WP Mileposts July 1960
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WESTERN PACIFIC M~!~p,~Sfs ilepoSls Our ID&RE department is bringing us Volume XI, No . 12 JULY, 1960 ' Mileposi No . 132 Department of Pu blic Relations More Customers WESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD SACRAMENTO NORTHERN RY . TIDEWATER SOUTHER N RY. 526 Mission Street San Francisco 5, California function vital to the success of any Pacific did not have the advantage of Lee "Flash " Sherwood. Editor A A. l. Lloyd . Associate Editor railroad is locating industries on large land grants when its line was its property. Without industries, a rail laid in the early 1900's. WP has had to road is as helpless as a freigh t train acquire its land holdings the hard way. without an engine. Foresight, cooperation and hard work Fortunately, Western Pacific and its have paid off. So, too, Stratton admits, subsidiaries- Sacramento Northern has a little luck! and Tidewater Southern-are ideally During the past ten years the rail • Milepost No. 132: located in areas which promise a great road has invested some $11.5 million Behind 5i.gn, in clear for industrial growth. To back up this in over 4,500 acres of choice industrial California Zephyr, is property. T otal property purchases roadway machine being physical advantage, the railroad has last year amounted to $756,000 for 114 used by section forces a progressive IndustriaL DeveLopment workin.g on tracies. acres of industrial land. Admittedly, and Real Estate department. F. B. some $334,000 was spent for the de FEA T U RE S Stratton is director, and he is assisted velopment of industrial property and Page by a capable staff determined to give industrial trackage, and $431,000 was The Tooele Valley Local Leaves Western Phosphates, Inc., prospective customers the best possi applied to the reduction of outstanding Spur Near Garfield, Utah, with Cut of Cars ................. .. ... Front Cover ble space for an industrial site. They've loans. More Customers ........ .................................... .......................................... 3 developed a reputation for being nice On the eastern end of our railroad people with whom to do business. New Diesel Facilities to be Built at Stockton................................................. .......... 10 WP is acquiring 143 acres of property Unlike some other lines, Western about five miles west of Salt Lake City How We're Doing............................................................................................................. 11 for future development. Already es Railroad Delegation Touring in Russia .... 13 F. B. Slra"on, who tablished on our line further west in Railroad Exhibit Seen by Many....... 14 heads the railroad's Utah are, for example, such good cus Induslrial Development tomers as Marblehead Lime, Leslie Deal' Editor: ................................................................. .. ................................ 16 & Real Eslale depart Salt, Utah Calcium, Utah Lime & Stone Mileposts in Gold ____ ... __ . ____ .___ .... ____ ........... ________________ ..... _.- ---- ---- --- -_.-- -.. -- --.. --.-----.- 18 ment, is considered by (subsidiary of Flintkote Co.), Solar many 10 be one of Ihe In Memoriam ........ .. 19 Salt, Bonneville, Ltd., and Western lop induslrial developers Phosphates. Stratton is enthusiastic 20 in the nation. He has Caboosing ............ .. about the possibilities on the eastern .. ..................................... .................. 30 been locating industries Sports .............................. on Ihe railroad for end of the railroad. "As an area be Railroad Lines .. .......................................... Back Cover 14 of his 38 years comes developed, firms locating there with th .. company. (Continued on Page 5) ~ 7 2 MILEP OSTS JU LY, 1960 3 \ o · \· :=c: \ · /t 'l, ~. - - - I · One of th e newest in dustries to locate on the railroad is the Inland Steel Company plant ID In April, the railroad bought 35 acres ° 1 eated on th e San Jo se branch near Irvington. on Whipple Road, Union City, just · below Hayward. will attract others, and growth is only I a matter of time. A good example, he "All of the railroad's land acquisi · mentioned, is the growth which de tion activities have been in or near ./ veloped after the Ford Motor Company urban areas," explained Stratton. I ./ located on our San Jose branch. This "There, growth has been most rapid. · > was also true in other industrial areas Tract 1, for example, is in San Fran ---l along the railroad," he added. cisco. The other 17 tracts and develop A new development is under way on ments are located along the main line · L1..1 the Sacramento Northern near Dozier between Oakland and Sacramento on our San Jose and Reno branch li~ es I in Solano County, where the railroad · recently acquired 613 acres. About and on the Sacramento Northern and one mile south of this area Champion Tidewater Southern Lines." L Paper Company has purchased 1,400 During 1959 Western Pacific and its I subsidiaries sold to industries locating , / acres for location of a $30 million pulp o · and paper plant. Trojan Powder Com on our rails some 212 acres of land / "\ pany has also bought land further I south. Both are adjacent to SN rails. Western Pa ci fi c has been serving this new Armco · ~ Drainage & M eta l Products plant near Livermore r------- ....::-_""""::l:':::;o::- __,....; ._in.. c;:. e ...it~ fi rs t opened in February of this yea r ................_ 1 a: ; ~ c .I o .I I____ ________~~--~~ --~ railroads to invest substantially in in Western Pacific are going to 'explode' dustrial research. A series of studies in the next few years." This could well were sponsored at Stanford Research be, for when Sam W. Fordyce, assist Insti tu te to develop comprehensi ve ant to the director of WP's ID&RE data on areas served by our line. This department, called on some 50 execu Another new tndustry resulted in a series of industrial plant tives of large eastern firms, all but four served by the railroad is this U. S. Gypsum location data sheets which contained said that they would eventually ex Company warehouse analyses of growth factors pertaining pand into the West. on properly just be to each. "Bert" Stratton is considered by hind W p i S Fremont A railroader isn't often up in the air, many as one of the top industrial de stati.on. but "Bert" Stratton has made good velopers in the nation. He served in use of a helicopter on occasion to give 1959 as president of the American prospective buyers a bird's- eye- view Railway Development Association. In of what the railroad has to offer. Fol 1956 he was selected by the govern lowed up by an on-the- ground inspec ment as chairman of a three-man com tion, this modern approach has paid off. mittee to study the industrial policies amounting to about $1,690,000. During Pabrico; Baker Steel & Tube at San of the Alaska Railroad. He has 38 the year 33 new industries were lo Francisco; Mohawk Rubber at Stock T is for these and other sound rea years of service with the company, cated on our railroad, and 22 others ton; Cheney Lumber at Greenville; I sons that Industrial Development, and has headed WP's industrial activi expanded their existing operations. To National Biscuit at Oakland; and leading industrial trade magazine, ties since 1946. mention a few-Sun Garden Packing, others. WP also added a new team chose Western Pacific for the subject The department has two assistants U. S. Products, and Economics Lab track at Elverta (near North Sacra of its first comprehensive report on a to the director-Sam W. Fordyce and oratory at San Jose; Armco Drainage mento), and improved four other railroad land development department. Spencer S. Gilman. Fordyce has an & Metal Products at Livermore; C. A. teams, one at Hayward, one at San The report appeared in the February, extensive background in development Rolley (Sea & Ski) and Zellerbach Jose, and two at suburban Sacramento, 1960, issue of that national magazine, at Reno; Atlas Propane & Gas at to better serve our customers. and it was the opinion of I.D o's editor Economics Laboratory built this mode rn structure Panther, Nevada; American Forge at Western Pacific was one of the first that "several of the areas served by last year on property in the Lenfest Tract near San Jose. Our San Jose Bra nch serves the area, This modern building was just completed at West Sacramento by Van Waters & Rogers, Inc ., Braun-Knecht-Heiman Co. Division. Tank in background is thai of Standard Box Company. Both indus tries are served by Sacramento Northern. 6 MILEPOSTS JULY, 1960 7 Assistants to the Director of Industrial Development & Real Estate, Industrial Agent R. W. Harlan points out on Sam W. Fordyce, left, and Spencer S. Gilman, know the importance map for O. L. Hocker, assistant industrial agent, of a strong, progressive de velopment program as is applied by W P. proposed location for a new industrial site. Part of their duties requires workingl closely with activities including service with two supplemented by Helen Kuntz, indus other departments on th e rai lroad, such as engi other railroads, Kansas City Southern trial clerk, Ronald H . Short, secretary, neering, law, and marketing division. and the Louisiana and Arkansas, and and Bill Nix, stenographer-clerk. Edward P. Jaegels, general manager of Standard Realty & Development Company, gives careful with the Arkansas Power & Light Stratton is also president of the thought to a matter brought to his attention by Company. Gilman, formerly assistant Standard Realty & Development Com Arthur Bugn;, chief clerk of the department. transportation engineer in the rail pany, a Western Pacific subsidiary road's research and planning section, which works closely with but inde joined the department in May of this pendently of the ID&RE department. year. His background in economic Edward P. Jagels is general manager forecasting will fit in with the depart of SR&D and Arthur Bugni assists him ment's program of wide-range activi as chief clerk.