May 1, 2015 Dear All: by Now, I Trust Those That Were Able to Get to York Are Back Home Safe and Enjoying Those Treasures You Brought Home

Home , Hagerstown City Park, Nickel Plate Road 765, Rockhill Trolley Museum, Smoky Mountain Railroad, Southern Railway 4501

May 1, 2015 Dear All: By now, I trust those that were able to get to York are back home safe and enjoying those treasures you brought home. Did you see the sign on the York fence? It read “TOY TRAIN EXTRAVAGANZA THURSDAY – FRIDAY – SATURDAY ALL ARE WELCOME.” I wonder how many folks took us up on this fabulous offer to join us for a great show? While the introduction of the public to York has been something that has caused great discussion, one thing I believe we can ALL agree on is that the hobby and the Club needs members and members that are younger than me so that it lives on. We may not all agree on how to go about doing this, but I applaud Eastern in their attempt to invigorate the public into seeing what we all find so great about the hobby. It would seem the only way we can keep this a totally closed event is if we ALL attended and brought two people with us each time and at least one of them joined, short of this, it seems we must find ways to bring in others. So, while we may not all agree on the opening of York to the public, doing nothing I’m afraid will find the Club without members. So let’s not gripe about should it or should it not be open to the public, let us gripe about not having others interested in being part of the hobby and not having someone to share our collection and love of the hobby. BRAVO Eastern, kudos for trying, do not stop trying, this hobby is worth keeping alive!

I want to thank everyone who stopped by to say hello, it’s always great to meet folks I’ve been talking with thru email and to see familiar faces and friends that I don’t see too often. I hope you had a chance to meet those that volunteer at the table for it’s a truly a team effort.

I hope now that York has come and gone, you will be joining us at the May 9 VTC/WB&A Train show in Fredericksburg as a table holder and/or patron. I think you would agree that with the publicity this show has received it will be a huge success and given it’s the first time, folks will be curious to see what it’s all about, so don’t be left out, come on our and set up a table. I’m happy to say that the National Capital Trackers will be setting up, Bruce Greenberg will be presenting information, Allan Crotts will be our train doctor and Robbie Schroeder will be our parts person, plus those that have already reserved a table that will be filled with treasures. There will also be a WB&A and a VTC White Elephant table. Please contact Nada Boswell [email protected] if you’re interested in placing an item on the white elephant table so that she can provide you with details and information.

As a reminder, the next “How To” Session will be at the June 7 mini‐meet after the general business and swap meet and it will be on scenery! We will be providing more details soon, so watch for the information or reach out to Nada [email protected] if you’d like more information or would like to present on this subject.

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).

Friends of the WB&A Looking for a great way to promote your train event? Adrian Hall has put together a great website and the price is right! http://modelshopsusa.com Be sure to post our link for our May 9 show to your social media: http://www.modelshopsusa.com/events/747‐ VTCandWBandAChapterTrainCollectorsAssociation_G reatToyTrainShowandSale

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 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] and to reserve a table please contact Nada Boswell at [email protected] June 7, 2015 ‐ WB&A mini‐meet from 9‐12 p.m. Kemper – Macon Lodge, 4110 Little Falls, Falls Church, VA contact Dan Danielson [email protected] for more information

October 31, 2015 – WB&A Vienna VFD Train Show, contact Dan Danielson [email protected] or David Eadie [email protected]

TWO yes TWO 2015 WB&A Drawing Items Drawings to be held January 2016 If interested in either or both, the tickets will be at the May 9th VTC/WB&A Train Show, the June 7 and November 7 General Membership Meeting, and the October 31 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 1. Premier Set 20‐3574‐1 4‐8‐4 J Class Norfolk & Western Passenger Set: MSRP $1,349.95. (1 Ticket for $5 or 6 for $25). 2. Standard Gauge Set ‐ NO BOXES #38 Locomotive, #112 Gondola, #113 Cattle Car; #116 Ballast Car and #117 Caboose; All Lionel with TCA Stickers for the Restoration Work; APPROX. VALUE $300. (1 Ticket for $5 or 6 for $20).

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: Harrisburg Rail Review; Piedmont Flyer; Cornell RR Historical Society – Leaky Valley; Interchange; C&O Historical Society Newsletter April 2015; The Gateway Railletter; Potomac Rail News; Whistle Stop; High Green;

Courtesy of “Lee” for this awesome video link: Hewy P Long Bridge on the Sunset – Crossing the Hue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13DjPgzGTKM and one from the Chicago Tribune http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ chi‐new‐orleans‐rail‐cars‐severe‐storms‐20150427‐ story.html

Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum has announced ticket sales for the 21st Century Steam excursions in June using the former Southern Railway 4501 (with

6 diesel assist). Saturday, June 27, is Bristol to Bulls Gap, TN, and return. Sunday, June 28 is Bristol to Radford and return. From the website it appears that tickets are really selling fast and if you want to ride you should order now. Website: http://tvrail.com/pages/21st‐Century‐Steam

Accurate HO Scale “Berwind” Hoppers by Bowser http://files.ctctcdn.com/654d25d0101/759c838a‐ a579‐4136‐9258‐4a57094b5d9a.pdf

Courtesy of John Newberger attached re: Gusta Taus has PASSED and also see: http://greenvilledepot.org/

Check out http://tracks.lionel.com/ for some great videos and articles, thanks Tom for sending this to me to share!

For our HO Members and Friends ‐ HO Model train Display Saturday and Sunday May 2‐3, 2015 at the Fairfax Station RR Museum ‐ The Potomac Module Crew will hold its semi‐annual HO scale model train show. http://www.fairfaxstation.org/calendar.html

IRJ – International Railway Journal http://www.fairfaxstation.org/calendar.html

Watch this drone video of a Philly ghost ship: https://technical.ly/philly/2015/04/28/s‐s‐united‐ states‐drone‐video/

Spring is in the air???? The life of flowers: http://player.vimeo.com/video/27920977?title=0&% 3bbyline=0&%3bportrait=0href – not a train, but beautiful none the less

EXTRA EXTRA READ ABOUT IT AND LET US KNOW Dave Eadie would like to know, would you be interested in a Club trip on the famous N&W #611? If so, Dave would like to hear from you, so please email him at [email protected]. If you haven’t read about it, check out: http://www.nctrans.org/Home.aspx and also see: http://trn.trains.com/news/news‐ wire/2015/04/norfolk‐‐western‐no‐611‐inaugural‐ excursion‐set‐for‐may‐30

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] 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. April 30‐May 3, 2015 – PA RR Tech & Historical Society Meeting in State College, PA www.prrths.com 9. May 1‐3, 2015 – NY Central System Historical Society, Inc. 2015 Convention & Meeting visit www.nycshs.org 10. May 1‐3, 2015 – The 2015 Lincoln Funeral Re‐ enactment: http://lincolnfuneraltrain.org/2015_event.php 11. May 2, 2015 – Spring Fling Train & Toy Show 9‐3 at the Roxana Firehouse, see: http://www.delawareseasiderailroadclub.com/tr ain‐show.html or contact Bill Ziegler at 302‐537‐ 0964 12. May 2‐3, 2015 – Fairfax Station RR Museum ‐ The Potomac Module Crew will hold its semi‐annual HO scale model train show. 13. 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 14. May 3, 2015 – 10‐4 p.m. Augusta Expo, Fishersville, Va. Use Exit 91 on I64. GPS address: 277 Expo Road, Fishersville, Va. 22939. Sponsored by the Augusta Co. Railroad Museum. Admission: Adults $5.00, Children under 12 with an adult are

free. White Elephant Table set up to sell your personal railroad related items on consignment. 15. 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] 16. May 9, 2015 ‐ Amtrak’s National Train Day in at Philadelphia and Union Station 17. May 9, 2015 National Train Day at the N.C. Transportation Museum http://nctrans.org/Events/National‐Train‐ Day.aspx 18. May 10, 2015 – Hands On Day (1‐4) at Fairfax Station RR Museum http://www.fairfaxstation.org/calendar.html 19. May 12, 205 – 6:30 p.m. at the Franklin County Public Library, 355 Franklin St., Rocky Mount, Virginia Franklin & Pittsylvania RR Program Nathan White, researcher and webmaster of the website www.fandprailroad.org 20. May 17, 2015 – N‐Trak Model Train Display (1‐4) at Fairfax Station RR Museum http://www.fairfaxstation.org/calendar.html 21. May 19, 2015 – 11 a.m. Memorial Ceremony and Historical Hwy Marker Dedication commemorating the 1889 Thaxton Switch Train

Wreck on the grounds of Big Apple Furniture and Antiques 5013 West Lynchburg Salem Turnpike, Thaxton, VA 24174, call Andrew Vehorn 804‐771‐ 5307 or [email protected] 22. May 16, 2015‐ Baltimore Streetcar Museum – FREE to WB&A members, contact John Buxton [email protected] for more information 23. May 23‐24, 2015 – Northern Virginia Model Railroaders Open House in Vienna, VA from 1‐5 p.m. www.nvmr.org 24. May 30, 2015 – Virginia Museum of Transportation Announces Triumphant Return of Norfolk & Western Class J 611 Steam Passenger Locomotive http://fireup611.org/ 25. May 30 – 31, 2015 ‐ TCA Southeastern Division Train Show at the NC State Fairgrounds Kerr Scott Building, 1025 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh, NC 27607, http://www.se‐tca.org/ 26. June 4‐7, 2015 – Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, 2015 R&LHS Convention in Altoona, PA 27. June 5‐7, 2015 ‐ Key, Lock & Lantern 2015 Annual Convention. Railroad History Expo & special train excursions. Utica, NY. Visit www.klnl.org for details. 28. 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= 29. June 6, 2016 – Alleghany Highlands Heritage Dat and C&O Railway Heritage Festival & Train Show http://www.virginia.org/Listings/EventsAndExhi bits/AlleghanyHighlandsHeritageDayCOHeritageF estivalTrainFestival/ 30. June 6, 2015 – 2015 C&O Heritage Festival & Train Show from 10‐5 at The Mill at the Clifton Forge School of the Arts at 518 Church Street, Clifton Forge, VA 24422 31. June 7, 2015 ‐ WB&A mini‐meet from 9‐12 p.m. Kemper – Macon Lodge, 4110 Little Falls, Falls Church, VA contact Dan Danielson [email protected] for more information 32. June 7, 2015 – 9‐1 p.m. Spring Hamburg Dutch Train Meet at the Hamburg Fire Co, File House – Pine Street, Hamburg, PA June 20‐28, 2015 TCA 2015 National Convention http://www.metca.org/2015convention.html 33. June 13, 2015 – Dunsmuir for Railroad Days http://dunsmuir.com/ (Dunsmuir is an historic Mt. Railtown on the Northern Sacramento River, and once had a shop for maintenance and repairs of Southern Pacific Steam. They had to maintain a large stable of steam to lift the trains out of the Sacramento River Canyon. It still has a turntable

and the Malley House, which was used to service SP's giant Cabforwards ( they would not fit into the round house). Dunsmuir remains a crew change point has it has been since the 1880's. This can be viewed on "Trainorders.com's" Cam, which is located on the roof of the Dunsmuir Passenger Station.) They have a Caboose at RR Park in Dunsmuir, CA you can stay in! 34. 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/ 35. July 18, 2015 ‐ Northern Virginia Model Railroaders Open House in Vienna, VA from 1‐5 p.m. www.nvmr.org 36. July 20‐26, 2015 – 12th Annual WNC Roundup http://wncrocks.proboards.com/#ixzz3Jd1YzWs H 37. July 26, 2015 ‐ 9‐1 p.m. Summer Hamburg Dutch Train Meet at the Hamburg Fire Co, File House – Pine Street, Hamburg, PA 38. August 8, 2015 – Lynchburg Rail Day 2015 contact: Barry Moorefield, [email protected] or Norris Deyerle, [email protected], website www.blueridgenrhs.org.

39. September 12, 2015 – Northern Virginia Model Railroaders Open House in Vienna, VA from 1‐5 p.m. www.nvmr.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 2‐4, 2015 – The Race of Gentlemen: http://www.theraceofgentlemen.com/index.html 46. 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

47. October 17, 2015 – Northern Virginia Model Railroaders Open House in Vienna, VA from 1‐5 p.m. www.nvmr.org 48. 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/ 49. October 31, 2015 – WB&A Vienna VFD Train Show, contact Dan Danielson [email protected] or David Eadie [email protected] 50. 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). 51. November 14, 2015 – Northern Virginia Model Railroaders Open House in Vienna, VA from 1‐5 p.m. www.nvmr.org 52. 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 53. November 30, 2015 – Northern Virginia Model Railroaders Open House in Vienna, VA from 1‐5 p.m. www.nvmr.org 54. December 12, 2015 – Northern Virginia Model Railroaders Open House in Vienna, VA from 1‐5 p.m. www.nvmr.org 55. December 13, 2015 – Earleigh Heights Shows 9‐2 56. December 19, 2015 ‐ Arbutus Shows from 9‐1

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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.

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Hello members of the WB&A Chapter. My name is Stuart Hello members of the Eastern Division. My name is Stuart Rankin and I’m the President of the Metropolitan Division Rankin and I’m the President of the Metropolitan Division of TCA (METCA) and the Chairman for the 2015 TCA of TCA (METCA) and the Chairman for the 2015 TCA National Convention. It is this this second hat that I National Convention. It is this this second hat that I wear which brings me to you today. wear which brings me to you today.

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

The first half of the week will consist of the “best of the best” trips and tours. During the week 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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, 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 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. 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 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 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: trip, tour and event, check out the new permanent TCA convention website at: www.TCAconvention.org www.TCAconvention.org Whistle Stop April / May 2015 2 Ù-EMBERÙ.OTESÙ :KLVWOH6WRS "YÙ.ANCYÙ*EWELÙ :DWDXJD9DOOH\5DLOURDG+LVWRULFDO6RFLHW\ 0XVHXP Our sympathy is extended to Jeanne Cope in the death of her husband, Jack Cope, on 32%R[-RKQVRQ&LW\71 April 1, 2015, in Johnson City. Jack worked with the mechanical crew in Jonesborough and enjoyed the excursions. ZZZZDWDXJDYDOOH\UUKVPRUJ Please keep the following folk in your thoughts as they deal with various concerns: Carrie Denny, Sidney Blankenbeckler, Gary Price, Bob May, Jim Calhoun and Bob Yaple. As 3UHVHUYLQJ2XU5HJLRQ¶V5DLOURDG+HULWDJH always, let us know of any member, friend or family to whom a card might be sent or a phone call made. The office phone number is (423) 753-5797 or call Nancy Jewell at (423) Volume 35 Nos. 4 & 5 April / May 2015 282-0918.

WVRHS&M has once again been given MEETING DATE CHANGES FOR MAY AND JUNE a rare opportunity to offer two steam As the regularly scheduled May meeting will fall on Memorial Day and the Johnson City train excursions this coming June Public Library will be closed, May’s meeting date will be moved up one week to Monday, through Southwest Virginia and East May 18th. Richard Barker will present on SOUTHERN RAILWAY passenger trains. In June Tennessee. As area residents do not the Library will have activities every Monday night so the June meeting will be moved to have the opportunity for rail travel, this Tuesday, June 23rd. will be a chance for young and old to experience a train ride behind a vintage steam locomotive, ex-SOUTHERN RAILWAY 2-8-2 #4501 (photo at left). 762(3-Ù%8#523)/.Ù.%73Ù For more information, see page 4. HIWASSEE GORGE TRIP WENT OFF WITH A BANG. Sold out train! Great bunch of Ù Ù passengers and beautiful weather proved to make the Hiwassee Gorge excursion trip a !PRILÙTHÙ'ENERALÙ great one. April 11th was an excellent day to ride a train down by the river and through the mountains. Everyone had a wonderful time and saw some good East Tennessee -EMBERSHIPÙ-EETING springtime scenery. Thanks to all the Watauga Valley volunteers that served on the excursion. The next General Membership Meeting of the Watauga Valley Railroad CHERRY BLOSSOM SPECIAL WAS A GREAT SUCCESS. The joint WVRHS&M and Historical Society & Museum will be th NCTM Washington “Cherry Blossom Special” was a big success as well – a sold out train held on April 27 , starting at 6:30 p.m., with over 100 passengers. Good weather and excellent tours in Washington. More trips and located at the Johnson City Public are planned for the future to other destinations. Library, 101 West Millard St., Johnson City, TN. This month’s program, JUNE 2015 #4501 STEAM EXCURSIONS. See page 4. “Elkhorn City, Gateway to The Breaks of the Big Sandy”, features the C&O SUMMER GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN EXCURSION ANNOUNCED. The Watauga and CLINCHFIELD railroads from 1971 Valley RHS&M announced recently that its Summer Excursion will be on the GREAT until the present. Its scenic setting includes the C&O (CSX) Big Sandy Sub-division from SMOKY MOUNTAIN RAILROAD in Bryson City, NC on Saturday, August 15th, 2015. Regina, KY to Haysi, VA, and the former CLINCHFIELD RAILROAD’s (now CSX) Tickets will go on sale soon; a sign up sheet for car host duty will be available at the May Kingsport Sub-division to Erwin, TN. The presenter of the program will be Mr. Everett membership meeting. Young, from Pikeville, KY. Mr. Young is employed by the Kentucky Power Company and is known for his photography of the CLINCHFIELD. This presentation is in response to a FALL AMTRAK EXCURSION ANNOUNCED. Our Fall AMTRAK excursion will be request to us by the Johnson City Public Library to have someone talk about the local operated on October 31st, 2015 from Spencer, NC to Charlottesville, VA and Sunday, railroads, their evolution and what a huge factor they were in shaping both the city and the November 1st, operating from Spencer to Asheville, NC via Old Fort Loops. These two trips entire region. Attendance is expected to be larger than usual; both meeting rooms will be have always proved to be very popular. Sign up forms for car host duty will be available open to the general public. Come out, bring a friend and enjoy this special event. soon.

Whistle Stop April / May 2015 3 Whistle Stop April / May 2015 4 Ù3PRINGÙ3TREETÙ#OACHÙ9ARDÙ-ECHANICALÙ2EPORTÙ )NÙTHEÙ.EWSÙ "YÙ"OBÙ9APLEÙ GENERAL 34%!-Ù42!).Ù#/-).'Ù4/Ù42) #)4)%3ÙÙ3/54(7%34Ù6)2').)! Scenery, history and nostalgia are just around the bend in two spring steam train Looks like spring is knocking on our door and we can finally get some work done. The excursions offered by Norfolk Southern Corp. partnering with Watauga Valley Railroad weather has been good to the Watauga Valley Mechanical Team lately and there have Historical Society & Museum and Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum. On Saturday, June been a lot of good working days at the yard over the last several weeks as a result. If you 27th, 2015, an excursion train will operate from Bristol, VA to Bulls Gap, TN and return. On would like to help out at the Jonesborough Coach Yard on Tuesdays between 9 am to 5 Sunday, June 28th, 2015, an excursion train will operate from Bristol to Radford, VA and pm or Saturdays from 9 am to 12 noon, please call the WVRHS&M Office at (423) 753- return. Motive power for the two excursions will be steam locomotive SOUTHERN 5797 RAILWAY #4501 (with assistance from modern NORFOLK SOUTHERN diesels as needed.) This rare opportunity is being offered to communities along NS lines for display ROLLING STOCK and periodic excursions. For many passengers, these excursions will be a once-in–a- lifetime experience, not only to ride behind a steam locomotive, but also to see the hills and mountains from the unique perspective of the railroad while hearing the whistle echo WATV 539 “Powhatan Arrow” coach. Is back in Jonesborough getting in the hills and hollows of the beautiful Appalachian Region. its new floor, carpet and new upholstery. The car’s interior has already been painted. The 539 is scheduled to leave in about 30 days. Saturday’s trip to Bulls Gap begins at the Bristol, VA train station at 9 am. There will be a station stop at NORFOLK SOUTHERN’s Elm Street station in Johnson City, TN at 10 am. WATV 500 “St Augustine” coach. Made its “Cherry Blossom Special” After leaving Johnson City, the train will pass through historic Jonesborough, the oldest trip to Washington recently; the car did excellent on the trip with no town in Tennessee. It will pass Washington College Academy, founded by Samuel Doak in problems. 1780, the oldest school “west of the Alleghenies and south of River Ohio”. Next on the WATV 400 “Moultrie” diner. WVRHS&M members have been performing route is Limestone, birthplace of Davy Crockett, then Greeneville, the home of Andrew cleaning chores in the kitchen area. Jim Calhoun has been working on the Johnson, 17th president of the United States. After descending into the lowlands, the train refrigeration. will arrive in Bulls Gap at 12 noon. In Bulls Gap, passengers will have time to visit the small town with a chance to visit the Archie Campbell Birthplace along with the railroad WATV 2351 “Crescent Harbor” sleeper / lounge. Made its “Cherry museum and hotel. The train will depart Bulls Gap at 2 pm, arriving at Johnson City at 4 Blossom Special” trip to Washington recently; the car did excellent on the pm, then Bristol at 5 pm. trip with no problems. WATV 100 “Clinchfield” office car. WVRHS&M is presently looking for Sunday’s trip to Radford will also begin in Bristol VA and bring out the glories of the trucks to Amtrak certification. season through the rolling Southwest Virginia hills while celebrating the grand return of NORFOLK SOUTHERN’s 21st Century Steam Program. The train’s route will take you through historic Abingdon, home of the world famous Barter Theatre and the Martha Washington Inn. Nearby is the famous route of the Virginia Creeper. The excursion will !02),Ù-!9Ù)335%Ù/&Ù7()34,%Ù34/0Ù wind through the Virginia highlands, passing Emory & Henry College, Marion and Wytheville, then will travel down Pulaski Mountain through a tunnel into the town of You might have noticed that this month’s copy of the Whistle Stop serves as both the April Pulaski. The train will then steam into the New River Valley and on to Radford, VA, where and May issues. That’s due to vacation travel by your editor. We will resume monthly passengers will be able to enjoy the town with its many restaurants, shops and museums. publication in June. The train will include climate-controlled heated and air-conditioned cars along with rest rooms. Ticket cost for Coach Class seating is $80 per seat. Coach Class seating is 02/'2!-3Ù.%%$%$Ù&/2ÙÙ provided in temperature-controlled modern cars with fixed back seats. Ticket cost for Deluxe Coach is $95 per seat. Deluxe Coach seating is provided in climate-controlled vintage cars with reclining back seats. There is no charge for children under 3 years of age The WVRHS&M Program Committee is looking for General Membership Meeting if not occupying a seat. The Radford ticket does not include a meal - only the train trip. The programs for 2015. Please notify us at the April meeting if you can offer a program. We are Bulls Gap ticket does include a box lunch along with the train trip. Tickets can be looking for speakers who would come and present a railroad-related program. And, as purchased by calling the WVRHS&M office at (423) 894-8028 (hours 10am-4pm Monday- always, we’re looking for DVD and slide programs. Friday) or visit http://www.wataugavalleynrhs.org.

Tickets are expected to go fast for this event. Please order ASAP. Whistle Stop April / May 2015 5 Whistle Stop April / May 2015 6 762(3-Ù$/.!4%3Ù#!"//3%Ù4/Ù*/.%3"/2/5'(Ù Ù#LASSÙ*Ù.OÙÙ&AREWELLÙ#ELEBRATIONSÙ0LANNEDÙ Watauga Valley RHS&M will be donating our ex-SOUTHERN RAILWAY caboose X450 to Two exciting events celebrating the completion of 611’s restoration are scheduled at the the Town of Jonesborough, TN to be placed beside the Jonesborough Railroad Museum. North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC, including first time photo ops and At press time the footers for the depot are being poured at the NORFOLK SOUTHERN THROTTLE TIME inside the Class J No. 611! crossing at 2nd Ave. Plans in the coming weeks are to lay down the rail that the caboose will be sitting on and move it sometime in May. WVRHS&M and the Town of Jonesborough No. 611 Send Off Celebration, May 23, 2015 are looking forward to having the caboose and depot on display in the “Oldest Town in the On May 23rd, NCTM will host the "611 Send Off" party with cake, a chance to see inside State of Tennessee”. the locomotive cab, and viewing its move on and off the turntable. A very limited number of lucky people will be able to purchase 30 minutes of throttle time on the locomotive at a Ù50$!4%Ù cost of $611 per slot on a first-come, first-served basis. Only 10 spots will be available for Fire and steam: first time in 20 throttle time, starting at 8 am and going to 11 am. The engine will be available for viewing years! [Posted by Fire Up 611! Team, from 11 am to 4 pm and will be displayed on the turntable on the hour. Throttle time will March 31, 2015] Ex-N&W Class J 611 resume at 4 pm and conclude at 6 pm. Tickets for "At the Throttle 611" went on sale has a fire in her belly for the first time in Tuesday, April 21st at 9 am and will be sold online only (no exceptions). Find out more by 20 years. On March 31, the Fire Up calling (704) 636-2889 ext. 224. Or CLICK HERE! 611! Mechanical Crew, led by Scott Lindsay of Steam Operations Fired Up Photo Charter, May 28, 2015 Corporation, pulled the Class J 611 out th On May 28 , NCTM will hold a once-in-a-lifetime photo charter using 611 and coordinated of the roundhouse to conduct a test fire. by Trains Magazine Editor Jim Wrinn, a 29-year volunteer with NCTM. The locomotive will be posed on the turntable and with other steam power from the museum collection. It will For a video, check out pull a Tuscan red passenger train with the museum's heavyweight N&W combine and http://tinyurl.com/pkuxyld. Photo from canteen as well as a short freight, replicating the late 1950s local freight service that Class FireUp611! J locomotives saw before their retirement. A night photo session, barbecue luncheon featuring Fire Up 611! Chairman Preston Claytor, and other surprises are in store at a cost Painting Begins! 611's tender receives of $250 per person. Tickets went on sale Monday, April 20th at 9 am. Call (704) 636-2889 the application of paint. The paint ext. 224 for more information. Or CLICK HERE! application has begun on 611. The paint crew, led by Chris McBride, began applying professional grade Your editor admits to a bias towards steam engines. And at times it seems as though this Axalta coating to 611's tender last week [end of March]. The paint crew worked in the newsletter is published by NORFOLK SOUTHERN’s PR Department. Thus, in an effort to evenings, doubling the restoration effort to two shifts per day. Ken Miller designed the provide some balance, Mike Pierry, Jr.’s photo below of CSX GE ES44AC #823 leading a replacement stenciling for the famous NORFOLK AND WESTERN lettering on the side of coal train south of Erwin, TN on a bright, winter’s day is offered as a small token of the tender, and assisted with the application balanced coverage. Axalta donated the paint to VMT for 611's new finish. The same colors and product was previously used by the NORFOLK SOUTHERN Birmingham shop over 20 years ago. Axalta shipped 30 gallons of black, 8 gallons of Tuscan red, 4 gallons of gold, as well as product required for mixing. Additionally, 24 gallons of clear will be applied as a top coat, giving the locomotive a glossy appearance. Willetts Railcar Services prepared the tender surfaces, and constructed a large booth.

Ù "2%!+).'Ù.%73ÙÙ(/-%#/-).'Ù Ù Just announced! The 611 is going home again, coming back from its second restoration to headline NORFOLK SOUTHERN’s 21st Century Steam excursions in 2015. For more information, including 611’s 2015 excursion schedule, go to http://tinyurl.com/lb6rq7c. And see the next page for information on two exciting events at NCTM celebrating its restoration completion.

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NC Museum Steam Engine Going Home to West Virginia [From an article by Richard 5PCOMINGÙ%VENTSÙINÙÙ Stradling, 3/27/2015, “The News & Observer”, Raleigh, NC. Used with permission. Photo via APRIL 21 – MAY 3: Lincoln Funeral Train. See NCTM.] http://www.the2015lincolnfuneraltrain.com/ A steam locomotive that has spent the last 37 years MAY 15 - 17: Cass Railfan Weekend, Cass, WV. Includes rare at the N.C. Transportation Museum in Spencer will mileage trips between Spruce and Cheat Bridge. For details - be going home to West Virginia this spring. The http://www.cassrailroad.com/ and http://mtn-rail.com/ engine, known as the BUFFALO CREEK & GAULEY 2-8-0 No. 4, will be trucked in pieces to Cass, W.Va., JUNE 14 - 20: NRHS National Convention, Rutland, VT. For details - where the DURBIN AND GREENBRIER VALLEY http://www.nrhs.com/2015_Convention. Check for convention updates RAILROAD will get it back in running condition and at http://www.NRHS.com or www.facebook.com/RailPreservation. use it on excursions through the mountains. JUNE 18 - 21: Norfolk & Western Historical Society Annual The railroad bought the locomotive for $150,000 from the N.C. Transportation Museum Convention, Marion, OH. http://www.nwhs.org/convention/2015marion/ Foundation, which acquired it for the museum in 1978. Not only will the engine get the full overhaul it needs, said Kelly Alexander, the foundation’s chief operating officer, but it will return to the state JUNE 27 – 28: 21st Century Steam. Bristol to Bulls Gap, TN and Bristol where it operated for decades. “It’s going back home,” Alexander said. “It’s going back to where it – Radford, VA. See page 4. needs to be.” AUGUST 15. Great Smoky Mountains Railroad excursion. Bryson The sale of the old No. 4 engine is part of a wider movement among railroad museums to City, NC. repatriate equipment to it origins, said Robert Van Camp, a board member of the D&GV who lives in Winston-Salem. In years following the death of steam railroads, museums and tourist railroads grabbed what they could and incorporated them into their collections, often repainting them with OCTOBER 31 – NOVEMBER 1. Fall AMTRAK excursions. the colors and logos of local railroads. When a group of SOUTHERN RAILWAY retirees restored the No. 4 engine at Spencer in 1986, they lettered and numbered it as a replica of a SOU engine, 2-8-0 No. 604, which had been based at Spencer. !-42!+Ù42!).Ù$!93Ù The engine was the first piece of railroad rolling stock to be restored at Spencer, according to the museum, which now has more than 100 engines and rail cars as well as the largest preserved AMTRAK has announced plans for its 2015 edition of AMTRAK Train Days. Originating in roundhouse in the country. “We appreciate the role that No. 4 played in the development of the Chicago, where its official kickoff occurs on May 8th, the celebration will continue in North Carolina Transportation Museum,” the foundation’s president, Steve Mersch, said in a multiple locations across the country from May through November, featuring events and statement. “We owe a debt of gratitude to this powerful locomotive, and we want to see it run again in its authentic garb and in its home state.” activities that celebrate the importance, benefits and value of passenger train travel. The locomotive pulled passenger cars on a 3-mile trip around the museum grounds until November Events at Chicago will include a VIP Train, Excursion Train, “Hard Hat” Tour of Chicago 2001, when it was brought into the roundhouse for a major overhaul that all steam engines need Union Station, Control Center Tour and more. To learn more about AMTRAK Train Days every once in a while, Alexander said. That work was begun, but the museum and the foundation and the details on all planned events and activities that will be rolling into a station near then agreed to use the money elsewhere, and the restoration stopped. you this year, visit https://amtraktraindays.com/. In May, the engine will be shipped, probably in four truckloads, from Spencer to Cass, where the D&GV recently took over operation of the CASS SCENIC RAILROAD, which has 10 operating steam locomotives and a repair shop. Van Camp says that it will take about a year and $400,000 &ORÙ9OURÙ2EADINGÙÙ6IEWINGÙ0LEASUREÙ to get the No. 4 operating again and that the railroad hopes to have it ready for the engine’s 90th birthday, in 2016. Although several years old, this article from NORFOLK SOUTHERN’s business st Buying the No. 4 wasn’t like acquiring an old steam engine that has sat on a siding somewhere for magazine provides a good background on our upcoming 21 Century Steam decades. The engine has been well-documented and cared for, Van Camp said. Excursions: http://tinyurl.com/ojfe4ao

“We know the scope of the project and what it’s going to take to finish it, thanks to all the work that Kati Phelps passes along this video clip from the archives of GSMR’s 2-8-0 the North Carolina Transportation Museum did on the engine,” he said. #1702 in action, produced by WFMY News 2 in Greensboro, NC. The only Built in 1926 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia for the NATIONAL RAILWAY in complaint is this incessant need by folk to add music. Why? To view, see Mexico, it was sold to the BC&G instead. Of local interest is that the No. 4 was once operated by http://tinyurl.com/lqeosef the SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA SCENIC RAILROAD in Hiltons, VA prior to coming to NCTM. Whistle Stop April / May 2015 9 0HOTOÙ'ALLERYÙ Whistle Stop Published Monthly by the Watauga Valley Railroad Historical Society & Museum P.O. Box 432, Johnson City, TN 37605-0432 [email protected]

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Watauga Valley RHS & Museum This good-looking Watauga Valley crew served as car hosts on our April 11th “Hiwassee Gorge Special”. From left to right: Gloria Sims; Edna Carter; Norma Head; Jack Maloney; P.O. Box 432 Megan Kegley; Bob Head; Kati Phelps; Tom Phelps; and Mike Tilley. A few other shots Johnson City, TN 37605-0432 from this beautiful trip are offered below. ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED

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No. 1650 displays considerable exhaust as it powers an empty hopper train east near Limeville, Ky. in 1949. Note that the signal heads are turned away from the track on the signal bridge, indicating that it has not yet been put into service. H-8s began to be used on the Northern Subdivision pulling 14,000-ton coal trains to Columbus and sometimes beyond to Walbridge, Ohio beginning in late 1948 after the Big Sandy Bridge in Cattletesburg, Ky. They replaced many of the giant T-1 2-10-4s which had previously held sway in this region from 1930. (Gene Huddleston photo, C&OHS Collection, COHS 1018)

Smoke obscures the eastbound coal train as H-8 No. 1637 moves between Alleghany and East Alleghany, Va. in 1949. The H-8s were standard power for 125 car coal trains from Hinton to Clifton Forge beginning when the first locomotives arrived in 1942 and ending in 1954. The pusher engine from Hinton (another H-8) has already cut off and is being turned back at A Cabin, about a half-mile beyond this scene. (Gene Huddleston photo, C&OHS Collection, COHS 1131) H-8 No. 1652 is just coming out of Lewis Tunnel as it rolls west with a train of empty hopper cars headed back to the coal fields of W. Va. and Ky. It has just crested the steep westbound Alleghany Mountain grade. (H. W. Pontin photo, C&OHS Collection, COHS 1137)

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Rapids in the late 1950s. The PM E7s were renumbered about 1955. No. 4515 was originally PM No.108. [No. We plan to select photos from the C&OHS 4515 was later renumbered 1418 and saw its last days of service on the B&O. It was scrapped in 1958.] Train consists of a Harriman roof mail and express car with a 30-foot RPO apartment, one of the 1951 PM coaches, Collection and display them here each issue. These diner No. 10 or 11, and several more coaches. The interstates of lower Michigan and air traffic had not yet completely erroded the PM's excellent business between the two cities. (C&O Ry. photo, C&OHS Collection, will be ones that perhaps supplement articles in recent CSPR CL282) issues of the magazine that are color, or are color renderings of photos that appear in C&O History in black and white. Others will be random choices showing the variety of material available in our collection. We also solicit photos from others, especially those with some historical background and interest.

This photo appears one page 19 of the WINTER issue of C&O HISTORY in black and white. It shows a local freight westbound out of Balcony Falls in 1979 with the 300-ton Ogle coaling station in the background. (Gene Huddleston photo, C&OHS Collection, COHS 29490)

C&O (ex-PM) E7 No. 4515 leads one of the Pere Marquette (probably No. 15) out of Detroit toward Grand

C&O box car No. 3327 is show here at Okemos, Mich. in July 1969 on a beautiful day. This car was one of 150 (3300-3449) built by General American Transportation Co. at East Chicago, Ind. in late 1940. There were a total of 900 cars of this type (3300-3899), the150 built by GATX, 200 built by Mount Vernon Car Company, 200 by Pressed Steel Car Co., and 300 by ACF. The car was 30 years old when Gene Huddleston snapped this photo. The last of the series were retired in 1984. (Gene Huddleston photo, C&OHS Collection, COHS 37865)

A brace of three F-units power manifest freight No. 98 near Marion, Ind., in May 1960. Note that the trailing unit is an FP7. For some reason a caboose was tucked behind the power, probably being transferred somewhere for use or even headed to the shop. The Chicago Division was a favorite haunt of the F-units having been dieselized with them. It would be three more years after this photo before they began to be transferred wholesale to the Pere Marquette Coach 1700 shining like a new car is seen here in its last years of service on a westbound C&O B&O. train at Plymouth, Mich. in September 1968. No. 1700 was not part of the original 1946 PM car order, but was (Gene Huddleston photo, C&OHS Collection, COGH 21). purchased in 1950, after PM was part of C&O, yet still lettered PM. It came as PM 134 (along with one additional car, 135). They were renumbered as C&O 1700-1701 but always carried the PM name. The car was transferred to Western Maryland in 1971 after the end of passenger service and was used as an instruction car before being given to the B&O Railroad Museum. It originally seated 54. (Gene Huddleston photo, C&OHS Collection, COHS 20447)

This June 1960 photo shows the RDC train that replaced the F7and standard cars on the Big Sandy Branch them available at fingertip on your computer, but still local. This is No. 39 stopping at Paintsville, Ky., en route from Elkhorn City to Ashland. Its schedule called for a stop at Paintsville at 4:40 p.m. The train consisted of two RDCs plus an express car in tri-color paint as a trailer. enabling you to print out pages, enlarged portions of The latter car was being used to carry a heavy express business on the line while the ASHLAND & ELKHORN CITY RPO mail business was carried in the RPO compartment of one of the RDCs. C&O was trying to pages that you may want to take to your model economize on what secondary passenger runs it still had, and obtained secondhand RDCs which operated in Virginia on the Charlottesville-Richmond-Newport News area as The Chessieliner, and on the Big Sandy. The workbench or for research, etc. If you have not fine neo-Georgian depot at Paintsville was a virtual duplicate of the station at Williamsburg. (Gene Huddleston photo, C&OHS Collection, COHS 30754) purchased some of these in hard copy, you can gain all the advantages described above now in digital Society Concentrates on NEW Digital form. We are starting the program with some of the Publications! most basic and popular of the DS's, and will go forward in the future with others. We are also Our series of reprinted C&O publications, known to continuing to issue new CD's showing the Valuation most by their catalog prefix of "DS-," is now gradually Maps. These are a superb research tool for the being made available as digital files on Compact Discs. historian, railfan, or modeler. The ad that appears in The March magazine, being the March issue is also included here. mailed now, will announce this program, and offer the Please click here for: first group. That ad is - Valuation Map CDs: Valuation Maps included herewith.

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St. Joseph's University Student Volunteers Help C&OHS!

A team of eight students from St Joseph's University in Philadelphia comes each year to Clifton Forge to work on projects in the community as paint in the car. It had two colors on the part of the University's inside with the lower part being darker alternative Spring Break than the top. program. The community The car will be utilized to showcase the provides various cultural history of express service on railroads activities for the group of starting in the 1830s and going to the students. This year the end of service with the bankruptcy of REA Express in 1975. students worked with us on March 11th. With better weather ahead we intend to work on the car regularly so that the exhibit will be complete and on display before the end of the year.

The C&O Heritage Center provides the group tours in exchange for their work. This year they spent the day painting the bottom half of the interior of our Save the Date! Railway Express Car C&O 389. C&O 389 was built in 1912 and used by Pullman as a lounge car until 1941 The C&O Historical Society is partnering up with the when it was purchased and converted by Alleghany Heritage Festival this year to present the C&O for Railway Express Agency Alleghany Highlands with a huge, entertaining, service. In 1947 the car was bought by the Henry Ford museum for the traveling historical, fun event. Entertainment will take place on exhibit Main Street USA. Since C&OHS the Masonic Amphitheatre stage, vendors and displays received a $34,000 grant from The Cabell Foundation for the restoration of and demonstrations will be located at C&O Heritage the car, much of the exterior has been Center, AH Arts & Crafts Center, CF Public Library, the restored and repainted, and with the help Masonic Amphitheatre and CF School of the Arts. of the St. Joseph's students the interior of the car is now looking much better. The paint is matched from the original

See the bottom of this page for links to register for the conference and the hotel. We hope you will want Celebrate the culture of the settlers of the Alleghany to attend and you will sign up soon. The sooner you Highlands in music, food, arts & crafts demonstrations register, the better we can plan! and displays, experiential activities and animals at In keeping with our rotation cycle of east-central- Alleghany Highlands Heritage and Train Day on June west, we are back to Virginia this year and because 6. The train show part of this event will be held in The of the many good comments we received in 2008, we Mill at the Clifton Forge School of the Arts at 518 are back at the classic Stonewall Jackson Hotel in Church Street, Clifton Forge, VA 24422. A Heritage Staunton. See the bottom of this page for hotel Day concert will kick off the festivities on June 5 at the registration details.* Masonic Amphitheatre! This year we will start the meeting on Wednesday and end at breakfast on Sunday. This allows use of Please call Brandy Dudley at the C&O Historical Society with the Cardinal (Amtrak Nos. 50/51) for members any questions or vendor sign up for the train show. 540-862- wanting to come by train. If you plan this travel 2210. mode, make your Amtrak reservations early as the http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/...0-5403-11e3-b5a7-d4ae5284344f&ch=64ac85f0-5403-11e3-b5c1-d4ae5284344f[3/26/2015 11:34:50 AM] http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/...0-5403-11e3-b5a7-d4ae5284344f&ch=64ac85f0-5403-11e3-b5c1-d4ae5284344f[3/26/2015 11:34:50 AM]

train often runs full in the summer.** 51 westbound arrives Staunton 2:59 p.m. Wednesday The schedule will be: & Sunday. Wednesday - 12:00n registration sign-in begins - 12:00n sales area open The Society's "X" Files - 6:30 p.m. - welcome Among the society's collection of C&O engineering - 7:00 pm. - 10:00 p.m., presentations drawings, there is a block of about 20,000 drawings with the prefix "X". This was the way in which the C&O's engineering Thursday department arranged the small drawings that comprise thuis - 9:00 a.m. - 9 p.m.- presentations w/lunch & supper collection. Because they were usually only about 8x10 inches breaks in size, they did not easily fit into the drawers which held the Friday rolls of the larger drawings, so they were segregated into a - 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. bus trip to filing cabinet type of file. These drawings were usually made in connection with some proposed change, to go with Clifton Forge/Covington with intermediate stops contracts and deeds, to show right-of-way encroachments - 7 p.m. - Slideshow followed by business meeting and even to give architectural drawings for very small Saturday structures. - 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. - presentations with breaks Today, we in the society often use these for publications - 7 p.m. - Banquet because they are already sized very well and quite often Sunday show a specific area in a compact way. The example you see here was drawn in 1928 to show a proposed addition to the - 8:00 a.m. farewell breakfast Alleghany, Va. team track to accomodate a customer. However, it also shows the layout of A Cabin, the turntable, *To make reservations at Stonewall Jackson Hotel: the depot, some private structures, east and westbound main 1. By telephone: 540-885-4848, ask for reservations, lines, and passing sidings. give "C&O Historical Society" as group. This collection is currently being scanned to be made 2. Online: Chessieshop Conference Registration available for research. Meanwhile, if you have a station name in which you are interested we can make a specific search for Stonewall Jackson Hotel Registration drawings that may be available. Any that we supply you will be sent as digital downloads at a set fee. ** Amtrak Schedules: Cardinal No. 50 eastbound: arrives Staunton 1:37 p.m. Wednesday & Friday No.

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company, lost its founder Mr. Gustav Tauš, who passed away on Saturday, April 25th, 2015.

Mr. Tauš was an accomplished electronic inventor and designer long time before he founded in 1991 model train factory. A graduate of the Czechoslovak Technical College, he was one of the fathers of Czechoslovak television industry. With a team of students he designed and built the first closed circuit television network in the country in 1949. He wrote text books about television and electronics. For many years he represented Sony professional television technology in Czechoslovakia. He was a member of SMPTE and TCA. Recently, he was preparing to write a book about T.A. Edison from the technical point of view. Unfortunately, a fate deprived him to finish it.

First of all, he was a man with vision and drive to make it happen. Under his leadership ETS became the manufacturer of the highest quality tin plate train models. Most importantly, Gustav was a compassionate person and great friend to all of us who were privileged to know him. He will be forever missed, but his legacy will always live in the ETS.

THIS PARAGRAPH WAS SUPPLIED BY MR. DUSAN NEUMAN - U.S. Distributor for ETS and long time friend of Gustav Taus. Gustav and Dusan are always at YORK in the Orange Hall next to the TRAINWORLD entrance. They were not there last week obviously. They will be back in the FALL per Dusan. Photo supplied courtesy of ETS.

GREENVILLE STATION DEPOT SIGNS LEASE FOR STATION - (From Jane Hall - Founding Member of GREENVILLE JUNCTION DEPOT FRIENDS) - Greenville, ME "Just wanted to update you that we have signed the lease agreement with CMQR (Central Maine & Quebec Railway). This lease from the railroad means that the DEPOT will NOT have to be relocated." They are now waiting for the last of the snow and ice to thaw to proceed on restoration of the eaves and additional foundation repairs. They are accepting DONATIONS - Save The Depot Another old Depot saved - good news if you like old Depots and how many train folks do you know that don't? Take care. Join Our Mailing List! John

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HIGH GREEN Chesapeake Railway Association Officers and Directors The Official Newsletter of the President Tim Moriarty 2781 Prince Harold Court, Herndon, VA 20171-2441 (703) 758-7449 [email protected] Vice President Wayne Kirchhof 16490 A. E. Mullinix Road, Woodbine, MD 21797-8430 (410) 489-5987 [email protected] Chesapeake Railway Association Treasurer Paul Bergdolt 8832 N. Westland Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20877-1206 (301) 926-6136 [email protected] Volume 41, Number 5 May 2015 Secretary Bill Breazeale 11302 Orleans Way, Kensington, MD 20895-1017 (301) 942-0083 www.chessierail.org Director Bill Breazeale 11302 Orleans Way, Kensington, MD 20895-1017 (301) 942-0083 Equipment Chief Tim Moriarty 2781 Prince Harold Court, Herndon, VA 20171-2441 (703) 758-7449 [email protected] Programs Tim Moriarty 2781 Prince Harold Court, Herndon, VA 20171-2441 (703) 758-7449 [email protected] Editor Tim Moriarty 2781 Prince Harold Court, Herndon, VA 20171-2441 (703) 758-7449 [email protected] The High Green is published monthly prior to each membership meeting. Contributions for inclusion in the newsletter are welcome. Send news Sparrows Point Terminal Open House items, articles and photos (via email or hard copy) to the editor at the address above. Originals will be scanned and returned. Be sure to include caption information. Please send address changes to Paul Bergdolt at the snail-mail or email address above. MAY TIMETABLE Spring Road, Fredericksburg, VA 22405. Contact Colleen Hall at [email protected] for more information. 1: WM Railway Historical Society Membership Meeting 9: National Train Day Celebration at the historic B&O at 8 p.m. at the Community Center, 4770 Ladiesburg Road, roundhouse in Martinsburg, WV. The restored facility will Union Bridge, MD. be open to the public along with tours given by docents. 2: Allentown & Auburn Railroad Photo Freight with Reportedly a MARC train set will be available to walk night shots, pulled by the newly restored and repainted through at the MARC parking area of the old freight ALLN 206. Daylight shots from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., night station. shots from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Boxed lunch provided by 9: Winchester Chapter, NRHS Membership Meeting at Pop’s Malt Shop included. Company address: 35 Railroad 7:30 p.m. at the Calvary Church of the Brethren, 578 Street, Kutztown, PA 19530. For details call 570-778-7531 Front Royal Pike (Route 522), Winchester, VA. The church or go to https://squareup.com/market/allentown-and- is located south of Route 50 near Winchester Airport Road auburn-railroad (southeast of Winchester and east of I-81). 9, 10, & 24: Train Rides on the Stewartstown Railroad using a locomotive, passenger coaches and a caboose. For information call 717-654-7530 or send email to [email protected] 9, 16 & 30: Buckingham Branch Railroad excursions sponsored by the Old Dominion Chapter NRHS on May 9 (9:30, 11:30, 1:30), May 16 (9:30, 11:30, 3:30), and May 30 (9:30, 1:30). The Tom Mix Rangers will be there on May 9 and 30. Tickets for all events are available at: odcnrhs.ticketleap.com Via Kim Young, OD Chapter NRHS 11: Baltimore Chapter, NRHS Membership Meeting at 7:30 p.m. at the Baltimore Streetcar Museum, 1911 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD. 12: Action Coalition for Transit Meeting at 7:30 p.m. at the Silver Spring Center, 8818 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, MD. 15: Washington DC Chapter, NRHS Membership Meet- ing at 8 p.m. at the George Washington National Masonic Photo source: A&A RR Memorial, 101 Callahan Drive, Alexandria, VA 22301. 2: Parade of Engines at the Walkersville Southern Program: TBA. Railroad, 34 West Pennsylvania Avenue, Walkersville, MD 15-16: 22nd East Penn Traction Club National Trolley 21793. The WSRR will have all of its locomotives out of the Meet at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Exhibit Hall enginehouse on display, a great opportunity for photos. G, Broad and Race Streets, Philadelphia, PA. Largest Rides depart at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Tickets are $12 for trolley modeling event in North America. Admission: $23 in

adults, $11 for seniors (55 and older), and $8 for kids (3- advance, $25 at the door. For information contact Charles 12). For information call 301-898-0899, send email to The Sparrows Point Terminal Community Open House will take place on Wednesday, April 29, from P. Long at 215-247-2952 or go to www.trolleymeet.com 6 to 8 p.m. at Sparrows Point Terminal, 1600 Sparrows Point Boulevard, Sparrows Point, MD 21219. [email protected] or go to www.wsrr.org 15-17: Spring Weekend from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Williams 2: Spring Fling Toy & Train Show from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. An invitation by the Sparrows Point Partnership states, “Please join us for our first Community Grove, PA 17055 featuring a PRR steam train, antique at the Roxana [DE] Firehouse. Admission is $4, children tractors, working saw mill, model train exhibit, and food. Open House. We look forward to meeting our neighbors and sharing more information about the under 10 enter for free. For information call Bill at 302- Tractor pulls on May 15 at night at 7 p.m. For information site, its history, and its future at our first meeting.” Read about it in this High Green! 537-0964. call 717-766-4001, send email to [email protected] or 9: B&O Old Main Line Tour – SOLD OUT. go to http://wghsea.org This Month’s Meeting: Wednesday, May 6 at 8 p.m. at the former B&O station in Silver Spring, MD, with a 9: Joint VTC & WB&A (aka North Meets South) Great 16-17: Hagerstown Roundhouse Museum Railroad Train Show and Sale at the Eagles Lodge at 21 Cool presentation by Bill Hopkins on the Southern Railway. Heritage Days featuring displays of historic railroad

equipment, law enforcement, military, and local fire and Following Meeting: Wednesday, June 3 at 8 p.m. at the former B&O station in Silver Spring, MD, with a presentation by Mike O’Connor, topic TBA. May 2015 Page 2 HIGH GREEN HIGH GREEN rescue equipment. There will be Thomas the Tank Engine MD. Carl Franz will present A Lifetime's Fascination of Steam excursions. Tickets and schedule details will be the driving force and long-time president of the O&A and trackless train rides and trolley rides from the museum to Steam, Rare Diesels and Photography, a slide program available on the website of the sponsoring Virginia its successors. Junior was its leader from October 1851 locomotive No. 202 in City Park and back. In addition, showcasing 60 years of railroad photography. Carl took his Museum of Transportation. See the NS website for until retiring in 1885, when the railroad was then under there will be railroad songs and stories. This event first Kodachrome slides in the late 1950s of B&O 2-8-0s on additional trips elsewhere on other dates, such as runs Richmond & Danville Railroad control,” and (2) “Regarding stretches across three locations within the city of the "local" that switched cars at a lumber yard near his between Petersburg and Lynchburg on the weekend of the Manassas Gap, they didn't get to Mount Jackson until Hagerstown: home, 15 miles southwest of Cleveland, OH. He also June 13. Via Alex Mayes, Jamie Haislip, Bruce Phillips and March 1859 and reached Strasburg in the autumn of - Hagerstown Roundhouse Museum, 296 South Burhans recorded the end of steam on the Nickel Plate and Grand Kent Womack 1854.” Bob added (3), “The MG did NOT ever set up its Boulevard, Hagerstown, MD 21741 Trunk Western. His 1960s and 1970s scenes will include 20-21 Jun: The Great Scale Model Train Show Makin’ headquarters in Strasburg. Once again, I am 100% sure. - Ridge Avenue Park, 348 Ridge Avenue, Hagerstown, MD first generation diesels on the Bessemer & Lake Erie, Tracks! Cow Palace from 9 to 5 on Saturday and 10 to 4 Their HQ was in Alexandria. ALWAYS. They didn't even get 21740 Nickel Plate, New York Central and PRR, and a few steam on Sunday at the Maryland State Fairgrounds, 2200 York to Strasburg until late 1854. I have seen no evidence of a - Hagerstown City Park, 501 Virginia Avenue, Hagerstown, fan trips and stored steam on the B&O, NKP and PRR. Road, Timonium, MD 21093. For more information go to roundhouse ever having been built there, nor does any MD 21740 Although the prime focus is Northern Ohio, you will also http://gsmts.com local history mention such a thing. A small engine house, Admission is $6 per adult, $1 for children ages 4 to 12, travel to Columbus, Dayton, Rochester, NY and other yes, maybe even a small turntable, but even that I am and free for children ages 3 and under. interesting locations. The second part of the program will INTERNAL BIDNIZ unsure of. The engine house, yes they had but it burned 16 & 17, 23, 24 & 25, 30 & 31: Steam Trains on the likely feature selected video scenes of 1950s steam in the sometime before 1900 from what I have read.” Next (4), Walkersville Southern Railroad at 11 a.m., 1 & 3 p.m. northeast, possibly, triple-headed B&O EM-1s (2-8-8-4s). Our next meeting will be on Wednesday, May 6 at 8 p.m. “The Independent Line was authorized in stages starting in Ride behind a real 80-year-old, coal-fired steam locomotive, 19: Rivanna Chapter, NRHS Membership Meeting at the the former B&O passenger station, 8100 Georgia Avenue, 1853 and construction began in 1854 and continued until the restored Lehigh Valley #126 (below). There will be two Hibachi Grill, 1185 Seminole Trail, Charlottesville, VA, Silver Spring, MD 20910 when Bill Hopkins will give us a around May 1857 when all funds were exhausted. It never open flat cars behind the steamer, plus two enclosed cars starting with a social hour and dinner/buffet at 6 p.m. and presentation on the Southern Railway in the pre-NS era. was restarted, but based upon my research, it came and a caboose. Ride the regular excursion route during the the meeting and program at 7 p.m. Visitors are welcome. Join us for some pleasant memories of “the way it was.” darned close. If it hadn't been for the Civil War starting day or take the two-hour railfan special at 5 p.m. with Web: http://nrhsrivanna.blogspot.com when it did in 1861, my hunch is they would have photo runbys. Daytime excursions: adults $15, seniors Email: [email protected] LAST RUN resumed at least some construction either later that year $14, children (1-12) $12. The WS will also offer two Railfan 21: Old Dominion Division RRE Membership Meeting at or the following year, but that is pure speculation on my Specials on Saturday evenings, May 16 and 30, from 5 to 8 p.m. at James Madison High School, 2500 James John Joseph Czyzewski died peacefully in his sleep at part.” Lastly (5), “I am 100% sure of May 1857 or at least 7 p.m. Ride behind the locomotive, plus travel on newly- Madison Drive, Vienna, VA, in Room 110. The closest home on March 31, 2015. He was 70 years of age, having that is the official date for halting construction. Local renovated track north of Walkersville towards Woodsboro entrance door to this room is Entrance No. 1. Pre-meeting been born in Schenectady, New York on September 4, workers? I doubt it or at least not much local labor. Irish and take advantage of two separate photo run-by dinner at 6:30 at the Amphora Restaurant, 377 West 1944. John practiced law in Virginia and made his home labor, yes, maybe even a bit of hired slave labor, but that opportunities. Price for the Railfan Special is $20 per ticket. Maple Avenue in Vienna. To reach the school from the there. John had a lifelong love of trains, traveling by rail detail is lost other than stories and unsubstanti- Reservations are highly recommended for all steam Amphora Restaurant, go south two blocks on West Maple whenever possible. He was a member and served as an ated hearsay.” events. Tickets will also be available at the ticket office Avenue to James Madison Drive and turn right. The school officer of the National Association of Railroad Passengers, To learn more about railroads in this region of unless they are noted as "sold out" on the website. For is at the end of this street. The evening’s presentation will an advocacy group, for many years. Civil War history was Virginia, pick up a copy of Bob’s book at a train show (he’s details go to http://wsrr.org/2013/schedule be Vintage New York Central Railroad, a commercially another of his passions. He enjoyed sharing this interest at many of them) or contact him at [email protected] Contact Information: 301-898-0899, [email protected] produced color and black and white documentary of the with other Civil War buffs and made frequent visits to to arrange a purchase. New York Central Railroad taken during and after World various sites and battlegrounds. A life celebration service Also, your editor suffered a dreaded Attack of the War II. The presentation begins with vintage black and was at Mountcastle Turch Funeral Home, 4143 Dale Dumbs when he misspelled rail photographer Vince white footage of the NYC’s famous named passenger trains Boulevard, Dale City, VA on March 8, 2015 at 12 p.m. Cipriani’s name as Capriani. pulled by their iconic Niagara 4-8-4s and freights pulled by Interment followed at Quantico National Cemetery. other classes of steam during WWII. Color 16mm footage Michael Testerman of the Virginia Association of FREIGHT RAIL NEWS taken after the war showcases the end of the steam era Rail Patrons (VARP) wrote, “We learned on Easter Sunday and the arrival of new, colorful diesels. The documentary of the passing of John Czyzewski, VARP's founder. Cover Photo: The locomotive on the cover was built as a includes scenes of steam engines being serviced at Beginning in about 1979, John organized an ad hoc group GP9 in August 1956 with the serial number 22122 and Harmon and other interesting behind-the-scenes footage. of Virginia and West Virginia NARP members into what frame number 5474-13. It went to the New York, New 23-24: Open House at the Northern Virginia Model would become the Virginia Association of Railway Patrons. Haven and Hartford Railroad as its No. 1212 and later Railroaders layout in the W&OD depot at 231 Dominion John wrote the by-laws and filed the articles of Photo source: Gramling Locomotive Works became Penn Central 7542 before leaving the roster and Road, Vienna, VA, from 1 to 5 p.m. during Viva Vienna incorporation with the Virginia State Corporation 17: PCC II Charter sponsored by the Friends of becoming Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Days. Commission around 1980. For the next two decades he Philadelphia Trolleys (FPT) in conjunction with the East 7542. In 1979 it entered the Paducah Rebuild Program 30: RF&P Railroad Historical Society Meeting at the served as chairman of the board. VARP treasurer, Herbert Penn Traction Meet (15-16 May at the PA Convention and was released as Illinois Central Gulf GP11 8706, later Salem Church Branch of the Central Rappahannock Richwine, kept in regular contact with John and knew that Center). The trip will depart the SEPTA Elmwood Depot at becoming Illinois Central 8706. In 1999 it left the roster Regional Library at 2607 Salem Church Road, he had been battling cancer for some time. After closing 11 a.m. and return around 3 p.m. aboard a PCC II. and became Brandywine Valley Railroad 8706. Still later it Spotsylvania County, VA, at 10 a.m. Contact the Society at his private law practice in Vienna, John moved to the Equipment and routing is subject to change. Fare is $45 was acquired by the Patapsco and Back Rivers Railroad [email protected] to let them know you’re coming Northern Neck for several years, and then returned to per seat. Snacks and drinks will be available on the car; and subsequently went to the roster of the PBR’s and to ensure they order enough pizza. Northern Virginia where he could more easily access there’s no formal lunch stop, so you may want to bring one successor, the Baltimore Industrial Railroad (BDR). 31: Motor Car Rides on the Stewartstown Railroad. For medical care.” along. To reserve a seat, please send a check or money information call 717-654-7530 or email order for $45 made out to FPT, Inc., and mail to: FPT c/o Cover Story: To access the Sparrows Point Terminal [email protected] DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS during the open house, enter via the main gate on 7th Harry Donahue, 103 Mulberry Court, Morgantown, PA 19543. All proceeds from this trip will benefit Philadelphia Street and tell the guard you are there for the community AROUND THE BEND area trolleys in operating museums. For information Bob Cohen, renowned author of A Trip by Rail in the open house. The meeting will be held at the former Career contact Harry Donahue at [email protected] or Bill Shenandoah Valley on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and Development Building. Weekend of 6 Jun: Class J 611 Steam Excursions Monaghan at [email protected] the Southern Railway, pointed out some errors in last 19: Potomac Chapter, NRHS Membership Meeting at 8 between Manassas and Riverton Junction, VA. For details month’s historical article in April’s A Look Back Down the Background Information: Most HG readers are aware of p.m. in the main auditorium, Montgomery County go to www.nscorp.com and click on Class J 611 Tracks column: (1) “Regarding the Orange & Alexandria, it the demise of the Bethlehem Steel Sparrows Point plant Executive Office Building, 101 Monroe Street, Rockville, homecoming to kick off Norfolk Southern 21st Century was the SON of the senior John Strode Barbour who was near Baltimore. One might assume that the Baltimore

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Industrial Railroad is only tasked with hauling away the In the fall of 2014 – two years after steel production Steve Timko writes that Raritan Central Railway GP10 on a 35-year-old AT&SF flat car to a bent door on a boxcar remnants of the old mill and, when that’s done, it will all ceased – Sparrows Point Terminal, LLC (SPT) purchased the 7545 (below) will go to Pennsylvania & Southern Railway that was rebuilt in 1995. be over and only a barren wasteland will remain. Nothing 3,100-acre site with plans to redevelop it as a major East at Letterkenny Army Depot near Chambersburg, PA, to Cars are brought to Progress by rail and then could be further from the truth. Coast distribution hub. Led by local investors, SPT is in the supplement the two Army GE 80-tonners. The locomotive stored until they are scrapped. A trackmobile is used to On the morning of March 20 your editor was given process clearing the site and marketing it to potential will be mainly used on the former B&O main line between shuffle the cars around the facility. The actual scrapping a tour of the site by Jason Neidinger, the BDR’s general tenants. Culbertson and Chambersburg and kept at the former begins when the cars is moved to a track that has been manager. For about 90 minutes Jason took me all over The redevelopment marks the beginning of a new Army enginehouse on New York Avenue in the Letterkenny prepared for the process. After the car has been spotted on what had once been the largest steel mill in the world, era for the Point – moving toward, once again, employing Business Park. Due to the geep’s size, it won’t be used to the track, workers remove the brake cylinder, reservoir covering 3100 acres, and explained what had been there, generations of Baltimore-area residents. move ammo to the bunkers inside the Army part of the and valve with a cutting torch. If these parts are still what was coming, and what’s taking place right now. The We look forward to working with you, the complex. (The Raritan Central Railway and the P&S serviceable, they are sold. At this point, all of the brake old site is being redeveloped as a port and a center for community, over the next months and years as we Railway are owned by President Eyal Shapira. Ed.) linkage and anything else that attaches the trucks to the manufacturing and distribution, with close proximity to redevelop the site and bring jobs back to our corner of body of the car is also cut. CSX, NS and the interstate highway system. Dormant rail Baltimore County. As local investors, and people with What happens next depends upon the type of car yards are to be restored and expanded. Although the miles connections to the site, we have a vested interest in building being scrapped. The ground around the “scrap track” is of track had declined from 160 to about 100 and the a site that will thrive in a twenty-first century economy. level on one side and has a 10-inch drop on the other. locomotive roster had gone from 18 to 9, big things are in You’ll find the newsletter on the company’s Cars that can be cut up with torches, such as hoppers and the works. The company’s website spells it out at Facebook page at www.facebook.com/sparrowspt gondolas, are knocked onto the level side where the bodies www.sparrowspoint.com Look for further developments at the terminal and are cut up. Other cars, such as boxcars, are shoved over * The largest privately owned industrial site and on the Baltimore Industrial Railroad in upcoming issues of the drop off, where they are cut up by a track hoe terminal on the east coast: The 3,100-acre industrial site in the High Green. equipped with a large pair of shears. The wood lining and southeastern Baltimore County, Maryland, offers a insulation in these cars prevent them from being cut up gateway to markets around the United States and the Elsewhere in Baltimore: On March 30 CSX 1214 and a with acetylene torches. After the car bodies are cut up, any world, featuring a unique combination of access to deep sister unit (below) were seen working the track into non-metal material is removed and sent to a trash pile. water berths, rail and highways. Domino Sugar at 1100 East Key Highway, Baltimore, MD The metal is loaded into a semi-truck for shipment to a * Deep water berths & turning basin: Sparrows 21230. It appears the company now uses a car mover to mill. The entire process takes three to four hours. Point Terminal has a deep-water port, including a turning move rail cars inside the plant. While the six-wheel Jason Bialecki shot this photo of Raritan Central 7545 at Gravity is the only thing that holds the trucks of a basin and 1,150-foot pier that is immediately available to industrial switcher used for years remains on site, it’s the yard in Edison, NJ, on January 31, 2012. rail car to the body. Once the car’s body is shoved off of accommodate heavy commodities. unknown if it’s still operational or out of service. Domino the track, the trucks remain in place. If a truck is * Connections to two Class I railroads: A short-line has been one of the last industrial customers in Baltimore Along CSX’s Capital Subdivision: The new #3 and #2 serviceable, the wheel sets are removed and the truck railroad serves virtually all of Sparrows Point Terminal still using a locomotive instead of a car mover. tracks stemming from Tanglewood, along the Alexandria frame is placed aside for resale. Wheel sets are also with 100 miles of track. Connecting to two Class I extension, have been renamed "East Wye" between inspected for serviceability, useable ones are resold, and railroads, tenants and shippers will be able to easily reach Tanglewood and Riverdale Park for trains headed to and worn out sets are scrapped. If the trucks are not rail markets across the United States. from Baltimore, and "West Wye" between Tanglewood serviceable, they too are cut up for scrap. * Direct interstate highway access: I-695 (the and "JD" for trains headed west towards Brunswick. Not every car that enters Progress is scrapped. A Baltimore Beltway) intersects Sparrows Point Terminal and One recent night a train was headed west through few car bodies are used onsite as the office, break room provides direct access at two exits — and an easy Baltimore and was told by the "BE" dispatcher to stop at and for storage. A more or less intact D&RGW 50-foot connection to I-95, I-70, and regional markets. the "data center" (the division HQ and dispatcher offices) to boxcar serves as tool storage on the scrapping track. Sparrows Point Terminal recently published the pick up a new set of orders. The difference in the prior According to the manager, only one car has ever left the first issue of it own newsletter titled Straight to the Point in orders was the activation of a new Safelight high mast Progress Rail facility intact: D&RGW boxcar 63809, which which Chief Operating Office Mike Pedone wrote: signal (and the fact it was now a ¼-mile east) and the was acquired by Marcus Rail in February of 2000. The In 1886, the Pennsylvania Steel Company sought a retirement of the intermediate CPL at Cherry Lane. This Colorado Time-Table, July 2000 new location for an ironmaking plant. The facility needed leaves Greenbelt as the last bastion of CPLs in the access to deep-water channels, railroad connections, and immediate area along former B&O tracks. Guest Columnist CSX Switches (Back Page): There has always been a close proximity to inland markets and natural resources. surprising similarity to operations in model railroading Just as it is today, there was only one site that offered a Railcar Graveyard: A scrap yard is the last stop for many compared to the prototype. Everything from different near-perfect combination of those attributes: Sparrows Point. retired railroad cars. When a care is retired by a railroad, it brands of locomotives not working well together, Thus began more than a century of economic is placed for sale. While some cars may be sold to equipment not being able to couple on tight curves, and development in this region of Baltimore County. For Petition to Stop Tunnel Work Denied: A District Court shortlines or other users, most are sold to scrap large locomotives being banned from tight radius track... generations, men and women came to work at Sparrows judge has denied a petition to stop the reconstruction of contractors. Some contractors will scrap a car on site, all are common issues to both worlds. Point. From making steel and iron, to sending it out to the the Virginia Avenue tunnel in Southeast Washington. either in a railroad’s yards or at a wreck site, while others With the adoption of seemingly every technology world by ship and rail, thousands of Marylanders held jobs Judge Christopher R. Cooper’s decision Tuesday maintain a permanent location. idea to try to further reduce the number of employees, here. The community built Sparrows Point and in turn, (4/7) validates CSX’s claims that rebuilding the 111-year- Progress Rail in Pueblo [CO] is an example of the more and more the railroad is turning into a giant model Sparrows Point provided good jobs, strong wages, and old tunnel is in the best interest of the public. The latter type of scrap contractor. Located in the former electric train set. numerous opportunities for local Marylanders. company has been cleared to proceed with construction. Refrigerator car yards just east of I-70, Progress’ facility Since railroads began, at least in North America, When the last steel and iron left the site several The ruling was in response to a request for a can hold over 200 cars and has the capacity to scrap up to one thing that has little changed is the lowly manual years ago, many of our friends and neighbors began to preliminary injunction by the Committee of 100 on the three cars per day. Railcars end up at Progress for a turnout or switch which requires a simple throw by a wonder if the site could ever again offer the same Federal City, which sought to halt the $170 million project variety of reasons. Some have been damaged in wrecks, switchman. opportunities that it once did. A site that once employed until the court rules on a pending lawsuit challenging the some are approaching their 40th birthday (FRA rules Power switches controlled by a dispatcher or the thousands was left empty, a shell of its former self. Federal Highway Administration’s decision to approve require that cars over 40 years old not be interchanged traditional tower controlling the turnouts by linkages, However, the site’s distinctive attributes and its status as plans to reconstruct the rail tunnel. Luz Luzo/Washington unless they have been rebuilt) and others are in need of don’t normally have a “banner” or lights on them because, the largest privately held industrial site and terminal on the Post, April 8, 2015 repairs that cost more than the car is worth. A sampling of by definition, their position will correspond with trackside east coast meant that it could and would see brighter days. the bad order tags on the cars at Progress on May 17, signals at that location. For example, if the signals at a 2000 showed these repairs range from a cracked center sill

May 2015 Page 5 May 2015 Page 6 HIGH GREEN HIGH GREEN controlled interlocking showing green or clear, it would No injuries were reported following the incident, Even the Railroad Retirement Board? On an average already indicate the route is lined for straight movement. and free shuttle buses transported passengers between the day in America, over 100 Americans have their homes In non-signaled territory (branch lines, yards, etc.), Greenbelt and College Park stations. raided by SWAT teams. There has been a notable buildup where the turnouts are not controlled by an operator or The 40- to 60-foot-long bridge ran across four in recent years of SWAT teams within non-security-related dispatcher directly, switches may or may not have a tracks utilized by both WMATA and MARC trains, The federal agencies such as the Department of Agriculture, colored banner. These are usually green or white if the Washington Post reported. the Railroad Retirement Board, the Tennessee Valley route is lined straight and red or yellow for the diverging Full service returned along the line early this Authority, the Office of Personnel Management, the route. morning (4/16) after WMATA crews worked throughout the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the U.S. Fish and In decades past, an oil or electric lamp could also night to repair the area, agency officials said. Progressive Wildlife Service, and the Education Department. Excerpt better give these indications at night, but these expensive Railroading, April 16, 2015 from No Matter Who Wins the White House, the New Boss items have been gone for decades. Will Be the Same as the Old Boss at Model railroad manufacturers and model Bowser Budget Revives Streetcar: The delayed and www.lewrockwell.com/2015/04/john-w- railroaders for years, however, have attached dwarf signals troubled DC Streetcar was at risk of being mothballed as whitehead/ignore-the-presidential-election/ and other indicators to indicate the position of a switch recently as March but now the Bowser administration has route, even when this wasn’t really prototypical for a reversed course and is talking about expanding the project. WHERE THE TRAINS ARE turnout in non-signaled territory. The little-carriage-that-could has cheated death In a case of the real railroads duplicated the Photo source: Railway Age and could eventually extend well beyond the H Street Skip Salmon photographed this repowered, remote control models, we are seeing the first radio controlled power Corridor in Northeast. Alco S2 of uncertain lineage (with parts from various MARC’s New Cars: A recent visitor to the MARC yard in switches in the yards. First applications seem to be where While unveiling her budget on Thursday (4/2), locomotives) at Mine No. 8 of the Rapoca Energy Company Riverside noted “The cars on now scattered all around… the idea is to try radio-controlled switching in the yards. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced another $335 million – (formerly Wellmore Coal Company) in Big Rock, VA, on and it appears some of the single level cars are taking their The switchman can throw these switches by hitting a code which would more than double how much the city has March 19, 2005. The site is located in southwest Virginia place in the back of the yard as they are replaced. I have on the pad on his radio. The photo with the lit indicators already spent on the project – to get the streetcar line up on State Route 700 just east of the Kentucky border. not seen any of the new cars operating on the Camden shows these in use. Now that a few of these are installed, if and running and to extend the line to the Benning Road Line trains that come and go from Riverside. For some there is a electrical power failure, the only way to manual Metro station in Ward 7. reason, maybe just out of space, these two are coupled to throw these is to open a small door and pump a small Bowser also suggested a future extension west the out-of-service AEM7 and another engine.” handle many times… amazingly there is no simple hand toward Georgetown. Her vision, however, is considerably throw handle attached! So in the photos where they are more modest than the 37-mile network of streetcar lines not yet lit, there is no power… and no easy way to throw her predecessor, Vince Gray, imagined. the switch! Guest columnist After the Bowser administration assumed office in January, new Department of Transportation Director Leif PASSENGER RAIL NEWS Dormsjo raised serious doubts about the project. He not only tabled the planned opening date in January, but he New Metro Cars Enter Service: WMATA celebrated the left open the possibility that the troubled streetcar was launch of its new Kawasaki 7000 series trains on April 14, beyond saving. when the first train entered passenger service on the A third-party team of rail experts ultimately Metrorail Blue Line. determined that the project could operate and issued WMATA placed an initial $886 million order in recommendations to that end. 2010 for 428 7000 series cars, and the first pre-series DDOT has not projected a start date when service PRESERVATION NEWS train began trials on the Metrorail network in January MARC No. 8056 in Riverside Yard (Locust Point), March 31, could begin. The city has already spent almost $200 2014. Around 300 of these vehicles will replace the oldest 2015 million on the streetcar project. Andrew Mollenbeck/WTOP, 1000 series trains, while the remainder will be used on the April 3, 2015 Pedestrian Killed When Struck by Amtrak Train: Silver Line to Washington Dulles International Airport and Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari said a person was Ashburn. A $184 million option for 100 additional cars Metro's Red Line to Return to Automatic Train trespassing when hit by an Amtrak train about 7 p.m. was exercised in May 2013 to replace the unreliable Breda Operation: Metro says Red Line trains will be returning to Saturday (4/3) in Sharon Hill, PA. The train was heading 4000 series vehicles, which date from the mid-1990s. automatic mode. It's a significant milestone for the agency, from New York City to Washington, DC, and was delayed As well as replacing all of the 1000 and 4000 which has run trains in manual mode since the 2009 train for about 2½ hours in Sharon Hill, where Amtrak doesn’t series trains, the first two batches will expand the crash that killed nine people. normally stop. AP, April 4, 2015 (Sharon Hill is southwest Metrorail fleet by 128 vehicles. The trains will operate as Metro says that starting Monday (4/13) eight-car of Philadelphia. Ed.) four-car units in eight-car formations, which will trains will run in automatic mode. That means trains will accommodate 40 more passengers than the trains they are accelerate, decelerate and stop under computer control, Pedestrian Bridge Collapses on Metro's Green Line: replacing. making for a smoother ride. Train operators will be in the Service along Metro’s Green Line came to a halt on April WMATA says a second option to purchase a cab of each train to open and close doors and make 15 following the collapse of a concrete pedestrian bridge further 220 vehicles "at favorable pricing" is available until announcements. Metro says six-car trains on the Red Line onto the track. A rail crane operated by Skanska, which the middle of this year and will be exercised if funding can will operate in manual mode until after a software upgrade Metro had contracted to construct a new track, struck the be finalized in time. All of Metrorail's funding sources have later. bridge and caused it to collapse. indicated that they are willing to support the order. The 2009 Metro crash was caused when the Photo via Deep River Rail Ventures In June 2012, WMATA first awarded a $66 million A second train is currently undergoing tests and is automated system failed. contract to Skanska to design and construct a test track, expected to enter service within the next few weeks. Metro's five other rail lines are expected to return Get Your Cameras Ready: The observation car Hickory commissioning facility, parking garage and other facilities The 23m-long stainless-steel bodied vehicles are to automatic train operation in late 2017. AP, April 9, 2015 Creek and the sleeping car Berlin will depart New York City near the existing Greenbelt Maintenance Yard in Prince being assembled at the Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing via Alex Mayes on the southbound Crescent (No. 19) to New Orleans on George's County, MD. facility in Lincoln, NE. Keith Barrow/Railway Age, April 15, April 28 and return on the northbound Crescent No. 2) on 2015 May 5. 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HIGH GREEN HIGH GREEN scheduled to arrive in Alexandria at 6:49 p.m. and the necessity of making substantial “cuts” and “fills” to create return trip should arrive at 9:32 a.m. For information on a level grade. the trips, contact Kevin Moore at 814-229-6354 or send The Panic of 1857 significantly reduced available email to [email protected] capital and construction halted in May of that year. The growing secession crisis and talk of hostilities produced The Chesapeake Beach Railway Museum sponsored labor shortages and slowed progress further. By 1858, the another annual trail hike on April 4. Vince Cipriani took MGRR was deeply in debt. Less than one year short of the picture (next page) and writes, “Here's a picture of the completion, with the rails for the new line waiting in railroad trail looking toward the river as the train would Alexandria, but with no money to lay them, work on the have been traveling west toward Prince George's County.” new line had stopped. The last train ran on April 15, 1935. The sign in the photo “The amount of work to be done is large, the line for reads Railroad Bed Trail. its whole extent through Fairfax, passes upon a rolling broken surface, involving deep excavations and heavy fills to maintain a proper grade.” John McD. Goldborough, Chief Engineer, MGRR Civil War and the Aftermath Although no track was ever laid, the unfinished portion of the MGRR did play an important role during the Civil War. The “cuts and fills” of the line served as earthworks, battle and skirmish sites and as little-known transportation routes for both Confederate and Union soldiers. The MGRR figured prominently in the Second Battle of Manassas when Confederate forces, under General “Stonewall” Jackson, used a cut in the unfinished line near Sudley as a defensive position.

“The troops were disposed in rear of Groveton along the line of the unfinished branch of the Manassas Gap Railroad, and extended from a point a short distance west of the turnpike toward Sudley Mill…” General Robert E. Lee, Report on the Second Battle of Manassas, June 8, 1863 A LOOK BACK DOWN THE TRACKS TO… Locally, in the City of Fairfax, at least one skirmish The Unfinished Manassas Gap Railroad, Part II: The occurred on the unfinished line near the Court House. On Manassas Gap Railroad was profitable; however, the June 27, 1863, the 11th New York Cavalry engaged an annual rental fee of approximately $30,000 to the O&A advance guard of Stuart’s cavalry in a “ravine” behind the was a major expense. In 1853, the company received Court House. The New Yorkers charged and a running permission to establish an Independent line in stages from battle to Fairfax Station ensued. Alexandria to Gainesville. At a meeting in Fairfax that same year, MGRR President Edward C. Marshall urged the “I asked [Major Remmington] to let me lead C citizens of Fairfax to contribute capital to the completion of Company up the ravine in the rear of the Court House so as the extension. If $30,000 were raised, Marshall stated: “I to get between the Johnnies and the woods… With a mighty warrant that in less than eighteen months the Iron Horse yell… down our side and up their side of the ravine, but will be seen prancing in your midst.” they did not wait for us. They broke into a dead run in the A 35-mile route was planned. The new line would direction of Fairfax Station.” Captain George A. Dagwell, Co CSX Switches: Read about them in this run from Jones Point through the Cameron Valley in C, 11th New York Cavalry. High Green! Alexandria, passing near Annandale and through Fairfax Court House (now the City of Fairfax) in Fairfax County, After the war, the Manassas Gap Railroad through Sudley Mill at Bull Run and on to Gainesville in attempted to rebuild, but with most of its track torn up Prince William County. and nearly all of its rolling stock destroyed, it could not The line entered the City of Fairfax from the continue. In 1867, the MGRR merged with the O&A to present day Mantua neighborhood, running parallel to form the Orange, Alexandria and Manassas Railroad. With Little River Turnpike (Main Street) just to the north. It this merger, the original reason for creating the passed south of the tank farm and continued through the independent line ceased to exist. As a consequence, the Little River Hills, Fairview and Farrcroft neighborhoods Independent Line was abandoned with much of the right- into downtown Fairfax. From North Street, the MGRR of-way being sold and the railroad bed plowed under for crossed over Little River Turnpike, passed behind the farming. William Page Johnson, II, Fare Facs Gazette, Vol 2, courthouse and continued out of the city in a Issue 2, Spring 2004, with corrections by Bob Cohen southwesterly direction. (Continued next month.) Construction of the independent line began in 1854, but was quickly slowed by the costs of land and the Remember this month’s meeting is at the Silver Spring B&O station!

May 2015 Page 9 May 2015 Page 10 SHORT HOPS: Road to an expanded Grand Central Terminal and changes being made in Sunnyside Yard...... Congratulations also to The new Elizabethtown Industrial Railroad proposes Al Dicenso and the other members who planned and carried to operate the ex-Conrail Conewago Industrial Track from a out a tour of Amtrak’s (and PRR’s/PC’s) former Power junction with Amtrak's Harrisburg Line at about M.P. 90 over Director’s Office in the Hbg station, of the station itself and of one mile of track to Conewago. The railroad plans to establish course Harris Tower. Two busloads totaling 100 or so visitors an interchange with NS at Conewago Junction, between E- divided into groups and enjoyed the facilities. town and Middletown (Railpace). Power likely will be the GE 44-ton engine that Daily Express moved from temporary A $19.6 million project to transform a century-old HARRISBURG RAIL REVIEW storage at Steam into History in New Freedom to the Crowe building at the gritty 69th Street intermodal terminal complex warehouse facility, 2388 N. Market Street in Elizabethtown. in Upper Darby (west of Philadelphia) into a sleek, modern MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE HARRISBURG CHAPTER, NRHS, INC. The engine is the same yellow one that Daily dropped at New structure that will be greener and more passenger-friendly has 637 WALNUT STREET, HARRISBURG, PA 17101-1924 Freedom on 8/22. It is owned by a private individual (Mark officially begun. Actual construction work began last fall. Eyer). The Crowe siding is the eastern end of what's left of West Terminal is one of three wings at the 69th Street the PRR Cornwall & Lebanon Branch. Freight interchange is Transportation Center and is used by 35,000 people daily. VOLUME 56, NUMBER 5 http://harrisburgnrhs.org MAY 2015 provided by NS, which brings a local as far at Middletown out The teardrop-shape structure will be redesigned to reduce of Dillerville (now Lewis) Yard. energy costs and stormwater runoff. The project will add minutes for April that require approval due to the banquet on better-lighted passageways, more seating, surveillance cam- April 11. Thanks to all who worked so hard to make the Through our member Sloan Auchincloss, an inquiry eras and improved access for passengers using wheelchairs. banquet a success. There were about 48 members and their we received at our website concerning trolley service in the But in the short term, the project will be disruptive for guests who attended the banquet...... A new roster will be Hbg area was referred to the Rockhill Trolley Musuem. A passengers on several routes that serve Philadelphia and included with this HRR for those who are chapter members. quick, posititve response came from Steven Goehring, who is Chester, Delaware and Montgomery Counties. Beginning For electronic recipients, don’t overlook it since it is a separate head of the Rockhill Trolley Museum's Historic Presentation June 15, the West Terminal will be closed to allow demolition NEXT MEETING attachment to the email. I suggest you keep a copy for future department. He will be making a presentation on the Hbg area work. Shuttle buses will be used in place of trolley Routes th MAY 12, 2015 reference and contact information as members are added or trolleys at an event celebrating the 250 anniversary of the 101 and 102. West Terminal likely will reopen 9/8, officials deleted. At the time of the compilation, we had 30 members founding of Linglestown. Steven notes that the audience said. It is to be completed by November. The project, which 7:00 PM not renewed from 2014. Eight of those were family members, would be excited to learn that so much rare Hbg transportation SEPTA officials said has added from 50 to 60 temporary leaving 22 primary members lost, of which 18 were NRHS HOSS’S STEAK & history is preserved just a short drive away. The Rockhill construction jobs, was funded by a Federal Transit members and four were Friends of Harris Tower members. trolley collection includes two original Hbg area streetcars, Administration grant program and Pennsylvania Act 89, a SEAHOUSE Some were long-time members and three had joined just in both stored safely inside and awaiting full restorations. Valley transportation funding law passed in 2013 (philly.com). ENOLA 2014. I am hopeful of still getting a few renewals. Railways car 12 ran from Hbg to the Carlisle area from 1895 to 1923, and we hope to start its restoration in the near future. The Electric City Trolley Museum in Scranton is We are pleased to welcome new member Brandon Even more exciting, they have a car that was regularly NEXT MEETING AND CHAPTER NEWS: getting two vintage 1920s trolleys for $1. The Philadelphia- Otterstrom to the Hbg Chapter as a chapter-only member. For assigned to the route to Linglestown. Author (and former Hbg based Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority is those members who have mailed delivery of the HRR, his Chapter member) Richard Steinmetz notes that Harrisburg The meeting in May will be held on the 12th at selling two trolleys to Lackawanna County after retiring them address for your new roster is 310 West Hardanger Gate, Lee, Railways car 710 and its sisters were regulars on Harrisburg Hoss’s Steak and Seahouse, 743 Wertzville Road, Enola. about two years ago. Workers used both cars manufactured by IL 60530 (630-330-7983). For those getting electronic Railways' suburban routes to Middletown and Linglestown. Take Exit 61 (Wertzville Road) off I-81 and go east on J.G. Brill Co. to maintain and repair trolley lines over about delivery, your new roster already has his entry. Brandon listed You can see a bit of history and some photos of the two cars Wertzville Road for 1.8 miles. The restaurant is on the left, nine decades, said Andrew Busch, SEPTA’s public informa- his interest as “signaling.” By the way, Lee, IL is also the here: across from CVS Pharmacy. Dinner is available to everyone, tion manager. One of the trolleys is equipped with a crane for home town of Mike Schafer, Editor of Passenger Train http://www.rockhilltrolley.org/roster/12 or you can attend just the meeting at 7 pm. Diners should be overhead wire repairs. Lackawanna County officials were Journal, who has made two program presentations to our http://www.rockhilltrolley.org/roster/710 there no later than 6 pm. As part of Hoss’s Community Night excited to get new items from a time period whose artifacts are chapter. Program, anyone eating prior to the meeting (or any time that increasingly rare. Commissioners first wrote a letter expres- While the original Hbg cars do not operate presently, several day!) should tell the server that he/she is with the NRHS train sing interest in the trolleys in April 2014, but the trolleys of operating cars at Rockhill are the same sort of trolleys that group, whether or not you eat in the meeting room. Hoss's The NRHS annual convention is in Rutland, VT this predated the 1964 formation of SEPTA, meaning the authority ran in Hbg. They run weekend public trolley rides from will donate 20% of the total amount back to us. Also, in order year. Ticket sales have been picking up, but coach and table first had to get permission from the previous owner, the City Memorial Day weekend to the end of October. It's no to speed up service, place your meal order at the register when car seats remain available on all trains. Some seats in the of Philadelphia. A few donors from a national network of exaggeration to say that visitors can get the closest possible you come in. Please pay your tab before the meeting and tip “Dover Harbor” and the dome car are open for the Saturday trolley enthusiasts offered to pay the cost of transporting the experience to riding a Linglestown trolley just by visiting your waitstaff accordingly. trip to Hoosick Jct. You are urged to submit your orders trolleys. The museum already has 18 trolleys in its fleet promptly so as to be assured of getting the accommodations of Rockhill Trolley Museum. Steven is thinking of a slide show, before the new ones from Philadelphia make the trip over the a display of some Hbg trolley memorabilia and/or a video. As The program for May 12th will be a return your choice on the trains you want to ride. Visit the NRHS highway, possibly this summer. The existing trolleys in soon as we get more information on the schedule for this engagement by Dale Woodland. He has announced his 2015 Convention website www.nrhs.com/2015_Convention. Scranton are in various states of repair, and it is expected the event, the HRR will let you know. The celebration runs from program as "The Reading Then and Now." It will illustrate The Holiday Inn is sold out except for a few days at the Philadelphia trolleys will need restoration work. Oct. 9 to 11 this year. scenes of what were once Reading tracks, but now are used by beginning and end of the convention. The Hampton Inn also NS/CSX/SEPTA and ten shortline railroads, depicted in the is sold out. The NRHS has made arrangements for additional Great news for Reading Railroad fans—T-1 2100 (4- If you get a chance, check out the extensive article same scenes today. Much of the Reading System is still in rooms at the Best Western (1-802-773-3200) and the Days Inn 8-4) is heading back east! Held in long-term storage in written by member Al DiCenso and published in the March operation by these various carriers, several of which have (1-802-775-4303). Prices and accommodations are listed on Richland, WA, after an ill-fated attempt to use it on excursions 2015 issue of Trains. It deals with the construction of a new paint schemes inspired by the Reading...... There are no the website. and an unfortunate conversion to oil-firing, railroad preserva- tunnel under New York City to connect the Long Island Rail 1 2

tionists now have worked to prepare the locomotive for a Museum admission price, the exhibit is open during normal move to a new home where restoration and rehabilitation work business hours and runs through December 31. From 1934 to ,17(5&+$1*( will commence on the locomotive. Initial inspections have 1943, the Pennsylvania Railroad acquired 139 of what many identified the 2100 to be in reasonable mechanical condition consider to be the most successful and iconic electric %$/7,025(&+$37(5 and suitable for return to service and to its original coal locomotive class ever produced in the United States, the GG1. burning capacity. Qualified steam locomotive consultants and Probably the most well-known of the class is the first, No. mechanics working on behalf of the American Steam Railroad 4800 or, as it is affectionately known, "Old Rivets" due to its National Railway Historical Society, Inc. Preservation Association (ASR) spent a month in eastern WA riveted body sheet construction, as opposed to the welded inspecting, servicing and preparing the famous Reading body of all subsequent representatives. No. 4800 has had a engine for shipment. ASR was formed in 2005 and owns long history and has seen many changes to its appearance. Frisco locomotive No. 1352, presently located in Taylorville, This exhibit will survey the career of the Railroad Museum of IL. Fundraising efforts to perform a similar move of No. 1352 Pennsylvania's own No. 4800 through photographs and continue. The 2100, on flat car GECX 2028, was on the move artifacts. Listed as nationally significant and eligible for the east from Washington state as of April 16 and it, the tender National Register of Historic Places, No. 4800 was designated and the auxiliary tender will be taken to the ex-B&O a "National Engineering Landmark" by the American Society WK roundhouse in Cleveland for restoration work. You can track of Mechanical Engineers in 1983. According to Railroad 9RO/,,1R0$<2XU

Norfolk Southern recently launched a $53-million The Ringling Brothers Red Unit circus plays at the energy conversion project at its Juniata Locomotive Shop that Giant Center in Hershey on May 20-25 this year. The train will substantially reduce carbon emissions and water usage at will arrive from its venue in Trenton, NJ, and upon completion the 70-acre facility. NS will replace the shop’s coal boilers at Hershey, will be going to Omaha, NE. with natural gas heaters and install a 1.2 megawatt-capacity combined heat and power generator that will produce enough electricity to sustain the entire 16-building complex. When Fred Wertz, Editor completed in late 2017, NS expects the improvements to save Eric and Joan Ohstrom, Mailing about $4 million in electricity costs, reduce water usage by 49.4 million gallons from steam-water recovery, and eliminate more than 29,000 tons of carbon emissions in PA on an annual basis. The project goes beyond equipment changes to include adding insulation, energy-efficient windows at key locations, high-speed roll-up doors on locomotive bays, and replacing ************************************************** roofing to ensure the full sustainability benefits of the The Harrisburg Rail Review is published by the Harrisburg investment are realized. The project follows a comprehensive Chapter, National Railway Historical Society, 637 Walnut review of work demands and energy consumption at Juniata, Street, Harrisburg, PA 17101-1924. The Chapter has an the largest locomotive repair shop in North America and answering machine for current events and to receive messages headquarters for NS’s locomotive rebuild program. The at 717-232-6221. Membership information may be obtained facility has about 1,050 employees who specialize in heavy by writing the chapter, by calling and leaving a request or by repairs and engine overhauls. logging on to our website listed on the masthead. The views and opinions expressed in this newsletter do not necessarily The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania opened a new reflect those of the chapter or its officers. Material from HRR exhibit "Riveted Jacket of Many Colors: A Photo History of may be reproduced provided credit is given. 0D\5HJXODU0HHWLQJ GG1 No. 4800" to the public on 4/25. Included in the regular ************************************************** -XQH5HJXODU0HHWLQJ -XQH15+6&RQYHQWLRQ9HUPRQW -XO\+DSS\%LUWKGD\86$ -XO\5HJXODU0HHWLQJ $XJXVW&KDSWHU3LFQLFDWWKH%DOWLPRUH6WUHHWFDU0XVHXP

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SOU 4501 TVRM INTERCHANGE 10 MAY 2015 Neither progress of rail industry dieselization nor ravages of time spent lying dormant on display for decades could defeat the 11 611, which survived the scrap heap of other steam locomotives and two retirements to take its place among a trio of iconic engines that INTERCHANGE MAY, 2015 will power 21st Century Steam this year. The others are Southern Railway 4501 and Nickel Plate Road 765. History Committee : A Year of Anniversaries by Martin K. Van Horn, Chairman VMT is a new sponsor with Norfolk Southern, joining the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum and the Fort Wayne Railroad th th Historical Society to operate excursion trips between June 6 and Oct. 11. Tickets and schedule details will be available on the websites This year of 2015 is the 150 . Anniversary of the end of the Civil War, and the 175 . Anniversary of the of trip sponsors. opening of a railroad that supplied Washington, D.C. at the start of the war: the Annapolis & Elk Ridge. And Southern Railway’s 4501 was the pioneer locomotive in Norfolk Southern’s initial steam excursion program that operated from that railroad was the oldest segment of the Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Electric Railroad which was 1964 to 1994. The 4501 returned to excursion service in 2014 after being rebuilt at TVRM’s Chattanooga shops. Nickel Plate Road 765 abandoned 80 years ago this year. The last W.B.& A. fantrip is acknowledged to be where the idea of the was built in 1944 by Lima Locomotive Works at Lima, Ohio, and has been used in excursion service since 1979. N.R.H.S. was born. But it is the powerful sleek N&W Class J 611 with its bullet nose and tall-as-a-man driving wheels on a 4-8-4 configuration that many associate with the halcyon days of steam railroading. Its initial restoration in 1982 after two decades of retirement was occasion The Annapolis & Elk Ridge was conceived in 1836 when the advantage of railroads over canals had become for a movie, “Going Home,” produced by Norfolk Southern. “The J being alive of course is the greatest joy that we true rail fans have had apparent. A charter was applied for on the condition that the state could be released from its prior obligation to in many many years,” an appreciative fan says in the movie. The resurrection kept the J chugging in excursion service until 1994, when the Annapolis & Potomac Canal Company. On March 21, 1837 the charter was granted to the Annapolis & Elk Norfolk Southern concluded its steam program, and 611 was retired a second time and put on display again at VMT. Ridge Rail Road. Elk Ridge Landing was chosen as the western terminal on the basis that it was the navigable Norfolk Southern’s 2010 announcement of plans to operate 21st Century Steam prompted hope that the 611 might ride the head waters of the Patapsco River and early B.& O. trains passed through there as well. But this was at a time rails yet again. In 2013, VMT launched a study and then a capital campaign, “Fire Up 611!” to fund restoration of the locomotive. when the Washington Branch of the B.& O. had opened, and the projected railroad from Annapolis could be shortened substantially by joining the branch much to the south at a point that would be known as Annapolis Norfolk Southern donated $1.5 million from proceeds of sale of a Mark Rothko abstract expressionist painting. The 611 was towed to Junction (and later as Camp Meade Junction and then Fort Meade Junction.) This was the vicinity of Savage the North Carolina Transportation Museum in May 2014 for display among a group of historic locomotives, and the restoration began Factory near mile post 18 of the B.& O. Washington Branch. there in June. Tender of BC&G No. 2-8-0 No. 4 arrives at Cass shops The case centers on American Financial's long-running The tender to Buffalo Creek & Gauley 2-8-0 No. 4 has efforts to get more value for the Amtrak shares it received way arrived at the Cass Scenic Railroad on Wednesday. This back in 1971. That's when Penn Central Railroad, a former unit of completes the first of four-to-five planned trips that will American Financial, agreed to a deal to turn over passenger train successfully move the 1926 Baldwin-built steam locomotive service to Amtrak. It paid Amtrak $52 million in exchange for back to its home state for restoration at the Durbin & shares of the railroad's stock worth the same amount at the time. Greenbrier Valley Railroad-operated Cass Scenic Railroad. Those shares were worth $10 each then. The deal called for The tender was transported via a special tractor- Amtrak to buy back the shares at fair market value by October trailer, completing 275-mile commute to Pocahontas County 2002. on Wednesday afternoon. Over the next 30 days, crews will In 2000, after Amtrak had lost money every year since transport the locomotive’s cab, boiler, wheels, and other the deal took place, Amtrak valued those shares at 3 cents each. components to Cass, WV from Spencer, NC. Once all parts American Financial balked, claiming the shares were worth more arrive, railroad crews will begin restoration efforts at the Cass than that. But after protracted negotiations, it filed a lawsuit in Annapolis & Elk Ridge 4-4-0 “Annapolis”, built 1838 Shops in anticipation of having the locomotive returned to May 2008. operation for its 90th birthday in 2016. After years of legal wrangling, the court ruled that American The first run of the Annapolis & Elk Ridge was on "Durbin & Greenbrier Valley is privileged to bring Christmas Day of 1840. It cost $2 for a ticket to Baltimore BC&G No. 4 back 'home' to West Virginia with the goal of Financial waited too long after the dispute to file the lawsuit and dismissed the case. and $2.50 to travel to Washington from Annapolis. For finishing the project begun by the North Carolina Museum of service to intermediate stations: 6.25 cents per mile. Transportation," owner John Smith says. Look for American Financial to keep pursuing the case The locomotive and tender were last restored in 1986 and file an appeal. and lettered and numbered as a replica for Southern Railway "We are disappointed in the ruling and will seek a reconsideration," American Financial spokeswoman Diane 2-8-0 No. 604. The locomotive pulled 3-mile passenger trains Annapolis Junction on the B.& O. guarded by Union troops,1864. at the museum for many years before its last run in November Weidner told me in an email. "Nothing in the ruling changes the 2001. Once restored, the locomotive will appear as it did in fact that we own 5.2 million shares. There remains a deep dispute The road was built with 56 lb. rail, with turning wyes at the two terminals and three water stations: Annapolis, operation on the Clay County -based Buffalo Creek & Gauley between Amtrak and American Premier Underwriters over the Waterbury and Patuxent. Mile post 0 was at Annapolis Junction. Stations were at Admiral (later Camp Meade) Railroad. The acclaimed locomotive is recognized as one of the value of our shares." MP 4.25, Murray’s Hotel MP 6.25, Gambrills MP 8.33, Millersville MP 9.64, Waterbury MP 11.13, last steam locomotives in regular service in the nation. At one point, American Financial was seeking as much as Crownsville MP 13.23, Igelhart MP 15.3, Cedar Park MP 19.61 and Annapolis (West St.) MP 20.18. Offices Judge rules on American Financial lawsuit against Amtrak $1 billion in damages. American Financial's 5.2 million Amtrak were on the upper floor of the car shed and carpenter shop at West Street. American Financial Group Inc.'s seven-year-old lawsuit shares are worth $156,000, according to Amtrak's valuation. against railroad operator Amtrak might finally be wrapped up, but (Cincinnati Business Courier, 2-27-15) it's not to the Cincinnati insurer's benefit. /LQGD$WUDLQMXVWSDVVHG With Baltimore a city of strong southern sympathies during the Civil War, the bridges of the Northern Central Judge Sandra Beckwith dismissed the case in U.S. District 6DP+RZGR\RXNQRZ" and Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroads were burned north of Baltimore to prevent troops and Court in Cincinnati on Monday, saying American Financial and its /LQGD,VDZWKHWUDFNV materials from passing through the city to reach Washington. The Annapolis & Elk Ridge was seized by the American Premier Underwriters unit filed the claims too late. The Union forces and men and supplies were moved down Chesapeake Bay to Annapolis, to continue on to dismissal brings the long-running saga to a conclusion. 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INTERCHANGE 12 MAY, 2015 INTERCHANGE 13 MAY, 2015 revenues. There was no restitution until approved by Congress many years later. There was no line to the harbor In 1907, the A.W.& B. was electrified from Annapolis 14 miles to a point just east of Odenton where it crossed at Annapolis so troops had to march across the city and materials had to be hauled by team. the north-south tracks of a new Interurban line being built between Baltimore and Washington. Early in 1908, trains were running between Annapolis and Washington, and by April, between Annapolis and Baltimore via the A.W.& B. Division of the Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Electric Railroad Company. However, it was not until 10 months after service began, that the A.W.& B. Was formally turned over to its new owner and designated as the W.B.& A.’s Annapolis Division.

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The A.& E.R. had been built partially through an investment by the State of $300,000, for which 6% dividends were to be paid annually. By June 1, 1872, dividends had been deferred and compounded to a The old West Street Station was replaced by a new station at West and Calvert Streets. And at long last the line sum of $529, 358.24. On September 21, 1880, the through the streets was built to connect trains to Chesapeake Bay steamboats serving several points on the Board of public Works assigned all the state- owned Eastern Shore. Unfortunately these lines were restricted by narrow streets and sharp curves to passenger A.& E.R. stock and state claims against it to the never- equipment only. The old engine house and machine shop were now consolidated with the new shops at Naval built Baltimore & Drum Point Rail Road. After 13 Academy Junction, as the point where the Annapolis Division joined the W.B.& A. mainline was now known. years of litigation, the A.& E.R. was sold at The old steam short line had functioned with “highball” signals, but 4 runs daily, quickly became 9, and finally foreclosure on November 10, 1885 and reorganized 22 in both directions. So a magnetically operated semaphore system was installed in June, 1908 by the Blake April 23, 1886 as the Annapolis, Washington & Signal & Manufacturing Company. But the Blake system was merely an auxiliary to the Dispatcher’s telephone Baltimore Railroad Company. (Thus acquiring the system, and in 1912, a fully automatic block signal system was installed by Union Switch & Signal Company. irreverent nickname of the “Alcohol, Whiskey & Beer”, Telegram sent from Annapolis Junction in 1863 by Capt. J.Emory In 1909, the 6.25 miles of the far western end was electrified to the B.& O. at Annapolis Junction. which re-ordered would also serve for the W.B.& A.!) Round, a cousin of Robert Emory Base, late Chapter member. Capt. Round was a Union Army surgeon. The recurrent dream of the Baltimore & Drum Point Railroad, reincarnated several times as the Baltimore & Southern R.R. and the Baltimore & Virginia R.R., promised to bring prosperity to the Annapolis Division The Baltimore & Potomac R.R. was completed to Washington and opened its line in July 1872, crossing the which would be its connection to the rest of the national rail system, finally died February 19, 1924 when Anne A.& E.R. at grade at Odenton. A B.& P. freight train collided with the A.& E.R. passenger train July 31, 1876, Arundel County declined to bear their part of the cost after Calvert County had approved theirs. and this may not have been the only such occurrence, so in August, 1887, the B.& P. was required to erect, maintain, and staff an interlocking signal tower The tower remained for the next 45 years as an Odenton More positive for the Annapolis Divison, sadly because of the First World War, in 1917 the company had landmark convinced the War Department to locate the large National Army Training Cantonments around the Admiral, Disney and Portland Stations. Construction commenced July, 1917 and over the next 18 months, W.B.& A. In 1886, the Baltimore & Ohio built the Annapolis & Bay Ridge R.R. from the A.& E.R. in Annapolis to the Carried 8.5 million passengers to-and-from the new Army base: Camp Meade. A new branch was built into the excursion resort at Bay Ridge. Crowds of 9,000 daily arrived by steamboat and by trains routed over the A.& camp and the line from Naval Academy Junction to the camp was double-tracked. E.R. and the new Bay Ridge line. Prosperity for the A.& E.R., now A.W.& B., was brief as competition in the form of the Annapolis & Baltimore Short Line Railroad came in Spring, 1887, aided and abetted by the B.& O. by leasing its Curtis Bay Branch. This caused enmity between the A.W. & B. And the B.& O. that threatened all previous agreements. B.& O. failed to renew reciprocal fare agreements March 1, 1887 and A.W.& B. Open-platform El cars and Long Island R.R. conductors refused to honor through tickets to Annapolis sold at Camden Station. This caused the A.& B. Short trailers were obtained for the increased Line to start service before facilities were completed at their Bladen St. Station in Annapolis. The Annapolis traffic to Camp Meade. Then they lingered Short Line had its own recurring financial problems and reorganizations and name changes, and on September 1, 1887 was acquired by the same interests that controlled the A.W.& B.. Both roads appeared to be on as work cars and even freight trailers. independent but directors and managers were the same for both. INTERCHANGE 15 MAY 2015 14 Amtrak Cities Sprinter 64 (ACS-64) electric locomotive construction INTERCHANGE MAY, 2015 reaches the halfway mark As February ended, Siemens's Sacramento, Calif., plant sent out its 35th Amtrak Cities Sprinter 64 (ACS-64) electric locomotive, reaching the halfway mark of its planned delivery of 70 units. A Siemens spokeswoman informed Railway Age of the milestone on Wednesday, March 4, 2015. The units are being shipped by rail to Amtrak's Northeast Corridor. Siemens delivered the first ACS-64 to Amtrak in February 2014.

Amfleet car receives a new wheelset. Two men handle this job. Last September Siemens Rolling Stock began its 15-year technical support and spare parts supply agreement with Amtrak for the new locomotives. As part of this agreement, Siemens technicians will be on-site at four locations (Boston, New York, Wilmington, Del., and Washington, D.C.) to provide technical expertise, spare parts and The Great Depression put the W.B.& A. into receivership. By 1934, the fine articulated trains purchased for engineering support. mainline service between Baltimore and Washington, were operating on the Annapolis Division, now known as the South Shore Line (South Shore of the Severn River). The destination sign reads”Annapolis - South Shore IVY CITY TOUR PHOTOS Line. The history of the W.B.& A.E.R.R. will continue next month and beyond.

Acela trainset is over the pit for its daily inspection by Amtrak's mechanics.

Sandy Mitch talks with Amtrak's Patrick Woodward, tour leader.

Amtrak cars and an Acela trainset await their next assignments in the service yard.

MARC 4915 in for its inspection before its next trip hauling commuters. Photos by Charlie Plantholt

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The movie was actually shot on portions of the Canadian Pacific, largely in and around Calgary, April Meeting Will Alberta, and on the old line that once went from Lethbridge, Alberta all the way to Vancouver via Crowsnest Pass. Some of the scenery is fine, but the Take Us On A Trip geography is pretty screwed up, along with everything For the April Meeting of the Cornell Railroad else. Leaving LA, you catch a glimpse of the CP Tower Historical Society, we'll be taking more than in Calgary, and the train ends up, through the magic of one trip, in fact. One is on a time machine, back special effects, inside Union Station in Toronto! Ah, to 1976. On this voyage, we'll watch a young well, such is the "magic" of the movie business. Gene Wilder (Willie Wonka, anyone?) and the Actually, it's mostly a fun trip, with lots of shots of the late Richard Pryor in a film first released in that classic CP stainless steel passenger equipment from the year. Yes, they still shot movies on actual physi- re-equipped Canadian of 1955. Many of these cars are cal film in those bygone days. still running on VIA Rail, though the FP7a diesels are The second trip is within the movie itself, as a largely gone. The movie really takes off when Richard character named George Caldwell settles in for Pryor appears. See the review later in this issue. what he thinks is a quiet and relatively slow trip Our meeting is at The History Center in downtown from Los Angeles to Chicago on a train run by Ithaca. Doors will open at 7 PM and the meeting will an organization very like Amtrak, but in this begin promptly at 7:15. The running time of the movie incarnation it's known as "AmRoad". Little does is 114 minutes.

Baltimore Chapter members and friends gather in front of Amtrak ACS64 # 614 outside the wheel truing shop at Amtrak's Ivy City George realize he's in for romance, adventure, Service Facility. Thanks to Patrick Woodward (second from right in back row), Tom Flavin, and Alexander Mitchell for making the event near death experiences, and even a bunch of possible and a success. Photo by Tom Flavin, April 18, 2015 laughs along the way.

From the NRHS News The Rutland Holiday Inn now is fully booked Members from almost 40 states will attend Monday, June 15 through Friday, June 19. As this issue Vermont convention was nearing completion, rooms were available there Thursday, June 11 through Sunday, June 14, and there Sales continue for the 2015 NRHS convention, were some rooms open on Saturday, June 20 through hosted by the Vermont Rail System (VRS) in Rutland, Monday, June 22. Phone the Holiday Inn directly at Vt. As sales continue, a number of ticket classes have 1-802-773-6130 to make your reservation. So, if begun to sell out, and the convention committee has you want to just do the Hoosick trip and/or the been working to add capacity to several events so that all Fathers’ Day trip, you may still be able to get a room at interested members, as well as the general public, can the Holiday Inn. NRHS officials have arranged for two participate in the first convention based in the Green overflow hotels. The Hampton Inn (Hilton chain) is Mountain state. NRHS members from almost 40 states adjacent to the Holiday Inn. Officials have set aside some and Canada have already signed up to participate. rooms for us at $139 per night plus taxes, but reserva- Thanks to local and national publicity, more than 30 tions were to be made by March 31. Call them at 1-802- new NRHS members have already registered for the 773-9066 and ask for Lannie or Mark. This hotel is 50 event, and the general public has begun buying tickets yards from the Holiday Inn, and breakfast, parking and for the Fathers Day charter on Sunday, June 21. Wi-Fi are included. As of the date of publication we The convention features six charter trains on the understand that the Hampton Inn is nearly fully booked. Vermont Rail System, a charter on the Saratoga & North The Best Western Inn & Suites will give the NRHS Creek, and a ride on Amtrak’s Ethan Allen Express up to 40 rooms. Their special NRHS rate is $109 for a passenger train. Tours of the VRS roundhouse in standard room for one or two people, and $139 for a Burlington and the joint Rutland/D&H station at Center one-bedroom suite with full kitchen, dining area, living Rutland, as well as the many historic structures and room and bedroom with two queen beds. All prices are equipment displays at the Shelburne Museum, highlight plus taxes. Their rate includes breakfast and parking. other rail activities available to those who attend. Based Call them at 1-802-773-3200, and be sure to request the at the Holiday Inn in Rutland, all convention meetings, NRHS conference rate. The Best Western is three miles seminars, banquet, transportation to off-site events and from downtown and about 4-1/2 miles from the Holiday train excursions start here. The convention rate at the Inn where our buses will arrive and depart. Thus persons Holiday Inn ($99 for one person, $119 for two, $139 for using the Best Western are advised to have an automo- three and $159 for four) includes a free hot buffet break- bile available. fast, scheduled to be offered in advance of event departures each day. Play") Higgins in the cheery, breezy action comedy, "Silver Cornell Railroad Historical Society (607) 659-7413 Silver Streak Movie Review Program Director: Steve Peck Streak". Mailing Address: Attn.: Ron Koger Director:Arthur Hiller Writer:Colin Higgins 4978 Frontenac Road "Silver Streak" is the first of four Gene Wilder & Richard 116 Candor Hill Road Candor, NY 13743 Trumansburg, NY, 14886-9216 Stars:Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Jill Clayburgh Pryor match-ups and certainly in retrospect, one of the best. Officers,and Directors — [email protected] Silver Streak was released in 1976, the very same How to Contact Them (607) 387-5508 Wilder is an ordinary Joe taking the titular Amtrak train Editor/ Historian: Gene Endres (as above) year the Master of Suspense, President : Steve Avery 8 Maple Drive Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Horseheads, NY 14845 Board of Directors released his black-comedy [email protected] Steve Avery Greg Dickinson Gene Endres David Flinn swan song, "Family Plot". 607-562-8279 Ron Koger Steve Peck Though Hitch was in the Vice-President: Steve Peck Robert Travis 4978 Frontenac Road very twilight of his long, Trumansburg, NY, 14886-9216 The Cornell Railroad Historical Society is a non-profit organization illustrious career, his playful [email protected] based in Ithaca, New York, chartered by the New York State Board of style was alive and well, and (607) 387-5508 Regents and is affiliated with the National Railroad Historical Society, of NRHS Global Director: Dave Flinn which it is a chapter. The CRHS is open to anyone with an interest in well appropriated, in 866 Ridge Road, Lansing, NY 14882-8603 railroads, trolleys, model railroads, transportation, the history of these Hollywood. The Master [email protected] functions, etc. Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month at 607-533-4797 didn't make this movie - the History Center, 401 East State Street, Gateway Plaza, Ithaca, NY. From Love Secretary / Gene Endres NY Route 13, take Green Street (NY 79 East), three traffic lights to East Canadian Arthur ( 126 Sears Street Apt. 1, Ithaca, NY 14850 State Street. After third light, turn hard right into Gateway Plaza parking Story) Hiller did - but the (607-279-6512) behind 401 (large building with two pizza shops on ground floor). If [email protected] — or — [email protected] unmistakable fingerprints westbound on Rt. 366 or 79, make left at foot of hill to 401 (Gateway Treasurer:Ron Koger and shop-hewn template of 116 Candor Hill Road Plaza). Doors open at 7:00 PM. 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across country. In the midst of his journey, he befriends luxurious and memorable score by Henry Mancini is the and beds fellow passenger Jill ("An Unmarried Woman") capper to this sparkling comedy. Clayburgh, ends up witnessing a murder then is wrongly Internet Movie Data Base Review (IMDB) by "British accused of the crime, and is thrown off the train many, Dominion" “In this small community, that was a big deal, still So, when will the East Broad Top Railroad wake from its many times in his pursuit to clear his name, save the girl is a big deal,” said Matt Price, executive director of sleep? Salone said he has high hopes you’ll be able to step From The Coal Bucket, newsletter of the Horseshoe from a mysterious villain and get to the other side of the the Huntingdon County Visitors Bureau. abroad by 2016. There are hundreds of people from several Curve Chapter, NRHS country. But due to finances and liability, the Kovalchick different organizations that are working to keep the system This is a very gentle but funny comedy that plays People fight to restore the East Broad family stopped the train rides in 2009 and leased the maintained (especially the Friends of the East Broad Top RR, with the conventions of one of Hitch's favorite themes, Top Railroad operation to a nonprofit group – The East Broad Top who have worked diligently for decades to maintain, repair the mistaken identity of everyday man in extraordinary By: Erin Calandra HUNTINGDON, Pa. -- Railroad Preservation Association – run by Larry and stabilize the historic shops, buildings and equipment). Salon. “That was the first railroad they took me to, in circumstances. Wilder is wonderful, fitfully funny as Railroads were – and still are – an important part of From The Susquehannock newsletter of the Central life in central Pennsylvania. They shaped the history of 1964 was my first train ride ever and I fell in love usual and shines as both a romantic lead (!) and does his Pennsylvania Chapter of the NRHS the state and the country. For many who are interested with this place,” said Salon. patented "crazy" guy when things start falling apart. Just Excursion trains to resume in Honesdale, Pa. watching Wilder's eyes as he exasperatedly tries to in historic trains, places like the East Broad Top Railroad The lease was short lived – only three years – and The popular excursion trains on the 25-mile Honesdale- explain out the fantastic plot he's wrapped up in to in Huntingdon County are critical to preserve that in 2012 the railroad once again fell silent. Kovalchick Lackawaxen line in northeast Pennsylvania are set to return unbelieving characters along the way is one of the film's bridge to the past. Huntingdon County houses a said the decision was difficult. “Sometimes I feel it’s historical gem – The East Broad Top Railroad. It’s not worth the risks for my family,” said Kovalchick. beginning May 9-10, a spokesman for the shortline now recognized by the National Park Service as a National He remains hopeful that money will be found to known as the Delaware Lackawaxen & Sturbridge Railroad. Historic Landmark, but what was once a bustling put the trains back on the track. “The focus was to get Tom Shepstone, executive director of the Honesdale- industrial rail turned tourist attraction, is now a silent some grants, state federal money to restore it and that Lackawaxen Shippers Association, says that the Myles Group railroad. hasn’t happened yet,” said Kovalchick. of West Chester has moved several pieces of rolling stock to People came from all across the globe to ride these And this train town is feeling the pain financially, Honesdale in recent months and has invested about $30,000 massive, old steam engines. You can still find a steam and emotionally. “We had four bed and breakfasts,” to get the line's rare EMD BL2 diesel locomotive back into engine or two across the country, but experts say you said Price. “We’re down to just two.” running condition. won’t find anything like the East Broad Top Railroad, "This community was built around the East Broad The plan calls for reestablishing the popular passenger saying it’s the last railroad system of its kind still intact. Top Railroad and Coal Company,” said David excursions from Honesdale to Hawley and Lackawaxen, to And now, a lot of people are fighting to keep it that way. Brightbill, owner of the The Iron Rail bed and be followed by renewed freight service. The excursion trains “I like to think of it as the Humpty Dumpty story,” said breakfast. “You would be hard pressed to go are "desperately desired by the community," Shepstone says. Joe Kovalchick, owner of the East Broad Top Railroad. door-to-door and find a family not tied to the About a half dozen potential freight customers have been “Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a railroad.” contacted, Shepstone says, and propane and stone may be great fall, all the king’s horses and all the king’s men, Brightbill owns one of the two remaining bed and the initial traffic. "We'd like to get some of the fracking couldn’t get Humpty Dumpty together again. ” breakfasts – The Iron Rail. He bought the house 10 business as well," he adds. Kovalchick, an entrepreneur from Indiana County, years ago from the East Broad Top Company. It sits The Myles Group once owned and operated the nearby feels the nursery rhyme best describes to possible future right across from the train station. Brightbill said Wellsboro & Corning Railroad and the Tioga Central excur- of the railroad. “If East Broad Top starts to liquidate, it’s when the steam engines were operating, all five sion trains on that line until selling 70 percent of the opera- a one-way show, it’s a one-way tour it will never be rooms of his home were sold out most weekends. But tion to Genesee & Wyoming. It was that experience in devel- again,” said Kovalchick. now, they’re rarely full. “We are lucky to keep our oping operations that led the local shippers group to Experts say this is a piece of American history that head above water, but question how long we wish to approach Myles about helping to revive the Honesdale line, funniest, simplest rewards. can’t be replaced. “The East Broad Top Railroad is continue,” said Brightbill. Shepstone says. The Myles Group has not responded to The film's masterstroke, however, is the addition of described by the Smithsonian Institute as the best Kovalchick said the railroad is only sleeping. He requests for comment. Richard Pryor as a part-time thief. Pryor was in the preserved example of a 1900-era facility anywhere in the wants to see it as a state or federal attraction with The Honesdale line, formerly an Erie Lackawanna midst of a very hot career in 1976, and although this film country,” said Historian Lee Rainey. restored engines and bustling tourism. “I’ve seen branch, was unwanted when Conrail was formed in 1976 and seems to restrain some of the imagination and language The operation contains six steam engines, built in the federal and state spend a lot of money on history has had several operators since. The line's largest shipper of his stage presence and TV specials, (this is a PG-rated early 1900s, many on site, along with a building that much less important than East Broad Top,” said closed in 1999, and no freight trains have operated since movie, after all), he still creates an indelible extended houses forgotten technology. Rainey said this place is a Kovalchick. 2008. The shippers’ group and the local chamber of 'cameo' that fuses film with a hip, perfectly cool snapshot of what the railroad and coal industry looked Salone is trying to buy the railroad, and has commerce operated seasonal excursion trains, using the counterbalance to Wilder's mania and confusion. When like turn of the (20th) century. This rail was built in already purchased four miles of rail in Mount Union former Bangor & Aroostook BL2 and several former Lacka- Pryor is on screen he not only steals the film, but also 1859; 32 miles of narrow gage rails were used to haul for industrial use, something he said will help play for wanna commuter cars for more than 30 years. elevates this old-fashioned adventure-comedy concept to coal during a very busy industrial era for Pennsylvania. the tourism operations in the long run. Kovalchick (TrainsNewswire.com March 17, 2015) something otherwise original... and you can't take your Kovalchick’s father bought it in 1956 and the family won’t say how much it will cost to reopen, but he, eyes off the guy. preserved it for six decades. “Everything is there,” said Salone, and historians fear that without public Filmed all across his native Canada, director Hiller Kovalchick. “The engines, coaches, cars, shops, support and government funding, this railroad could pulls this fun little audience-pleasing gem along the rails roadhouse, office, black smith shop. All intact.” be lost forever. “It’s not a carnival, it’s not a toy,” said to a bright and exciting climax. The supporting cast is During that time, the East Broad Top Railroad ran Kovalchick. “It’s a real, honest to goodness American loaded with wonderful character actors including Patrick 2-3 engines at a time, bringing 150,000 to 250,000 railroad heritage experience.” MacGoohan, Ray (My Favorite Martian) Walston, Ned tourists annually to the tiny town of Orbisonia – Beatty and Scatman Crothers amongst others. A very population: 422. Page 5 Page 4 Best Train Movies A brief look on the NEW NRHS ADDRESS As we have already told you, NRHS will receive mail Old postcard of the DL&W Station in Ithaca, Internet can bring up National Railway Historical Society from the USPS at the address shown above. The NRHS probably around the turn of the 20th century many lists of the "best" c/o John K. Fiorilla, Esq. telephone number remains 215-557- 6606. The FAX movies on trains, with Capehart & Scatchard, Inc., P. A. machine has been disconnected and the FAX telephone P. O. Box 5016 trains, featuring trains or number has been discontinued. Email addresses, 8000 Midlantic Drive, STE 300S even with a couple of Facebook page, and web site will remain unchanged. Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054-5016 scenes with trains in Please discontinue sending anything to Fernley & Effective Monday, March 30, 2015 NRHS is trans- them. Of course, such are Fernley, and please do not call them for any reason to ferring its business operations from Fernley & Fernley. the vagaries of personal better ease our transition away from them. That contractor will no longer have any further respon- taste. We have all seen a More details about future operations will be forthcom- sibilities for maintaining and updating the membership movie where a train is ing throughout the next several months. data base, nor will they have anything to do with NRHS claimed to be in Thank you, finance operations. On March 31, please discontinue California and has a shot Al Weber, sending anything of any sort to Fernley & Fernley. of a new York Central NRHS President train. These days, producers hire experts on Here's a photograph of the all sorts of things, from driving of the last spike on the the proper battle dress Ithaca-Auburn Short Line. We Silver Streak for Normans invading England, to the science behind a believe the year is 1906. At that The Taking of Pelham One Two Three time, the line only went from time machine. Some years back, there wasn't this Murder on the Orient Express downtown Ithaca to Lansing, attention to detail, and scenes with trains suffered The Darjeeling Limited and was soon electrified to accordingly. The Lady Vanishes Rogues' Harbor, hotel and bar One suspects all of our members have favorite train in Lansing. The electric trolleys Runaway Train movies, and thus we won't attempt to post many lists. could barely make the grade up Train of Life Call such items a starting point for discussion. Then East Hill, and the line was never Throw Momma from the Train start another list of your favorite train books, or electrified further. A Your editor would certainly include The General, The photographs or... motor-powered McKeen car Train (the one with Burt Lancaster) and The Emperor of Here's one list from TIME magazine. was acquired but didn't easily the North, formerly titled The Emperor of the North Pole. make the grade. Photo provided Strangers on a Train by Richard Palmer. The Great Train Robbery

This fine picture of BNSF and N-S run-through locomotives passing under the Oakland Road bridge near Weedsport was taken in March by Ed Post, editor of the CNY Chapter newsletter. What a difference from the steamy summer days when we have held the CRHS Thanks to the work of JJYoung III, a huge trove of Thanks to the work of JJYoung III, a huge trove of picnic near and atop wonderful photographs by his father, JJYoung, Jr. are this same bridge! posted on the Internet. They mostly feature loads of action in and around Binghamton and central New York. Well worth your time. https://www.flickr.com/photos/jjyoungjr/

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Cornell Railroad Historical Society Attn.: Ron Koger Postmaster:FIRST CLASS MAIL 116 Candor Hill Road Neither rain, nor snow...nor snow...nor snow, nor cold, brrrrr, nor more cold, and Candor, NY 13743 still the mail went through. Thanks to all the hard workers who do their jobs in all weather, whether they be postal workers or rail workers or the guys who thaw frozen pipes in Ithaca.

Volume 44, Number 5 May 2015

ruit crates used to be commonplace. When grocery stores were a lot smaller than they are today, a little scavenging run out back could get you several of these lightly-built, Fwooden-sided containers, often with a colorful label. printed on paper, glued to one end. Now that markets are giant "big boxes", the crates, if they exist at all, are placed in sealed dumpsters, and the growers (who were located in California, Oregon, Washington and Florida back in the 1930s) have no reason to place expensive printed advertising on the crate. One exception may be the holiday-season flood of tanger- ines, the most -seen brand being "Darling Clementines". I still have a couple of these small crates around the house. In past years, the colorful labels often featured trains, which, of course, brought the produce to market. That whole idea is investigated in the course of John Steinbeck's East of Eden where iceberg lettuce is grown to be shipped east by ice-cooled freight cars. The labels shown feature a Burlington "Zephyr"-type train Fire up the 611 - The campaign for the Norfolk and Western Class J 611. ‘First Firing’ photo: Preston Claytor which was unlikely to be carrying much in the way of California (or Colorado) produce. It was however, a symbol of then-modern fast railroad delivery. Then there's the "Locomotive Engineer" label, rushing Meeting Notice: luscious grapes and other fruits from California's The regularly scheduled meeting of the Piedmont Carolinas Chapter will be held at St. Thomas Lutheran Central Valley. If the current drought continues, Church at 4013 Shamrock Drive at 7:30 p.m. Monday night, May 11, 2015. The program for tonight’s there may be no produce at all coming from this meeting will be a slide presentation by Mr. Virgil Hurley. The Board of Directors will meet this month American "Fruit Basket". th Page 8 on May 18 at Park Place Restaurant on Park Road at 5:30 p.m. 2 PIEDMONT CAROLINAS CHAPTER NRHS MAY 2015 3 PIEDMONT CAROLINAS CHAPTER NRHS MAY 2015 FROM THE POINT The President’s Message

Hello everyone,

ome out and join us for the Piedmont Carolinas Chapter of the NRHS May meeting. It will be held at St. Thomas Lutheran Church on Shamrock Drive in Charlotte. The date is May 11th and we will begin at 7:30pm. See details for the program in CVirgil's column. We also have a chapter board meeting in May. It will be held at Park Place Restaurant on Park Road. Meeting time is 5:30pm and all members are welcome to attend. Come out and join us.

All aboard!

Jim

SCHEDULES MAY 2015 PIEDMONT CAROLINAS CHAPTER NRHS

Monday 7:30PM May 11th Monthly Meeting @ St. Thomas Lutheran Church, 4013 Shamrock Drive Program: Virgil Hurley Slides including a rare appearance of both Northbound and Southbound Amtrak's Auto Train in Charlotte at the same time.

Monday 5:30pm May 18th Chapter Board Meeting @ Park Place Restaurant. All members invited to attend. June Chapter Meeting: Open to ideas for the Program and location. Call Virgil @ 704-672-1670

OTHER EVENTS:

May 9th National Train Day at the NC Transportation Museum in Spencer. A lot going on for the whole Family. Train Rides Music, NS Locomotives, Activities For Kids, Photo ops, Charlotte Trolley #1, & more. Note: No activities planed today at the Charlotte Amtrak Station Buffalo Creek & Gauley 2-8-0 No. 4 The Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia built the locomotive in 1926 for the National Railway in Mexico. Instead, it was sold to the Buffalo Creek & Gauley Railroad, which hauled mostly coal and lumber in Clay County, W.Va., east of Charleston. It remained in operation as other steam locomotives were replaced by diesel, and its longevity made it a magnet for photographers and writers. It made its last regular run in February 1965.

The locomotive was sold to the Pennsylvania-based Quakertown & Eastern excursion operation in 1967, then to the Southwest Virginia Scenic

Railroad in Hiltons, Va., in 1972 before coming to the N.C. Transportation Southewest Virginia 2-8-0 #4 before she was ‘Southernized’ into Southern 2-8-0 #604. Taken during break-in runs. Museum in 1978. Photo, Ed Locklin

4 PIEDMONT CAROLINAS CHAPTER NRHS MAY 2015 5 PIEDMONT CAROLINAS CHAPTER NRHS MAY 2015 6 PIEDMONT CAROLINAS CHAPTER NRHS MAY 2015 7 PIEDMONT CAROLINAS CHAPTER NRHS MAY 2015 NCTM SELLS BUFFALO CREEK & GAULEY STEAM LOCO TO CASS. steam locomotive that has spent the last 37 years at the N.C. Transportation Museum in Spencer will be going home Ato West Virginia this spring. The engine, known as the Buffalo Creek & Gauley 2-8-0 No. 4, will be trucked in pieces to Cass, W.Va., where the Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad will get it back in running condition and use it on excursions through the mountains. The railroad bought the locomotive for $150,000 from the N.C. Transportation Museum Foundation, which acquired it for the museum in 1978. Not only will the engine get the full overhaul it needs, said Kelly Alexander, the foundation’s chief operating officer, but it will return to the state where it operated for decades. “It’s going back home,” Alexander said. “It’s going back to where it needs to be.” The sale of the old No. 4 engine is part of a wider movement among railroad museums to repatriate equipment to it origins, said Robert Van Camp, a board member of the Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad who lives in Winston-Salem. In years following the death of steam railroads, museums and tourist railroads grabbed what they could and incorporated them into their collections, often repainting them with the colors and logos of local railroads. When a group of Southern Railway retirees restored the No. 4 engine at Spencer in 1986, they lettered and numbered it as a replica of a Southern Railway engine, 2-8-0 No. 604, which had been based at Spencer. Buffalo Creek & Gauley 2-8-0 #604 at the head end of passenger excursion train at NCTM. The engine was the first piece of railroad rolling stock to be restored at Spencer, according to the museum, which now has more than 100 engines and rail cars as well as the largest preserved roundhouse in the country. “We appreciate the role that No. 4 played in the development of the North Carolina Transportation Museum,” the foundation’s president, Steve Mersch, said in a statement. “We owe a debt of gratitude to this powerful locomotive, and we want to see it run again in its authentic garb and in its home state.” The locomotive pulled passenger cars on a 3-mile trip around the museum grounds until November 2001, when it was brought into the roundhouse for a major overhaul that all steam engines need every once in a while, Alexander said. That work was begun, but the museum and the foundation then agreed to use the money elsewhere, and the restoration stopped. In May, the engine will be shipped, probably in four truckloads, from Spencer to Cass, where the Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad recently took over operation of the Cass Scenic Railroad State Park, which has 10 operating steam locomotives and a repair shop. Van Camp says that it will take about a year and $400,000 to get the No. 4 operating again and that the railroad hopes to have it ready for the engine’s 90th birthday, in 2016. Buying the No. 4 wasn’t like acquiring an old steam engine that has sat on a siding somewhere for decades. The engine has been well-documented and cared for, Van Camp said. “We know the scope of the project and what it’s going to take to finish it, thanks to all the work that the North Carolina Transportation Museum did on the engine,” he said.

From “The News and Observer, 3-27-15"

8 PIEDMONT CAROLINAS CHAPTER NRHS MAY 2015 9 PIEDMONT CAROLINAS CHAPTER NRHS MAY 2015 Norfolk & Western No. 611 inaugural run set for May PROGRESS AT GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN RR 30; excursions in June and July he steam shop guys have been busy this month and couldn't be happier about the warmer/milder weather that has finally reached the Smokey Mountains. egendary Norfolk & Western Class J No. 611 will shake off 20 years of inactivity to pull its first mainline passenger train May 30 from its restoration site in Spencer, N.C., to its hometown of Roanoke where a gala celebration awaits the reborn 4-8-4. T The tender has been moved inside the shop and the cleaning has begun. Tim Keegan, one of our GSMR Operations L crew members, has been recruited to help with Tender duties. He has been removing the old epoxy that has been inside the Later, you will have 11 opportunities to ride or photograph the Tuscan red streamlined beauty in action on Virginia rails in June and July tender for several years along with prepping with departures from Manassas, Lynchburg, and Roanoke, officials with the Virginia Museum of Transportation say. for the new marine grade epoxy that will be Trains News Wire has learned that the 2015 Norfolk Southern excursion plans will also be announced soon for the Fort Wayne Railroad applied. Historical Society’s Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 No. 765, as well as the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s Southern Railway 2-8-2 No. 4501. This past week Brian and Marshal have been pulling the studs off the firebox and wrapper The 220-mile, one-way May 30 trip will see the powerful Class J stride sheet. The old rivets were shot out a few along the former Southern Railway main line and enter home rails at weeks ago! Stay tuned, there may be video Lynchburg. There, the engine will retrace its regular service route when it footage of the rivet removal coming! pulled N&W’s named passenger trains across the fabled Blue Ridge grade. The locomotive is expected to arrive between 2 and 4 p.m., Joe has been working on the engine lathe stopping at the O. Winston Link Museum in the former N&W passenger making new rivet snaps. They are ready for station in downtown Roanoke. The engine is expected to run with no diesel helpers. heat treatment and then the next step of re- reviting the mud ring. The train will be for invited guests and VIPs and no tickets will be sold. The celebration at the depot will be free and open to the public and The remainder of the old firebox sheet has been removed and the additional events will be announced for that weekend, Virginia Museum mud ring inside was welded and grounded down. of Transportation officials say. May 30 is significant because it is 65 years and one day after the engine entered service, and one year after its Great news! The crack check was completed on the wrapper sheet appearance at the Streamliners at Spencer festival, kicking off the and everything passed. There were a few minor repairs that the Photo; Alex Mayes restoration at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer. No. 611 on a 1993 excursion near Arrowhead, Va. developer revealed when it The first opportunity for the public to ride behind No. 611 will come the following weekend with excursions between Manassas and was applied to the penetrant Riverton Junction, a 102-mile roundtrip on former Southern Railway tracks. A morning trip will take place June 6 and both morning and (the pink dye). afternoon trips will take place June 7. This takes place during the 21st annual Manassas Heritage Railway Festival. The following weekend, June 13 and 14, the engine will pull 260-mile round trip excursions between Lynchburg and Petersburg. Things will be kicking up here Independence Day weekend will see No. 611 running July 3, 4, and 5 from its hometown. Each day it will pull morning trips from Roanoke to Lynchburg, a 98-mile roundtrip, and each afternoon it will pull a 42-mile roundtrip to Walton and back. The afternoon trips in Bryson City as well! On send the locomotive across famed Christiansburg grade. Monday April 6 - crews officially broke ground for the Donors to the Fire Up 611! Campaign will receive ticket ordering information by mail and tickets will go on sale to the general public instillation of the Turn Table! The heavy work will begin this coming Thursday when the May 6. More information will be available soon at: www.fireup611.org. pile driving begins. Stay tuned for photos and the latest information on that!

Last week, restoration crews insulated the locomotive’s massive, 300 psi boiler. Jacketing and painting are to come next. A test fire to test appliances will precede test runs.

The Class J locomotive was built at Roanoke in 1950 as one of 14. It operated in revenue service until 1959. No. 611 was placed on display in Roanoke’s Wasena Park, was restored in 1981, and began a second career pulling excursions in 1982. That ended in 1994 and the current Fire Up 611! campaign is responsible for the locomotive’s 2015 return to service.

The Virginia Museum of Transportation launched a study on the 611’s restoration in 2013 and concluded that $3.5 million was needed to restore, operate, and house the locomotive and another $1.5 million would be needed for an endowment. Contributions to date have totaled more than $3 million from across the U.S. and 19 countries. The museum continues to raise funds for an on-campus shop and education facility, and hopes to break ground on the building in summer 2015.

Donations to the Fire Up 611! Campaign can be made through www.fireup611.org.

Trains Magazine will cover No. 611 with its live streaming webcam, a feature in the August issue, and a special 76-page magazine, 611 in Steam and a companion DVD by the same name, available in July and October, respectively. From ‘GSMR, 4-7-15.

From ‘Trains, 4-15-15' 10 PIEDMONT CAROLINAS CHAPTER NRHS MAY 2015 11 PIEDMONT CAROLINAS CHAPTER NRHS MAY 2015 OFFICERS FOR 2015, PIEDMONT CAROLINAS CHAPTER, INC. NRHS NCDOT and Iowa Pacific Holdings Agree in

ELECTED: Principle to an Operation Agreement for Piedmont PRESIDENT JIM McBRYDE VICE PRESIDENT VIRGIL HURLEY and Northern Railway Line in Gaston County SECRETARY LINDSAY ABEE TREASURER GERALD ROBINSON fter a competitive solicitation for proposals to operate the state-owned Piedmont & Northern railroad line between Gastonia HISTORIAN DARRELL WILSON MEMBERSHIP CHAIR JIM GREGORY and Mt. Holly, the A BOARD OF DIRECTORS: N.C. Department of Transportation has selected Piedmont Railway, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Iowa Pacific Holdings, VIRGIL HURLEY GERALD ROBINSON LLC, as the best candidate to operate the rail line. JIM GREGORY JOHN GREEN LINDSAY C. ABEE JIM McBRYDE NCDOT and Iowa Pacific Holdings/Piedmont Railway have now agreed in principle to a lease agreement for rail service on NCDOT’s Piedmont & Northern (P&N) rail corridor in Gaston County. Execution of the agreement is dependent on NCDOT board approval at its May 7 meeting. Under the terms of the agreement, Iowa Pacific’s Piedmont Railway subsidiary will operate, maintain and market freight service on the line. In addition, the railroad will have the opportunity to provide passenger rail services including excursion, tourist, dinner trains and holiday season trains. Located about 20 miles west of Charlotte, the P&N 13-mile corridor North Carolina Transportation Museum acquires extends from Mount Holly to Gastonia with a short branch line towards Belmont. The rail line has strategic interchanges with Class I railroads trolley Norfolk Southern at Gastonia and CSX Transportation at Mount Holly. he North Carolina Transportation Museum has acquired Charlotte Electric “The Rail Division has worked very closely with Gaston County to select Railway Company Trolley No. 1, a red and cream colored trolley car the best operator for this line”, said NCDOT Rail Director Paul Worley. Tpreviously used in Charlotte during special events. The trolley, built in “We look forward to this opportunity to improve freight service along the 1914, arrived at the museum on Monday. It will be displayed during special railroad to support new and existing economic development and job events until it can be restored to operating condition for use at the creation opportunities.” museum.

The Electric United Car Company streetcar was originally used in Athens, The P&N rail corridor was built in 1911, and its owner CSX proposed itfor abandonment in the late 1980’s along with a number of Greece, in the early 20th century, serving the port city of Piraeus. In later years, the trolley was converted into a track maintenance car for the Athens Metro other corridors in North Carolina. NCDOT purchased the P&N right-of-way and track materials, along with several other rail Subway. The trolley remained in maintenance service until 1986 when it was corridors, to preserve for future transportation purposes. The rail line has been operational and under lease to Patriot Rail since transported to Charlotte for use on a proposed streetcar line. After restoration by November 2010. a collaboration of Charlotte-area groups, the car was renumbered to No. 1 to signify the first of many proposed streetcar restorations in the Queen City. NCDOT and Iowa Pacific will work closely with the Gaston County Board of Commissioners and the Gaston County Economic Development Commission to build on the customer base. There are presently two customers on the rail line. Charlotte Trolley No. 1 is offloaded into the shop at the The trolley will be on display in Spencer at the railroad’s upcoming National North Carolina Transportation Museum. Photo: NCTM Tracy Philbeck, Chairman of the Gaston County Board of Commissioners, offered, “This is an exciting time in Gaston County and Train Day events on May 9. I am happy to welcome Iowa Pacific Holdings/Piedmont Railway, LLC as the operator for the P&N Rail Line. Vice Chairman Joe From ‘Trains, 3-24-15' Carpenter and I have enjoyed working with the NCDOT Rail Division on this venture and I believe this partnership could have a positive impact on economic development and travel and tourism opportunities in Gaston County.” The Piedmont Flyer is published monthly by the Piedmont Carolinas Chapter, Inc., an affiliate of the National Railway Historical Society. The views presented herein are those of the contributors and are not necessarily those Iowa Pacific Holdings’ management team is led by Ed Ellis, its founder and president. Ellis said “We are genuinely excited by this of the Chapter or the NRHS. Permission for use of information or quotations from this publication is granted opportunity, and we are looking forward to working with NCDOT, Gaston County, the Economic Development Commission, and provided proper credit is given. Subscriptions for non-members are $15 per year, payable to the Piedmont local companies to transition P&N into a vital component of the Gaston County economic landscape.” Carolinas Chapter, P.O. Box 11753, Charlotte, NC 28220-1753. Contributions and exchange newsletter are welcome and must be sent to the Editor’s address listed below. From ‘NCDOT News Release, 4-22-15' EDITOR: Edwin C. Locklin, 10812 Balbriggan Court, Charlotte, NC 28262

CONTRIBUTORS:Jim McBryde, Virgil Hurley, Jim Gregory, Neil Moran, The News & Observer, GSMR, NCDOT and Trains. DEADLINE FOR JUNE ISSUE: May 24, 2015.

12 PIEDMONT CAROLINAS CHAPTER NRHS MAY 2015 POTOMAC RAIL NEWS POTOMAC CHAPTER, NATIONAL RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY CELEBRATING 45 YEARS (1970 - 2015) P.O. BOX 235, KENSINGTON, MARYLAND 20895-0235 APRIL 2015

ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S FUNERAL TRAIN. On the evening of April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was assassinated while attending a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. Pictured above is a replica of Lincoln’s Funeral Train that was carved in ebony and ivory by Master Carver Ernest “Mooney” Warther in Dover, OH, when he was 80 years old. See page 2 for more details. Photo by: Clay Moritz October 22, 2011

PROGRAM: “London Calling.” Bill Holdsworth takes a look at British railroading, with a focus on the capital city. Along with photos from his numerous trips to Britain over the years, will be a description of the diverse operations that have evolved over the years, with electric and diesel passenger trains, freight, and even a touch of steam.

MEETING: April 21, 2015. 8PM. Lobby Level Auditorium of the Montgomery County Executive Office Building, 101 Monroe Street, Rockville, MD.

NEXT MEETING DATE: May 19, 2015

DEADLINE FOR MAY ISSUE: April 24, 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 APRIL 2015 PAGE 2 OF 8 POTOMAC RAIL NEWS APRIL 2015 PAGE 3 OF 8

THE CHAPTER FAMILY the first time in 20 years. “Today, the Fire Up 611! Mechanical Crew, led by If you know of a Chapter Member who is sick, has lost a loved one, or has a Scott Lindsay of Steam Operations Corporation, pulled the Class J 611 out of the roundhouse to conduct a test fire.” A collection of pictures from the March 31 new birth in the family, please call the Chapter on (301) 251-9461. test fire is posted on www.fireup611.org along with a video clip.

THE POTOMAC CHAPTER EXTENDS its Best Wishes to Chapter Member Bob Newton and FUTURE OPERATING STATUS OF WILLIAM MASON. The following on-line post gives the Laura Franz, daughter of Chapter Member Carl Franz, who are both battling serious current status of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s Class F 4-4-0 No. 25 William health issues. Please keep Bob and Laura and their families in your Thoughts and Mason, which was built in 1856, rebuilt in 1927, and constructed by the Mason Prayers. Please also keep our Membership Agent and National Representative, Rick Machine Works Company. The Civil War era William Mason was pictured on the front Davidson in your Thoughts and Prayers while he is recovering at home after recent cover of last month’s PRN. surgery. “To all, I’ve received several calls within the past couple of weeks asking about the condition of the Mason and whether it will return to the museum’s site THIS MONTH’S COVER PHOTO. Mooney Warther was born in 1885 and lived for 84 years. in operable condition. The last call was from a visitor who said he was told 3 He carved the Lincoln Funeral different stories relating to its condition ranging from it’s being used for a Train, which was his last movie, to needs a crown sheet, and my favorite, it’s being rented to another completed train, at the age of organization for operations. 80. In the last car Lincoln can I am writing to update you on its status: be seen lying in his casket and The status is as follows: The Mason is receiving a cosmetic restoration and on the inside of the read door of will not be returned to operating condition, at this time, due to the costs the car, a large key hangs from a associated with needing a new crown sheet. During our efforts to re-tube the hoop ring hung on the door locomotive, it was determined that the crown sheet of the locomotive needed to be handle. Today, the Warther replaced and we could not operate at any pressure given the defects in the Family operates the Warther thickness of the existing crown sheet. During its refurbishment for the Wild, Carving Museum in Mooney’s honor Wild West movie there was some discussion on the crown sheet; however, it was not with family members conducting replaced at the time. At this point, the staff at the shop does not have the daily tours of the museum. necessary requirements (ability to weld on and certify boiler repairs) to weld a During his carving years, Mooney new crown sheet in place. The certifications necessary to weld and certify carved the history of steam boilers are very expensive and cost prohibitive for the amount of work we locomotives, which is on display actually do on the boilers. Efforts to get estimates for this work on such a at the museum. Dover is located in eastern Ohio off of I-77 north of I-70. For unique piece produced financial numbers that were incredibly high because the more information on the museum visit www.warthers.com Photo by: Clay Moritz work cannot be done on-site and would amount to over $200K to fabricate, modify, and reinstall crown sheet, cost to move locomotive off-site and back on-site, re- NEWS FROM NATIONAL ABOUT RECEIVING MAIL. Effective Monday, March 30, 2015, the tube, put back together, and paint (this over and above funds already used in the NRHS transferred its business operations from Fernley & Fernley. That contractor project and does not include any labor necessary to prepare the locomotive for will no longer have any further responsibilities for updating and maintaining the the move). membership data base, nor will they have anything to do with NRHS finance This figure is very high in comparison to the actual amount of time the operations. Please discontinue sending anything of any sort to Fernley & mason is used (two days a year), the number of days it takes to prepare and clean Fernley. The new NRHS National office is shared with the Delaware Valley the locomotive after use, the number of passengers it can carry (0), and the Association of Railroad Passengers, which is located at 1601 Walnut St., Suite amount of time necessary to do annual inspection on the locomotive every year. 1129 in Philadelphia, 19102-2933. The office will be staffed with volunteers on Therefore, the decision has been made to cosmetically restore the locomotive Wednesday's to handle correspondence, member records, and other duties. The to a more period correct color scheme and leave the tubes out. This does not NRHS will receive mail from the USPS at the following address: National Railway preclude the locomotive from becoming operable again should funding become Historical Society, c/o John K. Fiorilla, Esq., Capehart & Scatchard, Inc., P.A., available again. Repainting the locomotive will begin upon the completion of the P. O. Box 5016, Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054-5016. The NRHS telephone number remains Davis, which should be complete no later than May 1. 215-557-6606. The FAX machine has been disconnected and the FAX telephone number I understand the disappointment some of you may feel; however, I remain has been discontinued. E-mail addresses, Facebook page, and web site will remain hopeful that it will be returned to service in the future. unchanged. Please discontinue sending anything to Fernley & Fernley, and please If you have any questions or would like further clarification, please stop do not call them for any reason to better ease our transition away from them. by my office and I will be more than happy to discuss with anyone interested in More details about future operations will be forthcoming throughout the next this. Best wishes, Dave several months. Dave Shackelford, Chief Curator, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum; Director, Mount Clare Museum House, Office Line: 410-752-2462, ext. 215, Cell Phone: RAIL NEWS 410-215-1093, Fax: 410-752-2499 WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH MOUNTAIN THUNDER, 734? 2015 Farewell (for now) 734! Steam FIRE AND STEAM: FIRST TIME IN 20 YEARS! An on-line, March 31, 2015, post by the locomotives are complex pieces of machinery. Their sounds and smells fascinate Fire Up 611! Team announced that The N&W Class J 611 has a fire in her belly for

POTOMAC RAIL NEWS APRIL 2015 PAGE 4 OF 8 POTOMAC RAIL NEWS APRIL 2015 PAGE 5 OF 8 us, and because their moving parts are visible for all to see, we marvel at how He not only tabled the planned opening date in January, but he left open the they work. They represent an era of fine technology, and keeping such old possibility that the troubled streetcar was beyond saving. “I’m looking at this machines operating in the 21st century takes hard work, patience and skill. very objectively, and I’m letting the facts lead me to the right recommendation,” Just as an automobile requires inspections at certain mileage intervals, so Dormsjo said in March. “We’re taking a look at the system, where it stands, do steam locomotives, except their inspections are based on service days, not whether it’s safe, whether it’s ready to be opened, and we’ll move on from mileage. For steam locomotives, those service intervals are daily, 31-day, 92- there,” he said. DDOT has not projected a start date when service could begin. day, annual, 5th annual, and the "big one" - the 1,472-day inspection. These The City has already spent almost $200 million on the streetcar project. (WTOP inspection intervals are Federally mandated by the Federal Railroad Radio) Administration (FRA). We could not legally operate our steam locomotive if these inspections were not performed. EVENTS The most comprehensive inspection of all is the one performed after 1,472 service days or 15 years, whichever comes first (commonly referred to as "the Old Dominion Division RRE Meeting. April 16, 2015, 8:00 PM. James Madison High School, 1472"). This inspection requires an almost complete disassembly of the 2500 James Madison Drive, Vienna, VA, in Room 110; Closest entrance to Room 110 is locomotive so that every nut and bolt (literally) can be checked. The 1472 is a Entrance No. 1. Pre-meeting dinner at 6:30 at the Amphora Restaurant, 377 West Maple huge undertaking, especially for a small scenic railroad like ours. Avenue, Vienna. To reach the school: From Amphora Restaurant go south two blocks on West While the inspection takes place, we must also tend to the needs of our Maple Avenue to James Madison Drive and turn right. School is at the end of this street. other locomotives, cabooses and coaches. Fortunately, we will not be without a Program: Memories of the Lehigh Valley Railroad – Two commercially produced films steam engine while 734 is out of service. In May 2014, we acquired Chesapeake & featuring Lehigh Valley mainline and branchline operations will be shown. This presentation is a continuation of the Lehigh Valley RR films shown at the January meeting. Ohio 1309 from the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum. C&O 1309 was the last steam The Lehigh Valley RR was one of several railroads in the Northeast constructed mainly for locomotive built by Baldwin Locomotive Works for a domestic railroad. Once the transportation of anthracite coal from central Pennsylvania to markets to the north restored, it will be the largest articulated steam locomotive in regular and east. Due to the steep decline in the use of anthracite, the Lehigh Valley RR filed operation in the U.S. for bankruptcy in June 1970, and its properties were absorbed by Conrail in April 1976. After 2015, Mountain Thunder will be out of service indefinitely. We hope Following this action, most track west of Van Etten Junction, New York, was considered you'll join us to give 734 a great season and send-off! (Posted on www.wmsr.com) redundant and abandoned. Many thanks to Dave Bieritz for providing this program.

NIGHT PHOTO SESSION TO BENEFIT C&O NO. 1309. April 17 2015. Thanks to a collaborative APTA PEER REVIEW FINDS D.C. STREETCAR CAN OPEN. The District Department of effort between Chase Gunnoe Photography, the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad, and the th Transportation (DDOT) announced on March 20 the findings of a letter from the WMSR Foundation, proceeds from a night photo session on Friday, April 17, 2015, will be American Public Transportation Association (APTA), which conducted a peer review applied toward the restoration efforts of Chesapeake & Ohio 2-6-6-2 No. 1309 at the of the H Street/Benning Road Streetcar system. The peer review panel concluded Western Maryland Scenic Railroad. 50% of the funds generated by ticket sales to the night that there are no fatal flaws that would prevent the D.C. Streetcar from starting photo session will be given to the WMSR Foundation for parts needed to return the historic revenue service on the H Street/Benning Road corridor. A draft report is due to Mallet to steam, scheduled for the railroad's 2016 season. The three hour night photo be delivered in mid-April. The APTA peer review panel provided a list of tasks session scheduled from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM on Friday, April 17, 2015, will feature the railroad's diesel equipment along with WMSR 2-8-0 No. 734, which will be operating its for DDOT to complete prior to launch. These include providing additional last season in 2015 before going down for an extensive overhaul. The night photo session training for maintenance staff, reviewing operations and maintenance procedures, will be hosted at the railroad's Ridgeley Shops, across the river from Cumberland and will and augmenting DDOT staff with personnel experienced in streetcar operations. As feature several static and abstract photo opportunities using both ambient and flash such, DDOT is currently conducting workshops and analyses to establish a master lighting. The three hour night photo is valued at $50.00 and tickets can be purchased by schedule that will guide the agency toward completion of the peer review panel’s calling Chase Gunnoe at 304-553-9409 or email at: [email protected] recommendations prior to opening the H Street/Benning Road Streetcar system to the public. DDOT is also currently undertaking maintenance and repairs to the ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE FINAL JOURNEY TO BALTIMORE. April 18 & 19, 2015. Lincoln Funeral Train Funeral Cortege Re-enactment begins at 11:30am each day, Federal City Brass Band system, including rail breaks and water drainage mitigation. This work requires performs 11am-1pm each day. Exhibit Opening The War Came By Train 1865. that simulated service temporarily cease along the corridor. (DDOT Press Release) The B&O Railroad Museum is commemorating the 150TH Anniversary of Lincoln's Funeral Train with the following event: For one weekend only, April 18 & 19, 2015, commemorative D.C. BUDGET REVIVES STREETCAR. The delayed and troubled D.C. Streetcar was at events are planned including scheduled reenactments of Lincoln's funeral cortege and risk of being mothballed as recently as last month but now the Bowser placing of the coffin in the center of the Museum's National Historic Landmark Roundhouse. Administration has reversed course and is talking about expanding the project. Visitors will be able to "view" the martyred President in an authentic reproduction of his While unveiling her budget on April 2nd , Mayor Muriel Bowser announced another casket. Civil War soldier and civilian re-enactors will participate in the solemn ceremonies and researched authentic funeral music will be provided by the Federal City $335 million, which would more than double how much the City has already spent on Brass Band. The Museum's 1863 locomotive "Thatcher Perkins" will accompany the ceremony the project, to get the streetcar line up and running and to extend the line to and be decorated exactly like the Lincoln Funeral Train and will remain on exhibit the Benning Road Metro station in Ward 7. “I don’t think anybody thinks that the throughout the remainder of 2015. Each ceremony will be narrated by noted author and line should stop in the middle of Benning Road,” she says. “Certainly not me.” guest curator Daniel Carroll Toomey. Times for the formal narrated commemoration will Bowser also suggested a future extension west toward Georgetown. Her vision, take place April 18 & 19 at 11:30am. Visitors may view the casket, exhibits and interact however, is considerably more modest than the 37-mile network of streetcar lines with soldier and civilian mourners throughout the day. Special artifacts in the Alex. her predecessor, Vincent Gray, imagined. Brown & Sons Exhibition Gallery will include an exact reproduction of the overcoat Lincoln wore on the night of his assassination, a hand-made scale model of the Lincoln Funeral Car After the Bowser Administration assumed office in January, new Department of and Civil War veteran's ribbons and uniforms. For admission prices visit www.borail.org Transportation Director Leif Dormsjo raised serious doubts about the project. 901 West Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21223 410-752-2490 email: [email protected] (Source: POTOMAC RAIL NEWS APRIL 2015 PAGE 6 OF 8 POTOMAC RAIL NEWS APRIL 2015 PAGE 7 OF 8

Charlie Plantholt, Editor, The Interchange Baltimore Chapter, NRHS) Photos by: Alex Mayes

CELEBRATING NATIONAL PRESERVATION MONTH. May 13 and 16, 2015. Two programs in celebration of National Preservation Month co-sponsored by The Friends of Handley Regional Library and Preservation of Historic Winchester (VA), will be held on: Chapter Treasurer Jay Wednesday, May 13: "Slow Train to Yesterday: Memories of the Railroad in the Blue Creswell, on the left, Ridge Mountains"--A showing of the documentary film with opening remarks by Mason Cooper congratulates President of the Winchester Chapter of the NRHS Departure time: 6:30 pm and Gordy Bjoraker on Saturday, May 16: "Progress and Preservation: Images and History of Architecture and receiving his 25-Year Industry along Winchester's Railroads"--Lectures by Bob Cohen, author of "A Trip by Rail in the Shenandoah Valley on the B&O Railroad and the Southern Railway," and Sandra Bosley, Pin and Certificate in Executive Assistant, Preservation of Historic Winchester. Includes a separate children's recognition of his program suitable for grades 2-5 Departure time: 2:00 pm. continuous membership in Both trains depart from the Handley Library Auditorium, corner of Braddock and the NHRS. Piccadilly Streets, Winchester, VA. For information or directions, call the Friends at (540) 662-9041, ext. 31 or email: [email protected]

POTOMAC CHAPTER’S 2015 BANQUET

By: Clay Moritz

On March 28, 2015, forty-three attendees gathered at the Golden Bull Grand Café in Rockville, MD, for our Annual Potomac Chapter Banquet. The Golden Bull prepared a tasty evening for us with our choice of Prime Rib, Grilled Salmon, or Chicken Marsala, accompanying our entrée was the Golden Bull’s noted Salad Bar, Left: Guest speaker John Hankey makes his along with Potato & Seasonal Vegetables, Chocolate Mousse, and Tea, Coffee, or opening remarks as he begins to lead us Soft Drink. back over 150 years to examine the role President Gordy Bjoraker presided with opening remarks and an invocation that railroads played in the conflict between the North and the South during the given by Clay Moritz. Civil War right up to the conclusion in Preceding our meal, Jay Creswell presented Chapter President Gordy Bjoraker April 1865 of America’s First Railroad with his 25-Year Pin and accompanying certificate recognizing his 25-years of War. continuous membership in the NRHS. Though not present at the banquet, Chapter members Tim Moriarty and Warren Schor were also recognized for achieving 25-Years Below left: Phil Bush and Wes Vernon and 60-Years of continuous membership in the NRHS during 2015. Their pins peruse the donated door prizes. certificates will be presented to them separately. After the ceremony, we began, table-by-table, being invited to join the Below right: Attendees mingle towards the Golden Bull’s salad bar line and, after an appropriate interval, service of our end the social hour and await the opening remarks. entrées began. Immediately after our banquet meal, our guest speaker, John Hankey, was introduced and proceeded to thoroughly entertain us with the role the railroads of the North and South played in the various Civil War campaigns and its ultimate outcome. Accompanying his lecture were an interesting selection of photo images of the railroads of the North and the South, including the destruction of the railroad facilities and equipment during the War. John concluded with a Q and A session, after which Bill Holdsworth announced the winners to come forward to choose one of the donated door prizes. There were several tables of prizes to choose from thanks to the generosity of our members and friends. We owe a BIG THANK YOU TO Jay Creswell, Carl Franz, and John Sery who made the arrangements for our banquet; Bill Holdsworth for handling the drawing of door prizes; and Alex Mayes for arranging for our guest speaker as well as serving as our banquet photographer. Bill Holdsworth also managed the publicity of our banquet on the Chapter’s website as well as handling the processing of online banquet reservations. Thanks also to all who assisted Jay in ensuring the banquet was a great success and to everyone who donated door prizes and to all those who attended. I, for one, am looking forward to next year’s banquet.

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POTOMAC RAIL NEWS is published monthly by the Potomac Chapter, National Railway Historical Society, Inc., P.O. Box 235, Kensington, Maryland 20895-0235 Phone: (301) 251-9461; Website: www.trainweb.org/PotomacNRHS/

* * * * * Potomac Chapter Officers: President...... Gordy Bjoraker (301) 577-5061 Vice-President...... Marc Laborde Secretary...... Bill Holdsworth (301) 762-9376 Treasurer...... Jay Creswell (703) 255-3258 Directors...... Jerry Hott, John Sery, Carl Franz, Gordon Piscacek National Representative.....Rick Davidson (703) 768-2831 Membership...... Rick Davidson (703) 768-2831 Historian...... Bob Cohen (301) 424-3228 Editor, PRN...... Clay Moritz (301) 933-3618 Activity Committee: John Morris (301) 946-8266 Program Committee: Jerry Hott, Alex Mayes, John Sery

Contributors: Alex Mayes, Glenn Orletsky, Ray Saunders

POTOMAC CHAPTER, NRHS P.O. BOX 235 KENSINGTON, MD. 20895-0235

CELEBRATING OUR 45TH YEAR! 1970 -2015

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