PACIFIC RAIL' NEWS OVER 60 ISSUES - ONLY $1.25 EACH! Issue Month Features Issue Month Features Issue Month Features 209 Mar79 California Baldwin Logging 248 Feb84 Winter in the Colo. Rockies 292 Mar 88 Kaiser's Eagle Mountain Mallets 250 June84 Light Rail in the West - PI. 1 CN's "Muskeg" Trains 210 Apr 79 PE Red Cars Remembered Morrison-Knudsen 1983 294 May 88 Super Bowl Super Trains Morrison-Knudsen 1978 251 Aug 84 SP's Tillamook Branch Eagles in the Canyon - UP 212 Jun 79 British Columbia Steam 253 Dec84 Light Rail in the West - PI. 4 298 Sep 88 Variety at Porteau Coor's Golden Brewery RR Cajon Pass Blue Shadows on the Rail 213 Jul79 The Utah Railway, Black 255 Feb85 Eureka So . Freight 316 Mar90 Alcos in the Ozarks Diamonds and Pinon Pine Ventura County Railway Burlington Northern at20 214 Aug 79 Stalking the Shortlines 258 May 85 Kaiser Iron Ore Trains Roll 317 Apr90 Farewell to the Canadian 215 Sep 79 Coal and the Railroads Morrison-Knudsen 1984 SP's Coos Bay Branch Plaster City's Narrow Gauge 259 Jun85 Santa Barbara Street RR 318 May90 We Don't Know 217 Nov79 PCC Cars of San Francisco 261 Aug 85 The North Coast Daylight UP's Sedalia Subdivision FMC The Custom Car Builder Santa Fe's Venta Spur 320 Jul90 Santa Fe's Warbonnets 219 Jan 80 C&NW Alcos in South Dakota 262 Sep 85 SP's Altamont Pass Line The Disappearing Rio Grande 220 Feb 80 Sierra RR Passenger 263 Oct 85 A Slice of the Santa Fe 321 Aug90 BN's Mississippi River Route Farewell SP in the Rio Stalking Locomotives at Ajo Feather River GP35 s Grande Valley 264 Nov85 Railroads Across the Divide 323 Oct 90 Railroading the Inland Empire 221 Mar 80 Weyerhaeuser Longview 267 Feb 86 UP's GP30s Fade Away 324 Nov 90 Gateway Western Logging 268 May86 In Search of the Electrics Oregon Timber Short Lines 222 Apr80 Morrison-Knudsen 1979 Rio Grande's Big Ten Curves 325 Dec90 UP/SP in Nevada Union Pacific Shows the Flag 273 Aug86 AT&SF Desert Centennials Kaiser Bulk Loading Facility 235 May81 Manitou & Pikes Peak San Diego Trolley 326 Jan 91 Eisenhower Centennial To Whittier, AK3 Times A Day 274 Sep86 Steam EXPO Album SP's Siskiyou Line 236 Jun 81 Morrison-Knudsen 1981 275 Oct 86 Morrison-Knudsen1985 327 Feb91 Montana Rail Link Rise & Fall of SP's GE U5 0s 276 Nov86 C&NW Comes West Thebes Bridge 237 Jul81 Mt. 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MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE: For all subscription problems and inquiries call: (800) 899·8722 or outside U.S. (818) 240·9130 Two Burlington Northern officers won an award from the AAR for outstanding technological development in 1992 for BN's natural gas-fueled locomotive program, which is now in its 11th year. Here natural gas-fueled S040-2s 7890 and 7149, which was recently put on-line, and spliced by fuel tender BNGT 101, lead S060Ms 9298 and 9258 on an eastbound 026 coal train through Rowley, Mont., on Jan. 29, 1993. Kirk Petty BN ANNOUNCES HUGE LOCO­ a.c. locomotives. Individual rail­ but were stopped at the last MOTIVE ORDER: Burlington roads will negotiate directly minute by Dana Point officials, Northern has signed a letter of with the builders for acquisition who said that moving the de­ intent with General Motors to of the units that will be part of bris could cause more slippage acquire 350 new locomotives the test fleet. AAR, through its on the hillside. -a $520 million deal-that research and test department, Santa Fe officials were re­ may be the largest locomotive will get back into the picture portedly frustrated by the order in history. The units will when testing begins. work stoppage, but said the • be a.c.-powered, 4,000 h.p. Ten railroads have express­ railroad would comply with • SD70MACs. They will be deliv­ ed interest: Santa Fe, BC Rail, Dana Point's request. The San ered over the next several Burlington Northern, Chicago & Diegans were stopped in both years, allowing BN to retire as North Western, Comail, CSX, directions south of San Juan many as 600 locomotives as Kansas City Southern, Norfolk Capistrano, affecting as many the new power arrives. Southern and Union Pacific. The as 1,500 daily riders. Train rid­ BN moved quickly, hoping to manufacturers have to state ers who normally take the San to gain an advantage over UP their intent to bid on the loco­ Diegans from San Diego, Del and other competitors. In addi­ motives by Feb. 8, and individu­ Mar, Oceanside or San tion, EMD gave BN a "mission­ al railroads have to verify their Clemente found themselves ary rate" as the first railroad to part in the testing by March 8. taking the bus. The line re­ make a wholesale purchase of mained closed for a week be­ the new technology. What that SLIDES CLOSE SAN DIEGO fore service resumed. means, according to rail industry LINE: Heavy rains in Southern watchers, is that the next California have again played UP ANNOUNCES IDAHO SD70MAC buyers will pay havoc with that region's trans­ BRANCHLINE SALE: In mid­ around $2 million per locomotive.