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RECOMMENDATION IN conjunction with Bill Withuhn's cri· tique of GS-4 4449 beginning on page 22, we would be remiss if we didn't alert you to and warmly recommend the stereo/quad 12-inch LP recording Extl'a 4449 North EXTRA 4449 NORTH (SB4 4507 from Mobile Fidelity Records, 12" LP or TAPE Box 336, Burbank, CA 91503). Bill's article is for the mind. Side 2 of the record is for Seven trackside scenes alongside the the heart-22Y2 minutes of on-board sound Southern Railway mainline between taped from behind the cab as the great Birmingham and Alexandria, includ Lima worked up from a standing start to ing two during a storm - thunder 78 mph. Brad Miller's mike captured all: unintelligible shouts behind the backhead; and all. alternating air and steam whistles; undu ...And, a complete 22+ minute thrill lating stack talk-an evocation of every thing that the mighty machine once meant of a lifetime, in the 4449's cab! to California and now means to (;\ all the nation. A 4449 hosanna. �

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GARY VIEL BAUM ...... •... STAFF LIBRAR IAN Inside Chatham • • • Summer is rapidly rushing in on us, and with it for many of our family Kenneth M. Ardinger ...•...... •.... Contributing Staff of readers is a new season of train-chasing activity, both local and on Edward M. Berntsen ...... •...... Contributing Staff longer trips even if only as a portion of an overall vacation. Railroading George R. Cockle ...... •.... Contributing Staff is always a more active pastime during the warmer months. Many just Doug E. Cummings ....•...... •.... Contributing Staff will not brave the terrible cold of winter snows and rain to chase trains Tom Eikerenkotter ...... •..•..•...... Contributing Staff RobertL. Hogan ...... •..•...... Contributing Staff over, say, Southern Pacific's Donner Pass - was there any snow! - on Don Jewell ...... •...... Contributing Staff an otherwise miserable dark December day but prefer, instead, to Daniel B. Kuhn .....•...... •...... Contributing Staff become an armchair railroad enthusiast when the sun is not guaranteed Joe McMillan ...... Contributing Staff to be warm and out. To those of you who watch trains only in summer, Ken Meeker ...... •..... Contributing Staff dust off your camera and notebook, buy a supply of fresh film - trusty PeterJ. Replinger ...... •..... Contributing Staff Virgil C. Staff ...... •...... Contributing Staff old 616 size ceased production this past winter - and take to the F. Hoi Wagner, Jr...... •..•..•..•..... Contributing Staff mountains. Your time is here. J. Harlen Wilson ...... Contributing Staff One might actually" wonder if it really left, however, for neither snow nor rain have been felt much in this West of ours. Drought is somewhat of a new word for western railroading, but it has certainly become appropriate as the summer of 1977 approaches. Across San Francisco qx ©Contents Copyright 1977

Bay from here, for example, the Southern Pacific car washer previously ALL RIGHTS RESERVED used to wash Amtrak streamliners is shut off. Windows are washed by hand, with a bucket! Enthusiasts and some passengers -the new IN THIS MONTH'S PACIFIC NEWS throngs nocking to ride Amneet equipment don't know any other size SOU THERN PACIF IC IN WARTIM E ...... 6 - may not like the smaller windows on Amtrak's new cars. I'll bet the STEA MING WITH TH E 4449 ...... 8 window washer does. HAWA II TO CA LIFORN IA TO WASH ING TON ... " 16 Elsewhere in this issue we've researched out a brief one-page article YES, TH ER E'S A DROUGHT IN CA LIFORN IA ..... 17 WESTERN LO COMO TIV E NEWS/OU T EAST ..... 18 to go with a pair of photographs brought back from a trip to the Pacific SANTA FE/SCR EAM ING EAG LE ...... 19 Northwest by Tom Gray of the original Southern Pacific right-of-way WESTERN PAC IF IC/UN ION PAC IF IC ...... 20 north of Redding through the missing waters of Lake Shasta. As the AMTRAK/SOU THERN PAC IF IC ...... 22

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4 MAY.1977 un PACIAC LEADS THE WAY II "FUR SAYERS" Francisco Bay Area. The proposed round-trip On the heels of a highly successful energy fare on the train is presently $13.00. THE LOS ANGELES RAILWAY conservation program that has saved more than The actual start-up of this new "corridor" THROUGH THE YEARS eighty-five million gallons of fuel oil in the past service to Sacramento is planned to coincide three years and thirty million gallons last year with the opening of Amtrak's new Richmond By alone, the Union Pacific Railroad is taking steps station which is being built to provide a cross S((']'('II L. I::asloll to achieve an even greater savings this year and platform connection with rapid transit trains of for the future. the BART system. The Senator service will be The railroad has ordered 121 sets of a new offered as ajoint demonstration project between device called the "fuel saver. " Many other Amtrak and the California Department of railroads are also installing the equipment on Transportation which has agreed to fund half of their locomotives; Southern Pacific and any operating deficits and to share in the capital Western Pacific are both equipping portions of improvement costs.• their motive power fleet. The "fuel saver" is a little black box that once installed on CAUFORNIA WESTERN LOSES A NOYO RIVER BRIDGE locomotives can reduce fuel consumption of a The longest and one of the most scenic of the train by as much as twelve per cent, or one quart remaining wooden bridges, and the only Howe for every two gallons burned. Truss left on the the California Western Union Pacific has been testing the fuel saver Railroad, was completely destroyed by fire on its high-priority Super Van trains between during the night of May 23. The structure, which North Platte, Nebraska and Los Angeles, was built in the 1930's, will be replaced by an California for the past two months with all-steel river crossing but the railroad will be phenomenal results. Operating with the device out of service until at least early July. No study of the history of Los Angeles is complete installed, the trains burned 3312 fewer gallons of The railroad's popular Super Skunk without a study of the trolley system that was instru diesel fuel per round trip, North Platte to Los passenger service was immediately suspended mental in its rapid growth. This fascinating book Angeles and return, than the trains without the until the line could be reopened, resulting in the traces the history of the colorful Los Angeles Railway fuel-saving devices. At 34 cents per gallon, the cancellation of sold-out Memorial Day weekend from its feeble beginnings in the 1800's to its unfor going rate for diesel fuel in the quantities service. Freight operations are continuing, tunate demise in 1963. 72 pages, large 8% x 11 format, purchased by the railroad, the device has saved however, with an EMD SD7 leased from the with over 90 excellent photographs. $1,126.00 per trip. Southe.rn Pacific running between the What the "fuel saver" does is allow the train's Northwestern Pacific interchange at Willits and engineer to reduce the power output of several of a temporary reload for outbound lumber his trailing units to a bare minimum when they shipments from parent Georgia Pacific's Fort S4.50 are not needed, thereby saving fuel, while Bragg mill at approximately milepost four. operating the remaining locomotives at full The cause of the fire was not immediately power for peak efficiency. Larger locomotive known. 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A railroad locomotive, is "like being able to shut down section crew discovered the fire at 7:00 AM on four cylinders of your eight-cylinder automobile Tuesday morning, after it had been burning all when you are going downhill or cruising along night long and sounded the initial alarm that over long, level stretches where a minimum brought firefighters to the scene. All of the amount of power is needed. " railroad's equipment was at the Fort Bragg Dave Catalan, director of environmental terminal and undamaged .• engineering and energy conservation for the Union Pacific, said that the amount of actual savings depends on the engineer's skill in utilizing the device. During tests on the railroad the savings average twelve per cent, meaning the railroad's first-year savings from the device could reach 8,000,000 gallons of diesel fuel. • POST CARDS Post card prices are IDe each: 3 for 25¢: 14 for $1.00- COLOR WALL CALENDAR plus shipping al 14¢ lor 1·6cards, 28¢ lor 7·14 cards and Featuring thirteen 9 x 12 photographs. Spiral AMTRAK IS BRINGING BACK THE SENATOR 28¢ for each additional 14. Cards are all standard 3'hxS'h. bound, opens to 12 x 18 inches. Includes Amtrak has revealed plans to add a daily Sierra 34, Northwestern- Pacific 112, WP 94, round-trip schedule between the San Francisco SOUTHERN PACIFIC DIESELS "Jupiter," SP 3025 and others. Bay Area and the State Capital at Sacramento · . ..1117, EMO SW8 (card 0-2023) $2.95 each later this year. 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JAMES H. HARRISON number 9, of California's Nevada County Narrow PHOTOGRAPHS/AUTHOR'S COLLECTION Gauge Railroad which ended up several thousand miles away in Hawaii. World War II brought many changes to the Other railroads that were located in port areas or railroad industry in the west. Some lines were in military staging regions found the increase in abandoned to allow both rails and equipment to be traffic volume demanded more from their rails and dispersed to the winds. Some equipment was locomotive rosters. The war became a time when scrapped to produce a basis for military hardware; locomotives were on the rip track or in the "bone other equipment was repainted to serve elsewhere yard" one day, into the shop the next and doing their such as many of the cars, and Baldwin-built 2-8-0 utmost to assist the war effort hauling tonnage a

6 MAY, 1977 short time thereafter. Strategic loads were often lines" found its way onto the Southern Pacific and escorted with armed military guards who were made appearances at Los Angeles' Taylor Yard; occasionally stationed rig ht on the load-carrying both the Burlington and the Rock Island contributed cars themselves. Rail photography was generally steam power to the Southern Pacific during the war. discouraged, and often outright forbidden. To Fitted with a hood for its headlight, and far from its inhibit the observation and identification of train normal working limits, these two views illustrate one movements at night by enemy aircraft, special of two Prairie-type steam locomotives leased to the hooded shields were placed over all locomotive Southern Pacific to help an especially critical headlights and classification lamps. locomotive shortage. 2-6-2 1955, which wears The Southern Pacific quickly found itself in need an Espee-style train-indicator number board of additional motive power. New locomotives which alongside the stack, is operating along Raymond could not be secured because of War Production Avenue in Alhambra on the Pasadena Branch in Board limitations were rapidly substituted for with 1942 .The train trails another war-time substitute: purchased or leased second-hand locomotives boxcar-turhed-caboose 87892 with two windows from those railroads which could spare the engines. cut into the side of the carbody, a door at each Taylor Yard in Los Angeles saw several examples of end, and little else to otherwise establish it as this leased motive power during the war years. anything other than a badly-needed caboose that Some motive power was redistributed within the there was ·not even time to renumber. family of Southern Pacific lines: the Pacific Lines Through the war years, this branch saw the it was a separate organizational district then - used passing of hospital trains to a special military locomotives from the Texas and New Orleans, hospital set up in a large Pasadena hotel, as well as Northwestern Pacific, San Diego and Arizona the usual carloads of freight. In more peaceful days, Eastern and the Sud Pacifico de Mexico. Today it is special passenger trains ran in conjunction with common to see the movement of motive power all football games played at the Rose Bowl. Both over a system, as well as a nation of power pools, but participants and spectators once went to the games in the days of steam the locomotives were usually by rail. Southern Pacific's Pasadena Branch in assigned to districts and they did not venture too Southern California began under the aegis of the far away from home. three-foot-gauge San Gabriel Valley Rapid Transit, Leased or allocated motive power from "foreign but that is another story in itself. -

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PA CIFIC NEWS 7 STEAMING WITH THE 4449: THE JOURNEY HOME!

John C. Lucas

Resurrected from neglect and an uncertain future at Oaks Park in Portland, Oregon on December 14, 1974, the former Southern Pacific Daylight GS-4 4-8-4 number 4449 has since gone on to become a household word nationwide. Restored, operated and maintained under the direction of Chief Mechanical Officer Doyle McCormack, the 4449 powered the American Freedom Train for most of its tour through the lower forty-eight states, bowing only to restrictions for part of the eastern tour where the 4-8-4's size was too great to operate. The American Freedom Train concluded its tour December 31, 1976 in Miami, Florida, relieving the 4449 of the assignment that had returned it to steam and leaving The American Freedom Train Foundation, now

Three photos: J. J. Whcclihan

8 MAY, 1977 winding down its operational phase, with the There was a drawback, however: the route train operating January 14-16 from Miami to obligation to return the 4-8-4 across the would take the GS-4 to Denver, Colorado and Birmingham, Alabama where the 4-8-4 went continent to its home in Portland, Oregon where then on to Salt Lake City, Utah in connection into storage at the Southern Railway's shops. the locomotive would await a much more with Amtrak's then-pending new Salt Lake-to Suffering from a lack of both planning and promising future than was its fate prior to its Seattle Pioneer service. The 4449's return to publicity by Amtrak, this first leg of the 4449's rescue and the return to service. Continued Portland would be as the primary motive power return home was considerably less than a success operation of the 4-8-4, however, remains an of an Amtrak special train and using the 4-8-4 to but at least allowed for ample revised planning unanswered question which is forced to await both inaugurate the train and draw attention to before the April 13 departure for Oregon. the passing of time. this new service seemed to provide more than At Birmingham, page opposite, the 4449 kept The return to Portland of the 4449 following ample reason to return the one-time Southern company with the Southern's very famous green her arrival in Miami with the American Pacific locomotive via this inland route. 2-8-2 4501, 2-8-0 722 and another former Freedom Train was, at first, subject to several Planning quickly went forward for what Freedom Train locomotive, ex-Texas and possible alternatives, including a rods-down became the "1977 Amtrak Transcontinental Pacific 2-10-4 610 which powered the train trip, dead-in-train. over, for the most part, Steam Excursion" spanning the dates of April briefly in Texas after a hurried restoration. All Burlington Northern trackage. A return of the 13 through May I, but the routing was even four steam locomotives were lined up outside locomotive via Washington, D.C. was also more quickly changed allowing the 4449 to the Southern's shops April 12 providing a rare reported as one of the alternatives given serious return to Portland on home rails: Southern photographic opportunity for the last time as consideration. Word was soon forthcoming, Pacific, including the Coast Route north out of the 4449 left Birmingham at 8:00 AM the next though, to the relief of countless 4449 fans, Los Angeles for which the locomotive was morning to begun the run home to Portland. especially those along her former Southern originally built by Lima in 1941. Ten days after the steam gathering at Pacific home rails, that the now-famous steamer The 1977 Amtrak Transcontinental Steam Birmingham the 4449 steamed through Wilna, would return to Oregon under her own power. Excursion first began with a meager nine-car New Mexico meeting Espee SD45T-2 9362,

PACIFIC NEWS 9 pale 8, top, and the followinl afternoon, April maintenance and operating crew. The lack of Coast Route north through the Golden State to 23, eased throulh the reverse curves at Dome, time durinR the Amtrak Transcontinental the San Francisco Bay Area, bottom. Arizona twenty miles to the east of Yuma, Excursion, in fact, was more troublesome for The train's travels through Southern Arizona, paRe 9. Southern Pacific 4449 was once repair work than the actual leaking flues. California were reported as the portion of the aRain on home rails and for perhaps the first At Shaw, Texas, below, the 4449 put in her run seen by the most people. Photographers time ever was retracing her oriRinal route for it initial solo performance on a photo run. Espee even took to the air at the impressive Gaviota was at the system's EI Paso, Texas shops where diesel helper SD45 9147 idled back as the GS-4 ' Trestle, opposite top, where on April 26, the locomotive was initially set up for servicein was put throuRh her paces alone for running as Second 13, Amtrak's Coast Starlight, 1941 fresh from Lima and then sent west over photoRraphers on board the train. Photo runs, there was both a Cessna - over the 2nd car - this same route to report for passenRer duty on of course, were not made with the Freedom and a helicopter - over the tender - on hand to the Coast Line at Los Angeles. At age thirty-six, Train, and none had been 'Staged on either the record her passing, not to mention a countless the 4449 was busy proving that time can stand Southern Railway or the first leg of the Amtrak line of motorcaders clogging the highways. still. One might ask, do things really change? Transcontinental trip with the 4449 working Aircraft, by the way, also chased the train north To be sure, the operation of the 1977 Amtrak by herself. of King City, Davis, Red Bluff, Klamath Falls Transcontinental Steam Excursion was not Encountering temperatures hovering around and Eugene. without its problems, although the reports of the the 100° mark; bottom, the GS-4 4449 charges With a light black exhaust at her stack, the difficulties with the 4449 which persist even through Frink, California some 200 .feet below eighty-inch drivers of the 4449 work their way today are far in excess of actuality. On the sea level on the Salton Sea. The date is April 24, up Chatsworth Pass, opposite bottom, in the second day, south of Jackson, Mississippi, a half-way through the run into Los Angeles from Santa Susana Mountains to the north of Los freight derailment on the southbound main line Yuma completing the eastbound leg of the Angeles. This was once home trackage for the of the Illinois Central Gulf delayed the 4449 4-8-4's return trip. By afternoon the 4449 will be 4449 which was now fmally being liven the while she awaited an opportunity for reverse in position to retrace her old assignment on the opportunity to retrace her CoastDaylight route running on the northbound main line. Steaming along with the speedometer at a regulation 55 mph, there was no flagman to warn of the reduced-speed crossover back over onto the southbound main line and the 4-8-4 slammed through the switches, with the train brakes in emergency, at 43 mph. The first part of the train jolted through onto the proper track and the streamliner stopped with the parlor car still on the last of the crossover. A check proved all the wheels were on the rails with no serious damage, even though the incident continued to be a topic of discussion all of the way to Portland. Yes, a cab support was apparently broken by the sudden jar, and three leaky boiler flues later in the trip were "blamed" on the jolt on the ICG, but neither of these would have been considered out of the ordinary during the 4449's own steam era: the cab brace work would await - and does - the locomotive's next shopping, the boiler flues would have been plugged - they were - and repaired when more convenient. Nothing unusual, nothing serious and nothing not within the capabilities of the GS-4 4-8-4's traveling

John C. Lucas

10 MAY, 1977 John C. Lucas

PACIFIC NEWS 11 north throullh California all of the way to San Jose. She would be denied the final lell into San Francisco itself, however, for the train instead was to operate via the east side of the Bay into Oakland where it would pause for a day in preparation for the fmal segment home aliain to Portland, Oregon. Steaming past a railroad yard not even dreamed of when the 4449 was a member of the locomotive fleet regularly assigned to work in Southern Calif(,mia, the 4-8-4 pulls her train through Colton, right, not far from Southern Pacific's huge West Colton Freight yard. Above the second dome, a freight patiently waits for the Amtrak streamliner to clear the main line. As always proved to be the case during any meet with the 4449, however, the crew of opposing diesel freights were at the peak of attention in order not to miss any detail of the former Daylight's passing as she continued on her transcontinental journey. There were several lay-over days during the Transcontinental Steam Excursion, one of which, Monday, April 25, was at Los Angeles. The days allowed time for regular scheduled J. J. Wheelihan

turned over to Amtrak which now operates all of its own services out of this majestic Southern California terminal. Santa Susana Pass has long been a favorite train-watching spot for the catching of Southern Pacific's steam-powered morning departure of the northbound Coast Daylight. After an absence of two decades, many were on hand April 26 to record the 4449's return with a streamliner in tow, left. Those favorite, often photographed and widely known rocks are fenced now, requiring a bit more effort for photographs, and the trailing train itself is a bit unusual for the Daylight,but that nose-on view of an Espee forty-four hundred is certainly not unwelcome or uncommon here. Ahead lies trackage in sight of the Pacific Ocean itself, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and the famed curve where in days past a meet would have already been scheduled with the southbound Daylight, also powered by a GS class 4-8-4. Today, though, the 4449 is the lone survivor, save wartime-built, less-streamlined, GS-6 4460 on display in SI. Louis and there's no Coast Daylight, either, just Amtrak's transcontinental J. J. Wheelihan

maintenance and any additional needed repairs as well. The three plugged flues, in fact, were taken care of on just three such days: the third and final one at Los Angeles. In Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, left, the 4449 and her borrowed Union Pacific tender back onto a new consist of waiting equipment to begin the northbound segment of the journey on the morning of April 26. North of Los Angeles, the train's consist was revised to eliminate the vista domes due to clearance restrictions. Instead, the former Southern Pacific full-length dome 3604, now Amtrak number 9373, was usedas a part of an impressive nineteen-car streamliner consist. As the 4449 once again backs through the terminal throat at the station in Los Angeles just pretend for a minute that her colors are red, orange and black, that the Union Pacific tender and Amtrak SDP40F are not there and that the waiting train is the San Francisco-bound Coast Daylight. The 4449 has done this very thing so many times before - over twenty years ago. Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, by the way, has been operationally vacated by the railroads and

12 MAY, 1977 John C. Lucas

steam-powered nineteen-car streamliner as the morning for the next leg of the trip. The 4449, of many to be one of the highlights of the entire trip American Freedom Train's locomotive heads course, was kept under steam at all times for the - on the morning of April 27 with spectacular north through California to home. entire trip from Birmingham, Alabama to results for spectators for the entire climb to the Night would find the train in the station at Portland, Oregon, except as was required for summit, just as can be seen, above, while San Luis Obispo, below, midway to the San maintenance work. working through the curves near Serrano with a Francisco Bay Area and stopped until morning. Just north of San Luis Obispo, the Southern towering plume of smoke covering the 4-8-4's What the Daylights once did in daylight hours, Pacific's main line curves sharply around in a trail up the mountainside. So well known and the Amtrak Transcontinental Steam Excursion horseshoe gaining elevation as it climbs toward spectacular is this particular northbound did in two days complete with both scheduled the summit of Santa Margarita Pass. During mountain pass in connection with the Daylight photo stops and unscheduled pauses to allow the steam-powered days of the Coast Daylight locomotives, in fact, that a photo stop was hundreds of school children so often at trackside one of the railroad's 2-10-2's assigned here for staged by Amtrak on the actual loop itself to the a longer glimpse of the 4449. helper duty would often be given the job to work overwhelming enjoyment of over eight hundred For overnight stops, such as San Luis Obispo, double-heading with a Daylight4-8-4 to Cuesta. passengers on board the streamliner. the train was left intact, ready to depart in the The 4449 ascended this grade - considered by Stretched out on the Goldtree Trestle during

Gary E. Zimmerman the climb up the Cuesta I(rade, above, are the locomotives and first seven cars of Amtrak's 1977 Transcontinental Steam Excursion, the entire lenl(th of which can be seen under the plume of white smoke from the 4449. Also, pay particular attention to not only those rail photol(raphers on the hillside and the parked automobiles around the bridl(e itself, but to the Ion I( strinl( of automobiles at ril(ht center of the 4449's smoke: this was not a main road, either. In a few minutes, the train will be stoppinl( to unload its passengers for the first photostop of the day, on the loop itself. Santa Margarita Hill, as it is officially known, limited the Coast Daylight to a maximum of twelve cars trailing behind a GS 4-8-4 without a helper on the 2.2 per cent climb. The summit itself is located in Tunnel 6,just south of Cuesta, and one of six tunnels between San Luis Obispo and Santa Margarita. Cuesta Grade has always been known as short, but steep, and there had been no steam locomotive over the pass and through its tunnels since diesels took over the work in the mid-1950's. When 4449 climbed over the pass trailing nineteen cars with an Amtrak SDP40F helper the show had to be spectacular. Bursting out of the Santa Margarita Hill summit tunnel, left, the 4449 tops Cuesta Grade amid the brilliant morning sunshine of April 27. Spotlessly clean earlier at San Luis Obispo, the GS-4 was blackened by years of accumulated exhaust soot in the tunnels for there had been no steam exhaust to blast the tunnels clean since diesels inherited the work on the pass. Bystanders and passengers alike were heard to remark that the 4-8-4 needed the soot from one more tunnel to take on an all-black appearance but there were no more tunnels and a hand washing was waiting at Oakland on the following day where volunteers would again have the sparkle back in the locomotive.

14 MAY, 1977 John C. Lucas

The spectacular ascending of Cuesta Grade siding at Chorro where the Daylights used to mph for the fastest running since she was pulled was an immensely visible experience as the regularly meet, below, the Transcontinental out of Oaks Park in Portland and returned to former Southern Pacific 4-8-4 steamed Steam Excursion is in the midst of a photo run service by The American Freedom Train homeward toward Portland. With the sun at, perhaps, the spot on the entire trip that is Foundation for the nationwide-tour. backlighting her exhaust, above, the train slowly most associated with Southern Pacific's GS Spending Thursday, April 28 in the coach climbs through the curves near Serrano Class 4-8-4's and the trains these streamliners yards at Oakland, the train again renewed the providing a steam railroading show that has were created to power. northbound trip on the 29th. There was a date to long been missing from the western railroading Ahead lay the rapid running of a quick trip keep with welcoming dignitaries in Portland on scene, but was very quickly welcomed back in an through California's Salinas Valley, but the Sunday, May 1: not only was this the day the energetic return. fastest time for the 4449 since her rehabilitation 4449 would return home, but it was Amtrak's Climbing around the actual horseshoe curve already lay behind her: south of Jackson on the I sixth birthday as well. What more fitting uphill from Goldtree, but still downhill from the Illinois Central Gulf the 4-8-4 raced along at 87 celebration than 4449! Next month, Part II .•

Chuck Anderson

PACIFIC NEWS 15 DOffiWffiDD If® ©ill��®OO��ill Lr® W ffi�OO��@Lr®� ARNOLD MENKE

The former Waimanalo Sugar Company 0-4-2T number 3, the Dlamana, has been Arnold Menke delivered at the Smithsonian's Museum of History and Technology (PACIFIC NEWS, renumbered 3 and renamed the Dlamana. The Operated for enjoyment occasionally on the February, 1977). The diminutive former sugar locomotive was reboilered in 19 15 and again in Grizzly Flats Railroads for the quarter-century plantation locomotive was donated to the 1928, and then was converted from coal to oil she was there, the Dlamana was under steam for Smithsonian Institution by renowned railroad fuel. Never resold, the steamer remained in the last time on April 23, 1977 just before she historian and author Gerald M. Best of service for the seasonal work hauling sugar cane was prepared for shipment to the Smithsonian. Southern California. in from the fields at harvest time until the The locomotive weighs about nine tons, has 24- The locomotive was unloaded at the railroad was abandoned in favor of trucks at inch drivers, 7x 10-inch cylinders and operates Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. on May 16 the end of the 1944 season. on 140 pounds of steam pressure. She is painted following its well-protected journey from In July of 1948 Gerald Best bought the green, red and black, with gold lettering and California. It is now on display in Railroad Hall Dlamana and had her shipped to Southern now rests preserved for future generations .• of the Museum of History and Technology, California where an extensive rehabilitation was which also houses one of the Southern begun. In 1951 she was moved to Ward

Railroad's famed PS4 4-6-2's, number 1401. Kimball's private Grizzly Flats Railroad in San Under steam on the Grizzly Flats Railroad, The Dlamana was built in April, 1883 by Gabriel - where she joined sister Waimanalo below, Olomana poses with sister Waimanalo Baldwin, as construction number 6753, for the Sugar 1907 Baldwin-built 0-4-2T number 2 Su�ar Chloe. Durin� unloadin� in Washin�ton, Waimanalo Sugar Company at Waimanalo,just rebuilt and renamed as the Chlae. Dlamana above, Olomana sits sans bell, whistle and other around the island of Oahu from famed received extensive repairs starting in 1952, valuables removed for the move, while the faint Diamond Head. The three-foot-gauge steamer including a new firebox, cab deck, headlight, lines of the Southern's 1401 can be seen throu�h was originally number 2, the Puaalii, later smoke stack and other parts. the windows behind the locomotive.

Karl R. Koenig

16 MAY, 1977 wrn@� 1J[}{]�rn��@ ill [ID[ru@rnJOOOOlY �� ©ffi��®[ru��ill� Valley Project, the largest construction undertaking in the history of California, and thirty-seven miles of Espee main line were doomed to be "forever" flooded behind Shasta Dam, the keystone of the water project. From Redding north thirty miles to Delta, work began in October of 1938 on a new routing of the railroad's main line: the relocation would be seven miles shorter, but required four major bridges including the long Redding trestle and the crossing of the Pit River on a double-deck structure shared with the relocated highway. The railroad assumed its new route May 24, 1942 and abandoned the original line. Water was quickly backed up behind Shasta Dam as construction progressed on the 602-foot-high dam. The lake filled to its capacity of4.5 million acre feet in 1945, creating with a 365-mile shore line, the largest man-made lake in California and erased forever (they thought) the railroad grade. Significant rains have not fallen in California for over two years and Shasta Lake has fallen to less than a third of its capacity as the west suffers through the worst drought in history. From out of the falling waters of the lake has risen the abandoned main line. An original Sacramento River bridge is slowly poking out of the receding waters where once steam locomotives thundered Oregon-bound out of an adjacent tunnel and across the structure (left). Near the resort at Lakehead (below) the new railroad crosses high above a virtually dry Sacramento River and over a tunnel on the original line which has not seen a linked with northward construction of the train, or daylight, for more than three decades. PHOTOGRAPHY/TOM GRAY Central Pacific Railroad. The route north of Just how dry is California? The water in Lake Redding, California was opened September I, Shasta now sets a new record daily: it has not The Southern Pacific's Siskiyou Route, also 1884 and for the next fifty-eight years trains been this low since the water level passed the known as the Shasta Route, was completed on traveled up the Sacramento River and through same point on the way up when filling the lake June I, 1887 when rails from Portland were these tunnels. Then came the massive Central before 1945! •

PACIFIC NEWS 17 Station. He was the head man on the 5:52 PM Conrail WESTERN LOCOMOTIVE NEWS "local service" train to Baltimore. Four multiple-unit electric cars stood ready, their air compressors "tonk, [. KENNETH M. ARDINGER I tonking" under the cars. The conductor knew most of his passengers. He Amtrak F40PH 226 and some new Amfleetequ ipment nodded to them with a slight movement of his head was in Salt Lake City, Utah on May 17 as a prelude to the accompanied by a quick wave of his ticket punch. new Salt Lake City-Seattle train service which begins in The cars were weary. Pantographs that seemed early June. duplicates of Key System's long ago in California reached British Columbia Railway is leasing eight Century-424 lazily to the II,OOO-volt, A.C., single-phase, 25-cyc1e units from the Canadian National: 3200, 3202, 3203, catenary. "These are good cars," the conductor offered. 3205, 3218, 3219, 3222 and 3224. "They'll run in any weather. Up in Philadelphia they have Hanna Nickel Smelting Company located at Riddle, a lot of new ones, Silverliners. They don't run in the bad Oregon has renumbered their two General Electric weather like these do." locomotives from 51 and 52 to 551 and 552. The 551 is Inside, commuters were finding favorite seats. Fans 50-ton serial number 31802 built in May, 1953; the 552 is overhead did nothing to combat heat and humidity. the former Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway Many riders had cans of beer perched on the window sills. 90, a 65-tonner built in May, 1948 as serial 29373. A few had martini glasses in hand. A GG I in black Penn Tacoma Municipal Belt has numbered their former Central paint, but with an Amtrak number, worked Southern Pacific AIco S6 to 950. This is the ex- I220, through the yard throat with a string of Amfleet cars originally built as the 1053 in June of 1956 as serial from New York. number 81724. "Nothing like a G," continued the conductor. (A true US Atomic Energy Commission test facilities at Pennsy man allegedly calls them "G's.") "A real Kirkland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico has locomotive; why they don't build any more I don't know." been conducting a study of impacts via rail/ highway It was 5:23 PM. Two tracks to the west a bright yellow vehicles carrying special containers for radioactive GP9 of the Chessie waited with four cars loaded with materials. Tests have involved an ex-US Army AIco commuters, many standing, for Baltimore. Both diesel MRS-I. The fa cility also has on hand a 35-ton Plymouth and electric cars would leave at the same time, but take ML-8, serial number 4506, originally built in July of 1943 different routes north to Maryland. for the Army as number 7625. The 5:25 PM takes 59 minutes to make the run. The U. S. Gypsum Company has abandoned their three two-car 6: 10 is less crowded. Because it makes only fo ur foot-gauge 2yj-mile railroad at Sweetwater, Texas. The intermediate stops instead of nine, the 6: 10 manages to 31-ton General Electric unit used there has been sold to make the journey in a record 55 minutes. dealer Birmingham Rail and Locomotive: serial number On the bulkheads inside each of the six ex 32329, built in August, 1955. The only other locomotive Pennsylvania Railroad electric commuter cars was an there will be scrapped: a Plymouth model HLB, serial announcement by Conrail that, early in June, the service number 3170, built in April, 1929. would end because the District of Columbia and Yreka Western Railroad has fully repainted one of the Maryland had shown no interest in subsidizing the two S4's acquired from the Union Pacific. Number 1172 forty-mile operation which had two trains into is now solid blue with white letters. The other S4, number Washington in the morning, two back at night. 1 171, still displays UP colors. Built in June of 1955, these One does not ignore posted abandonment notices, so are AIco serial numbers 81393 and 81394, respectively. 0 seven of us startled the Conrail ticket seller one evening by actually booking passage aboard the aging cars. We discovered that no one rode all the way to Baltimore. Amtrak performed that service much faster. Those who EAS endured Conrail's "local service" got off before _OUT_ --lT ___ Baltimore, at suburbs and villages with names such as Halethorpe, Jericho Park, Bowie and Seabrook. [e HARRE W. DEMORO But we boarded and for a Californian who tasted the His uniform brass said "Conrail" but there was no menu of the Pacific Electric, even the Key System, the mistake about his heritage. Age had given his body a ride was a feast. Ours was a two-car train. All six cars slump and put a shuffle in his step. There were years of assigned to the service carry the special aroma of The walking down swaying aisles with a wad of seat checks, of Standard Railroad of The World, which was the slogan raising traps, of standing in the snow at a rural crossing in proudly and accurately proclaimed by the Pennsylvania the middle of the night. Railroad - and the truth. We had a brief encounter, in the half light of a late and These are MP54 type cars, of all-steel construction, humid afternoon at the platform of Washington Union and followed down to the last rivet the dictates of the no nonsense, spare the frills, engineers of a railroad that knew what it wanted, and what it was doing, 60 years ago.

READ YOUR OWN COpy OF PA CIFIC NE WS EACH MONTH! The MP54 was 64 fe et long and originally designed for steam-road commuter trains. However, the genius of the SUPPORT ADVERTISERS Altoona shop men knew no bounds. Each MP54, fo rmerly a P54, was intended for conversion to electric WHO SUPPORT operation, as required. Our train consisted of cars 677 PA CIFI C NE WS and 679, both built by the Pennsylvania in 1912 and electrified in 1928. Each car had one motor truck and one THAT WAY EVERYBODY BENEFITS trailing truck. In true Standard Railroad, also SUBSCRIBE . 5\0.00 PER YEAR DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR interurban, fashion, the conductor communicated with the engineer by yanking a cord which blew a cab whistle.

18 MAY, 1977 At exactly 6: lO we departed. The cars quickly lurched and groaned through the switches and under the bridge at _T_HE _SA_NT_A _FE_RA_ILW_AY_ Florida Avenue. Pantographs flickered. The fans _ continued to spin and do no good. JOE McMILLAN, AUTHOR A commuter turned around. "You people are crazy. [� SANTA FE'S DIESEL FLEET What are you doing on this train?" "We're nuts," was the reply, in feminine voice. Susan B. The Santa Fe has ordered 124 new locomotives for Perry, who is the chief lobbyist in the Congress for the delivery in the last quarter of 1977 and the first two nation's transit industry, was wearing her cap bought quarters of 1978. The orders will be split evenly between only three days before at the National Capitol Trolley General Motor's Electro-M otive Division and the Museum. Ms. Perry is no slouch when it comes to General Electric Company and will consist of: thirty Northeast Corridor politics and technology. She had eight EMD SD40-2's numbered 5020 through 5057; nudged too many transportation measures around fourteen EMD GP39-2's numbered 3669 through 3682; Capitol Hill to consider herself anything but a ten EMD GP40X's numbered 3800 through 3809; forty railway enthusiast. eight GE C30-Ts numbered 80 10 through 8057; and We were approaching Odenton and air brakes were fourteen GE B23-Ts to be numbers 6350 through 6363. taking hold. I realized this was a Real Train with air A collision at Quirk, New Mexico, sixty-four miles brakes and no dynamic brakes. We were on the center west of Albuquerque, in early June severely damaged track, which meant that the commuters, who opened and GP30 3258, GP35's 3317, 3450 and SD45-2 5644. The closed the traps themselves, or just left them open, were 3258 and 3450 will be scrapped as a result of the incident. obliged to walk across the busy freight - and sometimes F-unit boosters 272A, 274B, 343B and GP7 2686 were passenger - track. As we waited, there was the brilliance retired fo llowing an accident in East Texas. of a headlight ahead and, making 109 mph, fo ur EMD GP38's 3527, 3530, 3541 and 3547 have been Metroliners hurtled past and attempted, without success, assigned to the Federal Railway Administration's Fast to blow the windows out of our MP54's. The old cars Track facility at Pueblo, Colorado where they will be have metal sash for just that reason. W hen the speedsters used to power test trains. began their Megalopolis meanderings in the late 1960's CFTs 2459 down through the 2456 (formerly F-units they sucked glass out of the wooden sash. 288C, 332L, 246L and 2 I 5C, respectively) have been The closer we got to Baltimore, the fewer were the released from the Cleburne, Texas shops since last remaining passengers. The man across the aisle, now month's report. Also rolling out of the Texas facility were convinced of our craziness, folded his Variety and GPTs 2095 and 2096 (ex-2865 and 2675, respectively). detrained at Seabrook. Soon, the seven of us were the From the San Bernardino, California shop emerged entire passenger manifest and we walked from our car, SD26's 4634, 4664 and GP20 301 I. 0 the 679, into the 677. One just walks across the empty space between cars and is careful neither to step into midair or to be bruised by the swinging safety chains. There was an interurban flavor to it all, reminding me of the Pacific Electric's San Pedro line, or the times we '" L E had in the 1950's running excursion trains on the �!. ,"�,,�!I!,M.!!ot K!.§, Sacramento Northern out of Oakland. The cars ran [1£8 J. HARLEN WILSON reasonably well and rode beautifully on both the loose jointed rail and the welded iron for the Metroliners. Business is still good on the Missouri Pacific. So good, The door to the front platform was open. Ms. Perry, in fact, that the management has decided to add another adjudged the engineer, was "in uniform," due to her cap. $1 1 million to the capital spending program for 1977. The Soon we all were being instructed in the fine art of cab money will be used for the acquisition of auto racks, signals as installed on The Standard. The cars had little covered coil cars and twenty new Electro-Motive GP38-2 back-and-forth controllers, like old elevators. Being locomotives for freight service. straight A.C. cars, they lumbered along and were sluggish The twenty-five GP15-1 units on order now are when accelerating. New multiple-unit cars take the A.C. scheduled for delivery in July. The trade-ins for these new and change it aboard the car to D.C., and thus are units, all GPTs, were as follows: capable of faster acceleration. 13 I built 07 /24/50 serial 11549 retired 03 /29/77 We crept through the tunnels at Baltimore. A freight 136 built 07/21/50 serial I 1546 retired 03/ 17/77 was ahead and the cab signal erratic, so our engineer 138 built 07/24/50 serial 11548 retired 03/ 18/77 (motorman?) depended on the wayside position-light 140 built 06/30/50 serial I 1529 retired 04 / 15/77 signals and his instincts. We arrived a few minutes late 146 built 07/08/50 serial 11535 retired 12/09/76 and, as we walked into the station, I saw that the first car, 148 built 07/ lO/50 serial 11537 retired 02 /25/77 the 677, still wore Pennsy Keystones on red paint! 150 built 07/ II/50 serial 11539 retired 04 /07/77 One shares treasures. A week later, historian-author 151 built 07/12/50 serial 11540 retired 04 / 11/7 7 Ted G. Wurm was in the capital from California and we 153 built 07 / 12/50 serial 11542 retired 03/25/77 immediately hastened to the MP54's. I advised him to 154 built 07/ 13/50 serial 11543 retired 04 /01/77 observe very closely the starting of the four-car train. 156 built' 09/26/62 serial 11545 retired 03/23/77 At the appointed 5:25 PM, the conductor pulled the 158 built 03/27/51 serial 1433 1 retired 04 / 15/77 cord twice, and two shrill whistle blasts were heard 160 built 03 /27/51 serial 14333 retired 03/25/77 echoing from the cab. Then the train started, sort of. 161 built 03/27/51 serial 14334 retired 04 / 18/77 Each car started at a diffe rent time. The train bunched, 164 built 04/ 16/51 serial 14321 retired 03/ II/7 7 then stretched, then fi nally became coordinated and 295 built 07/14/50 serial 8670 retired 04 /19/77 headed north. 298 built 07/18/50 serial 8673 retired 04 /28/77 "J ust like the Northwestern Pacific at Sausalito!" 1636 built 09/0 1/51 serial 14656 retired 12/23/76 exclaimed Wurm. Our attention soon was diverted. We 16392 built 03/20/53 serial 18024 retired 12/17/76 were invited into the cab of a GG I slumbering nearby. 0 1644 built 04/07/52 serial 15828 retired 04/ 18/77

PACIFIC NEWS 19 1697 built 03 /10/53 serial 17998 retired 03/31/77 throttle positions of trailing units in a consist can be 1729 built 05/ 13/54 serial 19421 retired 01 /31/77 reduced when their added power is not required. And, at 1736 built 04/22/54 serial 19396 retired 04/28/77 Stockton, a five-ton crane has been acquired to aid in 1765 built 05/07/52 serial 16172 retired II/2 6/76 locomotive work. 1775 built 03 fl9 / 53 serial 18023 retired II/2 4/76 During the weekend of May 14 and 15 (see News N ote l: Date rebuilt; 2: ex-I 776, originally number325. Photos), the California State Railway Museum located Locomotive 2256, a General Electric U23 B, seems to at Rio Vista Junction celebrated their annual open house. be having more than its share of troubles. Just In order to commemorate the occasion, subsidiary outs hopped on March 7 after accident repairs and Sacramento Northern operated a special train from West equipped with a new cab - constructed from EMD plans Sacramento to the museum consisting of SWI 402, the - and nose, the unit was back in the shop May 23 after former Western Pacific 502, an SN box car and a WP hitting a beer truck at Grimsby, Illinois. This time most of caboose. Access to this rarely used SN branch, once the the visible damage was to the right side of the long hood. main line between Oakland and Chico, is via Southern The Point Comfort and Northern's MP15 number 11, Pacific trackage rights between West Sacramento and built in November, 1974 as Electro-Motive serial number Cannon, then over the SN's Vacaville Branch to Dozier 74622-1, has been transferred to another Alcoa where the one-time main line is joined. The museum is six Aluminum-owned railroad, the Massena Terminal miles south of this junction and is the only source of Railroad Company, and renumbered as the 14. The revenue today on this part of the railroad; train locomotive was in North Little Rock May 31, still movements consist of an occasional car of ballast or wearing its attractive red, white and blue as also used by supplies for the expanding museum. The fact that SW I Alcoa's Rockdale Sandow and Southern Railroad and 402 was used is significant in that the locomotive is the the Bauxite and Northern Railway. oldest operating engine on the WP system and is The El Dorado and Wesson Railway, a 5.5-mile short normally stationed at Yuba City. 0 line with headquarters at EI Dorado, Arkansas, recently added another Alco to its roster. Numbered 20, the locomotive is an S2 - serial number 69382 built in December, 1940 - purchased from the General Electric THE_U_NIO_N _PA_C'F_'C_ RA_'LR_OA-----ID Company who had used the locomotive in lease service. There were previously two other Alco units on the E&W [1t_ GEORGE R. COCKLE, EDITOR roster: number 18, an S3 - serial number 80058 built in CAR AND LOCOMOTIVE CYCLOPEDIA September, 1952 - and S I number 19 built as serial Omaha Shops continue stripping down the retired number 69385 in December, 1940. The railroad plans to U50C's (PA CIFIC NEWS, April, 1977) of all useable acquire another locomotive, and then sell the S 1. 0 components prior to issuing shipping instructions. Numbers 500 I and 5003 were released for shipment in early June and transferred to Council Bluffs , Iowa. The WESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD 5004, 5008 and 5014 are currently being stripped and should be readied for movement in mid-June. [_ KEN MEEKER While the Erman Corporation, a scrap dealer located at Turner, Kansas, had originally purchased seventeen of The fo llowing are the only Western Pacific the U50C's (5000-5016), UP 5005 was later deleted from locomotives left in the old paint scheme as of early June: the sales order. It was determined that earlier accident SW9 603; GP7 701; FTs 913, 915*, 918, 921; and damage to the frontal section resulting in excessive cab su bsidiary Sacramento Northern 40 1 *. an S W I. The two droop and frame damage would prove too dangerous for ,, units indicated "* are in unserviceable storage at the movement and it was scrapped at Omaha during May Stockton (California) Shops. The 603 and 70 1 will be (GE serial number 37144, April, 1970). repainted within the next few months. The four operating The second group of retired U50C's traveled to the F-units, however, will not be repainted and barring any Erman Corporation leaving May 5. Shipping major mechanical problems green number 917 and old instructions called for delivery to UP's Kansas City, color 913, 918 and 92 l will continue in service on the Kansas shops where ail air brake equipment required western end of the railroad. during the Council Bluffs-to-Kansas City movement was Ex-Western Pacific Alco S4 564 has been repainted by removed. Run-around air brake lines were rigged and the the railroad into new-owner Stockton Terminal and units then interchanged to the Santa Fe for delivery to the Eastern's yellow and red paint scheme. No road number scrapper's yard at nearby Turner, Kansas. Shipped in this has been assigned yet. Alco S2 560 is next in line for movement were: repainting. The other ex-WP Alcos purchased by this 5006 GE U50C serial number37145 April, 1970 Stockton short line, S2's 557, 561 and Tidewater 50 10 GE U50C serial number 37149 May, 1970 Southern's 2nd 745, are on ST&E property still wearing 501 I GE U50C serial number 37150 May, 1970 Western Pacific paint. Whether these units will be 5013 GE U50C serial number37152 December, 1970 operated by the short line, used as a parts source or resold 5016 GE U50C serial number37155 December, 1970 is not certain at this time. The third shipment, including the last remaining U50, Western Pacific'stwo red, white and blue BiCentennial moved under the same conditions on May 13: GP40's - 1776, the ex-3540, and 1976, the ex-3541 - 2nd 51 GE U50 serial number 35649 July, 1970 have had their BiCentennial seals replaced on the 5007 GE U50C serial number 37 146 May, 1970 engineer's side. The new emblem features US Savings 50 15 GE U50C serial number37 154 December, 1970 Bonds. These two locomotives, by the way, are scheduled A t this writing, UP 5 I was stilI located at the Kansas to retain their special paint at least through the end of City (Kansas) Shops. About the time arrangements were the current year. being made to sell off the first increment of the Fuel saving devices have been ordered by the railroad U50/U50C's to the Erman Corporation, the Smoky HiIl for all road locomotives. Controlled by the engineer, the Railway and Historical Society had asked for the number

20 MAY, 1977 51 to be placed in preservation at their Kansas City potential candidates fo r retirement. Railroad Museum. Unconfirmed, but highly speculative, Expected in the 4th quarter of 1977 are six GP40X's the unit might yet escape the torch and be saved. At the moment, Union Pacific has not indicated the road The last of the sixty-five EMD SD40-2's have arrived number assignments for these locomotives. on the property. An up-date (PA CIFIC NEWS, March The second SD24 earmarked for hump duties at and April, 1977) on the last units received: 3391 -3398 Hinkle (Oregon) Yard is being processed through Omaha built in April as serial numbers 766056-57 through Shops. The locomotive is the 405 (PACIFIC NEWS, 766056-64; 3399 built in May as serial 766056-65. As with April, 1977). the other new models, these were placed into service as Detector car DC-3 has entered Omaha Shops for B-units and will be set up with UP equipment later. modifications of installed track-testing equipment, and The change order calling for the last ten SD40-2's to inspection. Release is expected in late June. be delivered as 8000-Class locomotives resulted in those About two dozen dragging-equipment detectors have units being delivered with a new builder's number been installed throughout the system adjacent to hot-box assigned. Arriving during May were 8065-8074, built that detectors. These relatively inexpensive devices are same month as serials 776013-1 through 776013-10. installed between the rails to warn train crews of such These are equipped with the higher-speed gear-set ratio dragging items as brake hoses that could hold the of 59/ 18 and will have fuel-saver devices installed. potential for derailments. The expected arrival of General Electric C30-7 units in The new classification facilities being constructed at late June remains questionable with early July appearing Hinkle are more than one-third completed. The more realistic. Delay has been based on working out departure yards are completed, the bowl tracks are down minor problems on the first group delivered to the and construction has been started on most of the Burlington Northern in early 1977. buildings. This new $20 million yard is scheduled for The locomotives reported sold to Chrome Crankshaft completion in early 1978 with thirty-two classification in the February issue remain stored at Council Bluffs, tracks and a combined capacity for 1200 cars, nearly Iowa, except SW9 1863 which was shipped to the Illinois double the existing yard. Central Gulf rebuilding shop at Paducah on May 12. North Platte yards will receive two additional long The EMD 5000-horsepower DD35B's are being stored tracks in the westbound departure yard, each with a 190- throughout the system. At Los Angeles are 81 B and 83 B; car capacity. Thirteen electric switch machines will also at Salt Lake City are 72B, 80B, 82B and 98B; at Council be installed near the east end of the receiving yard and Bluffs are 74B, 76B, 79B, 84B, 85B, 86B, 90B, 91 B, 95B, west end of the eastbound classification yard as part of a 96B and 97B. All are stored serviceabic: 88B, 89B and more than $1 million modification program to increase 94B are stored unserviceable at Council Bluffs. Also capacity and efficiency of the yard. being moved toward Council Bluffs fo r storage are A $2,300,000 project calls for extending several passing SD24A and B units, joining stored GPTs there. All are tracks between Huntington and Hinkle, Oregon. The

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PACIFI C NEWS 21 project will permit longer trains and a reduction in delays this year, up from 44,908 a year ago. Surveys report that, which will improve performance in the area. Nine sidings contrary to bus-operating Greyhound's accusations, will be extended to 8500 feet or more, and both signals almost eighty per cent of this new business was attracted and communications will also be upgraded. from private automobiles, not intercity bus service. After sixty-six years in Yakima, Washington, Union The Oakland-to-Bakersfield San Joaquin gained 66 Pacific's 60-ton turntable has been donated to the per cent more riders this past May, a total of 11,408 California Parks and Recreation historical railroad passengers in 1977 as compared with only 6849 in May, museum at Old Sacramento. The 80-foot turntable was 1976. Speaking of the San Jo aquin, there are presently shipped on an 85-foot flatcar to its new home where three F40PH units stationed at Southern Pacific's museum supervisor Ken Yeo said it would be used to Oakland yard for this train, and possible emergency use augment the steam locomotive display. 0 on the Coast Starlight or San Francisco Zephyr: numbers 214, 222 and 229. During mid-June, however, these units were joined by a new-paint Santa Fe-based SDP40F and NEWS conventional passenger cars as Amdinette 202 16 was out AMTRAK of service for maintenance and the steam-equipped 502 was dispatched north to power the older cars. DANIEL B. KUHN Seligman, Arizona, on the Santa Fe, became a regular On Tuesday, June 7, Amtrak inaugurated its first daily stop for the Southwest Limited on April 24. There totally-new Western long-haul streamliner since 1971. are no facilities for purchasing tickets or checking (See News Photos section.) With the 7:30 AM and 10: 15 baggage, however, although tickets may be purchased PM departures of the first eastbound and westbound, either by mail in advance or from the conductor. respectively, Pioneer from Seattle, Washington and Salt Effective June 15 daily train service begins all of the way Lake City, Utah passenger service has now been revived fr om Chicago to Laredo, Texas. The formerly tri-weekly on a route made famous by such previous Union Pacific In ter American was changed to daily service last October trains as the City of Portland, Butte Sp ecial and the Tr ain 31 from Chicago as far as Fort Worth, but has remained of To morrow. tri-weekly on south to Laredo. The train, by the way, The first eastbound Pioneer, train 26, left Seattle serves three state capitals on its 2332-mile run. Routed behind Electro-Motive F40PH's 215 and 217 trailing six fr om Chicago via St. Louis it stops at Illinois' state new Amfleet cars: Amcoaches 21866 and 21849, capital of Springfield, continues on to Texas via the Little Amdinette 2023 1, Amcoaches 21859 and 21108 with Rock, Arkansas state capital and Austin, the capital of another Amdinette, 2022 1, on the rear end. The first Texas. Same-day connections with the Mexican Aztec westbound train, number 25, departed Salt Lake City Eagle, however, are not guaranteed. behind twin F40PH's 226 and 219 leading seven cars: Canadians wishing Amtrak information may call toll Amdinette 20232, Amcoaches 21862 and 21860, free after July I: 800-263-8 130 in eastern Canada, 800- Amdinette 20233 and three more Amcoaches, the 21863, 263-8 170 elsewhere. Three Amtrak trains cross into 21174 and 21108. Canada: the Montrealer and Adirondack linking Quebec Work is progressing well at the Pullman Standard with New York and the Pacific In ternational, between plant in Chicago on Amtrak's new bi-Ievel long-distance British Columbia and Seattle. passenger cars, which have been named the Superliners The Truckee, California station closed June 16 by Amtrak's advertising agency. An employee contest to following authority for the action from the Interstate name the new equipment began a few months ago; Commerce Commission. It will reopen, however, from however, Superliners was the only acceptable name December 15 to April 15 each year during the peak ski which was not already covered by a patent or other legal travel season but traffic does not justify a year-round device. The first complete Superliner train is still ticket office. 0 expected to begin operation on the Emp ire Builder in late September or early October and, contrary to earlier reports, the train is now scheduled to include a big THE S. windowed sightseer-lounge car. The normal maximum [e') !..mM! N!�,If.AtRAILWAY length of a Superliner train will be only twelve cars, compared to eighteen cars for present conventional DON JEW ELL equipment; however, the capability exists for the Muni's BiCentennial streetcar 1776 was repainted and . operation of longer consists when business dictates returned to its regular number 1170 during April. This such a move. car, now wearing the new Muni colors of white, orange The Amfleet-equipped "corridor" trains in the west and red, made its first revenue runs on Friday, April 22. continue to show impressive gains in ridership over last Before being repainted the front dash lights were year. The Seattle-to-Vancouver Pac!fic In ternational removed, as had previously been done on 1108 and 1 138. carried 7307 passengers this May compared to only 4352 These lights are no longer available, so they are being in May, 1976. The two Northwest Corridor trains removed when repair or replacement is needed. Before it between Portland and Seattle carried 16,0 16 passengers was returned to service, the 1170 also received new in May, 1977 as compared with 12,772 a year ago for an beige upholstery. increase of 25 per cent, a figure that does not include the Track reconstruction is still in high gear on the M uni as ridership on the Seattle-to-Los Angeles Coast Starligh t four proj ects are currently underway. On the J line, track which also uses this route. The Starlight, by the way, did work is now being done on the right-of-way between 21st quite favorably with a 36 per cent increase in passengers and 22nd Streets, with work already completed between over its 1364-mile run. 18th and 21st Streets. This is the last section to be done On the Southeast Corridor between Los Angeles and under this contract and should be finished by mid-July. San Diego the addition of two new trains and Amfleet On the K line the street-widening. project on Ocean equipment boosted the ridership on the San Diegan Avenue is well underway with the pedestrian overpass to streamliners an impressive 68 per cent to 75,446 riders the new streetcar loading islands at City College nearing

22 MAY. 1977 completion. Actual trackwork in this area will begin 3500-horsepower four-wheel-truck locomotives: Santa in the near future. Fe, with 10 units due in February, will get the most; the On the N line the new trackage has been completed on Southern Railway will accept 3 in March; Union Pacific Carl Street and on the first section of Irving Street. Work will receive 5 in December and I more - the ex-demo - is now underway between 3rd and 6th Avenue on Irving. about March; and Southern Pacific's. The L line trackwork is in progress on Taraval Street A program which has the effect of subsidizing a between 15th and 17th Avenue, the first section to be portion of the Southern Pacific's up-for-abandonment done under the contract covering Taraval Street to 36th San Francisco Peninsula commuter service has been Avenue. The remaining Taraval contract from 36th to approved by the San Mateo County Transit District - 48th Avenue will be getting underway soon. SamTrans - which calls for sale of weekly and monthly Odds and Ends Department: With the closing of railroad ticket books at a discount of 30 cents per ride. No Elkton Shop Muni's popular Car One is now stored in date has been announced for the subsidy program, in Geneva Car House and still available for fan trips ... which the transit district will buy the tickets from the Powell Street Cable Car number II will be the next car railroad at full value and resell them. SamTrans, as was ' replaced and work is already underway at the new expected, has also announced plans to intervene in carpentry shop at Woods Coach Division ... Attempts opposition to the railroad's service discontinuance are being made to preserve the BiCentennial Marmon application. While the form of any future railroad and Herrington trolley coach 776, and it has been removed public transit joint venture or cooperation is certainly not from Muni's Potrero Division to a private storage area known, the fa re subsidy at least allows a beginning step for safe keeping ...The 118 trolley coaches destined for toward returning passengers to the trains. 0 Mexico City have also been moved from Muni property to a storage area on 6th Street near the Southern Pacific Railroad's Mission Bay Yard. 0 I THE BURLINGTON NORTHERN � : F. HOl WAGNER, JR., EDITOR I BURLINGTON NORTHERN ANNUAL ..· , BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT f:i��r�.. �------� Delivery of new motive power continues. Received during May and June were SD40-2's 6773-6780, 8000- Saturday service on the Bay Area Rapid Transit 8009 and Colorado and Southern 930-961. By mid-June, District's rail network is now being proposed for C30-7 deliveries were up to unit 5518, and the units inauguration on November 19. This extension of revenue continued to show up at the rate of only one or two per train operation - which will be permanent - has long week. The C30-7 order is for numbers 5510-5529. been awaited by potential passengers who have been The new Colorado and Southern units came with full unable to ride the BART rapid transit system on C&S sublettering, something which had not been weekends. Sunday service is scheduled at this time to expected, as BN owns the locomotives and they are only begin a year from now during June of 1978 which, if leased to subsidiaries Colorado and Southern and the service begins on time, will mark the first full seven-day Fort Worth and Denver. (However, C&S owns BN regular train schedule that has ever been operated by the GP38-2's 2088-2109 which are leased to parent BN and- Bay Area Rapid Transit District. carry no C&S sublettering). Of the BART routes originally planned, only the leg The new EMD power consisted of three separate from San Francisco direct to Richmond has never been orders, and the numbers carried by the units as delivered put into actual revenue service. Passengers presently are substantially different than those assigned back when wishing to travel across (under) San Francisco Bay must the orders were actually placed. Order 766024 was now transfer from BART's Richmond-to-Fremont trains originally for units 6773-6782, but the locomotives were to a San Francisco-bound (Daly City) train in Oakland. delivered as 6773-6780 and C&S 930-93 1. Order 766025 Direct Richmond service from San Francisco, however, was originally for units 6783-6797; they came in the form is now scheduled to begin March I. With full weekend of numbers 8000-8009 and C&S 932-936. Order 766070 service beginning later in the same year, 1978 will be the was originally to be units 8000-8009 and 8500-8504; first time that BART begins full operational status as was instead, C&S 937-949, 960 and 961 were built. originally intended when construction of the seventy Still to come in 1977 (during the fourth quarter) are GE five-mile rapid transit rail network first began. Actual C30-Ts 5530-5544, EMD SD40-2's 678 1-6785 and service headways and train speeds on the system, SD40X's 6786-6790. These five "X" units will however, remain well under the original design incorporate a number of changes from the "Dash 2" line requirements and the intentions of the rapid transit and will be sisters of the G P40X's that Southern Pacific is system's designers. 0 to receive about the same time. BN has placed the first of its 1978 equipment orders with Electro-Motive. Coming to the railroad next year ______will be 101 SD40-2's and 20 GP38-2's. Some or all of the _ A ----' _ THE SOUTHERN P CIFIC SD40's may be "X" models instead of "Dash 2's." As has [I been the case annually since 1970, the RS3's are to be retired during 1978 - this time along with the RS I I's - Southern Pacific will be accepting the first three of its and replaced by the GP38-2's. However, if business new Electro-Motive GP40X locomotives this coming continues to increase as it has been, and BN continues to November, following a brief test/ demonstration tour by experience motive power shortages, than the units may the trio - with a fourth to eventually become Union survive awhile longer. Pacific property - for builder EMD. The locomotives Speaking of the RS3 fleet, BN 4064 has become the last will be built in September and are the first to be produced unit in service on BN in a predecessor road's paint of a program presently calling for twenty-three of these scheme; everything else running is green. 0

PACIFIC NEWS 23 General Electric U36C's were fairly new members of the Santa Fe's motive power fleet on April 28, 1973 when the 8702 rumbled over one of Tehachapi Creek's several bridges with a string of perishables from California's Central Valley, page opposite. A few minutes later, the 1972-built locomotive will climb over its own train on William Hood's famed Tehachapi Loop: Santa Fe has trackage rights over Southern The Pacific's well-known Tehachapi Pass in Southern California. At Black Hollow Junction, to the northeast of Fort Collins, Camera Colorado, a Burlington Route subsidiary Colorado and Southern Denver-to-Billings, Montana run of through freight number 77 gets Car underway again north for Cheyenne behind a four-unit set of F7's which had paused to set out cars in December of 1957, below. Although the Photo alignment of the Colorado and Southern Railway main line is primarily north-south, at this particular point it runs almost straight east-west for Section about three miles allowing a camera angle looking west toward the Colorado Rockies. The leading unit is C&S 702-0, an F7 delivered in August of 1950 and traded to the General Electric Company as credit against U30C orders in 1968.

Walter L McMurtry

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24 MAY. 1977 PACIFIC NEWS 25 D. B. Harrop

Amtrak's train number 6, the Chicago-bound San Francisco Zephyr, overtakes freight helper power SD40 8406 high in the mountains on Southern Pacific's Donner Pass during March of 1975 near Andover, California, The helper is on its way back downgrade on the eastern slope to Truckee to pick up the rear portion of a too-hea,'y westbound drag freight and is here holding down the Number One track while the streamliner passes in the midst of a winter scene with far more snow than can be found during the present drought.

26 MAY, 1977 Trailing primarily head-end equipment, known this particular day in 1937 as train number 3 from Eureka, through the Tower Three interlocking junction at Baltimore Park, just north of Corte Madera, is Southern Pacific subsidiary Northwestern Pacific 4-6-0 139. A quick trip from here south thirteen miles to Sausalito will terminate today's schedule, but tomorrow will bring a fresh arrival from California's The famed redwood region. Northwestern Pacific third-rail electrified suburban service shares this local trackage, offering passengers trains Camera connecting with railroad-operated San Francisco Bay ferry boats during an era of a more leisure lifestyle. The track heading off behind Car the train's fifth car - once the three-foot-gauge predecessor North Pacific Coast - carries electric operations another 5.8 miles on to Photo Manor. On the main line, the electric suburban service - which was discontinued in 1941 - operated only another four miles to San Rafael. Section There was, however, a branch that connected San Rafael with San Anselmo and most electric suburban operations were scheduled over that route from San Rafael to Sausalito.

PACIFIC NEWS 27 Starting this summer, with completion scheduled three years from now in 1980, the CP RAIL PLANSMA JOR DOUBLE·TRACKING double-tracking construction project will involve more than six hundred man-years of work; the peak of construction - including about 350 on-site jobs - will be during 1978 . _M.oinllne The. initial first phase of the program calls for: --Sou!hRwle CP Rail-Location 4.5 miles of track between Revelstoke and of proposed second Clan william, British Columbia at a cost of$ 10.9 main tracks million; II miles of track from Tappen, near Salmon Arm, British Columbia to Notch Hill at a cost of $13 .9 million; and approximately six to nine miles of track from Lake Louise, Alberta to Stephen, British Columbia at an estimated cost of up to $20 million. The second phase of CP Rail's double tracking program involves construction of some nineteen miles of new trackage in the Beaver 8ltlishColumbla River Valley east of Rogers Pass, which may include a new eight-mile tunnel under the existing five-mile-long Connaught Tunnel. The estimated cost of this phase of the construction project is estimated to be in excess of$90 million in current dollars.

V,jJlCOU\'Cf When the construction project is completed, the double-tracking program will provide a red uced grade for westbound trains which will leave the original of the two tracks for eastbound traffic. CP Rail has announced plans to begin work freight traffic through the rugged mountain Construction of both the Notch Hill and this summer on a $45 million track improvement territory of Western Canada. Clanwilliam trackage has already been program on its main line between Calgary, The amount of coal traffic handled over the approved by the Canad ian Transport Alberta and Vancouver, British Columbia. The line has rapidly been increasing in recent years Commission and work will start as soon as the project represents the initial phase of a major and future growth of total tonnage is expected to final go-ahead is given. In consultation with the double-tracking program which has been be startling over this route which is considered landowners in the Tappen-Notch Hill area, CP designed to increase the capacity of the to be the busiest single-tracked main line in Rail has made major revisions to the original railroad's main line to handle a larger volume of North America. Canadian Transport Commission-approved route in order to further minimize the impact of the double-tracking construction project on the ad jacent properties in the immediate area. These revisions, however, require CTC approval THE WESTERN LEADER FOR MORE THAN which has slightly delayed the construction phase of the project. SEVENTEEN YEARS OF CONSECUTIVE Approval is also required from the Canadian MONTHLY PUBLICATION. Transport Commission for the route changes required at Clanwilliam due to soil conditions in DO NOT MISS THE 188TH MONTH! the area. In preparation for the filing of the formal application for the construction project in its second phase, discussions are still continuing with Parks Canada on agreement for SUBSCRIBE the route location for the proposed second track Type or print your name and address, enclose it with your payment, between Lake Louise and Stephen. The actual AND MAIL IT TODAY_ start of construction on this phase will depend Please enter a direct-by-mail subscription to PACIFIC NEWS for ...... years. on the time that is required to receive approval This is a 0 New Subscription o Renewal of an expired subscription for the project from the Canadian Transport SUBSCRIPTION RATES Commission after both CP Rail and Parks Canada determine the final route in the parks United States, Canada and Mexico: $10.00 for one year, $1 8.00fortwo years area of the two-tracking plan. Foreign rates: $1 1 .00 for one year. Foreign air mail rates on request The total railroad construction project could o I have enclosed my payment o Please bill me with the first issue (Above rates plus 50¢ billing charge) amount to more than $13 5 million, and involves the laying of approximately forty-five miles of Name a new second track to double-track the main Address line, all to both ease and speed up the westbound flow of loaded coal trains which are primarily City ...... _ . . delivering coal to the Vancouver harbors for export overseas. Coal tonnage, in fac t, has more State and Zip Code . than doubled on the railroad in the last half MAIL THIS FORM, OR A FACSIMILE, TO TODAY PACIFIC NEWS dozen years and now accounts for over fifteen CHATHAM PUBLISHING COMPANY per cent of CP Rail's traffic loadings. The work Post Office Box 283 will ease the westbound climb for loaded coal trains from the present 2.2 per cent to a much Burlingame, California 94010 easier I per cent, which will allow higher speeds DO YOURcpc FRIENDS A FAVOR: Suggest thaUhey stop read ing your copy of PACIFIC NEWS and and, thus, more total train operations on this subscribe for themselves. Increased circulation will allow more coverage of Western Railroading. busy section of North American railroading where radio-controlled train operations have become standard fare .•

28 MAY, 1977 former Sumpter Valley Railway 2-8-2 's 19 and 20 back from Alaska where they had last been used by the three-foot-gauge White Pass and Yukon (PACIFIC NEWS , March and April, The Alaska Railroad began its seasonal 1977) also brought WP&Y Baldwin 2-8-2's 70, ShortPortage/ Whittier rail shuttlesiun service on May 20 71 and 72, and the surviving rotary snow plow, �BURUNG�N and will operate Anchorage-to-Portage trains for the tourist-hauling Tweetsie Railroad at Blowing Rock, North Carolina; delayed, the ...... ,1976-77NORTH AnnualERN until September 18 when the summer-only schedule is cancelled ...The public relations barge was finally loaded May 24 .. . The department of CP Rail has been given title to Southern California Rapid Transit District has Bigger than ever-1 60 pages, 23 four diesel-electric locomotives - Baldwin been granted a $606,000 Federal grant to prove photos in full color. Cover painting DS44-1000 number 8000, Canad ian the feasibility of a high-speed rail subway by Ron Hatch. Locomotive/ Fairbanks-Morse H 16-44 8554 linking the downtown district with North Hollywood, a proposal frequently referred to as and H24-{,)6 number 8905, and C-Liner 4065 - All the usual locomotive rosters : which are the first pieces of motive power to be the "Starter Line" which is part of a plan to BN, cas, FW&D, BNML, WWV, saved from scrapping and acquired by the eventually construct a subway from the LST&T and this year for the first department for use by the company in various downtown district out to the San Fernando time, DRI&NW Also listed: Amtrak, historical displays or for special loan to Valley . . . Canadian Forest Products' SP, Milwaukee Road, Mopac and museums; a Montreal-built A and B-unit set will spectacular Gold Creek Trestle burned during be added to the collection in the near future and late February, temporarily closing the railroad KCS units assigned to BN. extra precautions are now being taken to protect while repairs were made ...Seriously affected the locomotives from "unscrupulous" by winter weather conditions, the nation's A full 30 pages on BN's snowfight collectors, read thieves . . . The National railroads reported a deficit of $29.2 million in ing equipment, with an all-time

Railroad Passenger Corporation - Amtrak - first quarter earnings, the Association of roster of GN, NP, CB&Q, cas and has announced a series of "Night Owl" reduced American Railroads reported on June 3 ... BN rotaries and their kin. fares for passengers that travel between various Utah's Heber Creeper has begun its 1977 steam points of the system at the inconvenient hours passenger operations using the ex-White 20 pages of data and photos of between 1:00 AM and 4:3 0 AM that now offer Mountain Scenic Baldwin 2-8-2 number 100 BN's shrinking fleet of EMD SW1 's. such outstanding travel bargains as which will soon be joined by Alco 2-8-2 36 from Winnemucca, Nevada-to-Chicago, Illinois for the same defunct Arizona tourist railroad; the 36 Complete histories and operati ng is ex-Sierra Railroad 36, the number 100 went to $1; simply buy a round-trip ticket and the return details of the histo ric Deadwood fare is only $1 and a lonely station platform until Arizona from the Santa Maria Valley Railroad Branch and the unique high plains the idea catches on as it did with the airlines ..Via Rail Canada, Incorporated is now line from Sterling, Colo. to Chey ... A year-end report fr om Canada's British officially the new Canadian Crown corporation enne, Wyo. Columbia-owned British Columbia Railway - established to begin taking over all railroad where the Royal Hudson operates - shows that passenger service except commuter trains, much on December 31, 1976 the railway owned one the same as Amtrak in the United States and as BN in the mountains: highlights of hundred nineteen diesel locomotives, 7079 promised by a 1974 Canadian governmental operations on the passes, with freight and other cars, built 53 2 bulkhead flat election; the new Via operations have already special emphasis this year on cars and 153 wood chip cars at its Railwest begun using repainted yellow-and-blue Stampede Pass. Division at Squamish and had extended clearing equipment along eastern Canada's Quebec and grading work on the Dease Extension over a Windsor corridor on Canadian National A major section detailing the year distance of forty-five miles ...Train watchers in trackage and plans for a Montreal-to 1976 on BN, from new power to Central Texas should consider the depot area at Vancouver train, via Toronto, are now already T&P 610 in Texas. Temple for outstanding Santa Fe viewing on in the final stages which will move the new Via Saturday between 7:00 AM and 8:00 PM where, logo into a transcontinental image spanning All for only for example, twenty-eight trains, including three across Canada. _ passengers, were active on May 28 in all directions at a location that covers traffic out of RECORD of the MONTH Shipped Houston (Mike Bledsoe) ...The former United postpaid. SB 4506 Amer ican Freedom Train™ States Army General Electric-built 45-tonner $10.95 number 7485 has been acquired by the Pacific to readers Colorado residents add sales tax. Southwest Railway Museum Association and of moved to join its museum equipment lineup at PACI FIC And we are pleased to announce the Naval Air Station, Miramar, California NEWS where it now rests with the one-time Feather that all previous editions are once River Railway three-truck Shay number 3 ... $649 again in stock and available at The Trailer Train Company of Chicago has thei r original prices. this month announced plans to construct a rail car repair ONLY facility on a fifty-acre tract in Colton, California which was once used by the Southern Pacific as to your Comi ng later this year: its local maintenance yard until the mid-1960's; DOOR when in full operation in late 1978 the repair . . STEREO/QUAD ICD·41 12" LP UNION PACIFIC plant could service as many as one hundred ten MOTIVE POWER REVIEW cars per week ... Nevad a's revived Virginia and Happy Birthday America. Hello Freedom Train with cab The past 10 years of UP diesels. Truckee Railroad began service June 5 with the & tracksidc sccncs orNe. 4449: plus No. 2101 and No. 759. It Beautifully packaged in a fo lder album. color on fro nt and former McCormack and Baxter Tie and back. B& W photos inside. plus complete text. A sensational Creosote 0-4-{)Tnumber 202 after initially being biCentennial sOllvenir gift for anyone. including yoursclf1 delayed from a May 28 opening by a broken Offer good only during month or this magazine issue. piston ring; the now-gone 4-4-{) 28 that operated· -FREE Catalog upon request - for the 1976 season will have its place taken later this year by the former Willamina and Grand Mobile Fidelity Records Ronde Railway/ Longview Portland and P.o. Box 336. Burbank. Calif. 91503 P. O. BOX 17111. DENVER. COLORADO 80217 or sec your Hobby/Record Dealer Northern Baldwin 2-8-{) number 680 which has Stereo H or (JuadH Track Tape - 57.49 1I�1I111See our display at RAILFAIR '77 been in storage at Grand Ronde, Oregon for the July 9-10 in Denver last two decades ... The barge that carried the

PACIFIC NEWS 29 The Union Pacific Railroad's locomotive acquisition program for 1977 included seventy-five Electro-Motive S040-2 units, to be nEWS numbered as the 3335 to 3409. In late April, however, the railroad changed its order ending the original deliveries at 3399 and diverting the final ten locomotives to S040-2M's 8065 through 8074. Shown below, at Council Bluffs, Iowa on May 17, is the third of these, the 8067, PHOTOS awaiting set-up by the railroad with radios, rotating lights and other UP items. The locomotive is equipped with 59/ 18 gearing. Heading a freight to the east out of Pueblo, Colorado, bottom, is Santa Fe rebuilt GP20 3066 (PA CIFIC NE WS , April, 1977) on April 29. The locomotive was outshopped by the San Bernardino, California shops on April 12 from GP20 3166.

George R. Cockle Ronald C. Hill

30 MAY. 1977 Kenneth G. Johnsen

Heading for Salt Lake City, Utah on the maiden run, above, is the eastbound Pioneer on Burlington Northern trackage between Kent and Auburn, Washington at 7:55 AM, June 7. F40PH's 215 and 217 were assigned to this first run out of Seattle, while sisters 226 and the 219, left, pause during the westbound inaugural run at Boise, Idaho with the first Salt Lake City departure for Seattle. A derailment on the Southern Pacific between Cascade Summit and Eugene forced this northbound Coast Starlight to be rerouted up the Oregon Trunk trackage between Chemult and OT Junction on the Columbia River April 10. The train is seen here, bottom, at Moody along the Deschutes River in Central Oregon on pre-merger Spokane Portland and Seattle trackage, now Burlington Northern, just five miles from OT Junction where the train will transfer to Union Pacific's main line for the run on into Portland. Norman E. Anderson , " - < ..

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Gary Vielbaum .

Ken Perry

The California Railway Museum staged their annual open house over the weekend of May 14 and 15, this year hosting the largest crowd in the history of the museum which is located to the north of the San Francisco Bay Area at Rio Vista Junction. Operating for visitors was an impressive parade of historic streetcars and electric railway equipment, the one-time Pickering Lumber Corporation three-truck Shay II, the former Southern Pacific subsidiary Visalia Electric General Electric 44-tonner 502 and a special exhibition train provided just for the two-day event by Western Pacific subsidiary Sacramento Northern whose one-time main line, now a branch, runs adjacent to the museum. SWI 402, top, here poses alongside the museum's former Sacramento Northern electric freight motor 654 with an SN box car and WP caboose that the diesel brought with it from Sacramento. After the festivities, the 402, which is posed on SN trackage while the 654 is on museum rail, returned to revenue duty which frequently has it assigned to Marysville where electric 654 ended Sacramento Northern's history of electrified railroad operations in local switching service. CP Rail's subsidiary Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway used its crossing of the Tsable River as one of two bridges so badly in need of repair that service north of Parksville fourty-four miles to Courtenay had to be abandoned on July 1, 1975 (PA CIFIC NE WS , September, 1975). Court orders, however, have forced the railroad to reconstruct the bridges and reopen the rail line and work is now well under way. At milepost 125.5, right, the trestle approach on the north end of the Tsable River Bridge is being replaced by a steel span, on the south end the approach will be a wooden trestle. Both approaches will rest on new concrete footings. The French Creek Bridge, at milepost 98.6 three miles north of Parksville, is receiving a similar treatment pending a reopening of the railroad.

32 MAY, 1977 nEWS PHOTOS Kaiser Corporation SW1200u 1029 is .fresh from the Rock Island's Silvis, Illinois shops having been rebuilt from Chicago and North Western's SW8 801 on February I prior to shipment to Fontana, California. The locomotive now rides on roller-bearing trucks, has a GP9-type control stand, paper air filters, multiple-unit connections, a 1200-horsepower 12-567C prime mover with two stacks and new electrical wiring.

The former Southern Pacific 1220, an Alco S6 built in June, 1956 - serial number 81724 - as number 1053, was acquired by the Tacoma Municipal Belt Line Railroad in December and put into service in March following an overhaul. Photographed April 21 at Tacoma, the locomotive is now numbered as the 950.

Four of eight Canadian National Century-424 units leased in April by the British Columbia Railway idle at the CN yards in Vancouver April 13, prior to their delivery. The units shown here are the 3202, 3200, 3205 and 3203, below.

Peter J. Repiinger T. o. Repp

PACIFIC NEWS 33 British Columbia Railway for two consecutive days in mid-July. The trip on the popular RDC cars includes a buffet dinner at Lillooe!. Brochure available. Fares: Adult SI8.00; Children SIO.OO. West Coast Railway Association P. O. Box 2790 Ellcurslons I Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6B 3X2 (Starting) July 16-17, weekend . SOUTHERN RAILWAY EXCURSIONS WITH T&P 610 SPlclal Eight special excursions have been announced by the Southern Railway which will be powered by the former Texas and Pacific 2-10-4 number 610: July 16-17, Cincinnati to Danville and return; July 23, Lexington to Louisville and return; August 20-2 1, Alexandria to Monroe and return; September 3, Roanoke to Operations Lynchburg and return; September 4, Roanoke to Cedar Bluff and return; September 10-1 1, Henderson to Bulls Gap and return each day; October I, Birmingham toYork and return; October 8-9, Atlanta toToccoa and return. The All listings herewith are made free of charge, and PACIFIC NEWS assumes no September 3 trip will double-head with the Southern's famed 4501. Each of the responsibility for errors, revisions in fares and schedules or operational changes, trips are sponsored by various organizations. Details and fares from: all of which are subject to change without notice. PACIFIC NEWS reserves the Southern Railway Steam Excursions right to edit material or to refuse any listings. Insertions will not be printed from First Federal Building brochures. Deadline is the first of the second month preceding publication date, 40 Marietta Street, NW Atlanta, Georgia 30303 (Started) May 28, weekends and holidays STEAM RAILROADING ON THE SUMPTER V ALLEY August 28, departure date Regular scheduled steam-powered passenger service on the three-foot-gauge WEST COAST CONNECTION, NRHS CONVENTION '77 Sumpter Valley Railroad, a non-profit civic historical enterprise, begins on A through Pullman is being operated departing Los Angeles August 28 for Saturday, May 28 and will continue each weekend and holiday until the end of Roanoke, Virginia and the National Railway Historical Society convention. October. Powered by two-truck Heisler number 3, the train will make periodic Operating first on Amtrak's Sunset Limited, then the Southern'S Southern departures between 10 AM and 5 PM for the thirty-minute ride out of Dredge Crescent and finally to Roanoke on the steam-powered Convention Special, the Depot southeast of Sumpter on trackage relaid on the original right-of-way of the tour package includes railfare, hotel accommodations in Roanoke and all abandoned Sumpter Valley Railway. convention activities with optional rail or air return. The convention program Fares: Adults, $2.00; Family, $6.00; Children under 6, free. includes two all-day steam excursions, a branch-line diesel excursion, tours of the Sumpter Valley Railroad Restoration Norfolk and Western shops and separate non-rail activities. P. O. Box 548 Trax Travel Sumpter, Oregon 97877 1506 West Grand Avenue Pomona, California 91766 (Starting) June I, daily GOLDEN AGE OF RAILROADING EXHIBIT September 3-5, Saturday-Monday, Labor Day Weekend The Pacific Southwest Railway Museum of San Diego has an exhibit of SIERRA RAILROAD STEAM SPECTACULAR railroad equipment open to the pubic. On display is a 1929 Alco 2-8-2T, formerly Three spectacular days of special steam operations on California's legendary Coos Bay Lumber Company number II, and a 1926 private Pullman business car, Sierra Railroad have been planned, complete with unusual photographic the Victoria. The location is on Harbor Drive - near Broadway - in downtown opportunities for the railroad enthusiast. This will be a rare chance to see four San Diego. Hours are from II:00 AM to 5:00 PM daily from June through Sierra Railroad steam locomotives under steam for a most unusual Labor Day September, and on weekends from October through May. Admission is free. Weekend spectacular. Pacific Southwest Railway Association Sarurda)I, September 3. A pair of special runs will be made from Jamestown to Post Office Box 12096 Cooperstown this afternoon using the former Tucson Cornelia and Gila Bend San Diego, California 92112 Railroad gas car number401 which operated during 1976 on the revived Virginia and Truckee Railroad. The fare for this unique opportunity to ride a gas car on the (Starting) Saturday, June 18 through September 3 Sierra Railroad has not yet been determined. SPECIAL EVENING STREETCAR SERVICE Saturday, September 3. Departing at 5:30 in the evening will be a special all Remember the pleasant rush of the wind across your face as a Pacific Electric steam double-headed running of the Supper Special operating to Oakdale and Red Car hurried home from a summer day at the beach? Or maybe the sight of a return featuring a prime rib dinner. The fare will be $19.95, including dinner. yellow Los Angeles Railway trolley with its' lights a warm glow while waiting for Sunday, September 4. Two steam engines, both built in the 1800's, hauling three passengers on a quiet evening? cars up the Sierra's Dry Creek Canyon? Impossible? No, for that is what has been These sights and sounds of the trolley era, long departed from the streets of Los planned for this special Sunday when Sierra Railroad 4-6� number 3 and Angeles, will be recreated every Saturday this summer at the Orange Empire 4-4� number 8 team up to power a special three-<:ar train from Jamestown to Railway Museum in Perris. California. Restored cars will operate between 4:30 Cooperstown and return. There will be photostops away from the public roads on PM and 8:30 PM on Saturday evenings offering a nostalgic interlude for railroad this special 6�-hour trip departing at 9:30 AM. Bring your own lunch. enthusiasts after visiting Cajon Pass or Beaumont Hill. The evening service Monday, September 5. Three mighty steam behemoths on a single train! There supplements the year-round Orange Empire trolley schedule. Fare is $1.50. are few places in America where you can ride behind a triple-header, and this is Orange Empire Railway Museum only the sixth time it has happened on the Sierra Railroad (the fourth since the Post Office Box 548 railroad's 1971 steam revival, and the first since 19731). This will be the very first Perris, California 92370 time that the Sierra's three excursion engines - 4-6� number 3, 2-8� number 28 and 2-8-2 number 34 - will operate all of the way from Jamestown to Oakdale July 16 & 17, two one-

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34 MAY, 1977 Special fare for both days: $25.00. Tickets are limited. STEAM, ITS GENERATION AND USE, Thirty-fifth edition, copyright 1913 by Pacific Locomotive Association the Babcock and Wilcox Company (boiler manufacturers). An outstanding and 54 Hancock Street very technical 336-page hardbound study of the state of the art in boilers for San Francisco, California 94 114 stationary power generation. Illustrated. Charts. tables and slight water damage. Otherwise good condition. 7!h.x8!h.".$1 7.50. Karl R. Koenig, PA CIFIC NI:WS, September 16-0ctober 2, 2 weeks Post Office Box 283, Burlingame, California 940 10. R&LHS ANNUAL LOCOMOTIVE DISPLAY The yearly display of locomotives and equipment owned by the Southern SHORTLINE and industrial locomotives of Oregon. Current listing; 99 units, six California Chapter of the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society will be held photos, location, company, builder's number, date, weight, horsepower and prior at the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds at Pomona from September 16 to October owners. 75¢ each or three for $2.00. Rosters West, 2720 NW Mulkey. Corvallis. 2 during the annual run of the county fair. Oregon 97330. Southern California Chapter, R& LHS 1020 North Sierra Bonita Avenue 4449 IN THE EAST - Of course you have shots of 4449 in the West. Everybody Los Angeles, California 90046 does! Now you can have never-to-be-repeated shOIS of 4449's Eastern odyssey. Small number original slide sets available of 4449's Amtrak transcontinental September 14, 1977, Wednesday excursion and its swing on the Southern's Atlanta-to-Washington trip last THE UNION LIMITED August. Locations include Virginia, Carolinas. Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas. All A recreation of the Boat Train schedule from Johannesburg to Cape Town, slides originals. Many other RR subjects available, send $1 for a catalogue and South Africa has been scheduled to coincide with the departure of the mail boat to sample with a LSASE. John McCourt. 4133 Comly Street, Philadelphia, England prior to withdrawal of the boats from service later this year. In the old Pennsylvania 19135. days of the 1920's the Union Limited was scheduled to meet the boats and a special train of older clerestory equipment is being assembled, complete with the dining ORIGINAL NEGATIVES: SP - WP - AT&SF - NWP- V&T - California car Protea, to commemorate the last runs. Application has been made for the train Western - McCloud - TS - MET - SDAE - SPNG - NCNG - many to be hauled by steam power throughout its run from the J ohannesburgstation to more. Also loggers and private railroads. Send SAE for schedule of listings. alongside the wharf in Cape Town. Seven South African Railways steam Raj lway Negative Exchange, Post Office Box 408, Moraga, California 94556. locomotives - three 4-8-2's. two 4-8-4·s. a 2-8-4 and, hopefully, sixty inch-drivered class 16E 4-6-2 number 858 - are planned for the special train WANTED: Current or recent operating rule books of O&RGW, sr, UP, BN. which will operate over ninety per cent of the route during daylight with two Also want older rule books of Canadian Pacific and Canadian National Railways. overnight stops. Passenger service on this line today is hauled for most of the route Steve Ondic, 11035 162A Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T5X IZ8. by either electric or diesel motive power. Presently scheduled for one-way operation, a return trip will be made if there is sufficient demand. DENVER, COLORADO, July 9 and 10, Railfair '77, the Rocky Mountain Fares and additional information are available from: Region's most complete railroad show. Exhibitors include Burlington Northern Railway Society of Southern Africa Railroad, antique collectors, authors, artists, modelers, NARP, Amtrak, Post Office Box 9775 publishers, DOT, railroad antique shops and dealers, travel agents, plus more. 2000 Johannesburg Admission: $1.OOadults, 50¢ children. Jefferson County Fairgrounds, 15200 West Republic of South Africa 6th Avenue. Hours: Saturday 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, Sunday 10:00 AM -4:00 PM. Sponsored by NRHS Intermountain Chapter. For more information contact R. October I, Saturday W. Luckin, NRHS, Box 5181, Terminal Annex, Denver, Colorado 802 17. UP 8444 SPECIAL TO LARAMIE Union Pacific 4-8-4 number 8444 will power a special train round-trip from Denver, Colorado to Laramie, Wyoming on October I. Photo stops will be made enroute, and a western-style lunch at Laramie is included. Equipment will consist of baggage car, coaches, dome coach and a full lounge. Publishers are encouraged to submit copies of new and Adult fare is $38.00. Additional information and tickets: reissued books, records, photo sets and etcetera not Intermountain Chapter, NRHS previously reviewed in PACIFIC NEWS. There is no P. O. Box 5181 II charge for this service: however, the material will be Denver, Colorado 802 17 0 0 "",,", '0< '" ..... ,, "",," October 22-23, weekend B Postponed/rom June 18-19 aulaws "'"' " STEAMTOWN'S ANNUAL RAILFAN WEEKEND Two full days featuring special railfan-oriented activities, with lots of steam action guaranteed, will now be held during mid-October. Many photo stops and VANISHING MARKERS run-bys will be staged, as well as a night photo session. There will be door prizes. R Ralph E. Fisher including cab rides. For complete details, write to: Va nishinK Markers is an interesting, first-hand look at railroading on the Steamtown Foundation Boston and Maine as seen through the eyes of one railroader who worked only six P. O. Box 71 years, between 1946 and 1952, for the line. Many might consider this a beginner's Bellows Falls, Vermont 05 10 I book, sketchy on the solid details of railroading, but please take note that this is not the purpose. In a railroad man's language from the late 1940's Ralph Fisher describes what the job of running trains was like; how it was done on freight jobs and passenger service; flagging light engines and work trains; working in fair weather and foul, including snowplow jobs during the paralyzing storms of 1948-1949. Though the author worked on the new diesels which were arriving at the time, the primary emphasis is on Boston and Maine's steam locomotives then in service. Completely apart from the locomotives and stories of active railroading is an explanation of the railroad's signal system from ancient ball signals to then modern Centralized Traffic Control. Again lacking in the reams of technical details found in many railroad books, this section at least shows the signals in the CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING section for railroad-related items. PACIFIC NEWS Exira Board appropriate red, yellow and green colors. There is no other color in the book, reserves the right to edit all copy and to refuse any listings. Ads can not be acknowledged, nor can proof copies be sent. Closing date is the 1st of the 2nd however; even the dust jacket photograph is in black-and-white. The book's real preceding month. Count all numbers. name and address, but not zip code. Rates value is in relating the experiences of railroading in the author's time - a section are 10¢ a word, $3.00 minimum. Payment in advance. Repeat ads 50% off for the discusses working freights on the rear end in the caboose, and how loud it could second month of each two-month period for continuing ads. get inside with a wide-open steam helper struggling on the end. 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