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Trainsmag.Com • November 2016 New Boss P OLDEST U.S.-BUILT LOCOMOTIVE IN EXISTENCE? p. 38 Amtrak’s www.TrainsMag.com • November 2016 new boss p. 6 Burning Cajon Pass p. 12 THE magazine of railroading MERGERS AHEAD A complex decision just got even crazier p. 24 Inside Florida’s new passenger KCS and UP units lift a westbound train railroad p. 46 across the Rockies on the Moffat Route. PLUS BONUS ONLINE MAP: Grade-crossing accidents p. 36 CONTENT CODE PG. 3 Ultimate railfan trip of 1968 p. 54 ™ NO FILES. NO DOWNLOADS. NO HEADACHES. Violet, the Industry’s First Smart LDARS, Securely Delivers Data in Real Time. Violet delivers event recorder and video data in real time without downloads – an industry first. No files to transfer. Information is available in real time or in historical view without the security concerns of downloading files. It’s that simple. Only from Violet. Only from Wi-Tronix. October 2-4 | Omaha, NE | Booth 426 LEARN MORE www2.wi-tronix.com/violet Online Content Code: TRN1611 Enter this code at: www.TrainsMag.com/code november 2016 to gain access to web-exclusive content vol. 76, no. 11 news and features FEATURES COVER STORY >> 24 Transcon mergers 34 Boon or boondoggle Train time for the rail industry? at Summit Bill Stephens A Portland & Western Railroad Toledo Hauler reaches level track with six units and 39 loaded cars Robert W. Scott 36 38 44 Map of the Month: ‘Mississippi’ West end Grade-crossing revealing will-o’-the-wisps accidents, 2015 Is this 0-4-0 the oldest Orbs of light morph into A state-by-state look at conventional American ghost-like locomotives on data for incidents, locomotive? a foggy morning in an Ohio injuries, and fatalities Jim Wrinn freight yard Rick Johnson Robert S. Butler 46 54 58 Rewriting the Trip with a capital T In My Own Words: playbook An epic railfan trip from New They don’t train Privately funded Brightline York to Chicago in 1968 them like they service aims to change included a cab ride, a steam used to passenger rail starting in 2017 engine, an all-access pass to a Two experienced railroaders Bob Johnston tower, and more move a train out of a tunnel Kenneth L. Hojnacki Charles H. Geletzke Jr. << ON THE COVER Kansas City Southern and Union NEWS Pacific units lead a westbound empty oil train on the Moffat Route 5 News & Photos near Tolland, Colo., on Sept. 5, 2015. Photo by John Crisanti 10 Don Phillips 16 Fred W. Frailey 6 Amtrak’s new boss 18 Locomotive 12 Burning Cajon Pass 20 Technology 24 Mergers ahead: A 22 Passenger complex decision just got even crazier 36 Map: Grade-crossing DEPARTMENTS accidents 4 From the Editor 38 Oldest U.S.-built 60 Preservation locomotive in 62 Hot Spots existence? 64 Ask TRAINS 46 Inside Florida’s new 70 Gallery passenger railroad 54 Ultimate railfan trip of 1968 TRAINS Magazine (issn 0041-0934, usps 529-850) is published monthly by Kalmbach Publishing Co., 21027 Crossroads Circle, P.O. Box 1612, Waukesha, WI, 53187-1612. Periodicals postage paid at Waukesha, Wis., and at additional offices. POSTMASTER: Please send address changes to TRAINS, P.O. Box 62320, Tampa, FL 33662-2320. Canada Publication Mail Agreement #40010760. FROM THE EDITOR EDITOR Jim Wrinn ART DIRECTOR homas G. Danneman PRODUCTION EDITOR Angela Pusztai-Pasternak JIM WRINN ASSOCIATE EDITOR David Lassen ASSOCIATE EDITOR Steve Sweeney ASSISTANT EDITOR Brian Schmidt A WP feather in UP’s Donner cap EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Diane Laska-Swanke SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER Scott Krall he irst thing on anyone’s mind when talk turns to SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER Drew Halverson LEAD ILLUSTRATOR Rick Johnson mergers (pages 24-33) is duplicate routes. Mergers are PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Sue Hollinger-Yustus LIBRARIAN homas Hofmann COLUMNISTS supposed to eliminate them, but it takes years (Seaboard’s Fred W. Frailey, Don Phillips CORRESPONDENTS S-line and A-line in Virginia), and in some cases, months Roy Blanchard, Michael W. Blaszak, Al DiCenso, Hayley Enoch, Justin Franz, Steve Glischinski, Chase Gunnoe, Chris Guss, Scott A. Hartley, (Southern Paciic’s Tennessee Pass) for this to happen. Bob Johnston, David Lester, David Lustig, Bill Stephens CONTRIBUTING ILLUSTRATOR Bill Metzger And sometimes it never happens. plenty of snow in normal winters. CUSTOMER SERVICE Case in point: On a recent trip to Cali- But I can understand UP’s reasoning for phone: (800) 533-6644 fornia, I witnessed a busy Union Paciic-run keeping both. If one is swamped with traic, Outside the U.S. and Canada: (813) 910-3616 Customer Service: [email protected] Feather River Canyon route — the signature the other provides a safety valve. If one is Digital: [email protected] of the much-beloved Western Paciic that shut down for maintenance or repairs, the Back Issues: [email protected] ADVERTISING SALES folded into UP in 1982 — and the next day other route has track time. Additionally, rail- phone: (888) 558-1544, ext. 625 an equally busy Donner Pass route — roaders are conservative when it comes to email: [email protected] Southern Paciic’s revered crossing of the making big decisions like this. Too many EDITORIAL phone: (262) 796-8776 Sierras that came into UP’s shield in 1996. duplicate routes got abandoned or cast of to email: [email protected] I’d been told that the Feather River Can- regionals and short lines in the 1980s and fax: (262) 798-6468 P.O. Box 1612 yon was as dead as could be east of famous 1990s that railroad managers wish they had Waukesha, WI 53187-1612 Keddie Wye (where BNSF shared trackage back in the irst 15 years of the 2000s. SELLING TRAINS MAGAZINE OR PRODUCTS IN YOUR STORE: ends), but westbound automobile and mani- Mergers are strange. Just when you think phone: 800-558-1544, press 3 Outside U.S. and Canada: 262-796-8776, ext. 818 fest trains I saw and observations from you’ve got them igured out, they come email: [email protected] locals told me otherwise: Some days are along and surprise you, and routes you just website: www.Retailers.Kalmbach.com quiet and others see up to eight freights. knew would disappear, linger on and on. TRAINS HOME PAGE Running both east-west main lines www.TrainsMag.com means a lot of extra miles to maintain in dif- KALMBACH PUBLISHING CO. icult territory: he Feather River Canyon is PRESIDENT Charles R. Crot prone to rockslides (track inspection vehi- VICE PRESIDENT, CONTENT Stephen C. George cles precede freight trains, checking for EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Diane M. Bacha slides), and Donner is hilly and curvy with [email protected] SENIOR VP, SALES & MARKETING Daniel R. Lance VICE PRESIDENT, CONSUMER MARKETING Nicole McGuire CORPORATE ART DIRECTOR Maureen M. Schimmel ART AND PRODUCTION MANAGER Michael Soliday CIRCULATION MANAGER Kathy Steele SINGLE-COPY SPECIALIST Kim Redmond CORPORATE ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Scott W. Bong ADVERTISING SALES REPRESENTATIVE Mike Yuhas AD SERVICES REPRESENTATIVE Christa Burbank FOUNDER A.C. Kalmbach, 1910-1981 Subscription rate: single copy: $6.99; U.S. 1 year (12 issues) $42.95; 2 years (24 issues) $79.95; 3 years (36 issues) $114.95. Canadian: Add $12.00 postage per year. All other international subscrip- tions: Add $15.00 postage per year. Payable in U.S. funds, drawn on a U.S. bank (Canadian price includes GST) BN 12271 3209 RT. ©2016 Kalmbach Publishing Co. Any publication, reproduction, or use without express permission in writing of any text, illustration, or photo- graphic content in any manner is prohibited except for inclusion of brief quotations when credit is given. Title registered as trademark. TRAINS assumes no responsibility for the safe return of unsolicited photos, art- work, or manuscripts. Acceptable photos are paid for upon publication. Photos to be returned must include return postage. Feature articles are paid for upon acceptance. For information about submitting photos or articles, see Contributor Guidelines at www.TrainsMag.com. Printed in U.S.A. All rights reserved. Member, Alliance for Audited Media. In California, where Union Pacific has parallel east-west main lines, an eastbound UP stack train climbs the Donner Pass route at Yuba Gap, Calif., on July 23, 2016. TRAINS: Jim Wrinn 4 Trains NOVEMBER 2016 NEWS&PHOTOS Average weekly rail carloads What can railroads do to change this United States total intermodal units picture? Ofer more service in under- served lanes, cooperate on joint moves, and 2013 2014 2015 2016 ) tinker with price and service levels to bet- 280 ter compete with trucks, Gross suggests. Railroads are, of course, trying to boost 270 intermodal volumes. in thousands ( In September, BNSF Railway launched 260 new, faster service between the Paciic Northwest and Texas via Denver. Trains 250 linking Portland, Ore., and Seattle with Dallas-Fort Worth are two days faster than previous rail transit times and are compa- 240 rable in speed to single-driver, over-the- road options, BNSF says. It’s the irst of 230 . Carloads and/or intermodal units intermodal and/or Carloads r. r. r. r. several new intermodal routes that BNSF n n n n g. g. g. eb. eb. eb. eb. Ap Ap Ap Ap Oct. Oct. Oct. F F F F Ju Ju Ju Ju Dec. Dec. Dec. Au Au Au will launch over the next year. Figures are for U.S. operations only. Over the longer term, CSX Transporta- A Norfolk Southern intermodal train meet in Indiana is a backdrop for average weekly tion aims to reduce the average length of data from the Association of American Railroads. TRAINS: Steve Sweeney; Illustration: Rick Johnson haul at which intermodal can successfully compete with trucks. It’s a cornerstone of the railroad’s efort to capture some of the Cooling economy douses hot 9 million truckloads in the East that are good candidates for intermodal conversion.
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