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Diesel Delights ... MILWAUKEE ROAD "SDL39" Nos. 582-590, OMI #5119 - Later becoming Soo Line nos. 6200-6208 and now Wisconsin Central nos. 582-590. Available custom painted for Milwaukee Road and Wisconsin Central. SOO "SD60M" Nos. 6058-6062 OMI #5199.1 Custom painted with a 20-inch minimum operating radius and IN STOCK NOW! OMI #5400 ATCHISON, TOPEKA & SANTA FE "Dash 8-40BW" Nos. 500-559 All of these fine models are exquisitely handcrafted in brass by Ajin Precision of Korea in HO scale. PACIFIC RAIL Fro m the H ear t 1 and to t heP a c i fie NEWS PACIFIC RAILNEWS and PACIFIC NEWS are regis tered trademarks of Interurban Press. a California Corporation. PUBLISHER: Mac Sebree North Dakota: Realm of the SD60M EDITOR: Don Gulbrandsen Burlington Northern's ex-Northern Pacific coal corridor NEWS EDITOR: Carl Swanson ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Michael E. 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CALIFORNIA-Dick Stephenson NORTH TEXAS-Dan Pope PACIFIC NORTHWEST-Steve Hart COVER: An eastbound loaded coal train from the Powder River Basin snakes its way through ST. LOUIS-Scott Muskopf and Paul Fries the impressive double S-curve in the North Dakota Badlands near Sully Springs on August 9, SOUTH TEXA5-Carl M. Lehman 1991. Coal provides the bulk of the business on BN's ex-Northern Pacific Dakota Division main TWIN CITIES-Steve Glischinski line which is also home to the railroad's newest motive power, the SD60M. Number 9259 shows WASATCH FRONT-Dave Gayer the second variation of SD60Ms that BN has received in the past two years. Tom Danneman PACIFIC RAILNews • 3 The traditional dark yellow has returned to the North Western with the latest order of C40-8s. Recently delivered 8547 is shown with an eastbound coal train at West Chicago, III., on Aug. 11, 1991, being inter changed to the EJ&E. The trailing unit wearing Pentone Ye llow is the Wyoming Centennial Dash 8 8542. It is notable that the new GEs are being equipped with the required cab signaling and ATC to allow them to be in the lead position on the east-west main. Charles Streetman HIGHLINE FOR SALE? With were injured. The railroad said UP would reduce the num the reopening of the combined speed recorders on the locomo ber of job cutbacks if the rail Union Pacific and Burlington tives showed that both trains road meets a projected 25 per Northern "Highline" to through were traveling less than the 49 cent gain in traffic over the traffic projected for some time mph track speed at the time of next five years. Eliminations, in early October, the PRN staff the collision. All nine of the lo mainly through reduced train has been able to confirm that comotives involved derailed, crew size, would occur if traf z there are ongoing sale negotia along with 16 cars of the fic remains at current levels. z tions involving UP, BN and an southbound train and 15 on Officials said the restructuring unspecified shortline operator the northbound train. program is designed to contin active in California concerning ue the railroad's growth and the 203 miles of railroad from UP EYES MAJOR DOWN-SIZ profitability and is not a sign of financial problems. In fact, Klamath Falls, Ore., to Keddie, ING: Union Pacific has an UP enjoyed its busiest day in Calif. According to sources, UP nounced that it hopes to sell history on Aug. 23 when it and BN will continue to operate more than 7,000 miles of track hauled 16,540 carloads, and this line for at least the next age to shortline operators over set a new monthly carloading year. It is expected that negoti the next four or five years. And record in August. Wall Street ations and regulatory hearings UP will seek is to reduce labor analysts agreed, saying that will delay any possible costs by $300 million per year; the company was planning takeover of the Highline by a 3,500 to 4,000 jobs will be elimi for the future. new operator until mid-1992. nated if the plan is successful. The move is part of a recently HEAD-ON TRAGEDY FOR BN: announced five-year cost cut CREW REDUCTIONS Two Burlington Northern ting program. UP also said it SOUGHT: Officials of the freight trains collided Aug. 30, will take a $745 million charge Burlington Northern railway four miles north of the north against third-quarter earnings and the United Transportation central Montana community of to downsize the railroad, with Union (UTU) have tentatively Ledger. Details of the accident much of the charge-$480 mil reached an agreement to re were incomplete at press time, lion-representing severance duce crew sizes on BN trains. but early reports indicated that and job protection pay for work Under the agreement, BN LLI three crewmen died and five ers affected by the downsizing. would operate most trains with 4 • OCTOBER 1991 an engineer, conductor and one or two brakemen, instead of the two or three brakemen cur rently used. UTU rank-and-file members have until Oct. 23 to vote on the agreement. C&WI BUYOUT?: Missouri Pa cific Railroad, a subsidiary of Union Pacific, is seeking full ownership of the Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad's 7.8- mile line and its Canal Street Team Yard in downtown Chicago. Currently, MoPac shares ownership of the C&WI with Conrail, Grand Trunk, Norfolk & Southern and CSX. If the Interstate Commerce Com mission approves the deal, MoPac would have exclusive use of the track and yard, which is located southeast of the intersection of Canal Street and Archer Avenue in Chicago. SP TROUBLES CONTINUE: On Aug. 23, the Environmental The new 218-mile Twin Cities & Western Railroad started operations on its ex-Soo trackage on July 27, Protection Agency ordered ten 1991. On Aug. 4, three of the company's seven GP10s lead an eastbound Glencoe-St. Paul train east of companies to immediately Cologne, Minn. Steve Glischinski clean up a massive under ground fuel leak from the Southern Pacific Pipeline tank was the only large operator to sented the 2nd Congressional BN, CN FORM PACT: Burling farm located near Sparks, Nev.