IL-.l..A D'? \3'-\ Lj-~-O c./(U)1 DAVID S. DICERNESS COLLECTION UNION PACIFIC, DENVER & GULF 2-6-0 Number 59 crossing Bear Creek on the Morrison line, circa 1895 Sund.lnce Publiulions, lid., 1'J i 8 The old Union Pacific engine No.945, about 1920. - Walter Fisher. FRANK CLODFELTER calls this " my choice of the most handsome face of a freight locomotive on the Southern Railway." He recalls that for an extra-board fireman Asheville-based Ms-4 Mikado 4879 was an "ultimate assignment" after hand-firing 12 to 18 tons of coal aboard a Consolidation. The Ms-4 is remembered for having larger driving wheels than a Santa Fe, a hand-toned bootleg whistle, and a stoker fired boiler. Clodfelter recently ran the last trip of SR's Asheville Special behind green-and-gold E8's. Gerald M. Best. GERALD M. BEST, engine photographer extraordinaire, shot Tonopah & Tidewater 2-8-0 No.8 at Death Valley Junction, Calif., on November 3, 1940. The 1907 Baldwin worked as an 0-8-0 for Kaiser Steel during the war. l 1/ -" Union Pacific 3532 Union CHALLENGER 3938 leaves Boise, Ida., with the 18-car Pacific Limited on November 4, 1945, just about the time Author Satterfield was introduced to a 4-6-6-4 up the line at La Grande, Ore. Henry R. Griffiths Jr. U9 8444 4- 8- 4 · ~ - . . ~CO~lQ:1lNE..MI'1EIWi'Rt>8 &tA'SOARO " ROA"Of!'£ ft~~ CY~16~ ~ 4 ' .~. "'-~' ! . "" ..... 1 •• 'T PATPSON, t4£W ~R~e,'.Y. ISR., ThE> hllilcler of Tornado. Raleil!"h & Gaston'" lir"t loco- • I, .:.,) I MUSEUM-BOUND: Former Virginia' & Truckee 2-6-1 No. 13, Empire, is one of more than a dozen piece: of historical rail equipment owned by the Pacifi, Coast Chapter of R&LHS which have been restore( during the past 10 years by craftsmen at the San Fran cisco shipyard of Bethlehem Steel Corporation. Th. units are destined for display at a rail museum t. be built at Sacramento by the State of California The Empire, which came to the shipyard in 196 (above) after sitting outside for almost 30 years, wa restored in five months . Other pieces redone indud, V&T 2-4-0, J. W. Bowker; NWP 4- 6-0 112 and narrow gauge caboose 5591; and Pullman car St. Hyacinth. The 671 heads down the mainline with the Wabash's crack Banner Blue in the twenties. (Courtesy Wabash Railroad) The Pacific engine 672, built in 1912, pulling out of Mont pelier, Ohio, at 10:30 A.M., July 3, 1944, is on the head end of perhaps one of the most famous trains on this continent. Nearly everyman's railroad at one time or another had a train dubbed "The Cannonball" rolling over its lines--even Casey Jones was pulling a cannonball over the Illinois Central on his fateful run-but here we see the cannonball of them all-"The Wabash Cannonball." It is not known when the song was first crooned about "This train she runs to Quincy, Monroe, and Mexico,/ She runs to Kansas City, and she's never running slow ... " but the author has the words of it, written by his mother in her "Copy Book" in 1892. The Wabash Cannonball is running still-behind a diesel. (Photogra phed by and courtesy Richard J. Cook) The last steam locomotive operated on the Wabash I road. It took its last trip on January 28, 1955, on the BI Keokuk branch. (Courtesy Wabash Railroad) BUILT IN 1880, this, locomotive pulled the old Wasbash Cannon Ball. People in the St. Louis oUice of the Norfolk 6; Western Railway dug up the picture. GERALD M. BEST COLLECTION/PETER ROEHM COLLECTION \NE.~T'E?-~ t 1- \.....L'2;THEN ( ALCO HISTORIC PHOTOS/PETER ROEHM COLLECTION ton N'" , ighway 68 from East Brady on the Allegheny River up the WA at its east end of track in the valley of Creek near Brady's Bend. There are four active coal between there and Kaylor. The portable H&G Coal :t.J',,,,,.u;a takes cars right on the main line and is the WA's ifIIl.rnrnm,t customer ("northernmost" to the railroad, as all branches run timetable direction northward from the line). Dewey "Blue Row Tipple" is next, with a modern con loader and its own siding. In the same area is the Basic loader, another portable affair that works cars on the main line. The most interesting struct'ure of four is the Harcliffe Tipple, a lovely old timber and bin off a truck dump. The Harcliffe has its own on the south side of the main. 68 crosses the tracks in the middle of the commu Kaylor (pronounced KAY-Iur) and parallels the rail past the engine facility. Another tipple, belonging to Coal Co., is located right behind the engine 68 crosses to the north side of the track again t.he enl!'ine facilitv and'follows it un the vlI1Jt.w t.O GOING TO WORK at· 4:00 p.m., the crew leaves the caboos "office" at Kaylor. Their first work may be one of the tipples, lik the Harcliffe (below), east of town. MIKE MEAUSI WARR and the Pittsburgh Bypass: 1929 WESTERN MARYLAND SHAY NO. 6 was spruced up and ready for presentation to the B&O Museum of Transportation in Baltimore when this official portrait was made in September 1953. She'll run again! PAUL DUNN was not a photographer who concentrated on big power at the expense of the small. On June 6, 1940, he found Wheeling & Lake Erie 2-8-0 4313 shuffling cars in the yards at Brewster, 0 ., and this photo-now in the collection of John B. Corns-resulted. In 1939 the Consolidation type accounted for a solid one-third of the Wheeling's power-71 locomotives out .of a roster total of 197. Pau l Dun qor CHARLES M. MIZELL JR. was out chasing trains with Everett DeGolyer on December 28, 1940. The 'day was climaxed by the departure from Fort Worth of Texas & Pacific train 16, the Texan. Mountain 901 leads the limited across diamonds of Santa Fe and Katy away from T &P's sky scraper station. PAUL H. STRINGHAM recollects that his fingers were so numbed by the cold of January 31, 1941, that he was harp1" "hlp to rplpA~p thp ~hllttpr of W a L"=.. {QL.j/Lf %.-6-t.J J . J.YoungJI 12. Wheeling & Lake Erie 4-8-2 6801; ex-________________ _ .= , USRA-ISH appearance of the 6806 (above right) early in her Wheeling life was occasioned by installation of a bell hanger like those of 2-8-4's. It was soon changed (right). CLEARING Brewster, 0., for Pine Valley is a 4-8-2/2-8-4 doubleheader of Nos. 6807 and 6421. Crew in the rear engine will receive far the better ride once slack is stretched. WHEELING MALLET 800"2 was dozin g in the small " holding" yard at Neffs, on th e south end of the Ade na Railroad in March 1950, onl y four months after the W&LE hp"" me part of the Nickel Plate. Two W&LE K-1 Be rk shires (below le ft ) 6432 and 64 06, caught the mornin g li ght in the Dillonvale e ngin e te rminal. Sister K-J 6414 was bringi ng Adena Rail road coal into Pine Vall ey Yard in May 1947. Mall ets often worked this joh. Wheeling & Lake Erie 2-6-6-2 No. 8002 southbound through Canton, Ohio, in 1937. The class 1-3 Mallet is on the h e adend of train 170 and has just crossed the mainline of the Pennsylvania Railroad at WandIe tower. WP33'-f West Side Lumber Company Shay 10 with log train near Tuolumne. Calif., in 1938. 2- 8- 0 THIRTY YEARS of no new locomotives elapsed between the time the WP&Y bough outside-frame 2-8-0 69 in 1908 and husky Mikado 70 in 1938, reflecting the road', post-Gold Rush hardships. The 69 now operates on the Black Hills Central. WHITE PASS & YUKON Mikado 73 went into excur sion service this summer as announced. She's here northbound near Log Cabin, B.C., on June 20, 1982. White Pass & Yukon 185 2- 8- 2 fHE PAST IS PRESERVED on the WP& Y in both a static and li ving sense. On displa at Skagway is one of t he 1943 Army "Iranian"Mikados. You'd never mistake the EB' Last train into Woodstock, Vt., on April 15, 1933, when the 14-mile Woodstock Railroad waE abandoned. After riding in the cab with engineer Harry H. Paine, I shot this picture. It marks the end of the quaint old American custom of naming a locomotive for her engineer a'nd painting that name on her cab. YANCEY RAILROAD (nee Black Mountain) Scale in miles V2 Y4 0 TRAINS Magazine-Robert Wegner l V2 - ~ 8 'Tennessee Eastman U " lumber spur, 1923·1925 r I I r I , ~ '. I \ ~ , , .. ~ o ~eI~S~e;r ~~~r ,: I I J. Young's runaround track (;a'lljtht hetween two SOllthern Pacific semaphores, Yreka Western No. 19, a Mikado, prepares to do her duty switehinj{ the intcrc-hanjte tracks in hot Montague, Calif., in September, 1973.