It’s official. ARM and TRAIN are nowthe Association of Tourist Railroads andRailway Museums. With that, thismagazine has a new name and ourindustry has a larger, better advocate.

Number 11 Published by the Association of Tourist Railroads and Railway Museums Winter 2013

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PRESIDENT’S COLUMNPRESIDENT’S COLUMN

By G. Mark Ray

I can remember a long time ago as a young boygrowing up in Chattanooga reading about the opening of anew railroad museum. I don’t know why I was fascinated bythis but I was. Perhaps it had been my Grandfather tellingme about the General or taking me to go to train watching.Whatever the reason was, I was moved enough to write aletter to the museum. I explained that I was 9 years old andthat one day I wanted to become a member so I could be asteam locomotive engineer. To my surprise, I received ahand written reply signed by Mr. Paul H. Merriman.

It would be 9 years later before I joined the TennesseeValley Railroad Museum and another 7 before I wasqualified as a steam locomotive engineer.

Little did I know where this path would take me. Iwould later serve as Road Foreman of Engines, lead thebuilding of the wheel shop (including the restoration of allthree wheel machines), and serve on the board of directors,which I still do today.

In 1999, TVRM sent me to a place called Cass, WestVirginia, to set up a display booth showing off the wheelshop. This was my first TRAIN conference and in 2000, Iattended my first ARM conference. Through the years, I’vecome to know many great people and was elected to serveas a director of both ARM and TRAIN.

Which brings us to today. The vote in Montrealrepresents not only a combining of two organizations but itsets the tone for the future of railway preservation. Ourjourney begins this March in Savannah, GA, at our SpringConference. The Coastal Heritage Society has assembled anagenda of educational seminars, events, and some greattours. The board will also spend a day developing the firststrategic plan for our new organization. This is a major stepfor us as it will provide the roadmap to guide us in thefuture.

Finally, let me close by saying that being elected as thefirst President of the Association of Tourist Railroads andRailway Museums is a great honor. I look forward toleading our new organization into the future and meeting thechallenges that lay ahead of us.

See you in Savannah!

ASSOCIATION OF TOURIST RAILROADS AND RAILWAY MUSEUMS

The purpose of the Association of Tourist Railroads andRailway Museums is to lead in the advancement of railwayheritage through education, advocacy and the promotion ofbest practices.

For more details, or to report address changes, please contact us at:Association of Tourist Railroads and Railway MuseumsP. O. Box 1189, Covington, GA 30015www.railwaymuseums.org, www.traininc.org(770) 278-0088scg@lagniappeassociates.com

OfficersPresident: G. Mark Ray, Tennessee Valley Railroad MuseumVice-Presidents:Scott Becker, Pennsylvania Trolley MuseumLinn Moedinger, Strasburg Rail RoadSecretary: Ellen Fishburn, Orange Empire Railway MuseumTreasurer: Alan Barnett: Indiana Railway Museum

DirectorsRichard Anderson, Northwest Railway Museum Chris Bertel, Thunder Mountain LineRick Burchett, Chehalis-Centralia RailroadJohn E. Bush, Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad Steven M. Butler, San Luis & Rio Grande RailroadJeffery D. Jackson, American Heritage RailroadsSyl Keller, Monticello Railway MuseumBob LaPrelle, Museum of the American RailroadPeter Murphy, ExporailRichard N. Noonan, California State Railroad MuseumKen Rucker, National Capital Trolley Museum Jim Schantz, Seashore Trolley Museum Fenner Stevenson, Boone & Scenic Valley RailroadJim Vaitkunas, Minnesota Streetcar Museum Meg Warder, Black Hills Central RailroadErv White, Grand Canyon Railway. Frankie Wiseman, Middletown & Hummelstown RailroadKyle Wyatt, California State Railroad Museum

CommitteesRenewal Parts: Rod Fishburn, Chair, rodfishburn@earthlink.net

StaffSuzanne Grace, Executive DirectorP. O. Box 1189Covington, GA 30015scg@lagniappeassociates.com

Aaron Isaacs, Editor3816 Vincent Ave.. S., Minneapolis, MN 55410aaronmona@aol.com612-929-7066

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ARM President Bob LaPrelle and TRAIN PresidentRick Burchett shake hands after the two membershipsvoted to merge and form ATRRM. Joe Hazinski photo.

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WE NEED NUMBERS!WE NEED NUMBERS!

By Jim Porterfield

IF you attended the 2012 ATRRMmeeting in Montreal, and IF you pickedup a copy of Great Britain's 2011Railway Heritage Committee AnnualReport, enthusiastically distributed bythat group's David Morgan, and IF youlooked on page 11 (the inside backcover), you saw a series of charts thatsummarize aspects of the Committee'sAnnual Statistical Survey (for 2010).The charts and text present:

"Visitors Welcomed andPassengers Carried," including

1]. number of visitors 2] how many of them rode trains 3]. number of train rides taken 4]. how many miles those journeys

amassed5]. how many total miles excursion

trains ran, and 6]. the average number of riders per

train."Turnover Summary," which

appears to be their way of breakingdown how guests spent money,including train rides, sales (to includeadmissions and gift shops), catering,and other (workshop services, chartertrains, and the like).

"Working Staff," referring to thenumber of people employed and the

number of volunteers (I'd recommendadding total volunteer hours).

A tally of how many steam anddiesel locomotives, passenger cars, andfreight cars are on display (not countingwrecks and unrestored equipmentdisplayed, I presume, in "as is"condition).

Imagine my surprise when, as arelative newcomer to the ongoing effortto professionalize the railway heritagetourism community, I learned ATRRMcannot produce similar data. It strikesme that such an accounting is aminimum step to help members (andnon-members) evaluate each year whatmarketing activity works and whatdoesn't work. It would also helpexisting or proposed enterprises that areseeking public and private support forprojects to demonstrate how thecommunity will benefit from making aninvestment in that proposal, and not insome other endeavor.

One example of what can be donewith market research is illustrated inthis recent example from what some inthe railroad heritage communitymistakenly believe to be an opposingforce - the Rails to Trails Conservancy(RTC) - to help it advocate for moresupport from community leaders anddonors: "Research by planningprofessor Rainer vom Hofe andeconomics professor Olivier Parent

studied houses along Ohio's LittleMiami Scenic Trail, a 78-mile rail-trailthat cuts across the northeastern portionof Cincinnati. Parent and vom Hofefound that homebuyers were willing topay a premium of $9,000 to be within1,000 feet of access to the trail."

Or consider these persuasive RTCarguments, found among others athttp://tinyurl.com/9wptsz6:

The Great Allegheny Passage,which cost . . . $70 million to construct,generates more than $40 million indirect spending in towns along the traileach year.

The business occupancy rate indowntown Dunedin, Florida, increasedfrom 30% to 95% following theestablishment of the nearby FredMarquis Pinellas Trail.

The repeated annual economicimpact of cyclists was estimated by theNorth Carolina Department ofTransportation to be nine times theone-time cost to build bicycle facilities.(emphasis added).

This is what market research lookslike in action.

Before you can evaluate the impactof a new exhibit, or of a restorationproject or a new excursion, you have toknow where you stand today. Anygroup hoping to attract investors,benefactors, or support from publicagencies has to be able to demonstrate,

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One AsideHere's an idea to consider if you

find yourself in need of a part for apiece of your equipment that is nolonger available: Keeping Hill CityTrain On Track: Stevens StudentsDesign Piece for 1880 Train athttp://tinyurl.com/au5d3wm.

Another Aside At a just-concluded two-month run

of Cheryl L. West's musical dramaPULLMAN PORTER BLUES at theArena Stage in Washington, DC, therewas a small exhibit in the lobbydisplaying a variety of Pullman items. Itwas contributed by the ThurgoodMarshall Center for Service andHeritage, and drew the attention of asmall crowd both before the show andduring Intermission. Now here's aquestion for you: Where in yourcommunity can you arrange to put asmall exhibit of railroad items that arerelated to that host's past (or present)connection to railroading in yourcommunity? You can strengthen theexhibit host's bond with the largercommunity, expand awareness amongtheir visitors of your own existence, anddemonstrate the relevance of your effortto your community. The trifecta ofpartnership marketing.

Something to Think About"Marketing is the art of seeing

(and then creating) what might beinteresting to more than our friends." -Seth Godin

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University report that browsing picturesof adorable baby animals each daycauses one to slow down, relax, and domore accurate work. Baby animalsmake us smile, feel good, andexperience less strain from work.Marketers encounter stress severaltimes each day. Here's a link to help getyour on the path to greater productivity:http://pinterest.com/search/boards/?q=baby+animals

BIG YEAR FOR BIG YEAR FOR IOWIOWA PA PACIFICACIFIC

By Aaron Isaacs

Remember the book and movieMoneyball? They described how BillyBeane, general manager of the low-budget Oakland A’s, built a contendingbaseball team by finding the potentialin players that others had overlooked. Ibelieve Ed Ellis is the Billy Beane ofshort line and tourist railroading. Hiscompany Iowa Pacific has beenextremely busy in the last couple ofyears, acquiring railroads that othersmay have dismissed as economic

losers. For this article I interviewedEllis by phone in December as hewalked to his Chicago commuter train.

The sale of Arizona Eastern helpedprovide cash for a series of initiatives.IP started up the Saratoga & NorthCreek, purchased the Texas StateRailroad, won a competition to operatethe ex-Southern Pacific Santa Cruzbranch, became the contract operatorfor Massachusetts-owned Cape Rail,and revived the Pullman Companybrand. There may be more to come.

Saratoga & North CreekIP took over the former Delaware

& Hudson North Creek branch in 2011.After a first year experimenting withdifferent services, second year ridershipexceeded 50,000 in 2012 from a mix ofconventional tourist trains, ski trains,special events, dinner trains and actualpoint-to-point transportation thatconnects with Amtrak.

A few years ago Ellis attempted torevive the Rio Grande Denver-WinterPark ski train. It didn’t happen, but helearned from the experience. The NewYork-to-Adirondack ski trip is roughlythe same distance, but the market ismuch larger and the railroad is lesschallenging to operate. A snowless firstwinter nonetheless revealed a strongmarket from non-skiers.

The first year a single train setmade two round trips over the 57-mileline, plus one short turn on the outerend. Trains ran four days per week. Forthe summer of 2012 the timetableexpanded to a pair of train sets thatprovided three round trips over theentire line seven days a week. Therewere twice-daily timed connectionswith Amtrak to/from Albany and NewYork City. S&NC trains werescheduled to feed the southbound EthanAllen in the morning, and thesouthbound Adirondack in theafternoon. S&NC trains met thereturning Adirondack about noon andthe returning Ethan Allen in theevening. For those headed to or fromVermont, most days the S&NCconnected with the Ethan Allen in theother direction as well. A modestnumber of passengers, some regulars,began using the Amtrak connections.

This winter’s Snow Train scheduledropped back to Friday-Sunday with amaximum of two round trips per dayand no Amtrak connections.

Although Ellis looks for railroadswith a strong tourist potential, few cansubsist on passengers alone. The secretingredient is untapped freight potential.S&NC terminates at North Creek, but adormant railroad continues for another30 miles to Tahawus. The line was builtduring World War II to serve a titaniummine, but has sat unused since 1989.Ellis has won regulatory approval toreopen the line to haul granite rock

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in a convincing manner, the likelyeconomic impact the spending willproduce.

Hence the desire to know - at aminimum - how many people visit eachyear, what they do when they visit, howthey spend their money when they'rethere, where they spend it, how manypeople they employ to support thatactivity, and how many members of thelarger community support the effort byvolunteering. Equipped with thatbenchmark, you can go on each year toshow how your expanding efforts areaffecting your organization'sperformance.

The expectation here is thatindividual museums and excursionoperations already compile such data. Ifyou don't, this is a suggestion that youbegin to do so at once. The challengefor the industry, though, is to combineyour data with that of others toassemble a larger state, regional andnational report that can supportadvocates for new ventures or forexpanded existing operations anywherewhen they find it necessary to seekfunding and regulatory approval. Thebottom line is, can you convincinglydemonstrate a positive social andeconomic impact on your community?In your state? Within your region?

For the industry as a whole, if wecan answer persuasively, and prove it,we have created one of those game-changing arithmetical situations wherethe whole is greater than a sum if itsparts.

If we devote little or no attention orresources this endeavor - the systematicgathering and reporting of increasinglysophisticated, research-based resultsand trends analysis - we will findourselves out-witted or out-flanked bythose who argue for other uses ofrailway heritage sites. Or worse, fortheir demolition.

Complete our survey…pleaseWhich brings us back to the point

of this column. The Center for RailwayTourism, with funding fromWhistleTix, is in the preliminary stagesof creating hard data to demonstratehow a railway heritage venue cancontribute to the economic well beingof the community(ies) in which itoperates. The first step in that process isa survey you will find online atwww.railwaysurvey.org. This is animportant first step, so please completeand submit the survey at your earliestconvenience, but no later than March31, 2013. The success of other projects,as well as the possible survival of yourown operation, will depend on what itshows. If you can't demonstrate thatyours is a more valuable installation foryour community than, say, a water park,or another coffee cafe, well, . . . ." Don'tsay you weren't warned.

from the old tailings piles. In anunexpected development, the damagefrom Hurricane Andrew has led toFEMA contracts for stone moves. Thefirst test run reached Tahawus inOctober 2012. Freight service isexpected to start in early 2013.

Texas State RailroadFrom its inception, the 25-mile

Texas State Railroad was run by theState of Texas. It hauled healthy touristloads, but generated large deficits eachyear. That finally caught up with it in2005. There were a couple of years ofdrama as the legislature at first votednot to cover the losses, followed byfrenzied lobbying and emergencyappropriations. This couldn’t last and anew operations model was needed. In2007 the state brought in AmericanHeritage Railways to run the line.Ridership improved, costs came downand the deficit shrank, but the line didnot achieve profitability. This year Ellisbought Texas State. He gives AmericanHeritage lots of credit for growing thepassenger business. In typical fashion,he plans to get to profitability byhauling freight where none has beenhauled in decades. His purchase wascontingent on restoring the UnionPacific interchange in Palestine and thethree miles of track leading to it andthat has been accomplished. He seespotential to serve the oil industry,

bringing condensate in, and hopefullycrude oil out.

Santa CruzAlthough scenic with plenty of

tourism, the viability of the former SPSanta Cruz branch looked doubtfulfollowing the demise of DavenportCement, the largest shipper located atthe west end of the line. Santa Cruzalready has a tourist train, RoaringCamp Railroads’ Santa Cruz, Big Trees& Pacific, which actually has rights ona small portion of the branch and alsobid to be the operator. Is the town bigenough for two tourist railroads? Ellisthinks so, saying that IP is targeting adifferent market segment with dinnertrains and more luxurious equipment.The question is whether co-locationwill create synergy and grow themarket, or result in two operatorsgetting smaller pieces of the same pie.As usual, Ellis has a freight revenuesource in mind, and it’s thedevelopment of a fresh produceterminal at Watsonville, with the goalof sending out refrigerated trainloads.

Cape CodCape Rail is owned by the State of

Massachusetts. IP is now the contractoperator of 66 miles from Middleboroonto Cape Cod. The line is already afreight hauler, including a regular trashtrain. Ellis sees the potential for much

more trash. Cape Rail subsidiary MassCoastal also switches the Port of NewBedford. The port, which leads thenation in seafood handling, recentlydecided to upgrade its rail facilities andpromote that capability. Ellis foresees arefrigerated service, which ideallywould provide a backhaul for thoseproduce reefers coming out ofWatsonville.

On the passenger side, he’s takingover the existing Cape Cod Centraltourist operation, which runs 46 milesfrom Hyannis to the Cape Cod Canal.This summer MBTA is scheduled toextend existing Middleboro Friday,Saturday and Sunday service to theCape. Ellis’ crews would run the trainsfrom Middleboro to Hyannis.

Pullman Sleeping Car CompanyPerhaps nothing has interested this

writer more than IP’s resurrection ofthe Pullman brand. Service began inNovember with cars tacked onto therear of Amtrak’s City of New Orleans.There are currently nine cars in service,making a round trip twice weekly.

I asked how this is different fromthe similar service previously offeredby the American European Express onthe rear of Amtrak trains. Ellis says thePullman service is aimed at a pricepoint that is lower than AEE, but higherthan Amtrak. He describes it as thedifference between luxury and first

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class, with luxury affordable only bythe 1 percent, while Pullman service iswithin the reach of a much largerdemographic. He is also banking on thenostalgic appeal of the Pullman name.This isn’t just window dressing. Crewmembers wear accurate reproductionsof Pullman uniforms and IP has, inEllis’ words, “dusted off the Pullmanrulebook”. I wonder if this includes thelegendary dozen or so steps to properlyserve a beer.

Most intriguing were the storiescirculating about restoring realheavyweight Pullman sleepers.Apparently IP has been buying them inlarge numbers and now owns dozens ofheavyweights. For example, it recentlypurchased 1924 6-compartment, 3-drawing room 1924 sleeper Donizettifrom the Mad River & NKP RailroadMuseum.

Two heavyweights are underrestoration at the Lancaster & Chester.They will serve as prototypes. Thequestion is how to update them tomodern standards withoutcompromising the heavyweight look.All are being retrucked because theoriginal trucks cannot be certified for 79mph. All the windows must beupgraded to FRA approved glazing.

Those cars that haven’t been guttedwill be restored to their original

configurations, or at least close to it.This includes the return of opensections. Cars that have been gutted willreceive master rooms and other largeraccommodations with a higher pricepoint.

Today, IP has a fleet of about 200passenger cars, although the majorityare not yet in service. To accompanythe cars, IP has been buying up vintagepower. The most recent acquisitions aresix E units, including a pair that hadbeen owned by the New York,Susquehanna & Western, and a pairfrom the Central New York Chapter,NRHS that are painted in Lackawannacolors. This brings the total to 12 Eunits, 5 F units and 10 F40s, not tomention the pair of BL2s on theSaratoga & North Creek. Ellis intendsfor everything in the fleet to be restoredto operation.

When asked if more Pullman routesare in the offing, he says that the focusfor the next two years will be furtherdeveloping the Chicago-New Orleansservice, “getting it right”. He’s talkingto cruise lines that serve New Orleansabout joint trip packages, a la theAlaska Railroad. He’s also exploringjoint packages with the MississippiRiver steamboat American Queen.

Adirondack Scenic RailroadReaders may know that the

Adirondack Scenic Railroad is trying toreopen the last 59 miles of dormant linebetween Big Moose Lake and SaranacLake. Doing so would tie together theirtwo isolated operations (Utica-BigMoose Lake and Saranac Lake-LakePlacid). However, they’ve been metwith opposition from a group that wantsto convert the mothballed railroad to atrail.

Ellis has stepped into the disputewith a proposal for overnight Pullmanservice from New York to Lake Placid.The end-to-end distance would be 344miles, and would revive an old NewYork Central sleeper run. But whatabout those 59 out of service miles?Ellis’ answer—upgrade the track fromExcepted to Class 1. He estimates itwould cost maybe $2 million. Thosemiles would be covered at 15 mph inthe middle of the night when hopefullyno one is awake. Mission accomplished.Well, not quite. There are currently noEmpire Service trains between NewYork and Utica at the right hours. Theywould have to be extended fromAlbany, which would be more costlyand requires the cooperation of Amtrakand CSX. Stay tuned on this one.

Elsewhere, IP has introduced thePolar Express to England on its

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Dartmouth & Weardale tourist railway.This has caught the attention of otherUK operators by carrying 45,000passengers this year at the premium fareof 22 pounds.

Steam has not been forgotten.Southern Pacific 2-6-0 #1744’s boiler isbeing rebuilt at Historic MachineryServices in Alabama. It is hoped theengine will return to service in 2013.Once it does, Lake Superior &Ishpeming 2-8-0 #20 will be rebuilt.

FFALLEN FLAGSALLEN FLAGS

For 2013, an unusual number oftourist lines won’t be running, and somewill be gone permanently. The nearterm future of the East Broad Top isunclear. Add to that the Fayette Centralin Uniontown, PA, Buckeye Central inByesville, OH, Toledo, Lake Erie &Western in Maumee, OH, Sisseton-Milbank in South Dakota and theStourbridge Line in Honesdale, PA. Onthe bright side, Finger Lakes Railway inupstate New York resumed passengerservice in 2012 after a one-year hiatus.

It looks like the Buckeye Central isgone for good. According to its website,operations were suspended in early2012. Apparently the all-volunteerBuckeye Central was negotiating to buythe railroad and the deal was cancelled,leading to the 2012 shutdown. Now it’s

reported that the line will be convertedto a trail.

The railroad’s rolling stock is upfor auction, including: Davenport 50-ton diesel locomotive No.

4Plymouth model JDT locomotive No. 7Coach No. 200 ex-Baltimore & OhioFormer B&O/REA baggage/horse car

No. 742 Steel cupola caboose PM/C&O #A989,

built 1941.A tie handlerA Kilbourne & Jacobs dump car; a

small open hopper carA variety of grade-crossing signals,

sheds, tools, and hardware.

Toledo, Lake Erie & Western ranon the eastern portion of the formerNickel Plate line from Waterville toGrand Rapids under trackage rightsfrom Norfolk Southern. At one timethey extended to the historic canal townof Grand Rapids, but that portion of thetrack had deteriorated to exceptedstatus, so passenger service was notpermitted. Grand Rapids had previouslybeen the line’s operating base and wasthe primary attraction. It is also home tothe Waterfront Electric Railway, a smalltrolley museum which still seems toexist, but may be inactive.

In July 2012, the 37-mile Sisseton-Milbank Railroad in Milbank, SD, a

former Milwaukee Road branch, waspurchased by regional Twin Cities &Western. That spelled the end for itsperiodic tourist train service.

The rolling stock is finding otherhomes. To date Lake Superior RailroadMuseum in Duluth, MN has acquiredformer Great Northern heavyweightbaggage car No. 257 (Pressed Steel1918). The car was built as RPO car#24. It will become a concession/bar caron the North Shore Scenic Railroadbetween Duluth and Two Harbors. Theprivate Iron Horse Central Museum inChisago City, MN has boughtMilwaukee Road open platform branchline combine #2705 (Milwaukee Shops1934) and Milwaukee ribbed baywindow caboose #01879 (MilwaukeeShops 1940).

The Stourbridge Line in Honesdale,PA has ceased passenger operations.The last trains ran in 2011, andreportedly carried only 7000passengers. The 9-mile former-Erie linefrom Honesdale to Hawley is up forsale. It is unclear if operations willresume.

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MONTREAL 2012MONTREAL 2012

By Aaron Isaacs

The last joint ARM/TRAINconference traveled to Montreal, wherethe Canadian Railway HistoricalAssociation put on a great show, andthe memberships voted to merge andbecome ATRRM.

Pre-conference tripsThe Orford Express has been in

operation for some six years now and isexpanding its meal train offeringsannually. It runs out of Sherbrooke,Quebec on a part of the old AtlanticLimited main line (the Short Line) ofthe Canadian Pacific which ranbetween Montreal and St. John, NewBrunswick, now operated by regionalMontreal, Maine & Atlantic. Theconsist is unusual, to say the least. It ispowered by a New Haven FL9 and aformer Roberval & Saguenay M420TR,one of the rarest diesels anywhere; onlytwo were built. Trailing them is a Budddome sandwiched between a pair ofRDC cars with drive shaftsdisconnected (but quickly connectible).Despite looking odd to railfans, thetrain sparkles in fresh paint and the

interiors have been completely redone.

OttawaWe travelled to Ottawa on VIA

rail, where we toured the CanadaScience and Technology Museum, amodern, well-done museum with alarger than expected railroad element.There are 30 pieces in all, not includingthose owned by the Bytown RailwaySociety. Entering the building’s largestgallery, the visitor is flanked by 4-8-4sfrom Canadian Pacific (one of only twobuilt) and a streamlined Canadian

National Northern type. There areseveral other pieces on display. Aseparate storage building not open tothe public holds most of the pieces.

Bytown Railway SocietyTo the extent that the Science and

Technology Museum has a Friendsgroup, it’s the Bytown Railway Society.These rail preservationists own amodest equipment collection of tenpieces. They share the museum’s shopfacility and operate the shortdemonstration train ride. For our visit

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The eclectic consist of the OrfordExpress. Steve Heister photo.

they put on a great show by firing uptheir Central Vermont steam crane.Where Bytown punches above itsweight is as a chronicler of Canadianrailway news, including preservation. Ithas developed a network of reportersacross the continent. The monthlyBranchline magazine tracks Canadianrail news of any significance and itappears to be the best source availablefor news north of the border. I’vebecome a subscriber, the better to passit on to you.

Bytown’s crowning achievement isthe annual Canadian Trackside Guide.You could not imagine a more completeone-stop reference work. It appears thatnothing moves on rails in Canadawithout being reported in the Guide.

After a round trip on the O-line,Ottawa’s diesel LRT, the traction fans

visited the OC Transpo bus garage,where volunteers are restoring Ottawastreetcar #696 (Ottawa 1917). This is along term project. Basically, a newbody is being fabricated on the existingframe.

Space doesn’t permit recapping allthe seminars and other activitiesprovided by our hosts, but one standsout--the IMAX presentation of RockyMountain Express, an amazing filmfeaturing CP 4-6-4 #2816.

ExporailIt’s only human nature to approach

each visit to a new museum with somepreconceptions. I’m pleased to say thatExporail far exceeded mine. I knewthere was a big new exhibit hall, butdidn’t realize a.) how big it was, b.)how much fully restored rolling stockwas on display in it and c.) the number

of well done smaller exhibits and extratouches there were.

It’s always challenging to exhibitrail equipment indoors, when its naturalhabitat is outdoors. Most museums haveall they can do to simply cover theircollections, and can only afford to erectinexpensive structures with as muchequipment crammed inside as possiblefor protection. As a result, the visitorwalks though dimly lit canyons ofrailcars with an intimate view of thebottom row of rivets and not much else.

Not so at Exporail, which belongsin the top ten of North Americanrailway museums. The pairs of tracksare widely spaced and the building iswell lit. A mezzanine spans one end ofthe building, offering an opportunity tolook down on the collection. A pit runsunder the Royal Hudson and AlcoFPA4 unit that greet newly arrivedvisitors, providing a view fromunderneath for technology comparison.Numerous pieces are open for internalviewing. Others have high levelplatforms alongside to allow visitors toeasily see inside.

The 15 display tracks in thebuilding hold some 45 pieces of rollingstock and all of them are cosmeticallyrestored. That’s quite anaccomplishment, yet there are moredisplay-quality pieces in another bigbarn. A third barn (not open to thepublic), is a closed reserve holdinganother 40 pieces or so.

I’m always interested in museums’collection policies and how well theyadhere to them. Exporail’s owner, theCanadian Railroad HistoricalAssociation (founded in 1932 as alearned society, tram 274 was acquiredin 1950, Exporail was founded in1960.), has always viewed itself as anational rather than a regional museum.Thanks to the transcontinental nature ofCanadian National and CanadianPacific, they’ve done a good job ofachieving it. The 160-piece collectionincludes every equipment type.However, like any museum theycollected what was close at hand, soportions of the collection, notablytraction, are predominantly eastern.

Here’s how the collection breaksdown.

33 Steam locomotives22 Diesel locomotives24 Passenger cars27 Freight cars10 Cabooses and non-revenue43 Electric cars and locomotives

50 Canadian National,predecessors and subsidiaries

40 Canadian Pacific

There are quite a few significantpieces. Fortunately the bulk of theCRHA collection was acquired between

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Above: Competing CN and CP 4-8-4s dominate the exhibit hall at the CanadaScience & Technology Museum in Ottawa. Jim Vaitkunas photo.Below: The Bytown Railway Society put on a show with Central Vermont steamcrane #4251 (Industrial Works 1919).

original syndicate member of the CPR)and his family were major benefactors ofthe museum. The building is a fullservice museum facility, with a libraryand archives, a separate small artifactsstorage area, art gallery, small café,model railroad room (plus numerouslarge scale models), and a museum store.The mezzanine level is a large eventspace that can be subdivided and rentedout for events.

Elsewhere on the 50-acre site aretwo large storage barns, a two-track shopbuilding, an outdoor storage yard, theCanada Atlantic (CN) depot fromBarrington, and the Hays building, areplica Grand Trunk depot named afterCharles Melville Hays who wasPresident of the Grand Trunk Railwayand was lost on the Titanic. Anelectrified trolley loop circles the

1950 and 1965 when there was a lot tochoose from. The CRHA CollectionCommittee of the day strived to have arepresentative sample of every wheelarrangement, manufacturer, owners, andcar type preserved. The 33 steamersencompass 16 wheel arrangements.They range from 19th century 4-4-0s toCP Selkirk 2-10-4 #5935 (MLW 1949)the last standard gauge locomotive builtfor a Canadian railroad. CP #7000(National Steel Car 1937) was CP’s firstdiesel. CP #8905 is a rare FairbanksMorse Trainmaster (CanadianLocomotive Company 1955). CP woodpassenger car #51 from 1898 is a schoolcar, a mobile classroom that servedremote communities. Algoma Centralore car #4341 (Pressed Steel 1901) is theoldest steel freight car in Canada. Theyhave two of the iconic Montreal theater-seating observation streetcars. There’s aNewfoundland narrow gauge consist.This is a very comprehensive collection.

The aisles between the tracks arefull of small interesting displays, drawnfrom the 10,000 small artifacts in thecollection. One of the best displays is anarea of cobblestone-encased streetcartracks and switches, relocated from theMontreal Tramways Saint Henrycarbarn. This was a recent acquisition,the barn was demolished to make wayfor a Home Depot store.

The Angus Pavilion is named forAngus family, the late Frederick Angus(great grandson of R. B. Angus an

grounds for on-site transportation,passing a mini-train that makes a figure-8 loop. At the southeast corner of thegrounds is an interchange track to theCP. From there, a one-miledemonstration railway (which operatesSundays) connects with the streetcarloop.

Attendance in 2010-2011 was63,138, of whom 30 percent attendedevents in the event rooms. Attendanceincreased 5 percent over the previousyear, and the number of group visits rose21 percent. CHRA has 827 members and125 volunteers. Volunteer hours for theyear totaled 16,450 hours. There are 8full time and 15 part time employees inthe summer season.

2011 revenues$300,309 Admissions$136,922 Gift shop and coffee

shop$63,732 Room rentals$38,643 Memberships$123,163 Donations$98,647 Other revenues$1,120,040 Grants

$1,961,456 Total revenue

Current restoration projects includethe restoration of Montreal tram 274 (thefirst piece acquired by the CRHA), re-wheeling Canadian National oil-electric#15824, and period restoration of CPRRDC #9069.

BEFORE EXPORAILBEFORE EXPORAIL

By Robert Robinson

The Canadian Railroad HistoricalAssociation was founded in Montreal in1932 and incorporated in 1941. It is theoldest railroad history organization in

Attendees enter EXPORAIL, passingOld Sydney Collieries 2-4-0 #25(Baldwin 1900).

Motorman and goodwill ambassadorDaniel Laurendeau welcomesconventioneers aboard MontrealTransportation Commissionobservation streetcar #3 (MTC 1924)for a chilly loop around the grounds.Jim Vaitkunas photo.

Canada. Currently the CRHA has 1000

members and 8 Divisions acrossCanada and publishes Canadian Rail, abi-monthly magazine dedicated toCanadian railway history. It owns andoperates Exporail, formerly theCanadian Railway Museum andCanada's largest railroad museum,established in 1961.

CRHA ran excursions from 1932until VIA took over CNR passengerservice in 1977 and CPR in 1978.Thereafter the cost of chartering a trainbecame prohibitively expensive.

Publications started in 1937 withthe first issue of the Bulletin. It wassuspended during World War II andresumed only in October 1949 with anew title, the CRHA News Reportwhich eventually became CanadianRail. Canadian Rail was changed to thecurrent large page format with bi-monthly publication in 1983.

The CRHA publishes books onoccasion and presently has two in theworks.

The CRHA Archives includes over80 archival collections from CN, CPand the Grand Trunk, MontrealLocomotive Works and Canadian Carand Foundry; and from prominent mensuch as Charles Melville Hays,President of the Grand Trunk Railwayin its period of greatest expansion andSir William Cornelius Van Horne.Numerous private collections also callthe Exporail archives home.

In 2007, the Canadian RailroadHistorical Association Foundation wasincorporated to support:

1) the conservation of, preservationof, interpretation of, display of, anddissemination of information on, as wellas to advance the education aboutCanada's Railway Heritage,

2) the ongoing development of alibrary and archives and research intoCanada's Railway Heritage,

3) the preparation and publishing ofCanadian Rail and the publishing ofbooks about Canada's railways, and

4) other institutions involved inconserving, preserving, interpreting anddisplaying Canada's Railway Heritage.

Genesis of a museumFor seventy-five years starting in

Top: The headhouse of the Anguspavilion.Middle: Two Montreal LocomotiveWorks products, CP Royal Hudson#2850 (1938) and FPA-4 #6765 (1955greet visitors as they enter the exhibithall.Bottom: A sample of the greatvariety of preserved equipment in thehall, including CP 4-4-0 #144, built in1886. Jim Vaitkunas photos.

1950, CRHA has collected andpreserved an exceptional range ofartifacts, carefully chosen to reflect theCanadian experience.

It must be recognized that railwaypreservation in the 1950’s was not invogue. Scrap lines were everywhere - ifit was wood, it got burned; if it wassteel, it got cut up. CNR’s Turcot yards,CPR’s Angus Shops, MTC’s YouvilleShops, were all beehives of scrappingactivity. ‘Why would you want to sparethis piece of junk’ was the cry of theday! Clearly a solution was necessary.Faced with a growing collection, it wasdecided in 1959 to establish a museumthat would permit already acquiredpieces of equipment to be moved fromtheir temporary storage locations.

The "National Collection ofRailway Rolling Stock" is defined as"those artifacts that are representative,and/or historically or technologicallysignificant, and which illustrate andcontribute to an understanding of theevolution and social impact of railtransportation systems in Canada."

The original objective to preserve acollection representative of Canadianrailroading, has largely been achieved.The collection includes rolling stockrepresenting all major wheelarrangements in Canadian steamlocomotives; the major classes ofdiesels; representative freight andpassenger equipment, withcontributions from both of Canada’sworld-class railways as well as lesser-known operations. Other rolling stockwas selected to represent historicalevents, or technological innovations.Additional rolling stock continues to beadded.

Construction beginsAfter considering a number of

sites, the newly formed MuseumCommittee, announced in 1960 that theCanada Creosoting Company, hadagreed to lease for an extended period,for nominal charge, a 10-acre site inDelson / Saint-Constant. The lease wassigned on July 21, 1961.

Construction of the first track intothe museum site from the CPR Candiacspur commenced was completed in1962 along with today’s building 5 (atthat time #1). By 1963 the Museum had

Top: The streetcar aisle, featuringtrack in cobblestones transplantedfrom Montreal Tramways SaintHenry carbarn. Jim Vaitkunas photoMiddle: The replica of 2-2-2 JohnMolson (Kawasaki 1970) wassteamed up for our visit.Bottom: At the 1882 Barrington,Quebec station, the streetcar loopmeets the mile-long demonstrationrailway.

received 25 trams, 20 steamlocomotives and 5 passenger cars. Themuseum opened to the public in 1965.

Between 1965 and 1971 theMuseum doubled its railway equipmentstorage capacity through theconstruction of a second buildingsimilar in size to Building Number One.The Federal Government donated$80,000 to help pay for its construction.

The Barrington, Québec station,built 1882 by the Canada AtlanticRailway, was moved onsite in 1965. In1971 a replica of a divisional pointstation was constructed and named forCharles Melville Hays, the President ofthe Grand Trunk and Grand TrunkPacific Railways until his death in1912. The Hays Building served as avisitor reception centre and archivesrepository until the opening of theExporail building many years later.Prior to the construction of the HaysBuilding, a turntable from St. Lin,Quebec that had been donated by theCPR was moved into its present

position at the museum. Regular live steam operations

began in 1971 in the form of the “JohnMolson”, an operating replica of a circa1848 locomotive from Canada’s firststeam railway, the Champlain and St.Lawrence Railroad. It was built byKawasaki Heavy Industries.

With the increasing scope andimportance to Canadian history of thecollections entrusted to the CRHA, itbecame evident that additional capitaland operational funds were required toexpand and improve the facilities and toadd professional staff. CRHAapproached National Museums ofCanada (NMC), who at that time hadthe responsibility for both the nationalmuseums and the federal programsdesigned to support museums across thecountry. Subsequently the CRHAsubmitted a 5-year capital plan and a setof goals for the Canadian RailwayMuseum.

A 1977 report recommended theestablishment of the “Specialized

Museums Programme in Canada” toensure the preservation and accessibilityof these collections for the Canadianpublic. CRHA applied to the NMC fordesignation of the CRM as a specializedmuseum. In April 1978, the CRMreceived the designation “SpecializedMuseum for Railways in Canada”. TheCRM thus became eligible for capitalfunding under the Specialized MuseumsProgramme.

National Museums of Canadaundertook a site selection study for theCRM. It concluded that no superior siteto the Delson/St. Constant locationcould to be found.

This conclusion led to a grantapplication to purchase 32 adjacentacres at Des Bouleaux along the CPRCandiac Spur. Acquisition wascompleted in 1982.

In 1992 a two-track shop buildingwas built with capital funds provided bythe Government of Canada.

EXPORAILBy 1992 the CRHA decided that it

could not take more time to examinealternate sites / proposals for theCanadian Railway Museum, so theproject known as Exporail wasdeveloped.

A comprehensive report publishedin 1993, formed the basis for thedevelopment of the Exporail facility. In1997 the government of Québec agreedto provide $3.4 million, on thecondition that the Federal Governmentprovided matching funds. On October5, 2000 the Government of Canadaannounced that they would provide $3.0million dollars from regional economicdevelopment funds, and theEXPORAIL project was launched.

Ground was broken on October 6,2000. As construction progressed, therewere some modest cost overruns. Aparcel of land owned by the CRHA atDes Bouleaux Street, which was zonedresidential, was sold to a privatedeveloper and the proceeds used to fundthe project. A strip of land was retainedto relocate the old CPR Candiac spurwhich is used by the Sunday trainoperation. Canada and Quebec alsocontributed an additional $ 1.2 millioneach to see the project through tocompletion.

On May 31, 2003, Exporail,opened to the public - over one yearlate, slightly over budget, and still notfully complete. Due to mechanicalproblems with the contractors ballastingequipment, exhibits could not be placedon tracks 15 and 20 until about a weeklater. Otherwise everything was readyto go. The official opening took placeon Friday, August 27th, 2004.

Today, Exporail is situated on 50acres of land containing three displaybuildings, with a total of 125,600 square

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feet of exhibition space (Buildings Oneand Five), a 25,000 square foot storagespace (Building Six), an 1882 countrystation, a replica of a divisional pointstation, a restoration shop and aturntable. Exporail features rides on aone-mile tramway line, a two-milerailroad line and an outdoor miniaturerailroad. It also has an extensive HO-gauge model railroad installation. Thefacility includes a library, an archivecenter, temporary exhibit spaces, amulti-purpose hall, a theatre, and foodand retail spaces.

The pavilion has been named inmemory of Fred Angus, former editorof “Canadian Rail”, and Donald andMary Angus, his parents, who were lifelong supporters of CRHA.

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American Steam Railroad Groveport, OH

The society has acquired Frisco 2-8-2 #1352, (Alco 1912). Originally a2-8-0, it was rebuilt during World WarII. An agreement has been reached tomove the engine to the MidwestRailway Preservation Society’s ex-Baltimore & Ohio roundhouse inCleveland for restoration. There it willjoin Grand Trunk Western 2-8-2 #4070.

Alberta Railway MuseumEdmonton, AB

Evraz Pipe in Camrose, AB hasdonated GE 44-tonner #4, originallyCanadian National #4. The museum hasalso acquired an unnumbered 50-tondiesel (GE 1956) from Lafarge, Canada.

B&O Railroad Museum Baltimore, MD

B&O 2-8-0 #545 (Mount ClareShops 1888) was one of the 22 pieces ofrolling stock damaged in the 2003 roofcollapse. Its restoration was unveiled onOctober 20.

Black River and WesternFlemington, NJ

Former Great Western 2-8-0 #60(Alco 1937) has returned to serviceafter its FRA-required rebuild.

California State Railroad MuseumSacramento, CA

The goal of a rail connectionbetween the original museum site andthe former Southern Pacific SacramentoShops has been realized. Previously themuseum’s track made a 90-degreecrossing of the double track UnionPacific main line at the east end of theSacramento River bridge. From therethe tracks fanned out into a yard on thewest and north sides of the shopbuildings. That land is slated forcommercial development. The yard,

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The One Way Low Speed (OWLS) diamond on the new track connecting theCalifornia State Railroad Museum with the Sacramento Shops in the distance.Wheels of museum equipment ride up and over the UP mainline on their flanges,eliminating pounding for the mainline tracks. CSRM photo.

Caboose news--Above: Last year Whitewater Valley re-sided and paintedBaltimore & Ohio #C2129, C2125, and C2232 (Washington, IN Shops 1924-29).Erie #04946, seen at right, is scheduled for rehab in 2013. Francis Parker photo.Below: Whippany Railway Museum has restored Jersey Central #91529(Elizabethport Shop 1949). WRM photo.

where the museum kept quite a fewpieces of unrestored rolling stock, hasbeen removed. Loss of this track spaceled to the deaccession of over 30 pieces,most to other museums.

The new track connection to theshops has a more southerly alignment,connecting to the south end of thetransfer table between the Boiler andErecting Shops. To achieve this, andstay away from the redevelopment arearequired a new set of diamonds east ofthe old ones, crossing the main line atabout a 45 degree angle. UP did notwant conventional diamonds with theirattendant high maintenance. Thesolution was a new technology knownas “One Way Low Speed” or OWLS.Equipment using the museum’s trackrides up and over the UP rails on theflanges, guided by shallow grooves nextto the flangeways. Made at slow speed,the movement is safe. The main linetrains have no gap to pound across andeveryone’s happy.

Cass Scenic Cass, WVClimax #9 is being restored. A

contract to re-tube the boiler has beenawarded to the JS Company ofMiddlefield, OH. The work is fundedby a $200,000 TransportationEnhancement grant.

CNJ Tower, Phillipsburg, NJWarren County has granted

$60,850 to restore the tower.

Colorado Historical SocietyFew states support historic

preservation and one of them isColorado. Your editor just stumbledacross the Colorado Historical Society’s

grant website. Some of this is old news,but it’s good to see which projects havebeen funded, some substantially.

Projects Closed in Fiscal Year 2010Denver & Rio Grande Depot, City of

Montrose, Historic StructureAssessment, Montrose/Montrose,$10,000

Denver & Rio Grande Western RailroadDepot, Historic Structure Assessment,Mesa/Grand Junction, $10,000

Denver & Rio Grande Western RailroadDepot, Town of La Jara, ExteriorPreservation, Conejos/La Jara,$95,795

Denver, Leadville & Gunnison Depot,Buena Vista Heritage Museum,Exterior Restoration, Chaffee/BuenaVista, $105,000

Midland Depot at Divide, TellerHistoric and Environmental Coalition,Archaeological Assessment,Teller/Divide, $9,916

Colorado Railroad Museum,Locomotive and Railcar Restoration,Jefferson/Golden, 5/12/10, $66,900

FY 2011 grants awardedLa Jara depot $160,909Hugo roundhouse $124,113Grand Junction depot $162,811Silverton Northern engine house

$11,425

FY 2012 grants awardedD&RGW Crested Butte Depot $195,613Cumbres & Toltec rehab $34,948

Conway Scenic Railroad North Conway, NH

We try to report on majorimprovements, but this overlooks the

smaller, incremental work that is soimportant to keeping a railroad running.When you add them all up, it’s a lot.Here’s what the Conway Scenicaccomplished in 2012.1. Reprofiled GP38 #252’s front truck

wheels.2. Sealed and painted the roof of coach

#6745.3. Rebuilt one of coach #1133’s trucks,

and repainted and lettered the exterior.4. Installed custom made stair handrails

at the 1874 North Conway station.5. Replaced the station roof between its

two towers.6. Traded two GE locomotives to

Finger Lakes railway for a GP9. Thenew loco went to the Derby, Maineshops for a new generator and tractionmotor.

7. Did engine work on locomotive#573.

8. All new windows in coach #1140.9. Two new wheel sets and roof work to

open car #557.10. Painted the Conway freight house.11. Installed 550 ties and 87 switch

timbers.12. Repaired the North Road grade

crossing in Conway. 13. Spread 66 carloads of ballast on the

Crawford Notch Line, lined andsurfaced part of it and rebuilt 43culverts.

Cumbres & Toltec Scenic RailroadChama, NM

Tim Tennant, President and CEOof the Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec,wrote to correct some errors in the lastissue of RMQ/Trainline. “RGRPCactually terminated its agreement withthe Commission in November 2005over a dispute concerning liabilityinsurance coverage. RGRPC was notreorganized into C&TS ManagementCorp. After RGRPC terminated itsoperating agreement, the Commissionapproached the Friends to help figureout how to run the railroad. The Friendshelped to form what was a totallyseparate non-profit in March 2006which was C&TS Management Corp. Iwas General Manager for two seasonsand a board member as well. CTSMCmanaged the railroad from 2006through the 2011 season. CTSMCelected to leave after the 2011 season sothe Commission put out an RFP to seeka qualified management company.Ultimately American Heritage Railwayswas selected during the fall of 2011. Ihope that clears up what I viewed assome minor errors in detail.”

During the 2012 season, AmericanHeritage Railroads operated the C&TSunder contract, but in the fall decided togive up the contract. The Cumbres &Toltec Scenic Railroad Commissionthen decided to operate the railroad onits own and began a search for anexperienced heritage railroad manager.

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The Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway has replicated this 2-foot gaugemilk car, now displayed on the Wiscasset, ME waterfront. Jim Vaitkunas photo.

They have selected ATRRM Boardmember John Bush for the job. Bushwas manager of railroads at the RoaringCamp & Big Trees and Santa Cruz, BigTrees & Pacific railroads in California,where he was responsible foroperations, shop and track departments.He also worked for the White Pass &Yukon and the Georgetown Looprailroads. He was assistant generalmanager and chief mechanical officer atthe Cumbres & Toltec in the late 1980'sand early 1990's.

Durango Railroad Historical SocietyDurango, CO

The Society has entered into anagreement with the San Juan CountyHistorical Society to create theSilverton Railroad Historical Park. Itwill be centered on the HistoricalSociety’s Silverton Northern enginehouse, which the Society leases anduses for equipment storage. A trackconnection to live Durango and Silvertonrails has been relaid, along with 1700feet of track in the right of way ofCement Street from 7th Street to 10thStreet that will be used fordemonstration.

The engine house would berestored, upgraded with full utilities and

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At Fort Steele Heritage Town in British Columbia, provincially-ownedMacMillan-Bloedel Lumber 2-6-2 #1077 (Montreal 1923) travels an hourly 20-minute loop around the grounds.

used to house and restore equipment.Besides Rio Grande 2-8-0 #315, theSociety has restored one gondola (see theFall 2012 RMQ/Trainline), is in themidst of restoring another, and has plansfor more. Meanwhile the HistoricalSociety owned the “Casey Jones” motorcar, is restoring an SN caboose and ownsother unrestored pieces.

Another current project has anunusual back story. In 1949 TwentiethCentury Fox produced the movie ATicket to Tomahawk, a railroad themedwestern set in 1876 and filmed on theSilverton branch.

The movie crew leased Rio GrandeSouthern 4-6-0 #20 (Schenectady 1899),currently under restoration at theColorado Railroad Museum. For themovie it was painted as T&W 1, EmmaSweeny and given a false funnel stack,long wooden pilot, link and pin coupler,oil or kerosene headlight box over theelectric light with a set of six-pointantlers on top, and a fancy and colorfulpaint scheme, including three-mastedsailing ships on both sides of tender.

The movie script called for thelocomotive to be hauled over a mountainpass by horses. For those scenes thestudio built a full-size wood, fiberglassand steel replica. The replica hassurvived. The studio sold it to a privateparty in 1960. It was resold a few yearslater, modified to resemble Sierra

Railroad #3, and used in the TV seriesPetticoat Junction. From 1970 to 1980the mockup went through four privateowners before being donated to AmadorCounty. In 2010, the Durango RailroadHistorical Society requested donation ofthe mockup, which happened a yearlater. It is being restored in Durango.

Galveston Railroad MuseumGalveston, TX

Four years after sufferingconsiderable damage from HurricaneIke, the museum had its grand reopeningin November. The newly restored F unitswere dedicated, painted in the Santa Fewarbonnet livery. Two new coaches carsand a diner for the museum also arrived.

Gaspe RailwayTen former Montreal AMT

commuter coaches (Hawker Siddeley1967, 1968, 1974) originally built forToronto’s GO Transit have beenpurchased for a new tourist train to runon the Gaspe peninsula.

Illinois Railway Museum Union, ILChicago Rapid Transit wood L car

#1797 (ACF 1907) has been restored. Itwill return to service next spring, pairedwith similar trailer #1024, which wasrestored in 2010.

IRM is celebrating its 60thanniversary. The Rail & Wire newsletter(actually it’s a 32-page magazine)

includes interviews with 15 people whohave been members for 50 or moreyears. Amazingly, seven of them are stillactive volunteers.

Jersey Central #113, Minersville, PABig 0-6-0 #113 was steamed up and

road tested for the first time onNovember 23rd.

Mid-Continent Railway MuseumNorth Freedom, WI

Earlier this month Mid-ContinentRailroad Museum quietly closed itssatellite museum in Mazomanie twoyears after it opened and dropped itsannual sponsorship of a Mazomaniefolk-music festival. The original hopewas that the second museum wouldgenerate a revenue surplus for Mid-Continent’s main site at North Freedom,but the surplus never happened.

Museum London, London, ONFollowing the abrupt closure of the

EMD locomotive factory, Electro-Motive has donated large 6 by 36 footmurals from the lobby. They date fromaround 1950.

National Capital Trolley Museum,Colesville, MD

Bill Wall of Shore Line TrolleyMuseum has engineered another of hispatented multi-museum trades. NewJersey Transit line car #5221 (Russell1912) and NJT work car #5223 (New

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Jersey Public Service 1917) belong to theFriends of the New Jersey TransportationHeritage Center, Inc. NCTM leased#5221 to facilitate construction ofoverhead and #5223 to protect the carwith indoor storage. FNJTHC found abenefactor who wants some work donesoon so FNJTHC ended the lease earlyand moved the cars to Lyons Industries inEbensburg, Pennsylvania.

Last October NCTM President KenRucker casually mentioned to Bill Wallthat he had always wanted an 80-seriesRed Arrow car for NCTM. Within 24hours Wall negotiated a deal withElectric City Trolley Museum forPhiladelphia & West Chester #85 (Brill1932). NCTM swapped a pair ofPeckham trucks from DC Transit workcar #0509, destroyed in the 2003 fire fora pair of standard gauge, rebuilt trucksand paid for transportation of the shell ofScranton Transit Electromobile #505(Osgood Bradley 1929) from Rockhill toScranton in exchange for title to #85. Thecar is a work in process dating back to EdBlossom's shop in Topton, PA. NCTM'sgoal is to restore the car to its originalappearance.

Nelson Chamber of Commerce Nelson, BC

Having acquired the NelsonCanadian Pacific depot, the Chamber has

arranged for a pair of locomotives to bedisplayed in front of it. CP CPA16-4 “C-Liner” #4104 (Canadian Locomotive1954) was built to a Fairbanks Morsedesign and worked out of Nelson untilretired. It is coupled to a Squaw CreekCoal H16-66 “baby Train Master” (FM1958), painted in CP colors andnumbered 7009. The locomotives areprivately owned and were stored in CP’sCalgary yard until recently. They are onpermanent loan.

Nevada State Railroad MuseumCarson City, NV

Here’s something unusual. Themuseum has a new book on theconstruction of the Central Pacificportion of the Transcontinental Railroad.The unusual part is that all 218 photos are19th century stereo slides, shown both ascards with paired side-by-side images,and as 3D anaglyphs. 3D viewers comewith the book. Titled “Waiting for theCars”, it is available through the museumfor $29.95 plus $5.05 shipping.

New Hope Valley Railroad Bonsal, NC

Cliffside Railroad 2-6-2 #110(Vulcan 1923) has been donated by theStone Mountain Memorial Association.No. 110 was retired by the Cliffside in1962 and sold to the Swamp Rabbit RRin South Carolina in 1963. It later moved

to Georgia, where it operated on theStone Mountain Scenic Railroad forseveral years.

Northern Ohio Railway MuseumChippewa Lake, OH

One of the great benefits of railwaypreservation is unexpected time travel. Agood example is the museum’s recentacquisition of overhead wire hardware—still hanging inside a former streetcarbarn. The barn in Elyria, OH served theCleveland Southwestern and ColumbusRailway until abandonment. Museumvolunteers removed 19 Ohio Brassoverhead hangers, and a sample sectionof the wood trough they were mountedin.

San Diego Electric RailwayAssociation National City, CAIn an arrangement similar to Market

Street Railway and San Francisco Muni,the San Diego Electric RailwayAssociation acts as a “friends” group toSan Diego’s light rail system. It hasaccumulated a fleet of streetcars, hasrestored one and returned it to service,and is working on more.

It owns six PCC cars, 1 Birney bodywhich is being restored, and threeVienna, Austria single truckers. TheBirney (St. Louis Car 1917) wasoriginally built for the Brockton &

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Plymouth Street Railway inMassachusetts, and later becameBellingham, WA #357. It wound up anOld Spaghetti Factory restaurant in SanDiego that later closed.

A recent acquisition is the body ofSan Diego streetcar #54, which currentlyresides at the San Diego History Centerin Balboa Park. A California type carwith open and closed sections, it wascreated in 1896 out of two former cablecars following the 1892 shutdown of theSan Diego Cable Railway.

Three of the PCCs are ex-Muni, ex-St. Louis PCC cars from a collector inLake Tahoe. The first of these, Muni#1122, numbered #529 as an extension ofSan Diego’s historic PCC numbers, hasentered service. It runs as the San DiegoVintage Trolley Silver Line. Starting atthe 12th & Imperial Transit Center, it

runs a loop on existing LRT tracks viaHarbor Drive, C Street and 12th Street.Service runs every 30 minutes during themidday on Tuesdays, Thursdays andweekends.

SDERA has acquired NewarkSubway #10, which it has renumbered534. It is under repair at UnitedTransportation Company inPennsylvania, but the project needs morefunding to reach completion.

San Francisco MuniThe Market Street Railway

newsletter reports that double-endedPCCs #1006 and 1008 (St. Louis 1948)have returned to service after a completerebuild by Brookville Manufacturing andcarry the green and white Muni colorscheme. They will be joined soon byidentical 1009 and 1011. The four new

rehabs will join sisters #1007, 1010 and1015 that were restored in the 1980s.

The double-enders are part of alarger project to rehab streetcars to meetdemand on the F-Land and start up the E-Line. The E-Line will travel fromFisherman’s Wharf to AT&T Park andthe Caltrain Station via the Embarcadero,using existing F-Line and T-Line tracks.

Muni streetcar #1 (Holman 1912)returned to service in October 2012 afteran extensive rehab. Other recentcompletions include Muni #1040, the lastproduction PCC in America, and a groupof 11 ex-Twin Cities, ex-Newark PCCs,numbered 1070-1080.

Shore Line Trolley Museum East Haven, CT

Hurricane Sandy struck Shore Lineand the water was 8" deeper than Irene.

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However, some pre-storm planningminimized the losses this time. Twelvecars placed at the highest locations on theline stayed dry. All shop equipmentmotors were removed and stored at a safeheight.

With help from local firefighters thepower station was sand bagged, alongwith the Sprague building basement. 24inches of water outside the power stationresulted in only 2 inches inside. Waterrose to 4 feet outside the Spraguebasement but only 8 inches inside.

Roof sheets were torn off buildings4 and 6 but the walls remained in place.All of the cars that had been flooded inIrene and not yet repaired were floodedagain, and a few of the repaired carssustained minor to moderate flooding aswell

Shore Line is raising $2 million tobeen new carhouses on higher ground.As of October $500,000 remained to beraised. Had the buildings been available60 cars would have been high and dryinstead of 12 cars.

Southern Ontario LocomotiveRestoration Society

The Society has acquired NationalResearch Council S-3 diesel #6593,originally Canadian Pacific #6593.

Southern Prairie Railway Ogema, SK

This recent tourist operation haspurchased former Portland Terminal T-6 diesel (Alco 1968) from the KettleValley Steam Railway.

Timber Heritage Association Eureka,CA

The Humboldt Builders’ Exchange,which represents local constructioncontractors, recently donatedconsiderable labor and materials toadvancing the rehabilitation of theassociation’s multi-building Samoa shopcomplex. One 2500 square foot roof wasstripped, repaired and sheathed. Twosmall sheds were completely reroofed.Damaged support posts were repaired.Period siding replaced inappropriatemodern materials. 40 volunteers from 12companies donated 214 hours and 16companies donated materials.

Trolley Museum of New YorkThe long-awaited rebuilding of the

museum’s former Ulster & Delawaretrack to Kingston Point is underway. It’sfunded by a $779,200 federalTransportation Enhancement grant, plusby $86,578 from the New YorkDepartment of State.

West Chester Railroad West Chester, PA

Exelon Power has donated a GP38that worked at the recently closed powerplant in Phoenixville, PA. The unit isfully operational.

Western New York Railway HistoricalSociety Buffalo, NY

The Society continues to develop itsHeritage Discovery Center museum site,funded by a $100,000 grant from theMargaret L. Wendt Foundation. They arealso $15,000 away from matching ananonymous $50,000 matching grant. Avery large solar panel installation hasbeen completed on a building roof. It willreduce electrical cost by more than 40percent. Work underway includes twonew bathrooms, electrical repairs,additional security cameras, renovationof the planned gift shop area andinstallation of a catering kitchen.

Wilmington & Western Wilmington, DE

A new replica tender has beenfabricated for 4-4-0 #98 to replace theoriginal.

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First Class Railroad Pins and PatchesThree generations of Boston Blue Lineequipment pose at Seashore TrolleyMuseum, following a painting session.Left to right are #0622 (Hawker-Siddeley1978), #0559 (St. Louis 1951) and #0622(Pullman 1924). Jim Schantz photo.

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AFFILIATESLubrication Specialties Corp.

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Mineral Based Pin Bearing & Journal OilChelesic Biodegradable Pin Bearing &

Journal Oil

Lunar Tool / Listerhill TMCEngineering Support, Machining, Welding, Fabrication, Assembly

Coastal Inspection Services, Inc.

Industrial & Marine NondestructiveTesting since 1981

“Turning Back The Hands Of Time”

OUR MISSIONSteam Operations Corporation endeavors to provide superior management and restoration services for steam

locomotives and related historic railroad equipment with an overriding responsibility to the integrity of the equipment and the needs of the client.

Telephone: 205-908-6104 P. O. Box 101981, Birmingham, Alabama 35210Email: General Information: Scott@steamoperations.com

Engineering: Mark@steamoperations.com Website: www.steamoperations.com

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Irwin Car and EquipmentAtlas Car Products

PO Box 409 Irwin, PA. 15642Contact Bill Springer

Ph. 724-864-8900

Scenic Railroad and Museum Car PartsTwo of America’s favorite past Times

Atlas Car Products can help make sure that your cars stay on track, operate safely and maintain their historical integrity with our stocked parts and extensive line of distributed

products.

Couplers and Replacement PartsSharon 10 and 10A CouplersWillison and Willison Reduced CouplersKnuckles, Locklifts, Levers, Latches, PinsCoupler Pockets

Stocked and Distributed PartsAxles Gear Guards Traction MotorsBrake Components Gears and Pinions Traction Motor Axle LinersBearings Hoses (Air and Grease) Truck AssembliesBolsters Rubber Cushion Pads WheelsCouplers Side Frames Wheel SetsBrake Cylinders Springs

Atlas Car Products has Truck Assembly Repairs and Rebuild capabilities with a truck shop and motor repair shop located at the same site.

Services Include:Truck Assembly Repairs & RebuildsTraction Motor RepairsWheel Re-profilingWheel & Bearing ReplacementCustom ManufacturingWheel & Axle Shop

For parts that no longer available, let our engineering staff reverse-engineer them with our high tech Faro-Arm coordinate equipment.

Atlas Car Products also supplies parts for captive services, maintenance of way, and steelmills.

Look for Atlas Products at www.irwincar.com

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Six weekends each year, the NorthPend Oreille Lions Club runsexcursions on the Pend OreilleValley’s 10-mile line from Ione(above) to Metaline Falls, WA. Thetrain consists of three heavyweights,two open air cars and a caboose. TheMetaline Falls depot is a MilwaukeeRoad baggage car under a canopy.The scenic highlights of the trip aretwo tunnels and the bridge over theBox Canyon Dam and hydro powerstation (below). Lower right Reid Eichner photo.

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