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PACIFIC RAIL' NEWS OVER 60 ISSUES - ONLY $1.25 EACH! 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 Sep 79 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 Now Available: These Pacific RailNews issues from INTERURBAN 1979 to 1991 (some are in limited quantities). Original cover prices were from $1.50 to $3.50. PRESS Order now and save! P.O. Box 6128 The deal-$1.25 per issue (10 issue minimum). Glendale CA 91225 Californians add 8.25 percent sales tax. Shipping: Add $2.50 first ten copies, then 25¢ each additional copy. No phone orders, please. Use your VISA or MasterCard ($20.00 minimum). Offer expires May 31, 1993. Send card number, expiration date, and name as shown on card. PACIFIC RAIL NEWS 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. 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Steve Glischinski PACIFIC RAn.NEWS (ISSN 8750·8486) is published monthly by Interurban Press (a corporation), 1741 Gardena Ave., Glendale, CA 91204. Second·class postage paid at Glendale, CA 91209 and additional mailing of· fices. POSTMASTER: Send address cbanges to: PACIFIC RAILNEWS, P.O. Box 6128, Glendale, CA 91225. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 530 (U.S.) for 12 issues, S58 for 24 issues. Foreign add 56 for each 12 issues. Single copy 55 postpaid from Glendale office (subject to change without notice). CHANGE OF ADDRESS: The Post Office does not regularly forward 2nd Class Mail and PACIFIC RArLNEWS is not responsible for copies not forwarded or destroyed by the Post Office. Replacement copieslPO notifications will be billed. Please allow us at least four weeks for any address change. ADVERTISING RATES: Contact Interurban Press, P.O. Box 379, Waukesha, W1 53187; (414) 542·4900. MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE: For all subscription problems and inquiries call: (800) 899·8722 or outside U.S. (818) 240·9130 Two Burlington Northern officers won an award from the AAR for outstanding technological development in 1992 for BN's natural gas-fueled locomotive program, which is now in its 11th year. Here natural gas-fueled S040-2s 7890 and 7149, which was recently put on-line, and spliced by fuel tender BNGT 101, lead S060Ms 9298 and 9258 on an eastbound 026 coal train through Rowley, Mont., on Jan. 29, 1993. Kirk Petty 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.
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