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WP Mileposts Aug 1950 No. 13 WES 'TERN PACIFIC ~!l~p.pSls ~d/i;pn f?/Jac#c @J~eant {7lea~d(zecl/ mbnee~ f?ha~n Yl(?aC~ed Q;;a&a~cI/ MILEPOSTS believes that no W estern Pacific railroader can read the story of the tumultuous greeting accorded our first through passenger train without experiencing both a real thrill and a sense of rededication to the high purposes of our railroad Vol. 1/ , No. I AUGUST, 1950 Milepost No. 13 which inspired this great public tribute. This month marks the fortieth anniversary of that occasion as it also marks the Department of Public Relations first birthday of MILEPOSTS. Vie are, therefore, observing both occasions by reprinting WESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD the following account of the welcome to our first train from the S<ln Francisco Call SACRAMENTO NORTHERN RAILWAY TIDEWATER SOUTHER N RAILWAY of August 23, 1910, as written by E rnest S. Simpson, together with photos of this 526 Mission Street, San Francisco 5 memorable event. Lee " Flash" Sherwood, Editor Arthur Lloyd, Jr., Associate Editor Member American Ra ilw ay Magazine Editors' Association "At long range there does not seem expect soon to witness another such IN DEX to be reason or excuse for emotion in thrilling outrush of sentiment as I saw PAGE the arrival of a dusty passenger train heard and felt yesterday all the 200 A dreamer sees his dream of half a century come true. Arthul' W. Keddie in a community already touched by miles from Oroville to Oakland while speaks from the Court House steps at Quincy, on the occasion of the first two big transcontinental lines, but I, the Western Pacific dream was coming Western Pacific passenger train, August 21,1910. Keddie made the first who have seen a few things to stir the true-not until our own war eagles survey for a railroad through the Feather River Canyon in 1867 Cover heart and moisten the eyes, do not are loosed again and our own kith and Western Pacific Dream Realized! 3-16incl. In Memoriam . 16 Mileposts in Gold 17 WP Will Remember 18 Passing Mileposts 18 Caboosing 20-28incl. Meet Our General Chairmen 29 Sports 30, 31 Railroad Lines 32 CORRESPONDENTS : Bill McGrath, Chicago; Nevada Michelson, Elko ; Robert Munce Jr .. Los Angeles; Hazel Petersen, Oakland : Heien Small. Oroville j Fred Kreuger, Sacramentoj Madge Slaughtner. Sacramento Shops; Irene Burton, Sacramento Store; Gordon Halvorsen, Sacramento Northern; Jimmy Collins, Bob Gonsalves, Salt Lake City; Rita Conolly. Molly Fagan, Lawrence Gerring, Jim Mills. Maurice Notter, Carl Rath, Dudley Thickens, San Francisco; Chas. H . Myers, San Jose; Virginia Rustan, Gene Trace, Stockton ; Dora Monroe, Tidewater Southern; Francis Davis, W endover. It was a proud train, all bright and shiny, that waited in the Salt Lake City Union Depot as the invited ~7 newshawks gathered to start their trip. MILEPO STS 2 MILEPOSTS 3 At Quincy Junction (then called Hartwell) the Quincy Western Railroad provided a special, complete with band, to take the visitors to the Plumas County seat, off the main line of the W . P. kin bring back their battle-stained San Francisco to Salt Lake is wound colors in honor and the pride of victory. about the hearts of a half million It was a swift moving picture of in­ people. Yesterday I would rather have spiration and uplift, a triumph of peace been Schlacks or Levey or Lomax or and progress, the completion of a hard­ Virgil Bogue than anybody in all the won conquest over time and distance, Americas. * the celebration of mountains mastered What happened at Oakland yester­ and deserts defied. Best of all, per­ day was the logical and yet unexpected haps, was the fact, gloriously proved * NOTE : C. H . Schlacks was first vice-presi. and made magnificently manifest, that dent; C. M. Levey, vice-president and general man­ Cool drinks in the observation car as the train sped along ... ager; E. L. Lomax, general traffic manager; and the new steel ribbon which runs from Virgil Bogue, vice-president and chief engineer . may have inspired this "ring-around the rosy" during the stop at Elko. The delegation pa~ades behind the band down Main Street, Quincy. 4 MILEPOSTS MILEPOSTS 5 At Intake, the party got out to see the new dam and then posed in front of No. 94. special did. We under guessed crowds by thousands and the spirit and temper railroad history. You can get turgid with a profitable number of passengers of these crowds was by volumes. Natu­ speeches and solemn resolutions en­ aboard, besides the other business of rally, the men who built and are run­ dorsing new enterprises of almost any getting and hauling as much freight Goodbye to Quincy I ning this new commercial enterprise respectable sort, but you can't turn as possible. Its managers will, how­ are bidders for the favor of the public out the people, old and young, rich and ever, not quickly forget their exciting climax of the remarkable demonstra­ they seek to serve. If that memorable poor, frilled and plain, of territory big and somewhat sentimental yesterday. tion that began Sunday morning high run in from the San Joaquin to the enough for a European principality to Possibly the explanation of some up in the Sierra. Whoever saw that Oakland terminus means anything at whoop it up for another of several rail­ part of yesterday's demonstration is to mountain rancher of the Beckwith all, they have it-have more of it than roads unless you can convince them be found in what might be termed the pass render his shotgun salute to the they will know what to do with. that it is another kind of railroad. You commercial insurgency of the new first passenger train of the new over­ Nothing like the Western Pacific ex­ can't manufacture to order any such railroad. It proclaims itself independ­ land line should have foretold the tre­ perience of yesterday ever happened 200 miles of sentiment as greeted the ent and promises what it asks­ mendous finale. None of us on the before. Nothing like it is set down in Western Pacific yesterday. a square deal. It says that it has noth­ Already the Western Pacific has ing and wants nothing to do with the settled down to the prosaic and exact­ Government, which it holds to be the ing business of getting one through people's business. Quite frankly it de­ train a day delivered on schedule time clares that it is not here to cut rates in Salt Lake and one in San Francisco, or to grab what any other road has got, Acto..: At Blairsden. Passenger traffic manager E. L. Lomax tells the welcoming committee what W estern Pacific N o. 92 took over at 0 roville. will mean to them. 7 6 MILEP OS TS MILj>PO STS The thought of being served by a new transcon­ tinental railroad so inspired the townspeople throughout the Valley, that from miles around they brought gifts of fruit, melons and flowers for the visitors aboard the Western Pacific train. Surely that isn't a bottle the lone male is trying to smuggle aboard with his paper I . Marysville citizens extend welcome. The paving seems a little behind schedule. 8 MILEPOSTS MILEPOSTS 9 The crowd at Stockton from the observation platform. but that it is on the railroad map for the roofs, screamed and yelled in wild the purpose of making and getting frenzy of delight. From factory and business of its own, treating one patron workshop there burst a shrill chorus of with as much consideration as another raucous whistling. Bands blared, bells At Livermore the whole town was down at the depot . .. including the fair sex who arrived in the "Bus and all of them with fairness. pealed, gongs clanged. And across the to All Parts of Town." The people who know about the tracks there wedged and squirmed Western Pacific believe in it-believe and stamped and shouted a pack of that it strikes a new note and marks humanity which, regardless of the hot the beginn,ing of a new era in the sun or the clouds of dust flying into transportation industry. The many their faces, waited with waving arms thousands who waved flags, handker­ as the slowly moving engine bore down chiefs, aprons, and dish cloths yester­ upon them, coming to a halt within a day from Oroville to Oakland were few feet of the front rank. evidence of that much, at least. While Parade and pageantry there were, it keeps its early promises, it should and pomp there ought to have been; be entitled to expect continuance of but program arranged by human mind the good will it now enjoys in such could not stand against the heav­ brimful measure. ing, pushing and recklessly joyous With an acclaim, riotous, un­ crowd. Therefore, the pomp vanished. restrained and unrestrainable, Oak­ Speeches were lost in din, eloquence in land gave welcome yesterday to the uproar. The parade which should have first Western Pacific passenger train paraded before the grandstand for the to enter within its gates. Thousands edification of the visitors, nosed itself banked on thousands of men and gingerly against the heaving, howling women and children, filling the streets, throng, wavered irresolutely and came crowding the enclosed places, dotting to a dead halt. The police lines snapped 10 MILEPOSTS like threads and the thousands threw mass and swung back the crowd and themselves to the spot under the tri­ then in feverish anxiety held it back. umphal arch to pat the iron flanks of For about five solid, heavy minutes the panting engine.
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