$5.95 Canada, Postpaid ALLAN SHERRY Riverdale 71, N. Y. 5445 Netherland Ave. Real results Who says TRAINS Magazine doesn't get results? We now have real proof that it does, for with the help of Reader Robert P. Biggart of Brooklyn, N. Y., we have finally been able to identify the picture printed on page 50 of the December 1961 issue. At his suggestion we wrote to the president of the Bush Terminal Company in Brooklyn. The reply very fully identifies the scene as the Bush Terminal classification yard-looking north from 49th to 43rd Street, between 1st Avenue and the waterfront - and the time as between 1913 and 1914. We are most grateful to you and to Mr. Biggart for contributing to the solution of this puzzlement, and to others who sent in suggestions which were run down but did not prove out. L. I. McDougle. Assistant Manager, Public Relations Department, Association of American Railroads, Washington 5, D. C. After having had the December 1961 issue of TRAINS for several weeks, and after having looked at the railroad scene on page 50 any number of times, realization finally arrived. The location of the photo is the yard of the Bush Terminal in Brooklyn, N. Y. The yard is between 1st Avenue on the right (between the last row of box cars and the one-story buildings) and a row of large warehouses on the left. These warehouses face Upper New York Bay on the other side. The photo was taken from the south end of the yard, facing north. It was probably shot from the elevated footbridge which crosses the yard from east to west. The large building on the right in the background is today the plant of the American Can Company. Stanley J. Moskowitz. 259 S. Harrison St., Apt. 5-G, East Orange, N. J. For shame! Shame on Dave Morgan! For a person so sagacious in matters pertaining to locomotives, he erred rather badly when he stated on page 34 of January TRAINS that no imports have been placed inside a U.S. roundhouse for over a century. Perhaps it's just the British influence in me. However, as a citizen of Canada and the Commonwealth, may I remind you of at least three known imports and for all I know, there may be others. They are as follows: 1. The Fairlie 0-4-4-0 tank engine Mountaineer of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad (3-foot gauge) built by Vulcan Foundry in 1873. 2. The 2-4-0 Webb compound express engine built by Beyer Peacock & Company in 1888 for the Pennsylvania Railroad. 3. The 4-4-0 James Toleman, a fourcylinder simple express engine exhibited at Chicago's Columbian Exposition in 1893 and used in tests after the closing of the exhibition. It was Hawthorn built. Incidentally, said testing was on the Milwaukee Road. Purdue University was its final owner. Of course, none of these were successful, nor did they have any lasting influence on American practice. Perhaps this does not augur well for the German imports. Harvey Dust. 1660 Hansuld St., London, Ont., Canada. Swedish visitor At the Centennial International Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876 a little Swedish engine was displayed. It was named Nyhammar and was an 0-6-2T for 3-foot gauge (the "normal" narrow gauge in Sweden). Kristinehamns Mekaniska Werkstad built the locomotive in 1875 for the Nyhammar Railway but the railway was never completed and the locomotive order was canceled. The KMW could not find a buyer for the engine at that time, so the company sent it to Philadelphia. After the exhibition it was shipped back to Sweden and was sold to Hjo Stenstorp Railway, where it was named Tidaholm and used in mainline Box 57 LeRoy, Ohio COMING IN 1962 The Big Book on Pennsy Power PRR Photo Jim C. Seacrest. SILVER cars among the gold: UP's once yellow hacks now blend with Q equipment. Advice for railfans The Railway Enthusiasts Society of New Zealand had in its October 1961 issue of Yarn an item that some of our railfans should read. In reporting on one of the society's trips, the editor added: The other point is the continued rudeness and bad manners of a few of our photographers. Out of 300 passengers on the 23rd only some 50odd were photographers. Yet many passengers never got a chance all day to have a close look at the locos! They too paid 10/-, and without their support no trip could be run and no camera action would be possible. I for one will not deny any passenger the right to look around a locomotive, especially on a family outing. Yet later after I had cleared people away several times to please these (few but very rowdy) rude ones at Sunnyvale I made a small request of this crowd of shutter-bugs. It was an easy common-sense request. At least six just disregarded me, such was the thanks I got for assisting this crowd of selfish people. It is well to remember that we could run the trips much easier without any photo stops at all! 145 S. Woodlawn, Decatur, Ill. Superb F. W. Schaub. "Firelight on the Sky" [page 36, January TRAINS] is superb adult writing. It is as far removed from the usual "I seen it and I done it" reminiscence as a Rembrandt is above a comic book sketch. Sign up Mr. Jaques for a lot more like this one, and you'll bring an entirely new coterie of readers to TRAINS. Roy Clark. Sunshine Meadows, Box 241, Keystone Lake, Odessa, Fla. prominence. He's a wonderful person, quiet, unassuming, but with a wealth of love for railroads. He and I enjoy as many railroad visits together as we can work in. J. A. Slocum. P. O. Box 1148, Minneapolis 40, Minn. Erroneous rumor As much as I would like to say that the report is true, there is no intention on the part of the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton to restore passenger service on the Ann Arbor [page 6, January TRAINS]. DT&I President Dave Smucker is at a loss as to how a Toledo Blade reporter could have come up with this impression. The only possible clue was testimony that regular scheduled ferry service would attract more vehicle and passenger revenue during the summer season than is now attracted by the Ann Arbor's nonscheduled service between Frankfort and cross-lake ports. So it was just a dream in the typewriter of a newspaper reporter. Cleland B. Wyllie. 3926 E. Delhi Rd., RFD No. 1, Ann Arbor, Mich. Silver for UP cabooses TRAINS readers already know that Burlington and Union Pacific operate combined diesels through from Green River, Wyo., to Chicago, Ill. [page 9, July 1961 TRAINS]. But do many know that UP decided that its yellow cabooses didn't look well on Burlington lines and repainted several? A number of UP cabooses have been repainted silver with black roofs and undercarriage, and red lettering. They are also radio equipped. The photograph [page 50] shows some of them next to CB&Q cabooses at Lincoln, Nebr. Lincoln is a crew change point under joint Q-UP freight movements. Jim C. Seacrest. 2750 Woodscrest, Lincoln 2, Nebr. New operating museum We are pleased to announce that Indiana has its own operating rail museum. It is located at Westport, Ind., on state highway 3 and is centrally located between Cincinnati, O., Louisville, Ky., and Indianapolis, Ind. The museum has a physical connection with the New York Central at Westport. In January 1961 the Milwaukee Road abandoned 26 miles of track between Westport and Seymour, Ind. Until that time Westport had the distinction of being the eastern terminus of the Milwaukee Road. We were able to obtain 3000 feet of its track and an additional mile of connecting roadbed. Within this roadbed is a large timber trestle in perfect condition. We have relaid 600 feet of track on the old roadbed which gives us our connection with the NYC. At the present time our motive power consists of a Fairmont motor car and trailer. Many people rode on this car last summer. We have purchased car 318 of the Chicago Aurora & Elgin Railroad and we expect delivery of this car from Wheaton, Ill., in the near future. 8mm. MOVIES (All Listed Movies Are in 8mm., Black and White) AND 2" x 2" COLOR SLIDES LARGEST SELECTION OF RAILROAD NARROW GAUGE TRAIN Photographed by Mac Owen Here's the comprehensive and beautifully photographed story of The Silverton from early the summer morning when little Mikado No. 476 heads for the turntable until late that afternoon when she uncouples from the train and backs to the yards. There are shots made from the train from on top of the cars from the pilot of the locomotive inside the train and very effective scenes made of the train at vantage points along the way between Durango and Silverton. 810-315, 8mm. version, about 300-feet on 2 reels, pp-21c 620-118, 16mm. silent version, about 600-feet on 2 reels, pp-19c $11.98 $39.98 WHEN STEAM WAS KING Photographed by Edwin E. Olsen Originally photographed in the late 1940's and early 1950's by Edwin E. Olsen, one of the photographers of Cinerama South Seas Adventure, this set has some striking and dramatic shots of steam on the Boston and Maine; Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac; Seaboard; New York Central; Pennsylvania; Nickel Plate; Wheeling and Lake Erie; Southern; Erie: Rock Island; Great Northern; Milwaukee; Colorado and Southern; Rio Grande; Union Pacific; Southern Pacific; and the Santa Fe at Raton and Glorieta including scenes of double-headers and triple-headers fighting up these passes! 350-357, 48 35mm. 2"x2" color slides, pp-12c...... $7.98 OF THE UNION PACIFIC (20 slides), pp-6c......$3.29 350-217, FROM DENVER TO GLENWOOD SPRINGS ON THE CALIFORNIA ZEPHYR (20 slides), pp-6c. $3.29 350-256, LONDON'S STATIONS AND RAILWAYS $4.98 $4.29 THE D. & R. $4.98 (20 slides), pp.6c $3.29 350-27, NORFOLK & WESTERN (32 slides), pp-9c 350-254, RAILROADS AROUND NEW YORK CITY (40 slides), pp.9c $5.29 $6.29 350-17, RAILROADS, U.S.A. (47 slides), pp-12c 350-53. RIO GRANDE NARROW GAUGE (20 slides), pp-6c .$7.98 350-177, STEAM LOCOMOTIVES IN COLORADO AND WYOMING (20 slides), pp.6c..... 350-10, VIRGINIAN RAILROAD STEAM LOCOMOTIVES (23 slides), pp. 9c .... .$3.29 $3.29 $3.79 Note: Write for Blackhawk's big free catalog of 8mm. and 16mm. movies and 35mm. 2"x2" color slides. Blackhawk Filmi 603 EASTIN-PHELAN BLDG. Overhead wire will be erected as time and money permit. This spring we will build a station on the site of the old Milwaukee station in Westport. Also we hope to keep laying more track. The total cost of our project has been $8100 so far. Of this amount, $7000 has gone to the Milwaukee and $1100 to the NYC for track material. We have been able to raise $5900 through contributions and membership fees. Membership is $5 per year for active members and $2.50 for associate. Anyone wishing to join may write to Robert Dale Brown, treasurer, Indiana Railway Museum Inc., R. 1, St. Paul, Ind. All correspondence should be directed to Don H. Montgomery at the address below. The days of operation are Sundays from 1:30 p.m. to p.m., May through October. Westport is easy to find; highway 3 is a main Michigan-to-Florida tourist route. Don H. Montgomery. President, Indiana Railway Museum Inc., 407 E. Fifth St., Greensburg, Ind. In the November 1961 instalment of "TRAINS Goes Round the World" [page 43] Morgan says that trains of 5000 tons are unheard of on any of the continents he visited. He might like to know that coal trains weighing over 5000 tons are used on the Stirling North Marree Railway from the Leigh Creek coalfields to the Port Pirie powerhouse. These trains are hauled by two 1750 h.p. General Motors diesels built by Clyde in New South Wales. He also might like to know that the transcontinental operates freight trains that average 41 mph for the 1108 miles between Port Pirie and Kalgoorlie. T. Buxton. 23 Menzies Ave., Brighton Bch., Melbourne, Australia. fan trips or a club room. Anyone who would like to join this club may write to me for information concerning the time and place of meetings. The club will consist primarily of younger people. Michael R. Decker. 6647 N. Crawford Ave., Lincolnwood 46, Ill. Same Christen? Isn't the Christen Smith which brought over the six diesel-hydraulics [page 34, January TRAINS] the same ship shown on pages 28-29 of January 1961 TRAINS? If so, the cargoes make a striking contrast. Preston, Minn. Jon DeVries. The Norwegian line Christen Smith & Company operates the vessel and has always had one ship so named. However, the ship which was used in the movement of the Baldwin 2-10-2's was not the same one which brought over the German diesel-hydraulics inasmuch as the present vessel was constructed in 1947. Today's Christen Smith appears on page 8 of February TRAINS. A month after her call at Houston she picked up 15 Key System units at San Francisco for transporting to Buenos Aires. - R.E. I 2-99 it is exposed to the weather and protected SECOND SECTION plated them. So painstaking was the res Any guesses on the cover? All those closely cropped horizontals on the cover this month are enough to try the souls of those who would attempt much more than road identification. To relieve further puzzlement, here's the list from top down: Boston & Maine MB-6 with 131 cars skirting the shore of Pine Lake, N. Y., en route to Boston behind a 5400 h.p. FT (by Jim Shaughnessy); Santa Fe 162-regeared, fitted with steam generators, and painted up in passenger colors-crossing the Canyon Diablo Bridge in Arizona; New York, Ontario & Western 106-car freight at Cook Falls, N. Y., en route to Scranton behind a 5400 h.p. FT (by Jim Shaughnessy); Burlington's first FT, No. 100, in January 1944 when it was brand new; Santa Fe No. 86 ready to depart Chanute, Kans., for Kansas City behind three-unit FT No. 108 (by Wallace W. Abbey); and Great Northern 5900, another three-unit FT, helping the Empire Builder's 4-8-4 across the Continental Divide. Anyone score 100 per cent? As we editorialized some years ago, our idea of how not to preserve the memory of steam is to mount some nondescript locomotive outdoors in a city park, where toration that nuts on the smokebox door Thus, we have the right engine in the Sincerest congratulations are extended to all concerned. Elsewhere: Unintentionally we omitted giving credit to two men for material in recent TRAINS. G. P. Vance Jr. of Abingdon, Va., did a great deal of historical research on the Graham County story ("Sidewinders and a Singing Engineer," February TRAINS) and turned up many of the older prints. And the Pennsylvania Limited shot on pages 16-17 of March TRAINS should have been credited to the collection of E. P. Alexander. . . . As usual, we were inundated with Christmas cards last December, a circumstance of much happiness for the staff. The greeting I especially enjoyed came from reader Robert G. Monette, who added this to his message: "P. S. This card is starting its journey on the Lark." Дта P. S. In April 1961 there began much hammering and sawing and wiring halfway down the hall between the sales offices and the composing room on the sixth floor here at 1027 N. 7th St., Milwaukee. And approximately 2400 man-hours later, on September 27 to be exact, we turned out our first Dycril plate. Art Director David A. Strassman explains what it all means to TRAINS in this dispatch: It is often as frustrating as it is gratifying to find that many TRAINS readers take note of the mechanics of our magazine. If we change a type face or layout style or spruce up a mailing envelope, we receive comments pro and con. Some of our watchbirds have spotted a recent variation in the printing quality of TRAINS. We're excited about it too since it is the result of a major technological advance in the printing industry. Kalmbach magazines are printed letterpress on high-speed two-color rotaries. Because the printing plates are curved to fit the rotary cylinders, the image you see on paper is only a distant cousin of the original art or photograph or copy. In reproducing a photograph, for example, we first make a halftone negative, then a flat photoengraving from the negative, then a flexible mold from the engraving, and finally a curved electrotype from the mold. It doesn't take a printer to understand that each duplication or transfer of an image takes away some of the quality, no matter how good the original. ] TRAINS bound volume No. 21 at $7.50 J TRAINS bound volume No. 20 at $7.50 J TRAINS bound volume No. 19 at $7.50 TRAINS bound volume No. 18 at $7.50 TRAINS bound volume No. 17 at $7.50 TRAINS bound volume No. 16 at $7.50 TRAINS bound volume No. 15 at $7.50 TRAINS bound volume No. 14 at $7.50 TRAINS bound volume No. 13 at $7.50 TRAINS bound volume No. 12 at $7.50 TRAINS bound volume No. 11 at $7.50 TRAINS bound volume No. 10 at $7.50 TRAINS bound volume No. 9 at $7.50 TRAINS bound volume No. 7 at $7.50 Name Address City, Zone, State We have never been completely satisfied with the reproduction thus obtained. A new type of letterpress printing plate developed by Du Pont now makes it possible to shorten this process and bring the final image closer to the original. That first halftone negative is used to expose directly a photosensitive curved printing plate, eliminating the intermediate steps. This photopolymer material, Dycril,* is one of the modernday solids generally termed "plastic" by the layman. It is a far cry, however, from the handle of your toothbrush or the transparent wrapper around your laundered shirts. Dycril has been developed specifically for the printing industry, and plates of this material are regularly giving press runs equal to those formerly produced by nickel-plated electrotypes. Kalmbach Publishing Co. has just completed the installation of new platemaking, stripping, and camera departments. Starting with sections of the December 1961 issues of our magazines, we moved into a transition period that points toward complete use of Dycril by mid-1962. During the changeover, any particular issue of TRAINS may be partly electrotype and partly Dycril printed, and as is inevitable with experimentation, the quality will vary. You may have noticed that some pages of recent issues appeared over-inked. This will be cleared up as we become accustomed to the entirely different surface characteristics of Dycril. On the bright side, look at the photograph reproductions on pages 30-31 and 40-49 of the December issue. Also inspect pages 44-45 of the January issue and the cover of the February issue. With Dycril plates we have achieved great improvement in the snap and contrast of halftones, without graying the middle tones or filling up the detail so dear to our readers. We are now able to print solid blacks in the shadows where no detail exists, and we are able to drop out dots entirely in sparkling highlight reflections. In this issue of TRAINS, the fourpage cover form and pages 15-46 are printed from Dycril plates. We are proud to be one of the very first publishers to introduce this new quality to long-run magazine printing. We think TRAINS readers deserve it. I |