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Amtrak's California Corridors FEBRUARY 1993 • ISSUE 351 $3.50 HIGHER IN CANADA Amtrak's California Corridors FOND FAREWELL TO THE RIO GRANDE PIONEER RAILCORP SILENCE IN THE SANDHILLS Subscribe Today to Passenger Train Journal' from the editors of PACIFIC RAILNEWS . PASSENGER TRAIN JOURNAL is your window to the fascinating world of passenger trains of yesterday and today. Every monthly issue of PASSENGER TRAIN JOURNAL brings you the latest news, absorbing features on passenger trains past and present and outstanding, colorful railroad photography. • 12 monthly issues, at a 28% savings over the regular news­ stand price. • Authoritative, monthly news columns on Amtrak, transit and international passenger railroading. • Photography from the best in railroad publishing - including the work of many contributors to PACIFIC RAILNEWS. • Quality features like the ones you have come to expect in PACIFIC RAILNEWS. TO SUBSCRIBE CAll 1-800-899-8722 between 9a.m. and Sp.m. Pacific time. Have your VISA or MasterCard ready. Check or credit card by mail to: Interurban Press, P.O. Box 6128, Glendale, CA 91225. One year $30, two years $58. Outside u.s. one year $36, two years $70. PACIFIC RAIL NEWS 8 Fond Farewell to the Rio Grande 1 A father and his sons say goodbye to a Western legend Dick Dorn 28 Amtrak's California Corridors Intercity passenger service is booming in the Golden State Charles Seifert 34 Pioneer Railcorp: A Path Less Traveled A rail enthusiast's unusual journey into the shortline business Wayne Kuchinsky 40 Focus Minnesota: Staples Converging main lines mean nonstop Burlington Northern action Steve Glischinski Images: Silence in the Sandhills A Cowboy linetrain nears the crew change point at 50 Long Pine, Neb., on Sept. 27, 1989. Carl Swanson North Western ends service on Nebraska's Cowboy Line PACIFIC RAILNEWS and PACIFIC NEWS are registered trademarks of Interurban Press, a California Corporation. I DEPARTMENTS I PUBLISHER: Mac Sebree EDITOR: Don Gulbrandsen 4 EXPEDITER 44 BURLINGTON NORTHERN ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Andrew S. Nelson CP RAIL AMTRAK/PASSENGER ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Carl Swanson 6 45 CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Elrond G. Lawrence 8 TRANSIT 46 CHICAGO & NORTH WESTERN EDITORIAL CONSULTANT: Dick Stephenson 10 SANTA FE 48 SOUTHERN PACIFIC ART DIRECTOR: Tom Danneman 12 REGIONALS 50 IMAGES OF RAILROADING SHORT LINES THE LAST WORD ADVERTISING MANAGER: Richard Gruber 14 54 CIRCULATION MANAGER: Bob Schneider 16 UNION PACIFIC 55 PRN ADVERTISING INDEX FOCUS MINNESOTA PRN CLASSIFIEDS © 1993 INTERURBAN PRESS 40 55 Mac Sebree. President/CEO Jim Walker, Senior Vice President Don Gulbrandsen, Vice President COVER: An Amtrak 773 train (Santa Barbara San Diegan) pauses at the new Simi Val­ ley, Calif., Amtrak/Metrolink station. California is experiencing a boom in intercity passenger trains, and the state now boasts of three successful short-haul corri­ dors-and other exciting rail developments are on the horizon. Don R. Flynn PACIFICRAlLNEWS (ISSN 8750·8486) is published monthly by Interurban Press (a corporation), 1741 Gardena Ave., Glendale, CA 91204. Second·class postage paid at Glendale, CA 91209 and additional mailing of· fices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: PACIFIC RAILNEWS, P.O. Box 6128, Glendale. CA 91225. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $30 (U.S.) for 12 issues, $58 for 24 issues. Foreign add $6 for each 12 issues. Single copy $5 postpaid from Glendale office (subject to change without notice). CHANGE OF ADDRESS: The Post Office does not regularly forward 2nd Class Mail and PACIFIC RAILNEWS is not responsible for copies not forwarded or destroyed by the Post Office. Replacement copiesfPO notifications will be billed. Please allow us at least four weeks for any address change. ADVERTISING RATES: Contact Interurban Press, P.O. Box 379, Waukesha, WI 53187; (414) 542·4900. MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE: For all subscription problems and inquiries call: (800) 899·8722. Regional carrier Gateway Western gave the rural communities it serves a Christmas treat in running its third annual Santa Claus Special, between Godfrey, III., and Blue Springs, Mo., on Dec. 19-20. Here two GWWR GP38s lead the special's consist-two GWWR cabooses-in front of the depot at Slater, Mo., on Dec. 20. Enthusiastic crowds greeted the special along its entire route. Randy Woods SP TO SHED 3,000 MILES: would begin in mid-January. SP adjacent 60-year-old bridge in­ Southern Pacific has an­ sources did confirm that lines in to the Port of Oakland, but the nounced that it plans to offer Oregon and California would California DOT thclU.ght other­ 3,000 miles of track for sale or likely be available for spinoff, as wise. That leaves just the UP lease to shortline operators in would former D&RGW branch­ and SP to work something out. the upcoming year. In 1992, es in Colorado and Utah. Sec­ The Port of Oakland is inter­ the railroad disposed of around ondary lines specifically exclud­ ested in a joint UP/SP facility, 700 miles of track-less than it ed from the program include all which would free up UP's inter­ • had hoped-so to compensate Mexican gateways, Colorado modal facility on the Oakland a SP will accelerate its branch coal branches and the petro­ Estuary for the port's own use. and secondary line sales. If chemical-rich branches around Consolidated UP/SP ramp oper­ successful, SP will shave more Houston. ations on SP property east of than 20 percent of the trackage UP's current yard would handle off its 14,000-mile system. SANTA FE NIXED OUT OF both international and domestic SP has formed six regional PORT OF OAKLAND: South­ containers for those two roads. teams to identify low-density ern Pacific and Union Pacific A joint facility would also bene­ lines suitable for disposal. To are discussing using SP prop­ fit the City of Oakland as five expedite sales and attract more erty for a joint intermodal facil­ miles of UP trackage could be buyers, the railroad is expected ity in Oakland, Calif. Santa Fe eliminated, part of it running to deal with larger chunks of is absent from the discussions down the city's Third Street. trackage than has been the because it lost a key bargain­ norm with current line sales. ing chip when the California NEW CARS FOR AMTRAK: On California's 416-mile Coast Department of Transportation Dec. 2, 1992, Amtrak's Board Line, which has been offered elected not to provide state of Directors awarded Morrison as a passenger rail corridor to funding to rebuild the bridge Knudsen a contract for 50 sin­ the Los Angeles County Trans­ that provides Santa Fe its limit­ gle-level Viewliner sleepers to portation Commission, is in­ ed access to the Port of Oak­ be delivered in two years. The cluded in the 3,000-mile total. land. Santa Fe had contended cars are to be built at both At press time, SP officials that replacing the highway Chicago and Hornell, N.Y. declined to name other possible bridge damaged in the 1989 Three prototype Viewliners lines to be included, but stated Lorna Prieta earthquake will were built in the 1980s and LLI that public announcements prevent it from rebuilding its have been tested in service 4 • FEBRUARY 1993 837,000. Santa Fe set monthly records for intermodal loading in August (101,660), Septem­ ber (103,330) and October (110,796), with the new busi­ ness attributed to increases in imported holiday merchandise and the flourishing J.B. Hunt partnership. MISSABE TAKES A HIT: More than 120 Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range employees will be laid off until spring because one of Missabe's biggest ship­ pers, Eveleth Mines' Minorca Plant near Virginia, Minn., is likely to remain closed until then. Eveleth is slated to sup­ ply 3 million tons of pellets to Ford's Rouge Steel Co., in Michigan, so the affected Eveleth and Missabe employ­ ees won't be without work in­ definitely. Armco Steel, one of Eveleth's owners, decided to LTV Steel in Hoyt Lakes, Minn., has taken delivery of three rebuilt ex-BN GP20s from Precision National for buy taconite pellets from a service on taconite trains between Hoyt Lakes and Taconite Harbor. These units will free up three to four Brazilian supplier. Because Alcos for crude ore runs and plant switching, displacing LTV 's Baldwin S 12s. Doug Buell Eveleth is closed, DM&IR's ore dock in Duluth, Minn., is tem­ porarily shuttered, but its Two since 1987. The distinctive fea­ contract similar to the ones INTERMODAL BIG AGAIN IN Harbors, Minn., docks, which ture in these cars will be a sec­ covering Santa Fe's recent lo­ 1992: Santa Fe originated handle taconite from USX's ond row of windows, permit­ comotive acquisitions. 1,047,000 containers/trailers Minntac Plant, are open. ting additional natural light to Santa Fe also announced for 1992, earning it top rank­ Both Missabe and Eveleth enter the car as well as afford­ that it has $365 million slated ing among the nation's "Super employees hoped Armco ing a window for upper berth for capital programs in 1993, an Seven" Class I carriers. Fol­ would buy pellets from Eveleth passengers. These will be the increase of 41 percent over lowing AT&SF were Southern in 1993, but Armco decided to first new single-level sleeping 1992 expenditures. Included in Pacific with 950,000 contain­ buy at least 2.5 million tons of cars since Amtrak began oper­ these programs are 217 miles of ers/ trailers originated, Union pellets from one of Eveleth's ations in May 1971. Because of new rail, 168 miles of second­ Pacific with 890,000, and BN, neighbors, Northshore Mining their lower height, Viewliners hand rail and 1.2 million ties. which placed fifth, with Co., of Silver Bay, Minn.
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