35mm COLOR SLIDES from the camera of A. C. Kalmbach Here is a new all new series of color slides which bring the action and beauty of railroading right into your living room. These combine the picture-taking advantages available to TRAINS magazine and its staff with the knowhow and quality reproduction of Blackhawk. The new Anscochrome Duplicating stock used assures you of absolute, top-quality pictures. Check these outstandingly different slide sets STEAM RAILROADING SPECTACULAR set, a selection 350-343 of the photographer's favorite shots of the last days 48 slides, $7.98 of steam 350-354 SUBURBAN RUSH HOUR IN THE DAYS OF STEAM ON THE C&NW set, photographed from signal bridge at the throat of Chicago terminal - 30 slides, $4.98 USE COUPON TO ORDER YOUR BLACKHAWK-TRAINS SLIDE SETS number 34 of a series Editor awaits train IT would frighten us to be charged with the responsibility for a Time or a Newsweek, whose beat is the world and all that's important therein. It's all we can do to simply keep abreast of the changes within a single industry (e.g., Mexico's new line to the coast, German diesel-hydraulics on test for D&RGW and SP, NYC+PRR, the Super's 25th birthday) which, in turn, points up the case for the specialized publication. Trains are the sole concern of TRAINS, So we can report them exclusively and in depth-and without being involved in the U.N. and the New Jersey elections and other nonrail news that is beyond our province. Indeed, so close is TRAINS to its subject that our readers frown if the editor admits he took a plane anywhere or if they think we're favoring this line or that diesel make. Reasons why TRAINS is the magazine of railroading. We Solicit Your Attention tions, 58 E. 34th St., New York 16, N. Y.) is certainly different. This is the first record I have auditioned which actually brought the lady of the house back of her own accord (after she had instinctively retired to the kitchen in self defense) to listen to an entire side. Despite this phenomenon, it is a good rail recording. Long the master of storytelling with sound, Link has returned to the Norfolk & Western with his professional equipment and sympathetic ear. The mockingbird is authentic and fascinating. So is the 2-8-8-2 Y6 in the background, laboriously climbing a 7-mile grade on Salt branch out of Glade Spring, Va. You can listen to either one, depending upon your taste. Heard together, they are in complete harmony. The Y6 does top the grade and drown out the bird, with the man in the cab proclaiming his love for the job with inspired steam whistling. Close up, the Y6 snuffles and clanks and wheezes and roars as it manhandles 46 loads up the branch. It is a thoroughly satisfying sequence. "2nd Pigeon" turns out to be another Y6 without feathers. This was the Pigeon Creek shifter, a switching run that serviced coal country sidings between Williamson and Kermit, W. Va. Adroit time-lapse editing compresses the entire 38-mile round trip onto one side. This is an on-train recording, made from a special caboose spotted two car-lengths from the 2-8-8-2. It is realistic. When the slack comes crashing down the line of empty hoppers toward the caboose, you'd better get a good grip on your chair! Jacket notes are complete. Though the content is fresh and the technical quality excellent, this record is overshadowed by Link's earlier Thunder on Blue Ridge. I 2-99 SECOND SECTION Hello, there . . One of the editors here on the fifth floor at 1027 North 7th Street always defines "to edit" as meaning "to throw out," Webster's notwithstanding. His point is that no publication, not even the Times, has the space or can afford the paper and ink to print everything, so it's up to someone the editor to throw out the irrelevant and send just the interesting and/or important to the linotype. This can be a job, particularly when writing our news columns. For instance, I've culled a few items which, though not vital, are readable. Out West, Southern Pacific has taken down its huge (44 feet high, 77 feet wide) and controversial flashing sign from atop its headquarters at 65 Market Street, San Francisco much to the delight of the local press which thought it marred the city's sky line. Sort of ironic, for how often have the rails been criticized for failing to merchandise themselves? Then here's the countdown on Rio Grande's narrowgauge Silverton: last summer its Mikes hauled more than 38,000 riders up the Animas River Canyon vs. a few more than 37,000 in the 1960 season. Two entries on B&O: first, as a result of tests of the German-built Auto-Porter on the National Limited [photo on page 11] the road is investigating the possibility of hauling the autos of passengers behind the train on which they're riding; and second, President Jervis Langdon Jr. figures that if B&O had received a subsidy comparable to that of its barge and truck competitors, 25 to 45 million dollars of its expenses would have been picked up by the Government, so that even in 1961 - when the road dropped between 25 and 30 million dollars - it Iwould have been on easy street. And here's a bit of semantics from C&O, which has changed the name of its combination highway-rail vehicles from "Railvan" to "Roadrailer." This was done out of consideration for the fact that the original trade name would be dated when flat, tank, gondola, and other nonvan-type bodies became available. Also this: 30 of the two-unit, articulated Key System electrics that once rode the Bay Bridge have been sold to Buenos Aires (which is one up for the Latins, in our book). And we must confess mental alarm over the image conjured up concerning elderly freight equipment by Walter A. Renz, executive v.p. of the American Railway Car Institute. He has told the U. S. Treasury that because of unrealistic depreciation rates on rolling stock (up to 30 years), the average age of freight cars is nearly 19 years, which has "clogged our rails with superannuated jalopies." True, when space is tight news items like these must give way to such big cannon fodder as the renewal of NYC + PRR, and yet we occasionally wonder if the summary of all of railroading's marginal notes wouldn't create a picture in depth of the industry today. Джад P.S. Do you know what Western Pacific is shipping in carload lots from Teasdale Packing of San Jose, Calif.? Why, canned water in six-packs, of course! Canned under the trade name of U.S. Aqua, the scientifically processed vacuum-packed HO is recommended for desert-bound motorists, campers, hunters. fishermen, for fallout shelters, the Red Cross and Salvation Army, and so forth. WP proudly moved the first transcontinental carload of U. S. Aqua (to Florida) last August 4, according to its Mileposts, and Aqua packer L. W. Teasdale called it "just the beginning." And he added: "We won't run out of the stuff. either, as our well runs down some 500 feet." I RUNG EXTRA X1027 [Although every possible precaution is taken to insure New Year's holiday exDecember 28-January 1: cursion to Mexico will be sponsored by Golden West Railfans. Santa Fe special train leaves Los Angeles Thursday afternoon, proceeds via Phoenix, Ariz. From there Southern Pacific takes train to Tucson, then to international border at over freight-only branch Train will operate 300 miles down west Nogales. coast of Mexico on lines of Ferrocarril del Pacifico far as as Pacific of Mexico) Day (formerly Southern Guaymas, resort center on Gulf of California. will be spent at Playa de Cortes Hotel, with sightOn return seeing, cruising on bay, and swimming. New trip stop will be made in Hermosillo, capital of Sonora state, for several hours of sight-seeing. Year's Eve will feature celebration on board train Return to Los traveling northward toward Phoenix. Angeles is scheduled for late Monday afternoon. Consist will comprise heavyweight Pullmans, open-door baggage car, full-length lounges, and Santa Fe's openFare, $169 (lower platform observation-lounge car. berth), including 12 meals, all side tours. For further details and complete brochure, write Golden West Railfans, 215 W. 5th St., Rm. 323, Los Angeles 13, Calif. 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