Note that only the potash traffic was lost; Mojave-originated soda ash and salt cake will continue to move via SP. Santa Fe has been unbelievably ag­ gressive in its contract-bidding war with both SP and Union Pacific. In December, for example, UP lost a weekly American President Lines stack train to Chico. A second UP-held contract may be soon up for grabs, with both SP and AT&SF wait­ ing in the wings as UP's ability to deliver mandatory on-time performance to APL has been slipping lately. A third APL contract for movement of Three GP60s from Southern Pacific, Cotton Belt and Rio Grande lead the Rio Grande/ANSCO containerized GM auto parts and autos Ski Train up Colorado's Front Range at Tunnel l on Dec. 26, 1992. As reported last month, the to and from Mexico, previously held by 1992-93 Ski Train got off to a bumpy start, with power failing on the first two trips. Ronald C. Hill UP, was recently acquired by SP. This traffic will move via Eagle Pass, Texas, and is expected to average 23,000 car­ operating SP's former Toledo, Dallas, loads per year. A Few Casts, A Few Bites West Side and Newburg branches in Ore­ gon under subsidiary Willamette & Pacif­ Southern Pacific's move to sell about ic. Little is known of W&P operations, 3,000 miles of secondary trackage has but its main office and yard will be Al­ Alameda Corridor Progress drawn a few nibbles. UP has expressed bany, Ore., and it will maintain the West interest in acquiring the West Side line in Side Line as a connection with SP at Eu­ We've watched closely as Southern Cali­ California's San Joaquin Valley between gene, Ore., allowing SP to avoid sending fornia government agencies begin to get Tracy and Los Banos. Not to be left out, locals just to pick up W&P cars. involved in local freight railroading, as RailTex, Kyle Railways and Arizona & Cal­ Rails West, the operator of the Tilla­ they've already done with passenger rail­ ifornia have also expressed interest in the mook & Willamette Valley Railroad, will be roading. One of the most hopeful and posi­ lines. Arizona & California has also ex­ operating SP's former Mill City, West Stay­ tive projects is an effort to expedite rail pressed an interest in SP's entire North­ ton and Geer branches. East Portland traffic on the SP, UP and AT&SF between western Pacific trackage as well as SP's Traction Co. will become the designated Los Angeles/Long Beach harbors and West Valley line between Tehema and operator of SP's former Mollala branch. mainline trackage in Los Angeles. Davis, Calif., both trackage segments are After decades of branchline status, the being offered by SP as one package. Re­ harbor lines now host a constant flow of cently, SP's El Centro Branch from Niland Debt and Upgrading heavy trains-traffic that was never an­ to Calexico, Calif., including the satellite ticipated when the lines were built. Both Plaster City Branch, has been added to SP is looking toward the future. After a UP and AT&SF built their lines with some the list of branches for sale. break-even performance in 1992, SP feels grade separations, but long, heavy trains In the northwestern section of SP's that it can turn a $15-20 million profit for still cause gridlock throughout the south­ empire, negotiations have begun be­ 1993, unless the economy seriously fal­ ern suburbs of L.A.-and some of the tween SP and Genesee & Wyoming for ters again. Ton-miles in the early days of hottest trains in the West are delayed as leasing SP's Coos Bay Branch and 1993 are up 5 to 7 percent over the same they are forced to crawl through the ur­ Siskiyou Line. G&W has already begun period last year. ban sprawl.

14 . APRIL 1993 What is planned is that all three roads ic's Petaluma-Willits trains now make will use SP's one-time San Pedro Branch, B-Unit Metamorphosis just three round trips per week-up one which occupies a straight north-south night and back the next. The only day­ They weren't cabless boosters in the classi­ alignment alongside Alameda Street time service to expect north of Petaluma cal sense, but SP had demoted 25 non-up­ from L.A. to the harbor. Federal, state, lo­ is the weekday Windsor Local, powered graded SSW SD45T-2s to trailing-unit-only cal and private money will be made by an SW1500. status, carried on the books as "SD45TBs." available to build a 3D-foot trench for a On the other hand, the NWP's "Sprint " Labor costs were reduced by taking the double-track, CTC-equipped line to serve train between Petaluma and the SP connec­ cabs out of service. In a program to increase all three railroads, replacing current sur­ tion at Lombard/Napa Junction still runs locomotive availability, however, these units face alignments. daily-except-Sunday. On days when there have been or will soon be overhauled by Both Los Angeles and Long Beach plan are no new loads from the north, four-car VMV in Paducah, Ky. , and returned to lead­ to spend more than $4 billion on port ex­ trains were powered by five SD9Es. unit capability. Furthermore, these SSW pansion to double the present traffic han­ units will emerge from the shop as SP units. dled and rail service must keep pace; gov­ Locomotives involved are: 9273 9276 9282 ernment officials anticipate building a ' More on Motive Power 9287, 9288, 9294, 9298-9300, 93�2, 93�3, new $1.8 billion railroad line on the 9375, 9378, 9381, 9385, 9387, 9391, 9392, Alameda alignment. SP, though, is under­ 9395, 9396 and 9400-9404. Information indicates the retirement of all standably reluctant to share its choice D&RGW GP35s and SD45s as of Jan. 1, alignment with competitors. 1993. However, although D&RGW's GP35s The Tennessee Pass Waltz are stored at Burnham shops along with several SD45s, some of the Rio Grande Rocky Mountain Region Additions Coal train operations over Tennessee Pass SD45s remain in road service. They are have taken another unique tum. Frequent­ normally assigned to the Coleto Creek, There have been some recent additions to ly, eastbound 105-car loaded trains are bro­ Texas-bound unit coal trains, including. the ranks of SP's Rocky Mountain region ken into two sections at Minturn for the Regarding smaller power, there has operations. D&RGW's North Fork Branch is climb up the 3 percent ruling grade on the been a continuing parade of dead SP/ now seeing unit coal trains from the Terror west side of the pass. Normal procedure SSW SW1500s routed to Denver. The Creek Mine destined to Florida Power & has a crew taking the first section up and switchers are being rebuilt at Denver's Light. SP routing for the eastbound loads is over the pass and tying the loaded hoppers Burnham Shops. via Tennessee Pass to East St. Louis, ill. down at Kobe Siding, then returning to VMV had completed overhauls on 53 The respective unit-train cycles are sym­ Minturn for the second section. After reach­ SP units as of Jan. 25. The VMV facility boled TCESC (Terror Creek to East St. ing Kobe with the second section, the train averages about two SP rebuilds a week. Louis) and ESTCC for returning empties. is reassembled and continues eastward SP's plan is to continue rebuilding units An obscure operation was noted in late downgrade to Pueblo. Recently, however, through 1993, both at VMV and SF's January, the VCDVC (Valley Camp Mine to as demonstrated with CPESC (Coop to East Burnham shops. Denver), with loads routed east out of St. Louis), rather than taking the two sec­ To save money, SP has idled many of Grand Junction without a specific power tions to Kobe Siding, procedure has each its leased units, though many remain on plant destination. Some of the coal may section continuing downgrade Salida, some the property as backups for traffic have been destined for the Coors Brewery 48 miles closer to Pueblo, for reassembly. surges. Most of the EMD lease units are in Golden, Colo. Other Central Corridor operational presently stored at Roseville, Calif., Los Also noted was a local turn out of changes include Denver's westbound daily­ Angeles, and El Paso, Texas, while Grand Junction that retrieved a loaded except-Sunday UPS hotshot, which has GATX and GECX power has been moved unit coal train from the ACCO loadout. been resymboled from DVOAF to DVRVF off line. Depending upon the success of This operation was symboled ACESC (AC­ (Denver-Roseville forwarder). Its consist re­ the Burnham reseal program and over­ CO to East St. Louis), and was one of the mains mostly UPS traffic. In a similar fash­ hauls farmed out to VMV, many of the first times that coal from the loadout was ion, low-priority westbound traffic that for­ these leased locomotives may not return dispatched eastbound. merly moved in 2DVROM (second Denver­ to SP service. Roper) now frequently moves in a new Relatedly, SP released a statement not­ ing that there would be no new locomo­ On The Ties In Oregon DVRVM (Denver-Roseville marrifest). tive purchases in 1993, although it has On Dec. 27 MEEUM (Medford-Eugene been looking very closely at EMD SD70s. manifest), led by SP 8237 (SD40T-2), ran Up on the NWP Thanks to Steve Coons, H. W Farewell, mto problems at the bottom of the east Arthur Poole, H.A. Thorne, Dick Stephen­ side of Rice Hill. The operation consisted Times are slow these days in the Red­ son, Richard Skelnar, Rich Wallace, of 105 cars and a four-unit mid-train wood Empire, and Northwestern Pacif- Wa yn e Monger and Southern Pacific. helper set. Several cars immediately ahead of the helper set derailed, taking the helper set with them; one helper unit overturned into Yoncalla Creek, while the Binders for your * NICOLET BADGER NORTHERN * other three units lost their trucks, fuel Beautiful fa ll & winter scenes featuring tanks and jackknifed along the right-of­ PA CIFIC RA If. RS12 Baldwin #207 . NW2 EMD #62 way. About 3,000 gallons of diesel fuel 60 Min • VHS • Color From the Heartland to the Pacific N.EM5' spilled into the creek, but absorbent Uve Audio • Narration booms and vacuum trucks were able to Each Wire-type binder holds 12 issues INTRODUCTORY OFFERI retrieve most of it. SP released no infor­ $29 95 Plus $3.00 $8.50 each • Shipping mation on the derailment, though sources Reg. 33.95 Exp. 6/30/93 indicate that the helpers may have been I Shipping first ea. additional I WI resi:lents add5% sai!s1aX entrained too far forward in the consist. U.S. $2.80 .50 Time stands still in Northeastern Wisconsin's scenic Interestingly, there Nicolet National Forest. See vintage Diesels carrying is a 5,000-ton limit Canada 4.00 2.00 both eastbound and westbound tourists & timber over the former CNW Laona Une. between Other Countries 4.60 2.50 Yoncalla and Oakland, Ore. This particu­ 8-' .% lar MEEUM was noted as having 7,297 Calif. res. add / sales tax. traIlmg. tons and went into emergency Interurban Press :iirs iEiiiisr= earlIer m the run during a routine pickup at Dillard, Ore. P.O. Box 6128, Glendale, CA 91225

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track speeds than competing lines. Because only a few road trains operate over the line each day, it is usually ignored by photographers. But by ignoring the Adams Line, they are missing one of Wisconsin's more enjoy­ able and historic rail lines ...and a line with a very un­

certain future at that. C&NW­ Menomonie Amalgamations

RED CEDAR RIVER The current line through Adams was not the origi­ nal Chicago-Twin Cities route for C&NW; that line originally ran through Madison rather than Milwaukee. The Adams Line is an amalgamation of several lines dating back to the mid-19th century that eventually came under C&NW control. The route from Madison to Winona, Minn., was built in 1873 by C&NW; this line passed through El­ roy and then onto the Elroy-Sparta Cutoff, abandoned in 1963, now part of the Elroy-Sparta Bike Trail. The lines north of Elroy also have a varied ancestry. They were built in several segments, primarily by the West Wisconsin Railway Co., reach­ ing Wisconsin's western border at Hudson in December 1871. The bridge over the St. Croix River at Hudson was completed in 1871 by the St. Paul, Stillwater & Taylor's Falls Railroad, which officially opened its line into St. Paul on Feb. 15, 1872. The St. Paul, Stillwater & Taylor's Falls was acquired by the St. Paul & Sioux City Railroad in 1880, then it and West Wisconsin Railway were in turn acquired by the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha, widely known Chicago & North Western train PRITA rolls through America's Dairyland near Ashippun, Wis. as the "Omaha Road," in 1881. Head­ Ahead is a stop at Clyman Junction, where the two trailing GP7s and a cut of covered hoppers quartered in St. Paul, the Omaha be­ will be set out for job JJ 17 working out of Jefferson Junction. Tim Hensch came a C&NW subsidiary in 1882, re­ taining a separate corporate identity until 1972. The Adams Cutoff opened Dec. 18, 1911, with the line The trackage north of Elroy was under CStPM&O control, west from Wyeville to Sparta opening the following month ; while trackage south of there was under direct C&NW control, the MS&NW was formally integrated into the C&NW in April giving C&NW a Chicago-Minneapolis through-route, but not 1912. Wyeville bec�me a busy junction, with CStPM&O traffic reaching Milwaukee directly. C&NW would remedy that be­ for Chicago using the Adams Cutoff along with C&NW trains tween 1909-1911 by building the Adams Cutoff. to and from southern Minnesota. In 1911, CStPM&O began double-tracking its main line The Adams Cutoff through Wisconsin from Merrillan to Wyeville in preparation for the line's opening. By September 1913, Omaha double In 1884, at a point 22 miles north of Elroy designated as track reached St. Paul. The Adams Cutoff was also double­ Necedah Junction (later renamed Wyeville), the CStPM&O built tracked from Butler to Clyman Junction. This second main a line extending east 16 miles to Necedah, a spur that would was removed in the late 1950s from both Clyman Junction to eventually be incorporated into a new route to Milwaukee. In Butler and Valley Junction to Altoona. 1909 survey crews began laying out the new line west of After the end of passenger service in 1963, the second main Necedah Junction to Sparta. For construction purposes, the new from Eau Claire to St. Paul was taken up, but three stretches railroad was called the Milwaukee, Sparta & North Western of double track survived: Yukon Junction-Eau Claire Junction ; Railway. The new railway crossed the CStPM&O at grade at Sono Junction-Hudson ; Hazel Park-East St. Paul. Portions of Necedah Junction, then used the existing spur east to Necedah. the second track remain as passing sidings, most of which are East of Necedah, new construction took the line through Friend­ equipped with spring switches. Interestingly, while the ship (Adams) then cut across eastern Wisconsin to Butler, near C&NW operated left-handed on double track, CStPM&O did Milwaukee, where it joined C&NW's Wisconsin Division. not follow this practice, operating right-handed. Building the Adams Cutoff avoided the excessive grades The Adams Line is also equipped with block signals, and and curvature between Madison and Elroy, giving C&NW until recently, C&NW's unique upper quadrant semaphores . trains from both the Twin Cities and southern Minnesota These signals were replaced over the years, and by the late and South Dakota direct access to Milwaukee, and to the 1980s only the portion between St. Paul and Hudson, Wis .,was south, Chicago. still governed by semaphores. The remaining semaphores be-

18. APRIL 1993 LEFT: SD45 939 leads pre-alpha era train 415, bound for Duluth, Minn., through Wyeville on Sept. 4, 1982. The train is coming westbound off Ihe Adams Cutoff, the line heading behind No. 415 was the original main line to Madison and the Winona line diamond and tower stood just to the left and rear of the train. BELOW: Two GP7s lead a local eastbound down Knapp Hill in May 1986. Both photos. Steve Glischinski

C(1NW'S ADAM'S LINE

C&NW'S ADAMS LINE OTHER RAILROADS ROADS (NOT ALL SHOWN) � RIVERS � INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS ® U.S. HIGHWAYS @ STATE HIGHWAYS G COUNTY HIGHWAYS MAP BY TOM DANNEMAN AND A.S. NELSON tween Hudson and Eau Claire were removed in late 1990 and ty, though the local government opposes the latter move. replaced with tri-heads. Eastbound trains approaching the St. Croix River and The Adams Line is probably best known for hosting the Hudson, Wis., descend a long, steep grade into the valley. original 400 (the Twin Cities moniker was added in 1942 as the The tracks then curve eastward, cross the St. Croix on a 400 fleet expanded) passenger trains between 1935 and 1963. swing bridge and enter Wisconsin. Just before crossing the The end came for the Twin Cities 400s on July 23, 1963, ending river, the Stillwater Subdivision leaves the main, a 5.7-mile all C&NW passenger service to the Twin Cities, and on the line upgraded in 1985 to handle unit coal trains to the North­ Adams Line. ern States Power Alan S. King plant in Bayport, two miles south of Stillwater. Twin Cities East After crossing the St. Croix, the line becomes double track in front of the Hudson depot (the only original depot Today, the Adams Line is broken into two subdivisions : the between Altoona and the Twin Cities), and begins a long, 88-mile Eau Claire Subdivision between St. Paul and Altoona, steep ascent out of the valley. There was once a wye sur­ Wis ., and the 222-rnile Adams Subdivision between Altoona rounding the Hudson depot, the south end leading to a 25- and Butler. Most C&NW trains in the Twin Cities originate at mile branch to Ellsworth, Wis., abandoned in 1966. In North the ex-Omaha Road yard in East Minneapolis, then use BN Hudson, many of the old CStPM&O Hudson Shop buildings trackage rights 7.4 miles east to Westminster Tower, where are still standing where some CStPM&O heavyweight cars trains reach C&NW trackage. East Minneapolis Yard may be were upgraded for 400 service in 1934. closed within the next few years, with trains most likely moved The next point of interest as the railroad continues its climb to Belt Yard in St. Paul and/or the ex-CGW South St. Paul facili- out of the St. Croix River valley is Northline, where the Omaha

PACIFIC RAILNews . 19 Road line to Spooner,Wis., diverged. This 76-mile line was ap­ Not all trains on the Adams Line are general freights, as evidenced proved for abandonment by the ICC in March 1981, with by two Chicago & North Western 5D40-2s leading 108 loaded Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range taconite jennies under the Highway 22 over­ C&NW using BN trackage rights between St. Paul and Superi­ pass east of Glen Oak, Wis. The iron ore is bound for a steel mill in or beginning in October 1982, a practice that continues today. the Chicago area on Jan. 28, 1990. Jeff Hampton U.S. 12 begins paralleling the railroad at Sono Junction and continues to do so through Roberts, where State Highway 65 bridges the tracks-also location of a talking hotbox detector. kee line has been torn out and the ex-Soo branch from It's relatively straight running to Hammond and Baldwin, Chippewa Falls, now owned by WC, is embargoed. where a grain elevator offers some business. Two miles east The C&NW crosses two large bridges in Eau Claire. The first of Baldwin, a wooden overhead bridge spans the tracks, is the Chippewa River bridge on the west side of town. The which dip southeast to Woodville, where another wooden tracks then pass the wye at Yukon Junction where the Superior overhead is located on the west side of town. line left the main. This line now ends at Cameron, Wis.; the 97 One mile east of Woodville, U.S. 12 bridges the tracks and miles from Cameron to Superior was sold to WC in 1992. stays south of the right-of-way into Menomonie. Noteworthy East of Yukon Junction is the site of the now-demolished locations in this area include : Hersey Siding, frequently used C&NW passenger depot, near the now-defunct Uniroyal Tire for meets ; the SH 128 overpass, an excellent vantage point, Plant, once a major customer. A half mile further east was the particularly for afternoon westbounds ; and the scenic de­ site of Eau Claire Tower, the last manned interlocking in Wis­ scent of Knapp Hill, a short but steep grade into Knapp. consin, closed in November 1991 and removed for permanent In Menomonie, SH 25 bridges the tracks, providing an ex­ display in a local park. The tower controlled the 5.5 miles of cellent vantage point for eastbounds. At nearby Menomonie double track from Eau Claire Junction to Altoona Junction (one Junction (site of a metal depot), a two-mile spur extends main was torn up in 1991). Until the late 1980s, the tower was south into downtown Menomonie. manned 24 hours per day, but as traffic dwindled, the tower Just east of Menomonie, along Interstate 94, is the large was only manned when a train needed to be lined through. Red Cedar River bridge, the first of several large bridges on The C&NW crosses th8 Eau Claire River on a former gant­ the line. Eastward from the bridge, the tracks gradually veer let bridge before ascending a short grade into Altoona, the away from 1-94, heading through Rusk to the passing siding first crew change east of the Twin Cities. A small yard and at Ajax. Exiting 1-94 at SH 29 (which bridges the tracks) you roundhouse adequately handle C&NW's needs here. Across intersect U.S. 12 once again and follow the railroad through the street from the Altoona depot is the " 400 Club," complete Elk Mound and on into Eau Claire. with a neon 400 sign. SurpriSingly, there are still "400" clubs Eau Claire is a fascinating railroad town, once served by and taverns throughout Wisconsin, 30 years after the 400s Soo Line and Milwaukee Road as well as C&NW. The Milwau- stopped running.

20 . APRIL 1993

RIGHT: Train EMPRA creeps past the now-defunct Uniroyal plant and the now-removed Eau Claire Tower on June 17, 1989. Steve Glischinski BELOW RIGHT: An eastbound extra with 5040-2 6928 leading, pauses at the Adams line's namesake city in April 1990. Pat Kwarciany OPPO­ SITE PAGE: Archetypical C&NW: a concrete coaling dock and an 5040-2 with a nose-mounted bell leading PRITA at Clyman Junction in April 1992. Tim Hensch

Milwaukee Road) to reach Wisconsin Rapids. East of Necedah, the line bridges the Wisconsin River before reaching Adams. Adams is the second crew change point east of the Twin Cities. On the north side of the yard are the remains of a coal­ ing dock and the site where the roundhouse once stood. Crews running east of Adams now run through Butler Yard in Milwaukee and travel directly to Chicago. While highways parallel much of the main line west of Adams, east of that community it's a different story, for the railroad cuts cross­ country, away from main roads . Trains move at 40 mph, so planning ahead for shots is crucial. Having a set of Wisconsin county maps or a DELORME ATLAS is mighty handy. The first station east of Adams is Grand Marsh; just east of there the tracks pass through a cut spanned by a wooden over­ head bridge that makes a good shot in either direction. At Ox­ ford, a large trestle spans Neenah Creek and a wood depot used by section forces still stands. A long steel bridge crossing Buffalo Lake just south of Packwaukee is the line's next high­ light. Access to the west end of the bridge is limited, but a road passes under the east end. From this bridge the railroad line between Clyman Junction and Jefferson Junction and cuts southeast through Glen Oak and Dalton. Just west of routed traffic via the Adams Line. South Randolph, the tracks cross above the Wisconsin & South­ Between South Beaver Dam and North Lake there are at ern (ex-Milwaukee Road) line to Cambria. least 11 overhead bridges that make good platforms for photos. Highway 151 spans the tracks just east of the depot at Among the better locations are the bridges at Lebanon and South Beaver Dam, making for good photos in either direction. Rock Siding, just west of AShippun, though there are many oth­ Clyman Junction, 11 miles east of Beaver Dam, once boasted a ers. This is also hill country, so if you are willingto do some hik­ depot, interlocking tower and coal dock, but now only the coal ing, hilltop views can be rewarding. In particular, a great tele­ dock remains-but Clyman Junction is still a junction. photo shot of westbounds is available from the hill near Scofield C&NW had a line running from Janesville to Fond du Lac, Road just west of Lebanon. Wis., that crossed the Adams Line at Clyman Junction. This East of North Lake there is a hotbox detector that tips off route was severed in the mid- 1970s when the portion be­ scanner listeners on C&NW movements. At Sussex, the tween Janesville and Fort Atkinson, Wis ., was abandoned. C&NW passes above Wisconsin Central's busy Fond du Lac­ C&NW later downgraded the segment to Fond du Lac to Chicago main line and enters the suburbs of Milwaukee. Eight branchline status and then abandoned it in 1984. miles east of Sussex, the tracks swing though the wye at BJ However, the remaining portion between Clyman Junc­ (Butler Junction) interlocking. Trains then head south into But­ tion, Jefferson Junction and Fort Atkinson saw a rebirth. At ler Yard and on to Chicago. Jefferson Junction, C&NW serves Ladish Malting Company, which supplies breweries in Milwaukee. Service was original­ Alpha Soup ly provided via C&NW's Milwaukee-Madison route, but, in 1983, bridges on this line needed extensive repairs. Rather If there is one disadvantage to photographing the Adams than rebuild the bridges, C&NW rehabilitated the 20.4-mile Line, it is the lack of trains. The best plan is to latch onto a

22 . APRil 1993 train and stick with it or until you meet another one. On the line's west end, two to three coal trains run each week from St. Paul to the NSP plant at Bayport, Minn. The trains reach the Twin Cities via the ex­ Rock Island Spine Line, which connects with C&NW's east-west main at Nevada, Iowa. The coal trains see a variety of mo­ tive power, including C&NW SD50s, SD60s, SD40-2s and C40-8s, in addition to run-through Union Pacific power. Bayport coal trains frequently receive helpers in the Twin Cities for both brak­ ing assistance on the grade into Hudson· and back-up move to Bayport on the Still­ water Sub. C&NW also serves Anderson Windows in Bayport with WEM 32, the "Hudson Local, " operating a tum Mon­ day-Friday between East Minneapolis and Menomonie or Rusk, usually called at East Minneapolis in the afternoon. Minnesota Commercial (MNNR) also runs a local between St. Paul and Bay­ port. Soo Line and BN both used to run locals over C&NW to Bayport to serve Anderson Windows, but now Minnesota Commercial, which took over Minnesota Transfer in 1987, moves traffic for the two railroads. MNNR's Bayport Job typi­ cally operates five days a week, often during daylight hours. Among the denizens of the Adams Line are PREMA (Proviso-East Minneapo­ lis) and its counterpart, EMPRA, which regularly meet between St. Paul and Eau Claire during daylight. The two other Adams Line trains are ITPRA (Itasca-Pro­ viso) and counterpart, PRITA. These trains formerly ran via the Spooner and Itasca subdivisions between Eau Claire and Superior, much of which was sold to WC in 1992. Currently, these trains are us­ ing C&NW's BN trackage rights between Superior and Minneapolis and then the Adams Line eastward. They may be shifted to WC's Superior­ which regularly leaves Butler in the afternoon. Frequently, Wisconsin Rapids/Necedah route sometime in 1993, but a new empty taconite trains for USX's Minntac Plant on Minnesota's connection must be built at Junction City, Wis., on the WC and Mesabi Range use the Adams Line, as do occasional sulfur a crew change point established before service can begin. trains from Canada and other extras, including occasional mil­ Out of Altoona, North Western still operates north over itary trains, which were common during the Gulf War. what is now the branchline remnant of the Spooner Sub. At 8 C&NW operates job JJ17 that works a tum from Jefferson a.m. on Tuesdays a job is called at Altoona that makes a Junction to Clyman six days per week, usually Sunday round trip north to Chetek; on Thursdays the Altoona yard through Friday to connect Ladish Malting and shippers in switcher makes a round trip to Chippewa Falls. Fort Atkinson and Jefferson with mainline trains. Unfortu­ Adams is the base for four originating and terminating nately, this job is called at 5:30 p.m., making it a late spring trains : ADWRAlWRADA andADWIAIWIADA. ADWRA and and summer pursuit only. A daytime yard job, JJ18, works WRADA run between Adams and Necedah Junction, then Ladish weekdays beginning at 6:30 a.m. north over WC trackage rights into Wisconsin Rapids. ADWRA It is difficult to predict the fate of the Adams Line. Chicago operates out of Adams early in the morning, while WRADA & North Western's presence in Wisconsin has been diminish­ leaves Wisconsin Rapids in late afternoon or early evening. ing for more than 20 years, and today it is left with a skeletal ADWIA and WIADA work between Adams and Winona, network of lOW-density lines. With Union Pacific control of Minn., leaving the Adams Line at Wyeville and C&NW rails at C&NW nearly inevitable, C&NW's presence in Wisconsin Tunnel City for the trip to Winona over Soo Line tracks and could diminish even further. The best option for train-watch­ connection with the Dakota Minnesota & Eastern. ADWIA ers is to head to the Adams Line now: time may be short to usually leaves Adams at night, but its counterpart WIADA, catch trains on this oft-overlooked main line. leaves Winona in the afternoon. Sp ecial thanks to Mike Cl eary and Greg Sieren for their East of Adams most trains run in darkness, except PRITA, assistance in preparing this article. PRN

PACIFIC RAILNews • 23 - TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY DAVE GAYER AND JIM BELMONT

n October 1991, Utah Rail­ ABOVE: As they'd done for pIe, did Union Pacific not reg­ I way unveiled an old paint decades, four Alcos headed ularly dress up its locomotives up by RSD-4 301 work their scheme fo r its rebuilt locomo­ empties upgrade at Gilluly in Armour yellow and Harbor tives or, if you prefer, a variant on June 24, 1976. James S. Mist gray? Yo u'd have to go of an old scheme. In any Belmont LEFf: The Castle back decades to find the last ' Gate coal loader looms idly event, Morrison Knudsen's ex­ over the passing Utah train time Omaha mandated a col­ CSX SD40s trundled down below it, now only a few min­ or switch. And though Denver Utah from Boise, Idaho, all be­ utes away from Railway & Rio Grande Western can't Junction where it willdisap­ decked in a striking scheme pear from SP Dispatcher claim such longevity, most of reminiscent of the colors No. 5's board and ease on its hood diesels have worn the which adorned an earlier ar­ up to Martin. Dave Gayer same somber scheme since ray of Alco RSD-4s and an the early 1960s. Not so with RSD-5. Yo u might suspect that the similari­ the Utah. Short of purchasing new power ty was not an accident. Yo u'd be right. outright, it has rostered the exotic and the But what about the progression of loco­ rag-tag, the look-alikes and the rebuilds, motives that came between the Alcos and all injust a bit more than a decade. the MK rebuilds? For a 100-mile-plus Green, scarlet, yellow, gray, blue, gold: mainline railroad that has consistently a spectrum of colors in various shades moved thousands of tons of coal over a have graced Utah Railway's motive power. long and tortuous profile, the Utah's suc­ Yo u can count six or seven color and lo­ cession of motive power has seemed more comotive phases since 1980, some with like that of a nine-mile short line. Just their own subtle variations. The phases when you were getting used to the head­ often overlapped, making fo r some end and helper power, zap! New locomo­ unique mixes. About the only color con­ tives ...new paint scheme ...new colors. sistency of the decade was that of its com­ Utah Railway's rail neighbors provide modity-the lifeblood of the railroad and the most telling contrast. When, for exam- Carbon County-coal.

PACIFIC RAILNews • 25 RED, WHITE ...

or the most part, Utah Railway ways "the grays." And gray didn't The Grays, shown in a F had put steam to pasture by mean dirty white either, as the lash-up and an environ­ 1956. By that time its initial order Utah took good care of its modest ment firmly imprinted in the memories of Utah of diesels-six 1,600 h.p. RSD-4s­ diesel fleet, inside and out. lovers everywhere: four of were four years old, but they The Alcos, including an RSD-5 the Alcos charge upgrade weren't particularly showing the purchased in 1955, were such stal­ out of Springville with empties on Oct. 23, 1977. wear produced by repeatedly han­ warts that they became virtually James Belmont dling 85-car coal trains over Sol­ synonymous with the Utah Railway. dier Summit. Alco may have de­ And they did it all, from mine runs scribed its RSD-4 paint scheme as to mainline and helper service. "white" with red bands and yellow And everyone liked them-with lettering, but to local Utah afi­ the possible exception of Denver & cionados, these engines were al- Rio Grande We stern.

26 . APRIL 1993 ...& BLUE

ore Alcos! That's exactly The motive power department M what the Utah acquired over now stabled a rather exotic 14 units, the next couple of years: two ex­ fe aturing fo ur different Ako mod­ Chesapeake & Ohio 1,800 h.p. els. Standard practice fo und the RSD-12s (leased by LASCO) and grays and blues running as separate fo ur ex-AT&SF 2,400 h.p. RSD-15 sets, though mixes occasionally oc­ "Alligators." Dispari ty of heri tage curred. All-in-all, these locomotives aside, all six locomotives were worked the Coal Route fo r 25 years, blue, the color they were destined belching smoke and laboring on to keep for their entire Utah stay. Soldier Summit's 2 percent grades.

ABOVE: Snoot-nosed 403-with a sister RSD-15 sandwiching RSD-12 600-works a cut of brigbt blue Rock hoppers at Mohrland onJuly 24, 1979. LEFT: Proving that Grays and Blues did coexist, the 600 fronts a trio of Grays hauling emties up the Wattis Branch on Sept. 3, 1978. Two pholOs,James S. Belmont

PACIFIC RAILNews • 27 SOMETHING BORROWED. SOMETHING YELLOW

t was landlord Rio Grande that supplemented by UP GEs) weren't I fi nally put its fo ot down. Utah exactly strangers to Soldier Summit Railway's proud, able Alco fleetwas line as they occasionally showed up deemed too slow for the main line on coal and military trains. Down ...and D&RGW wanted them off in Provo, with the possible excep­ its railroad. So the 1980s had bare­ tion of a UP caboose, the Utah's ly begun when the Alcos began to leased power resembled everything disappear between Utah Railway else slaving away on UP's moder­ Junction and Provo, Utah. They ately busy Provo Subdivision. were summarily replaced, fi rst as Happily, the RSDs continued to head-end power, then entirely, with ply the rails up to the mines, an the omnipresent power of the area where D&RGW couldn't dic­ Overland Route main line: Union tate power policy. But the retire­ Pacific SD40s and SD40-2s. Uncle ments had begun ...and by 1982 Pete 's six-axle workhorses (later the Utah was yellow everywhere.

ABOVE:The power may have been yellow, but the caboose wasn't always: At Martin, two UP C30-7s and two SD40-2s and their MoPac cupola caboose prepare for mainline work. Rear-end device replacements, unfor­ tunately, weren't far away from this April 1985 scene. Dave Gayer RIGHT: BN Cas­ cade green certainly relieved the rash of Ar­ mour yellow. Witness eastbound ex-BN 6608 and kinleading four UPDash 2s on an east­ bound train exiting the Nolan turUleis on Sept. 6, 1985.James S. Belmont

28 • APRIL 1993 UNLIKELY GREEN INVADERS ....

PACIFIC RAILNews • 29 n April 1985, all primed and roundings. But it certainly was an ar­ I ready to head up the grade to resting visual change-the set of ex­ Hiawatha, were fo ur su'angers fr om GN cowl units earning their keep a railroad 500 miles away-Burling­ on mine runs and intermingling ton Northern. Doubly surprising with UP SDs on the mainline hauls. was the model-F45, a locomotive The BN lettering didn't last long, embraced only by Great Northern and neither did the pure lash-ups; BELOW: Looking out of (later BN) and AT &SF. within a month, the Union Pacific place in Utah coal cOlmtry, Obtained through Helm Leas­ locomotives were headed off the ex,BN F45s 6613 and 6606 ing, the F45s provided a stark con­ property and another We stern rail­ and an ex-SP SD45 work the Wattis load,out high up trast to both their predecessor RSDs road's second-hand locomotives on the Wattis Branch. and the generally bleak Utah sur- headed in. James Belmont

SCARLET·AND·GRAY TAKE OVER

aving previously obtained whelmed the presence of Cascade H hand-me-down six-axle veter­ green. ans from three other Class I rail­ Apart from a few number r" f roads (ATSF, BN and C&O), the changes and stenciled "Utah Rail­ Utah now leased power from a way" on the locomotive flank, the fourth: Southern Pacific. Weary ex-SP SDs unfortunately looked SD45s (and, fo r a while, SD39s) like the fo rlorn SP and SSW power began showing up to supplement that was beginning to show up in the F45s. It was not necessarily an droves on neighboring Rio aesthetic improvement. As the Grande. An occasional F45 (or, quick transition (from UP to SP) during a brief stint, an ex-BN occurred, the grays-excuse me, SD45) in the head-end or helper the scar let-and-grays-soon over- consist was about all that made the

30 . APRIL 1993 Utah's coal trains different from the renovation, it frequently ran what was about to be ubiquitous on the point of Provo-bound coal ABOVE:On JuIy 2, 1986, on the D&RGW. Until, that is, the runs. The 9140 also later received both the hastily-lettered "Utah Railway" and the Utah repainted the 9147 into a a spartan version of the new more permanently-identi­ new, if subdued, paint scheme­ scheme; but the remainder of the fied version are in evi­ new gray paint with white stripes fl eet was doomed to stay with its dence on an eastbolUld rolling through Castle and highlighting. In the spirit of SP paint. Gate. James S. Belmont LEFf:New and improved: Utah 9147 shows off tlle livery that was applied to just two units as the SD45 struggles through Rio in August 1989. Dave Gayer

PACIFIC RAILNews • 31 BLUE·AND·GOLD CLASS

LEFT: On rare occasions, the Utah ran more than one train down the hill to Provo in a single day. On June 3, 1991, MPI 9014 leads a "Second Utah West" through Springville with an unusually light IS-car con­ sist.James S. Belmont he ex-SP locomotives, along The MPI blue-and-gold scheme T with dwindling F45 input, was handsome, if not stately. And dominated the Utah Railway like brand-new Rio Grande power, scene for more than five years. it was a challenge to photograph But by spring 1991, Utah man­ in the contrasty Utah environ­ agemen t retired these 14 units, ment. The MPIs were, initially, a all of which had perfo rmed well short-term fix, interim power fo r a beyond their age. Replacement couple of months before MK's came in the fo rm of Morrison permanent rebuilds arrived in late Knudsen MPI SD40-2s, some of spring. Continual postponement which had already been roaming of the delivery date kept the blue­ on the nearby UP. For the first and-gold paint around until early time since the original Alcos left, winter. And even now, well into the Utah 's motive power did not 1993, at least one MPI-the wear a residual scheme from an­ 9012-continues to hang around. other railroad. Martin to help Utah move coal. RED·AND·GRAY: THE SEQUEL

RIGHT: Change at Martin: The Utah's shop forces are now directed by Morrison Knudsen-and the promi­ nent sign over 9010 proudly says so. Dave Gayer

32 . APRIL 1993 ack in 1988, Gordon Cardall, Boise shops, painted almost identi­

B an ex-Bamberger Railroad em­ cally to Cardall's model. ABOVE: Utah Railway ployee, had grown tired of the The new MK SD40s are, by any 9008 East rolls past the uninspired, surrogate Utah Rail­ measure, outstanding and virtual­ west switch at Wildcat, Utah, on Sept. 26, 1992. way paint schemes. So, as an avid ly impossible to ignore out on the This train will act as a lo­ model railroader, he took an HO main line. Onlookers have point­ cal, switching the Wildcat scale SD45 and painted it into a ed to the glossy EMD's and called Mine, Wattis Plateau Mine and the Mohrland loadout new scheme based upon the old them and their consist the "Circus before the day is over. Utah Ako scheme, modified with a Train." The aW-action is as histori­ James S. Belmont "bloody nose." Cardall took the cal as it is colorful. For all their in­ model (along 'with his model of creased horsepower and techno­ RSD-4 300) to Martin to show the logical improvements, the loco­ employees. The superintendent, motives have a ring of fami liarity overwhelmingly impressed with about them, an image as definitive both the 300 as well as the what-if as the one RSD-4s sported. SD45 scheme, ended up keeping And if they're as successful­ both to display on his roll-top desk. and as long-lived-as their Alco The SD45 eventually got to Salt predecessors, they will be around Lake City, home of the Utah's cor­ fo r a long time. If they're not, the porate offices. When the contract Utah rainbow pinwheel will no was eventually let fo r the compa­ doubt continue to revolve. In the ny's new locomotives, the vice pres­ meantime, thanks to a modeler's ident pointed to the model and es­ imagination and a railroad's fo l­ sentially said, "Paint 'em like that." low-through, life has imitated art In October 1991 the first Utah on the Utah Railway ...and in do­ Railway rebuild exited the MK ing so, come fu ll circle. PRN

PACIFIC RAILNews • 33 TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY ARTHUR I. DIETZ

s o u T H E R N p A C I F I C' s Gregory Switcher

ABOVE LEFT: After working Union Pacific's interchange at Sinton, Texas, on Sept. 28, 1989, the brakeman climbs aboard SP B23-7 No. 5104 as it heads for the industries surrounding Gregory. ABOVE RIGHT: You won't find many Gyralite-equipped cabooses in the U.S., but one was bringing up the rear of the Gregory Switcher, seen here 2.5 miles east of Sinton on Sept. 28, 1989.

n South Texas, many miles from the ing facility. The track running south off the the "new yard," referring to the two Sunset Route, doublestacks, and wye-part of the line that went to Corpus tracks adjacent to UP's main and siding, scenery, Southern Pacific's Rockport Christi-ends several miles away and is where cars are swapped between the Gre­ IBranch is relatively isolated from the rest of frequently used for storage. gory Switcher and UP mainline trains. the SP system. The railroad reaches the There are four industrial facilities along Having assembled its train, the Gregory south end of the Rockport Branch, Corpus the 13 miles of track east of Gregory that Switcher calls the UP dispatcher for per­ Christi and trackage in the Rio Grande Val­ provide the Gregory Switcher's livelihood. mission to back from the new yard, ley via Union Pacific's Brownsville Subdivi­ Oxychem's vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) through the UP siding, and then the inter­ sion. The Rockport Branch's rails are in plant is the line's largest shipper. Large change track, known as the "tail track, " to place from San Antonio to the line's end at numbers of tank cars are moved in and out enter the Gregory line. Kosmos, near Rockport, but are out of ser­ weekly. The operation is large enough for After backing and clearing the tail track vice for the 31 miles between Kenedy and Oxychem to stable its own switchers and switch (SP Junction) on the Rockport Beeville. In January, SP signaled that it yard. Du Pont's refrigerant and fluorosol­ Branch, the train sometimes continues a wanted to reduce its presence in the area vent plant is adjacent to Oxychem and is mile north to the "old yard" to fill out its further by offeringthe trackage between El­ reached via the same trackage. Another train. But the run to Gregory usually be­ mendorf and Sinton for sale or lease. Con­ shipper, Reynolds Aluminum, is located gins at the UP diamond at CP J162. Before versely, the Rockport Branch between Sin­ about one mile west of Oxychem and ships UP local LHD 72 was abolished, cars inter­ ton and Kosmos is active-and not on the alumina silicate loads. This plant also oper­ changed from UP were left on the inter­ sale block-and is home to Southern Pacif­ ates its own switchers. The fourth industry change rather than in the new yard. ic's Gregory Switcher, one of the last re­ is found at Kosmos, Degussa Corp., which Leaving Sinton, track speed averages 20 maining SP operations in South Texas. ships carbon black. mph. At Taft, the Gregory Switcher some­ times sets out cars of ammonia for a fertiliz­ The Chemical Express How It Works er dealer. Once work is completed at Taft, it's on to Gregory to pick up paperwork and Operations on the Rockport Branch are The Gregory Switcher usually begins switch the local plants. The return trip to based at the Gregory depot, one of the few work in Sinton at the interchange with Sinton is usually made by the second shift SP structures remaining in South Texas. UP's Brownsville Sub Sunday through Fri­ crew, on duty around 8 p.m. This routine Facilities in Gregory include a three-track day around 11 a.m., though the starting may vary depending on work load and op­ yard, a wye and a small locomotive servic- point sometimes varies. Work begins in erating patterns.

34 . APRIL 1993 The Beginning and End

Power for the Gregory Switcher is gen­ erally a pair of medium horsepower four­ axle locomotives. Locomotives are rotated ABOVE: The Gregory Switcher, assigned two GP38-2s leased from Electro-Motive Division, is approximately every two weeks depend­ handling a hefty cut of tank cars at Taft, Texas, on a sunny Oct. 22, 1989. ing on their condition and impending in­ spection dates. Mainline Southern Pacific trains traversing UP's Brownsville Sub ro­ To Houston tate units in the new yard at Sinton. Route of the Under normal conditions, the Gregory Switcher would leave Sinton via the inter­ Gregory change track, but the UP dispatcher's diffi­ culty in operating the mainline electric switch makes this impractical. The result­ Switcher ing reverse move through Sinton on the tail track causes extra safety concerns, which is why there is a caboose dedicated to the Gregory Switcher, equipped with Gyralites mounted on the roof ends for ad­ ditional warning to unwary motorists.

Following the Gregory Switcher

The Switcher can be easily pho­ tographed from Sinton to Kosmos. Simply END put, if the Gregory Switcher is not in Sin­ - ROUTE OF SP'S GREGORY SWITCHER ton, head east over Highway 181. But ac­ 11111111111 ABANDONED SOUTHERN PA CiFIC

cess to the plants ranges from limited to -- UNION PA CIFIC BROWNSVILLE SUB Corpus Christi Bay Gulf forbidden, and the train may be obscured -- ROADS (NOT All SHOWN) of at Oxychem and Du Pont for several (§) U,S. HIGHWAYS Mexico hours. Plant security is tight, but pho­ @ STATE HIGHWAYS

tographs from public property are lawful. MAP BY TOM DANNEMAN AND A.S. NelSON SP crews are friendly and appreciate re­ sponsible behavior from observers. Switcher activities can be heard on SP uses the Gregory Switcher's power and The Georgetown Railroad also provides road channel 161.550 and conversations is called at such a time that will allow a material for projects near Ingleside, about with Union Pacific will be on road channel round-trip while the Gregory Switcher is six miles east of Gregory. This train, sym­ 160.410. Oxychem's switcher may be idle. Sometimes, though, a locomotive bol KRINU, usually runs with four George­ heard on 462.425. and crew from an SP mainline train town locomotives and an SP crew. The makes the trip. train is unloaded in Ingleside on the main Additional Moves During the past year, several construc­ line. Since the line is blocked during the tion projects in the area have brought rock two-day unloading, enough empty cars The route of the Gregory Switcher is trains (crushed limestone) to South Texas. are left at Kosmos to supply Degussa for occasionally shared by several other Rock trains from Beckman (near San Anto­ this interval. While the train is unloaded in jobs. The Beeville Turn, a highly irregu­ nio) are run to Gregory, symbolled BMGRU. Ingleside, the locomotives on KRINU are lar job, carries one to three cars of plastic Four- and six-axle SP power is common. run to Kosmos to switch the plant. The pellets from Sinton to a manufacturer in This train is spotted in Gregory on the old carbon black loads are shipped after the Beeville. This train, symbol SIBEM, often Corpus Christi line for unloading. empty rock train departs. PRN

PACIFIC RAILNews • 35 '.

,- ' - ; : ��' .. 36 . A'pRll 1993 " ; .... .-- ,

LEFT: Three SP locomotives showing their hard-worked miles lead JRCIP (Portland-City of Industry) southbound through scenic Castle Craig, south of Dunsmuir, in July 1992. ABOVE: GP60 No. 96 10 takes a ride on the Dunsmuir's turntable as it prepares for pusher duty. The Railroading Tradition Continues

t is a crisp spring day along the Southern TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY em Pacific train contaminated the pristine, Pacific main line in Northern California. trout-filled waters of the Sacramento River The EUWCM (Eugene-West Colton man­ RANDY WOODS M.D. for 42 miles before the toxins were swept Iifest) rumbles south into Mott siding as into Shasta Lake. The results were not on­ Mount Shasta towers above. A few minutes ly devastating to plant and animal life after the general merchandise hauler is along the river, but also to Dunsmuir, safely in the hole, hotshot LAPCX (Los An­ Calif., located just downstream from Can­ geles Pacific Coast express) thunders down tara Loop. Several of the town residents the main toward its Portland, Ore., destina­ became ill and the effects on the area tion. After the northbound passes, the quar­ tourist industry were a concern. tet of locomotives powering EUWCM throt­ Fortunately, on the first anniversary of tle up, preparing to negotiate Cantara Loop. the accident, the Dunsmuir newspaper Meanwhile, a few miles away in Dun­ headline declared, "Attitude Is Upbeat One smuir, Calif. , a yard crew takes GP60 9610 Year After Spill, " and noted a 22 percent in­ for a spin on the turntable, preparing the crease in local business during the first unit for pusher duty on RVEVM (Roseville­ quarter of 1992. Southern Pacific deserved Eugene manifest), scheduled an hour be­ much of the credit for responsibly handling hind the LAPCX. This is mountain railroad­ the clean up, promoting tourism by running ing at its best, complete with rivers, forests steam excursions, constructing a trout park and, on the tracks, a variety of locals, and sponsoring other activities in the area. through-freights and passenger trains. The Sacramento River is slowly recovering, Unfortunately, this type of terrain can and it appears that few permanent effects also be hazardous, a point painfully driven will be felt from the tragedy. The Cantara home with the disaster at Cantara Loop. Loop derailment will be remembered as a The July 14, 1991, derailment of a South- dark chapter in the storied history of Dun-

PACIFIC RAILNews • 37 TO MEDFORD, ORE.

MCCLOUDRAI LWAY SP'S SHASTA DIVISION TO MCCLOUD

IN DUNSMUIR TO SACRAMENTO, CALIF.

SP UPPER YARDI AMTRAK DEPOT

NORTH DUNSMUIR DUNSMUIR

LEGEND SOUTHERN PACIFIC OTHER RAILROADS ROADS (NOT ALL SHOWN) MAP BY TOM DANNEMAN AND A.S. NELSON � RIVERS

TRAINS THROUGH DUNSMUIR

NORTHBOUND SOUTHBOUND

LABRF (Los Angeles-Brooklyn) EUFRM (Eugene-Roseville) LAPCX (Los Angeles-Portland) EUWCM (Eugene-West Colton) LAOCX1 (Los Angeles-Brooklyn) JRCIP (Portland-City of Industry) LAPTF (Los Angeles-Portland) KFMVD (Klamath Falls-Marysville) MVKFD (Marysville-Klamath Falls) KFRVM (Klamath Falls-Roseville) OAPTT (Oakland-Portland) PTLAF [Portland-Los Angeles) RVEUM (Roseville-Eugene) PTLAF2 [Portland-Los Angeles) RVKFM [Roseville-Klamath Falls) PTOAT [Portland-Oakland) RVPTF (Roseville-Portland) PTPCX [Brooklyn-Los Angeles) WCBRM (West Colton-Brooklyn) PTPCX1 [Brooklyn-Los Angeles) WCEUM (West Colton-Eugene) Amtrak Coast Starlight Weed Local (Dunsmuir-Weed) Amtrak Coast Starlight

smuir, but despite the tragedy, trains are British Columbia, donated a fountain for The small, upper Dunsmuir yard is the still a major part of the landscape in a town the park next to the rail depot. Dunsmuir site of the yard office and depot (milepost well-steeped in the railroad tradition. was quickly designated as a division point 322) and is usual site for crew changes. and a roundhouse, turntable and offices The depot is also used by Amtrak passen­ A RAIL TOWN IS BORN were installed. Dunsmuir'S importance to gers, but there is no ticket or waiting Southern Pacific operations continued to area. The upper yard also has fueling fa­ Dunsmuir, Calif., was settled in 1886 grow, and rail employment peaked at cilities and light repair capabilities, and when Central Pacific construction crews around 1,200 during World War II and the the turntable remains operable and is still made camp at Cedar Flats (now the loca­ early 1950s. Dunsmuir's prominence de­ used frequently. tion of Dunsmuir's lower yard) during the clined after diesels arrived, forcing the clo­ The lower yard is the usual location for railroad's push north through the Sacra­ sure of its steam shops. But, even today, switching operations and as a holding site mento Canyon. However, Southern Pacific Dunsmuir remains a key location to South­ for through-trains. Typically, three or four was initially responsible for operations ern Pacific's Northwest operations. locomotives are stationed at Dunsmuir for over this line because it was organized in Dunsmuir is still a crew change point local trains and as helpers for through­ 1884 to control the properties of the Cen­ on the Shasta Route and is also the district trains running between Dunsmuir and tral Pacific. Dunsmuir was originally point between the Black Butte and Valley Grass Lake (milepost 368.5). known as Pusher because helper engines districts. In addition to train crews, com­ needed on the northward grade out of the munications, maintenance-of-way, signal RAILFANNING DUNSMUIR canyon were stationed there. department, automotive and work equip­ The town was renamed in 1887 when ment employees, as well as management Around 15 SP trains pass through Alexander Dunsmuir, a coal baron from personnel, are stationed here. Dunsmuir each day, along with two Am-

38 • APRIL 1993 LEFT: After a crew change, a southbound train, led by a General Electric B39-8, heads through Dunsmuir's lower yard in April 1992 on its way to Roseville, Calif. BELOW LEFT: In a classic Southern Pacific scene, EUWCM (Eugene-West Colton) heads south past Mount Shasta at Mott Siding on July 21, 1992. The sand-coated rail in­ dicates the hard pull that north bounds face through this area.

and Montague century, and despite the events of the past (milepost 375.5) on two years, Dunsmuir remains proud of its the Siskiyou line. railroad heritage. Tourist brochures pro­ With running mote the historic rail-past of the area and speeds of 20 to 30 even today, watching train operations mph between the through Dunsmuir gives one a sense of Sacramento Canyon stepping back in time. and the north side It is ironic that this railroad-created of Mount Shasta, it community was the town most affected is often possible to by SP's worst environmental disaster in photograph trains decades. One year after the spill, costs at more than one lo­ suffered by Southern Pacific from the ac­ cation, and geo­ cident have exceeded $8 million-and lit­ graphic wonders igation continues-and all at a time abound in the area when the railroad is struggling to be around Dunsmuir. profitable. Mount Shasta (mile­ Fortunately, both Dunsmuir and the post 336.7) and Southern Pacific are showing some signs Black Butte (mile­ of recovery. Visitors to the area are hard post 345) are locat- pressed to find visible evidence that an ed a few miles to accident ever occurred, and a full envi­ trak trains, Both the northbound and the north, and south of Dunsmuir lie Cas­ ronmental recovery for the Sacramento southbound Coast Starlight, make a trek tle Crag (milepost 318.3) and the Sacra­ River is expected within a few years. through the region. Hot trains carrying mento River Canyon. Numerous bridges The long-term fate of SP is less pre­ mostly UPS traffic and TOFC include the and tunnels are located in the canyon on dictable, but recent positive news on the LABRF (Los Angeles-Brooklyn forwarder) the way to Shasta Lake, with several vis­ financial front has sparked hope that bet­ and RVPTF (Roseville-Portland for­ ible from Interstate 5. Vehicles are not al­ ter times lie ahead for the railroad. Any­ warder). In addition to the forwarders, lowed to park on I-5, but there are sever­ one who has ever witnessed a Southern four Pacific Coast express trains (see al exits off the highway allowing easy Pacific freight wind through the Sacra­ table) provide expedited service over the access for trackside viewing. Within the mento River Canyon and then pound up Shasta Route, while OAPTT and PTOAT town of Dunsmuir, the depot and the up­ the grade toward Mt. Shasta can't help l serve as priority haulers for trailer traffic per yard are located on Sacramento Av­ but root for the railroad's success. The between Portland, Ore., and Oakland, enue. The lower yard can be reached via town may no longer depend on the rail­ Calif. The remaining general manifest Katherine Street. The steady stream of road for its existence, but there is little trains haul a variety of goods including rail traffic in the area and magnificent doubt that Dunsmuir is still a railroading wood and paper products, perishables, scenery provide endless photographic town. Hopefully, we will be fortunate autos, chemicals and trailers. Through­ and train-watching opportunities. enough to see Southern Pacific trains trains into Dunsmuir travel over the Cas­ traveling over the Shasta Route through cade, Shasta, and East Valley lines while THE ROAD TO RECOVERY Dunsmuir for many years to come. the "Weed local" provides switching ser­ Thanks to Carolyn Bam, MikeFurtney vice to Dunsmuir and Mount Shasta as Dunsmuir and the Southern Pacific and John Signor of Southem Pacific Railroad well as Black Butte, Weed (milepost 348) have been closely linked for well over a for their assistance with this article. PRN

PACIFIC RAILNews • 39 UNION PA CIFIC

of the sluggish national economy and fierce competition, the numbers show the Union Pacific to be the healthiest railroad in the western United States.

"New" Switchers Arrive

In a move designed to fill the gap left by four-axle power returned to lessors in ear­ ly January, Union Pacific has again pur­ chased modern, second-hand EMD switch­ ers. In late January, UP acquired 10 ex­ Milwaukee Road MP15ACs, built in 1976, from CP RaiVSoo. Previously numbered Soo Line 1500-1509, each unit was quickly renumbered 1397-1406. Unlike the 15 Pittsburgh & Lake Erie MP15DCs pur­ chased in December 1984 that worked for a while in P&LE paint, these ex-Soo switchers were sent directly to Jenks Shops in North Little Rock for upgrading, component change-out and fresh paint. Inother locomotive news, 11 units were removed from the roster in January. Three of these were SD40-2s, 3190, 3222 and 3247 An 5D60M, a Dash 8-40C and an 5040-2 lead an eastbound Union Pacific manifest through retired for rebuilding. The other eight were the snow-covered hills at Topaz, Idaho, on UP's main line between Pocatello, Idaho, and ex-Western Pacific GP35s 783, 784, 787, 790, Ogden, Utah, on Jan. 31, 1993. Thorton Waite 794, 795 and 799 sold by owner Connell LeaSing to various shortline operations. increase in car loadings. In fact, in 1992 During January, the number of ex-Mis­ 1992: A Financial Boon coal was one of the eight freight cate­ souri Pacific units still in blue decreased gories that fell from 1991 levels. Operating by four. Between Jan. 7 and Jan. 27, GP38- On Jan. 21, Union Pacific Railroad an­ income for the railroad exceeded $1 billion 2s 2177, 2246 and 2280, and GP15-1 1618 nounced that the year 1992 was its best­ for the first time ever, up $95 million, or 10 all received Armour yellow paint. On Jan. ever in terms of carloadings, operating in­ percent, from 1991, while commodity rev­ 8, yellow GP15-1 1ettered as MoPac 1744 come, earnings and that all-important op­ enues increased to $4.9 billion. The final was relettered for UP. erating ratio. Carloadings for 1992 in­ tally had UP showing a net income of $667 creased by 155,000 over 1991 figures, million. The operating ratio, at 79, drop­ reaching 4.4 million. Unlike several previ­ ped below the magic level of 80 for the Bailey Ya rd Connected To Harriman ous years, coal loadings did not lead the first time in the railroad's history. Despite Center Video Displays

Until recently, one small but very busy sec­ tion of the Union Pacific system was not un­ der the direct observation of the Harriman Dispatching Center in Omaha: Bailey Yard Burlington Northern's in North Platte, Neb. Dispatchers in Omaha Denver Division-Part 2! did not know what trains were where in the giant yard, and North Platte operators con­ Observe the railroad's operations between Alliance, Neb. and Brush, Colo. trolling Bailey had problems updating infor­ and east to Bijou, Colo. You will witness the toading and unloading 01 a coal train from less than 25 feet away . Part 2 will take you on a tour of the Orin Line mation on arriving and departing trains. In (coal line) to Wendover. Wyo. then on the old C&S lrom Wendover to Trinidad, late January, the entire complex was added Colo. then south on the former FW&D lor Texline, Texas and from Wendover to the video display at Harriman. Dispatch­ Wyo. to Northport. Neb. Get a close· up look at BN's F9 1 & 2 during Iron Rail days In Alliance Neb. This video along wnh part 1 will be a great addnion to ers handling the busy main line serving your video library. 90 rrins$39.95 + $2.50 S&H. PHOTO BY KIRK PETTY North Platte can now see exactly where trains are in Bailey Yard, allowing them to Also available- Minneapolis & SI. Louis better estimate train departure times. Direct 1930s to the 19505. 58 rrins .• control of the yard remains with operators seme color. $39.95. at North Platte, but increased coordination between the two locations should mean smoother, more efficient train operation. CASEY JONES VIDEO PRODUCTI ONS PO Box 1365 1993 Steam Excursion Schedules Set Torrington, WY 62240 The schedules for this year's three public INFORMA110N 307 532-7204 steam excursions behind UP 3985 have ORDERS ONLY 600-231 -1365 been set. Though not as ambitious as the VISA I MasterCard C&NW POINder River Co al Vols. 1 and 2 are still available 1992 schedule, UP's steam crew, headed at S39.95 each. S69.95 for both. S89.95 fo r three. S121.95 by Steve Lee, will be on the road from handling/shipping $2.50 per order. fo r four or S149.95 for all five tapes. mid-May through late July.

40 . APRIL 1993 The first excursion of the year is the prompted citizens to once again oppose edly in danger of shutting down. Its coal 40th anniversary of the Rocky Mountain increased freight train speeds. Last year, production contract for Commonwealth Railroad Club's steam excursions on the UP eliminated lower speed limits for trains Edison of Chicago was lost to the Ante­ Union Pacific. As with recent trips, the through towns such as Shoshone and lope Mine in the Powder River Basin. May 15 train will run from Denver to Mountain Home. Though the Federal Rail­ Another cross-country motor carrier has Laramie, Wyo., and return. Tickets and in­ road Administration has overruled local signed on with the Union Pacific to provide formation can be obtained by sending an laws limiting train speeds, the Shoshone on-time long distance movement of truck LSASE to Rocky Mountain Railroad Club, City Council has filed for a court injunction trailers. Based in Nebraska, fast-growing P.O. Box 2391, Denver, CO. to order UP to decrease speeds through its Crete Carrier Corp. will launch the new The most extensive public excursion town to 30 mph. There is also a pending service using 200 48-foot temperature-con­ this year will be in conjunction with the U.S. District Court ruling that might give trolled trailers. Crete Carrier also an­ many celebrations of the 150th anniversary cities and towns more authority to regu­ nounced that testing will begin with con­ of the opening of the Oregon Trail. Spon­ late train speeds. tainer shipments and 53-foot trailer moves. sored by the Pacific Limited Group (Central Union Pacific suffered three derail­ Denver & Rio Grande Western/Southern Coast and Promontory chapters of the ments in southern Idaho in a span of Pacific has filed suit against the UP for $2.7 NRHS, Union Pacific Historical Society and about a month. The most severe was a 21- million as a result of the March 28, 1991, Feather River Rail Society), the train will car derailment near Nampa which in­ head-on collision between one of its trains operate from Salt Lake City to Portland, volved toxic chemicals and forced the and a UP train near Salina, Kan. The suit Ore., and return, with one-day side trips to evacuation of 200 nearby residents. In charges that the conductor of the UP train, Seattle and over the Oregon Trunk to Bend, January, two accidents were attributed to in the Siding to meet the Rio Grande train, Ore. This train will leave Salt Lake City on broken rails, a 13-car mishap near Moun­ threw a switch that caused the accident. May 29, arriving in Portland on June 3 at tain Home on the 7th, and a 15-car derail­ The Boulder City and Nevada City, Nev. , the start of the Rose Festival in Portland. ment near Weiser on the 21st. city councils passed a resolution to clear The return trip will leave Portland June 12 the way for the Nevada State Railroad Mu­ and arrive in Salt Lake City June 16. Tick­ - seum to start passenger excursion opera­ ets became available in early February. Extras tions on the former UP Boulder Branch. Like last year's trip to San Jose, Calif., Equipment for the operation will come information and both single-day and Former Union Pacific Railroad Chairman from Heber City, Utah. Motive power for through-ticket reservations can be ob­ and current Tenneco Corporation Chair­ this train will be former SP GP9 2873, pur­ tained through the Pacific Limited Group's man Mike Walsh announced on Jan. 20 chased by the Feather River Rail Society of phone number, 1-800-444-3985. The ad­ that he has brain cancer. He has stated Portola, Calif., in exchange for one of the dress to write for tickets and reservations that he will stay on the job indefinitely. steam locomotives at Heber City. is Pacific Limited Group, P.O. Box 27081, The Black Butte coal mine near Rock Thanks to PJ. Gratz, Steve Kalthoff, Salt Lake City, UT 84127. Springs, Wyo., has lost it's second major George R. Cockle, Chris Fry, Roy Lopez, The eastward journey for the 3985 and coal production contract within just a few Mike Murray, Missouri Pacific Historical crew this year will be to Chicago for the months. The mine, which has shipped 5.7 Society, FLIMSIES, NORTHWEST RAILFAN and NRHS national convention July 21-25. As million tons of coal over the UP, is report- Union Pacific Railroad. of early February, tickets for this trip were not yet available. For more information, write to the NRHS coordinator Robert Pin­ sky, P. O. Box 53, Oak Park, IL 60303. DR1£AMS, VISIONS Port of Oakland Proposes Land Purchase & VISIONARIES In the struggle to secure the site of the pro­ posed and expanded American President Lines California container facility, the Port of Oakland has discussed purchasing 38 acres of UP's freight yard in Oakland. This property adjacent to the current APL facili­ ty, plus an additional 195 acres of U.S. Navy land nearby, would go far toward meeting the needs of a new container facility. Addi­ tionally, the Port of Oakland is working on a plan to develop a major joint-use container facility to serve the entire port. Unfortunate­ includes: Early construction on ly for UP, this plan centers upon a 250-acre COLDRADO RAn.. ANNUAL No. 20, the Rio Grande in the Utah Desert and Across Soldier Summit by Jackson Thode & site now owned by Southern Pacific. James Ozment. Union Pacific Articulated Steam, photo essay by Richard H. Though SP would benefit from improve­ Kindig. Denver Post Frontier Days Specials by Richard Kreck, Kenton Forrest and ments at the Port of Oakland, that railroad Alexis McKinney . Historic Burnham Shop Office Building, photo article by A.D. is wary of helping UP and Santa Fe in any Mastrogiusseppe. Mexican National Narrow Gauge by Robert LeMassena. Over way, and consequently is as reluctant to 200 pages , profusely illustrated. In production now with a delivery date expected talk about selling this property as it is re­ in July. Special prepUblication price of $37 .95 through June 30. $42.95 thereafter. luctant to sell 22 miles of track for the (Please add $3 .25 shipping & handling.) Alameda Corridor in Southern California. Send $1.00(refundable) for the CRM1993 Book & Video Catalog Without the cooperation of SP in Oakland, For Fast Service (700+ Railroad Books & Videos) For FAX Service the proposed container facility would likely less competitive than proposals made by Credit Card Orders! Credit Card Orders! other ports on the West Coast. 1-800-365-6263 303-279-4229 (Income from book sales goes toward rail preservation ) Idaho Citizens Oppose Higher Speeds COLORADO RAILROAD MUSEUM Dept. P, PO Box 10 The usual winter rash of moderate derail­ Golden, Colorado 80402-0010 ments along the UP in southern Idaho has

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TO&E, switches the pulpwood yard at Ft. Towson as needed and returns to Hugo in the afternoon. Ashdown Turn-Leaves Hugo 5-7 p.m. and runs east to Ashdown, also taking TO&E interchange east to Kansas City Southern or Union Pacific. The turn arrives at Ashdown around midnight, but if traffic is heavy, it will turn around at Arkinda Yard, just inside Arkansas. This job ar­ rives back in Hugo in early morning hours. Madill Turn-This train leaves Hugo anywhere from noon to 5 p.m. for a run west to Lakeside, then over trackage rights to BN's yard. This turn switches customers and the UP (ex-MKT) in Durant as needed, arriving back Hugo approxi­ mately 9 to 12 hours later. Hugo Switcher-On duty at 7 a.m., this daytime job switches Kiarnichi's yard, also leaving loaded tinplate cars at warehouse for storage. This crew also runs up the Antlers line to work Georgia-Pacific's pulpwood/log-loading yard at Harvey, two miles south of Antlers, returning to Hugo Kansas Southwestern GP9 4436, an ex-Grand Trunk unit, leads the Hutchinson Job westbound with loaded wood racks and log cars for through Wichita, Kan., on Jan. 4, 1993. KSW's Hutchinson Job works Monday-Wednesday-Friday shipment east on the Ashdown Turn. from Wichita, through Hutchinson to Lyons, Kan., on ex-Union Pacific trackage. Keel Middleton Paris Switcher-Nicknamed the "Soup Job" for the giant Campbell's Soup plant the trackage in the Quad Cities, with both served by Kiamichi. Crew goes on duty at This Winter on McCloud railroads retaining trackage rights on the 7 a.ill. in Paris, serving local shippers and segments given up. Dri-Line's four EMD the Texas Northeastern interchange, then The timing of January's (PRN 350) article switchers will probably be sold to National makes a run north to Hugo in late morn­ about winter railroading on the McCloud Railway Equipment in Silvis, Ill. ing. If its crew isn't suckered into switch­ Railway could not have been better. Ac­ ing the Hugo yard, it arrives back in Paris cording to McCloud Railway President Jeff about 3 p.m. Forbis, the winter of 1992-93 has been a Kiamichi Operations Ashdown Switchers-This is two jobs, test of everyone's snowfighting mettle. operating day and night tricks, handling Four to eight feet of snow have buried the For the past five years, the Kiamichi (pro­ all local switching (KCS and Graysonia, southern Cascades, the most severe win­ nounced ki-ah-MEE-she) Railroad has Nashville & Ashdown interchange, Geor­ ter weather the area has seen in years, served customers in southeast Oklahoma, gia-Pacific paper mill, lumber reload, feed forcing McCloud crews to work every day northeast Texas and southwest Arkansas. mill) as well as the line west to Arkinda between Dec. 28 and Jan. 23 to keep the The 227.5-mile line owns and operates for­ and east to Hope. Arkco Cement at Fore­ line clear. Both the box plow and the Jor­ mer Burlington Northern (nee Frisco) man gets its cars from Ashdown Switcher. dan Spreader have been kept very busy. To trackage out of its Hugo, Okla., headquar­ Cars left by the Hugo-based Ashdown make matters worse, one storm saw snow, ters. The railroad is comprised of two Turn are picked up at Arkinda and taken then rain, which then froze, making snow­ lines: a 185-mile stretch from Hope, Ark., to Ashdown. fighting extremely difficult. One grade west to Lakeside, Okla. ; and a 42.5-mile Hope Turn-Operates daily from Ash­ crossing on the line saw 10 inches of ice stretch from Antlers, Okla., south to Paris, down to Hope, 30 miles east. Interchanges over the railhead, which subsequently had Texas. The lines intersect at Hugo. with UP and KCS's isolated segment (once to be chipped out by hand. Most of the on-line traffic consists of part of ex-Louisiana & Arkansas line from crushed limestone and forest products Alexandria to Hope). Tyson Foods chicken (pulpwood, logs, paper, lumber, wood feed mill at Hope is switched by KCS, but Dri-Line Gets a Brief Reprieve chips, and chemicals for paper making), Kiamichi supplies the cars. but commodities such as cement, grain, All trains operate daily, with the excep­ Short line Davenport, Rock Island & North­ sheet tinplate, flour, sugar, scrap paper tion of the Soup Job, which runs week­ western (profiled in the July 1992 PRN) and coal also polish Kiamichi's rails. Far days only. Two unit trains also run on Ki­ will be in business a while longer. Co-own­ from being a sleepy, weed-grown short amichi. Coal trains JJ004/JJ005 run be­ ers Burlington Northern and Soo Line had line, Kiamichi hauled more than 32,000 tween Buckskin Mine (in Wyoming's Pow­ targeted Feb. 1, 1993, as the last day of op­ carloads in 1991, a slight decrease due to der River Basin) and the Western Farmers eration, but disagreements between the the economic doldrums nationwide. Electric Cooperative power plant at Ft. two railroads have pushed the closing Except for the Paris and Ashdown Towson, east of Hugo. The coal train, us­ back yet again. Though efforts to dissolve trains, all trains operate as turns out of ing BN (and other roads') six-axle power, DRI&NW have been dragging along for Hugo. Service is daily on the east-west is manned by Kiamichi crews between nearly two years, sources inside the short line, up from three-days-a-week under Madill and Ft. Towson. Operation is two line say that the wheels are finally turning BN's last days of control. Starting east times per week, though more frequent and that the end should come in May or from Hugo, here's how they run: during peak demand. June. Specific details of the agreement are Valliant Turn-Leaves Hugo at 8 a.m. The other unit train operates once not known, but it is likely that Soo will get for the 25-mile run east to Valliant, Texas weekly between the Boorhem-Fields quar­ the Iowa trackage (currently part of its and the Texas, Oklahoma & Eastern in­ ry at Good (north of Hugo) and Donie, main line to Kansas City) and BN will get terchange. There, it swaps cars with Texas. It's left at Lakeside by BN and

42 • APRIL 1993 picked up by a Kiamichi crew for the run Southern 4159, nee KCS 159) on its 41-mile operates once per week on Fridays. east to Hugo. When loaded, the 65-car line between Ardendale (the UP inter­ As reported in PRN 351, the new Blue train is usually taken to Lakeside in sec­ change) and Crystal City. As a rule, the Mountain Railroad in the Walla Walla, tions, although Kiamichi has, on occasion, green Geep runs with its long hood point­ Wash., area and the sister Palouse River run the entire train. ed east to Gardendale. The only signifi­ Railroad operation at Colfax, Wash., pur­ To handle all this freight, Kiamichi uses cant customer is the Del Monte packing chased four ex-UP, nee Western Pacific a wide assortment of motive power: Two plant in Crystal City, whose major output GP35s from Connell Leasing. Going to the GP7s, six GP9s, four GP35Ms and one F7 A is spinach. In fact, an eight-foot statue of Walla Walla area operations are UP 784 control slug. The slug, an ex-KCS unit, is Pop eye the sailor stands in front of the (ex-WP 3003) and UP 790 (ex-WP 3010). paired with one of the GP7s (another ex­ Zavia County Courthouse in Crystal City. Going to the Colfax operations are UP 792 KCS unit) and is based out of Ashdown. Headquarters for the Crystal City is in its (ex-WP 3013) and UP 799 (ex-WP 3022). The other locomotives are scattered namesake town, and the railroad usually At the end of December, the ICC for­ throughout the line. All are painted bur­ runs at the end of the week, though dur­ mally approved the removal of the former gundy with white lettering, arrow strip­ ing harvest time, operations increase. Rock Island main line east of Colorado ing, and the road's Indian war shield logo Springs, Colo., between Falcon and Limon. on the cab sides, or on the nose, in the This line was later operated by Cadillac & case of the F-unit slug. Shortline Shorts Lake City, but legal problems finally killed off any hope of reopening this line. The State of Oklahoma has acquired Santa And finally, the 102-year-old San Fran­ Lone Star Extras Fe's former Orient line between Thomas, cisco Belt Railroad has called it quits after Clinton, Altus and Elmer, Okla., from long being a fixture on the city's water­ Texas, Gonzales & Northern began opera­ Texas & Oklahoma Railroad during Jan­ front between the Presidio and Islais tions in November 1992 on a 12-mile, for­ uary. Farrmail Corporation, operator of the Creek. The city-owned port, faced with se­ mer Southern Pacific branch between Har­ ex-BN and Rock Island lines around Clin­ vere financial problems that it blames on wood and Gonzales, Texas. Motive power ton, has signed up to operate this ex-Santa the waterfront's shift to tourism, has can­ is SW1500 No. 92 from Sabine River & Fe trackage as well. celed Kyle Railways' operating contract for Northern. TG&N operates Monday, Camas Prairie Railroad had to bring the Belt Line-though the railroad will not Wednesday and Friday mornings and is out rotary snowplow for the first time in yet be torn up. based at the ex-SP depot in Gonzales. Main several years in late December and Jan­ Thanks to Mark Zaputil, Norm customers include Purina and Tyson Foods. uary. Rotary CSP 26 was called upon to Schultze, Carl M. Lehman, Ben Kerr, TG&N interchanges with SP at Harwood. clear up to 10 feet of snow off the rugged George Cockle, Jeff Forbis of McCloud Crystal City Railroad, operating near Grange-ville Line in late December, Jan. Railway, Kiamichi Railroad, Paul Didelius, the Rio Grande River valley south of San 7 and Jan. 21. The rotary was used only Vic Neves, Ed Nervo, Ken Meeker, NORTH­ Antonio, uses GP7 4159 (ex-Kansas City on Thursdays as the Grangeville Local WEST RAILFAN and FLIMSIES.

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work on a project to study potential Am­ ger waiting area. Closer to L.A., the depot More Amtrak Delays trak service between EI Paso, Texas, and in Commerce still has not been started, Denver via Pueblo, Colo. The State of New with a maze of bureaucratic red tape de­ Heavy snows in the Sierra Nevada have Mexico is sponsoring the study through laying the project ...Contrary to reports, once again repeatedly delayed the Califor­ the Rails Planning and Projects Section of the Burbank, Calif., airport station stop for nia Zephyr, which on at least one occasion the State Highway Transportation Depart­ the San Diegans has not been rebuilt as arrived 15 hours late at its Oakland, Calif., ment. A related long-term issue is money is yet to be found for this project. terminus. The California Zephyrstardi­ whether or not the Southwest Chief will This location is two miles west of the old ness also has a ripple effect on the Desert remain on its northern route through Ra­ SP station (and current Metrolink stop) on Wi nd as it travels through Las Vegas, Nev., ton Pass, or run via Belen, Clovis, N.M., the Coast Route. on its way to Los Angeles. and Amarillo, Texas. A plan for expanding Even with the Beech Grove Shops in In­ A derailment and a shifted load also the Southwest Chietto add Auto Train­ dianapolis, Ind., operating under a cur­ disrupted Amtrak service. A Southern Pa­ type service to and from Arizona might tailed schedule because of limited funds, cific train derailed at Ferrum, Calif., in the make the southern route more attractive and with a number of employees fur­ low desert east of Indio on Feb. 11, forcing for lengthened trains. loughed, work on heavy overhauls contin­ the westbound Sunset Limited to termi­ ues. In the locomotive backshop for over­ nate at Phoenix, Ariz. A make-up train op­ haul as of Feb. 16 were : F40s 304, 310, erated from Los Angeles to Phoenix on Amtrak Miscellany 280, 276, 281, 277, 318, 308, 237, 302, and Feb. 12, with passengers transferred to 257; GP40TCs 194 and 196. the previous day's westbound Sunset The extensive job of sandblasting and re­ As for Amtrak's two a.c.-driven F69s, Limited for the trip east. painting the trainsheds at Los Angeles both were off the property as of mid­ A major disruption of San Joaquin ser­ Union Station was finally completed in February and back at EMD's La Grange, vice took place when two wide-loads on a February. With improved connecting bus Ill. , plant. The trouble-plagued F69s had westbound Santa Fe freight struck the service right at platform level, a fresh coat been largely confined to Hiawatha service Stanislaus River bridge on Jan. 28, damag­ of paint on the depot buildings and im­ in the ChicagO-Milwaukee corridor. When t ing the span. While some freight traffic proved signage, the depot is looking the they entered service in the winter of 1990, was rerouted on the paralleling SP route, best it has in years. Plans for some of the the F69s were seen as offering an ideal Amtrak passengers were cross-bused be­ new office building construction adjacent combination of EMD passenger locomotive tween Riverbank and Fresno. The line to the back (east side) of the depot have expertise and German computer-con­ was closed for four days. been thrown into turmoil with a change in trolled a.c. technology. But the locomo­ plans for the location of the new headquar­ tives did not live up to their billing as they ters for the L.A. Metropolitan Transit Au­ suffered chronic road failures. As it stands In the Future thority. Owner Catellus is reported to be now, their future is uncertain. very unhappy about the change in plans. Thanks to Bill Farmer, Ai Tuner, Ed An indication of where long-term planning Work is underway in Fullerton, Calif., to Von Nordeck, Sam Malone, Rob Carlson, is headed was an ad for consultants to expand the ticket agent's area and passen- Eddie Sands and George N. Knotts.

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There were several locomotives being serviced at C&NW's Council Bluffs, Iowa, roundhouse two weeks before it closed, a victim of cost-cutting measures. Posing on Sept. 15, 1992, the last day when the eight-stall roundhouse was entirely full, are, from left to right, C40-8 8572, 5050 70 14, GP40 5500, C40-8 85 1 1 and 5060 8002. Now in the works is "Plan X," which will consoldiate UPjC&NW operations in Council Bluffs. R.J. Williams

If the control application is approved, tion before the ICC " ...simply because it UP Files Control Application with ICC UP is planning to expand joint marketing isn't going to do us any good to fight it." efforts over C&NW lines. For example, UP As expected, Union Pacific filed an applica­ said it might establish an interchange tion with the Interstate Commerce Commis­ with SoolCP at Clinton, Iowa, presumably Council Bluffs Ya rd Coordination sion in early February for authority to con­ diverting traffic that presently moves via trol Chicago & North Western. We were still Kansas City to that junction. C&NW and UP aren't waiting for the ICC to waiting for our copy of the three-volume UP's company line is still that it has no act before combining their operations in tome to appear in our mailbox as of press definite plan to buy a bigger stake in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Under what's known time, but we can provide the following in­ C&NW. "If we were going to buy it all," UP as "Plan X" to the railroads, UP began mak­ formation now from trade press reports. Chairman Dick Davidson told a group of ing up C&NW's CBPRA (Bluffs-Proviso) and To secure ICC approval, UP must analysts at an Omaha meeting on Feb. 2, CBSXA (Bluffs-Sioux City) trains at its demonstrate that its control of C&NW "we should have done it four or five years Council Bluffs yard on Jan. 12. These trains would serve the public interest. Accord­ ago when its stock was selling for about sometimes pick up traffic at the C&NW ing to UP, public benefits of control would half of what it is now. " According to David­ yard before leaving town. Meanwhile, UP is flow primarily from the extension of UP son, C&NW's track and equipment are making up certain grain trains on the long single-line service to C&NW-served com­ presently in good shape, and all UP aims to tracks in C&NW's Council Bluffs yard. munities in Minnesota, Iowa and Wiscon­ accomplish through the control process is Following the shutdown of the Council sin. C&NW isn't as competitive as it could to make sure they stay that way. Bluffs diesel shop in October 1992 and the be for north-south movements in these In his remarks to the press, BN Chair­ yard coordination, the North Western loco­ states due to its relatively short hauls ; UP man Gerald Grinstein indicated he didn't motive population at Council Bluffs has de­ would have ample incentive to price believe that for a minute. Said Grinstein, clined substantially. On Jan. 21 only GP7s longer single-system moves more aggres­ "The ultimate takeover and absorption of 4101 and4155 and GP40 5518 were present. sively. The proposed combination, said the C&NW will not only add traffic UP, would compete with Burlington opportunities [for UP] but will give them the Northern head-to-head for movements be­ chance to take a substantial amount of traf­ 1992 Financial Results tween the Twin Cities and Texas and pro­ fic away from others. So you have the vide the first single-line service between strong getting significantly stronger. " Chicago & North Western Holdings Corp. Minnesota and California. Nonetheless, BN won't oppose the applica- reported a loss of $114.9 million for calen-

44 . APRIL 1993 dar 1992, slightly more than the $102.8 were giving up their slim hopes of reviv­ GP7 4284 and GP9 4547 have left the million loss reported for 1991. Neither fig­ ing rail service. In January, Nebraska roster ...C&NW is building a new addi­ ure is an accurate indicator of the health State Senator Chris Beutler of Lincoln in­ tion onto the east end of the Proviso of the business, though, since both are the troduced a bill in the legislature that diesel shop that will place parts of result of a variety of one-time accounting would authorize the state to receive the tracks 3, 3 Y2 and 4 under cover ... charges. In 1992, write-offs for the recapi­ Cowboy right-of-way as a gift, following Train CYPRA was spotted at Sterling, talization and prepayment of high-interest formal abandonment and scrapping of the Ill., on Jan. 29 with an unusual consist. debt early in the year, employee buyouts rail line, for use as a hiking trail. C&NW Behind C&NW SD40-2 6877 were two BN late in the year and pension expenses, has apparently offered to convey its inter­ locomotives, C30-7 5091 and SD60M along with payment of preferred stock div­ est in the land to the state for free. At 317 9270. BN's 9200s rarely make it into idends, offset pretax operating income of miles, the Cowboy would make one heck Chicago on home rails, much less on the about $86 million. of a bike ride. North Western. Later, on Feb. 10, Gener­ For the year, revenues advanced 1 per­ al Electric Super 7 locomotives 3006 and cent to $985 million despite a 4 percent 3010 were seen at Proviso ...North drop-off in coal shipments. Motor vehicle Motive Power Notes Western fired up SD18 6633, which had movements leapt 34 percent during 1992, been stored east of the Proviso diesel while intermodal traffic rose 12 percent Train CBPRA rolled into Proviso on Feb. shop for several months, on Feb. 13 and and grain movements were up 7 percent. 12 with an unusual locomotive consist­ sent it west, strobe light flashing, be­ C&NW expects coal traffic to increase SD50 7022, C40-8 8571, GP38-2 4609, hind SD40-2s 6855 and 6931. during 1993. SD60 8029 and GP15-1 4410. The 4410 had just received a fresh coat of paint, ap­ - parently at Transco in Oelwein, Iowa, and Extras Rapid City Service Increased wore Operation Lifesaver decals. The 8029, which was the first C&NW unit to Under the new Commonwealth Edison C&NW Chairman Robert Schmiege met display Operation Lifesaver logos, jour­ coal transportation contract described in with South Dakota's Congressional dele­ neyed out to Transco in late January for our last column, C&NW won a chunk of gation in Washington D.C. on Jan. 26 to new decals, apparently because the ones Commonwealth Edison'S coal movement assure the legislators that the North VMV applied when the unit was repaint­ to Plaines, IlL, at Chicago Central & Pa­ Western would keep its line between ed in December didn't stick too well. cific's expense. Starting in January, Colony, Wyo., Rapid City and Crawford, SD40-2 6901 appeared at Proviso Yard in C&NW began hauling coal for Plaines Neb., in operation. Schmiege promised fresh paint on Jan. 29. from the UP connection at Council Bluffs that the North Western would budget GP7 4140 may look like your everyday (or Fremont) to Broadview, Ill., on Indi­ $1.2 million a year for track maintenance North Western high-hood Geep, but in­ ana Harbor Belt. CC&P's portion of the and improvements, needed primarily side its mundane cab lurks a high-tech haul has been cut back to the short south of Rapid City even though that part wonder of the 1990s, a cellular fax ma­ Chicago-area run between Broadview of the line is presently unprofitable. To chine. Chicago & North Western in­ and Plaines, just southwest of Joliet ... stimulate additional freight traffic, C&NW stalled the device, according to employ­ C&NW hopes to send 100 to 150 employ­ began operating a second weekly train ees, to enable the Chicago headquarters ees through engineer school during 1993. between Rapid City and Crawford during to fax all necessary paperwork (such as The company is conducting classes in the week of Jan. 18. switch lists and hazardous material way­ the Chicago headquarters ...The Iowa Schmiege warned the legislators, bills) directly to the train crew. The 4140 Falls Historical Society hopes to acquire though, that Dakota, Minnesota & East­ was demonstrating this hardware at Mills Tower, the last interlocking tower ern's ex-C&NW line between Pierre and Madison, Wis., in February, where there in the state of Iowa, and the former Illi­ Rapid City is in danger of abandonment. aren't a lot of C&NW clerks left to do pa­ nois Central passenger station at Iowa According to Schmiege, this line needs perwork anymore. Falls from CC&P. The historic tower, federal or state grants of $7 million a year Chicago & North Western's surviving which guarded the CC&P (IC) and to cover necessary maintenance. While F7s, some former executive locomotives, C&NW (formerly Rock Island) crossing, the "PRC " line is of vital concern to South made it up to Oelwein for storage during would be renovated and opened to the Dakota, according to state railroad official late January. C&NW 401 and 423 headed public as a tourist attraction. Both prop­ John Thune, that amount of money simply up the Iowa Northern from Cedar Rapids erties are on the National Register of isn't available now, though the Congres­ on Jan. 18, while F7As 400 and 402 and Historic Places. Whether CC&P will go sional delegation hopes to shake it out of F7Bs 315, 410 and 411 followed on Jan. along with this plan is unknown. the Federal money tree. 25. The C&NW computer indicates the Thanks to Donald E. Va ugJm, Bruno As winter snows drifted over the silent 403 made the trip, too. SD40-2s 6805, Berzins, Kenneth J. Larson, Larry Gholson, rails of the Cowboy Line east of Chadron, 6853, 6883, 6917 and 6920 were stored at Bob Stein, Michael M. Bartels, Jim Seacrest, Neb., it appeared even Nebraska officials Oelwein on Jan. 6. Dave Kroeger and THE MIxED TRAIN.

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the 11,480-ton train. One hundred gallons of diesel fuel spilled next to St. Croix Lake, but caused no environmental harm. The line was opened Feb. 11, with WC train NO. 4 being the first through the wreck site. Fortunately, none of the crew members were injured. Cost of the wreck has been estimated at $1 million. In late January, WC added two more trains between North Fond du Lac and Chicago. Trains 48/49 were added to take pressure of trains 42 and 43. Train 48 is called Monday through Saturday at 10 a.m., runs to Chicago, then returns as train 49 upon the crew's rest, usually be­ tween 5 and 6 a.m.

Expansion on the Gateway?

As reported last month, Gateway Western is considering a couple of opportunities for expansion. In addition to operating CSX trackage in St. Clair County, GWWR may purchase from Conrail the double-track fa­ Two CSX Dash 8-40Cs on an eastbound taconite train await a new crew at WC's Stevens cility from WR Tower to Warm Cabin in Point yard on Jan. 31, 1993. CSX power is regularly found on these joint CSXjWC trains, the East St. Louis area, plus a Conrail which run from Minnesota's Iron Range to Birmingham, Ala. INTERURBAN PRESS: Andrew S. Nelson branch that leaves the main at Wann. Gateway Western plans to operate this as the United Transportation Union to rep­ "Gateway Eastern. " IAIS Moving Union Pacific Units resent them in labor negotiations with The paint booth has become busy Wisconsin Central. This vote essentially again. SW1500s 1503 and 1506 will be Iowa Interstate began moving more Union gives FRVR employees equal footing painted at East St. Louis, while GP40 3020 Pacific units to National Railway at Silvis with their unionized counterparts on the will be contracted out. in January. This time, instead of SD40-2s, Green Bay & Western. Latest reports in­ Sperry Rail Car 130 made a visit to the which moved over IAIS trackage in the dicate that the FRVR will not be ab­ GWWR main and it was spotted in Van­ fali, SD60Ms are being sent for warranty sorbed into WC subsidiary Fox Valley & dalia, Mo., on Jan. 11. modification. Iowa Interstate is permitted Western until late April and GB&W not to use the units as working power, and before Memorial Day. has isolated its own power to use UP's. A WC/CSX loaded USX taconite train How Much Red? The first three SD60Ms, 6154, 6155, and bound for Birmingham, Ala., derailed on 6195, left Council Bluffs on Jan. 19. ex-Chicago & North Western trackage We've had readers ask us how many Also on the motive power front, rumor south of Solon Springs, Wis., on Feb. 10. Chicago Central units are in the red paint has it that Iowa Interstate may purchase after encountering a broken rail. CSX scheme. We've broken it down by model another Ako to go along with RS-36 900. SD40-2s 8142 and 8161, WC SD45 6505 and it looks like this : GP8s 1504, 1505, and 23 cars were scattered along the 1585, 1591, and 1593; GP7s 1601 and 1602 right-of-way. Both CSX units were dam­ (ex-Katy) ; GP9 1742 (ex-IC 9242); GP10s New Trains, a Wreck, and the UTU aged but are expected to be repaired. 1705, 1719, 1743 1745, 1749, 1750, 1765, SD45 6505 on the otherhand wasn't so 1775, and 1777; GP 18s 1700 and 1806 On Feb. 5, Fox River Valley Railroad em­ lucky as it had its frame bent and short (both rebuilt at Waterloo); GP20 1878 (ex­ ployees voted overwhelmingly to allow hood caved in when the slack ran in from MILW 978); GP38s 2000-2009. Now you ask how many CC units sur­ vive in old IC black? There are 11, and they are: SW14s 1300 and 1301 (painted A RAILFAN'S GUIDE TO by CC); GP18s 9402, 9403, 9408, 9413, TRACTION 9420, 9426-9428; GP28 9438 (first CC re­ Prototypes and Models STEVENS PASS paint in 1987). "The magazine fo r the traction enthusiast" "BN's Intermodal Conduit Last month we reported GP38 2003 out • Great Photos • Book Reviews To of service due to an electrical fire. It was • 36 to 44 pages • Hints sent to Wisconsin Central's North Fond du • Puget Sound" • L etters Maps Lac shop for work, and should be back in A complete guide to the best train watChing sites service now. in Stevens Pass with access routes to Great Northern Railway's switchbacks. snowsheds. and Also, Chicago Central has apparently old Cascade Tu nnel. And. a bonus guide to won another coal contract, this time for SUBSCRIBE TODAY Tr inidadl Detailed history on construction of the Commonwealth Edison at Waukegan, m. railroad through the pass. USGS Maps. 62 CC still delivers to the Plaines, m., facility, 6 Bi-monthly Issues halftone photographs, 72 pages. 51/, ' x 8'12' $14.95 (postage paid). but lost the haulage, as we reported last Only ...... $1600 .. Immediate Delivery Guaranteed month, to the C&NW. 12 Issues ...... Only s3000 .. Dealer Inquiries We lcomed Th anks to Bob Plough, Allan Hunt, Wis­ Mail to: Box 526, Canton , Ohio 44701 consin Central, Michael Udelhoven, Scott Dealer Inquiries Welcome ROBERT C. DEL GROSSO I GNP Publications Rt 4. Box 6ZI-A Bonners Ferr . 10 83805 Muskopf, Jason Davis and Ch icago Central.

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mile area between Imuris and Magdalena, der. The routing of the cars would be Lease Mania about 50 miles below the U.S.-Mexican Burlington Northern to Fort Worth, Texas, border. Original estimates by FNM officials Southern Pacific to Eagle Pass, Texas, and National Railways of Mexico (FNM) con­ called for 10 to 30 days to reopen the line. FNM to Monterrey. FNM will move the tinues to battle its motive power short­ Mexico City embargoed traffic at Nogales reefers inthe daily Piedras Negras (across ages with units leased from U.S. compa­ and rerouted some freight via the ex-SBC the Rio Grande from Eagle Pass) to Monter­ nies. Union Pacific has been a major sup­ route through the MexicalilCalexico gate­ rey passenger train. The fast transit time plier of locomotives, and more recently, way. Traffic to and from the Ford Motor and security at the Mexican warehouse will Morrison Knudsen has leased 13 of its MPI plant at Hermosillo was of major concern protect the refrigerator cars while out of the SD40M-2s to FNM. The latest group of and received priority treatment. One of the U.S. Back hauls of frozen vegetables and cit­ American diesels to work on the FNM is first northbound movements involved 55 rus concentrate are expected to fillthe cars 15 SD40s and SD45s from National Rail­ carloads of autos, which met the rerouted on the northbound trips. way Equipment. The former C&NW, UP, 1ADHFT3-18 auto parts train near the Im­ FNM doesn't have mechanical refriger­ BN and CSX units are still in their former perial Valley border crossing. Fortunately, ator cars and the perishable traffic that it paint schemes with NREX stenciled below the repairs were completed quickly and has, mostly along the Pacific Coast, is car­ the cab window. the line was reopened on Jan. 27. ried in refrigerated truck trailers on flat­ The SD40 series of locomotives is the cars. In the days of iced refrigeration, Pa­ most common EMD power used on the cific Fruit Express cars were used to move FNM. The pre-merger National Railways Passenger News the winter vegetables from Sinaloa to No­ of Mexico (NdeM) acquired 72 SD40s gales, Ariz., on the SP. (8500-8521 and 8536-8585), 14 SDP40s During December, Mexico City-Monterrey (8522-8535), 99 SD40-2s (8700-8798) and train El Regiomontanowas running with 68 remanufactured SD40-2s from Morrison four sleeping cars and two first-class coach­ Extra Items Knudsen, EMD and VMV (13009-13076). es. The El Jarocho, Mexico City-Veracruz, The Pacific Railroad purchased four SD40- had two sleepers, one special first-class Improved freight movement at the Eagle 2s (13001-13004), but traded to NdeM for a coach and several second-class coaches. Pass/Piedras N egras interchange is the like number of C30-7s before delivery. The The mixed trains serving the Durango result of a new procedure that will have final four SD40-2s (13005-13008) were pur­ area are using one or two GA8s for power trains pre-blocked in Eagle Pass, Texas, chased by the United Southeastern Rail­ and two to four coaches. Freight traffic is by SP. The trains of 25 to 55 cars will be ways and carried the numbers 601-604. largely the movement of short and small moved as a unit by FNM from Piedras Ne­ The six-axle EMD locomotives are com­ logs carried in stock cars. The Durango gras. It is expected that three of these monly used on lines north and west of area is a lumber center and location of trips will be run per week ...Interest in Mexico City, including mineral trains on many U.S. made motion pictures. a rail route between Mexico and the Pacific Division to the steel mill at the Four dining cars are now on hand at Columbia has increased with the wave of Pacific port of Lazaro Cardenas, the main Chihuahua for use on the Copper Canyon free trade. Two major gaps would have to line to the U.S. border at Laredo and coal trains, however they are not currently in be closed, however, between Tegucigal­ trains on the Piedras Nigras line. The Car­ service. Several 6000 series special first­ pa, Honduras, and Managua, Nicaragua, denas Division between San Luis Potosi class coaches have been transferred to plus 200 swampy miles between Panama and Tampico is nearly the exclusive do­ Chihuahua from Mexico City. and Columbia. If this plan is ever com­ main of SD40s. A visit to the locomotive pleted, major upgrading of existing lines shop at Cardenas, at the top of the climb would be required. A trans-isthmus line up from the Gulf of Mexico, will usually Perishables is proposed across Costa Rica between yield only 8500-series SD40s or SDP40s. Parismina in the east and Guajenquil on A Washington State company is planning to the Pacific Ocean ...SP has an agree­ transport apples and pears from the Pacific ment with General Motors to move autos Mucha Agua Northwest to Mexico in mechanical refriger­ and parts between the U.S. and Mexico. ator cars. Sun Country Transportation will It is expected that the agreement will re­ The heavy rains during January caused se­ ship the fruit to a warehouse leased from sult in 21,000 carloads. vere damage to FNM's line south of No­ FNM at its yard in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Thanks to Ed Von Nordeck, Bill gales, Sonora. On Jan. 21, the raging Mag­ and will benefit from improved custom and Farmer, H.A. Th orne, P. J. Gratz, JOURNAL dalena River washed out the track in a 12- agricultural procedures at the Mexican bor- OF COMMERCE and Jim Wi cks.

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ABOVE: Back in the days when open-top auto racks were the rule rather than the exception, BN train No. 3, led by a Colorado & Southern-lettered 5040-2, a U33C and two S045s, rumbles over the Sinsinawa River on BN's Chicago-Twin Cities main line near Portage, III., on May 14, 1977. This segment of the river route was also shared by the Illinois Central Gulf (now Chicago Central). Wonder how many of the those 1977 Fords are still on the road? Mark Nelson

48 . APRIL 1993 TOP: Two San Manuel Railroad GP38-2s and one National Railway Leasing GP38 roll a string of hoppers over a trestle at Putnam, Ariz., on April 20, 1992. San Manuel connects with the Copper Basin Railroad at Hayden, Ariz. Chris Butts ABOVE: Union Pacific train NPSEZ (North Platte-Seattle trailers) rolls westbound over the bridge spanning the mouth of the John Day River east of Rufus, Ore. Tracks on the opposite side of the Columbia River belong to BN. Greg Brown

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50 . APRIL 1993 ABOVE LEFT: The almond blossoms were blooming when two ex-WP GP3Ss rolled local LFE41 across the Tuolumne River on UP's Tidewa­ ter Southern Branch between Stockton and Turlock, Calif., on Feb. 22, 1991. Ted Benson TOP RIGHT: During the 1970s, two slug units built from F7Bs helped two pairs of F7As move Portland, Ore.-bound Ii trains up the S.3-mile, 3.6 percent climb southward from Tide Flats Ya rd in Tacoma, Wash. Here we see one of sets, along with an MP1SAC, working at Tacoma in February 1978. Ed Austin ABOVE RIGHT: Willamette Valley Railroad SW1200 No. 2273 pauses on a trestle between the SP interchange at Independence, Ore., and Mountain Fir Lumber in May 1987. Ed Collar Jr.

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LEFT: Chicago & Illinois Midland SO 18 61 and 5038-2 73 roll a south­ bound freight over a ballast-deck trestle in central Illinois' tabletop-flat countryside west of Oakfield, III., on Feb. 2, 1992. Charles Streetman TOP: Kansas City Southern train 53, bound for New Orleans, heads across the Bonnet Carre Spillway at Norco, La., in October 1991. Trailing 5040-2 657 is rare S040X 703, at the time the test bed for EMO's 5050. Alex Mayes ABOVE: A B40-8W 502 leads a GP60B across Muir trestle in Martinez, Calif., with train 985 on July 24, 1992. Greg Brown

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isitors with any sensitivity .leam quickly that Cana­ CP built the framework of its new U.S. system on the dians are not simply Americans who have odd ac­ ruins of two storied American railroads. Soo's 1985 ac­ cents and use multi-colored money. Many Canadi­ quisition of the slimmed-down Milwaukee Road had not Vans are keenly proud of their cultural links to England or been a success, but the potential benefit of the combina­ France and are determined to maintain political and eco­ tion to CP became clearer when Soo won haulage rights nomic independence from the U.S. To a great extent, the across Michigan from Chessie System, creating a route two Canadian transcontinental railways, Canadian Pacific through the U.S. from Portal, N.D., to Detroit. In 1991, CP and Canadian National, reflect this independent streak. bought the bankrupt Delaware & Hudson for a pittance. Both railways could have been (and CP almost was) built D&H couldn't make money as an independent compet­

south of the Great Lakes. However, that would have sent ing with Conrail, but it provided CP with invaluable . ... both enterprises through the U.S. To Canadians of the trackage rights over the Blue Giant into the New York late 19th and early 20th centuries, that was unthinkable. City area, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. CP is now Instead, both railways remained completely Canadian by arranging entry into Boston over via Guilford. building hundreds of miles of track through the barren Late in 1991, CN unveiled its own strategy to move and uninhabited forests north of Lake Superior. south, centered on a $150 million tunnel under the St. Neither railways nor nations can survive on patrio­ Clair River between Port Huron, Mich., and Sarnia, Onto tism alone. Starting in the earliest days of the Confeder­ The tunnel, which will accommodate auto racks and dou­ ation, Canada established high tariffs to protect home­ blestacks, firmly establishes the GTW route through grown industries from American competition. As long as Chicago as CN's main line for the future. CN completed Canadians were willing to accept a relatively closed its route around the Great Lakes with Duluth, Minn.,­ economy, those industries survived, providing the rail­ Chicago haulage rights over BN in November 1992, and ways with the traffic they needed to remain in business. just a month later countered CP's thrust into the U.S. But the long-term results were predictable: high costs, Northeast with a haulage agreement bringing CN traffic declining industrial exports and growing joblessness. (and locomotives) directly into Conrail's Selkirk, N.Y., hub . The Conservative government of Brian Mulroney con­ CPOs response, in effect, was "Who needs a new tun­ vinced Canadians during the mid-1980s nel? " CP did lay plans to enlarge the that lowering trade barriers with the Detroit River tunnel for autoracks and U.S. would improve the nation's eco- hi-cube parts cars, but its stack trains nomic fortunes. Free trade creates both will stay south of the Lakes. In October, winners and losers. An efficient compa­ CP began sending a train a day over ny should benefit by expanding its mar­ CN, CP Norfolk Southern's old Nickel Plate line kets. Conversely, an inefficient producer between Chicago and Buffalo, which will be destroyed by the new foreign has no clearance impediments. The re­ competition. Unfortunately, many of the sult? With the enlargement of the Tun­ biggest companies in Canada's indus­ Move nel City, Wis., bore on the old Milwau­ trial heartland, which also were the kee, CP can run a stack train from Van- biggest shippers on CP and CN, fell into couver to Montreal via Minneapolis, the latter category. As steel mills and Chicago, Buffalo and Albany-over factories cut back output and ship­ 2,100 miles in the U.S. and only about ments, Canadian rail traffic drooped. to the 1,300 in Canada. When CN's new tun­ These woes were compounded by nel is completed in 1994, the wholesale aggressive cost-slashing and price-cut­ diversion of Canadian freight traffic ting by American railroads following through the U.S. can begin. passage of the Staggers Act in 1980. South Like the industrial shakeout that While the American giants battled followed the free trade agreement, each other incessantly over existing this process is creating winners and traffic, they also weren't above raiding business off the losers. U.S. railroads and railroaders will win big-con­ Canadian lines. Stack trains bound from the Pacific Coast sider how much of D&H would have been abandoned if to Montreal, for example, began running on U.S. railroads Conrail had acquired it. The two Canadian railroads also south of the border for all but the last few miles. expect to come out ahead by reducing their costs and re­ Fighting back was difficult for the two Canadian turning to profitability (both lost money in 1992). transcontinentals ; it simply costs more to do business in Canadian railroaders, meanwhile, are big losers. Both Canada than in the U.S. Diesel fuel and other petroleum CP and CN are furiously downsizing. CP has announced products are more expensive. Taxes are higher, too. plans to abandon its Canadian Atlantic Railway division to (Even though it is owned by the Federal government, St. John, N.B.,-when you reach the Atlantic through CN must pay property taxes.) These burdens made it Philadelphia and New York, why mess around with a line impossible for Canadian railways to cut rates to U.S. lev­ across Maine that loses $20 million a year? CP is also ex­ els and remain profitable. In Western Canada, where ex­ ploring trackage rights with CN in Ontario and Quebec. w ports of grain, ore and coal dominate traffic, CP and CN According to CP President Rob Ritchie, "It's open season held their own, but as Canadian industry disintegrated, for everything east of Chicago and Thunder Bay. " At CN, the survival of the remaining network was in doubt. tough new boss Paul Tellier plans to cut 10,000 employees CP and CN then settled upon the same radical solu­ by 1997 and started 1993 by firing six senior vice presi­ tion to this dilemma. Each decided to turn its back on dents. Eventually, when the traffic shifts southward, those Canada by moving as much of its respective railroad op­ lonely lines across the Canadian Shield will also be at risk. erations as possible into the U.S. And what of the two transcontinentals as symbols of I Both railroads had long owned U.S. subsidiaries- prin­ Canadian independence? After all, a railroad that goes cipally Soo Line for CP and Grand Trunk Western for CN. two-thirds of the way across the continent in the States Neither Soo nor GTW went all the way around the inland isn't very Canadian. Perhaps the issue will never arise barrier of the Great Lakes, and both were used primarily as free trade realigns national loyalties throughout for local U.S. and international movements. But in the North America. And an economist would say that's as it I- 1980s, that began to change. should be. We wonder if Canadians aren't so sure. PRN

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