March 20, 2015 Dear

March 20, 2015 Dear All: Mother Nature has a grip on us and just won’t let us welcome in the first day of Spring without playing a little havoc with the weather! While we didn’t have snow last Saturday for the Annapolis Train Show we did have a day of rain, however, it didn’t stop folks from coming out and having a funfill day with us. For those that were able to join us, I thank you for coming out, for those that couldn’t I hope you can make the next event. Our first ever Elephant Table manned by Nada had a flow of folks stopping to take a look and a few folks walked away with an item or two. Nada will again set up the table at the May 9 VTC/WB&A Train Show in Fredericksburg. Talking about the Show, I hope you’re planning on supporting this event by getting a table and/or by coming out and supporting the table holders. This event is that of two Clubs and we hope to see you all there.

As we are all getting ready for April York, take some time to read Clem Clement’s Primer, thank you Clem for all your hard work on this.

On a more serious note, please watch this video which discusses a recent theft at English Model Railroad Supply in Montoursville, hopefully those involved will be caught so be on the lookout and report anything you are suspicious of: http://wnep.com/2015/03/17/hundreds‐of‐model‐ trains‐worth‐thousands‐stolen/

As a reminder, the eblasts and attachments will be placed on the WB&A website under the “About” tab for your viewing/sharing pleasure http://www.wbachapter.org/2015%20eblasts.htm along with the WB&A Facebook page.

The attachments are contained in the one PDF attached to this email in an effort to streamline the sending of this email and to ensure the attachments are able to be received. Click on the Ribbon on the Left and you will see an “index” of the documents and you can click on them to go to them. If you need a PDF viewer to read the document which can be downloaded free at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrviewer/acrvdnld.html. To retain a copy you may want to save the file to a folder different from your temporary files (downloading and use is in your discretion).

UPCOMING WB&A EVENTS May 9, 2015 – Joint VTC & WB&A (aka NORTH MEETS SOUTH) Great Train Show and Sale at the Eagles Lodge at 21 Cool Spring Road, Fredericksburg, VA 22405 contact Colleen Hall [email protected] for more information, it’s never too early to start planning. We are pleased to announce that Allen Crotts will be the Train Doctor at the show. May 16, 2015 ‐ Baltimore Streetcar Museum – FREE to WB&A members and family/significant other, contact John Buxton. As your BoD did last year and due to the

2 great time we had along with the welcoming we had, we are again this year gathering to ride Trolleys and visiting their Museum. For those that bring items to put out for sale or show & tell there are a few tables available to do so. This is a “give back/thank you” to the WB&A membership. Hope you can join us. For more information contact John Buxton: [email protected]. October 31, 2015 – WB&A Vienna VFD Train Show, contact Dan Danielson [email protected] or David Eadie [email protected]

2015 WB&A Drawing Item Premier Set 20‐3574‐11 4‐6‐8 J Class Norfolk & Western Passenger Set: MSRP $1,349.95. Drawing to be held January 2016 (1 Ticket for $5 or 6 for $25) if interested the tickets will be at Annapolis Train Show, the York WB&A Table, VTC/WB&A Train Show, the June and November General Membership Meeting, and the Vienna Train Show. You can also send your check to Glenn MacKinnon and he will send you back your ticket(s). Please send your request to: 6908 Trillium Lane, Springfield, VA 22152

REMINDERS: 2015 TCA CONVENTION See http://tcaconvention.org/

WB&A MEMBERSHIP Please click on the link and forward your dues to Dave Eadie. It’s never too early to pay and if you pay your 2016 dues (yup 2016), you’ll be eligible for the end of the year gift certificate for $100! (http://www.wbachapter.org/wbna%20stuff/wba_ap plication_2014.pdf)

WEBSITES/LINKS OF INTEREST/THINGS TO DO/BOOKS Newsletters courtesy of the VTC and Norris Deyerle: The Gateway Railletter; Potomac Rail News; The Highball; Coal Bucket; The Green Block; and Gulf Coast Railroading;

Article and pictures courtesy of Jim Rowland attached.

Courtesy of: Aubrey Wiley: I am pleased to announce an addition to the Virginian Railway Heritage Trail, the Deepwater Building in downtown Beckley. This beautiful, four story, stone building was built by the Deepwater Railroad to house the sales offices for subsidiary, Loup Creek Coal Company. A press conference and brief ceremony for the unveiling of the building's VHT historical marker sign will be Friday, March 27th at 11:00 am.

On Saturday, March 28th at 2:30 pm, there will be a program and Power Point show on the Virginian Railway Heritage Trail in the Coal Camp Church at Beckley's Exhibition Mine. Both events are free and open to the public. For more information on the building and the program, use the links below. VIRGINIAN RAILWAY HERITAGE TRAIL : http://virginianrailwayheritagetrail.blogspot.com / VHT NEWS : http://vhtprogram.blogspot.com/

WARNING GRAPHIC VIDEO This is the actual video of a Camry being totaled during a CSX grade crossing accident. Two people were killed instantly! Please keep the families of the folks in the Camry and the CSX crew in your thoughts and prayers. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=616_1426435652

Check out Historic Locomotive No. 765: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2mU6jVcv4w

Civilization in Winchester: http://wmrrc.org/

For the Civil War buff: Greg Eanes has released a revised edition of his book on the battles at Sailor’s Creek, see: http://www.amazon.com/Sailors‐Creek‐ Black‐Day‐

Army/dp/1508707065/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=142 6457713&sr=8‐6&keywords=Greg+Eanes

The 2015 Lincoln Funeral Re‐enactment: http://lincolnfuneraltrain.org/2015_event.php

ChessieShop.com needs your orders for the Chesapeake & Ohio Allegheny 2‐6‐6‐6‐: A Retrospective, check it out at: http://www.chessieshop.com/index.php?main_page= product_info&cPath=51&products_id=3175

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UPCOMING CALENDAR EVENTS (please send me items to include on the calendar) – if you like to see some other dates from around the country, check out: 1. Check out: http://modelshopsusa.com/ (one of the places we’re promoting the Annapolis and VTC/WB&A Train shows). Contact Adrian Hall with any questions that you may have at: [email protected] 6

2. Check out trains.com calendar of events at: http://trc.trains.com/events.aspx?page=list&type =1&cat= 3. 2015 Schedule for Trackers can be found at: www.nattrackers.org 4. Atlantic Coast "S" Gaugers ‐ keep up with what is happening with all of the clubs at http://www.trainweb.org/acsg/ 5. 2015 Schedule for World’s Greatest Hobby can be found at: http://www.wghshow.com/index.html 6. 2015 Schedule for Greenberg’s Train & Toy Show can be found at: http://www.greenbergshows.com/schedule.html 7. Link for various train shows can be found at: http://www.greattrainexpo.com/ and http://trainshowinc.com and also http://www.modeltrainshows.com/ 8. March 20‐22, 2015 ‐ 3rd Annual M.A.G.M.A. Gem, Mineral and Fossil Show at Camp Stephens, Asheville, NC www.wncrocks.com/magma/fieldtrips3.htm 9. March 22, 2015 – Arbutus Shows from 9‐1 10. March 27/28, 2015 AACA Sugarloaf Car parts show, Westminster Fairgrounds, MD http://chesapeakeaaca.org/pages/activities/flyer s/2015smrfleamarket.pdf

11. March 29, 2015: AACA south jersey Car Parts meet (COWTOWN) 12. March 29, 2015 – 9:30‐3:30 p.m. Great Batavia/Clarion Hotel Train Show in Batavia, New York www.gsme.org 13. March 28‐29, 2015 ‐ WGH in Edison, NJ visit www.wghshow.com 14. April 10‐12, 2015: Cabin Fever Expo, York Fairgrounds, York, PA http://www.cabinfeverexpo.com/exibitor.html 15. April 11, 2015 – Railroadiana Consignment Auction at Brookline Auction Gallery in Brookline, NJ www.tagtown.net 16. April 11, 2015 – Florida Rail Fair at Volusia County Fairgrounds in DeLand, FL www.gserr.com 17. April 11‐12, 2015 – The Great Scale Model Train Show Makin’ Tracks! Cow Palace – Times Sat. 9‐ 5/Sun. 10‐4 at the Maryland State Fairgrounds, 2200 York Road, Timonium, MD 21093 http://gsmts.com/ 18. April 11, 2015 – Arkansas RR Museum Railroadiana Show & Sale in Pine Bluff, AR www.arkansasrailroadmuseum.org 19. April 16‐18, 2015 – NRHS & ATRRM Joint Conferences in York, PA www.atrrm.org 20. April 18, 2015 – Model Railroading Clinics Day and miniconvention cochaired by: South Mountain

Division of the National Model RR Association and Mainline Hobby Supply from 9‐3 see: http://www.smdnmra.org/miniconvention.html or http://www.mainlinehobby.net/ 21. April 18‐19, 2015 – Super Train RR Show at Genesis Centre in Calgary, AB www.supertrain.ca 22. April 22‐2015 – TTP&M Group from 6‐8 p.m. at The Liberty Fire Company (aka North York Fire Department) Call Todd at 248‐214‐8186 or www.ttpandm.com 23. April 23‐26, 2015 – Katy RR Historical Society Convention in Dalls/Ft. Worth, TX www.katyrailroad.org 24. April 23‐25, 2015 – Eastern Division/TCA York Meet 25. April 25‐26, 2015 – Ottawa Train Expo. At Ernst & Young Centre in Ottawa, ON www.ottawatrainexpo.com 26. April 30‐May 3, 2015 – PA RR Tech & Historical Society Meeting in State College, PA www.prrths.com 27. May 1‐3, 2015 – NY Central System Historical Society, Inc. 2015 Convention & Meeting visit www.nycshs.org 28. May 1‐3, 2015 – The 2015 Lincoln Funeral Re‐ enactment: http://lincolnfuneraltrain.org/2015_event.php

29. May 3, 2015 ‐ New Hope – Solebury Township Train Show and Sale New Hope‐Eagle Fire Company 46 North Sugan Road New Hope, PA 18938 $5.00pp Admission, Children under 12 free Future Show – Oct 4 30. May 9, 2015 ‐ Joint VTC & WB&A (aka NORTH MEETS SOUTH) Great Train Show and Sale at the Eagles Lodge in Fredericksburg, VA ‐ contact Russell at [email protected] and/or Colleen Hall at [email protected] 31. May 16, 2015‐ Baltimore Streetcar Museum – FREE to WB&A members, contact John Buxton [email protected] for more information 32. June 6, 2015 – 10‐3 p.m. Historic Downtown Manassas, Manassas Rail Festival, Manassas, VA http://visitmanassas.org/event/20th‐annual‐ manassas‐heritage‐railway‐festival/?instance_id= 33. June 4‐7, 2015 – Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, 2015 R&LHS Convention in Altoona, PA 34. June 20‐28, 2015 TCA 2015 National Convention http://www.metca.org/2015convention.html 35. June 7, 2015 – 9‐1 p.m. Spring Hamburg Dutch Train Meet at the Hamburg Fire Co, File House – Pine Street, Hamburg, PA 36. June 20‐21, 2015 – The Great Scale Model Train Show Makin’ Tracks! Cow Palace – Times Sat. 9‐ 5/Sun. 10‐4 at the Maryland State Fairgrounds,

2200 York Road, Timonium, MD 21093 http://gsmts.com/ 37. July 20‐26, 2015 – 12th Annual WNC Roundup http://wncrocks.proboards.com/#ixzz3Jd1YzWs H 38. July 26, 2015 ‐ 9‐1 p.m. Summer Hamburg Dutch Train Meet at the Hamburg Fire Co, File House – Pine Street, Hamburg, PA 39. August 8, 2015 – Lynchburg Rail Day 2015 contact: Barry Moorefield, [email protected] or Norris Deyerle, [email protected], website www.blueridgenrhs.org. 40. September 12, 2015 Hagerstown Model RR Museum, Inc. Trainfest Summer 2015 Model Train sale re: railroading and model railroading at Washington County AG Center 7313 Sharpesburg Pike 9‐2 p.m. contact info: Email: [email protected]; Phone: 301‐800‐9829; Web Site: www.antietamstation.com 41. September 13, 2015 – 9‐1 p.m. Summer Hamburg Dutch Train Meet at the Hamburg Fire Co, File House – Pine Street, Hamburg, PA 42. September 18‐20, 2015 – ATRRM Fall Conference in Union, IL visit www.atrrm.org 43. September 20, 2015 ‐ Gilbertsville Train Show at the Gilbertsville Fire Hall, 1454 E. Philadelphia Avenue, Gilbertsville, PA 19525

44. September 27, 2015 ‐ Arbutus Shows from 9‐1 45. October 4, 2015 ‐ New Hope – Solebury Township Train Show and Sale New Hope‐Eagle Fire Company 46 North Sugan Road New Hope, PA 18938 $5.00pp Admission, Children under 12 free 46. October 24‐25, 2015 – The Great Scale Model Train Show Makin’ Tracks! Cow Palace – Times Sat. 9‐5/Sun. 10‐4 at the Maryland State Fairgrounds, 2200 York Road, Timonium, MD 21093 http://gsmts.com/ 47. October 31, 2015 – WB&A Vienna VFD Train Show, contact Dan Danielson [email protected] or David Eadie [email protected] 48. November 7, 2015 ‐ WB&A Members Only Semi‐ Annual General Membership/Swap Meet from 9‐1 p.m. at Saint James Evangelical Lutheran Church, 8 West Overlea Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21206, contact Paul Pullen [email protected] for more information (swap meet tables will be available on a first come first serve basis). 49. November 28, 2015 ‐ Hagerstown Model RR Museum, Inc. Trainfest Winter 2015 Model Train sale re: railroading and model railroading at Washington County AG Center 7313 Sharpesburg Pike 9‐2 p.m. contact info: Email:

[email protected]; Phone: 301‐800‐9829; Web Site: www.antietamstation.com 50. December 13, 2015 – Earleigh Heights Shows 9‐2 51. December 19, 2015 ‐ Arbutus Shows from 9‐1

As always, if you prefer not to receive these emails, please let me know. All my best, Colleen

As a reminder to all, I gather my information from all sources, lots of it comes from the membership who includes me on their emails. I respect everyone’s intellectual property rights and do my upmost best not to infringe on anyone’s and to give credit when I am aware of whom to give the credit to. This eblast is an informational newsletter and my intent is to share with you information you may find of use or interest.

Spring 2015 TCA e-Train Edition

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Clem’s York Primer By Richard B."Clem" Clement

Clem’s York Primer

By Richard B."Clem" Clement April 2015 Update

The Primer is a composite of the personal experiences and views of several attendees and is designed to enrich Eastern Division, TCA’s York Week Experience. The Eastern Division, TCA, York Meet Notice is the official document for the York Meet. The Primer is not sponsored by any organization; business or company nor does it sell, endorse or promote a particular product. If you have a question about an activity or event listed herein, please contact the listed sponsor. Events off the York Fairgrounds or the NTTM site are not TCA sponsored. This version negates all previous versions. In my view, York is much more than a train-meet. It is about the gathering of families, friends and acquaintances. -Your TCA Family-

This Primer highlights the TCA Eastern Division York Train Meet; the TCA Museum, Library and Business Office Activities; member meetings and specified train group activities; non-TCA sponsored train events locally; local attractions; restaurants, tips on navigating the events and the locale. For the price of admission which includes free parking, this is the best deal for a 3 day train meet in the universe. My hope is that the Primer will help you enjoy the week as much as I do.

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I wish to take this opportunity to thank all of our Eastern Division members who cast their vote this past Fall for our newly elected Board of Directors. I assure you that all of us on the Board are fully committed to continue to sponsor the best toy train experience at the semi-annual York, Pennsylvania train meet. For 2 ½ days, whether your interests favor collecting, operating or both, you can enjoy the camaraderie of your fellow toy train enthusiasts. You may be thrilled with that once in a lifetime find or the joy of meeting up with old friends from all over the country or indeed the world. It is always a pleasure to make new friends and share experiences of the toy train hobby. If you've never made the trip to York or have been away for a while please accept our invitation to join us in April and again in October to take in this incredible experience. Click on the “You’ve got it made in York” for information regarding accommodations and other enjoyable activities in this great region of South Central Pennsylvania. And while you are in the area take the time to visit the TCA Toy Train Museum in Strasburg, PA. A great family experience.

If you are a seasoned veteran of the York train meet please spread the word to your fellow train hobbyists at home. We, as TCA members, should be enthusiastic about our hobby and invite new people to share in the fun. If you are a first timer and wish to speak with someone directly with questions about the Meet feel free to contact our Registration team or anyone on our Board. Their contact information is readily available on this website. They would be happy to pass on any helpful hints regarding the Meet or help you get registered to attend. In closing I would be remiss if I didn't acknowledge with gratitude all of the hard work that our volunteer staff performs to make everything come together twice a year for the enjoyment of our members and their guests.

As I write these remarks in frigid, snowy Buffalo, NY I am looking forward to seeing everyone again in the Spring at York. Best Regards,

John Zobel, President Eastern Division TCA

The York Train Meet is the Train Collectors Association greatest recruitment tool. The October Meet proved to be no exception. TCA has 55 new members because of the York Meet and 77 members renewed their TCA dues. If you want to see the TCA membership grow - then take a guest to the York Train Meet and encourage them to join TCA to continue attending.Online Registration begins in early January 2015. If you are as enthusiastic about toy trains as we are, come see what we are all about. Once there, join the Train Collectors Association so you don't miss a single show. Watch for April 2015 Meet Notice for meet details, member, dealer and guest registration forms.

York Meet Registrar's October 2014 Wrap Up

The October 2014 York Meet is behind us and work has begun on the April 2015 Meet.

A big "Thank you" to all the volunteers and staff that donated countless hours to put on another successful meet.

The Lower Susquehanna Valley Modular Railroad Clubs brought their "O" & "HO" layouts to York and put on a spectacular display. Thank you. Click on the club's name to visit their website.

We registered over 12,355 members, families and guests for the show. 55 of the guests attending also joined TCA and 77 renewed their TCA membership dues. York remains TCA's best recruiting tool. A big thank you to Leslie Houser (TCA National Business Office) for her dedication signing up new members and assisting those renewing their membership.

Now for the registration numbers:

Don't forget you may bring as many guests as you want to the show. You'll find the guest form on our website. (Guest form) Register them early and get the advance discount pricing. Remember, guests may attend one time and then they are expected to join the TCA to continue attending the York Train Meet.

Work has already begun on the April Meet Notice. If you don't receive yours by mid February, please Contact Us. Online registration will begin in early January 2015 and I encourage you to register early and receive the advance discount pricing.

We again offered members the opportunity to register at the October show for the April show. If you didn't take advantage of this convenience, please try it at the next show. A sign up table will be located across from the Registration Desk. Put that on your list of places to stop while wandering through the Silver Hall in April. You might ask: what are the advantages of signing up at the meet?

Convenience - do it at the meet and forget about it until you receive your badge in the mail.

Cost - we pay the postage.

Time saver - you save time as you no longer need to wait for the meet notice to arrive, then complete the form, put a self addressed stamped envelope in with your registration form and make a trip to the post office.

Accuracy of information - ensuring the information we have on file is correct and eliminating errors due to illegible penmanship.

Everyone should consider using this method to register for the next meet. We'll begin mailing badges out the first part of February to those members attending the meet only. Just a reminder: if you're a table holder or dealer, your badge(s) will be mailed after March 22th, 2015. If you pre-registered, you will still receive a meet notice for informational purposes only. No need to submit a registration form and if you're not sure if you pre-registered. The York Meet is open to TCA members, their families and guests.

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Eastern Divison is the sole sponsor of the York Train Meet. It is the largest division within the Train Collectors Association with over 6,600 members. The York Train Meet has a long history dating back to 1964 when it began holding its first train meet in the Blue Hall, also known as Memorial Hall. When you hear the old timers tell how they used to secure their tables, you can't help but smile. It was a free for all and whoever managed to get to the table first laid claim to it for the entire meet.

Upstate New York Chapter - founded in 2012, they are the newest chapter in the Eastern Division. With a membership fast approaching 400, they are the fastest growing chapter in TCA. If you live in this area check out what they have to offer - train meets several times a year. The WB&A Chapter, also known as the Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Chapter. WB&A is the oldest chapter of the Eastern Division and a very active chapter sponsoring 2 meets a year and numerous trips dedicated to fostering the love of the toy train hobby.

The Train Collectors Association with over 28,000 members world wide, is dedicated to the hobby of collecting and operating toy trains, the fun of members buying, selling and discussing them, the study of their characteristics and the history of their production. As a member of TCA you have access to the amazing library of historical resources at the National Toy Train Museum Library, Strasburg, PA as well as the wealth of knowledge held within the membership. The camaraderie and fellowship you'll find in the organization is a testiment to the 60 years since it was founded in Yardley, PA in 1954. The National Toy Train Museum sponsors an Open House October 15th, 2014. While there if you join the TCA you are entitled to register to attend the York Train Meet which is the largest members only meet in the United States. (The registration fee to attend the York Meet will gain you entrance to the meet for all three days). Visit their website, review the benefits and then JOIN the TCA.

Eastern Division Call Center closes April 15th, 2015 and then all registrations will be processed at the door.

Nancy tentzeras, York Registrar [email protected]

NEW NEWS: York fall dates separate Hershey Antique Car Show and York Train Meet by a week. For many years the fall meets were coordinated.

I’m noticing in the York Registration package that fall York 2015 dates has been changed to October 22, 23, 24, 2015. That is a week later than what has been the rule for years. For as long as I have been involved, the York train show always followed after the 2 big Pennsylvania car shows: Carlisle and Hershey. This arrangement was done with the counties’ involved visitor bureaus’ coordination to help with room accommodations and to free the last weeks of October for the huge influx of “Leaf Peekers” with their different “Kind” of money.”

For several of you TCAers, including me, that means that we have a week between the end of the Hershey car show and the York week. For those who travel long distance that means do Hershey OR York only, or spend an extra week on the road. Tough decision.

Hi Clem,

The Fall 2014 Registration packet had a typo in it regarding the October 2015 dates, which was announced numerous times during the October 2014 meet of the error and to make note of the correct dates as well as included in an Eblast that was sent to members between 8/20/14 - 8/23/14 (depending on your last name stating a Correction to the Meet Notice as follows:

Correction to Meet Notice: Future Meet Dates for October 2015 is October 22, 23, 24, 2015.

Thanks, -Nancy Tentzeras, York Registrar

FUTURE YORK MEET DATES

Mark your calendar for these

The NEW Wyndham Garden, former Holiday Inn (by the Westmanchester Mall), has undergone an extensive renovation in 2014 to include:

~Brand New Crystal Ballroom~ ~Renovated Guest Rooms~ ~New Onsite Restaurant/Lounge~ ~Upgraded Business Center~ ~Addition of Elevator~ ~Renovated Fitness Center~ ~Updated Pool Courtyard~

Steam into History The York registration Package has the wrong date for the Steam into history special event. It is Saturday afternoon, not Thursday.

Join in the fun and Steam into History riding the rails that Abraham Lincoln rode to give his Gettysburg Address. Saturday afternoon you're invited to board the train in Glen Rock, PA for an excursion through the beautiful Pennsylvania countryside and visit Hanover Junction. Please call 717-942-2370 or visit their website for more information and to sign up. http://steamintohistory.com/home. **********************

YORK TRAIN MEET MADE EASY

EASTERN DIVISION’S YORK MEET. York Fairgrounds, 334 Carlisle Ave, York PA, 17404 (This is the GPS location) York Fairgrounds emergency phone # is 1-717.848.2596 https://www.google.com/maps/place/York+Expo+Center/@39.9583672,- 76.7548524,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x89c88c0b3c6bdd05:0x92728627075a6 f87 is the fairgrounds map.

THE NATIONAL TOY TRAIN (TCA) MUSEUM/LIBRARY/BUSINESS OFFICE 300 Paradise Lane, Strasburg, PA

MUSEUM APPRECIATION DAY OPEN HOUSE WEDNESDAY OF YORK WEEK

The museum, library, and business office are open all week and are a must see. The Open House on Wednesday features a schedule of special events; refreshments and prizes, which are detailed further on the TCA web site. Please plan to attend and enjoy the Museum’s special presentations and displays. For open house schedule, visit www.nttmuseum.org. Contact [email protected] for more info.

The The York Train Meet is sponsored by the Eastern Division and it is open only to members (and family) of the Train Collectors Association and their guests. (To join TCA click here) Members are invited to bring their families and guests; however each person attending the Meet must be registered and receive a badge. Badges are required for entry to the buildings and must be visible at all times during the meet. Guests are required to show ID when picking up their badge at the door (see map).

NOT a member of the Train Collectors Association but love trains and want to see what the York Meet is all about, then click here.

We offer several ways to register for the meet:

1. Online at https://www.yorkregistration.org 2. Eastern Division Call Center - 1-814-928-0196 3. Registration form located in the TCA Headquarters Newsletter (see Table of Contents for registration form page number) 4. By mail using the registration form located in the 2015 April York Meet Notice (registration form only) 5. At the Door

Overview of the Eastern Division York Meet

NOTE: THE EASTERN DIVISION NEWSLETTER (YORK MEET NOTICE) IS THE OFFICIAL DOCUMENT FOR GUIDANCE REGARDING THE YORK TRAIN MEET. READ IT THOROUGHLY AND BRING IT WITH YOU TO THE MEET. LAST MINUTE CHANGES WILL BE NOTED ON CALENDAR OF EVENTS POSTERS AT YORK.

Meet notices are located on the Eastern Division web site: http://www.easterntca.com/ or you can link from the TCA web site: http://www.traincollectors.org/ Or call 302-674-5797 for a copy of the meet notice.

MEET HOURS: Dealer Halls- Orange (Utz), Brown (JS Smith Ctr.) & Purple (Heritage)

Set-up ONLY: Dealer Badge Required Wed ...... 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM Thurs.....9:00 AM - 12:00 noon Fri/Sat...8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

OPEN to all attendees Thurs 12:00 noon – 6:30 PM Fri 9:00 AM - 6:30 PM Sat 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Member Halls- White (Horticultural) (sometimes has layouts as well), Red (Old Main), Blue (Memorial West), & Silver (Memorial East)

Set-up Only: Table Holder Badge Required Thurs 10:00 AM - 12:00 noon Fri/Sat 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

OPEN to all attendees

Thurs..12:00 noon - 5:00 PM Fri.... 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Sat.... 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Black Hall (Pennsylvania Room): check Eastern Division website for info on layouts.

Registration Hours: Wed...... 3:00 PM-5:00 PM Thurs/Fri. 8:30 AM-5:00 PM Sat...... 8:30 AM-2:00 PM

Registration is now available for the next meet at the door. Table located in Silver Hall across from registration counter.

Kids Korner (Parents/guardian [Only one] must remain with child) Thurs. . 12 Noon- 4:00 PM Fri. . . 9:00 AM- 4:00 PM Sat. . . 9:00 AM-12:00 Noon

General Meet Rules include: Badges must be worn at all times. Reprints are $5 each. If you sleep on the fairgrounds must pay the $40 RV fee. This is a York Expo Center liability requirement. RV’s, campers, self–contained vehicles permitted on the grounds Wednesday 9 AM-Saturday 6 PM. See detail rules in Registration Packet.

Still Photography permitted in the Dealer halls and of the modular exhibits. No photos be permitted in the Blue, Silver, Red or White (Layout photos OK) halls or of copyrighted materials. Not sure? Ask!

Cell phones may be used in all the halls.

No buying, selling or trading permitted during setup.

No Alcohol allowed on the fairgrounds

No Strollers permitted in halls

No Smoking permitted in halls

No Vehicles in the halls.

No private golf carts permitted on the Fairgrounds without a certificate of insurance for one million dollars liability coverage on file with the Fairgrounds.

Pets are not permitted in the buildings except for licensed, service or medical animals.

For safety reasons no Handcarts/Dollies/Suitcases or large backpacks permitted in the halls during show hours.

Follow the Yellow Arrows on the hall floors.

GENERAL INFORMATION/AVAILABLE SERVICES/ACTIVITIES

1. The York meet is THREE wonderful days on the York Fairgrounds.

2. Pre-Register if you can. The money is nonrefundable but general admission is inexpensive and can eliminate any waiting in registration lines.

3. Guests can be registered in advance, but must show a picture ID and pick up their badges in person at the registration desk. Guest badges are NOT mailed.

4. Guests can attend York only once. Bring a train friend to York and sign ‘em up for TCA. A guest can join TCA on the spot at York. No two-member signature required any more. The new member is probationary for a year, but that doesn’t restrict them from attending any meets including this York’s Meet.

5. The TCA National Business Office has several tables at/near the registration counter staffed to assist with membership issues. The Museum gift store booths are near the registration counter in the Silver Hall.

6. Bring your meet notice with you as reference. A map of the fairgrounds is in the notice. Note: 3 ATMs are located on the Fairgrounds.

7. Member halls close earlier than dealer halls to allow member table holders the opportunity to shop with our dealer members.

8. Hall floor plans will be available from Hall Captains and will be at the Registration Desk or online. Red & White hall info tables are close to the hall captain’s tables. Silver hall table with hall charts is across from Kids Korner, Blue Hall down by the food service. Dealer halls are online at the Eastern Division web site and each shows the location of the information table.

9. YORK SHOW numbers (unofficial) Here is the history:

York Statistics – Apr `07 Total Registrations 14,325

York Statistics – Apr `08 Total Registrations 14,567

York Statistics - Apr `09 Total Registrations 14,109

York Statistics - Apr `10 Total Registrations 13,769

York Statistics - Oct `10 Total Registrations 13,648

York Statistics - Apr `11 Total Registrations 13,521

York Statistics - Oct `11 Total Registrations 13,608

York Statistics - Apr `12 Total Registrations 13,403

York Statistics - Oct `12

Total Registrations 13,864

York Statistics – April ‘13 Total Registrations 12702 (First time below 13 K)

York Statistics - Oct ‘13 Total Registrations 13517 (Nice increase)

York Statistics – Apr 14 Total registrations 12,225 (699 registered at the door) 80 new members to TCA

York Statistics – Oct. ‘14 Total 12,355 (8011 members) RV’s 157

10. Volunteers are welcomed and needed. Wednesday at 1:00 PM there will be a briefing in the Blue Hall outside of the Blue Hall Cafeteria. Vol. lunch begins at noon. The York meet requires a huge number of members to make it happen. Contact our Volunteer Committee Chairman, John Zobel:

[email protected]

or (716) 662-7760 to volunteer.

11. The WB&A Chapter brings Kid's Korner @ York to the open space between the Blue and Silver Halls. Plan to visit, stay and play. Our Kids Korner managers are: Chuck & Pam Morkosky, Jennifer Skinner & Mitch Boyle and Martha Skinner. Be sure and stop by to chat and thank them for their interest and support for the next generation of TCAers. There are ride'em trains that circle the perimeter of the area, small train loops, a windup layout and lots of push-me trains for kids to play. Donations of play train toys are welcomed. Bring your kids (Age 0-110) and join in. There ain't no age or fun limit! There is a lot to do; track to assemble (probably plastic type), trains to push on the rug, windups to run, sharing concepts to learn, teaching to be done and fun for all. Door Prizes are awarded, as well as a Grand Prize. A Parent/guardian must accompany the child. This is not day care. I have found in my experiences, the adult who gets down flat with the kids and learns/watches/helps the play activity gets, by far, the most enjoyment. Photos may be taken in this area. We are seeking volunteers to help continue making this activity a success. Kid’s Corner snacks are donated from the York County CVB. WB&A, a very active Chapter of Eastern Division, conducts two open meets per year in the Baltimore/Washington/Annapolis area, as well as two “members only” meets. http://wbachapter.org/

12. UPS has a booth in the Lobby entranceway to the Blue/Silver halls to accept, wrap and mail trains. It is Open Thurs 12-5 PM, Friday 9-5 PM and Saturday 9-2 PM. For incoming parcel receiving service, as well as outgoing service: [email protected]

Remember Uncle Clem's secret plan: Mail your expensive goodies to your office so that when you report to your significant other, you have no evidence of your wise investments.

13. WHEELCHAIR/SCOOTER RENTALS: contact Dave Bubernack, D&R Mobility 570-274-3181 for reservations or questions. Dave will setup on the Fairgrounds next to the First Aid Building. I suggest you reserve early. Be courteous and drive carefully.

14. TCA GROUPS: MEETINGS AND ACTIVITIES TUESDAY:

Eastern Division BOD Meeting: 12 Noon Orange Hall Meeting Room

WEDNESDAY:

TCA Museum open house 10: AM till 6: PM. See Wednesday Museum day activities on http://nttmuseum.org/

19th Semi-Annual DCS User Group Meeting-6 PM Wyndham Garden (formerly Holiday Inn Holidome) Address is 2000 Loucks Road. 6 PM dinner 7 PM Q&A. 8 PM MTH presentation Barry Broskowitz: [email protected]

The Toy Train Paper & Memorabilia Meet - 6 PM Liberty Fire Company, 160 E 8th Avenue, York. For more information contact Joe Mania at: [email protected] or http://www.ttpandm.com/ Bring a favorite item to share.

TCA National Executive Committee Meeting. Orange Hall 7-10:30 PM

THURSDAY

Strategic Planning Meeting 7:30 am Orange Hall ticket booth.

Reliance Fire Hall opens 8 AM-1 PM

Standards Committee General Meeting-9:10 AM Orange Hall meeting room.

Wood Toy Train Collectors, 10:30-11:30 AM, Blue Hall Atrium. Stop by and see their display

MTH will be conducting seminars in their booth and the website address for details is: http://www.mthtrains.com Advanced registration is required.

Atlas O Seminars: Stop by their Orange Hall Booth for times and details.

National Kids Club Committee -2 PM Orange Hall Meeting Room

Lionel Prewar O Gauge Train Study & Standard Gauge Seminar

Bruce Greenberg will photograph Lionel Prewar O Gauge locomotives, rolling stock and sets in the Orange Hall. To have your items photographed. Please go to Bruce’s tables, Row O, Tables 1-3. He is interested in both unusual items as well as items in exceptional condition. Photography hours: Thursday 4-5, Friday 11-12, and Saturday 11-12. For more information please call Bruce at 703-461-6991. Bruce will present a seminar, “Lionel Prewar O Gauge 1915-16 -A new beginning.” on Friday at 4 pm in the Orange Hall meeting room.

Reliance Fire Hall opens 5 PM–9 PM

Ives Train Society BOD Meeting -5:30 PM Orange Hall Meeting Room

Marx Show & Tell 7 P.M. Liberty Fire Company, 160 East 8th Ave., York. Bring a Marx trains, accessory or toy.

OGR Forum dinner and happy hour at Ruby Tuesday, 1401 Kenneth Road York, PA Thursday after 4 PM, 1411 Kenneth road, York, PA. Open to everyone. [email protected]

“Flyer Nut” Meeting 8:30 PM Reliance Fire Hall, 1341 W market St, York

FRIDAY:

York Legacy Users. 8 AM, Alexander’s Restaurant. 840 Carlisle Ave, York

Reliance Fire Hall open 9 AM - 5 PM

“OO” Gauge Meeting – 10:-11 AM Orange Hall Contact: [email protected]

Atlas O Seminars: Stop by their Orange Hall Booth for times and details.

MTH will be conducting seminars in their booth and the website address for details is: http://www.mthtrains.com Advanced registration is required

Lionel Prewar O Gauge Train Study & Standard Gauge Seminar

Plasticville Collectors Assoc (PCA) 11 AM-Noon. Orange Hall (Utz) meeting room. John Niehaus [email protected] Ph. 515-771-6888 after 5 PM Central time.

Ives Train Society General Meeting NOON to 1:00 PM Orange Hall Meeting Room. Contact Don Lewis: [email protected]

New and unusual items will be photographed for use in the TCA Quarterly, Friday 1:00 PM-Blue Hall (near Men’s room) Contact Ron Morris – Blue hall table G69.

National Convention Guidelines: 1:30-4 PM. Orange Hall meeting room

OGR Forum Meeting- 2 PM Fairgrounds Grandstand. Contact Ed Boyle [email protected]

Lionel Prewar O Gauge Train Study & Standard Gauge Seminar

FREE ICE CREAM SOCIAL – 6:30 PM ORANGE HALL PROMENADE

SATURDAY:

Free Coffee and Maple Donuts - 7:30 AM Orange Hall Promenade

Eastern Division General Membership- 8-8:45 AM Orange Hall Meeting Room

Lionel Prewar O Gauge Train Study & Standard Gauge Seminar

15. SHOPPING OPTIONS FROM THE YORK MEET

The shuttle bus #I to the local mall leaves from in front the Blue Hall every hour Thursday 12-4 PM. Friday every hour from 10 AM-4 PM. $1.00 each way, exact change only. No reservations required. Shopping II – Bus trip to Lancaster area Outlet Mall Friday 10 AM-4 PM. Pick up in front of Blue Hall. Mark Reservation Box on Meet Registration Card. $10 round trip paid in exact cash to the bus driver.

16. FAIRGROUNDS INFORMATION: Emergency Phone Number during Meet (717) 848-2596

GPS location is York Fairgrounds, 334 Carlisle Ave, York PA, 17404 https://www.google.com/maps/place/York+Expo+Center/@39.9583672,- 76.7548524,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x89c88c0b3c6bdd05:0x92728627075a6 f87

First Aid Station–next to the Fire Station near the Brown Hall. HAVE YOUR SIG OTHER PREPARE YOUR MEDS.

PUT THEM WHERE YOU CAN FIND THEM.

TAKE THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Fairgrounds flag area near the main entrance to the Orange Hall U.S. has an honorary brick purchase program sponsored by the York Fairgrounds. Contact Fairgrounds at (717) 848-2596.

Rest rooms open only during meet hours are inside the Blue, White, Black, and Brown halls, the inside lobby between the Blue and Silver Halls, east outside area of the Red Hall, next to the EMT (First Aid) building and the Orange Hall promenade area. Restrooms open 24/7 on the Fairgrounds: the west side Orange Hall promenade restrooms include coin–operated showers have an outside entrance for use after hours and the Firehouse.

17. RV ACCOMODATIONS Fairgrounds RV Accommodations Open 9:00 AM Wednesday till Saturday 6:00 PM

Enter from the back side of the fairgrounds through Gate 6, Highland Ave. Dave Goodhart will help you park. (570-847-8017) [email protected]

You are not allowed to put stakes thru the asphalt. Bring pads for your jacks and wheels (see the registration package.) The Northwest corner of the Fairgrounds has a nice RV area which we encourage you to use. You need the permit if you intend to sleep on the grounds: camper, tent, sleeping bag or your car. Current fee is $40. The Fairgrounds charges us per user, no matter what you use. Electricity: If you plug in to a receptacle (all electrical devices) you are required to pay the $40 electric fee and provide your own extension cord.

18. The PA Tax Office can and does send people to visit the halls during York. Space holders in the Orange, Brown and Purple Halls are required to have PA Tax number. If you have a dealer license, be prepared to show it.

19. York County maintains a booth in the Silver Hall during the meet for your convenience. Contact them if you have accommodation issues or questions. They will have discount coupons for some restaurants and points of interest. The staff is most helpful. www.yorkpa.org

20. TRAVEL DIRECTIONS

York area from the South: travel to the Baltimore loop and then go up 83 North. Direct from the Washington area to the York Fairgrounds, in York, take 83 Business (from George Street) right onto Market, left onto Duke and then left on Philadelphia St., then right on Carlisle St. to Fairground on the left.

Alternate, northbound on I-83 from Baltimore, as you near York, exit on Business 83N. Within a few blocks, you'll see a "FAIRGROUNDS" sign that will direct you to make a left turn on "Country Club Road". Stay on this road to right turn onto "Richland Ave." At Market St. make a left. The Fairgrounds is one block away on your right.

Alternate route from the Washington area: Route 15 North to Route 30 East to York, then Route 74 (Carlisle St.) south to Fairgrounds.

The Long Island/NYC/Jersey York Bus: “If you don't want to drive and hail from New York City, Long Island or New Jersey, there is a TCA Show luxury bus which will take you to York, gets you to breakfast locally (at your cost, but cheap) and brings you home. Included is an all you can eat buffet on the way home. Pick up points are located in shopping centers with all-day parking included. Sleep on the way down (bring your own pillow). Usually, on the return, there is a movie on board. They run train tapes.) You could bring your own favorites! Lot's of good camaraderie aboard. I've done it 3 or 4 times and it's great to not drive.” (Chris Zizzo)

Bus Info from Lenny Joerg: “Les and I are doing the buses again. Now we use luxury buses. We already have 80 riders so it should be a good turn out! The stops are still Commack, West Babylon, & Hicksville on Long Island along with the Bronx & Flushing NY and finally Woodbridge NJ. The cost has risen to $80 but it still includes supper at the Old Country Buffet. We still stop at Alexander’s for breakfast but it is not included in the fare! For more info I can be reached at (631) 874-6834 or via email. Lenny Joerg [email protected] or Lester Livingston (678) 398-9449.

Pittsburg and Washington County, Pa. bus trip to York

Antique Coach Excursions is located in Washington County, PA and is making plans to bring a bus full of eager toy train enthusiasts to the York Meet. For information, contact Alex Demtzak at 724.947.9000 or email him at [email protected]. Sounds like a great way to do York.

21.YORK TRAFFIC AND WEATHER INFORMATION: WSBA--AM-910 radio regular traffic updates WSOX--FM-96.1 the same WGAL--Channel 8 TV traffic updates from 5 to 7 AM every 10 minutes WROZ--FM-101.1 "The Rose" regular traffic updates.

Comments:

Pennsylvania has had rough winter weather wise. PENNDOT and county/city staffs are working very hard to clear and repair roads. Give them a brake and drive carefully. (Clem)

The city of York has various ongoing street repairs that change on a daily or weekly basis. The best source of information is http://www.ydr.com/

People traveling the Turnpike need to be aware of a heavy police presence in construction areas and that all fines are doubled for construction areas (true in constructions areas all over the state). Also be aware that Pennsylvania has numerous “add-ons” for violations that can actually be more than the fine for the violation. All of this is totaled before being doubled. Please drive safe. (Clem)

Pennsylvania Official Travel Information website is “511PA”. Dial “511” or go to www.511PA.com to obtain the travel information.

Traffic at the Carlisle Gate of the York Fairgrounds can be horrendous. Please be careful. I recommend Gate 6 on Highlander Ave. - the Northwest end of the fairground opposite from the Blue Hall area or from the Blue Hall on past the Orange Hall to the fence). That gate is always open and you can turn left or right easily. (Clem)

York weather info: http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/USPA1834.html

_CWSU National TAF METAR maps - NOAA NWS_ Check this out for up to the minute weather info anywhere in the USA-really high tech stuff here.

22. ACCOMODATIONS

The York County Convention & Visitors Bureau (YCCVB) is the official tourism promotion agency for York County. The organization's website, www.Yorkpa.org or call (888) 858- 9675, or (717)-852-9675, www.yorkchamber.com

Nearby Lancaster County Visitor’s Bureau can be reached at (800) 723-8824 or www.padutchcountry.com.

We have two new hotels in York. The Towne Place Suites by Marriott is located at 2789 Concord Road, York PA 17402. For reservations call 717-840-1180. The Hampton Inn & Suites York South is located at 2159 S Queen Street, York PA 17402. For reservations call 717-741-9900.

RV accommodations non-meet days.

Indian Rock Campground, just outside of town to the south and west. They run a reasonable rate a night, with electric and water; including decent shower facilities .Contact them at http://www.indianrockcampground.com

Ben Franklin Park in York, PA is approximately 5 minutes west of the York Fairgrounds. They are a mobile home park that is offering RV spaces with full hookups. They offer services as possible overflow or for those who might have special needs which they may be able to fulfill. (717) 792-9612 www.benfranklinRVPark.com

The best place to camp is the Gifford Pinchot State Park which is located on Rte. 74, about 12 miles from the York Fair Grounds. It has camp sites on a lake, has great showers/bath rooms and is very quiet.—(Bob Obara) http://www.bing.com/search?q=Gifford+Pinchot+State+Park&src=IE- TopResult&FORM=IETR02&conversationid=

23. NON -TCA SPONSORED TRAIN SHOWS DURING YORK WEEK

There are five different train shows held on days prior to the TCA meet at the York Fairgrounds on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. These are:

The old Billy Budd is now DAYS INN. PH. (717) 845-5671. http://www.daysinn.com It is located at the confluence of Route 30 and Interstate 83 (334 Arsenal Road.) Show Contact: Rich Dedufour (609-466-3933).

Best Western Motel just north off of Route 30 (1415 Kenneth Road). (717) 767-6931 http://www.bestwestern.com Contact Gene Simbolt (718) 229-8927 nites or [email protected]

Wynhdam Garden (formally Holiday Inn) at West Manchester Mall north of Route 30 on Carlisle Road (2000 Loucks Road.) Phone: (717) 846-9500). http://www.hiyork.com/ Christina Cross handles the outside space/table reservations. Charlie Phillips [email protected] handles the inside reservations.

The Reliance Fire Hall (West York FD) on 1341 West Market Street. Contact Barry @ (717) 424-1308 or [email protected] for tables. Listed at http://trains.com/

Commonwealth Fire Hall, 2045 North Sherman St., York PA 17402. Contact Barry @ (717) 424-1308 or [email protected] for tables. Listed at http://trains.com

Entrance to these meets is free and not restricted to TCA members.

Locations: The Hotel at the confluence of Route 30 and I-83 is known as the Days Inn (former Billy Budd) When you exit off of I-83 onto Route 30 going east, make a right at the next intersection (Arsenal Road) and the Days Inn is on your left. The train meet is held inside the main meeting room and sometimes outside in the parking lot. Many guests display their trains inside their rooms. From the Days Inn, if you go back West on Route 30, under I-83, you will pass several traffic lights and blocks of stores and restaurants and then come to a traffic light with an Olive Garden Restaurant on the left.

If you make a right turn at that light, you will come to the Best Western Motel within a half a block (1415 Kenneth Road). This property has a local train show outside in the parking lot (weather permitting). The Wyndham Garden (Formerly the Holidome) can be reached two ways. If you turned right at the Olive Garden to get to the Best Western, you should continue north and turn left at the next light onto Loucks Road. This will take you to the back of the Wynhdam Gardens. You can also reach the Wyndham Garden by continuing West on Route 30 and exiting right on Route 74 (Carlisle Rd.), turning right at the second light, and then left onto the Wynhdam Garden back driveway. The train meet is held in part of the parking lot that surrounds the Wyndham Garden and inside in the main banquet room, hall area and adjacent rooms.

The Reliance Fire Hall show is primarily for S gauge folks. The Reliance Fire Hall is at 1341 W. Market Street Ph. (717) 843-6305.) Its location is out the Market Street gate of the Fairgrounds turn right and go a couple of blocks. From there, if you go east thru town you come to a left on North Sherman St. Commonwealth Fire Hall, 2045 North Sherman St. York PA 17402 (It is east of I-83, so you could also get on Rte. 30E to I-83S to E Market St.)

If you exit the Wyndham Garden and turn left on Route 74 and travel towards York a mile or so, crossing under Route 30, you come to the York Fairgrounds on your right. This is where the action is Thursday afternoon, Friday and Saturday.

Red Lion Area Historical Society & Red Lion Train Station Model Railroaders are holding an Open House at the former Maryland and Penna. Railroad’s Authentic and historic Red Lion Train Station. The “0” Gauge Model Railroad layout will be on view Wed., & Thurs., from 6PM-9PM each evening. The train station is located at 73 N. Main Street, Red Lion, PA I7356. Route 24, (block north of the town center square). For more information go to the Red Lion Area Historical Society’s website at http://www.redlionpa.org/history.htm

Vintage toys 717-818-6660 Rt30 north on Carlisle Rd (74) 4.1 miles right at light onto Palomino Rd. Over 800 vehicles on display, by various makers in die cast, plastic, steel, tin...Tootsietoys to pedal cars. Building on next corner on right at 3988 Sheppard Lane M-F 4-9 PM. Saturday 9-1PM

Christmas Museum 3427 Lincoln highway (Route 30) Paradise, PA Ph (717) 442-7950 http://www.nationalchristmascenter.com/

TOY TRAINS UNLIMITED 38 YORK ST. HANOVER PA. 17331 ( 25 minutes from York, PA FAIRGROUNDS ) 1-717-637-4717 FOOD, DRINKS & PLENTY OF GOOD CONVERSATION

Toy Trains Unlimited, will be having an open house on Wednesday, This is the week of the York TCA, Meet. This year's event will start at 2 PM., and will continue until everyone has left or has been thrown out, including myself (Ron). There will be food, drinks, and a large selection of American Flyer & Lionel trains and accessories. Hopefully there will be some very unusual and interesting Flyer items to show and tell about (please bring in your interesting Flyer items), and of course we will also have a large group of Flyer and Lionel operators and collectors visiting. Make plans to attend this yearly event and please tell your American Flyer & Lionel friends to come along. There is plenty of that stuff here to choose from.

DIRECTIONS: From the York Fairgrounds, take Market St. to Carlisle Ave. until you get to Route 30 west. Follow Route 30 west (for approximately 8 miles) until you come to the intersection of Rt.116 & Route 30. Turn left onto Rt.116. From route 116 & 30 you will travel approximately 20 miles where Rt. 116 will become York St. in the town of Hanover. As you enter the town of Hanover, travel approximately 2 miles. The train shop will be on the right side of York St./116. Look for the Railroad Flag hanging from the front of the store. POST & PRE-WAR LIONEL //// TRAINS & ACCESSORIES AMERICAN FLYER //// NEW & USED TRAINS & ACCESSORIES MTH //// S & O GAUGE TRAINS & ACCESSORIES AMERICAN MODELS, S-HELPER, K-LINE, DISCOUNT TRAIN SETS THERE IS NO RETAIL PRICES IN THIS STORE !

24. Steam into History The Eastern Division is celebrating 46 years of train meets at the York Fairgrounds, York, PA and Steam into History's Historical Train Ride is the end of “Happy trails.” Ride the 1860's era replica steam train Saturday afternoon April 24th) joining the fun of being whisked back into history as you ride the rails Abraham Lincoln rode on his way to give his famous Gettysburg Address. For information call 717-942-2370. cting

25. TCA National Convention items and information will be available at tables in the usual place near the Registration counter in the Silver Hall. 2015 Convention is near New York Metro area June 20-28, 2015. http://metca.org/

26. Economic impact [EEI] of the Eastern Division meets on York County.

Hi Clem and Jan, Thank you for contacting us for the estimated economic impact [EEI] of the Eastern Division meets on York County. We are fortunate that train collectors are almost as passionate about York as they are about their trains. We conducted primary research in 2009 that yielded a spending figure for those attending meetings and conventions in our town. They spend and average of $833/trip. With 27,000 train collectors coming to both meets, that is an annual estimated economic impact of $22,491,000 million! Hope this data is helpful to Eilene and her presentation to Rotary. Diane Yocum, our business manager, is a member of the East York Rotary Club and I am a member of the downtown York Rotary Club. Hopefully, one of us will have the pleasure of hearing Eilene. If we can be of further assistance, please let me know. Thank you, Anne Druck

Anne R. Druck President York County Convention and Visitors Bureau The Official Tourism Promotion Agency for York County 155 W. Market St. York, PA 17401 888-858-9675 "Factory Tour Capital of the World" www.yorkpa.org

27. WiFi is available. Contact York Expo to reserve at 717-848-2596. Fee charged.

MONDAY:

The Wyndham Garden (Formerly Holiday Inn and Conference Center) opens up on Monday morning, both inside and outside.

The Reliance and Commonwealth Fire Halls open 9-5 pm. The Billy Budd is open 7-9 pm.

TUESDAY:

The Wyndham Garden ballroom will open 7:30 AM till 7:00 PM. Times are approximate. The correct times get posted on the main doors. The outside parking lot trading area opens early and gradually fills during the day. (Phone: (717) 846-9500.

At the Days Inn (Former Billy Budd,) the hotel rooms may be full of wondrous trains and some dealing is done as early as Sunday. Hours: 8 AM-9PM.

The Best Western (OUTSIDE ONLY) is in full swing 8 AM-7PM during the day.

The Reliance and Commonwealth Fire Halls Open 9:00 AM-5:00 PM.

WEDNESDAY:

YORK MEET DEALER SET UP: Orange, Brown and Purple Halls 9:00 AM-6:00 PM. Dealer badges required. Registration in the Silver Hall is open from 3-5 PM

The Days Inn (Former Billy Budd) opens around 8 AM-5 PM.

The Wyndham Garden parking lot trading area opens around 7:00 AM till about 3:30 PM. The inside opens around 7:30 AM.

The Best Western Motel show open Wed. 7:00 AM till 5:00 PM.

The Reliance and Commonwealth Fire Halls open 9:00 AM-5 PM.

York Meet Volunteers Meeting Wednesday 1 PM in the Blue Hall lunch area.

NATIONAL TOY TRAIN (TCA) MUSEUM OPEN HOUSE

The Museum is in nearby Strasburg, Pa. It is an excellent full day of special activities. See the TCA web site for current details. www.nttmuseum.org

THIS IS A MUST ATTEND EVENT!

The schedule for Wednesday Open House at the NTTM is not available at this time.

Email [email protected] for the latest on improvements/changes to the museum and the York week schedule. Or use the TCA Museum website http://nttmuseum.org/

Thanks for your support and enjoy the Eastern Division meet Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Directions to the National Toy Train Museum from York Expo Fairgrounds

Follow Route 30 East approximately 42 miles. Turn right onto Route 896 (just past Rockvale Outlets). At second traffic light (in center of Strasburg), turn left onto Route 741 East. Follow Route 741 East, passing Strasburg Railroad and the Railroad Museum of PA. Turn left at traffic light onto Paradise Lane. Pass Red Caboose Motel. Turn right into Museum Parking lot. After dropping off your passengers, please park in one of the outlying parking lots.

We once again have our FIVE (5) parking lots--- 3 SHUTTLE STOPS at CHOOCHOO BARN, STRASBURG RR, & RRMPA. I hope you will use one of them and ride in on the SHUTTLE. We also have limited parking at the NTTM. We require more dedicated spaces than ever at NTTM due to more presenters, PLUS Handicap Parking may actually be easier at a Shuttle location, if needed. Each Pick-Up Point will be signed. SHUTTLE runs from 9 AM til 6 PM, approx 15 minute headway.

However you arrive, where-ever you park, ENJOY a DAY at NTTM on Wednesday, of York week. The Parking Crew will gladly assist anyway they can and the E & M Committee have a GREAT day planned for YOU. Jim Lyle

Volunteers - Be sure to thank our Museum Volunteers who devote so much time and talent to make The National Toy Train Museum the very special place it is.

New Volunteers Welcomed! Contact Melody Rogers at NTTM (717)687-8623 Melody Rogers [email protected]

York Registration opens 3:00 PM-5:00 PM

THURSDAY:

Strategic Planning Meeting 7:30 AM Orange Hall ticket booth.

Reliance Fire Hall opens 8 AM-1 PM

Registration opens 8:30 AM-5:00 PM

Load-in/unpacking for Table/Dealer badge holders:

Orange/Brown/Purple Halls 9 AM -12 Noon

TCA Standards Committee Meeting: 9:10 AM Orange Hall Meeting Room

Blue/Silver/Red/White Halls 10 AM -12 Noon.

EASTERN DIVISION YORK MEET OPENS AT NOON ON THE FAIRGROUNDS WITH THE PLAYING OF OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM. STAND TALL AND BE PROUD. MEMBER HALLS 12 NOON TIL 5:00 PM. DEALER HALLS 12 NOON TILL 6:00 PM.

Parking is free but arrive early if you want to park near a building. Parking guides will assist you. Huge crowd! The pre-meet buzz around the outside of the halls is toooo much to miss. Plan a restroom stop prior to opening time. Food is available on the grounds.

If you don't have a registration badge you may register at the meet. The registration badge lets you get in all buildings. If you are a TCA member, you don't need a member to sponsor you in. Bring your TCA membership card! There is a shuttle bus around the fairgrounds, but it is quicker to walk (Wear comfortable layered clothes and shoes).

YORK HALLS (Map of York Fairgrounds in your York Meet Notice)

White Hall, Red Hall, Silver and Blue Halls: Individual TCA Hobbyists

Orange, Brown and Purple Halls: are TCA member dealers

Black Hall: Check Eastern Division Website for info on train layouts.

The shopping I shuttle bus to the local shopping mall leaves just outside the Blue Hall Thursday every hour from 12:00 noon -4:00 PM. $1.00 each way, exact change only. Downtown and Galleria.

Food can be obtained on the fairgrounds in several locations.

There is so much to see and do at the York Fairgrounds, that it is tough to do it justice in one day. Although there are thousands of tables to view, a lot of us just enjoy the opportunity to socialize with the membership. National Kids Club Committee -2 PM Orange Hall Meeting Room

Lionel Prewar O Gauge Train Study & Standard Gauge Seminar

Reliance Fire Hall opens 5-9 PM

Thursday evening “Flyernut” gathering. 8:30 PM at the Reliance fire hall, 1341 W market St, York.

FRIDAY:

Registration counter is open from 8:30 A.M.-5:00 PM.

YORK MEET ALL HALLS OPEN AT 9 AM. Member halls close at 5:00 PM. Dealer Halls close at 6:30 PM Table/booth holders all halls: Loading/unpack 8-9 AM

YORK HALLS: Map of Fairgrounds in Registration Package

White Hall, Red Hall, Silver and Blue Halls: Individual Collectors.

Orange, Brown and Purple Halls: TCA member Dealers

Black Hall check Eastern Division website for info on train layouts

Reliance Fire Hall opens 9 AM-5 PM

The shopping #I shuttle bus to the local shopping mall leaves just outside the Blue Hall Friday every hour from 10:00 noon -4:00 PM. $1.00 each way, exact change only.

Shopping bus #II round trip to Lancaster area outlet mall. Bus trip 10: AM- 4 PM. $10 round trip. Pay exact change. Pickup is in front of the Blue Hall.

Shuttle bus between halls is free. Runs 30minutes after hall closure: Thursday: 1200 noon -7 PM Friday: 9AM-7 PM Saturday: 9:AM-2:30 PM

Food can be obtained on the fairgrounds in several locations.

Lionel Prewar O Gauge Train Study & Standard Gauge Seminar

PHOTOGRAPHS – New & Unusual Items will be photographed for use in the TCA Quarterly Friday, 1:00 PM, Blue Hall (near Men’s restroom.) Contact Ron Morris - Blue Hall- G69

Special meetings also occur on Friday. Check your Meet Notice for details.

Lionel Prewar O Gauge Train Study & Standard Gauge Seminar

You are invited to Eastern Division’s Ice Cream Social 7-8 PM in the promenade area of the Orange Hall. This is a good chance to meet and chat with fellow collectors. Come one come all and enjoy the fun.

SATURDAY: Free Coffee and Maple Donuts 7:30 AM Orange Hall promenade.

The Eastern Division General Membership Meeting is at 8-8:45 AM in the Orange Hall Meeting room. Eastern Division members please attend as we need a quorum to do official business.

LOADING/SET UP 8-9 AM BOOTH/TABLEHOLDERS ONLY

Registration desk open 8:30 AM-2 PM.

YORK MEET OPEN 9 AM -2 PM

Lionel Prewar O Gauge Train Study & Standard Gauge Seminar

Hope you have a great time at your EASTERN DIVISION, TCA, YORK MEET!

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York Primer Part II below has a Listing of Local interests or try the detailed listing of things to do in and around York go to Toytrains.info.com at: http://www.toytrains.info/get.asp?mod=subject&subject=%28%22family+activ ities+%25+york%22+%22family+fun+%25+york%22+%22York%2C+PA+and+t he+steam+locomotive%22%29+-was

Remember: trains are about people, so meet some new friends and greet some old ones-for sure. Thank any volunteers you see, as they work very hard for your meet.

See ya at York, Clem Clement

YORK PRIMER PART II: LOCAL INFORMATION/ ACCOMODATIONS/YORK REVIEWS

YORK REVIEWS YORK WEEK IS HERE: FINALLY!! Mon Oct 13, 2014 2:52 pm (PDT) . Posted by: "clem clement" homemadetrain YES I’M SHOUTING AS I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE ALL OF YOU AT YORK THIS WEEK. It will be gooder’n a 60 dolla Blu Comet.

THINK YORK, Clem Clement

YORK WEEK IS HERE: FINALLY!! Tue Oct 14, 2014 5:32 am (PDT) . Posted by: ron190sl Clem, Did you give up finding the $50 Blu Comets and now looking for the $60 variety? No, I ain't singing this year – AGAIN! Ron M

Mon Oct 13, 2014 2:52 pm (PDT) . Posted by: "clem clement" homemadetrain YES I’M SHOUTING AS I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE ALL OF YOU AT YORK THIS WEEK. It will be gooder’n a 60 dolla Blu Comet.

THINK YORK, Clem Clement K. It will be gooder’n a 60 dolla Blu Comet.

THINK YORK,

Clem Clement

Tue Oct 14, 2014 6:46 am (PDT) . Posted by: "Don Conard" ddclacrosse

I see inflation has finally caught up to that $50 Blue Comet! Don Conard

YORK WEEK IS HERE: FINALLY!! Tue Oct 14, 2014 6:47 am (PDT). Posted by: "Carl" carl5blum Hello Clem: I'll miss you at York, I'm taking toy trains to a Folk Festival for the kids to play with! www.theleaf.com http://www.theleaf.com Good luck, Carl.

October 17 in toy train history: TCA Fri Oct 17, 2014 8:02 am (PDT) . Posted by: jlechner2001 Sixty years ago today, a meeting of train collectors at Alexander's Train Museum in Yardley PA resulted in the formation of the Train Collectors Association.

How appropriate that the 60th anniversary should coincide with a York meet. Happy birthday, TCA. Joseph Lechner October 17 in toy train history: TCA Sat Oct 18, 2014 6:12 pm (PDT) . Posted by: [email protected] As always, Dr. Joe shows such a grasp of the obvious. Thanks. Returned home from York this afternoon. Got a pizza for dinner, and am now relaxing. Got to see many good friends, and made a few new ones. Weather was great, Wednesday aside. Good times. See you in April.

1 Back from York Sun Oct 19, 2014 8:22 pm (PDT) . Posted by: "Chris Allen" [email protected] Back home after another great York. Added two things to my collection. One was the K Line BN 25th Anniversary tractor, container and spine trailer from the 1995 TCA National Convention. My thanks to Gordon Wilson who spotted it amongst other items in the Orange Hall. This is a very hard to find item from that year and it completes the 1995 TCA suite that I needed. The second and more precious was over dinner Thursday evening when Clem Clement gifted me with a special home brew (no pun intended) tank car custom made out of glass beer bottles. I cannot begin to say how special that car is to me and my collection. Very unique piece that made it through security with nary a scratch or a question.

I can buy trains anywhere and those that go to York and claim it looks like an AARP convention are missing the reason many of us go and spend a week with 100's of our closest friends. Sure it is fun looking for trains, but the friendships renewed every six months make up for all the treasures we never find. Many people stay in TCA for that single reason, York. If you have never been, plan a trip in the spring. I'll see you there. Chris Allen

Yorkin October 2014 Sun Oct 19, 2014 8:25 pm (PDT) . Posted by: "clem clement" homemadetrain Eastern Division's Fall York 2014 was again a wonderful show. They preregistered 11, 000 plus and had 1100 at the door. That is a fine number in this tough financial environment. All other shows I have attended this fall, either car or train, have been way down in attendance.

We arrived Tuesday about noon and I jumped from the moving car to get in the middle of it all. Good to see so many old friends. sadly we had to note some of those usual's who now attend from above and some who are not as chipper in stride and appearance as they were once. The Holidrome lot was about 1/2 full and so much fun to peruse all the options. Ms. Sandy wanted lunch right away so we did, but My mind was not there...Tuesday evening we ate at Isaacs. That evening we heard that our son Eric was flying in from Detroit to have dinner with us Wednesday evening. What a thrilling surprise. Wednesday seemed to drag time-wise. Plus it rained so train business was restricted the the inside activities. Our time with Eric was precious as we caught up on his trip to London and elsewhere. For some reason he did not take his Mommy to London with him??

Thursday morning was meeting time for me: TCA Strategic Planning and Standards committees were in session. Eastern Division kindly provides meeting rooms for our National gatherings. The meet opened Tuesday at hi noon with the playing of our National Anthem. I still tingle at the sound and history behind that powerful song. I’m so proud to hold a tight salute during its playing.

The afternoon went by in a rush of seeing trains and chatting with fellow TCAers.

Thursday evening was our gang’s dinner time. Good fellowship for sure.

Friday began with the SGMA meeting at the Reliance. We love meeting on their “deck” with the heater fired up. That meeting as all are open to all.

Then trains and running all today. By 5 pm we were numb so it was off to the Reliance for shrimp and tilapia and horizontal by 7 pm.

Saturday I cleaned up a few deals and we rolled home late afternoon. some one in authority asked what are the bennies of joining TCA: Yorkin experiences and other great meets. Seeing so many old friends and making new ones. Talking to humans rather that 2-D social media tracks. Joining in the many many meetings and session about trains. No where else other that TCA can this be done Visiting so many dealers in one place to talk/compare/shop about trains Having the natural high of train fever wash all over you. Seeing so many great layouts Looking at a bazillion trains in one place Getting ideas about what your chapter/division can do for future activities On and on and on.

This is my 50th year in TCA and it is as great and exciting as my first year in Sacramento, CA back in 1964. I was stunned at that time to realize 986 folks ahead of me loved trains as I did!

Love it

I hope all have as much fun in TCA as I’m having,

I can’t wait for spring Yorkin, Clem

York Observations Tue Oct 21, 2014 3:04 pm (PDT) . Posted by: cmtarkus After reading all of the YORK posts for the last couple of days, thought I would add my two cents!

My October York experience was different I didn't find out till 10 days before that I would be able to go. Too late to get a table so I waited till I arrived. Drove in from Chicago. Thursday morning was told none were available that it was sold out. Well it appears the Blue and Silver Hall's had wider aisles, eliminated a row of tables maybe? Got on the waiting list walked around Silver and Blue Hall's and noticed that there were a number of empty tables, went to see the hall captain was told that the tables could not be assigned until Friday after 10:00 as table holders are not required to be there on Thursday? So many tables went unused on Thursday. Was assigned a table at 10:30 on Friday morning but got the usual warning of having to stay until 2:00 on Saturday. Kind of innocuous rules, do not have to show on Thursday but must stay until 2:00 on Saturday. Assigned to Blue Hall, in my estimation at least 40% of the tables were vacated by Noon on Saturday. In my opinion these rules need to be updated. Traffic in the Blue Hall was very light on Saturday. Have been going to York for the last twenty years, but this experience has left me wondering if I wish to continue. Cris Matuszak

Yorkin October 2014 Tue Oct 21, 2014 4:28 am (PDT) . Posted by: "Alfred Galli" tcaprofile100 Ski

What would you think of the idea to hold the meet Friday, Saturday and Sunday? Seems to me there are a lot of guys who can’t get off work during the week and don’t bother to come Saturday due to the short hours and perhaps a long drive. Al Galli Mon Oct 20, 2014 7:29 am (PDT) . Posted by: "John Warren" lionelskistrains mailto:[email protected]?subject=Re%3A%20Yorkin%20October%202014

<< I left work early on Friday and did the 255 mile drive, with some traffic, in 5 and a quarter hours. Got to the Fairgrounds at about 5:30 and, even with the new early closing (does any York veteran read the pamphlet? I didn't and was surprised here), I was able to run through that hall before it's closing.>>

John ('Ski) Warren

Yorkin October 2014 Tue Oct 21, 2014 8:51 am (PDT) . Posted by: "John Warren" lionelskistrains I think that would be a good idea, probably better would be to cut Thursday (WHAT is with the noon opening anyway??) and make Saturday all day - regular halls to 5:30, dealer halls to 7:00. In any case, will soon be a moot point for me as I plan on retiring in March. Another thought. I find that, at local shows without floor arrows, that if I go around one way, and then the other way the 2nd time, I see stuff I didn't the first time. If not too confusing for some, how about York being follow the arrows one day and go against the arrows the 2nd day? John ('Ski) Warren Visit: www.WarrenvilleRailroad.com

< Ski What would you think of the idea to hold the meet Friday, Saturday and Sunday? Seems to me there are a lot of guys who can’t get off work during the week and don’t bother to come Saturday due to the short hours and perhaps a long drive. >

Yorkin October 2014 Tue Oct 21, 2014 8:53 am (PDT) . Posted by: "Edward Abbot" eabbotiii This is something that should be thought about or at the very least having it open all day on Saturday. The first time I attended York was on a Saturday. This left a lot of ground to cover, plus people were already packing up their booths by 11 nor were their vendor sponsored events. Since then I take a vacation day to go on Friday. I would like to spend more time at the show, but taking off four (or more) days a year from work to support my hobby would not go over well with either my family or my work situation.

I joined TCA a couple years ago and enjoy the camaraderie for what could be an isolating hobby. I am one of the "youngsters" in my early 40s with a wife and two young kids. While my family respects my hobby. they don't have a real interest in it. A "family vacation" to York twice a year isn't going to cut it. ;-) Additionally, it is extremely difficult for me to get away from the office during the work week. People make observations referring to York as an "AARP convention" (which I can understand by viewing the attendees), but that may also be at least partially attributed to not making the event conducive to people of working age with young families. I understand that people may see me as naive and I may be kicking over a hornets nest making this comment. Just trying to make a point. -Ed Abbot

Yorkin October 2014 Tue Oct 21, 2014 8:54 am (PDT) . Posted by: "Clint Jefferies" jefferycorrick < What would you think of the idea to hold the meet Friday, Saturday and Sunday? Seems to me there are a lot of guys who can’t get off work during the week and don’t bother to come Saturday due to the short hours and perhaps a long drive. >

I couldn't agree more. As I still hold down a 9-5, it's hard to take the time off to make it to York. The current schedule is great for retirees, but if we're serious about getting younger blood into the organization, I sure think it would make sense to have a York schedule that works for folks who are still wage-slaves. Best,

Jeffery Corrick (aka Clint Jefferies) Visit my website at: http://clintjefferies.com http://clintjefferies.com/ (Plays) http://clintjefferies.com/trains.html http://clintjefferies.com/trains.html (Toy Trains)

Yorkin October 2014 Tue Oct 21, 2014 8:55 am (PDT) . Posted by: "Chuck Campbell" rupert.campbell Al,

Speaking of a long drive, Maybe those who come from ‘afar’ would take exception to this suggestion.

It would be interesting to see just how many table holders come from great distances. I know many table holders from southern Virginia, NC, SC, GA, TN, AL, MO, IN and even TEXAS who make the pilgrimage twice a year. Some leave Pennsylvania Saturday evening, stop along the way and finally get home late Sunday. Making these faithful stay another day would possibly diminish the number of tables for sure. I also know of those who ship offerings and fly in from the west coast. Some even arrive by REAL trains.

To make it worth while, many arrive the weekend before, set up at the early events and enjoy the time meeting old friends and possibly sell a few items. So you see, for some, it’s an eight or nine day affair already. They’ve used a weeks vacation and maybe can’t afford to take another Monday.

The proposed added attendance dollars could possibly never add up to the dollars in lost table rentals. How would you balance more people looking at fewer trains? Consider more buyers, even less sellers and watch the dollars flow from your wallet for the higher prices. Talk about ‘Lookie Looos’ and ‘Bebacks’ and pretty soon no one shows up on Sunday anyway.

Not to mention those Eastern Division workers who have put in long hours and REALLY need Sunday as a ‘day of rest’.

I spoke with Sam Gieser, Friday morning, and he commented that registration and attendance was up from the spring and had surpassed 11,000.

It’s the big picture, the York Management focuses on and I’m glad they do.

Us folk in the hinder land can’t survive on the small, occasional shows that we have back home.

We need our “York Fix” to survive in our train world.

Opposing opinions are welcome.

Regards, Rupert Campbell Huntsville, ALABAMA PS. I filled up with gas at Sheetz, across from the Billy Bud, and arrived at home 772 miles later.

Total for the week; 1,755 miles.

< What would you think of the idea to hold the meet Friday, Saturday and Sunday? Seems to me there are a lot of guys who can’t get off work during the week and don’t bother to come Saturday due to the short hours and perhaps a long drive. >

Yorkin October 2014 Tue Oct 21, 2014 9:26 am (PDT) . Posted by: lyleleverich Living on the West Coast since 1975, I have only made it to two York meets, but at one in the early '90's there were plenty of folks there on the week days who clearly were below retirement age, including me. If the majority now seem to be AARPers, it's not because of the schedule, it's just the aging demographic of the hobby!

it is extremely difficult for me to get away from the office during the work week. People make observations referring to York as an "AARP convention" (which I can understand by viewing the attendees), but that may also be at least partially attributed to not making the event conducive to people of working age with young families. >

Yorkin October 2014 Tue Oct 21, 2014 11:57 am (PDT). Posted by: "Ken Sr" oldtrack47 Ed. I think you make a good point. A very common concern is that younger people are not coming into the hobby. If that's a valid observation, then it makes sense for the "old guard" to do what ever we can to accommodate folks like you. We would like to see this interest grow, or so we say. Yet, at the same time, some of the old traditions/rules make it difficult at best. That is very interesting to me, since 25 years ago, I was you! And I'm reasonably certain that many others of my generation can relate to your situation. In any event, I share your hopes and interest. And the best of luck to you as you move towards the inevitable invitation to join AARP! Ken Deardorff

< The first time I attended York was on a Saturday. This left a lot of ground to cover, plus people were already packing up their booths by 11 nor were their vendor sponsored events. Since then I take a vacation day to go on Friday. I would like to spend more time at the show, but taking off four (or more) days a year from work to support my hobby would not go over well with either my family or my work situation. I joined TCA a couple years ago and enjoy the camaraderie for what could be an isolating hobby. I am one of the "youngsters" in my early 40s with a wife and two young kids. While my family respects my hobby. they don't have a real interest in it. A "family vacation" to York twice a year isn't going to cut it. ;-) Additionally, it is extremely difficult for me to get away from the office during the work week. >

Yorkin October 2014 Tue Oct 21, 2014 11:58 am (PDT) . Posted by: "Clint Jefferies" jefferycorrick < probably better would be to cut Thursday (WHAT is with the noon opening anyway??) and make Saturday all day – regular halls to 5:30, dealer halls to 7:00. Yep. Like that idea too. Jeff Jeffery Corrick (aka Clint Jefferies) Visit my website at: http://clintjefferies.com http://clintjefferies.com/ (Plays) http://clintjefferies.com/trains.html http://clintjefferies.com/trains.html (Toy Trains)

Yorkin October 2014 Tue Oct 21, 2014 1:01 pm (PDT) . Posted by: "Hi Hocustom3" I agree. My biggest sales day was Thursday even with the 12:00 start. York has always been a vacation for me and the wife. If the show ran all day Sunday, we would not get home until Monday. Leave it alone. Dick Silber

< Maybe those who come from ‘afar’ would take exception to this suggestion. I know many table holders from southern Virginia, NC, SC, GA, TN, AL, MO, IN and even TEXAS who make the pilgrimage twice a year. Some leave Pennsylvania Saturday evening, stop along the way and finally get home late Sunday. Making these faithful stay another day would possibly diminish the number of tables for sure. I also know of those who ship offerings and fly in from the west coast. Some even arrive by REAL trains. To make it worth while, many arrive the weekend before, set up at the early events and enjoy the time meeting old friends and possibly sell a few items . So you see, for some, it’s an eight or nine day affair already. They’ve used a weeks vacation and maybe can’t afford to take another Monday.... Talk about ‘Lookie Looos’ and ‘Bebacks’ and pretty soon no one shows up on Sunday anyway. Not to mention those Eastern Division workers who have put in long hours and REALLY need Sunday as a ‘day of rest’. >

York Successes Thu Oct 23, 2014 4:26 am (PDT) . Posted by: "Carl" carl5blum Hello Ken:

One of the best things about York may seem odd to most people:

The attendants in all the restrooms! I just returned from a folk festival with 4K people, with terrible restrooms and porta-johns. Having some one on top of keeping the facilities clean is well worth the tips. And you had over 12K!

Thank you so much.Carl.

Re: Yorkin October 2014 Thu Oct 23, 2014 4:30 am (PDT) . Posted by: trainman1963 I know nothing will happen with the schedule because as it was explained earlier, this meet is designed around the older retired members. I have been attending this meet since the early 90's and even then I was one of the youngest in attendance. I am in my early 50's now but back then I was in my late 20's. I am fortunate enough to be able to take a few days off a year and attend one or two York shows each year. However, I know of many members that live a few hours from York but don't attend because they can't get off on Friday and know as well as most members that going Saturday is not productive.

It amazes me that when I take my boys someone always says, isn't it good to see children at the meet. Fortunately, my boys do real well in school so taking them out a day or two a year isn't a problem. Everyone knows in order to see all the halls you really need a full day. Want to know why there are not more younger attendees. School is in session on Thursdays and Fridays. Surprise!

Even years ago when the meet was only two days long many of the dealers complained by Friday that they weren't selling anything. Many of the members arrived a day or two early and were buying in the parking lots of motels and such. Stretching the meet out more days doesn't mean anyone will sell more. At any given time there is only so much disposable income available for toy trains no matter how adamant you are about collecting.

The funny thing is my 15 year old said to me at the show he thinks the amount of dealers in the halls has decreased over the past few years. Remember, he is only 15 and hasn't been going for years as I have. At his age he can remember the Gold Hall, Green Hall and was it Black Hall that all used to be filled. In addition, the isles in the White and Purple Halls are wider than they used to be. Both he and I can remember the days when you could barely walk the isles without bumping into someone including the table holders. I know one of the reasons is the addition of the Orange and Silver Halls but did extending the show to Thursday hurt that sellers? I have gotten a table at this show in the past just trying to get rid of a few items and wouldn't want to have to commit to being there Thursday, Friday and Saturday. I think the last time I had a table at York I sold less than $200 worth of items. I wouldn't want to commit to a 3 day show to only sell $200 worth of stuff. Just a few opinions

York schedule--another thought(s) Fri Oct 24, 2014 10:18 am (PDT) . Posted by: traindavid I find it interesting that the club does not want to run the meet into Sunday, so dealers can get home for Monday---but wait, it starts on Thursday, so what is the importance of being home on Monday?? You've already been gone during weekdays. If the meet is to be three days, why not Fri, Sat, Sun? What's so "holy" about Monday? Yes, Sunday will probably be dead, but then Saturday would be a full day for shoppers! The bargain hunters still get Friday to "beat out" the "younger crowd stuck at work." Of course, this does ignore that for many, Sunday is a holy day--but then Saturday is too for some believers--I doubt one could ever satisfy everyone! David "two rails" Dewey

York schedule--more thoughts Sat Oct 25, 2014 3:06 pm (PDT) . Posted by: franktrainman I worked in heavy industry for 35 years. My employer wanted employees to take vacation in full week blocks. They didn't want employees to be absent on parts of two weeks rather then gone for a whole week. It just made it easier to schedule replacements assuming your job was important enough to require a replacement. There's a railcar organization named the Railroad Passenger Car Alliance (RPCA). If you take a fall color tour you will probably ride in cars owned by members of this organization. A lot of private cars have RPCA reporting marks. The RPCA annual convention is held each year over the Martin L King weekend. This gives most attendees Monday to return home. I am not suggesting that York be held MLK weekend. The weather at that time is most likely to be very cold. I attended one of these conventions the was held in Buffalo, NY. That was probably the coldest I have been in my life, The Saginaw, MI convention was no picnic either. My favorite convention was hosted by RBB&B in Florida. I left cold and ice in Michigan for sunny Florida. Among other attractions we visited RBB&B's railroad shops. It was a first class operation. I was impressed. Best regards, Frank Corley, TCA 97-46165

Yorkin October 2014 Sun Oct 26, 2014 11:58 am (PDT) . Posted by: "Charles Brumbelow" mrb37211 Is there still a large amount of buying and selling in motel rooms and parking lots in the days prior to the official meet opening time? Charles

< Why couldn't the people who travel long distances come out a day or two later so that the total days away from home are the same or less. I would think that if you drive a long way maximizing sales is a good goal and I believe that with Friday through Sunday there would be greater attendance. Am I missing something? >

Yorkin October 2014 Sun Oct 26, 2014 1:01 pm (PDT) . Posted by: "Charter" ivescollector I was there from Sunday onward, and I spent half my budget before Thursday. The hotels have definitely shrunk from the past, but there were five different preshow venues. The days of the antique dealers showing up early to dump their trains are over, but there are still many trains to buy Monday through Wednesday. It is also a good time to socialize. Jim Nicholson Sheboygan Falls WI < Is there still a large amount of buying and selling in motel rooms and parking lots in the days prior to the official meet opening time? >

York Table Owner ID Sun Oct 26, 2014 4:09 pm (PDT) . Posted by: I would like to contact a table owner I met at York.

Is there a chart available to us where we could identify who owned which tables? I would like to contact the couple who set up in one corner of the Blue Hall opposite the registration desk. The couple is from Florida, have appeared in Classis Toy Trains and the man always wears a hat. Thanks, Frank Anderson

York Table Owner ID Mon Oct 27, 2014 7:47 am (PDT) . Posted by: "Roy Aydelotte" royaidlot You can always contact Debbie Geiser or Jess Steele (dealer registration). Their emails are on the Eastern Div. TCA site. But you need either the table location (hall, aisle, #) or business name. Roy Aydelotte

York Table Owner ID Mon Oct 27, 2014 7:47 am (PDT) . Posted by: trainphreak I believe that the person you are looking for is Clark Vegazo. He wears a straw hat that says "I buy toy trains" His email is: [email protected] I actually met him on the AutoTrain traveling back to Floriduh on the Sunday after York, as well as another TCA member. Not everyone on this sold out train were snow birds. bob mintz

York Table Owner ID Mon Oct 27, 2014 11:16 am (PDT) . Posted by: wfttrains Frank: Bob is correct as Clark is the member you are asking about. However his table was in the SILVER Hall, not the Blue Hall. For future reference, the Eastern Division prints charts showing the tables with rows, table numbers and table holder names for at least the Blue Hall and Silver Hall among the MEMBER’S halls. I picked up copies of each at the announcer’s desk in each of those halls on Friday of York week. I would think they have them for the Red and White Halls as well.

I’m not sure the table charts for any of the Member’s halls are posted on the Eastern Division’s website ahead of time like they do for the dealer halls. So next York when you walk past the announcers table in each hall, take a table chart from the stack on the table in case you need to identify a table holder either during the meet or like in this case after the meet is over. HTH, Bill Trappen

York schedule--another thought(s) Tue Oct 28, 2014 5:28 am (PDT) . Posted by: lner2512 David, York is not alone. The O Scale West meet in California changed to a Friday/Saturday format years ago to accommodate dealers, who insisted on the change. Cheers, Scott Maze

Clem, Here are our updates: Workers House and Yorktowne Golf Club are closed. Our Downtown Visitor Center has moved to Central Market. Central Market is located at 34 W Philadelphia Street, York, PA 17401. The visitor center is just inside the Philadelphia Street doors. The Downtown Visitor Center is open Tuesday through Sunday from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. We have several new businesses including several new restaurants so make sure to visit www.yorkp.org. Thank you, Sam

Samantha Longworth Special Events Coordinator York County Convention & Visitors Bureau York County’s Official Tourist Promotion Agency 155 West Market Street York, PA 17401 P: 717-852-9675 x 111 F: 717-854-5095 Factory Tour Capital of the World

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SPRING 2014 YORKIN REPORT: MOST OF THIS IS TRUE...

Another great York week has come and gone. Where did the time go?? I’m so tired I can’t remember what I bought or what I paid for the fitty dolla Blu comet. Everything was a highlight!

Photos are now allowed in the Dealer and Black halls. THANKS Eastern for the change! Show hours will change in the fall. Look for the new times. Thursday and Friday nights the member halls close at 5: 00 pm and the dealer halls at 6:30 pm.

Tuesday brought some rain and hi winds damaged some booth covers at the Holidrome. The Holidrome has redone some of its function rooms: the dining room became a conference room, fixed up the bar including a fire place, and moved the food service there. Their food handling was outsourced to Aultlands. The place had several meetings going on and was booked full for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday nites (Not all trainics)

Tuesday evening came early as the rain and wind storm closed the Holidrome outside meet so smoothy me promised Ms. Sandy a romantic dinner experience. Off we go to try the Moonlight Café in Dover. Of course we drive right by it as we were looking at the S----creamery across the street. The Moonlight Cafe is between the two traffic lights in Dover on R74, just north of Mac’s Ice Cream Parlor. We came back and found the small Café set back off the road. Ms. Sandy thought it was a used car dealer’s shack and opined about the potential of non- romanticnesses. We pressed on in and the place is lovely. 38 seats and very friendly inside. Sandy quaffed two huge carb cakes (sharing a little bit of the huge chunks of meat, but not much of it. The cakes contain Gouda cheese and apples as well as bread crumbs and crab meat. I had soup and chicken and pasta. Bestest meal we have had in a long time. They open at 11am until 10 pmish. They are crowded Friday and Saturdays. Cash only. Did I mention great service? Two cooks labored over the same 4 burner gas stove right it the room with us and the several wait staff made sure that a prepared plate never stopped until in the properly place in front of its customer. There was not chance of us having desert: too stuffed. Moonlight Café, 4010 Carlisle Rd Dover, PA 17315 (717) 292-5643.

Tuesday evening after dinner I hiked around the Holidrome parking lot, which is my want to do to get some exercise. The lot was very clean. This is a change as we all tend to leave trash for the next guy to clean up. Actually the new staff did a fine job of cleanup. So did the strong winds and plenty of paper and boxes were in the woods. I search for the right size boxes to pack the stuff I buy at the outside meets. One big box did not move in the wind. Why: it had tossed out train parts in it. Track for my train day play area, sockets for my tools and screws for my work area, etc.

Wednesday had winds but no rain. The Springettsbury Show has moved to a new location. The National Toy Train Museum was in full splendor with fresh paint inside and new custom carpets. Just follow the rails! The place looks great! The staff and the committees worked very hard during the off season to get things ready for their April opening of the 2014 season. Congrats to all involved. The presentations by some of our supporting manufacturers were excellent. I hope all got to attend this excellent day at our museum and library.

There were 3 layouts this time; one each in the Black, White and Orange halls. They were all wonderful and a must see for all attendees.

We had such good times seeing so many friends which to me is the key feature of York week. Sadly some of our friends are no longer with us.

Rain and chilly were two of the phenomena describing Spring York 2014. Spring had barely arrived at York when we all showed up. It rained and stormed Tuesday afternoon and again on Friday evening. Chilly all week.

The outside off-fairgrounds meets that I attended were fun but slow, both in dealers and customers. Still goodies flowed. There is a great story about the huge pile of trains on the Predneville tables at the Holidrome. Ed bought a 3-trailers load of trains from Texas. There were many great trains as well as a huge load of bottom-dwelling stuff. As Doug and Ed struggled with what to do about their high storage costs, Allentown show came up last month. They took a truck full of the “junque” and pilled it on their Allentown tables to the discomfort of the Meet’s leadership) Never mind they were selling from the truck enroute to the hall and until they got it back in the truck to return home. A high percent sold sez Ed. At the Holidrome there was a 2.367 feet high pile still full of goodies. Of course I dived in!

The Best Western was smaller than usually but the hardy were offering and customers were shopping. At the Billy Budd, Rich said that Tuesday evening it was good and all day Wednesday there was some action. He displayed a neato double helix of unknown, but commercial build. I did not get to the other shows.

(I must comment that the Reliance Fire Hall show was open during the York meet.

Still photos now can be taken in the Dealer and Black Halls. This is great news!!! NO videos (As they don’t wanna see Clem whizzing by seeking the famous Fitty dolla Blu comet). Still no photos in the member halls.

The opening of the York meet is so special. Members and guests form all over the world stand and honor our great flag and nation. A wonderful way to start a Meet!

I’m happy to report that some homey-did trains found me.

I ran into the Osisek brothers at their booth in the Blue hall. They and their dad (Harry was the grandfather) are building standard gauge rail tank with two cars. One car carries bullets and the other is an operating rail gun. I asked Trip Riley about it and he is aware of their work. He said their tank is much simpler in construction than his. Both the tank and the rail gun shoot wooden bullets. A thumb tack on the back of the silver bullet connects with a magnet in the gun for loading. It is spring fired.

York attendance 12,0xx folks registered. 700 registered at the door.

It was sooo good to see so many friendly faces after such a cold and miserable winter. That was the biggest common topic of conversation. Sadly, recently we lost Fran Audie and Tony Hay was reported in the hospital.

The National Capital Trackers setup up a high tech stunning over-and-under layout in the Black Hall. They were up and running by 12 noon on setup day. What a record setting presentation. Photos at http://www.nattrackers.org/archives/category/shows/york-2014

I had a nice chat with Mike Wolf at the TCA museum. He was looking for some info on Marklin’s Leipzig Station that he is going to repro. That should be stunning!

The York County Convention and Visitors Bureau folks are pleased to have TCA/Eastern Division as a member of the YCCVB.

There were more rare pieces than I had seen in a long time. LOTS and I mean lots of standard gauge IVES. For instance there is a transition tanker in bright yellow. It is not as rare as hen’s teeth but more rare than the chance of me telling the truth. There were 4 at York this time. Plenty of IVES Gauge 1 trains as well. I thunk I was in heaven (which I was). We found a great new place for our Thursday night dinner with our friends. Sam and Tony's had superb food and atmosphere and the prices were far less than we have been paying previously. Great time had by all. We eat early after a hard afternoon of playing trains and finish early making the evening free (For us this time we went back to the hotel and crashed. No more boozing till midnight for us oldsters.). This started when my boys were young and needed chow as soon as meet was over.

When Sandy and I pack to come home, we tight-pack to save space and we safe- pack to protect the treasures I have acquired. Then when I get home and unpack, it is like Christmas all over as I forgets what I acquired. Also I usually put small pieces in safe packing places so they won’t get lost: Well they is now lost. It takes months for finds stuff. Christmas again.

Saturday morning I was making a final sweep to continue to invest my heir’s future inheritance in. As I was chatting with a fellow about the 6 wheel Lionel # 33 he had which his dad had restored (I saw more 6 wheelers and trolleys than I had ever seen this time.) I noted a nice toy Bronco and trailer in Chessie yellow and picked it up just to be looking at something. By golly, it was a homey- converted toy to a track maintenance vehicle in standard gauge. The truck was a Nylint Corp. with some kind of motor in it and the trailer was home made with some kind of electrical junction cover for the load. For my final buy, that was a winner. Thanks to the seller and his Dad. It found a new home and will join my fleet.

Clem, ready for Fall Yorkin

From: Carol Redman McGinnis Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2014 5:50 PM To: Clem Clement Subject: Primer updates

I have been enjoying a local Bed and Breakfast for the last 4 years. It is just down the road in Red Lion, PA, and not far from the Red Lion Train Station where their open house is held each year. The B&B is just over 10 miles south of town off of Rt. 74.

Your hosts are George and Danielle, and they welcome TCA in October, in April, and at any time of the year. And it's a great place to stay for York week. Danielle owns a bakery in town and she and George create a great breakfast each day.

Address is: 101 S Franklin St, Red Lion, PA 17356 Phone # (717) 244-4739

Thanks,

Carol R. McGinnis TCA Immediate Past President 6293 Lightpoint Place Columbia, MD 21045 Cell #410-336-8522

Hi folks, Christie and I are heading to the Roosevelt Tavern for dinner at around 6:30 or so on Thursday evening, April 24. I think I sent everyone one of the money off coupons we received from the Roosevelt Tavern's web site. Although 10% isn't a whole lot, it will at least cover the Sales Tax part of any of our tabs. One nice thing about this new owner is that he allows for separate checks if and when we all congregate together in one area. I'd be happy to make reservations for as many as may wish to get together and break bread together on that Thursday night. Just let me know if you ( and whoever else might be with you ) will be coming by April 15th and I'll get in touch with the Roosevelt Tavern to have them set aside a table or area big enough to accommodate however many of us there are. I am leaving for the East Coast on the 16th of April ( Phillies baseball, Hockey, Opera, Symphony, etc ) as I like to make a mini vacation out of going to York. For those of you who are NOT on the EX COMM and will be in YORK on Wednesday night, April 23rd, did you know that YORK has a Minor League Baseball team called the Revolution? There is a really nice Minor League park on North George Street, right by the Railroad tracks and on the 23rd, they have a game. After I drop Christie off for her EX COMM meeting, I am going to that baseball game. Minor League baseball is not at all like the Majors - it is FUN. Lots of activities for the fans between innings; ticket prices are affordable, and SO IS FOOD. Furthermore, it is usually quite good and varied. It surely beats staying in a motel, watching TV all night. I told Christie to find a way back to the hotel after the meeting. Speaking of hotels - did you know that there is a new MARRIOTT PROPERTY in YORK, as of last November? The TOWN PLACE SUITES by Marriott is just off Mt Zion Road (Route 24) in East York. We use them all the time as we travel around the USA. They have a Great, HOT & FREE BREAKFAST, plus all rooms have full kitchens and living areas. The rate at this place is $ 127 per night, all year round, not just for YORK. A week ago they still had rooms available. Go to www.marriott.com and check it out if you haven't booked a room yet. As I said, we use Town Place Suites all the time. Hope to see a lot of you on Thursday night at the Roosevelt Tavern for dinner. If you haven't eaten here since it reopened with these new owners, the food is still fantastic - I love the LUMP CRAB CAKES. They are the size of two hockey pucks! We don't get Crab cakes like that in Arizona! Regards, Gordon

Tue Apr 29, 2014 4:28 am (PDT) . Posted by: "Tom Weaver" tdw6974 Well another York under my belt! Arrived for Thursday set up in white hall. Thursday turned into best sales day, followed by half the amount on Friday and Saturday nothing very light traffic. Did see a lot of Guest passes which I would think is good! Switched from Hampton inn to Red roof to a Motel 6 decent room saved almost $300.00 on room cost and was closer to fairgrounds. A little tricky getting in and out but got the hang of it after a while. Always enjoy visiting with the table holders around us! Got to see the layouts in white hall very nice! Hope to continue to be able to attend. Tom Weaver 66-1559 playing with trains since 1968

It was a pleasure meeting you at April York. I was also fortunate to meet Mr Clem Clement in the Blue hall while wandering through there on Saturday. I wish to again thank you for being able to find a meeting room for the Plasticville Collectors Association on a very short notice. This was probably the best assembly of members we have ever had at a York meet. We were able to discuss issues and concerns as well as pass around items brought by various members without the noise associated with meeting in the cafeteria. It was a refreshing change, to say the least and the attendees expressed their wishes to continue meeting here. With that said; I would like to request that the Orange hall meeting room be reserved from 11:00AM until Noon on the Friday of the future York meets for our Association's meeting. York is the only meet throughout the year where members are able to get together. Please let me know if 11:00AM until Noon on Friday of the upcoming York meets is available or any alternate times if 11:00 until Noon is unavailable. Thanks

John L Niehaus, Secretary/Treasurer Plasticville Collectors Association PCA #01-03 TCA #04-57460 Join the only organization dedicated to study and collecting of plastic village buildings. Visit our web page at http://www.plasticvilleusa.org or send me an email request for an application. Please ignore any attachment below this line of text

Hi Clem, We are excited to have TCA as a member of the CVB.

There is a little one on the way and she will be here in July. I will be sure to bring some pictures along to TCA in October to show you.

Altland House is handling all catering and events at the Holidome. I am glad you like all of their renovations and will be sure to pass it along to their staff.

See you in October! Sam

Samantha Longworth Special Events Coordinator York County Convention & Visitors Bureau York County’s Official Tourist Promotion Agency 155 West Market Street York, PA 17401

Hotels are tough to find space in during the York week. Plan early. Sometimes you can find rooms at the last minute north of Harrisburg. (It has been easier in the last few years to find rooms, but don’t wait.)

Contact the York County Convention & Visitors Bureau for Bed & Breakfast referrals or any accommodation issues. Call (888) 858-YORK or http://www.yorkpa.org/

For Lancaster County. Dialing (800)-PADUTCH (800-723-8824) will connect to a "Lodging Hotline" or the visitor's Bureau website, www.padutchcountry.com a link called Lodging that will lead people to places to stay.

National Toy Train Museum

Each year our tourist bureau, The PA Dutch Convention & Visitores Bureau, publishes a 'Map & Overnight Getaway Guide.' This year on page 5 is an article called "Old Friends and Hidden Gems." Under 'Take the Train' you will find us listed as the "Hidden Gem." Below is a link that will allow you to order one of these Guides to see just how much there is to see and do in the area around us. http://www.padutchcountry.com/travel-tools/order-travel-guide.asp

RESTAURANTS: Various comments from members Follow (These may not be current so check first.):

Tuesday evening came early as the rain and wind storm closed the Holidrome outside meet so smoothie me promised Ms. Sandy a romantic dinner experience. Off we go to try the Moonlight café in Dover. The cafe is in Dover on R74, just north of Mac’s Ice Cream Parlor. (R74 is Carlisle Avenue that goes past the York fairgrounds and the Holidrome). The restaurant is on the left between the 2 traffic lights in Dover. The small café is set back off the road. Ms. Sandy thought it was a used car dealer’s shack and opined about the potential of non- romanticness. I pressed on in and the place is lovely. 38 seats and very friendly inside. Sandy quaffed two huge carb cakes (sharing a little bit of the huge chunks of meat, but not much of it.) The cakes contain Gouda cheese and apples as well as bread crumbs and crab meat. I had soup and chicken pasta. Best meal we have had in a long time. They open at 11am until 10ish. They are crowded Friday and Saturdays. Cash only. Come early. Did I mention great service? Two cooks labored over the same 4 burner gas stove right it the room with us and the several wait staff made sure the prepared plate never stopped until it was in the properly place in front of its customer. There was not chance of us having desert: too stuffed. Clem

Moonlight Café 4010 Carlisle Rd Dover, PA 17315 (717) 292-5643 The York County VB has an excellent list of restaurants. We have several new businesses including several new restaurants so make sure to visit www.yorkp.org. http://www.yorkpa.org/index.asp?act=page&sct_id=10

The Blue Heron Restaurant has relocated to 3320 E Market Street, York PA 17402. www.bluemoonfresh.com (717) 854-6664 361 W Market St. York, PA 17401 I recommend making a reservation as it is not a large restaurant and quite popular. Also right beside the York Blue Moon is the York Emporium which is a great place for book enthusiast.

Samantha Schrum Longworth Bureau Services Assistant York County Convention & Visitors Bureau 155 West Market Street | York, PA 17401 Phone: 717-852-9675, ext. 111 Fax: 717-854-5095 [email protected] www.yorkpa.org

I hear the Buffet at Shady Maple restaurant in East Earl is excellent. May be too far away?? http://www.shady-maple.com/smorgasbord

From: Samantha Schrum Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 11:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Udpates to webpage Hi Clem! I hope you are excited to be heading back to York. October will be here before we know it! I wanted to give you some updates as things have changed a little since this information was provided. You also list Isaac’s Restaurant in East York and I wanted to let you know that there is also an Isaac’s in West York. Carlisle Commerce Center 2159 White Street York, PA 17404 Phone: (717) 854-2292. http://www.isaacsdeli.com/york.asp If you are interested in expanding the list that Tina provided this link will take you to a list of restaurants in York. http://yorkpa.org/index.asp?act=page&sct_id=10 Here is an updated list of York County Parks as we have added a few: http://www.yorkcountyparks.org/ Here is an updated list of public golf courses as some have closed on your list: http://yorkpa.org/index.asp?act=page&pag_id=16 Here is an updated list of theaters in the surrounding area: http://yorkpa.org/index.asp?act=page&pag_id=45 Here is an updated list of Factory Tours as they have grown quite a bit in the last few years: http://yorkpa.org/index.asp?act=page&pag_id=5 Please let me know if you have any questions. I just wanted to make sure you had up to date information from us.

Samantha Schrum Longworth Bureau Services Assistant York County Convention & Visitors Bureau 155 West Market Street | York, PA 17401 Phone: 717-852-9675, ext. 111 Fax: 717-854-5095

My favorite York place remains the Round the Clock Diner. 24 hours of good cheap food in huge portions. Best restaurant I know of that has a train meet across the street. (Paul Wassermann MD)

Roosevelt’s new ordering concept We had dinner at Roosevelt’s Thursday. A wonderful culinary experience. They reopened after being closed for 6 months in order to change ownership. The dinners were mostly TCAers enjoying the fine food. The wait staff was back and so glad to see us. We met the new owner, Byron Kehr, Jr, [email protected] Roosevelt’s is www.roosevlttavern.com He said that we could order ahead a few days for the meals we wanted that were not on the menu!!! We need to clarify this great option. We were asking about Veal Chesapeake or Mock Turtle soup which the sometimes have on their menu. I believe he said they plan to change menus once a month. What a neat concept if we could email a week out or so and ask for our special choice of food. This idea is a winner!! Food and service were excellent. Clem

An all you can eat place called Aroma opened in East York next to Sam's Club. (The old York Mall) It’s Americanized oriental food that's very good.

Comb's in York has a great prime rib and is always full of TCA-ers (Ph. (717) 854- 8146).

According to the York Newspapers, the father & son owners of the "Clock" Diner are leased the space to Sheetz for a gas store & also a new restaurant called Cheddars is moving in beside the gas guys. 1340 Toronita St., York. The owners say there should be no competition between the two restaurants, as each has its own "style". Jim Lyle. (Sandy and I had lunch at Cheddars. Seemed very nice. Plenty of wait staff, excellent menu and great decor. It is located across the mud from the Billy Budd. At 1:30 PM there was a large crowd of diners.)

On Market Street just west of the Fairgrounds is Latuca's pizza- excellent and reasonable.

The Left Bank, downtown York, has mighty fine gourmet sandwiches and other goodies (717) 843-8010 http://www.leftbankyork.com

10 to 15 minutes North of Rte.30 on Rte.74 is Dover Dinner, a new 24 hr. restaurant and going a bit farther up the road, Three Fountains is under new management. This group has gotten it right, good food at reasonable prices. Ask for their Hag Maw if you wish to sample a local Pennsylvania Dutch gastronomic delight.

At 110 N. George St. The Harp & Fiddle (Now called Maeynyn’s) also opened late last year. They're an upscale Irish-American pub and restaurant. (Tina Smith)

Friday night will take many of us to the Roosevelt Tavern in downtown YORK, at the corner of Roosevelt and Philadelphia (Rte. 462 W) Streets. On Friday night you WILL need a reservation. We also have a favorite breakfast haunt and that is the Around The Clock Diner, catty-cornered across the street from the Days Inn on Route 30. If you are NOT from Philly and have never tasted SCRAPPLE, here is your chance. You haven't lived until you have eaten Scrapple. Then again, you may not live long after it either. Just don't ask about its ingredients (Everything but the squeal. ed by Clem). One member of the Desert Division simply cannot start his YORK experience without first getting his FIX of SCRAPPLE. More power to him. Hope this helps and can be a culinary addition to your Primer. Don't you think that pretty soon you should apply for a copyright on this "bible?" Looking forward to my 59th YORK MEET since joining the TCA in 1976.--Happy Training and Best Regards, Gordon Wilson, "KING" of the Maple Donut Lovers Club

The Culinary Arts Center Restaurant of York sometimes runs specials. 1063 N George St. http://www.yorkchef.com/ (717) 846-5000.

Mack's Ice Cream Shopppes are super. One is located on Route 74 nearly 4 miles north of the Holidrome in Dover, PA. Mac's has a new location on Route 74 (Road going north past the Holidrome.). Killer good ice cream!! http://www.macksicecream.com/ Worth the trip for a cone of French vanilla or whatever is your favorite. Here are the addresses for the 5 Mack’s Ice Cream Shoppes in the area:

1. 5745 Lincoln Hwy EAST York PA 17402 2. 3890 Carlisle Road Dover, PA 17315 3. 2595 S. Queen Street York PA 17403 4. 1305 Mount Rose Ave. York PA 17403 http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g53573-d627868-Reviews- Jennie_s_Diner-Ronks_Lancaster_County_Pennsylvania.htmllaughren Jennie’s is good old fashioned Diner with great chow. It is on R30 a couple of miles from the TCA Museum.

Accomac Inn http://www.accomacinn.com/restaurant/

Altland House Abbottstown www.altlandhouse.com

Moonlight Cafe. 717 292-5643. 4140 South Main St. Dover. Go up Rt.74 'bout a mile past Mack’s ice cream. It's on the same side as Macks. It's small and easy to miss. It's sandwiched between an RV dealer and a used car dealer. Be prepared, it only seats about 35 and the locals fill it up at peak times. If the lot looks full, park at one of the two dealers if they're closed. Also, cash only, no checks or credit cards. If there's something you have a hankering for that's not on the menu, ask. If it's Italian, chances are Vito can make it. Oh, one last thing. Take your appetite with you, you'll need it.—Scott

Hinkle's Pharmacy 261 Locust Street Columbia, PA 17512 http://www.hinklespharmacy.com/index.htm 717-684-2888.

York Chow Thu Oct 31, 2013 9:53 am (PDT) . Posted by: "clem clement" homemadetrain I’m hearing good things about Sam and Tony’s in Downtown York. Comments? Clem 3b York Chow Thu Oct 31, 2013 11:05 am (PDT) . Posted by: "John Warren" lionelskistrains

Hi Clem,

I was there in April.

Gotta say, from a kid from Queens, NY with an Italian mother and wife, they have the best Italian food in PA.

Service is good too.

John ('Ski) Warren

Visit: www.WarrenvilleRailroad.com http://www.WarrenvilleRailroad.com

York Chow

<< YORK CHOW! Before we all forgets, please let me know what discoveries and information you have collected about York eating spots this fall. With the recession some of our favorites ain't no more. I did learn of a nice Italian place near the Holidrome. >>

York Chow Thu Oct 31, 2013 12:41 pm (PDT) . Posted by: "Scott Petty" Two of my favorite restaurants at York: Roosevelt Tavern Ironwoods at Heritage Hills

Scott Petty

Lancaster Brewing in Harrisburg Only trouble was my wife had to drive after I had a couple glasses. Good stuff. http://www.lbcharrisburg.com/

Clem:

A large group of us went to Sam and Tony's Thursday night. The good was good, reasonably priced; service was friendly Lew Strauss

York Chow Fri Nov 1, 2013 7:50 am (PDT) . Posted by: gordon.wilson5344 The NEW best Philly Cheese Steak place is back where Thomas Industries ( Trains ) started back in the late 1940's & early 1950's - Wenonah, NJ, on the Glassboro-Woodbury Road, just to the north of the Exit off Route 55 South as it goes through Wenonah, NJ. Sorry YORK goers, this is not close to YORK, but if you are from Philly or South Jersey, it is now listed as THE BEST OF PHILLY for CHEESE STEAKS. Sorry, I know this is for Train Talk, but don't train collectors like to eat too? This place is worth a stop - it is called STEAK OUT. Wenonah was made famous by Thomas Industries Trains - they are the ones who more or less forced Lionel, Flyer, and Marx into making the General 4- 4- 0 style locomotives in 1959. Their final resting place was in Shawnee, Oklahoma, site of a devastating Tornado this past spring. Shawnee has an incredible BNSF Depot which looks like an English Medievel Castle. It's just east of OK City and worth a stop if you like trains!!!! Enjoy, Gordon Wilson

York Chow Fri Nov 1, 2013 11:34 am (PDT) . Posted by: "P. J. Heck" [email protected] York Chow...... I have told this story before but seems it should be retold here...... Brother & I stood in a double line outside registration before opening time in 1980 or so. In the edge of the parking lot, a vending trailer was just opening up. He had the usual breakfast items listed & another sign that said 'Maryland Crab Cakes'. As soon as I saw that I went to negotiate. Not often two misplaced to Ohio guys from Maryland get such a treat!!!! I had to talk the vendor into it but we both got several crab cake sandwiches one after the other...... maybe as many as 4 each.....seems like we spent about $40 (what were 1980 prices?) or more for our standing-in-line 'breakfast & would gladly do it again. When we came back that way for lunch, he was out of crab cakes....

No matter what you guys did, it could never have been as good as this!

PJHeck, 73-5817

York Chow Fri Nov 1, 2013 11:38 am (PDT) . Posted by: "John Warren" lionelskistrains Let us also not forget the Pumpkin Funnel cakes at the fairgrounds for lunch. A twice a year treat - yum!

John ('Ski) Warren

Bob Drake:” Was there in April with a TCA group. Best Italian I've had in a long time.”

Hi Clem, Thanks for your e-mail. I look forward to your post-TCA e-mail each year because you share some of the neat things you experienced. I also appreciate the feedback about the accommodations and wanted to let you know we’ll discuss your comments at the November general manager’s meeting. If you have any additional examples, please do share.

Kind Regards, ~Tina

West Manchester Diner (Former Mickey D’s) Ken – comments on the excellent eggs benedict

------York April 2013 From: clem clement Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2013 5:36 PM To: Ttml Subject: Yorkin

Another wonderful Yorking experience is in the books and our minds. Such a good time we had. And nobody tole lies and faked trains or got wet or nuthin...

York and TCA are really about friends. If you attend just for the tin and plastic, check in the mirror. It is so great to see fellow members every 6 months. Even if it is just for hug and a howdy. Those encounters are so comforting and powerful to us all. We don’t say “Goodbye,” we say “See ya in 6 months.” Whatta great hobby and super group of people!!

So many sincere thanks go to Eastern Division, TCA for shouldering the responsibility to put on such a wonderful event. Having some knowledge of how hard this task is, my extra big congrats on another job well done!!

We all stood so tall and proud as our National Anthem was heard throughout the halls and outside, signifying our love for America and the opening of Spring 2013’s edition of Yorking with Eastern Division.

I had a long roof for several years. I brought it to York and learned that it was an original Boucher Blue Comet roof. It is made from sheet copper, as are the car bodies! I did not know this. Sheet copper is very soft and easily bent. It is easy to shape but does not survive rough handling.

In the Orange Hall several big shiny homemade cars, standard or Gauge I cars were spotted. Did anyone see them and could they describe them please? I believe they were on “C” row.

My group had dinner at Roosevelt's as always. With the new chef, the yumminess went up significantly. What a lovely place to have a nice group diner, although a bit pricy.

I found a rusty homey-did passenger car with an option that I have never seen before. All whom I showed it to were pleasantly surprised. The passenger door hinge rods protruded thru the car’s roof and were bent over (The roof was not removable). A child could open or close the door by turning the hinge rod lever. What a neato idea. The Lionel sprung doors stay closed, but if a kid gives his marble or frog a ride, the door closes behind the item (Or on his fingers). The car was signed by W. S. Robinson in 1919. It did have a bathroom and seats inside.

The Standard Gauge Module Association (SGMA) met for breakfast on the porch at the Reliance Restaurant. What a fun place. The porch is open to the elements and was nice and bright on that sunny Friday morning. As I got up to give a sterling speech, the beer truck pulled up outside and drowned me out. Happiness is...

During the IVES society meeting I gave a special talk and demo on ringing bell accessories. I had two members hold up a towel and I knelt down behind the towel with my accessories (Several were afraid I was going to flash my IVES undies). Actually I had a transformer and powered up each accessory behind the towel so all the attendees heard was the noise, but could not see the piece. I had several manufacturers’ units to use. Funny we think we know our stuff, but by the sound of the ringing bell, it is very hard to identify who made them. Pure fun. I’m thrilled to say the 4 members came up to me afterward and said they would go home and wire-up their own ringers. Message received.

Doug, that was NOT me you seen dumpster diving. That was my long lost second couzin twice removed (and shoulda been thrice removed Richie.) Plus the boxes were wet and I couldn't use them...

We did get a downpour as the Ice cream social was winding down. And some drizzle off and on during the meet.

For the St Louis National Convention I have agreed to conduct one of the seminars. It will be on train fakes and reproductions. This is another for-sure reason to attend the upcoming convention!!! Register at http://www.tca59.org/index.html (ed.: I gave the talk to 50+ of the convention’s attendees. I think it went well and I hope I’m asked for the next convention.)

If I promised to do sumthin for somebody please remind me as I already forgots. Who was it he said they had a $50 dolla Blu Comet for me? I neva got it. Don did bring me a full box of 5 wooden homey-did freight cars. Polished oak in construction. Lovely. Thanks very much Don. Keep ‘em coming.

I’m hearing the TCA auction at the Museum Wednesday went very well. Note there are two more auction planned for this spring. Be ready to bid. I understand the dates for the next TCA auctions might change. Stay tuned.

I’m happy to reports that Ron Morris again did not sing at the York. How so lucky can we be??

Three members asked me who sells Restorsit now? Terry Trickel handles the home-made product.

Any information or changes that we should include in Clem’s Primer for next fall’s Yorkin? Please let me know

STOMPER SAVES TRAIN COLLECTOR FAMILY RELATIONS WORLD WIDE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Read it here:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/17/russian-diamonds- siberian-meteorite-crater-carats_n_1891691.html STOMPER discovers huge cash of trillions of diamonds and tells Russians. World diamond values may drop. Luckily trains collectors have invested in trains rather that diamonds. Spouses thrilled at their wizenesses... Film @ 1:31 am yesterday. STOMPER is back home and safe.

As I unpack my new treasures, I find an extra STG motor and blu Comet in my boxes. I hate it when that happens...

Again, thanks all for the wonderful times at York

See you all in the fall at York,

Clem Clement

York October 2012 The turnout of TCA members, their families, and guests was greater than in April. Virtually our members bought out all the tables for this meet sponsored by Eastern Division, TCA. Two rows of tables were added in the White Hall to meet the needs of our members. President Kronz reported that there had also been a rise in the number of applicants for membership in TCA this fall. At the opening of ED's Board meeting Vice President Brian Reilly presented Clem Clement with a professionally printed copy of the 2012 edition of "Clem's Primer," as a memento for his outstanding and dedicated service as President of TCA National and his years of serving as President of Eastern Division. The "primer" was first written and compiled in the 1990's and by the early 2000's had developed into a guide to the York Meet. Woody Kriner, the representative of the new Upstate New York Chapter, was welcomed to Eastern's Board of Directors. Woody previously served as an at- large ED Board member Minutes of the Board's April 2012 meeting were approved. The Division's financial situation is reportedly sound as we approach the October Meet and the end of the calendar year. Two bylaw changes, introduced in April, will be presented for ratification in the November election of officers and board members for 2013-14. President Kronz invited eligible members who were interested in running for an office or the board were welcome to do so by submitting their applications to Sam Geiser, immediate past president. Ballots will be mailed to all Eastern members in November. Oral and written reports by the secretary, treasurer, and committee chairs for registration, meet chairman, and nine other standing committees were approved. There will be no layouts running in the Black Hall for this meet. Board Member Dan Danielson reported that membership in the WB&A Chapter had reached 285 thus far in 2012 and Chapter finances are in excellent condition as 2012 comes to a close. Meets are scheduled at Kena Temple, in Fairfax, VA, December 8, and the Annapolis, MD, Armory, March 9, 2013. Board Member Woody Kriner reported for our new Upstate New York Chapter. He announced that their membership has reached 210. Woody noted that the Chapter will host a meet in Rochester, NY; early in 2013 and that a couple of mini-meets are planned. Lee Wood, Eastern Division's Treasurer, volunteered to assist the new chapter in "setting up" their treasury. A motion was made and accepted that the Division's "paid-for services" will be contracted beginning in 2013. ED's Parliamentarian Jim Williams will assist in drafting the appropriate language. President Kronz announced that Vice President Brian Reilly would be leaving the board in January. He thanked him for his 11 years of service to Eastern Division. Dan Danielson recounted highlights of Brian's service to Eastern and his years working for and with the WB&A Chapter. Respectfully submitted, Brian Reilly, TCA 75-8427, VTC 85-434

Yorkin Paul Herr & I crossed the Great Susquehanna River this AM, our intent to view all York had to offer on a Tuesday. Best Western must have been the place to sleep in, two guys were in the process of setting up, not much else going on a 0830. On to Holidome, EASY to park there now, most of the tables in the Banquet Hal were occupied, if not open. On the last aisle, met the McCurdy Crew, both North & South Divisions, they mentioned the Feeding Frenzy that occurred at Reliance the day before in the area known as Jester's. Seems Fred's daughter, Amanda, had brought a trailer load up and it mostly disappeared in a flash. MORE was brought up for today, less of a frenzy, but, lots of activity. ALL kinds of stuff, mostly very reasonable in CASH price. The real fun there will be Thursday & Friday from 0800 to 2000 hours both days Bring Cash. There is an unconfirmed rumor that if & when they actually empty all the places Fred had goodies stashed, Chester may rise another foot above sea level. ONLY time will tell. On to Dilly Dudd (now Days Inn, referred to less than kindly by one train collector resident). Ironically, we found our best deals there, WAIT til you see the pics of the Diesels we bought. You will not believe what we plan to do with them. Last York Stop was Springettsbury Fire Co hall, presided over by Barry King, American Flyer parts manufacturer, distributor, arranger of the Jester Sale, etc. On to DALLEE to pick up goodies for Wednesday's NTTM presentation (Wardie Jay goodies were here, obviously). For those of you who have NOT seen the Choo Choo Barn layout, you'll want to view the NetVision pics I'll have tomorrow from the presentation at NTTM, of one portion of the CCB layout. Once again the genius of Tom Groff using the products designed & made by DALLEE, I've seen them in action; you get to see phenomenal pictures. Paul & I will be at NTTM at 0645 tomorrow setting cones in preparation for our last turn on the Parking Lot. Paul, Mike Packi & I have been doing this since 2000, my knees are gone, Mike has mobility issues, Paul is the "Energizer Bunny" we're wearing out.

Come on down to NTTM on Wed, join the fun, meet some new people, try the donuts (not bad, BTW) OOOPS, I'm not supposed to know that. Jim Lyle

Paul Herr & I met on the NTTM lot at 0645 to set cones, etc to prepare for the day. Our days started much earlier to get our trucks loaded with signs, radios etc. we then met the rest of the "crew" at Dienner's Rest for breakfast, camaraderie, discussion of the plan, etc. Onto the lot we went, where we were from 0830 til 1745, with NO rain, NO hail, NO snow, NO gale force winds, ALL of which we have had at one time or another. The DALLEE & Wardie-Jay presentations went well, brief & to the point, I had some great pics DALLEE took several months ago of the circus tents on the Choo Choo Barn layout that Tom Groff lit using DALLEE LED lighting boards and his skill. Effect is amazing, you HAVE to see it in person to really understand & enjoy it. ALSO had a little DALLE product that will make installers lives MUCH easier, wait & see. The Parking Crew did their usual fine job, a GREAT bunch of guys who have volunteered under all sorts of weather, dodged hail & rain, hot & cold, etc. Mike Packi, Paul Herr & I have finished our careers in parking; I am guessing volunteers would be welcomed. On to York on Thursday, ORANGE HALL, N-11, drop by and say HI, my "crew' or I will be there to greet you, show you the TRACK WACKER & TinPlate Ties and maybe a very special set of SHS diesels, LONG sought after and LONG out of production. Jim "leavin' the Keystone Main for York" Lyle

Thursday in YORK, the great Reunion continues. It IS nice to see old friends, make new ones, LOTS of Vets are now wearing affiliation hats, LOVE that one, need to get one. Most people recognized the Flag this time in Orange Hall, anyway. Heard a few singing the Star Spangled Banner.

Maybe a very special set of SHS diesels, LONG sought after and LONG out of production. The diesels ARE on table N-11, they ARE SANTA FE "S" GAUGE A- B-B-A, made by SHS, they are Chrome Plated, in the boxes; I have not removed then since I got them many years ago. Jim Lyle

Had a great time at York for the third time since I have been a member of TCA!! Met and talked to lots of nice folks, saw some fascinating trains, sold a bunch of stuff and bought even more. Thanks to all the volunteers and to the Eastern Division for inviting their brothers and sisters to join in the fun.

Now for a very serious report. I was walking around the Blue Hall on day 1 when I stumbled upon Clem Clement's table. He was not at the table but his beautiful and patient wife Sandy was in charge in Clem's absence. As I scanned the piles of scrap metal - - - - I mean treasures that Clem had hauled to York to foist on the unsuspecting and sightless---what did my eyes land on but STOMPER!!!!!! Stomper was out of his corral and on display at Clem's table. I look down below Stomper and I see a price tag for $135.12. Not a bad price for a piece of history. So I say to Sandy--"I will take it" and she says that is the price for the bridge it is sitting on--not for STOMPER--Clem would never sell STOMPER!!!!

So I immediately went to the hall captain and asked him if there was a rule against just having an item on your table for show?? After all the meet has a rule for almost everything else--but we could not find one that would force Clem to sell it to me. So STOMPER remains in Clem's possession and can be seen tomorrow at his table in the blue Hall--do not miss it if you are at York. I think everyone has a price. I personally think Clem is holding out for a higher price so I will now ask him publicly--"Is STOMPER for sale and what would it take to move him (or her) out of your collection and back to the Midwest where he belongs? Andy Dubill [email protected]

Oh, Andy, Andy, what a war you have started. STOMPER is so angry Clem is afraid he'll rip apart the bridge he is sitting on and just come right after you for thinking he would ever want to leave Clem. He loves Clem, and you have really made him furious by trying to buy him from Miss Sandy. You had better go make amends before STOMPER destroys the entire fairgrounds and makes it impossible to have another York.

I'm sure glad I'm out here in California so STOMPER won't affect our power grid. Hope you have a flashlight, Andy. Barb Jones

That must have been why the clouds moved in early and the lightning was flashing this evening. The wrath of Stomper is unfolding! Katie Elgar

Barb - Don't count on Stomper's rage not affecting your electricity reliability. California gets a lot of its electricity from Arizona which is tied in with the mid- western states and the east. When my lights dim here in Michigan I know Stomper is on a mad tear. Best regards, Frank Corley

Just got home from another wonderful York. Saw lots of old friends and made some new ones. Missed a few of the regulars. I heard that Nancy Swann passed away in early September. She was at every York and TCA Nationals right up until this year. The little lady with the red hair and lately a walker. She was an ardent supporter of TCA, TTOS, LOTS as well as other toy train groups. Always a pleasure to talk to and very very knowledgeable on trains. I remember her best for organizing the banquet room at the old Howard Johnson's on Toronita St. as a Barracks, if you will, for guys attending York and left without a room because of a problem (I don't remember what it was) that reduced the number of rooms available considerably. I will miss her. In regard to the current meet: What's going on with transformers? I never saw more large and medium transformers (ZW, VW, Z, V, KW, TW LW, 1033's) for sale in all my life. Everybody had one for sale. ZW's no longer bring $275. even the Buck and quarter ones weren't moving. One guy had a box of 10 misfits for $150 for them all. Two KWs, two TWs, a LW and and a mess of 1033's. O f course all needed some TLC but nothing significant. No one even looked at them. Hmm. Oh yeah lots and lots of 671s with 2671W tenders. I saw one boxed Excellent for $150. I would think the guy asking $335 for his probably took it home. The $9K boxed girls set, reduced to $7.5K sat out the meet but the $4800 boxed 1950 773 went out suite at a reduced price. A great meet thanks to the folks at Eastern. Kudos to them all for their hard work. Les Mathis

Sorry for not reporting Friday evening. Had NO electricity to run the ,puter. Tornado touched down about 1000 linear feet from house, dropped a park pavilion on 15 people (prox) our volunteers got them out quickly, no major injuries reported so far. Lots of property damage in a very long, as in miles, narrow path. At least one of our own ( PVMR & occasionally NTTM guy, Jeff Leeking ) has major damage to yard & he reportedly had trees on his home. Those of you who saw the circus train on the NTTM "S" layout, it belongs to Jeff, on loan for season. Will find out more tomorrow. York continues to be a great reunion, plus new friends to make, stuff to see. Still one of the "younger" ones there at 66. Scary. Jim Lyle

Andy, I met with serious county officials during York. I'm pleased to announce that for the paltry sum of $2500, the County will expunge their blotter and commence cleanup in a certain location that was a parking lot before a ruckus visit from a Kansas bunch. When can we expect the check? Clem

For those lucky enough to pass by my tables, they saw STOMPER and JUNKS face-to-face on Climbing Bridge. There was great fear that, even with their engines at still, the world would suffer. Climbing bridge is wood, as no metal can hold the pair. I had placed the exostonic non- square surgo caditonator between the seething locos to maintain control much as Kryptonite does to superman. The only reports from NORAD were that 3 loose rocks from the back side of the moon were sucked into a garbage can near the Orange hall (Since we can't ever see the back side of the moon, this event was considered non-sig.) 3 Higgs- Bosom particles were seen loose in the area without York badges on. More after The Calming occurs... Clem

However there was a terrific tornado in Paradise, PA, a short distance from York on Friday night about 8:00 PM. Chester Zmijewski

That was a tornado? When left York we encountered heavy rains and wind on the bridge over the Susquehanna, (I think that is how it is spelled), river. We were in a pizza place in Strasburg and everything went dark. When we went back to our motel it was eerie to see no lights on at the Strasburg Railroad, Choo- choo Barn, the Penn. state railroad museum, red caboose motel and the toy train museum. Luckily we were staying up on route 30 and there was power at our motel. Rich Giannino

Another super great Yorkin. So good seeing all. Home safe about 6 pm. Gorgeous colors on the way thru Maryland. Virginia leaves are starting to turn as well. Fall is here on the east coast. Clem

Good to meet with you at York, Clem. Thank you for your advice and for looking at the large metal bridge in the Silver Hall. The majority of the standards committee had questions about its origin, however all felt it was very well engineered, and a nice piece for any layout. I am still uncertain about how it came to be. My purpose was to expose the bridge to knowledgeable people and to not misrepresent the piece. Arno Baars says hello, and I bid you farewell until next Fall... or maybe St. Louis. Dave Rodgers

I'm working on Clem's Primer for the next meet. Any change you know of/corrections/ improvements/etc.? Please send them to me or post on the ttml. I do my best to keep things current.

Eastern Division presented me with a published copy of Clem's Primer. I'm greatly honored. 2 copies were sent to the TCA Library. ED BOD each has a copy as well. I am greatly honored and was speechless at the presentation ceremony done by Boxcar Reilly. Really all of you who have contributed to this effort deserve credit as well. I continue to get compliments and requests for the Primer. I'm truly happy it is helping folk enjoy Yorking experience better.

I did ask if this meant that I was finished and someone else would take it over, and the answer was not as long as I'm on the green side of the grass. I teared up. Clem

STOMPER's blood challenge from JUNKS To help answer the many Qs about when the blood challenge will occur: Currently the universe as we know it is not set. The powers that be are not and the surf is not up on the North Shore. Clem

YORK SHOW - how was yours? Posted by: "allanmiller48" [email protected] allanmiller48 Tue Apr 24, 2012 3:55 am (PDT)

For me, York is always more about the people than the trains. I view it as the greatest social event in the hobby. All the trains I want can be purchased online easily enough and in a more timely manner, so the things I may find at York are kind of the frosting on the cake. I no longer even take a list of things I might be looking for. Still, I did manage to find some nice things at the meet, and at good prices.

I wasn't able to attend the previous three York Meets, but did attend this most recent one. Regardless of what the registration numbers may show (those reflect those who registered, not those who actually attend), nobody will ever convince me that the number of participants, both sellers and buyers, is not going down. Having missed a couple of meets or shows really brings this fact home.

Friday definitely was the most busy and active day. Thursday was great for anyone who wanted to freely browse abound because the traffic was light in every respect. You might as well sleep in late on Saturday; eat a hearty breakfast; and then take a leisurely drive home because that day-- as has long been the case--is absolutely dead. Too bad, too, because having a robust Saturday event would certainly make things easier for those who have to work during the week and/or those who can budget only a night or two of hotel stays.

Allan Miller

York Meet Posted by: "[email protected]" [email protected] Tue Apr 24, 2012 8:41 am (PDT)

There were 5 of us that went to the York Meet. We could only be there from Wednesday until Friday so we left late on Tuesday evening. Traveling from Indianapolis is a 10 hour trip. We arrived at the fairgrounds; just to get the lay of the land and then went to the Billy Budd, the Holidome, Days Inn and another one close by Route 30. We ate at the Silver Dinner on Rte. 30 and went back to the fairgrounds. Attended the MTH presentations and had a great time listening to problems and resolutions, future of DCS and new Proto 3 that would be compatible with initial engines. Back to the Silver Diner and desert and our rooms. We finally got to our rooms in Lancaster and it seems we all were a little tired. But what a first day.

Thursday we went to the PRR Museum in Strasburg...what a place. Lots of pictures and another great time. However, we had to get to the Fairgrounds for the opening of the Meet. Did not get a chance to see the Toy Train Museum nor ride the Strasburg steam & passenger cars. Once we arrived, at York, it was scour the halls, find we came for and the help each other with bargains in the halls. We stayed until the halls closed and found out we had a little problem with the room - too many purchases and "Bargains". On the way back to Lancaster we stopped at Columbia, PA and went to Hinkle’s Pharmacy - it was just like to old Woolworth Drug Stores...the food was great -- crab cakes for all...and at a reasonable price. ANOTHER great day at York.

Finally, on Friday we left our rooms for York for our last day. Yes, "all" the halls were visited, bargains were still there and I guess those things we passed the day before were now rising to our "need" list. The initial plan was to leave around 1:00 PM...But we stayed until 4:00 PM so another long ride back home.

What I saw at this York were many collectors looking for their list and finding much more. However, in the years past, 2007/2008, Thursday usually had all of the parking space full or filling until 1:00 PM. So the lots were filled to the outer fences. We were still 4 or 5 rows short. The traffic within the halls was not crowded as they were in 2007; but there were still a lot of people in the halls.

I attribute this to 2 things -- the economy - it is still not that great - and those that attend are getting older - but we have yet to realize a growth in our TCA numbers. The leadership of all Divisions and Chapters need to look at ways to make being a TCA member easier or just plain betting the bushes for a younger population. But those are problems we already realize. One thing I heard at the MTH presentation was the use of APPs and other gadgets to bring on the younger crowds -- at least MTH is looking ahead. Why shouldn't National and Div/Chap do the same thing?

Nobel (Lu) Lugo 01-53171

Wondering around York Posted by: "[email protected]" [email protected] wjjim2001 Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:51 pm (PDT)

Tuesday AM found four of the PVMR crew, Paul Herr, Dave Pierce, Rich Glass & myself "Yorkward" bound. We arrived at the "Holidome" around 0830, most of the interior tables were at least set up & covered, not so many in the parking lot anymore. Paul found an MTH car to add to his railroad. Maybe 100 shoppers in the time we were there, leaving around 0945. Headed to Reliance Fire Hall, the domain of all things "S". Got some A/F parts from Amanda Jester, spent some time with Bobby Persing, he has just released a Post Office Flag in P-Ville repo parts, looks great; most of us dealers will have them soon. Looks like 5 bucks per???? Headed on eastward to the former Billy Budd, crowd about the same as last year, stalwarts to say the least. Dave found two PUTT Birney trollies (before I did, BTW). He was planning to make them DCC on the way back. Moved on east to "Springettsberry Fire Hall", talked to Barry King about the pending sale of Fred Jester's inventory in October. Rich found a tunnel for a grandkids project, PVMR got another MRC power pack (one made in USA, remember that??). We stopped at DALLEE on the way back to pick up some display items for NTTM Open House tomorrow ( DALLEE, WARDIE JAY & a book signer in the museum, Bachmann, Weaver, Mike's & Lionel in the Atrium ) OPENS at 10 AM. Our buds from Smokey Roberts will have the vids on YouTube miraculously quickly. PVMR's Glenn Ritter will have pics to post tomorrow evening. I'll send the link.

Paul Herr & I will be on the NTTM lot at 0645 Wednesday "setting cones", apparently in the rain, before our semi-annual planning breakfast with the rest of the Parking Crew and then back to the lot ‘til around 1750.

If you are traveling west thru Gap to York, FUEL UP in GAP. Gas in York was 14 cents a gallon, on average, higher today than in Gap. On the way home Saturday, I'd suggest the Ham & Oyster Supper ( we're in the country, folks ) at the Gap Fire Hall, a block off of Rte. 30. From 2 PM until out of goodies.

Tomorrows report will be from NTTM, hopefully a DRY NTTM.

York Report (Kinda) Posted by: "[email protected]" [email protected] wjjim2001 Fri Apr 20, 2012 4:56 pm (PDT)

The sun did not shine on Strasburg on Wednesday, not outside anyway. One of those days, IF you didn't like the forecast, you'd change the channel, BUT, ultimately they ALL blew it. The late AM rain arrived at 0600, I understand it poured for a while in York, we had rain or drizzle or spotty showers or "normal York Wednesday" weather as the Parking Crew has come to know it. Mr. Herr & I "set cones" starting at 0645, wet then, went to breakfast meeting, wetter, off and on all day. At least three of the "Crew" are standing down after the October meet, all three of us have done this over 20 times in twelve years, Mike Packi and Paul Herr will have 24 & 23 respectively. I will have my 25th. Parking Crew IS Hiring, contact me.

Smaller crowd than "usual" it seemed at NTTM, presenters were good, well prepared, knew their stuff. "Smokey's Crew" will have vids out soonest, great outfit to work with.

Thursday, many dealers reported doing well or better than they expected, heard some buyers talking about something or other they were able to find to enjoy. Classic Toy Trains has ended their long running button program. BEAUTIFUL WEATHER, BTW.

Friday, more of the same. BEAUTIFUL WEATHER, may be changing for Saturday, MORE of the change the channel forecasts. Attended my first Plasticville Collectors Meeting at noon today, another of those groups with a "twenty-four hour man", John Niehaus.

Gas is STILL cheaper in Gap than anywhere west of there, thru York. My South Jersey buddies ( Hank Worrell & Tom Burns, Mike Packi left a day earlier due to illness ) were hoping to "get across the bridge" today before they had to fill up. Interesting point, those THREE of the six Parking Crew on Wednesday paid for their own rooms, their own gas and their own food to come to Pennsylvania (from Jersey) and park cars for their fellow members, in the rain. PVMR guys Paul Herr & Howard Taylor round out the Crew, obviously they did the same.

Jim "back on the Keystone Main" Lyle

Many of you traveling to York may travel close to Scranton, Pennsylvania. Scranton is located in Northeastern Pennsylvania and was the center of the industrial boom during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The downtown area of the city has been recently revitalized and there are a number of attractions that family members on their trip to York may enjoy.

They include: The Electric City Trolley Station and Museum, the Anthracite Heritage Museum and Lackawanna Coal Mine Tour and the Steamtown National Historic Site. Steamtown is part of the National Park Service and is located on 52 acres of historic rail yard in downtown Scranton. Visitors start in the Visitor center on the main level where railroad artifacts are displayed. The movie "Steel and Steam" lasts 18 minutes and can be viewed every half hour in the movie theatre on the second floor. The movie is very nostalgic and reminds the viewers both of the important role steam trains played in the building of America and how railroading still has a place in the heart of all Americans.

The tour continues into the history museum where the history of railroading unfolds as you walk along. There is a "Life on the Railroad" exhibit where various jobs from the railroading era are explained as well as an exhibit on railroad stations. The tour continues into the Roundhouse where there are a number of exhibits-both static and active maintenance projects unfolding before your eyes. The exhibits detail how the trains operated - both mechanically and service wise. Steamtown has over two dozen steam locomotives and 70 old freight cars. Some are restored, others undergoing restoration and others in line for work. The park has steam train excursions throughout the year. A schedule is available for the "Short Excursion" and "Cab Ride" as well as longer Pennsylvania countryside excursions. The website for general information is www.nps.gov/steam

Located very close to these attractions is The Mall at Steamtown and several restaurants. Kids (and adults) will enjoy a wiener place called The Coney Island Lunch at 515 Lackawanna not far from Steamtown. The restaurant is filled with old baseball and other local memorabilia and is a fun place to eat. Andy Dubill [email protected]

Before we get too deep into our semi-annual discussion about what's right and what's wrong with "York", please permit me to point out nine facts.

1. The Train Collectors Association is not in charge of "York".

2. "York" is the semiannual swap meet of TCA's Eastern Division.

3. TCA's Eastern Division (organized 1954) comprises most of upstate New York; portions of northeastern and south central Pennsylvania; the District of Columbia; the states of Delaware and Maryland; and portions of Virginia and New Jersey.

4. For most of Eastern Division's history that I know about, their swap meets have been held either in Lancaster PA or York PA. It so happens that both of those cities lie within the territory of TCA's Keystone Division, but those places still seem to be convenient for a majority of Eastern's members.

5. Eastern Division swap meets have become very large and very successful. In recent years, they have attracted most of the major toy train manufacturers and publishers, plus lots of smaller manufacturers and lots of dealers. Because of its size and variety, "York" attracts lots of TCA members from all over the United States and indeed from many other countries. "York" has become so well- attended that several other toy train clubs, including LOTS, have been known to hold their business meetings on the York fairgrounds, simply because a majority of their officers attend the Eastern Division meets.

6. Because of Eastern's great success, many people come to York from far outside the boundaries of TCA's Eastern Division. As outlined in (7) below, they're welcome to attend; however, they may end up spending far more for transportation and lodging than do members who reside within Eastern's geographical region. It's a free country; each person decides for himself whether he can afford a trip to York and whether it's worth the cost. Personally, for me a York trip involves two nights' motel stay and 800+ miles of driving, and I would LOVE to go if my work schedule would permit it.

7. Every TCA division and chapter honors national TCA membership cards. Any TCA member with a valid membership card can be admitted to any division's or chapter's meet.

8. Each division or chapter of TCA is free to set its own policies, including whether attendees can use cameras and cell phones (Eastern says no; but most other divisions don't prohibit), and whether a portion of the meet will be open to the public (again Eastern says no; but some other divisions do allow it).

9. TCA and its Eastern Division enjoy a healthy symbiosis. Without doubt, TCA benefits from "York" because York motivates new members to join the club. Without doubt, Eastern Division benefits from the rest of TCA because so many York participants come from other divisions, and because TCA's national headquarters are only a 35-mile drive from the fairgrounds. Open house at National Toy Train Museum has become a major attraction of "York week".

All TTMLers are welcome to share their experiences and reflections on "York". As you do, please keep in mind that:

(a) Eastern Division is the host; all others are guests. (b) York is Eastern Division's meet, not a TCA national event. Suggestions for improvement should really be directed to ED's president, Sam Geiser. (c) This is a hobby, and the men and women who worked hard to make "York" happen were volunteers who did what they did for love of the hobby. Joseph Lechner

From: Michael and Linda Marmer

For those who never been to the baseball stadium at York or Lancaster too, I highly recommend it, the ballpark is better then most minor league stadiums, great food, as York is a independent team with many ex- major leaguers. This is a spring York option.

Also, take a walk on the York Rail Trail, wonderful. Also in New Freedom PA is a wonderful train museum in a RR station run normally by 81 yr old Mr. Neal and his wife. Mr. Neal loves trains; he worked with CSX for 43 years, has HO but really loves AF over Lionel. There is no train layout just a small but nice museum in a train station. New Freedom is south of York, down I-83, as it is on the York Rail Trail. There is no train layout just a small but nice museum in a train station. You can not miss the station as it is so small, the town. Once you cross over some RR tracks, there is public parking and the station is right there. You can not miss it. here are two cabooses, use to be three, a neat painted mural on a produce canning plant, a very old closed down hotel/restaurant from 1903 or so, and some train cars in ruins. Have a bike? Bring, as the ride is wonderful on the trail. http://www.yorkcountyparks.org/parkpages/railtrail.htm Map shows you where New Freedom is. Mike Marmer

Clem Clement [email protected]

Clem’s York Primer Part III

Family Fun at York: This listing, up-dated as of March 12, 2006 from Scott Arber [email protected]. (I recommend you confirm times and details as these are frequently changing. Clem) A comprehensive listing is archived at www.Toytrains.info.com

VISITORS CENTER The Downtown York Visitors Center is located at 149 W. Market Street in downtown York. The center is open seven days a week from 9:30 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. and extended hours during downtown events.

YORK COUNTY HERITAGE TRUST (YCHT) (YCHT) The Trust has a group of Museums throughout York. All sites within the Trust cost: Adults $15.00, Senior Citizens, College Students & Children over 12 years old $7.00, Children 12 and younger, FREE. Website: http://www.yorkheritage.org/

The Museums are:(YCHT) HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM(YCHT) THE GATES HOUSE, PLOUGH TAVERN, BOBB LOG HOUSE, and THE COLONIAL COURTHOUSE COMPLEX (YCHT) BONHAM HOUSE (YCHT) AGRICULTURAL and INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM (YCHT) THE FIRE MUSEUM OF YORK COUNTY WALKING TOUR OF HISTORIC YORK Website: www.yorkcity.org/visitors/walkingtour/index

THE MURALS OF YORK Website: www.yorkcity.org/econ/murals/index.htm

WEIGHT LIFTING HALL OF FAME Website: www.yorkbarbell.com/hallfame/hall00.html

POLICE HERITAGE MUSEUM, INC Website: www.policeheritagemuseum.com

INDIAN STEPS MUSEUM Website: www.pplweb.com/holtwood/things+to+do/indian+steps+museum.htm

WATCH AND CLOCK MUSEUM Website: www.nawcc.org/museum/museum.htm

HANOVER FIRE MUSEUM Website: www.visitpa.com/visitpa/visitDetails.do?name=Hanover+Fire+Museum Address: 44 Frederick Street, Hanover, PA 17331 Phone: (717)-637-6674

WIRT PARK FIRE STATION MUSEUM Website: www.borough.hanover.pa.us/images/hanover/hbfiremuseum.html

HANOVER AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY http://www.visitpa.com/visitpa/visitDetails.do?name=Hanover+Area+Histori cal+Society Address: 105 High St., Hanover. Phone: (717) 632-3207.

NEAS HOUSE MUSEUM http://www.visitpa.com/visitpa/visitDetails.do?name=Neas+House+Museum Address: 113 W. Chestnut St. Hanover. Phone: (717) 632-3207

STATE PARKS: Samuel S. Lewis Website: http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/parks/samuelslewis.aspx

Gifford Pinchot Website: www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/parks/giffordpinchot.aspx

Codorus Website: www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/parks/codorus.aspx

YORK COUNTY PARKS: Rocky Ridge -- From Route 30 bypass, take Mount Zion Road exit. Follow Route 24 North (Mount Zion Road). At top of hill turn right on Deininger Road. Follow road back to park.

William H. Kain Park -- From York, follow South George Street (extended) to Jacobus. For Lake Redman area, turn left on Church Street and go 0.6 miles to main parking area. For Lake Williams area, turn right on Water Street and go 0.5 miles to main parking area.

Richard M. Nixon Park -- From York, follow South George Street (extended) through Jacobus to Valley Road. Turn right. Follow road 0.8 miles to bottom of hill. Turn right at park sign. At stop sign, turn left and follow road into park.

John Rudy Park -- From Route 30, follow Sherman Street north three miles to Mundis Race Road. Turn left. Park is 0.6 miles on the right.

Apollo -- From Route 74 south of Red Lion, take Burkholder Road east to New Bridgeville. Take Route 425 east. Turn left at Boyd Road. Parking lot is at the end of the road.

Spring Valley Park -- Follow Interstate 83 to Glen Rock exit. Turn left on Route 216. Go 0.1 mile and turn right at Potosi Road. Travel another 2.1 miles to Crest Road and to the entrance of the park's Animal Activity Center. To find the Fish for Fun pond, stay on Potosi Road going past Crest Road until Line Road then turn right. To enter the park from its’ northern access, continue from Glen Rock exit on Route 216. Go 2.9 miles and turn right on Line Road.

P. Joseph Raab Park -- From Route 30, take Route 616 east through York New Salem, continue toward Seven Valleys. Turn right onto Green Valley Road. Continue for 2.5 miles. Turn right onto Hoff Road. Travel 0.6 miles to park entrance on the left.

YORK COUNTY HERITAGE RAIL TRAIL Note: New Web Address http://ycwebserver.yorkcounty.org/Parks/RailTrail.htm http://www.yorkcountyorg/gov/Parks/RailTrail.htm

The trail has two distinct styles of milepost markers: Large white posts with black lettering are historical markers used by the Northern Central Railroad, and more numerous green posts with white lettering. These posts indicate actual mileage from the origin of the Northern Central Railroad, the Baltimore, MD station. Trail Distances from the Maryland Line. The park is open year round, 8 am until dusk, and is patrolled by York County Parks Rangers. Park regulations are posted at each parking lot. The Museums are open May thru October.

Three additional historic structures are on the trail: Hanover Junction, New Freedom train stations and Howard Tunnel, oldest continuously operated railroad tunnel in nation. The new web address listed above has links to the structures, directions to the various parking lots, maps, and regulations. Please check it out.

PUBLIC GOLF COURSES IN YORK COUNTY Briarwood and Briarwood West Golf Club -- 4775 W. Market St., York; 792-9776 or 792-5016.

Capital Region Golf -- 2700 Mt. Rose Ave., York; 840-4815

Cool Creek Golf Club -- 300 Cool Creek Road, Wrightsville; 252-3691

Grandview Golf Club -- 2779 Carlisle Ave., York, 764-2674.

Heritage Hills Golf Resort -- 2700 Mount Rose Ave., York, 755-4653

Hickory Heights Golf Course -- RD 1 Lehman Road, Spring Grove, 225-4247

Honey Run Golf Course and Country Club --3131 S. Salem Church Road, York, 792-9771

Little Creek Golf Course -- Spring Grove RD 1,225-1702.

Midlantic Eagleview Golf Club – 2531 Municipal Road, Dover; 292-9727

Pleasant Valley Golf Club -- Stewartstown RD 1,993-2184

Range End Country Club -- 303 Golf Club Ave.,Dillsburg; 432-4213

Rolling Acres Golf Course -- 490 Windsor Road, 755-1406

Valley Green Golf Club -- 1227 Valley Green Road, Etters; 938-4200.

Yorktowne Golf Club -- 1605 Loucks Rd. York; 764-2224

PERFORMING ARTS CENTERS

Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center Website: http://www.strandcapitol.org/

Dream Wrights Youth & Family Theatre Website: http://www.dreamwrights.org/

Eichelberger Performing Arts Center Website: www.goepac.com

FACTORY TOURS FAMILY HEIR-LOOM WEAVERS Website: www.familyheirloomweavers.com/

HARLEY DAVIDSON, Inc. Website: http://www.harleydavidson.com/wcm/Content/Pages/Company/company.js p?locale=en_US

NAYLOR WINE CELLARS Website: www.naylorwine.com

PERRYDELL FARM DAIRY Address: 90 Indian Rock Dam Rd. York, PA For details, call (717) 741-3485 and ask for Diane.

SEVEN VALLEYS VINEYARD AND WINERY Website: www.sevenvalleys.com

NEW: For more on York, virtual tours, architectural styles tutorial, history, area information, visitor information, local links, prints, and more. Check out Virtual York at: http://www.yorklinks.net/

AUTHENTIC SHOPPING OUTLETS

These are outlets owned and run by the factories. Not owned by a third party that licenses the name. Most are located at the factories themselves.

Family Heir-Loom Weavers Inc. Factory Tour & Outlet 775 Meadowview Drive, Red Lion Telephone: (717) 246-2431 Website: www.familyheirloomweavers.com

Naylor Wine Cellars Inc. 4069 Vineyard Road, Stewartstown, PA Telephone: (800) 292-3370 Website: www.naylorwine.com

Perrydell Farm Dairy Outlet 90 Indian Rock Dam Road, York Telephone: (717) 741-3485

Pewtarex Factory Outlet Store 722 West Market Street, York Telephone: (800) 358-3997 Website: www.pewtarex.com

Snyder's of Hanover Factory Outlet 1350 York Street (Route 116), Hanover Telephone: (800) 233-7125 Website: www.snydersofhanover.com

Stauffer's Cookie Outlet Belmont and Sixth Avenue, York Telephone: (800) 673-2473 Website: www.stauffercookie.com

Susquehanna Glass Factory Outlet 731 Avenue H, Columbia, PA Telephone: (800) 592-3646 Website: www.theglassfactory.com

Utz Quality Foods Factory Store 861 Carlisle Street, Hanover Telephone: (717) 637-6644 Website: www.utzsnacks.com

Wolfgang Candy - Outlet 50 East Fourth Avenue, York Telephone: (800) 248-4273 Website: www.wolfgangcandy.com for “Chocolate experience tours”

York Wallcoverings Home Design Center 201 Carlisle Avenue, York Telephone: (717) 854-4285 Website: www.yorkwall.com NOTE: York Wallcoverings carries train related wall paper.

To find the detailed listing go to Toytrains.info.com at: http://www.toytrains.info/get.asp?mod=subject&subject=%28%22family+activi ties+%25+york%22+%22family+fun+%25+york%22+%22York%2C+PA+and+the +steam+locomotive%22%29+%2Dwas

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Official Newsletter of

NATIONAL RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY P. O. Box 1361 Altoona, PA 16603-1361 www.hscnrhs.org

SPRING 2015

CHAPTER OFFICERS

President: Francix X. Givler Jr., 114 Scott Avenue, Altoona, PA 16602 NOTE: * time-sensitive correspondence should be sent to this address. [email protected]

Vice-President: Joseph K. Harella, 3812 5th Avenue, Altoona, PA 16602 [email protected]

Chapter Delegate to NRHS: Joseph A. DeFrancesco, 5069 Gensimore Ln., Tyrone, PA 16686 [email protected]

Treasurer: Denny Walls, 123 Sandcastle Ln, Hollidaysburg, PA 16648 [email protected]

Secretary: Joseph DeFrancesco, 5069 Gensimore Ln., Tyrone, PA 16686 [email protected] .

Chapter Historian/Editor: David W. Seidel, 2011 14th St., Altoona, PA 16601-3020 [email protected]

Webmaster: Joseph De Francesco, [email protected]

Note: Horseshoe Curve Chapter, National Railway Historical Society was granted a charter by the NRHS on May 11, 1968 (3 months and one day after the PRR-NYC merger), evolving from the Altoona Railway Museum Club (1965-1968). We meet on FOURTH Tuesday of each month except December, at Railroader’s Memorial Museum, Altoona, PA, 7:30 PM. Occasional exceptions are announced to the membership.

90 (+) % of all communications and notices are handled by e-mail. Please keep your e-mail address current with the officers, especially the Chapter Historian/Editor.

Meetings are open to those interested in railroad history and membership inquiries are invited. Chapter-only membership is available but national membership dues are separate. For more information visit www.nrhs.com.

People fight to restore the East Broad Top Railroad via WJAC-TV February 5, 2015

Updated: Thursday, February 5 2015, 06:46 PM EST. Note: This report was supplemented by two television videos about the East Broad Top Railroad on this date at 6 & 11 PM, also.

By: Erin Calandra HUNTINGDON, Pa. -- Railroads were – and still are – an important part of life in central Pennsylvania. They shaped the history of the state and the country. For many who are interested in historic trains, places like the East Broad Top Railroad in Huntingdon County are critical to preserve that bridge to the past. Huntingdon County houses a historical gem – The East Broad Top Railroad. It’s recognized by the National Park Service as a National Historic Landmark, but what was once a bustling industrial rail turned tourist attraction, is now a silent railroad. People came from all across the globe to ride these massive, old steam engines. You can still find a steam engine or two across the country, but experts say you won’t find anything like the East Broad Top Railroad, saying it’s the last railroad system of its kind still intact. And now, a lot of people are fighting to keep it that way. “I like to think of it as the Humpty Dumpty story,” said Joe Kovalchick, owner of the East Broad Top Railroad. “Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, all the king’s horses and all the king’s men, couldn’t get Humpty Dumpty together again. ”Kovalchick, an entrepreneur from Indiana County, feels the nursery rhyme best describes to possible future of the railroad. “If East Broad Top starts to liquidate, it’s a one-way show, it’s a one-way tour it will never be again,” said Kovalchick.

Experts say this is a piece of American history that can’t be replaced. “The East Broad Top Railroad is described by the Smithsonian Institute as the best preserved example of a 1900-era facility anywhere in the country,” said Historian Lee Rainey. The operation contains six steam engines, built in the early 1900s, many on site, along with a building that houses forgotten technology. Rainey said this place is a snapshot of what the railroad and coal industry looked like turn of the (20th) century. This rail was built in 1859; 32 miles of narrow gage rails were used to haul coal during a very busy industrial era for Pennsylvania. Kovalchick’s father bought it in 1956 and the family preserved it for six decades. “Everything is there,” said Kovalchick. “The engines, coaches, cars, shops, roadhouse, office, black smith shop. All intact.” During that time, the East Broad Top Railroad ran 2-3 engines at a time, bringing 150,000 to 250,000 tourists annually to the tiny town of Orbisonia – population: 422.

“In this small community, that was a big deal, still is a big deal,” said Matt Price, executive director of the Huntingdon County Visitors Bureau. But due to finances and liability, the Kovalchick family stopped the train rides in 2009 and leased the operation to a nonprofit group – The East Broad Top Railroad Preservation Association – run by Larry Salon. “That was the first railroad they took me to, in 1964 was my first train ride ever and I fell in love with this place,” said Salon. The lease was short lived – only three years – and in 2012 the railroad once again fell silent. Kovalchick said the decision was difficult. “Sometimes I feel it’s not worth the risks for my family,” said Kovalchick. He remains hopeful that money will be found to put the trains back on the track. “The focus was to get some grants, state federal money to restore it and that hasn’t happened yet,” said Kovalchick. And this train town is feeling the pain financially, and emotionally. “We had four bed and breakfasts,” said Price. “We’re down to just two.” This community was built around the East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company,” said David Brightbill, owner of the The Iron Rail bed and breakfast. “You would be hard pressed to go door-to-door and find a family not tied to the railroad.” Brightbill owns one of the two remaining bed and breakfasts – The Iron Rail. He bought the house 10 years ago from the East Broad Top Company. It sits right across from the train station. Brightbill said when the steam engines were operating, all five rooms of his home were sold out most weekends. But now, they’re rarely full. “We are lucky to keep our head above water, but question how long we wish to continue,” said Brightbill.

Kovalchick said the railroad is only sleeping. He wants to see it as a state or federal attraction with restored engines and bustling tourism. “I’ve seen federal and state spend a lot of money on history much less important than East Broad Top,” said Kovalchick. Salone is trying to buy the railroad, and has already purchased four miles of rail in Mount Union for industrial use, something he said will help play for the tourism operations in the long run. Kovalchick won’t say how much it will cost to reopen, but he, Salone, and historians fear that without public support and government funding, this railroad could be lost forever. “It’s not a carnival, it’s not a toy,” said Kovalchick. “It’s a real, honest to goodness American railroad heritage experience.” So, when will the East Broad Top Railroad wake from its sleep? Salone said he has high hopes you’ll be able to step abroad by 2016.There are hundreds of people from several different organizations that are working to keep the system maintained (especially the Friends of the East Broad Top RR, who have worked diligently for decades to maintain, repair and stabilize the historic shops, buildings and equipment).

Altoona Association of Model Railroaders representatives don their bow-ties: L-R: William Burket, Justin Rogers, and Jeffery Holland.

STATE LEADERS REQUEST INPUT ON RAIL PLANS

As published in the Altoona Mirror, February, 17, 2015, public input was requested into proposed changes for Amtrak’s Harrisburg – Pittsburgh route, referred to as the Keystone West corridor, with the intent of expanding rail passenger services. Information regarding this proposal can be found at www.planthekeystone.com and then checking under tabs “resources” and “keystone west”. Comment on the proposal can be sent to [email protected].

Horseshoe Curve Chapter NRHS is now approaching its 47th year (May 11) and has born witness to all the changes in passenger operations in the region over these many years. Accordingly, we drafted a comment (approved at the February 24th monthly meeting) and submitted our observation, which follows:

“AMTRAK – KEYSTONE WEST COMMENTARY Frebruary 29, 2015

The Horseshoe Curve Chapter, National Railway Historical Society www.hscnrhs.org was chartered on May 11, 1968 following its un-affiliated existence dating from 1965. The tenure of our organization has been witness to the ending years of the Pennsylvania Railroad; the short duration of Penn-Central Transportation Co.; the whole of Consolidated Rail Corporation (CONRAIL); present day Norfolk Southern Corporation in Pennsylvania; and, Amtrak.

During this time we began to witness the downgrading of passenger services, followed by the gradual elimination of passenger trains, especially in the period of Penn Central’s bankruptcy. The PCRR bankruptcy and accrued petitions for passenger train abolishments, led to the development of Amtrak (National Rail Passenger Act) May 1, 1971. While this permitted railroads to divest themselves of the obligation of providing passenger services, this retrenchment also resulted in eliminating routes and services, forcing passengers accustomed to such travel conveniences, to seek alternative methods. Left behind were many established routes & cities, resulting in timetables representing a fraction of routes and services the public was accustomed to. While interstate highways and air travel was part of the issue initially, the corridors of rail transportation across the United States became significantly under-utilized for mass transit. In western Pennsylvania, the once four- track mainline was reduced to two tracks for economic efficiencies (3 for the mountain west of Altoona), but also reduced capacity at the same time. The former 4-track mainline formerly accommodated 50+ passenger trains daily, maintaining schedules with reliability, while regular freight trains (and defense traffic in WWII) was maintained with quality performance [primarily because passenger and freight operations were separated on the 4-track mainline], all of this with manual control systems in place. In the 21st Century, the cost of highway and airline fuels has escalated the cost of travel significantly enough to make rail passenger services more desirable, especially with destination arrivals and departures conveniently located in city-centers.

Today, the western Pennsylvania corridor is still physically present, but any passenger train still must contend with slower freight traffic on the line, especially during periods of track maintenance. You may hear that the route lacks “capacity” which is true, but only because that prior capacity was removed. But the corridor remains. We do acknowledge the need to serve the student population density of Pennsylvania State University at State College, PA. , but are also reminded that passenger services in the peak-passenger train-era provided for shuttle connections at Lewistown. This was functional because the railroad maintained schedule reliability. Reliable shuttle service could be established once again at Lewistown and Tyrone.

In summation, the need and the demand for increased passenger services is there. The corridor is intact although minus some capacity. We recommend utilizing the existing corridor, possibly adding one track for the capacity. The concept of major line-straightening is probably cost-prohibitive, considering the advancements in railroad technology, which, among other things has eliminated the use of jointed- rail in favor of welded rail and improved signaling and digital/satellite communications. A further cost reduction might include the use of alternative passenger equipment such as the self-propelled DMU (Diesel Multiple Units as developed by the former Colorado Rail Car Co., now under United States Rail Car Co., similar to the former technology of the Budd RDC (Rail Diesel Car).

Respectfully submitted:

Francis X. Givler, President, [email protected] Joseph K. Harella, V.P. [email protected] Denny Walls, Treasurer [email protected] Joseph DeFrancesco, Secretary [email protected] David W. Seidel, Chapter / Historian-Editor [email protected] M. Richard Charlesworth, Past National Director [email protected] www.hscnrhs.org “

NRHS CONVENTION 2015

Plans have been formulated for the annual convention of the National Railway Historical Society this year in Vermont, which is handy to the east coast particularly. For more information, go to: www.nrhs.com/2015_Convention.

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www.cnynrhs.org MEMBERSHIP MEETING PROGRAM “REMEMBERING RAIL CITY” Presented by Bob Groman MARCH 18, 2015 ART & HOME CENTER, NEW YORK STATE FAIRGROUNDS THIS COULD BE YOUR LAST GREEN BLOCK IF HAVEN’T PAID YOUR 2015 CHAPTER DUES OR GREEN BLOCK SUBSCRIPTION. PLEASE CHECK TO SEE IF YOU HAVE PAID. Chapter Dues & Subscriptions have increased to $15 for 2015. Please send your check payable to Central New York Chapter, NRHS to: Tom Edwards Membership Chairman 202 Walrath Drive Chittenango, NY 13037-1021 Chapter Dues are separate and in addition to NRHS National Dues For administrative help in paying National Dues Visitors to Rail City wave from the top of a 50,000 gallon RR water tank from Lowville, Online, Contact Al Kallfelz NY. Engineer, Ray Owens and Fireman John Miller are in the cab of “Old 38” from the Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain Railroad, Huntingdon, PA. Old 38 made the Please Pay your Dues Final Steam Passenger Run in New York State on the NLYC RR while enroute to Rail or Subscription Promptly City on June 6, 1954. RCHM Photo Collection. CNY CHAPTER OFFICERS BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING REPORT PRESIDENT Al Kallfelz (488-8208) Submitted by Jeff Paston, VP/Recording Secretary [email protected] March 4, 2015 the Board tentatively selected Saturday, FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Meeting called to order at 7:08 PM. June 6 for a banquet at the Empire Room. Phil Edwards (451-6551) The Board suggested a price of $25 a [email protected] Present: Directors Philip Edwards, Tom person. VICE PRESIDENT & RECORDING SEC’Y Edwards, Al Kallfelz, Josie LeMay, Bob Jeff Paston (682-8144) McNamara, Gus Nordone, Jeff Paston, and Al Kallfelz said Dick Palmer plans to pick [email protected] Tom Pierson. Not present: Directors up the collection of NYC locomotive roster TREASURER Richard Palmer, Bob Townsend, and Gerrit (index) cards offered by a company in Josie LeMay (289-3346) Vanderwerff. Guest: Jeff Hagan. Toronto. [email protected] NEW BUSINESS: Jeff Paston and Phil CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Minutes of the February 4, 2015, meeting Herb Meinking (699-5198) were approved. Edwards expressed concern that a New [email protected] TREASURER'S REPORT: Josie LeMay York Central sign donated by Jeff about 30 NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE submitted February report, which was years ago from the side of a Flexivan trailer Open Position approved. Josie reported that Iowa Pacific was used to slide store inventory from 2015 BOARD OF DIRECTORS has now made 28 payments toward inside the B&O car across high snow Phil Edwards Gus Nordone purchase of E8s. Josie presented end of year without regard for the historical value of the Tom Edwards Dick Palmer sign. Al Kallfelz Jeff Paston Chapter financial report for 2014. Josie LeMay Tom Pierson MEMBERSHIP: Tom Edwards reported CORRESPONDENCE: Notice about Bob McNamara Bob Townsend that out of 42 Green Block subscribers, June 20-21 being “Path Through History Gerrit Vanderwerff seven are not paid up to date; out of 169 Weekend.” COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS members, 49 are not paid up to date. Tom DONATIONS: 1) Books and magazines ELECTRONIC MEDIA COORDINATOR said he will notify those owing funds from member Max Smith. 2) Fourteen Jeff Paston (682-8144) books from Susan Michaels of Pennellville. [email protected] through the Green Block. Tom reported MEETING PROGRAM COORDINATOR receiving applications for student RAILROADIANA: Al Kallfelz thanked Dick Palmer (475-8748) membership from Matt Rosenbloom-Jones Jeff Hagan and Bob McMamara for loading, [email protected] of Albany and William St. John of transporting and staffing sales tables at the LIBRARIAN & ARCHIVIST Jamestown. Eastwood train show on Feb. 22. He also Dick Palmer (475-8748) thanked Syracuse Model RR Club members [email protected] PROGRAM: Eleven members and guests attended the February 18 member photo for unloading and loading at the show. The RAILROADIANA STORE MANAGER store will be at the Marathon Maple Festival Bob McNamara (939-6932) meeting. “Remembering Rail City” by Bob [email protected] Groman will be presented on March March 21 and 22. Al said he is still seeking STATE FAIR DISPLAY COORDINATOR 18. April's meeting will feature “Milk volunteers to assist. Al said he is working on Al Kallfelz (488-8208) Trains North - NYO&W’s Northern store inventory. MARTISCO STATION MUSEUM CURATOR Division Milk Train Service” by John Taibi. Meeting adjourned at 8:07 PM. Moved by Open Position In May, Dick Palmer will present Phil Edwards, seconded by Tom Edwards. [email protected] “Memories of the Lehigh Valley’s Black Next meeting at Art & Home Center at CENTRAL SQUARE MUSEUM CURATORS Diamond Express.” Fairgrounds on April 1 at 7:00 PM. Bob Townsend (668-6727) Harvey Harke (676-3501) OLD BUSINESS: Regarding a banquet to Respectfully submitted, [email protected] celebrate the Chapter’s 75th anniversary, JEFF PASTON MEMBERSHIP CHAIRPERSON Tom Edwards [email protected] MARATHON MAPLE 75TH ANNIVERSARY EDITOR & HISTORIAN FESTIVAL CELEBRATION Ed Post (635-9552) [email protected] Saturday, March 21 CENTRAL NEW YORK FINANCIAL ADVISOR & Sunday March 22 CHAPTER, NRHS Paul Shinal (568-5286) CNY Chapter Store will [email protected] BANQUET - EMPIRE ROOM EQUIPMENT COORDINATOR be at this event. Jeff Hagan Volunteers Needed to Help. Reserve the Evening of ([email protected]) Saturday, June 6, 2015 EXCURSION COORDINATOR Contact Al Kallfelz (488-8208) Rick Faigle (446-1423) or Bob McNamara (939-6932) Speaker to Be Announced MODEL RR EXHIBIT COORDINATOR Phil Edwards (451-6551) [email protected] THE GREEN BLOCK is published monthly by the Central New York Chapter, National Railway Historical Society, Inc., Box 229, Marcellus, NY 13108-0229. Statements and opinions expressed MODEL TRAIN FAIR COORDINATORS in THE GREEN BLOCK articles and editorials do not necessarily represent the policies or opinions Phil Edwards (451-6551) of the Central New York Chapter or the NRHS. Subscriptions are free with membership, and are Tom Pierson (447-2272) $12.00 per year for non-members. Articles, photos, and announcements from chapter members Jeff Paston (682-8144) and from other NRHS Chapters are welcomed and appreciated. No paid advertising is accepted. PAGE 2 THE GREEN BLOCK MARCH 2015 LINCOLN FUNERAL TRAIN COMMEMORATION CHAPTER PROGRAMS B&O RAILROAD MUSEUM - APRIL 18 & 19 NY State Fairgrounds Officials at the B&O Railroad Museum narrated by noted author and guest curator Art and Home Building in Baltimore plan to commemorate the Daniel Carroll Toomey at 11:30 each day. Wed. Mar. 18, 2015 - 7:30 PM 150th anniversary of President Abraham Visitors may view the casket and Lincoln’s funeral train on April 18-19. A exhibits, and interact with soldier and “Remembering Rail City” weekend full of commemorative events is civilian mourners throughout the day. The By Bob Groman planned, including scheduled re-enactments Museum’s nationally acclaimed exhibit, of Lincoln’s funeral cortege and placing of “The War Came by Train,” will feature Wed. Apr. 15, 2015 - 7:30 PM the coffin in the center of the Museum’s special artifacts, including an exact National Historic Landmark Roundhouse. reproduction of the overcoat Lincoln wore “NYO&W’s Northern Visitors will be able to view an on the night of his assassination made by Division Milk Train authentic reproduction of Lincoln's casket. Brooks Brothers, a hand-made scale model Service” Civil War soldier and civilian re-enactors of the Lincoln Funeral Car and Civil War will participate in the solemn ceremonies veteran’s ribbons and uniforms in gallery By John Taibi and researched authentic funeral music will exhibits that highlights the events of the be provided by the Federal City Brass Band. year 1865 and the end of the War. Wed. May 20, 2015 - 7:30 PM The Museum’s 1863 locomotive Thatcher Admission is $18 for adults, $16 for “Memories of the Lehigh Perkins will accompany the ceremony and seniors, $12 for children. For more about Valley’s Black Diamond be decorated exactly like the Lincoln the museum, go to www.borail.org. Funeral Train. Each ceremony will be Trains News Wire Express” Editors Note “This is an update on how the NRHS By Dick Palmer intends to deal with dues collecting and In January’s Green Block, I included an reporting information back to the chapters Sat. June 6, 2015 article regarding NRHS Dues that appeared on their paid members. By now, NRHS CNY Chapter, NRHS in the Cinders, Philadelphia Chapter’s members in good standing have received Newsletter. The article indicated that their notices that their dues for 2015 are 75th Anniversary Fernley & Fernley was charging NRHS (not payable to NRHS. Unlike recent years, for Celebration Banquet members) $12 to $15 for processing each 2015, NRHS is collecting the National dues check they receive and as a result the article directly from our membership. We are Empire Room recommended that membership renewals be encouraging everyone to renew as soon as NY State Fairgrounds done online to avoid the processing charge. possible, and to use the online option with a One of our CNY members complained credit card instead of sending paper checks Visit Us on the Web at to NRHS about the $12 to $15 fee that to Fernley & Fernley. When the member Fernley & Fernley was charging NRHS, uses the credit card option, we avoid paying http://www.cnynrhs.org because he refuses to pay electronically. Fernley & Fernley a processing charge for Jeff Smith, NRHS Editor, responded by each paper check that they have to manually EUROPEAN TRAIN stating that the information in Cinders is not handle and deposit. The online option SHOW & SALE correct. In an email, Jeff wrote, “There is leaves more of the dues revenue available to no fee imposed by F&F to process checks. NRHS and its programs rather than paying Sunday, April 26, 2015 It is true that it costs NRHS less to process for additional outside administrative 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM an electronic payment than one that comes support.” Electric City Trolley Museum in by mail but it is difficult to pin a number This official NRHS document seems to Cliff Street, Scranton, PA on each transaction since they are done in support Mr. Eastwood, except it doesn’t Adjacent to Steamtown large numbers simultaneously. The define the amount of the charge (fee). difference in costs is simply because a credit Confusing, isn’t it? For more information please card payment requires fewer steps to Where does the truth lie? Suppose an account for the transaction - in other words contact Gordon Davis at F&F employee can reasonably process and [email protected]. - we can automate more of the process than record 10 paper membership renewal forms with a check payment.” and checks per hour. That employee might Jeff Smith’s reply is in direct conflict make $20 per hour plus cost F&F another April Green Block with what was written by Mr. Eastwood, $30 per hour in the usual healthcare Deadline President and Editor of the Philadelphia insurance, employee benefits, overhead MARCH 24 Chapter. But consider what NRHS charges, state unemployment taxes and E-mail inputs to: National wrote in their document, the other government levies for a total of $50 Ed Post, Editor December 2014 “NRHS Telegraph.” This per hour. Then each member paper renewal [email protected] document is sent to NRHS Chapter and check processed will cost NRHS $5. Or: 7611 Merritt Drive leadership every two months or so. It states That is my best estimate, but please don’t Baldwinsville, NY 13027 as follows: tell NRHS and get me in trouble. - ED 315-635-9552 MARCH 2015 THE GREEN BLOCK PAGE 3 CALENDAR OF EVENTS Preliminary Metro-North Collision Report The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued its Saturday, March 7, 11 AM to 4 PM preliminary report on the February 3rd collision between an MTA ESPA Annual Meeting, Key Hall at Proctors, Metro-North Railroad train and a sport utility vehicle at a crossing Schenectady, Contact bbecker@esparail to register in Valhalla, N.Y. Saturday, March 7 (10 to 5) & Sunday, March 8 (1 to 5) The collision caused six fatalities, including the SUV driver. Rochester Model RR Club Open House, First About 650 passengers were on board the train. Universalist Church, 150 Clinton Ave S, Rochester The NTSB's preliminary findings confirmed earlier reports Saturday, March 14 (10 AM to 3 PM) that the train was traveling below the 60 mph speed limit and had Binghamton Regional Train Show, American slowed to 49 mph when the train hit the SUV, which was stopped Legion, 177 Robinson St., Binghamton, NY on the tracks in the crossing. Witnesses reported the driver of the Wednesday, March 18, 7:30 PM SUV was stopped in the crossing before the gates lowered. When CNY Chapter Member Meeting, the gate struck the rear portion of the SUV, the driver got out to Art & Home Building, NY State Fairgrounds look at the back of her vehicle, then got back in the vehicle, drove Saturday, March 21 & Sunday, March 22 forward and was struck by the train. Marathon Maple Festival, Marathon, NY Based on a preliminary review of the train's event recorder, Sunday, March 22 (10 to 4) investigators believe the train was traveling at 58 mph before Kingston Model Train & Hobby Show, Murphy emergency braking was applied and the horn was operated in Midtown Center, 467 Broadway, Kingston, NY accordance with operating rules on the approach to the crossing. Sunday, March 29 (9:30 AM to 3:30 PM) The recorder indicated the train engineer activated the emergency GSME Great Batavia Spring Show, Clarion Hotel, brakes about 300 feet before the collision after seeing what he Batavia, NY characterized as “a vehicle partially fouling the crossing.” In the Wednesday, April 1, 7:00 PM four seconds after applying the emergency braking, the train CNY Chapter Board of Directors Meeting slowed to 49 mph, at which time it hit the SUV. Art & Home Building, NY State Fairgrounds The train and SUV continued to move northbound after the Thursday, April 9 (11:00 AM to 12:30 PM) impact, resulting in damage to the third rail on the west side of the The Easter Express - 1 Hour Train Ride & Easter track. The third rail detached, pierced the SUV and then entered the Egg Hunt, Medina RR Museum, Medina, NY first rail car in two locations. Twelve sections of the third rail — Sunday, April 12 (10:00 AM to 4:00 PM) each 39 feet long — were found inside the first rail car. The train Rails Along the Mohawk Train Show, Main Street and vehicle finally came to rest about 650 feet from the point of the (Rte 5), Amsterdam, NY (ALCO Historical Society) collision. Wednesday, April 15, 7:30 PM The collision resulted in a fire that consumed the SUV and the CNY Chapter Member Meeting, lead rail car. The NTSB will conduct a metallurgical examination of some of the third rail, agency officials said. Samples from the interior of NEW YORK CENTRAL SYSTEM the lead train car also will be examined by investigators for HISTORICAL SOCIETY compliance with fire protection standards, they said. Damage was estimated by Metro-North at $3.7 million. In 2015 CONVENTION & MEETING addition to the NTSB, those involved in the ongoing investigation Utica, New York include the Federal Railroad Administration, Metro-North, the May 1 to May 3, 2015 Commuter Rail Employees, the town of Mount Pleasant, and the New York Public Transportation Safety Board. Registration Fee: $179 for Members Progressive Railroading, February 25, 2015 $179 plus $39 (Annual Dues) for Non-members Hazardous Road Design Is the Real Cause It takes only one good look to realize this grade crossing is an Excursion & Events accident about to happen. The road, Commerce Street, crosses the May 1- Registration, Archive Open House, Layout tracks at a 45 degree angle. To see if a train is coming, a driver has Tours, Afternoon & Evening Speakers, Time to look 135 degrees to the right, an uncomfortable position yielding for Historic Site & Hobby Store Visits an obscured view due to vehicle center posts and headrests. May 2 - Adirondack RR Utica to Thendara Trip, Annual A hundred feet beyond the grade crossing, a traffic light at the Banquet, Guest Speaker: John Taibi Taconic State Parkway causes traffic to back up on Commerce “Radiating out of Utica,” General Member Street. Vehicles can easily end up on the grade crossing having to Meeting wait in line for a green traffic light unless drivers are completely May 3 - Train Show (Buy & Sell), Presentations aware and are extremely careful. Host Hotel: Hotel Utica The New York State DOT should not have created such a For More Information & Registration Form: dangerous driving situation. http://www.nycshs.net This unsafe grade crossing should be eliminated. Commerce Street should be dead-ended and barricaded at the tracks. - ED PAGE 4 THE GREEN BLOCK MARCH 2015 RAIL PRESERVATION NEWS N&W No. 611 Completes Hydro Test Fort Wayne Plan Includes Home for #765 The Virginia Museum of Transportation (VMT) announced on The city of Fort Wayne and its consultant SWA Group have February 20th, that Norfolk & Western 4-8-4 No. 611 has revealed the master plan for the 700 acres of downtown riverfront. completed the hydrostatic test of the boiler as required by federal As part of the first phase of enhancements, SWA has recommended regulations. the inclusion of Headwaters Junction, a railroad tourist attraction “The restoration is progressing quickly,” said Beverly T. featuring the collection and operations of the Fort Wayne Railroad Fitzpatrick, Jr., VMT's executive director. “We expect the Norfolk Historical Society, including Nickel Pate Road 2-8-4 No. 765. & Western Class J 611™ to return to her home in Roanoke in Initial plans call for Headwaters Junction to include a recreated mid-2015. The mechanical team in Spencer, North Carolina, is roundhouse, which would include a turntable, small yard, and working seven days per week to make this happen safely. We are interpretive facility for display and exhibition, as well as a mixed so proud of their hard work and dedication to this restoration.” use venue for private and public events. Visitors would be able to Fitzpatrick said that the 611's Homecoming and excursion board excursions, tour the facilities, and participate in hands-on schedule is being developed with the help of Norfolk Southern. activities. Additionally, educational outreach programs targeting Virginia Museum of Transportation young adults would be offered, allowing high school students the opportunity to learn welding and preservation skills, as well as Historic WV 2-8-0 to Return Home experience working on a railroad. The North Carolina Transportation Museum Foundation has The historical society would use Headwaters Junction to reached an agreement to sell Buffalo Creek & Gauley 2-8-0 No. 4, expand its operations and events. An adjoining railroad right-of- a 1926 Baldwin-built steam locomotive with deep West Virginia way would be reactivated for tourist train service with annual roots, to the Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad for restoration operations that would include events like dinner trains, the Polar and operation in the Mountain State. Express, and others throughout the year. The locomotive will move this spring to the shop in Cass, Total cost for the entire riverfront plan is estimated at $200 W.Va., at the Cass Scenic Railroad, now operated by the Durbin & million, with projections for the construction of Headwaters Greenbrier Valley, for the completion of boiler work and other Junction ranging between $10-20 million. Trains News Wire repairs. The Durbin & Greenbrier Valley hopes to complete the restoration in time for the locomotive’s 90th birthday in 2016. Altoona Museum Moves into Roundhouse When completed, the locomotive will appear as it did in the The Railroaders' Memorial Museum is now able to make use early 1960s when it gained fame as one of the last steam of its new roundhouse. Construction has been underway for more locomotives in regular service in the U.S. Because it was a than two years. saturated steam locomotive, it often showed signs of leakage on its Museum officials decided to move several significant items of smokebox front, thus earning it the nickname “Old Slobberface.” rolling stock into the building. Those include Pennsylvania The Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia built the Railroad GG-1 electric locomotive No. 4913, Pullman solarium locomotive for use in Mexico, but instead it was sold to the Buffalo observation Loretto, Vulcan-built 0-4-0T Nancy, and Broadway Creek & Gauley in Clay County, W.Va. There it became one of the Limited observation lounge Mountain View. most photographed steam locomotives in the East, making its last The building also provides classroom space for Penn State's run in 1965. railroad engineering and management classes. Trains News Wire The locomotive was sold to the Pennsylvania-based Quakertown & Eastern excursion operation in 1967; the Southwest B&LE 2-10-4 #643 May Get New Home Virginia Scenic Railroad in Hiltons, Va., in 1972; and the nonprofit The saga of Bessemer & Lake Erie 2-10-4 No. 643, which has support organization for the North Carolina Transportation long languished in outdoor storage in McKees Rocks, may finally Museum in 1978. It was restored in 1986 and lettered and be coming to a close. According to a report in the Pittsburgh numbered as a replica of Southern Railway 2-8-0 No. 604, which Tribune-Review, the locomotive may be put on display in nearby had been based at Spencer. The locomotive pulled the museum’s Tarentum, about 20 miles northeast of downtown Pittsburgh. The own 3-mile train ride for years. It last operated in November 2001 city is the recipient of a $500,000 Federal Community and was partially restored in the 2000s before other priorities at the Development Block Grant, and is planning to spend $250,000 to museum resulted in the restoration being stopped. Proceeds from build a pavilion to house No. 643. the sale will be used to upgrade the museum’s permanent rolling Baldwin built No. 643 in 1943. After steam was phased out on stock. Trains News Wire the Bessemer, the engine was retained and stored in the roundhouse in Greenville. It is the last remaining B&LE 2-10-4 from a fleet of GE Donates Locomotive Control Stand 47. The engine remained stored by the railroad until 1983, when it General Electric has donated a locomotive control stand to the was sold to Pittsburgh rail enthusiast Glen Campbell. Campbell Lake Shore Railway Historical Society and Museum in North East, restored and test fired the engine in the late 1980s, but it never PA. The artifact will be placed in the museum later this year. pulled any excursions. It has been stored outdoors at the AGF The control stand was used in one of the test labs at GE for Warehouse in an industrial area of McKees Rocks for several years. many years and is similar to what was installed in many Dash-8 If the engine is moved, it will have to be trucked out of its series locomotives. Instead, it was used in Building 42 as part of a current location, since the track it rests on is no longer connected Dash-7 simulator. It has the No.1 serial number. Trains News Wire to the rail network. Trains News Wire MARCH 2015 THE GREEN BLOCK PAGE 5 Vermont Railway System Hosts 2015 NRHS Convention Excursions Text & Photos by Ed Post The 2015 NRHS National Convention is headquartered in Rutland, Vermont just a modest trip from Syracuse, so it is likely that a number of CNY Chapter members will attend. Most all excursions are on the Vermont Rail System (VRS) rail lines. This article presents an overview of the VRS locomotive roster and presents a map of the VRS rail lines as a preparation for the convention. In January 1964, the Vermont Railway (VTR) began service over 125 miles of former Rutland Railway from Burlington to White Creek, N.Y., including a 4.5-mile stretch of track between North Bennington and Bennington. Over the years VTR, has absorbed other Vermont rail lines. Currently, the Vermont Railway System consists of five railroads: Green Mountain Alco RS-1 No. 405 is at Bellows Falls Amtrak Station on the head 1) Vermont Railway operates between end of the Green Mountain Flyer tourist train in the Autumn of 2004. No. 405 is the only non-EMD locomotive on the VRS roster and has served on Vermont Railroads Bennington/Hosick Falls, and Burlington. ever since being delivered to the Rutland Railway in 1951. The 1000 horsepower 405 2) Green Mountain Railroad operates is primarily used as power for the passenger tourist trains, but has updated braking between Bellows Falls and Rutland, and multiple unit controls, so can also help out the EMDs in freight service. 3) Clarendon & Pittsford Railroad, 4) Washington County Railroad operates The Vermont Railway System has a operates a 24 mile former D&H line from 104 miles between White River Junction roster of 23 locomotives most of which are Rutland to Whitehall, NY and serves and Newport. second-hand models. All are EMD’s except several limestone and marble plants in the 5) New York & Ogdensburg Railway is for ALCO RS-1, #405, which is a gem Rutland area, between Ogdensburg and Norfork, NY. painted in Green Mountain colors and is named the “F. Nelson Blount” in memory of the founder of Steamtown. The locomotives have paint schemes and lettering for the individual railroads in the system. VRS locomotives are shared by all rail lines in the system which makes for interesting and colorful locomotive combinations Today, the Vermont Rail System operates over 350 miles of track with its family of over 125 dedicated railroaders. The railroad hauls over 25,000 cars each year, with nearly 90% of traffic serving Vermont businesses. VRS maintains interchanges with: Canadian Pacific, CSX Transportation, New England Central (NECR), Central Maine & Quebec, Pan Am Southern, and Canadian National Railway via NECR, and also hosts Amtrak’s Ethan Allen Express. On January 1, 2014, the Vermont Rail Green Mountain Alco RS-1 No. 405 is hauling the Green Mountain Flyer back to System celebrated 50 years of continuous Bellows Falls Station. The bridge is over the canal that parallels the Connecticut family-owned and operated service. . River. The track branching off joins the New England Central rail line that goes For more on the Vermont Rail System through the Bellows Falls tunnel and heads south to Palmer, Massachusetts. Just see the December 2014 issue of Trains or go 20 yards ahead of No. 405, the New England Central (NECR) rails cross the VRS rails online at www.vermontrailway.com, two and onto a bridge over the Connecticut River into New Hampshire. The NECR line of the information sources used for this goes north on the eastern side of the Connecticut River and crosses back into short article along with Trains News Wire. Vermont at Windsor and continues north to White River Junction. PAGE 6 THE GREEN BLOCK MARCH 2015 2015 NRHS CONVENTION Rutland, Vermont Excursions on Vermont Rail System June 14 - Green Mountain Railroad charter photo freight from Rutland to Smithville & return June 16 - Green Mountain Railroad charter train from Rutland to Bellows Falls and return, June 18 - Vermont Railway charter train from Rutland to Burlington/Shelburne Museum and return June 19 - Rare Mileage Trip on Clarendon & Pittsford charter train to the Omya Verpool/West Plant Rutland’s Amtrak Station from which most excursions depart. near Florence, Vermont (Bus one way) VRS LOCOMOTIVE ROSTER June 20 - Vermont Railway charter train from Rutland Road No. Model Built Acq’d Heritage to Hoosick Junction and return NYOG 14 SW900 1951 Unk. CRI&P (1) June 21 - Green Mountain Railroad charter train from VTR 201 GP38-2 1972 1972 New Rutland to Ludlow and return VTR 202 GP38-2 1974 1974 New (2) CLP 203 GP38 1966 1991 MEC 255 For More Information & Tickets: CLP 204 GP38-2 1973 1996 SCL 528 http://www.nrhs.com/2015_Convention VTR 205 GP38-3 1969 2005 PC 7764 VTR 206 GP38-3 1969 2011 SOU 2741 VTR 207 GP38-3 1969 2011 SOU 2718 VTR 301 GP40 1967 1993 WA 701 GMRC 302 GP40 1971 1997 B&O 4017 VTR 303 GP40-2 1977 1998 B&M 314 GMRC 304 GP40 1971 1998 B&O 3756 GMRC 305 GP40 1970 1999 SCL 1606 CLP 306 GP40-2 1972 2000 TO&E D-15 VTR 307 GP40-2 1984 2004 SSW 7255 VTR 308 GP40-2 1977 2005 B&M 303 VTR 310 GP40-2LW 1976 2005 CN 9650 VTR 311 GP40-2LW 1976 2005 CN 9662 (3) VTR 312 GP40-3 1967 2009 DRGW 3077 GMRC 405 RS1 1951 1965 RUT 405 VTR 801 GP18 1961 1983 TPW 600 CLP 802 GP16 1979 1993 ACL 103 (4) GMRC 804 GP9R 1955 1992 N&W 13 NOTES (1) Owned by Ogdensburg Bridge & Port Authority (2) Lettered Washington County Railroad (3) Painted in 50th anniversary scheme (4) Built as ACL GP7 #103 in 1950, rebuilt by SCL to GP16 ABBREVIATIONS CLP - Clarendon & Pittsford Railroad GMRC - Green Mountain Railroad NY&OC - New York & Ogdensburg Railway VTR - Vermont Railway ACL - Atlantic Coast Line B&M - Boston & Maine B&O - Baltimore & Ohio CN - Canadian National CRIP - Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific VRS Rail Lines DRGW - Denver & Rio Grande Western MEC - Maine Central VRS Trackage Rights N&W - Norfolk & Western PC - Penn Central RUT - Rutland SCL - Seaboard Coast Line SOU - Southern SSW - St. Louis Southwestern TO&E - Texas, Oklahoma & Eastern NY& Ogdensburg TPW - Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway WA - Western of Alabama MARCH 2015 THE GREEN BLOCK PAGE 7 THE UNADILLA VALLEY RAILROAD By Gordon H. Davis & Malcolm Young Photos Scanned by Dick Palmer [This article was originally written for the West Winfield Star, a weekly newspaper covering some of the Unadilla Valley communities. It was a joint effort of the New York and Syracuse Chapters of the NRHS. It appeared in the December 1961 issue of the Green Block.] To the Parlor Car patron of the 1880’s, Bridgewater, New York was but an inconvenient stop on the run to Richfield Springs, the Vichy of Upstate New York. However, to certain New York City promoters, the town represented a starting point for a railway to tap the rich milk- Unadilla Valley Railway 4-4-0 #1 “Pendragon” is at New Berlin Junction, ca 1942. producing area of the Unadilla River Built in 1895 by the Rhode Island Locomotive Works, it served the railroad for many Valley. years and was scrapped in 1946. A charter for a railroad from Bridgewater to New Berlin was locomotives, the Merlyn and the Pendragon. Although some of granted in 1890, and during the ensuing year the financing of the the trains were but freights with a coach attached to the rear, the Unadilla Valley railroad was accomplished. travelers from the valley were reasonably certain of making The year of 1892 saw the first rail in place and the grading connections with the scheduled trains of the Lackawanna at and track laying gangs alley toward New Berlin. The financial Bridgewater. panic of 1893 brought construction to a standstill, the Italian Although the early years were considered good ones, it soon track workers turning temporarily to cheese making. The panic became apparent that the Unadilla Valley was headed for was short-lived, and by October of 1894 the rails had reached financial difficulty. In 1904 the line went into receivership. Dr. West Edmeston and regular service was inaugurated between that Lewis Morris of the neighboring Butternut Valley than assumed point and Bridgewater. control of the line, and while under the Doctor’s control saw its July of 1895 marked the completion of the line to New most profitable times. On occasion when the Doctor’s father-in- Berlin, whose Citizens turned out for a gala celebration. A law, copper baron Senator Andrew Clark, would come to visit his parade of two brass bands, six fire companies and a hundred daughter, his private railway car would be attached to the wheel riders trouped before the 8000 spectators. The Mayor, in scheduled train for the run into New Berlin. his address of welcome, stated: “Now we have a railroad and a With the advent of the automobile, passenger traffic on the doctor, now what we need is a shoemaker.” line declined, and in the 1920’s the line invested in a gasoline Service in the early years was afforded by three railbus, an attempt to reverse the flow of passenger traffic away accommodations each way, a day, hauled by the line’s two from the railroad. In 1924 the railbus, heading south from Bridgewater and executing its superiority over freight trains met head-on with a northbound freight, killing one passenger and the conductor. Following the investigation of this accident it was recommended that the line cease hauling passengers. Although 1929 was one of the line’s most profitable years, the early Thirties again found the Company in the financial doldrums. In 1939 the H. E. Salzberg Company, railroad dismantlers and equipment dealers, gained control of the Unadilla Valley. The Salzberg interests give the railroad a new lease on life, preferring to operate the line instead of dismantling it. In August of 1938 Henry Luce’s glossy financial magazine “Fortune” gave the Unadilla Valley Railroad national recognition in a full-length article on grass roots railroading. This illustration graced the Christmas Cards of Mr. & Mrs. The Unadilla Valley, in 1941, increased its trackage by Halbert Hiteman, owners of one of the showplaces along the Unadilla Valley Railroad. In her ink drawing Mrs. Hiteman purchasing the 21 mile Edmeston Branch of the New York, depicts one of the line’s steam locos hauling its train of cars Ontario and Western Railroad. The Second World War found the across their farmstead. Continued on Next Page PAGE 8 THE GREEN BLOCK MARCH 2015 Unadilla Valley #2 4-6-0, was built in 1895 by the Rhode Island Locomotive Works. Named “Merlyn”, it only stayed with the railroad for a few years.

U. V. with forty miles of track from Bridgewater to New Berlin and from Edmeston to New Berlin Junction, and a roster of locomotives that included the original Pendragon, two Prairie types purchased in 1918, a graceful ten-wheeler, and a Mogul acquired with the purchase of the Edmeston Branch. With the end of hostilities, the Unadilla Valley started its gradual decline. As the years passed the milk cars No. 6, a 4-6-0 Ten-wheeler, is hauling a mixed train on the Unadilla Valley Railway. disappeared from the line, the milk companies finding it more economical to use tank trucks. The feed companies of Edmeston and New Berlin supported the line for the rest of its existence. In order to cut their operating expenses, the U.V. turned to diesel power, and sent their steam locomotives to the scrap merchant in the early fifties. By the end of 1959 the handwriting was on the wall—declining revenues and deferred maintenance brought about the decision to abandon the line. The dismantling operation started in UV Railway No. 7, a 2-6-0 Mogul, was former NYO&W #42 and was scrapped in 1956. the summer of 1960 and on November 21st, the line’s orange and yellow diesel locomotives left the Unadilla Valley Railroad for the last time. The last few rails were removed by truck and the railroad is now but a memory. Gone are the days of the steam locomotives, the echo of the whistle as the engineer blows for River Forks, the fireman who waved to the farmer’s children hanging on the barnyard gate, alas gone forever are the two steel rails that meandered through the hedge-rows and along the river bank on toward New Berlin…….New Berlin with only a doctor. This view of the Unadilla Valley Railway’s New Berlin Station is from about 1907. MARCH 2015 THE GREEN BLOCK PAGE 9 J======KL======RAILROAD NEWS BRIEFS National Train Day to Amtrak Train Days UP, CSX and NS among ‘Most Admired’ In 2015, America’s Railroad® is launching Amtrak Train Three Class I Railroads earned high marks on Fortune Days (ATD) to celebrate with local communities why trains matter Magazine’s annual “Most Admired” companies list. Union Pacific and reasons to ride. Due to the past success of the “National Train Railroad was named the most admired company in the Trucking, Day”, Amtrak is expanding its community program from multiple Transportation and Logistics category for the fifth year in a row, events on a single day to individual events over the course of with CSX Corp. coming in at second and Norfolk Southern Rail- spring, summer and fall. way listed fourth. Amtrak Train Days will demonstrate why “Trains Matter” by UP was ranked No. 1 in all nine reputation attributes identified sharing with the local communities we serve the ‘reasons to ride’ by Fortune: innovation; people management; use of corporate the train. ATD will focus on reaching current and new audiences assets; social responsibility; quality of management; financial across America to reinforce the importance, benefits and value of soundness; long-term investment value; quality of passenger train travel. products/services; and global competitiveness. ATD will officially kick off on May 9, 2015 at Chicago Union Progressive Railroading Station and then will travel across the country during the summer and fall. ATD celebrations will feature a combination of outreach FBI Investigating SC Derailment tools, including a dedicated tour of the Amtrak Exhibit Train in Federal officials have confirmed they are investigating a CSX select markets, interactive displays of the Amtrak experience at Transportation derailment in Martin, near the Georgia state line. events sponsored by community organizations, Amtrak employee The FBI is leading the investigation into the January 27 incident, guest speakers, media and event promotions, and an ATD toolkit to which the agency believes may have been intentionally caused. support local community activities. The train involved ran onto a customer's spur, causing a Communities from across the nation are invited to join in the chemical leak and evacuations in the area. The railroad is now celebration of passenger train travel by hosting their own ATD offering a $10,000 reward for information regarding the derailment. events during 2015. For more info visit AmtrakTrainDays.com. Trains News Wire Amtrak Press Release CN Sets Grain Movement Records Oscar Munoz Named CSX President Canadian National Railway moved 18 per cent more grain CSX Corporation announced that its Board of Directors has hopper cars in first-half of the 2014-15 crop year than during same unanimously elected Oscar Munoz as president, CSX Corporation, period of the 2013-14 crop year overseeing operations, sales and marketing, human resources, During the 2013-14 crop year, CN helped Canada to dispose service design and information technology. Munoz assumes this of its largest-ever crop -- at 77 million tonnes -- and set an all-time new role immediately and also remains chief operating officer. record for grain exports at 42 million tonnes. CN's strong Michael Ward Continues as CSX Chairman & CEO. performance in 2014-15 is helping Canada's grain supply chain to Munoz has served CSX as both chief operating officer and be on track for another banner year. CN Press Release chief financial officer. Before joining CSX in 2003, Munoz was Port of NY & NJ Set Cargo Record in 2014 AT&T Consumer Services chief financial officer and vice president. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) CSX also announced the promotion of Vice President and set a new cargo record in 2014 at 3,342,286 units, surpassing the Chief Transportation Officer Cindy Sanborn to the position of previous high-water mark recorded in 2012. executive vice president-operations, reporting to Munoz. In her 25 years with CSX, Sanborn has risen through the operating Annual volume rose 5.4 percent versus 2013's total and 4.1 department to a number of senior leadership roles, including vice percent versus 2012's mark. The cargo flow enabled PANYNJ to president of Northern Region operations. CSX Press Release maintain its position as the East Coast's busiest port, with nearly 30 percent of total market share, authority officials said in a press $120 million for LIRR's Hicksville Project release. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has announced a $120 ExpressRail — PANYNJ’s ship-to-rail system serving New million project to rehabilitate an MTA Long Island Rail Road York and New Jersey marine terminals — also set a new record at (LIRR) station in Hicksville, N.Y. 465,405 containers, up 9.3 percent year over year. The previous Of the total funds, $68.7 million will cover the cost of the record of 433,481 containers was set in 2012. station rehabilitation, which is scheduled for completion in 2019. China remained the port's top import nation last year with Poor drainage, cracked concrete and aging elevators and escalators 923,975 containers. Germany was No. 2 at 179,715 containers and rank among the Hicksville station's current structural issues. India was No. 3 at 176,621 containers. The top imported The remaining $52.3 million will go toward constructing the commodities were furniture, beverages and appliances. Hicksville north track siding. Siding construction is aimed at However, the port reported a 12.8 percent decrease in vehicles increasing the speed and frequency of the service following handled, from 451,900 units in 2013 to 393,931 in 2014. To attract completion of the ongoing East Side Access Project, which will new vehicle business, the authority began an incentive program in create a direct route from LIRR lines into Grand Central Terminal April 2014 aimed at attracting new automobile manufacturers to in Manhattan. That project is slated for completion in 2022. the port and providing incentives to existing customers. Progressive Railroading Progressive Railroading PAGE 10 THE GREEN BLOCK MARCH 2015 J======KL======RAILROAD NEWS BRIEFS New Locomotive Deliveries Begin NJ DOT Grants $4.3 Million for Rail Bridge General Electric has begun shipping the first of its Tier 4 The New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) has “Credit User” locomotives to customers this month. Both Canadian announced awarding a $4.3 million grant to replace a rail bridge National and BNSF Railway are the first to receive new spanning Overpeck Creek in Ridgefield Park. Built in the early locomotives from GE’s Erie and Ft. Worth, Texas, plants, 1900s, the bridge serves as a critical freight-rail link in the region, respectively. A Credit User locomotive is essentially a Tier 3 averaging 25,000 rail cars per year. emissions-equipped locomotive built after the January 1, 2015 The three-span bridge's north and south approaches were implementation date for Tier 4 emissions. rehabilitated in 1985. The current project calls for replacing all General Electric was able to generate and bank credits by the three spans with a new steel bent system and steel superstructure, use of its Energy Saving Design Features such as Distributed as well as installing new steel and concrete abutments on the north Power and Consist Manager on existing GE locomotives. These and south sides. Progressive Railroading credits can then be applied to new locomotives to offset the difference between the differing emission requirements of Tier 3 Volkswagen Selects Jacksonville Port and Tier 4. Any locomotive built using credits will be labeled as Volkswagen Group plans to import and distribute new such on the builders plate on the locomotive. General Electric also Volkswagen, Audi and Bentley vehicles at the 85-acre AMPORTS has a handful of orders this year for non-Tier locomotives to North facility at JAXPORT, beginning May 1. CSX Transportation American customers, which can only be used in locations outside serves JAXPORT's Blount Island Marine Terminal, where the of the U.S. AMPORTS facility is located. Progressive Railroading General Electric plans to build only Credit User and non-Tier Rail Supplier News locomotives during the first part of 2015, and begin the switchover to production of Tier 4 locomotives beginning in the second quarter Georgetown Rail Equipment has received a notice of of this year. Industry observers expect that GE will continue to allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the build Credit User locomotives through at least 2016. company's recently released X-ray backscatter inspection technology. The technology is designed to find flaws deep within Class I railroads have also announced their upcoming 2015 track components that traditional inspection methods might not locomotive purchases in the latest quarterly earnings call to reveal. investors. Only two railroads are sitting out this year for new locomotive purchases: Norfolk Southern and Canadian Pacific. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's (UIUC) The rest will be acquiring new power from General Electric this Rail Transportation and Engineering Center (RailTEC) received a year, totaling almost 900 locomotives. These orders are: BNSF, $2.4 million grant from the US DOT to improve rail safety and 310; CN, 90; CSX, 200; KCS, 50; UP,218. Trains News Wire infrastructure. Alstom will supply Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) with four Port Settlement to Increase Rail Traffic Pendolino high-speed trains under a contract worth $131 million. The trains are slated to run various routes from Milan. Federal intervention has helped settle the labor dispute that Alstom has been awarded a contract worth $169.7 million by snarled West Coast ports, hampered U.S. and Asian businesses, the Swedish operator Skanetrafiken to supply 25 Coradia Nordic and cut intermodal rail traffic. regional trains for Skane region, in the south of Sweden. Each train This is likely to result in a vigorous push by ports and railroads will have four cars with a capacity to carry up to 510 passengers. to undo the damage from months of reduced productivity. Union Alstom announced that it will provide maintenance services Pacific is positioning additional assets - locomotives, cars and train for 75 passenger cars on Serco’s "Caledonian Sleeper" trains in the crews – to support the expected increase in demand. United Kingdom under a $142 million, 15-year contract. The terms Some damage may be irreparable, however, as retailers miss of the agreement cover both current units and Serco’s eventual seasonal shipments still in containers offshore and farmers watch acquisition of a new fleet in 2018. export produce spoil. As many as 50 ships are reported to be at Alstom unveiled its new 214-passenger regional train, anchor, with more than 30 of them waiting to berth at Los Angeles Regiolis, which will provide service in the Provence-Alpes-Cote and Long Beach. Trains News Wire d'Azur region in France. New York Air Brake announced its first shipment of DB-60 Tiger Cool Express Buys 200 New Rail Units II air brake control valves, which will be used on tank cars Tiger Cool Express purchased 200 refrigerated rail container transporting Bakken crude oil by rail. The new control valves units from China's Qingdao CIMC Special Reefer Co. Ltd. feature a mechanism that works to replenish brake cylinder Tiger Cool Express will begin receiving units in early May, pressure when a leak occurs. and the company has the option to order 300 additional units by the Alstom will provide 30 coupled Citadis X05 trams for a new end of 2015. Following the acquisition, Tiger Cool Express' tramway system in Sydney under a $1.59 billion contract. The refrigerated container fleet will increase to 734 units. Transport for New South Wales awarded the contract to a four- Formed in September 2013, Tiger Cool Express provides company consortium known as ALTRAC in December 2014. temperature-controlled intermodal equipment and manages long- Alstom will provide trams, power supply equipment, signaling haul intermodal freight transportation for produce and foodstuffs. systems and an energy recovery system, and maintain the tramway. Progressive Railroading Progressive Railroading MARCH 2015 THE GREEN BLOCK PAGE 11 Eastbound tank train on CSX’s main track 1 at Oakland Road, Weedsport, NY. Photo by Ed Post, February 27, 2015. THE GREEN BLOCK BACK PAGE CENTRAL NEW YORK CHAPTER, NATIONAL RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INC

• 2015 BOARD OF DIRECTORS • CHAPTER MEETINGS Phil Edwards • Tom Edwards • Albert Kallfelz • Josie LeMay Chapter meetings are held on the third Wednesday of Bob McNamara • Gus Nordone • Dick Palmer • Jeff Paston each month and the Board of Directors meet the first Tom Pierson • Robert Townsend • Gerrit Vanderwerff Wednesday of each month in the Art and Home Center at the New York State Fairgrounds. • OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS • President ...... Al Kallfelz ANNUAL DUES EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2015 First Vice President ...... Phil Edwards Member Category National Chapter Total Vice President & Recording Secretary ...... Jeff Paston Regular $50 $15 $65 Treasurer ...... Josie LeMay Student $16 $15 $31 Family $7 $5 $12 Corresponding Secretary ...... Herb Meinking Youth $5 $15 $20 National Representative ...... Open Additional ------$15 $15 Electronic Media Coordinator ...... Jeff Paston Program Coordinator ...... Dick Palmer Regular Members are adults more than 24 years old. Librarian and Archivist ...... Dick Palmer x Student Members are ages 13 thru 24. Railroadiana Store Managers ...... Bob McNamara Family Members are family members living in the State Fair Display Coordinator ...... Al Kallfelz same household as a Regular or Student Member. Martisco Museum Curator ...... Open Youth Members are children ages 5 thru 12. Central Square Museum Curators ...... Harvey Harke & Bob Townsend Additional Members have their main NRHS Membership Chairperson ...... Tom Edwards membership with another NRHS Chapter. Editor & Historian ...... Ed Post Financial Advisor ...... Paul Shinal Additional and Youth Members do not have CNY Equipment Coordinator ...... Jeff Hagan Chapter voting privileges. Excursion Coordinator ...... Rick Faigle Green Block Subscriptions (Non-members) are $15. Model RR Exhibit Coordinator ...... Phil Edwards Dues and Subscriptions run from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31 Vol. 53, No. 1 • January 2015 GULF C OAST R AILROADING Official Publication of the Gulf Coast Chapter – NRHS, Inc., and Texas Railroading Heritage Museum

Five Cass Scenic Railroad logging locomotives send steam and smoke skyward in West Virginia; this dramatic shot won the David M. See Best of Show Award in the 31st Gulf Coast Chapter Photo Contest. Photo by Fred Stigale Judges find a lot to like in 2014 photo contest by Tom Marsh Judges for the Chapter’s 31st Annual Railroad People’s Choice votes, the group attending the Photography Contest were “wowed” by a number of November Chapter membership meeting had to break the entries, but in the final tally the Best of Show was a five-way tie for the award. obvious. Six photographers submitted a total of 68 photo- Fred Stigale’s stunning photograph of five logging graphs in 19 categories to the 2014 photo contest; five engines under steam at the Cass Scenic Railroad in categories for black & white photos received no West Virginia scored 42 of 45 possible points, earning entries. We extend thanks to everyone who partici- Fred the David M. See Best of Show award for pated as a photographer or judge. 2014. Fred also won the Robert H. Sunderland Full contest results can be found on page 6. And People’s Choice award for a fine portrait of restored remember: It’s not too soon to start thinking about Pennsylvania Railroad E-8 No. 5809 taken at the your entries for the 2015 contest! Streamliners at Spencer event at the North Carolina Transportation Museum. After the first tally of the (Chapter Photo Contest - continued on page 6)

Have you renewed your Gulf Coast Chapter membership Gulffor 2015?Coast RailroadingDeadline is • JanuaryJanuary 201531! 1 GULF COAST From the Editor... RAILROADING Bill Willits

Vol. 53, No. 1 • January 2015 Looking back as we go forward As we look back briefly at 2014 and enter a new year, I want to say “THANK YOU” to those who help me produce Gulf Coast Railroading year in and year out. Without them the newsletter would only be an empty promise. Kudos to Jerry Dorcz, who gets the hardcopies printed, then stuffs and mails them and handles the Chapter Treasurer’s post on the side, and to Perry Jones, who is not only our Membership Vice President and Director, but maintains the email distribution lists and sends out the PDF newsletter copies. With these guys on the job, all I have to do is type fast and stay ahead of the next issue deadline (but don’t tell them that).

Gulf Coast Railroading is published Article and photo contributors provided varied content for the ten issues of 2014. 10 times each year by Gulf Coast They included: Dave Bateson, Chris Beetle, Thomas E. Bell, Jerry Dorcz, Jonathan Gerland, Perry Jones, Don Kendall, Eddie Kosar, Tom Mather, Brent Lamb, George Chapter, National Railway Histori- Loftin, Jim Lueders, Tom Marsh, and Phil Scheps. Plus, special thanks goes to my cal Society, Inc., P.O. Box 457, friend Ken Stavinoha for the use of photos from his excellent collection in my recent Houston, TX 77001-0457. Opinions GC&SF article installments. expressed herein may not reflect the official position of the Gulf Coast On the Chapter front I want to also deliver a cheer to my fellow board members. Chapter or the National Railway His- During 2014 the board made a lot of decisions relating to our aspirations to build a torical Society. new museum as well as conducting Chapter business on other matters. Several board members went well above and beyond to produce results, and it was not fun Editor ...... W. E. (Bill) Willits and games! In 2015 as we bring the new museum board into action handling the Circulation...... J. Dorcz, P. Jones establishment of Texas Railroading Heritage Museum, the chapter board will continue to function in its decision-making and fiduciary role representing the Gulf Coast Chapter, National Rail- membership of Gulf Coast Chapter – NRHS, Inc. way Historical Society, Inc. is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) educational or- As to NRHS? 2014 was a tough year. At present we anticipate the revival and ganization incorporated under the growth of NRHS under the leadership of newly elected president Al Weber. I, for laws of the state of Texas. one, will continue to advocate for participation in the 2015 NRHS Convention and other NRHS activities by our chapter membership. Your continuing support of Gulf Coast Chapter and of NRHS are very much appreciated. Chapter membership Meetings of the Membership are renewals were sent out in November. NRHS membership renewals were mailed out open to the public and take place on by the national organization in December. the third Tuesday of designated months except December. See Time- table Notes on page 16 for dates and location of upcoming meetings. Welcome Aboard!

Gulf Coast Chapter - NRHS, Inc. owns Bill Pollard a collection of rail equipment: Texas Railroading Heritage Mu- seum. The collection is now in storage awaiting completion of a new Notice of Upcoming Meetings museum site: to be announced. For more details, visit us on the web at The Annual Corporate Meeting of the Gulf Coast Chapter - National Railway our NEW address: Historical Society, Inc., will be held.on Tuesday, January 20, 2015, 7:30 p.m. at www.texasrrmuseum.org Valley Ranch Grill & Barbeque. See Annual Corporate Meeting page 5 for directions. 2014 Officers President ...... Shawn Sanders Contributing to Gulf Coast Railroading: we welcome submissions. The deadline VP-Administration ...... Tom Marsh for submitting material to the editor is the 12th day of the month prior to the VP-Mechanical ...... Al Dykes respective cover date. Material may be submitted on a CD or DVD in text or Word VP-Membership ...... Perry Jones format along with a hard copy, or e-mailed as text or with a Word or text attachment VP-Events ...... Doug Weiskopf to [email protected], or you may mail a typed or printed copy to: W. E. Willits, VP-Editor ...... W. E. (Bill) Willits Editor, P.O. Box 457, Houston, TX 77001-0457. Time-sensitive news items will be Secretary ...... Dave Bateson given priority over general interest subjects. The editor reserves the right to edit, Treasurer ...... Jerry Dorcz hold or omit material at his discretion.

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Chapter Renewal Deadline 1/31! Review of site feasibility study. Key points: We mailed out Gulf Coast Chapter 2015 Membership - $1.6 million to develop site. Renewals in November 2014. Deadline is January 31. - Does not included some component costs Completed renewals with payment must be received in such as fencing, electrical service. the Chapter P.O. Box by Monday, February 2, 2015. ESCH business plan now available. Do not delay! If your paid up Gulf Coast Chapter DG Studios plan now available. renewal has not been received for processing by Febru- ary 2, your last Gulf Coast Railroading will be the Nominating committee presented the slate for 2015: February issue. President – Shawn Sanders If you did not receive a Gulf Coast Chapter member- VP Administration – Tom Marsh ship renewal form or have lost it, immediately contact VP Mechanical – Al Dykes Membership VP Perry Jones. See the “Membership VP/Director Membership – Perry Jones Information Current?” box below. VP Events – Doug Weiskopf NOTE: NRHS national 2015 membership renewals VP Editor – W. E. (Bill) Willits were separately mailed by the national organization and Treasurer – Jerry Dorcz are being processed by NRHS, not by your chapter. Secretary – Open, not filled

Membership information current? Al Dykes discussed need for work party on weekend of November 15 to prep Tomball storage location for Please let Perry Jones, Chapter Membership VP, items to be moved from Railwood and Todd Sandblast- know as soon as possible about any address, ing. phone number or email address changes by Chris Beetle discussed possible trips for 2015. contacting him via e-mail: Chapter Holiday Party scheduled for December 7 at ([email protected]) or Puffabelly’s. ([email protected]) Meeting adjourned 8:00 p.m. or by phone: 281-844-0951 (Mobile). Please Minutes submitted by J. Dorcz; summary by the editor. include your membership ID (NRHS Member Number) and mention “Membership Change.” Summary of the Chapter BOD Meeting, Tuesday, December 2, 2014 Summary of the Chapter BOD Meeting, by Dave Bateson, Chapter Secretary Tuesday, November 4, 2014 The meeting was held at the IHOP Restaurant located by Jerry Dorcz, Acting Secretary at 6508 Washington Avenue, Houston, Texas.

Meeting at IHOP, 6508 Washington Ave., Houston. Called to order at 7:00 P.M. by President Chris Beetle. Present: Directors Bateson, Dykes, Jones, Maxwell, Present: Directors C. Beetle, J. Dorcz, A. Dykes, T. Weiskopf, and Willits, Past Presidents Beetle, Dorcz, Marsh, D. Weiskopf, B.Willits; past presidents S. Sanders Marsh, and Sanders. President Beetle declared there and P. Whitley. were enough members of the Board present to constitute Called to order at 7:00 p.m. by Chris Beetle, presi- a quorum. dent. Chris Beetle moved, seconded by Shawn Sanders, Minutes of the October 7 meeting presented. Move to that the Minutes of the November 4, 2014 BOD Meeting, accept by J. Dorcz, second B. Willits. submitted by Acting Secretary Jerry Dorcz, be approved. Passed. Tom Marsh updated board on several topics: Treasurer Dorcz distributed copies of the November New attorney engaged to review contracts. Retainer 30, 2014 Treasurer’s Report. paid by T. Marsh (to be reimbursed). Membership Director Perry Jones reported that a Tomball proposal under review along with TRHM large number of family memberships have been received contract with Chapter. in the mail. Total numbers were unavailable at the time of Transfer of Verde Valley to Arizona museum. the meeting. Ft. Lauderdale sale contract discussed; pending completion of sale. (Chapter & Museum News - continued on page 4)

Gulf Coast Railroading • January 2015 3 (Chapter & Museum News - continued from page 3) would step down from the presidency to concentrate totally on fundraising for the museum, a very important Discussion Items: part of the work that requires complete dedication. So, Tom Marsh reported that the Tomball property as VP Administration I stepped back into the president’s agreement contracts are awaiting final review by the harness in July for the rest of the year. chapter’s attorney, at which time the contracts can be Thanks to all for your support as we prepare to build closed. It was revealed that the property acquisition issue the new museum. You may wonder when it will happen: was over the wrong property and although a final the answer is unclear now, but this train is going forward agreement for purchase has not been reached, it will not and will arrive when all the details are worked out. We be as expensive as originally thought. are meeting frequently with various people to assure that The need for updating the chapter display was those details are being addressed and having you behind discussed and several members suggested a committee be us is crucial to success. formed to draft a plan for updating and improving the Please give your continuing full support to Shawn display. Sanders and the board as Shawn takes over the Gulf Tom Marsh reported there is a remaining balance of Coast Chapter presidency for 2015. This chapter and the $8,000.00 in the Houston Endowment Grant. It was museum are on the right track; ride with us. suggested the money be spent to pay DG Studios to develop a museum program display. Al Dykes suggested the remaining museum collection Happy New Year! be moved on Tuesday, December 9, 2014, and said that by Shawn Sanders, incoming 2015 Chapter President with board approval of funding he will arrange for a truck and equipment to move the items. Jerry Dorcz said he As we enter 2015, I take on the role as Chapter can get a check to the movers by the end of the week. Al President for a third time. I am not sure that anyone has had no updated information on the Good Cheer trucks. occupied the office three separate times, but it is not The Verde Valley donation agreement is currently common. I guess every ten years or so is often enough. being reviewed by the chapter’s attorney. Also as we enter 2015 our organizational roles are The payment of $45,000.00 for the purchase of the beginning to change, namely in the area of the museum Ft. Lauderdale was received and deposited. The car will and its operation and structure. As I write this article be moved in the next 2-3 months. (pre-Christmas 2014) we are awaiting consultation on new by-laws for the organizational structure for the Actions of the Board: museum (Texas Railroading Heritage Museum). This then Tom Marsh moved, seconded by Chris Beetle, that allows the Gulf Coast Chapter - National Railway Histori- $2,000.00 be allocated to pay for the move of the cal Society, Inc. to be technically out of the museum remaining items at Railwood. Passed. business. Once all the legal obstacles are cleared we will Tom Marsh moved, seconded by Shawn Sanders, give a detailed report on how the Chapter supports the that the remaining funds in the Houston Endowment museum. The bottom line is that the Texas Railroading Grant be allocated to pay for DG Studios to develop a Heritage Museum will be on its own as far as operations museum program display. Passed. and fund-raising. We are also undergoing some changes at the national Upcoming Programs/Meetings: level (NRHS) which should help bring the national Chris Beetle reported there will be no Membership organization up to date and operate at a lesser cost. We meeting in December 2014, which is customary for the hope these changes will improve the organization as a Chapter. The Holiday Banquet will be on Sunday, whole and enhance the benefits of being a part of it. December 7, 2014. There are many changes to look forward to, and we Meeting adjourned by President Beetle at 7:50 P.M. hope you will remain active (or become more active) in Minutes respectfully submitted by Chapter Secretary Dave chapter activities during 2015. We also hope you will Bateson; summary by the editor. remain supportive of our efforts to get the museum operational again in Tomball after we had to leave our old site in Houston. While it is not, as mentioned above, an Changing the guard obligation of the chapter, all of us who care about this by Chris Beetle, outgoing Chapter president collection of vintage equipment expect to be very involved as volunteers. We need to be positive and proac- A year ago, in January 2014, I thought I was through tive in seeing the return of the railroad museum; we all doing president’s columns! The year started off with Phil look forward to that happy prospect. Scheps elected as president to follow my 2013 stand at Our regular monthly membership meetings for 2015 this post. Little did any of us know that Phil at midyear are scheduled for the third Tuesday of each month of the

4 Gulf Coast Railroading • January 2015 year through November to be held at Valley Ranch Grill Annual Corporate Meeting and Barbeque restaurant on SH 249 at Spring Cypress Road. Please come out, have a bite to eat and enjoy the January 20, 2015 fellowship of other rail fans, modelers and historians as we present special programs to enhance our enjoyment of The Tuesday, January 20, 2015 Annual Corporate trains and railroading. And please bring a friend too. meeting of the Gulf Coast Chapter - NRHS, Inc. will be Happy New Year! And on behalf of the entire board held at: of directors, we look forward to seeing you at an upcom- Valley Ranch Grill & Barbeque ing meeting or event. 22548 Texas State Highway 249 Houston TX 77070 When coming from central Houston, this location is Update - approximately 6.5 miles northwest of the Sam Houston Tollway intersection with State Highway 249. Take the Museum Relocation Efforts Spring Cypress exit from SH 249 onto the frontage road. Report of the Tomball Relocation Committee Valley Ranch is at the north end of the shopping area at Submitted by Jerry Dorcz - January, 2015 the southeast corner of Spring Cypress Rd. and the SH 249 frontage road. For the past year our efforts at relocation have We will be meeting in a separate room behind the moved, at times, at less than glacial pace! One year ago, dining room. Come early to eat and to greet your friends. the then-Houston Railroad Museum vacated Railwood The brief business meeting starts at 7:30 p.m. and the Industrial Park and moved into “hibernation.” One year program immediately follows. into our storage location, and now in my position back on the board as chapter treasurer, I can say that moving out January 20 program: of storage can’t happen soon enough. Doug Weiskopf, author of the book Rails Around The City of Tomball and the Gulf Coast Chapter have Houston published by Arcadia Publishing, will present a been working on this relocation effort in one form or program he has tentatively titled “Beginnings.” It will look another over the past two years. On the chapter side, we at the very first rail lines in Harris County, how they came have completed a number of site-specific preliminary due to be, where they were laid out, and how they came to be diligence work tasks to make sure the area the museum is the network we have now. planned to be located on does not have any surprises (it As our VP Events, Doug also wants to spend a few does not!). Additionally, work that is related to cost minutes getting input on what kinds of activities and trips estimation was completed in the last quarter of 2014. It the membership would like to see for the coming year. goes without saying that the report was an eye opener but not completely unexpected. As for the City of Tomball, they have been busy in finalizing the land acquisition comprising our museum site and we fully expect that by the time we hold the Gulf Coast Chapter Annual Corporate Meeting on January 20, 2015, we will have the full details of this available. Additionally, the City and the Chapter have been working on the contract terms and hope that the last copy submitted following a review in mid-summer will be finalized and can be signed by the Chapter board and the City. This will set in motion the physical work associated with the relocation of the museum collection and make the rebranding of our preservation efforts under the Texas Railroading Heritage Museum a reality. NOTICE: All 2015 Gulf Coast Chapter Membership I personally request that all of our members attend Meetings are scheduled for Valley Ranch Grill & Barbeque the January 20 Annual Corporate Meeting. I will be on the third Tuesday of the month (except December). providing more details, and hopefully at that time can give If any change is needed it will be announced in advance. a general view of the expected timeline for our relocation. It is important that you continue to be engaged with the chapter and the museum efforts. Your commitment along Reminders from the Editor with that of your chapter board shows all outside con- I need your articles for the February issue by cerns that we continue to be a serious and capable Monday, January 12, for the March issue by Thursday, preservation organization. February 12. Thank you.

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Above: The winners in the 2014 photo contest brought in many very good entries, showing the continuing popularity of this long running (31st year) activity in the Gulf Coast Chapter. Thanks to Tom Marsh for his coordination of this event, receiving the entries, providing the article and results of the contest plus preparing the display of the photos for judging at the November 2014 Chapter Membership Meeting. As Tom says: it is never too early to start looking for photo opportunities that could make you a winning entrant in the 32nd annual Gulf Coast Chapter Photo Contest come November 2015!

6 Gulf Coast Railroading • January 2015 Above: Fred Stigale’s shot of PRR E8 5809 shows the familiar paint scheme of the “Standard Railroad of the World.” Fred won not only the David M. See Best of Show Award with his photo of Cass Scenic locomotives in action on this month’s cover, but also the Robert H. Sunderland People’s Choice Award for this memory stirring photo of 5809 in the 2014 Chapter Photo Contest.

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“Moving a museum” goes on through overall analysis of the proposal. By holding from email information by Al Dykes “public scoping meetings” at which members of the public can express opinions and concerns, the FRA and On December 9, 2014, Al Dykes, Chris Beetle, Dave its co-lead agency TxDOT are acquiring part of the data Taveirne and Phil Whitley, working with a crane operator needed for consideration in the actual Environmental and truck drivers, wrapped up the removal of the last Impact Statement (EIS) to be produced after exhaustive heavy items from the old museum (with the exception of analysis by the federal agency. From this process, after two items that proved too much for available trucking two or more years of study, will come a “bill” (permis- capacity and were to be taken out later). This material sion granted) or “no-bill” (permission denied). had all still been stored at the Railwood site and at another Central Texas Railway management has determined northeast Houston storage site since early 2014. It took that a route based primarily on (actually, above) the three semi-trailer loads to transfer the items to a storage present BNSF (ex-Trinity & Brazos Valley, Burlington- site at Tomball arranged by Al in a marathon day requiring Rock Island) right of way or an existing utility easement coordination and hard work by all. between Houston and Dallas are their favored choices. Two other possible routes, including by way of Bryan/ College Station or along I-45, were originally among four High Speed Rail (HSR) routes considered. by the editor If approved, this obviously would lead to a massive construction project involving an elevated and fenced The Central Texas Railway (CTR) has applied to the track structure separating the dedicated rail line from the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) for permission to surrounding properties on both sides. High Speed Rail, build a dedicated high speed rail line between Houston and with speeds in the 205 mile per hour range, cannot co- Dallas. The initial part of the process requires the FRA to determine the environmental impact of such a project (The Local - continued on page 8)

Gulf Coast Railroading • January 2015 7 (The Local - continued from page 3) exist with highways, streets, and driveways; it must be 2015 NRHS Convention isolated above (or in some cases, below) them. by the editor Jerry Dorcz and I attended one of a series of 12 such I’ll be there. Will you? public scoping meetings conducted by FRA and TxDOT The 2015 NRHS Convention at Rutland, Vermont, personnel in various communities along or near the June 14-20 will feature several excursions and other proposed right(s) of way that was held at Tomball on unique events. December 3, 2014. Beckendorf Conference Center at To register, go to the NRHS website: www.nrhs.com Lone Star College-Tomball had been set up with multiple A PDF booklet containing Convention information is locations for signing in and leaving written comments; part of the “Registration Package.” It is recommended large-scale signage and maps explaining the project you read this PDF document for full information proposals were posted around the hall. The 30 minute before attempting to actually register. PowerPoint presentation by an FRA representative and an The address for actually registering is displayed on engineering consultant explained the basics of the process page 23 of the 30 page PDF information booklet: leading to an EIS; this was followed by one hour for http://www.regonline.com/nrhs2015convention comments from the public. Several persons representing Selecting “Tickets On Sale Now” on the second page Central Texas Railway were also available for questions of the website goes directly to the registration form at the before and after the meeting. above address. The public present at this scoping meeting, as You can also obtain a convention booklet and regis- represented by the comments of the dozen or so who tration form by writing to: requested speaking time, was largely opposed to the 2015 NRHS Convention project. This was generally based on preconceptions 100 N 20th St., Suite 400 (and mis- or dis-information, some of which has been Philadelphia, PA 19103-1462 around since the first efforts to promote high speed rail in Texas in the 1980s) typical of any proposals for a major change in the local landscape. The dominant concerns included a fear of losing access to and/or loss of value of their land or homes near Below: A photo from Brenham radio station KWHI’s website the line; a general assumption that there would be high December 5, 2014 shows a 12 foot high tractor-trailer whose levels of noise from the trains themselves; doubt as to the driver tried to pass through the BNSF’s plainly marked 9 foot “need” for an alternate transportation option such as HSR 10 inch clearance Gay Hill underpass on FM 390. GC&SF between Houston and Dallas; opposition to “big compa- built through this area on a fill in 1881 and the stone-lined nies with money” for such a project being able to “dic- underpass has been the scene of other “overheight” incidents tate” locally; and one who claimed steel wheel on steel rail over the years, but this has to be the dumbest ever. construction is obsolete technology and that “they ought to build a mag-lev” line instead. The FRA representative reminded the audience that this particular meeting had been called to discuss only the project in question, a high speed rail entity, and not any other technology. There was also a statement made by one citizen that “this has never been done before” despite the fact that HSR is alive and well in many countries around the world and even in the U.S. is already under construction in California. Some also complained that they had not been informed until as recently as the previous day that a scoping meeting was being held in their area. Getting the word out is always important, of course, and undoubtedly will be better addressed for any future meetings that might be called. Fears and concerns such as cited above are not new. There is of course validity when people see something such as this HSR line as a threat to their tranquility. The Environmental Impact Statement is planned to address and weigh all such concerns leading to a decision. That may be several years away.

8 Gulf Coast Railroading • January 2015 Swimming in the RR Water Tank talked in whispers, which were unnecessary with the by Loren W. McDaniel pump noises, and water leakage covering their voices. It was a long, exhaustive afternoon. They knew the The 1920s and 1930s have been called the “Golden pump would be shut off when the tank filled, but what if Age of Railroads” with respect to the traveling public. I Mr. Henderson let it run over, as he had been known to lived a stone’s throw from all railroad activities (at age 8 I do once before. It was too tiring to hang on to the ladder, couldn’t throw a 5-Oz stone much farther than from so they put on their overalls and let themselves down into 3rd to 1st), that is, depot, switching areas, stockyards, the water at intervals to float and rest. Eventually evening pump station and elevated water tank for thirsty locomo- came. The pump stopped when the water came to the tives. Maintenance of the water supply for the trains was overflow pipe, about 3 feet from the entrance hatch. Mr. performed by an elderly gentleman named Mr. Henderson concluded his shut-down procedure, filled his Henderson, a crusty Scot who lived in a small town on pipe, locked the pump house, pushed his motor car back the railroad about 10 miles east of Urich. Two or three on the track and put-putted his way eastward. times a week, depending on demand, Mr. Henderson Four boys, hungry, exhausted, skin wrinkled from came riding the rails on his small motor car to operate the long immersion, slowly and with very shaky movements pump to refill the elevated tank descended to solid ground, vowing to never try that Mr. Henderson always welcomed the four of us, exercise, “ever again.” They were very quiet, each, I who usually prowled together as a unit, to explain and suppose, wondering at the home reception awaiting. I for demonstrate the mechanics of the pump system. It was one knew I was expected to help with assembling some a steam-operated pump, the steam generated by a big bee hive supers. But if to my Dad, I recounted the whole boiler which he heated by coal from the trains. However, story truthfully, there would be no reprisal, only asking if he also succeeded, with strong, understandable language, I understood the lesson provided me. He was always like to imprint our minds with the dire consequences of that. I’m forever grateful. catching us “meddling” as he termed it, about his sacred pump-and-tank operations in his absence. Now, you The incident described in this story occurred in Urich, have probably guessed, I will relate a “meddling” episode. Missouri, where Mr. McDaniel was born and raised until We four were Bill, Joe (Dodo), George and me. A high school age. It was written by Mr. McDaniel in his suggestion by one of us if it seemed risky or entertaining later years and is printed here through the kind sharing of enough was quickly endorsed and put into action. On it by his son Jim during an exchange of emails when we this hot August day we sat under the railroad water tank learned of Mr. McDaniel’s passing in the fall of 2014.. letting it drip on us, for it did leak, sometimes profusely Thanks to Perry Jones for following up with Jim on hot days when nearly empty. It was wood, you see, McDaniel and for alerting me to his contact. - Ed. with staves that would shrink when dried creating tiny waterfalls all around its circumference. One of us (not I of course) said “Why don’t we climb up and see if we Loren Wilson McDaniel can get in it for a swim?” There were no objections. Up the ladder we went. Who was first, I don’t Member Loren McDaniel, born September 8, know, Dodo or Bill, probably, as eldest of the group. The 1916, passed away July 31, 2014, in Paris, Ken- hatch cover was loose, easily shoved aside, and in we tucky. Our sympathy goes out to his wife Carroll, went, shucking off our overalls as we climbed down son Jim, daughter-in-law Janet, granddaughters inside. George, who was last to enter suddenly shouted Deirdre and Ainsley and all who were privileged to down “I hear Mr. Henderson’s motor car coming.” know this sensitive and gentle man. Panic! What to do? Bill, maybe, or Dodo, probably, advised quietly waiting until Mr. Henderson left. He couldn’t see us and never climbed the tank. This was midmorning. A poor choice of action, but the alternative was a face-to-face with an irate Scotsman whose reprisal was unknown. Mr. Henderson fired up his boiler to generate steam, then sat in the shade behind Members please note the station, smoked his pipe and read a newspaper Completed Gulf Coast Chapter 2015 renewals are (Edinburgh Gazette, probably) until noon when he arose, due January 31. The clock is ticking. Have you sent checked his gauges and started the big pump, then settled yours yet? Talk to Membership VP Perry Jones if you down to eat his lunch. Now four boys, who were no longer in swimming mood, watched the water below have a question. See “Membership Information them slowly, so very slowly, rising toward them. They Current?” on page 3.

Gulf Coast Railroading • January 2015 9 Early Texas Railroads

Missouri Pacific Lines in Texas Pacific), Missouri. It would eventually become part of by W. E. (Bill) Willits the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad and even later the St. Louis & San Francisco. However, the history of that Part 1 company’s eventual links to Texas will be told another time when it can be the primary actor. This is one of a series of articles I have assembled that is A reorganization of the Pacific Railroad was begun in based primarily on items from early newspapers which 1872 and when the company emerged from receivership reported on the railroads building into the Texas interior. in 1876 a new company had been formed: the Missouri These items were the way “the man on the street” learned Pacific Railway Company. Then, in the late 1870s for the about the railroads of that time. In addition to newspa- first time the Missouri Pacific became a factor in Texas pers I have consulted other publications and historical railroading. During the 1870s also, the St. Louis, Iron documents to help explain events, information which Mountain and Southern Railway (StLIM&S) running would not have been available to a newspaper reader at from St. Louis to Texarkana at the Arkansas/Texas border the time they occurred. Wherever possible I have in- had become another major connection for Texas with the cluded dates and places from various records that provide rest of the country; the StLIM&S would later be acquired some continuity to the eventual emergence of the Missouri by the Missouri Pacific. Pacific Lines within Texas. Jay Gould’s name is prominent in the affairs of the Missouri Pacific and its affiliates in Texas during a period Missouri Pacific – 1870s: “Gone to Texas” from 1880 forward when he gained control of the The Missouri Pacific in Texas most people remember company for an extended period. Jay and George Gould was eventually associated with and emerged from a and their close associates were masters at moving assets combination of several predecessor lines. This article is around so that the railroads they controlled often were mainly about the creation and growth in Texas of various acquiring or leasing other properties or being themselves railroads that became important parts of the Missouri leased or somehow being rearranged, all in the pursuit of Pacific Lines, “MoPac” or “Mop” within its borders, but profits (at least for the masters of finance). also some about the Missouri Pacific itself. The most But several years before the names Missouri Pacific prominent of the “native” Texas lines were the Houston & and Jay Gould became part of Texas railroad lore, other Great Northern Railroad (H&GN), the International railroad enterprises in Texas itself were being planned and Railroad Company and subsequently the International & constructed to reach out to the state’s borders. Great Northern (I&GN) that emerged from the combination of the International and the H&GN. Houston and Great Northern Railroad (H&GN) There were several other lines chartered in Texas that Because of events during the Civil War and immedi- eventually came under the Missouri Pacific umbrella as ately afterward in the Reconstruction period, Texas well. Because of Texas laws requiring in-state railroads railroad building was slow or inconsistent for a few years to maintain in-state headquarters and operations, some after 1865, but by 1870 with an influx of financial affiliated lines remained as separate companies into the resources from both inside and outside Texas, activity mid-20th century, although closely associated with the picked up considerably. Missouri Pacific during extended periods in the 19th and All railroads planned or underway were anxious to 20th centuries (but not continuously in some cases). acquire the vast amounts of land available through land The Missouri Pacific’s parent, however, was the grants by the State of Texas (a law that initially went into Pacific Railroad built west from St. Louis, Missouri, force in the early 1850s and was amended several times starting in the early 1850s. Groundbreaking for this in ensuing years, resulting in more generous awards to pioneer line, the first railroad construction begun west of railroads at times and less at others, before being com- the Mississippi River, occurred on July 4, 1851, predating pletely rescinded) which gave them the means to settle the start of the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado the areas around their rail lines as people from the east (BBB&C) from Harrisburg, Texas, westward by only a and north in the United States and from several countries few weeks, and figured prominently in opening up the in Europe emigrated to Texas. The Texas Legislature interior of the United States. Following several years of eventually ended the land grant awards (available land ran raids and damage during the Civil War, the Pacific out), but that time was far off in 1866. Railroad was finally able to run its first train into Kansas The Houston and Great Northern Railroad was City on September 20, 1865. chartered on October 22, 1866 and officers were elected A “Southwest Branch” of the Pacific Railroad left the June 1, 1867. Initial officers included prominent St. Louis-Kansas City mainline at Franklin (later renamed Galvestonians; in the beginning the railroad was projected

10 Gulf Coast Railroading • January 2015 This Houston & Great Northern Stock Certificate #214 issued April 17, 1871to A. Belmont was signed by President C.G. Young, who was killed in a construction train accident about four months later. A 25 cent stamp is affixed to the certificate. Courtesy Ken E. Stavinoha Collection to build northward along the 95th meridian from January 21, 1871, the contractors Shepherd, Mitchell and Galveston, with several possible “northerly” destinations Henry began track grading work “about opposite Railroad beyond Texas borders in mind. But changing plans and Street” at the H&GN wharves along the bayou and prospects caused revisions. For example, one scenario headed north. By February 15 the first H&GN locomo- had been to meet a railroad building south from Kansas tive had been delivered, placed on what limited track was across Indian Territory at the Red River (one of the “Joy” already in place and steamed up to perform switching in roads promoted and headed by James F. Joy of Michigan the city. Palestine was 150 miles away. Central and Burlington fame). But the Missouri, Kansas & Texas (MK&T) was awarded approval by Congress to International Railroad Company cross into Indian Territory from Kansas and build on to The International Railroad was chartered August 5, Texas at the Red River instead of the Joy road, thwarting 1870 and its company offices were initially located at that arrangement for the H&GN. Hearne. The Houston & Texas Central (H&TC), building At this time the only railroad between Galveston and north from Bryan, had reached Hearne in 1869 and had Houston was the Galveston, Houston & Henderson continued north as it built toward Dallas constructing (GH&H), which had completed its fifty two mile line by track of five foot six inch gauge. Construction materials building from Virginia Point on the mainland across the for the International were transported to Hearne from bay from Galveston into Houston (south of Buffalo Houston by the H&TC. Grading on the International Bayou) in 1859 and had gone no further north. The commenced both east and west of the Houston & Texas Houston & Great Northern, after several changes of Central crossing in Hearne on December 30, 1870 and officers and when revisions of earlier plans were final- track laying began April 18, 1871 in the International yard ized, was finally projected to extend northward from the west of the crossing. The initial objective was construc- north side of Buffalo Bayou in Houston via Palestine to tion of a standard gauge line (four feet eight and one half the Red River and subsequently to the Canadian border. inches between the rails) between the east bank of the The resulting rail route would benefit both Houston and Brazos River and Longview which would pass through Galveston. Palestine enroute. To the southwest of Hearne the line Delays ensued for several years so that the railroad was projected to go to Austin and beyond to San Antonio did not start building wharves and docks at the foot of and the border of Mexico. The name International fitted Bremond Street in Houston until December 8, 1870. the projected destinations well, but would require a few However, within little more than a month after that, on years before fulfillment.

Gulf Coast Railroading • January 2015 11 Early progress make twenty seven and 143/880 (27 143/880) miles of It seems reasonable in retrospect that the Interna- road. tional and H&GN would eventually consolidate with “Within the limits above described there are seventy Palestine as a hub, but that did not occur right away. three (73) spans of Trestle, sixteen (16) feet long each, They were busy building separate railroads toward that supported by oak piles not less than twelve (12) inches in objective first. The following observation by a newspa- diameter driven in pairs for the better support of the per editor just a month after the International’s grading superstructure. began stated a fact that was still many months away from “Across Spring Creek there is a Howe Truss bridge realization: of seventy five (75) feet span supported by oak piles of January 26, 1871 not less than twelve (12) inches in diameter and driven in “The International railroad will cross the Trinity, gangs of six (6) under each of the four corners of the thirteen miles west from Palestine.” Truss parallelogram. In early 1871 construction of a railroad bridge for the “The gauge of the road is four feet eight and one half International Railroad across the Colorado River at Austin (4: 8 1/2) inches. The rails weigh fifty six (56) pounds to was even farther in the future than the Trinity bridge. the yard; average twenty four (24) feet long; are con- Nevertheless, grading between the south side of the nected by fish bars & bolts and are underlaid with two Colorado and San Antonio thousand six hundred and was already being forecast forty (2640) oak ties to in the news: each mile. The turnouts January 26, 1871 are, in my opinion, “It is said that railroad insufficient and I have hands of the International recommended the com- company will be at work pany to put in about two between Austin and San (2) miles more which they Antonio by Christmas.” will do…” Far to the northeast of Meanwhile, as the Austin around Hearne, H&GN built northward track building was going from Houston newspapers forward in the opposite reported there were rivers direction: to be crossed: February 2, 1871 October 19, 1871 “The International. – “The cars on the The contractors have over Great Northern railroad twelve hundred experi- ran on Saturday last to the enced Railroad laborers This metal Houston & Great Northern baggage tag number station on the other side of engaged near Hearne now, 459 has an (obscured) patent date at top of 1867. It was dug up. the San Jacinto river. The and accessions are being Courtesy Ken E. Stavinoha Collection road is graded beyond the made every day. A large Trinity, and trains will be wagon train, all the way from Nebraska, passed through running to that stream in a few weeks. The work is Calvert a day or two ago on their way to the scene of progressing rapidly all along the line.” operations near Hearne. The work is going forward Meanwhile, the International line being built toward rapidly. Lots in the new town, near Hearne Station, will Palestine from Hearne had to cross some of the same be sold on the 3d of February. Good chance for invest- rivers farther upstream than the H&GN as the grade ments.” Indeed it was. approached Palestine from the southwest: On the H&GN, State inspector John W. Glenn’s October 19, 1871 September 25, 1871 report (for some reason the inspec- “The Waco Register says the force employed to build tor identified the company as “Houston Great Western the International railroad bridge across the Trinity river Rail Road”) to Governor Davis stated, in part: are now busily engaged. The place of crossing is thirteen “From the terminus on Buffalo Bayou to station miles west of Palestine.” number nought (0), five thousand five hundred (5500) Having the H&TC and International railroads crossing feet. From station number nought (0) to station number at Hearne gave local pride a boost, although the difference twenty five (25) there are twenty five (25) miles of road. in track gauge would continue to prevent easy inter- Near stations nought (0) and seventeen (17) there are five change until the late fall of 1874 when the H&TC com- thousand nine hundred and fifteen (5915) feet of turn pleted a change to standard four foot eight and one half outs, (For authority to include turnouts see Paschals inch gauge track between Bremond and Hearne. The Digest Par #4956) which together with the remainder mention of Louisville, Kentucky, as a measure of excel-

12 Gulf Coast Railroading • January 2015 lence is interesting, but not unprecedented, as Louisville county, and they will be running to Jewett, ten miles was cited from time to time in other dispatches of the farther, by the first prox. Jewett is near by (nearly?) period: opposite the town of Centreville and will draw to itself October 26, 1871 most of the business men and citizens of that place. The “Hearne. – The Central and International Railroad Experiment is making arrangements to move to Jewett Companies must be determined to make the little town of and will issue its paper at that place as soon as trains Hearne a prosperous place. The Hearne Press says: commence running.” “’The International and Central Railroads are erecting South of Houston the Houston Tap & Brazoria had substantial buildings, a water tank and a Union hotel. completed its railroad from Houston to East Columbia on This latter building merits more than a passing notice. It the Brazos River prior to the Civil War; the line deterio- is not to be excelled, we venture to say, by any house for rated badly during and after the war and only operated the same purpose, this side of Louisville, Ky. That sporadically for a time. Its remaining usable property had building and their round house would ornament a city of even been sold at a sheriff’s sale in 1869 for $500 before 20,000 inhabitants. This is not all, as they will soon build the State of Texas intervened to try and recover some of other important buildings that will be ornaments in the the early investment the state had made back in the town.’” 1850s. H&GN officially took control of the line Septem- Railroads building with aspirations to reach any of the ber 11, 1871 with some high expectations of gaining coasts or borders of the country were applauded in the access to coastal traffic if all went as planned: newspapers of that era. At that time it was widely January 18, 1872 assumed (typical American thinking?) that U.S. railroads “The Houston and Great Northern Railroad, having would have ready (if not free) access into Mexico to purchased the old Sugar road to Columbia, intend bring out materials from that country’s rich ore deposits extending it to Victoria, with a branch down to Palacios, and to provide access to yet-to-be-developed Pacific on Matagorda Bay. This route will be through the heart ports south of the border for export and import goods of of Matagorda county, and give that people a long desired all kinds, presumably to the great benefit of American communication with the outside world. The port of companies, but not necessarily to Mexico itself: Palacios is the best on the coast of Texas, and should this November 2, 1871 company take hold of the matter with energy and liberal- “The following railroads may be said to be national in ity, they will build up no inferior town at that place. We their character, all pointing in the direction of Mexico and hope it may be done.” having their termini on the Pacific, taking Texas en route: Acquiring the HT&B brought the H&GN much closer The Trans Continental, the Atlantic and Pacific, the to the Gulf coast, but the extension of the HT&B to Houston and Great Northern, and, we might add, the Victoria mentioned in the previous item never occurred. railroad being built by the Chattanooga Company from Also, although an extension to Wharton had been hoped New Orleans through Houston westward. – Houston for in 1860-61, it had not occurred either, although some Age.” grading was done. Another charter in 1866 for the Of the railroads mentioned in the previous item, the Victoria and Columbia Railroad Company had envisioned H&GN (whose charter had envisioned reaching the building a line between those two locations, but it also Canadian border) was the only north-south line; the was not to be. others all were primarily east-west routes. The Trans The Houston and Texas Central Railway had initially Continental was soon to be part of the Texas & Pacific built its lines, including, of course, the one through (T&P) as that railroad was constructed. The Atlantic & Hearne, to five foot six inch gauge. Some other railroads Pacific (A&P) would become the St. Louis & San also had built to the wider gauge and were experiencing Francisco (SL&SF) and the A&P’s charter would be interchange problems with standard gauge roads: used 10 years later to extend a line from Isleta, New January 18, 1872 Mexico on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (AT&SF) to “The Calvert Texan learns that the Central Railway California. The “Chattanooga Company” referred to the Company have commenced laying track beyond New Orleans, Mobile & Chattanooga (NOM&C), a Corsicana on the same gauge as the International, 4 feet company that in 1871 was rumored to be trying to 8½ inches. It also says: The gauge from Corsicana to acquire the existing (and in poor shape) Texas & New Houston will be changed by the time the Central and Orleans (T&NO) between Houston and Orange to Missouri & Kansas (Missouri Kansas & Texas) roads complete an improved New Orleans-Houston line. meet, at or near Preston, on Red river, so that through If a railroad didn’t build to their town, some folks trains can be run from St. Louis and other Western and simply moved to the railroad: Eastern cities to Houston or Galveston – the Galveston November 30, 1871 road (GH&H) will also be compelled to change its “Regular trains are now running on the International gauge.” road to Marquez, forty miles from Hearne, in Leon Actually the gauge change of the H&TC would be

Gulf Coast Railroading • January 2015 13 done in large segments, not in one overall operation, and day a slate of officers was elected by the board of was not completed from Hearne to Houston, where the directors. All of this was preparation for a coming road had begun in 1853, until 1876. merger. The H&GN would have to complete a bridge soon to Oddly, during this 1872-1873 period of great activity get north of the Trinity River: among Texas railroads, newspaper coverage in smaller February 8, 1872 town newspapers became unusually sparse. Papers that “The Great Northern is completed to the Trinity had spoken frequently of railroad building in their area eighty miles from Houston.” became suddenly silent. It was a strange lull. Meanwhile, after reaching Palestine and continuing On January 22, 1873, the H&GN and GH&H began northeastward, the International track builders were interchange at their Union Depot in Houston. Although making good progress: the H&GN was standard gauge, the GH&H would remain February 8, 1872 a wide gauge railroad until its rails were finally placed “The International is now working in Cherokee four feet eight and one half inches apart on July 28, 1876. county, between Jacksonville and Knoxville.” Back in 1866, on November 13 of that postwar year, On March 1, 1872, the tracklayers of the H&GN the Victoria and Columbia Railroad (V&C) had been reached Phelps Station, 66.7 miles north of Houston. chartered to build a line from Victoria to Columbia, where Through a prior arrangement with the promoters of the it would connect with the Houston Tap & Brazoria Huntsville Branch Railway, a planned seven mile line to Railroad. A supplemental act to the original charter by the connect Huntsville to the mainline at Phelps, the H&GN Texas Legislature added authorization to build southwest- agreed to provide the necessary “rails, fastenings, ward from Victoria to the Rio Grande River “at or below switches and other metal required for the main track on Laredo, Texas.” Although some grading apparently was the Huntsville Branch…” The H&GN president, Mr. done, the V&C railroad never built track in any direction. Grow, had signed an agreement two months earlier that The H&GN owned $50,000 in V&C stock, so had a the H&GN would “run a train of cars to and from definite interest in preserving its investment, but no Huntsville once a day, six times a week for passengers records of the acquisition or disposition of materials and freight – accidents or unavoidable delay or any other purchased for the V&C were ever found by the cause such as shall prevent running trains regularly on the company’s auditors. track of said H&GN RR only excepted.” By March 26 The HT&B, the Huntsville Branch and the V&C the track was completed. Huntsville had its branch and assets were merged into the H&GN on May 8, 1873. the H&GN had a new connection. This ended their independent status, added mileage to the Over on the International, although track building had H&GN and promised better things for their collective continued eastward to and beyond Palestine, bridgework futures. was still underway at the Trinity crossing 13 miles west of Palestine. International & Great Northern: consolidation March 15, 1872 The International and the Houston & Great Northern “The International Railroad trains will pass over the became part of the same company by consolidation Trinity about the 15th of April.” September 30, 1873 as the International & Great North- Work began in Houston in early September 1872 on a ern (I&GN) Railroad. At that time the International itself drawbridge and viaduct to carry H&GN tracks across had constructed 176.9 miles of railroad which it brought Buffalo Bayou to the south bank. During the same period into the combination. The H&GN was credited with track was built from the south side of the Bayou to link 208.8 miles, including sidings. News dispatches often the new Union Depot (H&GN and GH&H) with the referred to the I&GN as the “International” and that name H&GN main track on the north side of the Bayou. When remained in use long after the railroads merged. the bridge was completed on January 15, 1873, the On October 1, 1873, a worldwide financial crisis connection was accomplished. brought on by the collapse of Jay Cooke & Co., whose On December 7, 1872, the H&GN tracks from huge holdings included railroads (notably Northern Houston were completed to the International tracks Pacific) and other industries, led to a period known as the “opposite the station” in Palestine. For the H&GN this Panic of 1873 that would last until 1878. The effects of was 150.6 miles from milepost 0 on the north side of the slump were bound to be felt in Texas, although Buffalo Bayou. construction on several roads, including the I&GN, Until December 1872 the offices of the International seemed to continue unabated. Railroad were located at Hearne. H.M. Hoxie, General A one year trackage agreement with the Texas & Superintendent of the International, had now been named Pacific Railway (T&P) instituted on June 1, 1874, Superintendent of the H&GN as well, and on December allowed the I&GN to begin operating both freight and 10 he moved his offices to Houston in order to have all passenger trains to and from Texarkana via Longview his work concentrated in a single location. That same Junction. This 97 mile route in northeast Texas gave the

14 Gulf Coast Railroading • January 2015 Left: The front side of an 1873 joint International and Houston Right: The back side of the same 1873 joint International & Great Northern pass is ornately decorated. The map at the and Houston & Great Northern pass displayed to left bottom shows the two roads in red. The upper blue line shows displays conditions under which the pass was issued at the the combined Cairo, Arkansas & Texas and Iron Mountain top. Note the emphasis in the mileage chart at the bottom railroads, while the lower blue line shows two Mexican lines claiming the lesser combined distances of connecting roads connecting to the I&GN at Laredo, Texas. between New York and the Pacific (at Mazatlan, Mexico). Courtesy Ken E. Stavinoha Collection Courtesy Ken E. Stavinoha Collection I&GN access to “St. Louis traffic” off the standard July 9, 1874 gauge Cairo, Arkansas & Texas Railroad (CA&T; it had “The road will certainly reach San Marcos by August been the Cairo & Fulton Railroad, C&F, until September next, the iron is at Galveston to complete the road to San 1872) that reached Texarkana January 15, 1874. The Marcos and ten miles beyond.” CA&T connected with the St. Louis & Iron Mountain There was a report in Railroad Gazette (Volume 6) Railroad from St. Louis at a location on the Missouri- during 1874 that provided perspective on the International Arkansas border aptly named MoArk. Both the CA&T and Great Northern’s construction progress in the and the Iron Mountain Road, as it was best known, were northern part of Texas: leased to the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern “The International Railroad (now called the Interna- Railway (StLIM&S) May 6, 1874. Several years later the tional Division) was extended from Overton northeast 25 StLIM&S would come under control of the Missouri miles to a connection with the Texas & Pacific at Pacific, but in 1874 the MP had not yet been heard from Longview early in the year, and at the close of the year in Texas railroading. from the southwest terminus on the Brazos River south- In the southwesterly direction from Hearne at this west 15 miles. The Tyler Branch of this Division was period the I&GN had not yet reached Austin; the track extended from Troupe (38 miles southwest of Longview) was only in place from Hearne to Rockdale, 24 miles north by west 44 miles to a connection with the Texas & from the east bank of the Brazos, and still 61 miles from Pacific at Mineola. This is a total of 84 miles constructed the Capitol City. However, south of Austin the Interna- by this corporation.” tional crews were busily building roadbed toward San Antonio even without tracks into Austin from the north- Missouri Pacific Lines in Texas east or a connecting bridge across the Colorado River End of Part 1 that was yet to be constructed:

Gulf Coast Railroading • January 2015 15 Timetable Notes

NOTE: Meetings Watch for monthly Membership Meeting Tuesday, March Membership Meeting of the Gulf location announcements in this newslet- March 17 Coast Chapter - NRHS, Inc. at Valley Ranch ter, on the Chapter website and on 7:30 p.m. Grill & Barbeque. Facebook. Tuesday, April Gulf Coast Chapter Board Meeting at Happy New Year 2015! April 7 the IHOP on Washington and I/10 (south 7:00 p.m. side of I/10). Tuesday, January Gulf Coast Chapter Board Meeting January 6, 2015 at the IHOP on Washington and I/10 (south Tuesday, April Membership Meeting of the Gulf 7:00 p.m. side of I/10). April 21, Coast Chapter - NRHS, Inc. at Valley Ranch 7:30 p.m. Grill & Barbeque. Tuesday, Annual Corporate Meeting of the Gulf January 20 Coast Chapter - NRHS, Inc. at Valley NOTE Additional announcements may be added to 7:30 p.m. Ranch Grill & Barbeque. Corporate this schedule periodically. Meeting article on page 5 has directions.

Tuesday, February Gulf Coast Chapter Board February 3 Meeting at the IHOP on Washington and 7:00 p.m. I/10 (south side of I/10).

Tuesday, February Membership Meeting of the Gulf February 17 Coast Chapter - NRHS, Inc. at Valley Ranch 7:30 p.m. Grill & Barbeque.

Tuesday, March Gulf Coast Chapter Board Meeting March 3 at the IHOP on Washington and I/10 (south 7:00 p.m. side of I/10).

Work Party Information Gulf Coast Railroading by PDF? Remember: “Just one volunteer day a Members: Get the PDF version of Gulf Coast month will make a big difference!” Railroading early via e-mail! Send your e-mail IF/WHEN MUSEUM WORK PARTIES ARE SCHEDULED address to [email protected] and tell us “I want Gulf Coast Railroading via PDF.” An announcement will be made when the museum is ready to receive work parties.

See contact information below and at right. Contact us! “Wednesday” - confirm w/Chris Beetle 281-970-6708 We want to hear from you. If you have comments, “Thursday evening” - confirm w/Al Dykes 281-367-7019 questions or suggestions concerning your chapter, “Saturday” - confirm w/Jerry Dorcz 281-357-4141 please do not hesitate to contact these officers.

THE MODEL RAILROAD IS CURRENTLY STORED Shawn Sanders, President...... [email protected] An announcement will be made when the layout located in Tom Marsh, VP-Admin...... [email protected] the baggage end of ex-ATSF Railway Post Office car No. Al Dykes, VP-Mech ...... [email protected] 3401 is again available for work and operation. Perry Jones, VP-Memb...... [email protected] Doug Weiskopf, [email protected] W. E. (Bill) Willits, VP-Editor...... [email protected] CONTACT INFORMATION Dave Bateson, Secretary...... [email protected] Jerry Dorcz, Treasurer ...... [email protected] Al Dykes, Mechanical Vice President 281-367-7019

16 Gulf Coast Railroading • January 2015 Vol. 53, No. 2 • February 2015 GULF C OAST R AILROADING Official Publication of the Gulf Coast Chapter – NRHS, Inc., and Texas Railroading Heritage Museum

The 2014 KCS Holiday Express train brought joy to young and old at Newton, Mississippi, on its journey across the system. Newton is on the Meridian, MS to Shreveport, LA, east-west “Speedway” that helps link Norfolk Southern and north Texas. Photo by Phil Whitley 12/04/14 Heavy lifting at Railwood On December 9, 2014, the last materials from four sturdy Gulf Coast another northeast Houston Chapter volunteers, a crane site to Tomball as well. lift crew and truck drivers The photos accompany- converged on the former ing this article show just Houston Railroad Museum some of the tasks facing Al site nearly a year after Dykes, Chris Beetle, Dave removal of the rolling stock Taveirne, Phil Whitley and to storage. Their purpose the removal crew. Except was to remove three semi- for two heavy items that trailer loads of signal had to be left for another standards, heads, relay day after truck capacity was boxes and multiple other filled, this cleared the heavy pieces left at the site A crane crewman and Al Dykes have a semaphore standard Railwood site of our and carry them to a storage and head chained for lift and movement onto a trailer. The longtime museum home. old familiar concrete phone booth waits in the background. site at Tomball. The same For those who spent Photo by Phil Whitley day the crew also conveyed (Heavy lifting at Railwood - continued on page 6)

Gulf Coast Railroading • February 2015 1 GULF COAST From the Editor... RAILROADING Bill Willits

Vol. 53, No. 2 • February 2015 Thanks for being with us!

Special thanks if you have renewed your Gulf Coast Chapter membership for 2015. Your loyalty and support are greatly appreciated.

If you have not already renewed, this February issue is the last Gulf Coast Railroading you will receive. But even if you failed to send your renewal in by the January 31 deadline, send it NOW to be reinstated and you may not miss an issue after all. We want you riding with us!

Gulf Coast Railroading is published Now to other good stuff! Texas Railroading Heritage Museum (TRHM) is a giant 10 times each year by Gulf Coast step closer to reality. In early January 2015 the City of Tomball completed acquisition of the entire space we need to build on. Of course we have to continue Chapter, National Railway Histori- doing some serious fundraising to make the museum happen. Obviously we can’t cal Society, Inc., P.O. Box 457, name a date when TRHM will be ready to open, as lots of work is ahead, but your Houston, TX 77001-0457. Opinions support in this endeavor will help get us to that happy day. expressed herein may not reflect the official position of the Gulf Coast Members in the Houston and Tomball areas: for the past several years both Doug Chapter or the National Railway His- Weiskopf and I have been presenting programs on historical Texas railroads as well torical Society. as our Chapter’s museum aspirations to let people in the community know who we are and what we do. If you know of or belong to an organization or group that Editor ...... W. E. (Bill) Willits would be interested in such a presentation, please contact me: Circulation...... J. Dorcz, P. Jones [email protected] or 281-373-4041.

Gulf Coast Chapter, National Rail- The 2015 NRHS convention is just four months away. If you have not registered to way Historical Society, Inc. is a attend and haven’t selected your choices of events, time is wasting! There will be a non-profit, 501(c)(3) educational or- great week of railroading in Vermont, so get on board with those of us who are going; ganization incorporated under the it’s a much different and unique part of the U.S.A. than where we live and a great laws of the state of Texas. place to visit. Have you renewed your NRHS membership? Now’s the right time. Meetings of the Membership are open to the public and take place on the third Tuesday of designated months except December. See Time- table Notes on page 16 for dates and location of upcoming meetings. Welcome Aboard!

Gulf Coast Chapter - NRHS, Inc. owns All new and renewing members a collection of rail equipment: Texas Railroading Heritage Mu- seum. The collection is now in storage awaiting completion of a new Notice of Upcoming Meetings museum site: to be announced. For more details, visit us on the web at The February Membership Meeting of the Gulf Coast Chapter - National Railway our NEW address: Historical Society, Inc., will be held.on Tuesday, February 17, 7:30 p.m. at Valley www.texasrrmuseum.org Ranch Grill & Barbeque. See Membership Meeting page 4 for directions.

2014 Officers Contributing to Gulf Coast Railroading: we welcome submissions. The deadline President ...... Shawn Sanders for submitting material to the editor is the 12th day of the month prior to the VP-Administration ...... Tom Marsh respective cover date. Material may be submitted on a CD or DVD in text or Word VP-Mechanical ...... Al Dykes format along with a hard copy, or e-mailed as text or with a Word or text attachment VP-Membership ...... Perry Jones to [email protected], or you may mail a typed or printed copy to: W. E. Willits, VP-Events ...... Doug Weiskopf Editor, P.O. Box 457, Houston, TX 77001-0457. Time-sensitive news items will be VP-Editor ...... W. E. (Bill) Willits given priority over general interest subjects. The editor reserves the right to edit, Secretary ...... Brent Lamb hold or omit material at his discretion. Treasurer ...... Jerry Dorcz

2 Gulf Coast Railroading • February 2015 Chapter & Museum News

Summary of the Chapter BOD Meeting Hill Country Flyer from Cedar Park, near Austin, to Tuesday, January 06, 2015 Burnet, Texas. A charter bus for that event may be by Brent Lamb, Chapter Secretary possible. This year’s chapter Christmas Party in Spring, Texas Meeting at IHOP, 6508 Washington Avenue, Houston. netted a $516 profit, which was less than last year’s. Present: Directors Tom Marsh, Chris Beetle, Al Chris Beetle said that he would like to see the Good Dykes, Perry Jones, Doug Weiskopf, Bill Willits, Brent Cheer move to Tomball on its own trucks. Tom said that Lamb, and Rob Maxwell; past president Phil Whitley; would cost about $100,000 to occur. visitor Robert Rivera. Tom asked if the chapter would like to renew its Called to order at 7:00 pm by President Chris Beetle. membership with the Association of Tourist Railroads & Treasurer’s report: on behalf of Treasurer Jerry Railway Museums which would cost $200. No action at Dorcz, Bill Willits presented copies of the financial report this time. for the period ending December 31, 2014. Tom Marsh Tom asked for a motion to spend (an additional) stated that the 2015 budget must be set at the next board $1,500 on legal services to establish a museum. Bill meeting. Willits seconded the motion and it was passed by the Membership report: Perry Jones said that there have board of directors. Attorneys have already handled the been 84 membership renewals to date with 14 yet to be Verde Valley transfer of ownership, sale of the Ft. entered. The chapter has received $2,016 in dues and Lauderdale sleeping car, land leases for the city of Tomall, donations of $2,547 for a total income of $4,563. Thirty revisions for the certification of the formation for the nine members requested first class (newsletter) delivery museum, and a teleconference for the operating agree- which totaled $390. Forty nine renewals came back with ment between the chapter and the museum. The mu- need for various corrections. Two have used “Pay Pal” seum board will begin with Al Dykes, Phil Scheps, and (not an option offered – Ed.). Tom suggested that a Tom Marsh. New members will then come aboard. The second mailing to those who have not renewed be made chapter has allocated $400,000 to spend on the museum which would be approximately 75 letters. There are 127 site in Tomball. It is estimated that it will cost $1.6 email addresses in the membership list. million to build the museum grounds. Mechanical report: Al Dykes updated the remaining Rob Maxwell from Tomball said that grading plans equipment at Railwood. There is a signal cabinet that need to be sent to the city and that a survey plat will also was removed from its concrete base by the Wednesday be needed. He will put together a list of engineering steps Gang and is now ready to be loaded on a trailer and involved. moved to Tomball. The concrete telephone booth will Tom said that once the chapter signs an operating have to be lifted vertically to prevent damage. The agreement with the Texas Railroading Heritage Museum, chapter received $2,100 for the truck frames that were we (the chapter) are not responsible for the museum. salvaged. The chapter only owns the railroad cars. Phil Whitley asked about the donation of the former Discussion items: Santa Fe switch engine to the Rosenberg Railroad The transport agreement for the Verde Valley with the Museum. It is up to the Rosenberg Museum to prepare a Arizona group that purchased the car will be reviewed on site for the engine and find a way to move it. 01/08/2015. They will then be ready to move the car. The next BOD meeting will be at 7:00 pm Tuesday, Tom would like to move the Eagle Chasm to the Naviga- February 03, 2015 at IHOP on Washington Avenue, tion site when the Verde Valley is removed. That would Houston, Texas as usual. end our equipment presence at Produce Row. NOTE: the Tuesday, March 03, 2015 BOD meeting The Ft. Lauderdale sleeping car has been sold. The will be at the Denny’s Restaurant on Washington Avenue chapter will assist the new owner in getting the car (across I/10 overpass from IHOP) to avoid National moved to Dallas. They would like to have the car in Pancake Day at IHOP. Dallas by March, 2015. The board of directors meeting was adjourned by The final Tomball property will close on 01/07/2015. President Chris Beetle at 7:55 pm. This acquisition will provide the space needed to properly house the Texas Railroading Heritage Museum and Minutes respectfully submitted by Chapter Secretary Brent maintenance facilities. Lamb. Summary by the editor. The chapter web site needs to be updated. Chapter field trips for 2015: one possibility being the (Chapter & Museum News - continued on page 4)

Gulf Coast Railroading • February 2015 3 (Chapter & Museum News - continued from page 3) President’s corner Chapter Membership Meeting by Shawn Sanders, Chapter President February 17, 2015 Greetings on a cold, wet, rainy day in January, with hopes that we are not iced in as you are reading this, The Tuesday, February 17 Membership Meeting of unless it is in a “new” refrigerator car for the museum. the Gulf Coast Chapter - NRHS, Inc. will be held at: Sorry, the car is wishful thinking! Valley Ranch Grill & Barbeque As we enter February, we seem to be nearing 22548 Texas State Highway 249 completion of terms and agreements to move the mu- Houston TX 77070 seum to Tomball. There will be feature articles detailing As always, Chapter meetings start at 7:30 p.m. this as we move through the year. Come early to eat and to greet your friends. We are also looking forward to having a steady When coming from central Houston, this location is “meeting home” at Valley Ranch Grill & BBQ for our approximately 6.5 miles northwest of the Sam Houston monthly Membership Meetings and programs. Please Tollway intersection with State Highway 249. Take the plan to attend and bring a friend with you.. Valley Ranch Spring Cypress exit from SH 249 onto the frontage road. Grill & BBQ is at the north end of the shopping center at Valley Ranch is at the north end of the shopping area at SH 249 and Spring-Cypress Road. the southeast corner of Spring Cypress Rd. and the SH As a chapter, we are working on putting together 249 frontage road. some trips and other exciting activities, so stay tuned for We will be meeting in a separate room behind the more details. As for me, I am trying to stay warm and dining room, so tell the host/hostess you are with the hope you all are warm and well as we move through the railroad group. winter months. February 17 program We appreciate your attendance and support of the Jerry Dorcz will present some of Dave See’s railroad Gulf Coast Chapter. Happy Railroading! slides. Our dear friend and longtime Gulf Coast Chapter Administrative Vice President David See died suddenly on November 21, 2000 at age 45; his family agreed to give Membership reminder his railroad slides to the Gulf Coast Chapter. We look by Perry Jones, VP – Membership forward to remembering Dave trackside. Preview of March 17 program Thanks to all who have renewed your memberships Chapter VP-Events Doug Weiskopf has been able to in Gulf Coast Chapter for 2015. This renewal year has tentatively schedule Texas Central Railway President been somewhat of a challenge in that NRHS elected not Robert Eckels to speak on this high speed rail (HSR) to include local membership renewals along with the project planned between Houston and Dallas. National renewal process. Fortunately, the Gulf Coast Chapter has members experienced with the membership renewal process and they quickly responded to help me prepare the revised billing. The Gulf Coast Chapter needs your continued support through your memberships and donations as we continue forward with creation of a new museum to house our collection of railroad history and memorabilia in Tomball, TX. We mailed over 150 Gulf Coast Chapter membership renewal forms in November and we have received 100 paid renewals as of January 12, 2015, a 67% renewal rate. Donations to the Chapter totaled $3263.00 during the NOTICE: All 2015 Gulf Coast Chapter Membership same period. What a great response! Thank You. Meetings are planned to occur at Valley Ranch. Please review your separate NRHS billing and consider your involvement. March BOD meeting change The March 3 Gulf Coast Chapter board of directors Reminders from the Editor meeting will be held at the Denny’s restaurant on the I need your articles for the March issue by Thurs- northeast corner of Washington and the westbound I/10 day, February 12, for the April issue by Thursday, frontage road to avoid conflict with IHOP’s National March 12. Thank you. Pancake Day. This change is for the March BOD only.

4 Gulf Coast Railroading • February 2015 Rachel Pipkin Award “Thanks and welcome” by the editor by the editor

Congratulations to Tom Marsh. During the Gulf Thanks to Dave Bateson, our Chapter board Secre- Coast Chapter Holiday Party at Puffabelly’s on December tary in 2014, for his well written and delivered minutes. 7, 2014, outgoing president Chris Beetle bestowed the Dave’s night work schedule has made it difficult for him 2014 Rachel Pipkin Award on Tom. This award is given to attend all board meetings and he is stepping down. He each year to a member who has gone above and beyond says he’ll be able now to help with the Wednesday Gang in service to the Chapter. Tom certainly earned this projects regularly though, so that’s good news! award, as he has been taking the lead on many chapter Welcome to Brent Lamb, who has volunteered to take and museum matters and delivering for a long time. My over as Secretary in 2015. Brent has been a longtime apologies for not according Tom due recognition in the member and volunteer, also a regular with the Wednesday January issue. Gang, and board members look forward to working with him this year. Brent, thanks for stepping up. 2015 NRHS Convention by the editor I’ll be there. Will you? The 2015 NRHS Convention at Rutland, Vermont, June 14-20 will feature several excursions and other unique events. To register, go to the NRHS website: www.nrhs.com A PDF booklet containing Convention information is part of the “Registration Package.” It is recommended you read this PDF document for full information before attempting to actually register. The address for actually registering is displayed on page 23 of the 30 page PDF information booklet: Above from left: The evening’s emcee Jerry Dorcz, Rachel http://www.regonline.com/nrhs2015convention Pipkin Award winner Tom Marsh and Chapter president Chris Selecting “Tickets On Sale Now” on the second page Beetle as Tom received his award. Photo by Al Dykes of the website goes directly to the registration form at the above address.

City of Tomball acquires site! You can also obtain a convention booklet and regis- by the editor tration form by writing to: 2015 NRHS Convention As of January 7, 2015, the City of Tomball com- 100 N 20th St., Suite 400 pleted acquisition of the several contiguous properties that Philadelphia, PA 19103-1462 are to become the Texas Railroading Heritage Museum (TRHM) site. This culminates more than two and a half years of anticipation by the city and Gulf Coast Chapter. Engineering work on the site will proceed in the near Membership information current? future under direction of the newly constituted museum Please let Perry Jones, Chapter Membership VP, board of directors. know as soon as possible about any address, phone number or email address changes by Greater Houston Train Show 02/21/15 contacting him via e-mail: ([email protected]) or Join us at the Greater Houston Train Show spon- ([email protected]) sored by the San Jacinto Railroad Club on Saturday, or by phone: 281-844-0951 (Mobile). Please February 21, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Stafford include your membership ID (NRHS Member Center in Stafford, Texas. Gulf Coast Chapter will have a Number) and mention “Membership Change.” booth in the outer hallway; we need volunteers to man it and greet our many friends there. Of course you’ll have time to buy a ticket and enjoy the “inside” show, too!

Gulf Coast Railroading • February 2015 5 (Heavy lifting at Railwood - continued from page 1) many happy hours at the old museum after the move there from Union Station in 1977, this brings another era to an end. But soon we expect to be hard at work building our new museum in a third site. Then we will bring all the elements together again.

Above: Just a few odd-shaped items take up a lot of space!

Below: This signal base and relay case were finally persuaded aboard with some coaxing.

Above: A tall boom makes working over the fence a lot easier; no amount of volunteering can beat a machine like this!

Left: This relay case, after much hammering, chiseling and other kinds of persuasion by Al and Chris, was eventually separated from its very heavy concrete base and now resides in the Tomball storage location.

Above: No, kids, it is not a giant spider or an alien; a long-ago damaged Blunt truck sideframe is enroute to the scrapper. All photos on this page by Phil Whitley

6 Gulf Coast Railroading • February 2015 Above: Wheelsets, intact trucks and all sorts of other heavy hardware can make a trailer-load very quickly. One of the old trucks that used to sit in the weeds is being swung into position Above: Crewmen strap the double height wigwag case outside for placement on a trailer. the “station” for lifting. Below: The old traction motor wheelset from the HB&T S-2 is Below: At the Tomball end of the trip, Chris Beetle surveys lifted to be swung over onto one of the trailers. just part of thematerial deposited after trucking.

Above: The following day Al picked up some “leftovers” in his pickup truck and took them out to Tomball. Above: One of the Blunt trucks here being cut apart to make smaller packages for scrapping will soon be a “non-truck.” All photos this page by Al Dykes

Gulf Coast Railroading • February 2015 7 The cantaloupe train: 1941 interesting steam), but on examination I noticed four (at by the editor random in the binder, not all together) are related to T&NO and Texas. They show a solid reefer train loaded We have, among the archives of the Chapter, a binder with either California or Arizona cantaloupes (“1941 containing some glossy photographs from the Southern cantalope train” [sic] and the number “9” are written on Pacific and its affiliates dating from the early to mid-20th back of all four in pencil) enroute at four different century. As we prepared to move the museum collection locations in Texas on the SP, T&NO and SSW. No to storage in 2013 I saved at home some archival materi- identification as to the actual locations are on the photos, als with potential as article sources, since I had no idea but I recognized one almost immediately and by research how long it might be before we could again access the deduced two others after some study. My special thanks archives; the binder is among those materials. to George Werner for information on the Devil’s River Some but not nearly all of the photos are stamped on bridge floods and to both George and Joe Dale Morris for the back with the statement: “From Southern Pacific their help in verifying train numbering and times on the Public Relations 65 Market Street, San Francisco.” Most Hustler’s route. of the photos are of California SP scenes (including some Left: Photo 1 - The cantaloupe train is eastbound on the former Phelps-Dodge EP&SW line via Columbus, New Mexico, crossing the Rio Grande River from New Mexico into Texas just west of Smeltertown on the west side of El Paso; highway below is US 80, track is P&SF. The Mexican border is about 1/2 mile to left of view; at some points in New Mexico the border is only feet away from the right of way. The EP&SW line was acquired by SP in 1924 and used as a second mainline between southeastern Arizona and Texas. SP’s original (regular) main west via Deming and Lordsburg, New Mexico, curves away over the Rio Grande in right background. Columbus was the scene of a 1915 raid by Pancho Villa that soon brought U.S. troops under General Pershing there.

The December 1949 Official Guide shows that Southern Pacific routed certain Sunset Route and Golden State Route passenger trains via the EP&SW: westbound Golden State #3, Argonaut #5 and Imperial #39; eastbound Golden State #4, Imperial #40 and Cherokee #44. The Sunset Limited #1 and #2 regularly ran only on the original SP main.

Most of the EP&SW line was abandoned in the early 1960s but about three miles remain; the portion visible in the photo connects to the regular SP main just beyond the hills in the background, giving UP a (separated) double track into El Paso.

Left: Photo 2 - T&NO F-5 2-10-2 #916 pulls eastbound train 246 across the Devil’s River (mile 394 of the Houston Division on the T&NO’s Sunset Route). In 1948 flooding destroyed four of the six spans, requiring a massive reconstruction. A new and relocated six span bridge to carry the railroad across the water was built in 1963 and Lake Amistad began filling in 1968; the lake has since occupied most of this view. The track comes straight off the south end of the present bridge instead of curving as in this 1941 photo.

The culvert marker in the foreground (39450) provided the editor’s initial clue to confirming this location. The company photographer who took this photo had to be capable of some serious hiking, as this area of Texas was and is very rugged. The Mexican border (now in the middle of the lake) is out of sight to the left of this view.

8 Gulf Coast Railroading • February 2015 Right: Photo 3 - Northbound on H&TC/T&NO, 2-10-2 #984 with train 3-263, the “Cantalope Train” passes the Hustler that is enroute to Houston somewhere south of Corsicana. “Sunbeam” is written on back of the photo but this must have been the Hustler, because there are no elongated shadows, making it appear this shot was taken closer to midday; the Sunbeam ran late in the day. The upper parts and roofs of buildings in the background are evident railroad structures (note the train order signal) but no amount of searching revealed a matching photo profile along the Dallas- Houston route that could identify the location absolutely.

Right: Photo 4 - SSW (Cotton Belt) 4-8-4 #805 (left track nearer the photographer) is about to receive the cantaloupe train from the T&NO (train on the other track in background) for movement east from Corsicana. The head brakeman (or bystander?) by the switch in front of 805 is wearing a jaunty boater hat; possible railfan?

This series of photos obviously was an SP/T&NO company promotion for the fruit block service in season. The refrigerator cars would have been serviced at various locations; the railroad maintained a large icing operation at El Paso, among other places.

From Corsicana the train could have been routed to Memphis, St. Louis or Chicago via the Cotton Belt and its connections; it would be interesting to know how long the total trip took from farm to grocery in 1941.

(From progressiverailroading.com) Houston transit authority readies new CAF light-rail cars for service The Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO) will launch six new CAF USA light-rail cars into revenue service on Wednesday (January 7th), marking the entry of Houston’s third generation (H3) of rail cars. Other new CAF vehicles will enter service over the next several weeks leading up to the opening of two new rail lines. The East/Green Line and Southeast/Purple Line are scheduled to open in April, METRO officials said in a press release. The H3 CAF cars will join 19 H2 and 18 H1 (Siemens S70) cars now providing service on the North and Main Street (Red) lines, bringing the total to 76 METRORail cars once the CAF car delivery of 39 H3 vehicles is completed, they said. The units are powered by an overhead catenary system and can carry up to 200 riders per car. CAF USA, a subsidiary of Spain’s Construcciones y Auxilliar de Ferrocarriles, is contracted to provide the new cars for METRO’s light-rail expansion. The units will be used throughout the agency’s system.

Gulf Coast Railroading • February 2015 9 Early Texas Railroads

Missouri Pacific Lines in Texas As the I&GN’s one year trackage agreement with the by W. E. (Bill) Willits T&P to route trains to and from Texarkana by way of Longview expired, the T&P decided not to renew it, Part 2 citing dissatisfaction with the terms. These trackage rights would be reinstated later but for the time being the The I&GN had sought some financial relief from the I&GN had to seek another arrangement. Texas Legislature, but the Governor was apparently not in The I&GN’s cattle shipping business in Texas was total agreement with that body: doing well: March 11, 1875 June 6, 1875 “The International” “Large trains of stock for Shreveport and St. Louis “The Governor vetoed the International compromise are passing on the International daily.” bill which granted $3,000,000 in bonds to the company June 15, 1875, brought the beginning of major for building the road to the Rio Grande, and exacts that changes. The I&GN general offices were being relocated the road pay into the State Treasury annually two per from Houston to Palestine. This move would bring great cent of its gross earnings until the principal and interest pride to Palestine as an important part of the railroad’s of the bonds are paid. The bill also required the road to expansion and added significant numbers of jobs to the buy $80,000 of any State bonds which may be issued and local work force. placed upon the market semi annually every two years, or And at the Texas-Arkansas border the cattle just kept to the amount of $320,000…” arriving:

The I&GN General Office Building constructed in Palestine in 1874 provided the railroad with an imposing presence in that city. Additional structures, including shop buildings, roundhouse and others, all added to the prominence of I&GN. This was to be the railroad’s gem and promised permanence that would only later be challenged. Courtesy Ken E. Stavinoha Collection

10 Gulf Coast Railroading • February 2015 This International Railroad 2nd Mortgage Bond was issued in 1874, after the consolidation of the H&GN and International as International & Great Northern. It is signed by Galusha Grow, president of the International prior to the merger. Why it would have been issued at this late date in the name of the International only is unclear. Courtesy Ken E. Stavinoha Collection

July 1, 1875 this city was, until very recently, public domain. It is “There have been fed, watered and shipped from now, however, filed upon and is being surveyed for the Texarkana during the week 120 carloads containing 2500 above mentioned Railroad company…” Any anticipated head of cattle, and one car load of horses containing 20 rail line in this item never materialized. Actually the head.” Were these animals going west to build herds or railroads of Texas owned vast amounts of land far from east (to St. Louis?) to slaughter. Heavy traffic was their own operations; land was the same as money in the moving both ways. treasury. At Columbus, 80 miles west of Houston and far from The reactivated I&GN and T&P interchange meant any of the International & Great Northern’s existing business for both companies. In this period rates tracks, there was anticipation that the I&GN would soon generally were set by the railroads themselves and state be building in another direction: or federal regulation had not yet become a factor: December 16, 1875 January 6, 1876 “A party of surveyors in charge of Captain Wm. F. “The Texas Pacific Railroad has cut rates on cotton Clarke left Columbus on Thursday last for the purpose of from the junction of the International to $3 per bail to surveying lands in Colorado County for the International New Orleans, via Shreveport and Red River.” and Great Northern Railroad company. It may not be The following item indicated migration outward to known to every one that the vast prairie region south of areas far beyond the larger towns:

Gulf Coast Railroading • February 2015 11 This very fragile map from an 1877 passenger timetable issued by the I&GN shows Texas with some of the I&GN’s in-state connections emphasized. In the upper right portion the Texarkana connection via the CA&T (and the Iron Mountain in northern Arkansas to St. Louis) are evident. Obviously the map outside Texas is condensed considerably to fit. Courtesy Ken E. Stavinoha Collection

January 27, 1876 speculate what was said, but it was an optimistic start: “The Great Northern is crowding so many immi- May 4, 1876 grants into Dallas and adjacent counties that a few of “Now that we know that the International Railroad them are ‘sloshing over,’ and coming this way. These are will be completed to Austin by September, and that the not the first people whom the force of circumstances business and population of the city will be largely …” have assigned a better condition.” The following item was tongue in cheek; the Austin From Hearne the I&GN had finally completed its depot (later Union Depot) was built centrally at Congress track southwest to Rockdale and graded a line onward to and Cypress (3rd St.). Mt. Bonnell is the highest point reach Austin: near Austin, on the Colorado River northwest of town, a March 2, 1876 popular tourist destination since the 1850s. The “narrow “The International Railroad Company is preparing to gauge to Mt. Bonnell” evidently was a non-starter, as no extend their line of road from Rockdale towards Austin. histories of the area mention it and there is no indication Rockdale is full of contractors, engineers, etc.” on maps of the era that it was ever built: Jobs on the railroad’s construction were said to be June 1, 1876 available: “The Statesman is satisfied the depot of the Interna- March 2, 1876 tional railroad will not be located near the business center “Two hundred men and one hundred teams can get of Austin, as it will cost the people of the city $90,000; work on the International.” and thinks it would be better for the depot to be located in The following item, whose message was quite clear the suburbs, where donations of land for it had been in the first words, was unfortunately not readable beyond offered gratis, and the money put in a narrow gauge to the first sentence in the newspaper copy. One can only Mt. Bonnell.”

12 Gulf Coast Railroading • February 2015 There were always optimists who expected an early arrival of “their” railroad: August 31, 1876 “It is stated that the International road will be completed to Austin in October.” The following is the first mention of the Missouri Pacific Railroad in the Colorado Citizen, whose editor always seemed to have a good nose for railroad news from farther north: September 14, 1876 “On the 6th inst. Andrew Pierce, Jr., bid in the Missouri Pacific Railroad for $3,000,000.” Was Jay Gould waiting in the wings? Although somewhat delayed, Austin would probably soon have its second railroad (the H&TC had arrived five years earlier): October 26, 1876 “The International is expected to be completed to Austin by the 18th of November next.” Construction was indeed getting close to Austin: November 2, 1876 “Duval is the new terminus of the International road, nine miles north of Austin.” Earlier optimism had been dashed, but the railroad was still coming: December 7, 1876 “Austin expects to have the International road running trains there by the 1st of next month. Work will be promptly begun on both passenger and freight depots.” The following item was the first mention of a closed roundhouse at Hearne, perhaps from a fire, a frequent occurrence around railroad properties. However, it is likely that Hearne had temporarily lost its prominence on the railroad as construction continued away from that area, and the roundhouse may not have been needed for a time: December 28, 1876 “The I. & G. N. Railroad have again made Hearne the end of a division, and will soon re-open January 1877 passenger timetable cover illustrates two themes used their round house at that place, so say reports.” by the early I&GN, Short Line to Texas and Lone Migration to Texas was in full swing: (Star) Route. Bright color looks like the sunshine in Texas! December 28, 1876 Courtesy Ken E. Stavinoha Collection “A party of seventeen went South to Palestine, Texas, yesterday, on the Iron Mountain Railway. This expand, the I&GN was forced into receivership in early was an advance guard of a colony of and from Pennsyl- 1878. R. S. Hayes was appointed to the post of receiver vania. Texas immigration was never so heavy before as it April 1, 1878 by the U.S. Circuit Court for the Western is this season… St. Louis Republican, 15th.” District of Texas at Austin in response to a suit by the The consolidation of the International and H&GN trustees of the railroad over due mortgages of both the several years earlier had resulted in a large complex International and the H&GN dating from prior to their required to service the expanded railroad’s operations at combination in 1873. the Palestine hub: There was soon to be another railroad connection not May 24, 1877 far north of Austin. The Georgetown Railroad Company “The general offices and shops of the International was incorporated under the General Laws of Texas May and Great Northern are located at Palestine.” 16, 1878. It was to construct 9.7 miles of track between Typical of many railroads as they struggled to Georgetown and Round Rock, where it would inter-

Gulf Coast Railroading • February 2015 13 June 12, 1879 “The International railway company is about to put up a comfortable passenger depot at Austin.” In Houston there had been need for a better routing between two railroads: August 21, 1879 “The International and Great Northern railroad company is laying a switch track from their bridge across the bayou, to connect with the Central track near the Texas Transportation company’s depot. This will cause a considerable saving of time to the Galveston, Houston and Henderson trains coming from Union (the joint GH&H/I&GN depot) to the Central depot. A considerable force is at work on the line at this time. – Houston Telegram.” In 1873 and 1874 the infamous financier and promoter Jay Gould had acquired large holdings in the Union Pacific Railroad, and soon acquired control of the Central Pacific and Kansas Pacific railroads as well as the Denver Pacific. In a strategy at least partially intended to prevent competition by the expanding Missouri Pacific with his western holdings, Gould then bought control of the Missouri Pacific and made himself its president. Using his considerable leverage, Gould began acquiring control of several lines in Texas to ally them with the MP in a “Southwest System.” Beginning in 1879-1880, Missouri Kansas & Texas, International & Great Northern and other smaller roads in Texas were taken over. Gould’s weight would also be felt on the Texas & Pacific (T&P), which until this time had not been allied with the Southwest System, when Gould bought control of the T&P in December, 1880. In fairness, the T&P, which had been trying to construct its line west of Ft. Worth for more than five years with little progress, probably could be said to have benefited greatly from the driving personality and financial clout of Gould, as St. Louis page of 1877 I&GN passenger timetable contains its construction accelerated and resulted in relatively interesting notes in the left portion and major connections. rapid progress after 1880. The T&P story is also an Courtesy Ken E. Stavinoha Collection intriguing one to be told another time. In the meantime, the I&GN was preparing to build change with the I&GN. This small road was sold under track southward from Austin to San Antonio. The initial foreclosure to an agent of the I&GN’s receiver on August surveys had been done years earlier; now they were 5, 1879, was then deeded to an officer of the I&GN and selecting a final route: subsequently, on August 20, 1879, was leased by the December 18, 1879 I&GN. “The International surveyors have reached San Texans had a new reason for pride in their state: Antonio. Their survey makes the distance from Austin to October 31, 1878 San Antonio 76½ miles. – San Marcos Free Press.” “Col. J. H. Page, the well known general passenger Track gauge differences had been a longstanding agent of the I. & G. N. route, was in the city yesterday, issue among railroads elsewhere as well as in Texas; the and from him it was learned that Texas carried off the following item on the subject is of interest: prize and first honors at the St. Louis exposition, in the July 8, 1880 display of products, fruit, soil, etc., as arranged by the “The Vanished Broad Gauges” passenger department of the International…” “(per the New York Journal of Commerce):” Undoubtedly the first hastily built passenger depot in “The last of the six gauges has disappeared from the Austin had proven inadequate: great roads in this country. The Erie and the Atlantic

14 Gulf Coast Railroading • February 2015 Great Western are now standard gauge all through. The weeks the locomotive is expected to ring the bell in the Ohio and Mississippi road was the third great exemplar of streets of New Braunfels.” the broad gauge folly. But of this burden the latter While the track-building went on well south of cleaned itself some years ago…” Austin, work was still in progress on the bridge over the The Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe and the International Colorado River in the Capitol City: & Great Northern had a new junction, as noted in the December 2, 1880 following item: “Work on the International bridge at Austin is pro- July 22, 1880 gressing rapidly; the piers are nearly up and soon the iron “The new town at the junction of the International superstructure will be put in position. The road is and Santa Fe railroads, in Milam county, is called finished ten miles beyond New Braunfels.” ‘Temple,’ in honor of the chief engineer of the road December 23, 1880 (Bernard Temple of the Gulf Colorado & Santa Fe, “Work is being rapidly carried forward on the Austin GC&SF), but as yet there are no marks of civilization bridge across the Colorado river. The structure is to have about the place.” seven piers, five of them have been completed.” The ownership of trackage from Waco southward to At this time the eventual MK&T tracks from Denison Taylor through Temple changed from time to time to Ft. Worth to Waco to Taylor were identified as “Mis- without ever really changing at all. This part of the line souri Pacific” property in the following item: was built by the I&GN. On December 1, 1880, the December 23, 1880 MK&T was put under Missouri Pacific control and on “The Missouri Pacific will be built to Fort Worth. June 1, 1881, the I&GN was leased to the MK&T for a The contract for grading and bridging the road from 99 year period (although the lease would be terminated in Denison has been awarded to Mr. Martin Jones, an old 1888; more on that later). An 1885 topographical map railroad builder. This is the result of the southern tour of shows the Waco-Taylor line as “Missouri Pacific.” It General Manager Talmage.” would eventually revert (rightfully, since it was built on Meanwhile, the bridge over the Colorado River at an original MK&T survey) to MK&T ownership a few Austin was getting closer to completion: years later when Jay Gould no longer controlled the Katy. January 6, 1881 Optimistic predictions were frequently made: “Five of the massive piers of the International bridge August 19, 1880 have been finished, and work on the last two is progress- “Between now and the first of September over two ing rapidly and will soon be completed and the iron work hundred miles will be added to Texas railroads. The be put up. The whole structure will probably be in Santa Fe will extend from Caldwell to Cameron; the readiness for trains to pass over by February 1st. – International will be extended from Austin to San Marcos; Austin Statesman.” the Texas Pacific will be extended thirty or forty miles In early January, 1881, the Galveston, Harrisburg & west of Weatherford; the M. K.& T. will be extended San Antonio (GH&SA, the Sunset Route), which had south of Denison about thirty miles, and other extensions completed track westward from Columbus and brought will be made and the Texas and New Orleans road will be its first train into San Antonio on February 5, 1877, began at last completed. – Ex. (San Antonio Express News)” its long awaited extension west from the Alamo City A new railroad to be built in northeast Texas, the toward a rendezvous with the Southern Pacific forces Henderson & Overton Branch Railway, had been char- building east from El Paso. That event would occur two tered April 29, 1874. Construction began in 1875 and years later near the confluence of the Pecos and Rio apparently considerable progress was made on grading Grande rivers more than 200 miles to the west of San and bridges. However, the contractor (possibly for non- Antonio. payment) stopped work in early November 1975 with the Over on the I&GN its southwestern extension line incomplete. By April 1876 the original construction between Austin and San Antonio, 79.3 miles of railroad, contract was declared null and void. Local officers of opened for business February 16, 1881. the railroad then attempted to persuade the I&GN to take In the same period the Missouri Pacific forces were over the incomplete line without success. Individuals in continuing to build in north Texas, too: Henderson formed their own company in October 1876 March 31, 1881 and completed construction of the railroad as of May 7, “Construction work is being pushed on the Missouri 1877. The company continued to operate independently Pacific southwest and northwest of Fort Worth and west until September 27, 1880, when I&GN purchased it. of Denton. Construction material is being rushed to the South of San Marcos the work on the Austin-San front over the Texas and Pacific, Dallas and Wichita and Antonio line was going rapidly forward: Transcontinental. – News.” November 4, 1880 “Track-laying on the International has reached the Missouri Pacific Lines in Texas Guadalupe, a temporary bridge will be erected, and in two End of Part 2

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NOTE: Meetings Watch for monthly Membership Meeting Tuesday, April Membership Meeting of the Gulf announcements and other information in April 21, Coast Chapter - NRHS, Inc. at Valley Ranch this newsletter, on the Chapter website 7:30 p.m. Grill & Barbeque. and on Facebook. Tuesday, May Gulf Coast Chapter Board Meeting at Tuesday, February Gulf Coast Chapter Board May 5 the IHOP on Washington and I/10 (south February 3 Meeting at the IHOP on Washington and I/ 7:00 p.m. side of I/10). 7:00 p.m. 10 (south side of I/10). Tuesday, May Membership Meeting of the Gulf Tuesday, February Membership Meeting of the May 19, Coast Chapter - NRHS, Inc. at Valley Ranch February 17 Gulf Coast Chapter - NRHS, Inc. at 7:30 p.m. Grill & Barbeque. 7:30 p.m. Valley Ranch Grill & Barbeque. Mem- bership Meeting article on page 4 has Tuesday, June Gulf Coast Chapter Board Meeting at directions. June 2, the IHOP on Washington and I/10 (south 7:00 p.m. side of I/10). Tuesday, March Gulf Coast Chapter Board Meeting March 3 at the Denny’s on Washington and I/10 SPECIAL No Membership Meeting will be held in the 7:00 p.m. (NORTH side of I/10). NOTE change of NOTICE month of June. How about attending the location for this month only! NRHS Convention?

Tuesday, March Membership Meeting of the Gulf NOTICE Additional announcements may be added to March 17 Coast Chapter - NRHS, Inc. at Valley Ranch this schedule periodically. 7:30 p.m. Grill & Barbeque. Membership Meeting article on page 4 has directions.

Tuesday, April Gulf Coast Chapter Board Meeting at April 7 the IHOP on Washington and I/10 (south 7:00 p.m. side of I/10).

THE MODEL RAILROAD IS CURRENTLY STORED Shawn Sanders, President...... [email protected] An announcement will be made when the layout located in Tom Marsh, VP-Admin...... [email protected] the baggage end of ex-ATSF Railway Post Office car No. Al Dykes, VP-Mech ...... [email protected] 3401 is again available for work and operation. Perry Jones, VP-Memb...... [email protected] Doug Weiskopf, [email protected] W. E. (Bill) Willits, VP-Editor...... [email protected] CONTACT INFORMATION Brent Lamb, Secretary...... [email protected] Jerry Dorcz, Treasurer ...... [email protected] Al Dykes, Mechanical Vice President 281-367-7019

16 Gulf Coast Railroading • February 2015 Vol. 53, No. 3 • March 2015 GULF C OAST R AILROADING Official Publication of the Gulf Coast Chapter – NRHS, Inc., and Texas Railroading Heritage Museum

Photographers in Colorado often sought Denver & Rio Grande Western (D&RGW) action shots. On the Royal Gorge route in the summer of 1990, SD50 5509 is about to lead a heavy merchandise train carrying hoppers up front onto the mainline. GCC archives - Photo by David See Checking out at Railwood! by the editor Wednesday, January 28 – Railwood has had handling and movement) have been carried to the “final, final” load taken away. Way back on storage at Tomball. Sunday, December 15, 2013, we watched the It is time for some accolades, not only to last of the rolling stock as it was taken away to the six Gulf Coast Chapter volunteers (Chris storage and thought “this is the end.” Well, it Beetle, Al Dykes, Perry Jones, Brent Lamb, wasn’t, and many more days of effort by Chapter Tom Mather and Russell Straw) who removed volunteers, track removal crew and others was the absolute last remnants of our former Hous- needed in early and late 2014 and on January 21, ton Railroad Museum from the Railwood site, 2015 to get the “almost last load” of material but also to Ralph Radtke of Global Stainless for removed from the old museum site. providing two fork lifts and their operators to Well, today was the true last day! Mechani- do the heavy lifting and to Roger Galloway for cal VP Al Dykes made the arrangements. The his generous help by loaning us his trailer and last signal base and the concrete phone booth allowing us to store our tonnage on his storage with its heavy concrete roof (separated for lot. Checked out. Done. See photos on page 8.

Gulf Coast Railroading • March 2015 1 GULF COAST From the Editor... RAILROADING Bill Willits

Vol. 53, No. 3 • March 2015 Membership has its privileges! Have you sent in your 2015 Gulf Coast Chapter renewal? Please renew and stay aboard. We want every member with us as we roll on into 2015 and this is the third Gulf Coast Railroading issue of the year, with seven more yet to come. Renew now if you haven’t already!

As a Chapter member, what do you expect from this newsletter? Chapter news? Got that. Museum news? Got that. Other emphasis? Railroad history is my favorite subject (we are, after all, a railway historical society), but maybe I have a one-track mind in this era of multi-track thinking. When there is significant local or Gulf Coast Railroading is published Texas railroad news that comes to my attention, I try to report it, but I don’t 10 times each year by Gulf Coast always report things farther away that will likely appear in the national rail-interest publications. They have people with access to industry news and report it Chapter, National Railway Histori- regularly, both online (some of which provides source material) and in print later; I cal Society, Inc., P.O. Box 457, also subscribe to several of those publications myself. But I get the feeling at times Houston, TX 77001-0457. Opinions that I may not be reaching every member with my efforts. Please share your expressed herein may not reflect the thoughts with me. official position of the Gulf Coast The 2015 NRHS Convention centered at Rutland, Vermont, is now just three Chapter or the National Railway His- months away. Despite uncertainty about the future of the NRHS organization and torical Society. how it is going to operate into the future, several of us from the Chapter are registered for this convention. I urge you to join us there. See page 5. Editor ...... W. E. (Bill) Willits Circulation...... J. Dorcz, P. Jones Regarding NRHS: as of mid-February I do not know how many Chapter members have renewed with NRHS for 2015. I did “re-up,” because I believe the national Gulf Coast Chapter, National Rail- organization has an important role to play in rail history preservation on a larger way Historical Society, Inc. is a non- scale. Eventually we all need to decide about supporting NRHS as our current profit, 501(c)(3) educational organi- bylaws require. I recommend NRHS membership to all. End of sermon. zation incorporated under the laws On April 20 an AAPRCO train will be coming to Houston from Albuquerque and of the state of Texas. then is scheduled to go to San Antonio on April 21, part of the way via the former MKT! I will publish the latest revised schedule in the April issue. Watch for it! Meetings of the Membership are open to the public and take place on the third Tuesday of designated months except December. See Time- table Notes on page 16 for dates and location of upcoming meetings. Welcome Aboard!

Gulf Coast Chapter - NRHS, Inc. owns Charles Harding a collection of rail equipment: Texas Railroading Heritage Mu- seum. The collection is now in storage awaiting completion of a new Notice of Upcoming Meetings museum site: to be announced. For more details, visit us on the web at The March Membership Meeting of the Gulf Coast Chapter - National Railway our NEW address: Historical Society, Inc., will be held.on Tuesday, March 17, 7:30 p.m. at Valley www.texasrrmuseum.org Ranch Grill & Barbeque. See Membership Meeting page 4 for directions.

2015 Officers Contributing to Gulf Coast Railroading: we welcome submissions. The deadline President ...... Shawn Sanders for submitting material to the editor is the 12th day of the month prior to the VP-Administration ...... Tom Marsh respective cover date. Material may be submitted on a CD or DVD in text or Word VP-Mechanical ...... Al Dykes format along with a hard copy, or e-mailed as text or with a Word or text attachment VP-Membership ...... Perry Jones to [email protected], or you may mail a typed or printed copy to: W. E. Willits, VP-Events ...... Doug Weiskopf Editor, P.O. Box 457, Houston, TX 77001-0457. Time-sensitive news items will be VP-Editor ...... W. E. (Bill) Willits given priority over general interest subjects. The editor reserves the right to edit, Secretary ...... Brent Lamb hold or omit material at his discretion. Treasurer ...... Jerry Dorcz

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Summary of the Chapter BOD Meeting display. Shawn asked if chapter brochures would be February 03, 2015 available by then; updated membership applications and Brent Lamb, Secretary brochures should be ready. Renewal reminders: Jerry asked if a final reminder Meeting at IHOP, 6508 Washington Avenue, Houston. for chapter membership renewals should be mailed out Present: Directors Shawn Sanders, Tom Marsh, next week. Tom said that we could also invite people to Perry Jones, Doug Weiskopf, Bill Willits, Jerry Dorcz, pay their dues at the Stafford train show. Brent Lamb; past president Phil Whitley. Main Post Office: Tom stated bulk mail now being Called to order at 7:06 pm by President Shawn handled at the downtown post office will be moving to Sanders. Bush airport. Chapter post office box will be moving to Motion to accept the January 06, 2015 BOD meeting the San Jacinto Post Office, which has very little parking. minutes by Tom Marsh, second Jerry Dorcz; accepted. Email addresses: Tom led discussion on what to do with Treasurer’s report: Jerry Dorcz presented treasurer’s the email addresses collected at Big Texas Train Show. report in a new format called the “2015 Monthly Opera- Future shows: Berry Center in Cypress discussed as tions Report” and also distributed copies of the proposed a possible site for the next chapter train show. budget in a new way called the “2015 Dedicated Catego- Membership Meeting programs: Doug reporting. ries Activity Report.” Motion to accept treasurer’s report February 17th: Jerry Dorcz to present David See by Tom Marsh, second by Doug Weiskopf; accepted. slides. (Full report available, not included in summary – Ed.) March 17: Robert Eckels, president of Texas Central Railwood: Chris talked about the last trip to site on Railway and former Harris County Judge, will discuss the January 28th with the Wednesday Gang. A pipe yard plans for TCR’s planned high speed rail line between employee thought company did not want to spend money Houston and Dallas. leveling former museum site for pipe yard use. April 21: Greg Johnson, a model railroader, will talk Tomball site report: Jerry said that all the property for about the old “Rabbit Line.” the museum has been acquired which includes 5 lots and May 19: traditionally the “Show & Tell” railroad a house which is being rented and probably will be moved memorabilia program. soon. Trips: the “Austin Steam Train” organization only Museum corporation report: Tom stated the operating gives shop tours during the week, but not weekends. contract between the city of Tomball and the chapter Newsletter: Bill working on the March issue. needed some minor changes. The new corporation called Membership: Perry - 20 renewals including 4 in mail the Texas Railroading Heritage Museum (TRHM) has not on night of the BOD meeting. Total of 104 renewals for yet received 501-3c status but is listed by State of Texas the year - $2,472; additional for mailed hardcopy newslet- as a non profit. ters - $500; donations $3,465. One donation was Mailing address: Jerry asked about acquiring a dedicated to the “Good Cheer.” Total $6,437. mailing address in Tomball. May later talk to Tomball Other matters: postmaster. Chris reported that the old tile floor in the “Alton” Tom reported on status on movement of museum parlor car was removed by the Wednesday Gang. rolling stock: Phil Whitley reported that an American Association of 1. The Arizona Railroad Museum has agreed to Private Railcar Owners (AAPRCO) train will be arriving acquire and move the “Verde Valley.” at the Houston Amtrak station on April 20, 2015. It will 2. The Rosenberg Railroad Museum presently has no then depart for San Antonio on April 21 via Alvin, Sealy, money to lay track or move the GE (former Santa Fe) and Smithville. switch engine. 3. The “Fort Lauderdale” journal boxes inspected MARCH 03, 2015 BOD MEETING TO BE AT DENNY’S were a little over lubed; now ready to move. RESTAURANT ON WASHINGTON AVENUE, HOUS- 4. The “Eagle Chasm” is still at Produce Row. The TON, NOT IHOP. Missouri Pacific Historical Society is meeting in Houston next September and wants to tour the “Eagle Chasm” and Meeting adjourned by President Shawn Sanders 8:45 pm. T&P car #1. We hope to move the “Eagle Chasm” to the Navigation storage site when the “Ft. Lauderdale” leaves Minutes respectfully submitted by Chapter Secretary Produce Row. Brent Lamb. Summary by the editor. Stafford train show February 21: Chapter to set up a (Chapter & Museum News - continued on page 4)

Gulf Coast Railroading • March 2015 3 (Chapter & Museum News - continued from page 3) President’s message Chapter Membership Meeting by Shawn Sanders, Gulf Coast Chapter president March 17, 2015 Greetings! As spring is knocking on the door and The Tuesday, March 17 Membership Meeting of the winter is working its way out, the Chapter is embarking Gulf Coast Chapter – NRHS, Inc. will be held at: on promising news of final negotiations with the City of Tomball on the site to house the newly named Texas Valley Ranch Grill & Barbeque Railroading Heritage Museum. This a major milestone for 22548 Texas State Highway 249 our organization, but we still have a long way to go before any rolling stock appears on the BNSF mainline When coming from Houston, this location is approxi- headed north out of Houston. mately 6.5 miles northwest of the Sam Houston Tollway There is much fund-raising to look forward to and intersection with State Highway 249. Take the Spring still volunteer work to do “behind the scenes” prior to our Cypress exit from SH 249 onto the frontage road. Valley emergence as a premier attraction in Tomball. Working Ranch is at the north end of the shopping area at the together, the Chapter and the newly formed Museum southeast corner of Spring Cypress Rd. and the SH 249 boards will oversee the initial development of our mu- frontage road. seum site, until such time that the Museum board be- We will be meeting in a separate room behind the comes self-sufficient to operate independently of the dining room, so tell the host/hostess you are with the Chapter on matters relating to the museum. What we will railroad group. Come early to eat and to greet your have in common is the rolling stock, which the Chapter friends. will lease to the museum. For more detailed information Chapter meetings start at 7:30 p.m. and are followed relating to these matters, we invite you to participate in by a program. any board of directors meeting or to visit with any of our officers directly. It is an exciting time! March 17 program: On another note, I want to thank Doug Weiskopf for Texas Central Railway (TCR) president Robert his wonderful program at the Annual Corporate Meeting Eckels will be speaking to us about the high-speed rail line on January 20 about the early days of Houston area his company is planning between Houston and Dallas. railroading. It was very well researched and presented. This major transportation project is a subject of great Also, while as I am preparing this article the February interest and importance to our large and traffic-congested program has yet to be presented, I want to thank Jerry metropolitan areas. Dorcz for taking time to share some slides taken by our late member and Administrative VP David See. I know we April 21 program: will have a good time reminiscing Dave’s trackside Model railroader Greg Johnson will present a pro- exploits. Also coming soon we will have a speaker gram on “the Rabbit,” the Houston East & West Texas regarding the proposed high-speed rail line. Please (HE&WT) line between Houston and Shreveport that has continue to support these wonderful programs with your also had T&NO, SP and UP markings over the years. presence and PLEASE invite a friend to join us. See program details located within other pages of this newsletter. Finally, we have a couple of past presidents dealing with major health issues. Please continue to pray for David Taveirne and Bill Baxter and their families. David is dealing with cancer and Bill recently had open heart surgery. Until next time, (and there is a time change on March 8 to Daylight time - I wonder if the idea to call it Daylight Savings Time was related in any way to preserving the memory of “The Most Beautiful Trains in the World.”) I can just see our illustrious editor now on a Courtesy Google Maps search engine verifying enactment of DST and the end of an era on the Southern Pacific in California. Happy and NOTE:\ All 2015 Gulf Coast Chapter Membership Meet- SAFE Railroading! ings are planned to occur at Valley Ranch. Reminders will be in each issue of Gulf Coast Railroading.

4 Gulf Coast Railroading • March 2015 2015 NRHS Convention Archives project by the editor by George D. Porter I’ll be there. Will you? The 2015 NRHS Convention at Rutland, Vermont, Sometimes it takes three people to do one job. That June 14-20 will feature several excursions and other is the case with our Chapter and one additional player. In unique events. the Spring 2012 issue of “The Eagle,” the magazine of the To register, go to the NRHS website: www.nrhs.com Missouri Pacific Historical Society, the then president, A PDF booklet containing Convention information is Bob Hochstetter, appealed to their membership to share part of the “Registration Package.” It is recommended personal collections of documents that related to the you read this PDF document for full information before Missouri Pacific Railroad. Having read that, the light bulb attempting to actually register. went on in my head about all of the Missouri Pacific files The address for actually registering is displayed on (in folders) that I made from material we (our Chapter) page 23 of the 30 page PDF information booklet: got when we helped to clean out Union Station in Hous- http://www.regonline.com/nrhs2015convention ton back in the 1990s. We have a filing cabinet full of Selecting “Tickets On Sale Now” on the second page Missouri Pacific-related correspondence and reports. of the website goes directly to the registration form at the Kevin Love, now the fearless president of MPHS, above address. was one of the original people to start on their library contents and get those on a computer. I contacted You can also obtain a convention booklet and regis- MPHS asking if our files could help in digitization of tration form by writing to: paper work relating to the Missouri Pacific Railroad. Yes. 2015 NRHS Convention So the only way to eat an elephant is one mouth full 100 N 20th St., Suite 400 at a time. I took one file folder in July 2012 and scanned Philadelphia, PA 19103-1462 the first document in it. Once scanned I emailed it as an attachment to Kevin Love of MPHS and to Bill Willits. It was okay. With that start, we were off and running. Membership information current? When we first started Bill and Kevin would take the email Please let Perry Jones, Chapter Membership VP, with the attached scans and save those files to their know as soon as possible about any address, computers. phone number or email address changes by In 2013 I started putting the files out in a dedicated contacting him via e-mail: location online where both of them could access the files ([email protected]) or and download them from there. So instantly we have our ([email protected]) or original files stored in two different locations and backed ([email protected]) up separately as well. If anything ever happens to our or by phone: 281-844-0951 (Mobile). Please original paper files we have them saved digitally. include your membership ID (NRHS Member One of the great features of the Internet is that you Number) and mention “Membership Change.” can do work from almost anywhere. Even though I recently moved to Georgetown I can still assist Bill and Kevin by scanning files to build up the digital archives of our Chapter and MPHS simultaneously. Day Tripper So far (as of mid-February 2015) I have scanned the On Saturday, January 24, 2015 the PBS “Day contents of over 1,100 file folders, which represents Tripper” TV program that visits Texas historic places did about 8,000 page scans. Bill keeps an exact count of the a video piece about El Paso which showed (in the files and accompanying records for our Chapter. And we background of one scene taken at the Mexican border) are helping ourselves and the Missouri Pacific Historical the two Union Pacific Railroad bridges over the Rio Society at the same time. Now, if you don’t mind, I’d Grande from New Mexico at Smeltertown that appear in better get back to scanning more… one of “The cantaloupe train: 1941” photos in the February issue of Gulf Coast Railroading. – Ed. Errata On page 8 of the October 2014 issue, I twice reversed the Reminders from the Editor name of Texas Central Railway as Central Texas Rail- I need your articles for the April issue by Thursday, way; I’ve written it correctly many other times. I would March 12, for the May issue by Sunday, April 12. not confess now, except that apparently NOBODY caught Thank you for your continuing support. the error. Oops! – Ed.

Gulf Coast Railroading • March 2015 5 The Local

(From progressiverailroading.com) communities to make this project a success that we can Texas railway narrows corridor search for Dallas all be proud of,” Eckels added. -Houston bullet-train service Texas Central Railway (TCR) has informed the BNSF plans capital spending in Texas Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) that it recom- A recent item in progressiverailroading.com related mends narrowing the consideration of potential high- BNSF’s planned capital spending in three states for 2015: speed rail corridors between Dallas and Houston to what Illinois, North Dakota and Texas. BNSF plans to spend is generally known as the Utility Corridor. $223 million on capex projects in Texas: TCR officials concluded that the Utility Corridor is “Major work involves constructing a southeast best suited to meet the goals of the project to provide quadrant connection at Tenaha to facilitate the use of the N700-I bullet-train service between Dallas and Houston, Longview Subdivision for southbound trains heading to according to a TCR press release. East Texas and Louisiana; building a new siding in They reached their conclusion after a significant Lumberton featuring CTC; beginning a two-year project effort to seek solutions to engineering, construction and to replace the Trinity River bridge in Fort Worth; and economic challenges associated with building high-speed expanding parking and support tracks at the Alliance rail in or along the existing freight corridor. intermodal and automotive facilities in Haslet, and the “Texas Central has gone to great lengths to identify Amarillo Automotive Facility. corridors that will have the least impact on local commu- “Track maintenance work includes 2,043 miles of nities and meet our purpose and need,” said TCR Presi- surfacing and/or undercutting work, the replacement of dent Robert Eckels. “By informing the FRA that we 62 miles of rail and 245,500 ties, and signal upgrades for believe all ongoing studies and analysis should focus on PTC. identifying potential alignments within and associated with “BNSF previously released highlights of capital work the Utility Corridor, we are staying true to our commit- planned in Minnesota, Nebraska and Washington. All the ment to follow existing rights of way as much as pos- work is part of the railroad’s record-setting $6 billion sible.” capex budget for 2015…” The railway will “continue to work closely with

On Other Rails

(From progressiverailroading.com) UP has spent more than $31 billion over the past 10 UP notes lower derailment rate; NTSB cites years to strengthen its infrastructure, technology and alertness device concerns equipment. The Class I now uses lasers and ultrasound A sharper focus on training and technology upgrades technology to identify rail defects; forecasts potential helped Union Pacific Railroad improve a key safety metric failures by tracking the acoustic vibration on wheels and in 2014. heat trends on wheel bearings; performs a real-time The Class I reduced its reportable derailment rate 7 analysis of every car each time it passes a trackside percent to 3.0 versus 3.24 in 2013. The railroad has sensor; and incorporates regular employee participation in improved the rate — which is calculated using the rigorous safety training, such as to identify and prevent number of derailments per million train miles reportable to potential derailments. the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) — 38 percent Meanwhile, the National Transportation Safety Board over the past 10 years. (NTSB) has issued urgent safety recommendations about “We invested $4.1 billion in 2014 in our network and electronic alertness devices to the FRA, Association of operations, enhanced already solid track inspection American Railroads, American Short Line and Regional processes and technology, and broadly deployed creative Railroad Association and American Public Transportation employee training initiatives to continue our journey to Association based on an ongoing investigation of a UP zero derailments,” said Bob Grimaila, UP’s vice president accident that occurred last year. of safety, security and environment, in a press release. The recommendations aim to help ensure that the Employee training improvements had a direct impact devices or alerters work as intended on trains. If it has on decreasing derailments and enhancing overall safety, been too long since the locomotive engineer performed an UP officials said. For example, the railroad deployed input or action to reset the alerter, visual and audible alerts illustrative shoving-move training videos on internal are activated and the train’s brakes are applied. But the television systems, in training classes and on its Intranet. NTSB determined that an alerter’s “idle time” reckoning

6 Gulf Coast Railroading • March 2015 can be reset to zero by inputs that don’t necessarily with federal PTC requirements; deploying technologies demonstrate a crew member’s continuing engagement. needed to deliver required PTC functions; collecting “We found that the alerters were acting from auto- accurate information and reporting data; preparing mated events as if they had been human inputs,” said resources with the right PTC knowledge and skills; NTSB Acting Chairman Christopher Hart in a press aligning operational processes to effectively operate and release. maintain PTC technologies; and implementing a success- The NTSB discovered the safety issue as part of its ful, interoperable PTC solution in compliance with federal investigation of the 2014 collision of two UP trains in law, KCSR officials said in the update. Hoxie, Ark., that resulted in two crew member fatalities A key objective is reinforcing company-wide aware- and the derailment of 55 cars. An examination of the ness of the PTC initiative. The railroad is committed to southbound train’s event recorder found that the horn PTC implementation in order to meet the federal mandate sequencer reset the electronic alertness device each time and maintain its strong safety culture, KCSR officials the horn blew as if the engineer were commanding each said. sound manually, preventing the device from providing an alarm to the train crew or activating the brakes. Union Pacific receives favorable ruling “Union Pacific Railroad has moved to fix this prob- A judge in Midland, Texas, ruled in favor of the Union lem. The FRA needs to require that other railroads Pacific Railroad regarding an accident in which a Union understand the problem and fix it where it is necessary,” Pacific train struck a parade float with veterans and their said Hart. families aboard at a crossing in Midland on November 15, 2012. Four people were killed and 14 others were hurt. (From progressiverailroading.com) The float struck was following another float which had PTC: KCSR’s signal forces focus on field instal- just crossed and the second one did not stop despite lations, testing and deployment strategy operating crossing warnings which were properly Since 2008, Kansas City Southern Railway Co.’s working. An appeal of the case is expected. (KCSR) Signal Group has posted progress with positive Judge James Rush wrote in the judgment disposing train control (PTC) implementation duties. of the final claims against UP: The group worked with suppliers to design various “As the court has determined, the first tractor-trailer signal location types, completed the design of a dark driven by James Atchison, and the facts and circum- territory switch monitoring system for a PTC pilot in the stances associated with its crossing the Garfield Street New Orleans Subdivision, determined locations to replace crossing, as a matter of law did not create a specific, out-of-date centralized traffic control equipment with individual hazard and, for this reason, it did not create a new PTC-compatible equipment, and initiated PTC duty on the part of the train crew to slow or stop the engineering across various subdivisions, according to an train. implementation update on the “KCS News” web page. “Plaintiffs have no evidence that Union Pacific’s train For the rest of 2015, signal field installations will crew could have avoided the accident by taking action at continue and the group is expected to begin working on the time when the crew first knew, or through the writing programs for various types of PTC/signal exercise of ordinary care should have known, based on equipment to develop a testing and deployment strategy. their perception of the second tractor-trailer driven by PTC program objectives include using a PTC Dale Hayden, that a collision was imminent,” he added. governing body and implementation structure to comply

The work never stops…

Wednesday, January 21 – No power? No problem. At the Houston storage site, Brent Lamb and Tom Mather (reduced Wednesday Gang for the day) removed tiling from the floor of GM&O parlor car ALTON and identified floor areas that will require repair before future replacement with new floor covering.

Right: Brent Lamb wields the scraper on a 68 year old concrete floor base in the 1947-delivered ALTON. The floor covering has probably been replaced several times since 1947. Photo by Tom Mather

Gulf Coast Railroading • March 2015 7 Checkout at Railwood!

Above: The Global Stainless fork lift positions the concrete phone booth for a “straight ahead” loading onto the trailer. Photo by Russell Straw Above left to right: Russell, Brent, Chris, Al, Tom (almost hidden) and Perry stand with the loaded trailer ready to go. Photo by Russell Straw

Above: The two Global Stainless fork lift operators coordinate to move the concrete phone booth forward over double axles. Below: After centering the cylindrical booth, the concrete roof Above left to right: Chris closes the gate for the last time as and the signal base are placed at the front. Watch those hands, Perry watches. No more Wednesdays at Railwood, ever. Al! Brent supervises(?) from the ground. Below: The load arrives at the Tomball storage site. Two photos by Tom Mather Two photos by Tom Mather

8 Gulf Coast Railroading • March 2015 Sharing a little local history section house and a track crew just south of the by the editor Hempstead Highway as well as a 1915 map segment showing the lake (for steam locomotive water) covering Bob Rivera visited our Chapter booth at the Big Texas the location presently occupied by the Mueschke Road Train Show in September 2014 and subsequently con- intersection below US 290 (NW Freeway) just west of tacted Perry Jones, our Membership VP/Director, and Cypress. said he wanted to join our organization. He then came to History is great stuff when you can piece it all the September 16 Membership Meeting and we “signed together. Thanks for refreshing my memory, Bob. him up.” As I talked with Bob at the meeting, I began to put two and two together. Back in 2010-2011 while re- searching my multipart article on the Houston & Texas Central, I acquired some photos and background information from the Cypress Historical Society. Among that society’s newsletters I read an article about the Rivera family. During the 1950s, Bob’s father Melesio Rivera was the track foreman for the Southern Pacific (T&NO) at Cypress. In my PowerPoint program on the H&TC and Cypress presented to the Society and at Lone Star College, I have featured photos of the earlier 20th century

In the early 20th century a track gang has lined up facing east for the photographer (probably very early in the morning) just west of Cypress on the H&TC (later to become T&NO and SP). The section house is out of the picture to left and Hempstead Road is to the right. Water tank in the background was located A closeup from a 1915 topographical map of the Cypress area near the southwest edge of the lake shown in the adjoining shows old Hempstead Road curving around the H&TC’s small map. View looks west toward Swanson and Hockley. lake; that’s Mueschke Road angling away northward. Courtesy Cypress Historical Society, Frank Litt Collection Image courtesy Perry-Castaneda Map Collection – UT

Right: In a much later era, the 1950s, on the same 10 mile section of track the work had become more mechanized. Mr. Melesio Rivera (center) and his track gang maintained the track in Section 4 on the SP/T&NO “Speedway” east and west of Cypress in that period. The name Speedway had been applied to the 50 mile stretch of track between Houston and Hempstead in the late 1930s for the fast runs (reportedly up to 100 mph) made on this part of their trips between Houston and Dallas in both directions by the Sunbeam and Hustler engineers who needed to make up time because of delays elsewhere on the railroad. Photo courtesy Robert Rivera

Gulf Coast Railroading • March 2015 9 Early Texas Railroads

Missouri Pacific Lines in Texas have a clear line to N.Y. city.” by W. E. (Bill) Willits Southwest of San Antonio, I&GN construction continued toward Laredo: Part 3 May 12, 1881 “The International railroad bridge across the Medina Somehow, apparently very quietly where newspaper river west of San Antonio will soon be completed, all the reporting was concerned, not only was MP-related material be(ing) put in position.” railroad construction underway in northern Texas, but the In the meantime the Missouri Pacific wasted no time I&GN had also com- in trying to reach the pleted its tracks through Gulf Coast as it report- San Antonio and was edly surveyed for a new advancing toward line: Laredo: May 19, 1881 April 7, 1881 “Hon. Robert Zapp “The International of Round Top informed company have completed us Monday, that last their bridge across the week the engineer corps Leon and Indian creek, of the Missouri Pacific and all the forces have passed near Round Top, been moved on to (the) running the line from Medina, at Rafael Belton via Georgetown to Quaintana’s place, where the mouth of the Brazos the big bridge is to be river. The engineer in constructed.” charge of the party April 21, 1881 informed Mr. Zapp, that “The International it was the intention of the has laid its track out company to run their eleven miles from San road from Georgetown Antonio.” down the dividing ridge And in north Texas, between the Brazos and track laying was rapidly Colorado rivers. The line progressing, too: just run is one-half mile April 28, 1881 east of Round Top. – La “The Missouri Grange Journal.” Pacific Road between Although the survey Fort Worth and Denton is cited in the previous item to be completed by the caused some local 27th of this month.” expectation and excite- Jay Gould’s name ment, no railroad line was was constantly in the ever built on this particu- news; talk of his financial lar alignment. activities elicited big and Out to the southwest frequently, but not of San Antonio the I&GN always, exaggerated was moving ahead expectations: rapidly after bridging the May 5, 1881 Medina River: “It is announced that July 21, 1881 Jay Gould has exchanged “International trains MK&T stock, so that he are running 40 miles west owns a majority of the Want to get to Texas by way of Louisville? This 1877 I&GN of San Antonio.” I&GN stock, and from passenger timetable shows connections via that Kentucky city. August 4, 1881 Laredo will, through the Courtesy Ken E. Stavinoha Collection “The International Central & Wabash RR, road is now completed

10 Gulf Coast Railroading • March 2015 about seventy miles from San Antonio, and is being The I&GN was advertising the attributes of Texas pushed right along at the rate of one and a half miles a widely: day. A great deal of lumber is being shipped to Pearsall, October 20, 1881 the new town on this road.” “The International railroad has ordered two thousand Often there were rumors of happenings that did not copies of the Governor’s book on Texas and will distrib- occur. The road mentioned in the following item as “St. ute them at the Atlanta Exposition.” Louis & Texas” was correctly Texas & St. Louis The Mexican border would soon be within easy (T&StL) and actually only built its extension southwest reach: from Waco to Gatesville, but never south from Waco November 17, 1881 toward Georgetown as far as can be determined from “The International is now within fifty-seven miles of maps and other sources. The T&StL started as the Tyler Laredo.” Tap in 1877, would be Within a few days standard-gauged in 1886 after the previous item and would be extended appeared the link to through Arkansas and Laredo was completed; southern Missouri under undoubtedly track work the name Texas, Arkansas had been going on from & St. Louis (TA&StL). the Laredo end at the These lines formed a same time track was major portion of the being laid from San future St. Louis South- Antonio. This called for a western (Cotton Belt): celebration: August 18, 1881 December 1, 1881 “Georgetown now “Yesterday the first comes to the front with a passenger train crossed report that the St. Louis the Rio Grande, and after and Texas narrow gauge running across to New railroad will be extended Laredo, Mexico, and there from Waco to Belton, being regaled by exhilarat- Salado and Georgetown. ing beverages and joined This will be done to flank by Mexican officials, they the Missouri Pacific now re-crossed to the Texas being extended from side and ran up the Waco to Taylor, via extension to Fort McIn- Temple.” tosh in the elegant In the meantime, coaches of the company, there was much to be and the large number of pleased about down Mexican and U.S. offi- toward Laredo: cials, both military and August 25, 1881 civic, and railroad offi- “The International cials, headed by Gov. railroad is now completed Hunt, were met and about 70 miles beyond tendered a warm recep- San Antonio.” tion by Major Caraher, September 1, 1881 Commander of the Fort, “The International and the liberal hospitality railroad is now running of the Major flowed out in their construction trains other enlivening bever- this side of the Nueces, ages, and many were the and we are informed that toasts offered up to the if they choose to do so, two Republics, the they can lay two miles of perpetuity of friendliest track a day all the way to Through the hub city of Chattanooga, 1877 I&GN passengers relations, &c., &c., and Laredo, and not be too had several ways to make their journey to and from Texas. much good will and fast for the graders. – Courtesy Ken E. Stavinoha Collection satisfaction was manifest Times.” throughout the entire

Gulf Coast Railroading • March 2015 11 This Sanborn Fire Map image of 1885 shows that by the mid-1880s a small “Union Passenger Depot” (a portion is visible at the lower right) had been built in Houston serving the I&GN and GH&H rail operations. The leftmost tracks are GH&H, all others I&GN. Also shown are the extensive freight sheds and I&GN Freight Depot. Image courtesy Perry-Castaneda Map Collection - UT long-to-be remembered occasion. – Laredo Times, 22d.” west of a newly constructed bridge over the Pecos River Typical of the frequent talk about the controversial in January 1883, but the T&P already interchanged with figure, a long article under the headline “Will Jay Gould other roads at Ft. Worth, Dallas and other points which own the country?” appeared in the Colorado Citizen of were happy to get the California traffic: December 8, 1881. At this time Gould commanded a lot March 23, 1882 of press as well as a lot of property: “Through freight from California is now not so much San Antonio was thriving on having two long and of a novelty, but the largest through shipment arrived connected railroads serving it: yesterday by the International and Great Northern that February 2, 1882 has yet come from the Pacific slope, consisting of 22 “San Antonio has a line of Herdie coaches running cars in one train, as follows: 10 cars pig lead for New between the International and Sunset depots.” York, 5 cars wheat and 1 car canned goods for In Houston, two hundred miles to the east, there was Galveston, 2 cars wine for New Orleans, 2 cars wheat much freight activity emanating from California and being and 1 car flour for Houston, 1 car flour for New Orleans. routed throughout Texas and other destinations by the – Houston Post.” I&GN and other railroads. On December 16, 1881, the The official announcement in the following item Texas & Pacific had connected with the GH&SA (South- indicated a corporate separation between the two rail- ern Pacific) track about 90 miles east of El Paso at Sierra roads as required under Texas law, but they were in fact Blanca, Texas. Technically, the track from El Paso to very closely related under Jay Gould’s control. There Sierra Blanca was the far western extension of the was now a railroad link Denison-Ft. Worth-Waco- GH&SA, but it was a track built for/by SP utilizing the Temple-Taylor under the MP name that served a large GH&SA charter after coming eastward from California, section of rich and productive farm and ranch country in thus providing a direct link between Texas and the central and northern Texas: “Golden State.” It would be another year before the May 18, 1882 GH&SA’s eastern and western ends joined three miles “Connection is now completed between the Missouri

12 Gulf Coast Railroading • March 2015 Pacific and International roads. The junction is at railroad bridge (trestle) from Virginia Point to the island Taylor.” paid for with Galveston city bonds. Later the Gulf, In June 1882 the International & Great Northern was Colorado & Santa Fe built its own bridge between the leased to the MK&T as Jay Gould’s “empire” was island and mainland in the mid-1870s. Other railroads consolidated. Gould continued to have his name promi- wanted access to Galveston, too; the GH&H bridge could nently in the news. get them there. The assets of the Georgetown Railroad, which had On August 1, 1882, the GH&H was sold to Jay Gould been leased by the I&GN in 1879, were acquired by the and his business partner Russell Sage; they then reorga- larger railroad on June 2, 1882. The Georgetown itself nized the railroad as a new company under the original would prove to have a long life. charter and sold it to the MK&T (at Alliances between railroads least on paper). However, it wasn’t (usually opposing others) were a fact long before another deal among “Jay Gould has with- of the times: Gould’s holdings was in the making: drawn all his railroad July 20, 1882 December 21, 1882 construction force “It is stated that the Gould roads “On the 19th instant there will be a at Dallas and the Houston and Texas from the State...” meeting of the stockholders of the Central have formed an alliance at International and Great Northern Dallas against the Santa Fe on railroad, at Palestine, and among through freights to Galveston.” matters that will be considered is a Rumors and misinformation were hard to separate proposition to purchase or lease the Galveston, Houston from factual news. On December 22, 1881, the Colo- and Henderson railroad. The latter, it will be remembered, rado Citizen had reported: was purchased by Jay Gould and Russell Sage, on the 1st “Yesterday the charter of the Kyle, Lockhart and of August last at the public sale in this city under order of Southern railroad was filed in the office of the secretary the United States Circuit Court. As it was bought by of State. The capital stock is $240,000, and the road will Messrs. Gould and Sage in their individual capacity, it is, be immediately constructed from Kyle to Lockhart. The of course, at this time so held by them. The charter of following are the incorporators… (followed by a long the railroad company contains a clause which provides list). – Austin Statesman.” It is possible the charter of that the successors to the stockholders shall have power the Kyle, Lockhart & Southern was related to the rumor to operate and control the road, but it is claimed that in the next item that began circulating the following before any further disposition of it can be made, it is summer: required by the general law of the State that there shall be September 14, 1882 a corporate body, with regular officers, and that any sale, “It is rumored that the Missouri Pacific railway transfer or lease must be made in corporate capacity. If expects to extend a branch line to Indianola from Kyle this be correct, (and it is given upon good authority), the (on the I&GN between Austin and San Marcos) or some present owners of the road, it is held, would have to file other point along its line. This would take in Cuero and new articles of incorporation before any proposition from give us a direct connection with St. Louis and other the International and Great Northern stockholders could markets. Let her come. – Cuero Bulletin.” While there be considered. Whether anything of the kind is in may have been an actual plan by the railroad’s manage- contemplation is not ascertainable. A News reporter ment, no such line appears to have been built. A major yesterday called on General Manager Harding, of the factor might have been that Indianola had been severely Galveston, Houston and Henderson, and asked him if he damaged in an 1875 hurricane and had been only partially had any information relative to his promotion to the rebuilt; in 1886 the port and town would be destroyed by position of assistant-general manager superintendent of another hurricane, never to rebuild.. the Gould Southwestern system. He very promptly Some announcements were rather brief and some- answered that he had not. – Galveston News.” As it times surprising, such as the following: turned out, the I&GN leased the GH&H in 1883, leading December 21, 1882 to later complications. “Jay Gould has withdrawn all his railroad construc- Cotton, the commodity that paid the bills for many a tion force from the State.” The significance of this family, was in demand: announcement is not spelled out; it may have been at least December 28, 1882 partially related to the completion of the T&P connection “Cotton Receipts. – The Santa Fe road reports that it at Sierra Blanca in December 1881 and whatever addi- has shipped from this point since the first day of Septem- tional work had been performed afterward to improve the ber, 15,000 bales of cotton, and the Missouri Pacific line for actual operation (a common occurrence). 3,792 bales. In the warehouses of the city there are The Galveston, Houston & Henderson had been the about 600 bales. This makes a grand total of 19,492 first railroad to reach Galveston Island, in 1860, on a bales. The figures will go above 20,000 before tomorrow

Gulf Coast Railroading • March 2015 13 I&GN 4-4-0 #50 was polished and ready for the road as it waited for a highball in Palestine. Having the headquarters and shops of the I&GN with lines running three directions gave Palestine great prominence among Texas railroad towns. Courtesy Museum For East Texas Culture, Palestine night, and it is likely we shall get between eight and ten earlier had given the H&GN and subsequently the I&GN thousand bales between this and the first day of January. another rail line toward the Gulf, but it had never been – Belton Journal.” completed all the way to the coast. Now this idea was With the former Houston & Great Northern road being revisited: originally built from Houston, a share of that growing June 21, 1883 city‘s market had long been secured for the Missouri “The engineers of the International railway are Pacific system. Further expansion into Galveston (via making a survey from Columbia to Brazoria, with a view the GH&H) had now been successful: to extending the line to the latter place.” May 31, 1883 Inspection of new railroad construction by the state “The Missouri Pacific railway company will shortly to assure its quality was imperative to justify the grant of erect grain elevators at Galveston and Houston.” state lands; however, the grants themselves were no Fuel supplies for locomotives were always being longer to be available (the Texas Legislature repealed the sought. Having coal mines not far away was a great applicable laws in 1882), and in fact the State began advantage: efforts to recover millions of acres. State inspections June 7, 1883 would, of course, continue: “The I. & G. N. R. R. Company is having erected at August 23, 1883 their depot in this city a large coal bin for the convenient “Mr. Britten, State Railway Engineer began on supply of their engines with coal brought from the Rio Monday at Taylor an inspection of the Missouri Pacific Grande & Pecos coal mines. – Laredo Times.” railway on a special train.” Acquisition of the Houston Tap & Brazoria ten years A small railroad northwest of Austin that briefly

14 Gulf Coast Railroading • March 2015 became part of the I&GN was incorporated October 25, 1883 by Taylor & Associates of Chicago, later known as Awaiting an Act the “Capitol.Syndicate.” The Austin and Oatmanville Railway Company, building from what was described as In Part 2 of “Missouri Pacific Lines in Texas” on a “blind station” called Kouns was to “secure the right-of- page 11 in the February issue, the author expressed way and grade and bridge the road, ready for the ties, and a question in the caption under an image of a $1000 2nd mortgage bond issued in the name of the then transfer all of its capital stock and the property International Railroad about why such a bond would thereof to the International & Great Northern Railroad have been issued after the International and the free of liens or encumbrances…” The I&GN would Houston & Great Northern became consolidated as “furnish the ties, rails and fastenings and finish the road the International & Great Northern. Thanks to between Kouns and Oatmanville.” The purpose of the George Werner, who provided the answer. A&O was to transport stone from a quarry at Oatmanville George wrote: “The reason that the bond illustrated which would be used in construction of the planned State in the February GCR was issued in the name of The Capitol at Austin. Unfortunately for all parties, testing of International Rail Road Company is that the merged this quarry’s stone in Austin proved it to be too soft for company had no legal right to issue securities in the the purpose, and the quarry was ultimately abandoned. name of The International and Great Northern The materials that had been used to build the A&O were Railroad. This authority was not granted by the pulled up and taken where needed elsewhere on the Texas Legislature until 24 April 1874. The bond illustrated is probably from the issue mentioned in I&GN. the Galveston News of 11 January 1884. According Of course, when the Capitol was built several years to the News, both the International and the Houston later, red granite from the Burnet-Marble Falls area was and Great Northern had recently auctioned hauled to the construction site in Austin by the Austin & $500,000 in eight per cent convertible bonds. The Northwestern Railroad; the I&GN would have liked to proceeds to the company for the $1,000,000 face secure that business. Subsequent examination of avail- value bonds was $658,000, which I would consider rather expensive financing. No wonder the I&GN able records by the I&GN auditors indicated that the deed would soon go into receivership...” of conveyance from the incorporators of the A&O to the I&GN had never been recorded, further making this He also attached a copy of the Act titled “An Act to appear “a deal that really wasn’t” in all ways. authorize the International & Great Northern In 1860 and 1861 the “Columbia tap” (the former Railroad Company to issue Bonds.” Section 1 of HT&B, part of the H&GN/I&GN since 1873) had the Act authorized the company to borrow money on its bonds, convert bonds issued by the Interna- planned to expand into Wharton County and surveys had tional or H&GN into the stock of the I&GN or into been made, but construction delays and the Civil War new bonds issued in the name of the I&GN. Section intervened before such an extension could be built. It had 2 stipulated that bonds previously issued or debts been mentioned from time to time. Now the idea had and liabilities incurred by either of the previous been proposed again: companies would be binding on the I&GN. December 27, 1883 That $1000 2nd Mortgage Bond in the name of the “The Columbia tap road is to be extended to International Railroad was issued and seal affixed on Wharton.” Examination of records and maps indicates the “Fifteenth day of January A.D. Eighteen this extension never was built, although surveys and hundred and seventy four.” In the spring it would apparently some grading had been done many years become eligible for further action. earlier. The year 1883 had been a down year in railroad building according to reports: ery; they want to reach the International.” March 27, 1884 San Antonio chose a reliable shipper to carry its “Only about one hundred miles of railroad were built locally-brewed beer: in Texas last year.” October 23, 1884 In 1882 the Gulf Colorado & Santa Fe had bought “The Lone Star Brewing company have established the Central & Montgomery railroad which ran east from an agency at Austin and today shipped their first carload Navasota to Montgomery, but was prevented from taking of beer to that point via the Missouri Pacific railroad. possession by questions about the legality of the sale. The San Antonio manufactured beer is bound to gain the Regardless, as the matter wound through court proceed- patronage of the Western market, not only on account of ings the GC&SF planned to build a line from Montgom- its fine quality, but on account of its easy accessibility. – ery to Conroe Station and interchange with I&GN: San Antonio Times.” September 25, 1884 “The Santa Fe railway company will soon commence Missouri Pacific Lines in Texas work on the extension of their road east from Montgom- End of Part 3

Gulf Coast Railroading • March 2015 15 Timetable Notes

NOTE: Meetings Watch for monthly Membership Meeting Tuesday, May Membership Meeting of the Gulf announcements and other information in May 19, Coast Chapter - NRHS, Inc. at Valley Ranch this newsletter, on the Chapter website 7:30 p.m. Grill & Barbeque. and on Facebook. Tuesday, June Gulf Coast Chapter Board Meeting at Tuesday, March Gulf Coast Chapter Board Meeting June 2, the IHOP on Washington and I/10 (south March 3 at the Denny’s on Washington and I/10 7:00 p.m. side of I/10). 7:00 p.m. (NORTH side of I/10). NOTE change of location for this month only! SPECIAL No Membership Meeting will be held in the NOTICE month of June. Why not attend the NRHS Tuesday, March Membership Meeting of the Gulf Convention? March 17 Coast Chapter - NRHS, Inc. at Valley 7:30 p.m. Ranch Grill & Barbeque. Membership Tuesday, July Gulf Coast Chapter Board Meeting at Meeting article on page 4 has directions. July 7, the IHOP on Washington and I/10 (south 7:00 p.m. side of I/10). Tuesday, April Gulf Coast Chapter Board Meeting at April 7 the IHOP on Washington and I/10 (south Tuesday, July Membership Meeting of the Gulf 7:00 p.m. side of I/10). July 21, Coast Chapter - NRHS, Inc. at Valley Ranch 7:30 p.m. Grill & Barbeque. Tuesday, April Membership Meeting of the Gulf April 21, Coast Chapter - NRHS, Inc. at Valley Ranch Additional announcements may be added to 7:30 p.m. Grill & Barbeque. Membership Meeting this schedule periodically. article on page 4 has directions.

Tuesday, May Gulf Coast Chapter Board Meeting at May 5 the IHOP on Washington and I/10 (south 7:00 p.m. side of I/10).

Work Party Information Gulf Coast Railroading by PDF? Remember: “Just one volunteer day a month will make a big difference!” Members: Get the PDF version of Gulf Coast Railroading early via e-mail! Send your e-mail IF/WHEN MUSEUM WORK PARTIES ARE SCHEDULED address to [email protected] and tell us “I want Gulf Coast Railroading via PDF.” An announcement will be made when the museum is ready to receive work parties.

THE MODEL RAILROAD IS CURRENTLY STORED Shawn Sanders, President...... [email protected] An announcement will be made when the layout located in Tom Marsh, VP-Admin...... [email protected] the baggage end of ex-ATSF Railway Post Office car No. Al Dykes, VP-Mech ...... [email protected] 3401 is again available for work and operation. Perry Jones, VP-Memb...... [email protected] Doug Weiskopf, [email protected] W. E. (Bill) Willits, VP-Editor...... [email protected] CONTACT INFORMATION Brent Lamb, Secretary...... [email protected] Jerry Dorcz, Treasurer ...... [email protected] Al Dykes, Mechanical Vice President 281-367-7019

16 Gulf Coast Railroading • March 2015 Hello members of the Eastern Division. My name is Stuart Rankin and I’m the President of the Metropolitan Division of TCA (METCA) and the Chairman for the 2015 TCA National Convention. It is this this second hat that I wear which brings me to you today.

For the first time in TCA history, the National Convention will be visiting the Big Apple. I want each and every member of the Eastern Division to consider yourself personally invited to attend the 2015 Convention in the New York metro area. This week long event will be unlike any other; there’s a reason that New York City is one of the world’s most popular destinations.

The first half of the week will consist of the “best of the best” trips and tours. During the week we’ll have something for everyone; train related activities including a combination steam train and riverboat cruise, a tour of Grand Central Terminal, a trip to the TCA Headquarters, Museum, and Library in Strasburg PA and more; history related tours such as a visit to the home of FDR with lunch at a restaurant owner by a graduate of the world-renowned Culinary Institute of America, a tour of Sleepy Hollow (yes, of headless horseman fame) and more; military themed tours such as West Point and the aircraft carrier Intrepid; science and technology related tours such as the Cradle of Aviation and the Thomas Alva Edison laboratory and more. Finally what trip to New York wouldn’t be complete without the most famous NYC sights; a daytime ride on the Circle Line going completely around Manhattan, a visit to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, or an emotional visit to the 9/11 memorial and museum, and more.

In addition to trips and tours, the second half of the week will include the Welcome Party with a decidedly local “flavor”, the sunset Dinner Cruise along the illuminated Manhattan nighttime skyline, home layout and collection visits (some world class and some more modest), and the concluding Banquet. Not to be left out is the trading hall swap meet. Here’s your chance to find that item for your collection from a new/different set of vendors than you normally see at your local meets. We’ll also have participation from some of the hobby’s leading train manufacturers.

The weather in the northeast is particularly nice in June. Although spring will be behind us, typically the hazy, hot and humid dog days of summer haven’t begun yet. This really will be a once in a lifetime experience to have a TCA National Convention in such a location.

Be prepared to have the time of your life as you put yourself in a New York state of mind. I really hope that I do see you in June 2015. For further details and complete descriptions of every trip, tour and event, check out the new permanent TCA convention website at: www.TCAconvention.org Hello members of the WB&A Chapter. My name is Stuart Rankin and I’m the President of the Metropolitan Division of TCA (METCA) and the Chairman for the 2015 TCA National Convention. It is this this second hat that I wear which brings me to you today.

For the first time in TCA history, the National Convention will be visiting the Big Apple. I want each and every member of the WB&A Chapter to consider yourself personally invited to attend the 2015 Convention in the New York metro area. This week long event will be unlike any other; there’s a reason that New York City is one of the world’s most popular destinations.

Be prepared to have the time of your life as you put yourself in a New York state of mind. I really hope that I do see you in June 2015. For further details and complete descriptions of every trip, tour and event, check out the new permanent TCA convention website at: www.TCAconvention.org Courtesy of Jim Rowland: Located approximately thirty miles north of Richmond lies the locale of Ruther Glen, Virginia. In this largely rural part of the state, this unincorporated town in Caroline County holds no major reason to journey there. The average person passing through the region might only know it for the Exit 104 rest stop on I95.

Scholars of the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad will recognize that name for different reasons. For those that have the Old Line Graphics book “Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad Linking North and South”, this location is featured on the dustjacket cover. That shot remains one of my favorites. Located about a mile off the interstate, mile post 27.1 on the RF&P mainline (distance measured from Acca Yard in Richmond) is the location of Ruther Glen. At one time, a small sawmill produced loads of lumber, and a small side track off the northbound main existed for local business. The sawmill is long closed, and the side track is still intact for maintenance of way equipment.

Trains have passed through this bucolic area since Spring of 1836. As trains headed northward, they descended a small grade and canted into a curve before ascending another grade. In the ensuing 179 years since the first train arrived, little has changed. Housing developments, industrial parks, nor big box stores have marred the pristine landscape. Only the installation of CTC signals by the RF&P at milepost 27.4 in the late 1940s changed the view. Though the RF&P became an integral component of CSX in January, 1991 and has had major upgrades since that time, Ruther Glen still retains its RF&P flavor. A location of a small dirt road, classic RF&P signals, and a rural setting make rail photography at this location enticing.

After what has seemed like an endless parade of winter storms, things finally came together to get out of the house and get some trackside time today. Excellent weather provided a great backdrop for today’s outing. Making quick time of the hour and half drive, I arrived and parked along the snow-covered dirt road. Not having been there in about two years, it was a nice location to spend the afternoon. In the ensuing time, a patch of briars had claimed their spot along the tracks, marring the view of the curve. Quick use of a bow saw cleaned up the scene, but the briars did not go quietly, as my hand will attest to. However, the results were worth the battle. The two cars that passed during the time I was there wanted to make sure I was not in trouble as the location is not one that sees any type of measurable traffic.

What initially seemed like a busy afternoon quickly quieted down. The dispatcher talking to Q439-05 made reference to some problems at Acca. Minutes turned into hours as the sun moved across the sky. Despite the lack of traffic, it gave me time to pause and consider other angles from which to photograph CSX freights and Amtrak passenger trains. Southbound freights are easier to discern than passenger train, which can come out of the blue. More than once I have missed a photograph due to lack of advanced notice. By the time they are coming around the curve it is too late to set up. While I was walking around and trimming, I also pondered the fact that the bloodshed incurred by me earlier was nothing compared to the fierce fighting which occurred at various points along this line during the Civil War.

It may have been a quiet day when one considers the dearth of traffic on an ordinarily busy double track mainline, but the warmth of the sun was a welcome respite from the harsh winter. It was enjoyable to feel a semi-warm breeze brushing through the old pine trees and over cold white snow while birds chirped. Only the occasional sound of traffic on I95 disturbed the serenity at Ruther Glen. I may have felt frustrated as the best light of the day yielded no results, but it was a great afternoon to be outside as well as to see classic signals in service before they are replaced. My work to clear brush was not in vain. It provided additional impetus to return to this serene location sooner rather than later. It was time well-spent.

Ruther Glen, Virginia 7 March, 2015

Comments welcomed!

Jim Rowland

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POTOMAC RAIL NEWS POTOMAC CHAPTER, NATIONAL RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY P.O. BOX 235, KENSINGTON, MARYLAND 20895-0235 MARCH 2015

AMERICA’S FIRST RAILROAD WAR...will be discussed by John Hankey at our March 28th banquet. One of the participants in the Civil War was the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad’s American Type 4-4-0 Class F "William Mason," which was built in 1856 by the Mason Machine Works Company. The William Mason is shown here operating during the B&O Railroad Museum’s Steam Days on October 7, 2007. Photo by: Clay Moritz

PROGRAM: “FALLEN FLAGS REMEMBERED,” Bill Kalkman will present a slide show highlighting several railroads that have faded from the landscape over the past 20 years due to mergers and abandonments, including the Santa Fe, Southern Pacific, Denver & Rio Grande Western, British Columbia Rail, and other well-known railroads that we thought would be around forever.

MEETING: March 17, 2015. 8PM. Lobby Level Auditorium of the Montgomery County Executive Office Building, 101 Monroe Street, Rockville, MD.

NEXT MEETING DATE: April 21, 2015

DEADLINE FOR MARCH ISSUE: March 27, 2015. Send news items to Clay Moritz, Editor, Potomac Rail News, at [email protected]

INFO ON CHAPTER ACTIVITIES:301-251-9461; www.trainweb.org/PotomacNRHS/

ADDRESS MEMBERSHIP INQUIRIES TO: Rick Davidson, Membership Agent, 2908 Breezy Terrace, Alexandria, VA 22303-2401 [email protected] POTOMAC RAIL NEWS MARCH 2015 PAGE 2 OF 12

THE CHAPTER FAMILY If you know of a Chapter Member who is sick, has lost a loved one, or has a new birth in the family, please call the Chapter on (301) 251-9461.

FINAL CALL TO MAKE YOUR RESERVATION FOR OUR ANNUAL POTOMAC CHAPTER BANQUET. The banquet will be held on March 28th at the Golden Bull Grande Café Restaurant in Gaithersburg, MD. See the banquet reservation form on Page 11. Our GUEST SPEAKER will be John Hankey, presenting a program on America's Railroad War. April of 2015 marks the 150th Anniversary of the end of the American Civil War. Some regard it as the "second act" in the war for Independence and our struggle to create a continental United States. Others regard it as the dire--but sadly necessary--struggle to end slavery once and for all and set the United States on a path to industrial and agricultural prosperity. No matter how you regard it, the Civil War was America's first "railroad war." Railroads were crucial in every aspect of the conflict, and shaped the timing and conduct of the war in ways that we are only now beginning to more fully understand. In this illustrated lecture, Historian and Curator John P. Hankey looks at the many roles railroading played in our great national conflict, and ultimately how "the Iron Road" was a decisive factor in the Union victory. This is not a detailed account of battles and tactics, but a broad interpretation of how "railroad mobility" shaped people's thinking, altered the course of the war, and resulted in new ways of fighting--and of healing the Nation afterwards. John Hankey is an independent scholar, historian, and railroader. A native of Baltimore, he served the B&O Railroad in a variety of capacities including company historian, locomotive engineer, and Curator of the B&O Railroad Museum. He holds a BS from the John Hopkins University, an MA as a Hagley Fellow at the University of Delaware, and did further graduate study at the University of Chicago. Currently, he is a consultant to railroads, railroad museums, and historic preservation projects throughout the United States.

IS THIS YOUR LAST ISSUE OF THE PRN? If you have not renewed your Potomac Chapter membership as a regular member or associate, this will be the last PRN that you will receive. A RED MARK on your mailing label indicates that we have not received your membership renewal for 2015. Members who have not renewed that receive the electronic PRN will be notified about their membership status by email. For questions about your membership status or the renewal process, please contact Rick Davidson, Membership Agent, 2908 Breezy Terrace, Alexandria, VA 22303-2401 by email to: [email protected] or (703) 768-2831

NATIONAL MEMBERSHIP CARDS. FYI - (from Interchange, Baltimore Chapter NRHS): There have been several inquiries as to when members will receive the National Membership Card. As of right now, the method of distribution has not been determined. Two methods are under consideration. First is a PDF file to all members for which National has an email address. This would be attached to a letter from National. Second is the mailing of a letter and card to those members who do not have access to e-mail. The bottom line is to provide National with your e-mail address so that it can conduct as much business via the internet as possible in order to reduce printing and mailing costs. While things are improving financially, National remains in a precarious position as it works its way through difficult times. If you have not yet renewed your National membership, you are requested to do so now. This will help stabilize the National's finances. POTOMAC RAIL NEWS MARCH 2015 PAGE 3 OF 12

REMINDER - NEW POTOMAC CHAPTER WEB ADDRESS. We have a new Chapter website address, www.trainweb.org/PotomacNRHS/, which is effective immediately.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED. The Wednesday Regulars of the National Railway Historical Society are looking for you! Are you between ages 35 and 65? Want to get more involved with the volunteers who work at our Philadelphia location? Then Burt, Les, Mike, and Ray would like to meet you at 1601 Walnut Street. If you would like to know what 60 other chapters are doing. If you would like to have access to over 15 rail-based magazines, then please call Burton Eisenberg on his cell phone (267) 312-4703 on a Monday or Tuesday to arrange a meeting that Wednesday at the DVARP office. You can drop a note to us at: NRHS c/o D.V.A.R.P, 1601 Walnut Street, Suite 1129, Philadelphia, PA 19102-2933. We hope that you will join the Wednesday Regulars! - Burton Eisenberg, NRHS Volunteer RAIL NEWS

611'S HYDROSTATIC TEST COMPLETE! The Virginia Museum of Transportation (VMT) has announced that the 611 mechanical crew, led by Scott Lindsay, Chief Mechanical Officer and President of Steam Operations Corporation, has completed the hydrostatic test of the boiler required by Federal regulations. "The restoration is progressing quickly," said Beverly T. Fitzpatrick, Jr., VMT's Executive Director. "We expect the Norfolk & Western Class J 611 to return to her home in Roanoke in mid-2015." Fitzpatrick said that the 611's Homecoming and excursion schedule is being developed with the help of Norfolk Southern. "We appreciate Norfolk Southern's interest in 611's restoration and all the help they are providing to make her Homecoming a celebration that will be remembered for a long time." The VMT hopes to announce her Homecoming and early excursion schedule in a few weeks. "But with any restoration as thorough and complex as 611's, it's important to remember that the unexpected is expected," Fitzpatrick said. "The mechanical team in Spencer, North Carolina, is working seven days per week to make this happen safely. We are so proud of their hard work and dedication to this restoration." Fitzpatrick also credits the team at the North Carolina Transportation Museum (NCTM) in Spencer, North Carolina, for the success of the restoration to date. "The team at the NCTM has welcomed the 611 and has been so helpful to us throughout the restoration. We are so thankful for all they have done for us!" In other restoration news: The superheaters were installed; Side rods are being cleaned, tested, repaired and polished to a shine. Volunteers have donated almost 7,000 hours of work with no safety incidents! Thank you to the incredible team of dedicated volunteers and the mechanical team for helping our dream come true! (Virginia Museum of Transportation and Fire Up 611!)

BC&G LOCOMOTIVE HEADING HOME TO WEST VIRGINIA. The Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad (D&GVR) has reached an agreement to purchase the Buffalo Creek & Gauley 2-8-0 No. 4, a 1926 Baldwin-built steam locomotive with deep West Virginia roots, from the North Carolina Transportation Museum. The D&GVR will restore the steam engine and put it back into service in the near future. The locomotive will be moved this spring from the NCTM to Cass, WV, where the skilled employees at the Cass Scenic Railroad, now operated by the D&GVR, will complete the boiler work and other repairs. The D&GVR hopes to complete the restoration in time for the locomotive’s 90th birthday in September 2016. When completed, the locomotive will appear as it did in the early 1960s when it gained fame as one of the last steam locomotives in regular service in the United States. The Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, PA, built the locomotive for POTOMAC RAIL NEWS MARCH 2015 PAGE 4 OF 12 use in Mexico, but instead it was sold to the Buffalo Creek & Gauley in Clay County, WV. No. 4 made its last run in 1965 and was sold to the Pennsylvania- based Quakertown & Eastern excursion operation in 1967, the Southwest Virginia Scenic Railroad in Hiltons, VA, in 1972, and the non-profit support organization for the North Carolina Transportation Museum in 1978. Once restored, No. 4 will be return to service not far from where she once operated. (Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad)

CSX STARTS WORK ON VIRGINIA AVENUE TUNNEL AND OPPONENTS SEEK INJUNCTION TO STOP WORK. The Virginia Avenue tunnel project in Southeast Washington was scheduled to have its day in court on February 17th when a District Court judge was expected to hear a petition for a preliminary injunction that would halt construction of the $170 million project, at least until the court reviews and rules on a lawsuit challenging the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA’s) decision to approve plans to reconstruct the 110-year-old rail tunnel. The hearing comes as CSX begins site preparation for the reconstruction and expansion project, which received Federal clearance last year. CSX says residents should expect to see some utility relocation, tree removal, and fencing-off of the area in coming weeks. Excavation could begin as early as this spring, as soon as CSX receives permits from the D.C. Department of Transportation and other City agencies. The project is expected to be completed in 3½ years. Opponents, however, remain optimistic about the court’s intervention and their last resort to stop the project. The Committee of 100 on the Federal City, which serves as a watchdog on transportation issues, has built a case questioning the legality and transparency of the project’s Federal environmental review process and says there were violations of Federal and D.C. law. In its lawsuit, the Committee cites DDOT’s early commitment to the project. Before completion of the mandated National Environmental Policy Act review, the Agency had agreed to let CSX take over the roads near the tunnel for the purpose of rebuilding it. The Committee and residents opposing the construction hope a judge will grant their motion to keep CSX from turning their community into a work zone before their lawsuit is heard. Last November, the FHWA gave CSX clearance to rebuild the aging rail tunnel. The decision came after a series of delays and in spite of vigorous opposition from some neighbors. The Federal environmental approval process took three years to complete. CSX plans to demolish the 3,800-foot-long tunnel, beneath Virginia Avenue SE (from Second to 11th streets) and build twin tunnels that are high enough for double-stack trains. The tunnel’s single-track configuration has become a major bottleneck in the region’s rail network, and CSX says that modernizing the tunnel will not only help maintain the integrity of what is considered an important access point in the East Coast rail system, but also will allow it to handle expected increases in freight transportation. CSX has a team of lawyers working on the court case and company officials are confident that the project will move forward. DDOT has issued one permit to CSX that allows for the temporary installation of equipment to obtain noise and vibration readings in the area, a DDOT spokesman said. Another permit is pending for tree removal within the CSX property limits. CSX officials expect excavation work to begin this spring. Kirsten Oldenburg, an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner who represents part of the area affected by the project, said she hopes the pending litigation won’t delay the project further. Just as some residents don’t want the construction to take place, others think it’s necessary and just want it to be over with, she said. “The study is done. The results are done. It’s time to get it done,” Oldenburg said. (Washington Post) P.S. The Tunnel project’s scheduled day in court was put on hold by a higher authority - Mother Nature) A snowstorm intervened and forced a postponement the POTOMAC RAIL NEWS MARCH 2015 PAGE 5 OF 12 hearing to a date to be determined)

DO THE CRIME DO THE TIME. Two West Virginia coal operators will each spend three years in prison for participating in a $10 million cash selling scheme. Fifty- five-year-old William “Bill” F. Adams of Yukon, West Virginia, and 43-year-old John B. Ward of War, West Virginia, are among more than two dozen people who’ve been sentenced in the scheme. Adams and Ward were convicted in 2014 of conspiring to defraud the government in the collection of taxes, and structuring cash transactions to avoid reporting requirements. They were sentenced on February 27th in Federal court in Abingdon, VA. Prosecutors say the scheme involved people who provided cash and fraudulent invoices to coal operators in exchange for a 10% fee. The coal operators would pocket cash obtained from the scheme or pay their workers in cash to avoid paying taxes. (www.wtop.com)

NORFOLK SOUTHERN TO CLOSE ROANOKE OFFICE BUILDING, RELOCATE EMPLOYEES. Norfolk Southern announced on January 27th that it will close its Roanoke, VA, office building at 110 Franklin Road SE later this year and relocate the functions currently housed there to Atlanta or Norfolk. About 500 people currently work in the building in marketing, accounting, information technology, and other departments. Affected employees will have the option of relocating with their positions. The action is being taken to foster departmental synergies and to make better use of the company’s real estate assets and support the company’s goal of streamlining its management workforce. NS is in the final process of evaluating which positions will be relocated to its corporate headquarters in Norfolk, VA, or its operational headquarters in Atlanta, GA. Some regionally oriented positions will remain in Roanoke but will move to other work locations in the area. “This will not involve any involuntary force reductions, and we will provide substantial relocation packages for those who choose to relocate,” said James A. Squires, Norfolk Southern President. “Norfolk Southern has been a proud corporate citizen of Roanoke for more than 130 years, and that will not change. While our profile may be reduced, Roanoke will remain a key location in our network, and we will remain engaged in the community.” Roanoke will remain the headquarters for NS’s Virginia Division, and the company will continue operating a local switching yard and locomotive and car maintenance facilities at Shaffer’s Crossing, and a locomotive overhaul and rebuilding facility in its East End Shops. In total, about 1,700 people currently work for Norfolk Southern in Roanoke. The Roanoke office building was built in 1992 and consists of more than 203,000 square feet of office space. Disposition of the building will be determined at a later time. (NS Press Release)

MARYLAND'S GOVERNOR WANTS CHEAPER BIDS FOR BUILDING THE PURPLE LINE. While Maryland Governor Larry Hogan does not appear to have given up on the Purple Line, his administration does want to find ways to cut costs, and for now that means that firms bidding to work on the $2.45 billion project will get a five- month deadline extension. The decision should give those companies more time to figure out how to shrink their proposed expenses. The Maryland Department of Transportation notified participating bidders on February 20th . A best-case scenario would see construction of the light-rail line begin before the end of 2015, though the timeline for transitioning from the bidding process to building would be cut significantly (if not moved into 2016) with this deadline now moved from March 12 to August 19. Local lawsuits have already emerged that threaten to alter Maryland's Purple Line plans, which Hogan criticized as being too expensive while he was running for office in 2014. The 16-mile route connecting Bethesda to Silver Spring, POTOMAC RAIL NEWS MARCH 2015 PAGE 6 OF 12 College Park and New Carrollton has survived budget planning so far and the new delay came as a response to the potential contractors, who asked Maryland for extra time. It's the second extension to be applied to the deadline since Hogan was elected, though the first push from January into February came for similar reasons while the new governor rethought existing plans left over from former Governor Martin O'Malley's administration. If anything, this may be a good sign for Purple Line supporters, since delaying the process means that it hasn't been killed outright. Nevertheless, the move signals that Hogan isn't backing down from his calls to slash costs. (DCInno City News; http://dcinno.streetwise.co/)

WHAT’S NEXT FOR DC STREETCAR? D.C.'s new streetcars already sit in testing limbo amid repeated delays, a systemwide safety review that could push their opening date into May and multiple collisions with vehicles. On February 21st , the line along H Street Northeast suffered one more setback, as the area on top of one of its cars caught fire. The D.C. Department of Transportation released an assessment of what happened, detailing the situation as follows: At approximately 11:45 pm Saturday during simulated service, a brief flash fire was ignited on top of the streetcar vehicle. The sparks extinguished very quickly on their own and fire suppression was not required by the first responders on the scene. The vehicle operator was safe due to the vehicle’s insulation from electrical current. After the flash fire sparked, DC Streetcar’s emergency procedures were put in place. The vehicle went into fail-safe mode and stopped moving. Power to the system was cut and the vehicle was towed back to the yard. In order to test the power system, another vehicle was immediately put into operation and ran without issue. Simulated service resumed without incident. The exact cause of this incident is being investigated by the DC Streetcar team and the vehicle manufacturer. Initial observations suggest that this was an isolated incident. State Safety Oversight (SSO) was immediately alerted and continues to be updated as the investigation proceeds. The DC Streetcar team is embarking upon a full inspection of the entire system. This incident will be part of DDOT's top to bottom review of the system that is underway. "My administration will open D.C. Streetcar to the public when we know it's safe, and not a moment sooner," D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said in a statement, according to a WUSA9 report. (DCInno http://dcinno.streetwise.co/)

CHICAGO'S PULLMAN DISTRICT PROCLAIMED A NATIONAL MONUMENT. On February 19, 2015, President Obama, citing his authority under the Antiquities Act of 1906, issued a proclamation designating Chicago’s Pullman District on the Far South Side as a National Monument. Members of Congress from Illinois had urged that Pullman be named a National Historical Park, citing the area's history and architecture, as well as the potential for tourism and economic development that such a designation could generate. A Federal study determined that the Pullman Historic District is worthy of being considered as a National Park. The Pullman Historic District is Chicago’s first National Park. The new Monument's boundaries are 103rd Street to the north, 115 th Street to the south, Cottage Grove Avenue to the west, and the Norfolk & Western Rail Line to the east. According to a White House official, Pullman's new designation demonstrates Obama's commitment to protect places that reflect the nation's diverse history and create opportunities for all Americans to access outdoor spaces. Railroad magnate George Pullman created the District in the 1880s as home to his Pullman Palace Car Co., which built sleeping cars for railroad passengers. The site included his factories and the housing where his workers lived, making it one of the country's first "company towns." It also is noted for giving birth to the first African-American labor union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. A strike at the factory in 1894 triggered the country's first industry- wide walkout and resulted in several worker deaths at the hands of U.S. marshals POTOMAC RAIL NEWS MARCH 2015 PAGE 7 OF 12 and the military. The strike occurred after Pullman refused to lower the rents for company housing at the same time that he lowered wages in 1894. The District has many homes in good condition but suffers from age, blighted sections, and the effects of a 1998 arson on the factory grounds. More than a year ago, the National Trust for Historic Preservation designated the 300-acre Pullman District one of its 35 national "treasures," signifying a commitment to preserve the area. While officials have yet to detail the total cost to develop the Far South Side site, including much-needed renovations to the historic clock tower damaged in a 1998 fire, it has been announced that nearly $8 million in local donations has already been raised to support site projects. (Chicago Tribune, White House Briefing Room www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room, Progress Illinois www.progressillinois.com) EVENTS Old Dominion Division RRE Meeting. February 19, 2014, 8:00 PM. James Madison High School, 2500 James Madison Drive, Vienna, VA, in Room 110; Closest entrance to Room 110 is Entrance No. 1. Pre- meeting dinner at 6:30 at the Amphora Restaurant, 377 West Maple Avenue, Vienna. To reach the school: From Amphora Restaurant go south two blocks on West Maple Avenue to James Madison Drive and turn right. School is at the end of this street. Program: Alex Mayes will present a digital program covering his railfanning exploits in 2014. The program begins with a trip to CSX’s RF&P Sub following a snowstorm in January to photograph Metrorail, Amtrak and CSX trains, and then two days on snowy Sand Patch grade. The program then segues to a trip on the Auto Train to Florida, with scenes of Florida East Coast Railway and Tri-Rail commuter trains, and a side trip to Key West. Next is a two week trip to North Carolina that includes chasing three North Carolina shortlines, CSX and NS mainline action, and three days at the “Streamliners at Spencer” event. The 2014 NRHS convention in Arkansas follows, with scenes of the Arkansas & Missouri’s Alco fleet in action, and a chase of the Monett Turn with the A&M’s new EMD SD70ACes. The program concludes with scenes of loading ex-Chesapeake & Ohio 2-6-6-2 No. 1309 onto a flatcar at the B&O Museum for transport to the Western Maryland Scenic Railway for extensive overhaul and return to service

Railfan's Diary Cincinnati and Washington—a Tale of Two Cities’ Passenger Rail Service 1971-2014 Part 2–Washington By: Jim Mixter

In Part 1, I described how Cincinnati lost most of its passenger train service with the advent of Amtrak, and today the Queen City of the Midwest has even less service than when Amtrak began on May 1, 1971. So, how did Washington make out as Amtrak began, and what has happened since? The answer is that Washington’s experience was and continues to be much different, and far better, than Cincinnati’s. In this Part 2, I will deal with each railroad operating trains serving Washington as of April 30, 1971; since the B&O is the favorite of many of this column's readers, I’ll cover it last so you’ll hopefully read the entire article!! Penn Central operated the ex-Pennsylvania Railroad service into the nation’s capital, all on what had become the Northeast Corridor heading to New York and (over the former New Haven Railroad) to Springfield and Boston, MA. I couldn’t locate a timetable effective through April, 1971, but an Official Guide a few months prior indicated that PC operated 6 Metroliners and 11 conventional trains to New York, including four conventional trains that continued to Boston. While there was no longer a Washington-Harrisburg connection to long distance trains serving Chicago, there was a coach-only train from Baltimore to Harrisburg, so one could travel between Washington and Chicago or St. Louis with a change in Baltimore and Harrisburg. The Penn Central also operated two Seaboard Coastline Florida trains, the Silver Meteor and the Champion, as separate trains between Washington and New York. With the coming of Amtrak, all of this service was continued, and a Washington-Harrisburg connecting train with dining-lounge car and through coaches and sleeping cars was established for the New York-Chicago POTOMAC RAIL NEWS MARCH 2015 PAGE 8 OF 12 Broadway Limited and the New York-Kansas City (via Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, and St. Louis) National Limited. The Metroliners, which had been increasing service as the full car order was delivered, had increased to 9 weekday trips, with conventional Northeast Corridor trains reduced to 9 trips. Over the last 43 years, Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor Service has increased substantially, with combined Acela/Regional service now totaling 37 weekday trains, 16 of them Acela Expresses and 18 continuing through to Boston, one to Springfield, MA, and one to St. Albans, VT. Weekend service is somewhat less but still much more than in 1971. An overnight train with sleeping car service to Boston was added by Amtrak fairly early on and later extended south to serve Richmond and Newport News, but its sleeping car was removed a few years ago due to a shortage of Viewliner sleepers; perhaps the arrival of additional sleepers will bring this sleeper route back. Also significant is that train speeds have been increased in the Northeast Corridor, so trip times are now faster than in 1971. Through Washington-Harrisburg-Chicago service over the ex-PRR is gone (as are Amtrak’s National Limited and Broadway Limited), but Amtrak’s Capitol Limited over the ex-B&O out of Washington provides better service to Chicago than did the Broadway’s leg to Harrisburg. The Chesapeake and Ohio had one remaining train serving Washington just before Amtrak, the George Washington. Just prior to Amtrak, its Washington section carried a sleeper-lounge for Louisville (with just two bedrooms available for passengers, since the other three were used as crew dormitory space), and coaches for Cincinnati and Louisville. Several hours west of Washington, in Charlottesville, the Newport News section joined it, with a sleeper for Cincinnati, a food bar coach for Cincinnati, and coaches for Cincinnati and Detroit. The sections for Louisville and Detroit split from the main overnight train in Ashland, KY. Amtrak didn’t continue the C&O routes to Detroit and Louisville, continuing the George Washington as a Washington/Newport News- Cincinnati train with coaches from Washington and coaches, dining-lounge car, and sleeper from Newport News. Eventually, this morphed into today’s Cardinal through train Between New York, Washington and Chicago. The Newport News- Charlottesville section was dropped; today, two trains from the Northeast Corridor continue south to Richmond and then go onto the ex-C&O to Newport News. While at one time the Cardinal featured Superliners, including Sightseer Lounge, diner, and several sleepers, today’s train is tri-weekly and has single level cars, with just one sleeper (partly used for crew space, reminiscent of C&O’s George Washington sleeper-lounge to Louisville), an Amdinette, coaches, and a baggage car. Each passenger railroad was offered the choice in 1971 of joining Amtrak or staying out and having to continue (and lose money on) its own passenger trains. If a railroad joined, it gave Amtrak permission to operate over its lines, and it had to buy stock in Amtrak in the amount equal to the amount of money it lost on passenger trains the prior year. Southern Railway elected not to join, for several reasons (some of which I am speculating about here): 1) it had already reduced its passenger losses, but much of this reduction occurred shortly before May 1, 1971, so the payment to join Amtrak was high relative to Southern’s expected continuing losses. 2) it didn’t want to cede control to Amtrak regarding how many trains could be operated over its lines, and finally, 3) Southern may have wanted to ensure that good service continued on its flagship Southern Crescent, in the interest of good public relations. Only two other railroads (the Rio Grande and the Rock Island) stayed out of Amtrak, each with slightly different circumstances, each having one or more of Southern’s motivations. Southern Railway operated only three passenger trains as Amtrak began: the Southern Crescent (Washington-New Orleans (tri-weekly south of Birmingham), the Washington-Atlanta day train Piedmont with a coach-only tri-weekly connection between Salisbury and Asheville), and the unnamed remnant of the Birmingham Special Washington-Lynchburg, VA. The Crescent had a New Orleans or Birmingham POTOMAC RAIL NEWS MARCH 2015 PAGE 9 OF 12 sleeper and coaches carried by the PC from New York, and a through New York-Los Angeles sleeper carried by Southern Pacific’s Sunset Limited west of New Orleans; there were additional sleepers and sleeper lounge between Washington and Atlanta, and dining car service as far as Birmingham, with a dome lounge offering food service on the tri-weekly train south of there. Southern had to continue this service since it did not join Amtrak. The Crescent’s transcontinental sleeper started its run on Amtrak out of New York and ended it into Los Angeles on Amtrak, being operated by the Southern between Washington and New Orleans. Southern also had to continue the Piedmont, which carried coaches and a lounge coach, as well as the single-coach local to Lynchburg; Southern helped these two trains cover costs by adding trailer-train equipment (including cabooses—remember them?) just outside of Washington most of the time. Eventually, Southern decided to join Amtrak, and when it did, the Southern Crescent became an Amtrak train over its entire route (going daily south of Birmingham), and the Piedmont and Lynchburg local were discontinued. Today’s Crescent carries single level sleepers, lounge, diner, and coaches over its whole route to New Orleans; the through sleeper to LA was dropped when Superliners replaced single level cars on the Sunset Limited. A few years ago, Amtrak returned the Lynchburg local in the form of a Springfield, MA, (Boston on weekends)-Lynchburg train with coaches, business class, and dinette service with a subsidy from the State of Virginia. This train has gained notoriety as one of the best financial performers in the system, running a slight dollar surplus over costs. Virginia has committed to adding an additional train over today’s Norfolk Southern from Washington to Roanoke within several years. Next comes the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad, which was later absorbed into CSX. Right before Amtrak, it operated five trains between Washington and Richmond, all of which continued south of Richmond on the ex- Seaboard Air Line Railroad and the ex-Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, which had merged into Seaboard Coast Line by that time and would eventually become part of today’s CSX. Southbound were 1) a wee-hours departure of a coach-only train that would split in Richmond with sections to Columbia, SC,(the ex-SAL Palmland) and Jacksonville(the ex-ACL Gulf Coast Special), 2) a late-morning coach-only train to Jacksonville (the ex-ACL Everglades), 3) the early afternoon Silver Star for Miami and St. Petersburg (ex-SAL), 4) the dinnertime Silver Meteor to Miami (ex- SAL route), and the dinnertime Champion for Florida’s West Coast (ex-ACL.) The two coach trains had cafés or train sales service during meal hours; the three overnight trains to Florida carried a full range of coaches, lounges, dining cars, slumbercoaches, and sleepers. In its final winter, the seasonal Florida Special had run over the RF&P and ex-SCL. Amtrak did not continue the coach-only trains but retained the big overnight trains and operated an additional winter season train for a time. Florida service has varied over the years, and the trains that continue over the CSX south of Richmond today consist of 1) the Silver Meteor to Miami, the Silver Star to Miami via Tampa, and the daytime Palmetto to Savannah, GA. All carry coaches and a lounge, with the Florida trains also carrying sleepers and a dining car. While Florida service over the ex-RF&P to the routes south is somewhat less now versus prior to Amtrak, train frequency between Washington and Richmond has grown significantly, and several trains continue from Richmond to other points not served from Richmond in 1971 (Newport News, Norfolk, and Charlotte) each with its own Virginia-supported train. To sum this up, Washington-Richmond train frequency was five daily just before Amtrak, three daily when Amtrak began (four in the winter), all to Florida, and today the frequency on weekdays is 8, with two trains to Florida, one each to Newport News, Norfolk, Savannah, and Charlotte, and two terminating in Richmond. Last and certainly not least, we come to the Baltimore and Ohio. It had three long-distance trains serving Washington as May 1, 1971, approached. First POTOMAC RAIL NEWS MARCH 2015 PAGE 10 OF 12 was the Capitol Limited to Chicago, which by that time was down to a sleeper, sleeper-lounge, lunch counter dining car, and coaches. It also had the Shenandoah, with coaches and a food bar coach Washington-Akron, and the Metropolitan, which was coach-only between Washington and Cincinnati (westbound it ran combined with the Shenandoah and thus offered food bar coach service as far as Cumberland, MD. There were also two eastbound and three westbound coach- only trains Washington-Cumberland. Amtrak did not continue any of B&O’s long distance trains initially. It added a Washington-Cumberland-Parkersburg train under political pressure (Part 1 mentioned this train, which was derisively known as the “Harley Staggers Special”) that was extended overnight to Cincinnati (circa 1975) but later cut back to Cumberland. Still later, (1981) the Cumberland train was extended to Chicago as the Capitol Limited (combined with the Broadway Limited west of Pittsburgh), and it continues today as a premier Superliner offering and a separate train to Pittsburgh on the ex-B&O, from there to Cleveland on the ex-PRR, and from there to Chicago on the ex-NYC. B&O’s service between Washington and Cumberland, including a local Washington-Martinsburg, initially was in a temporary limbo stage, in that it wasn’t determined to be either commuter (which Amtrak would not operate) or long distance (which the B&O could drop if Amtrak didn’t retain it.) This was during the time Maryland’s commuter rail service, MARC, was being formed. So B&O continued to operate some Washington-Martinsburg-Cumberland service (listed in a “Potomac Valley Service” timetable.) After a while, Amtrak decided to operate the Washington-Martinsburg Blue Ridge, a commuter-type schedule with ex-New Haven “American Flyer” coaches, and it added the Parkersburg train. This allowed the B&O to eliminate its “Potomac Valley Service.” Later, Amtrak turned over the Martinsburg train to MARC, which had also taken over other ex-B&O commuter service. And let’s not forget Washington’s commuter service as of May 1, 1971, which I have not mentioned in the previous paragraphs; it was not affected by the start-up of Amtrak. Penn Central offered two weekday round trips of two-car heavyweight electric MP-54 “grinders;” they operated from Baltimore (Penn Station) into Washington in the morning and out in the afternoon. Later, as localities across the U.S. created entities to subsidize and/or operate money- losing local service, MARC took this service over. It mushroomed over the years and today features 28 round-trips on weekdays and reduced service on weekends on what it calls the “Penn Line.” The B&O operated five weekday (and two weekend) round-trips between Baltimore (Camden Station) and Washington using Budd RDC equipment, including one daily non-stop that connected with the Capitol Limited. Today, this “Camden Line” MARC service has 9 round-trips on weekdays only. West of Washington, in addition to service to Martinsburg and Cumberland, the B&O had two RDC commuter round-trips to Brunswick, MD. Today, MARC operates 5 weekday trains to Brunswick, 2 to Martinsburg, and 2 to Frederick, MD. Adding to the commuter service renaissance in Washington is service on two lines that had no commuter service at all in 1971; today, Virginia Railway Express operates 8 weekday round-trips on the Norfolk Southern (ex-Southern) to Manassas, VA, and 7 on the CSX (ex-RF&P) to Fredericksburg, VA. So, Washington has done very well as far as rail passenger service is concerned in the Amtrak era. Certainly, the city’s proximity to other major metropolitan areas has played a part, as has the willingness of Maryland and Virginia to support passenger rail, both inter-city and commuter. Having Congress located in the city actually may not have helped inter-city passenger rail, as some long-haul lines have bitten the dust since Amtrak began; Congress has often initiated Amtrak budget cuts and has resisted any sort of reliable long-term funding for Amtrak. Nonetheless, from any standpoint, Washington, as a visit to the crowded Washington Union Station will demonstrate, has experienced the rail renaissance that Cincinnati, at least so far, has not. POTOMAC RAIL NEWS MARCH 2015 PAGE 11 OF 12 POTOMAC CHAPTER, NRHS th 45 ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL BANQUET SATURDAY, March 28, 2015, 5:00-9:00 PM

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