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THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR

Engine No. 476 is assigned to the run and our camera picks up this little Mikado in the yards at Durango as she moves onto the turntable and prepares to power the ten-coach train on this day's round trip to Silverton. There are detailed shots of both the locomotive and the train at departure time, and across the meadows north of Durango.

As the train approaches the 700-ft. high ledge in the cliffs near Rockwood, and snakes around the high curves, we are treated to scenes shot both from the train, and of the train from across the canyon. And there are some very effective scenes made from the head end of the locomotive itself as it creeps along the ledge.

Our film shows the train as it passes "Ah Wilderness" ranch as it takes on water as it winds through the canyon of the Animas River and as it pulls into Silverton. Then, after two hours for lunch and souvenir buying on the part of the passengers, the departure on the return trip is pictured. There are scenes along the rushing river, scenes inside the train and the final arrival back at Durango as the afternoon's shadows are lengthening. And, to wind up, the film, we see the flagman removing the marker lanterns from the last coach, and No. 476 backing to the yards.

825-2, 8mm. color film, about 175-feet, pp-18c.. $19.98

THE C. & S.

CLIMAX SPUR

High in the Colorado Rockies the highest point of any standard gauge railroad in North America is the C. & S. Climax Spur over which a lone Consolidation with a bright red snow plow is the only motive power unit. The spur provides an outlet to the outside world for the molybdenum mines at Climax via Leadville, on what was once a portion of the fabled C. & S. narrow gauge. Our film shows scenes in a day's operation.

820-2, 8mm. color film, about 50-feet, pp-3c...... $3.99

WESTERN PACIFIC'S

4-6-0 No. 94

On the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the Western
Pacific, America's last transcontinental railroad, the line
made up a special three car train which one of its little
original 4-6-0's, No. 94, pulled east out of Oakland to meet
the Westbound California Zephyr. There No. 94 coupled on
ahead of the Zephyr's diesel-electric locomotive and headed
up the streamliner's run to its Oakland destination.
820-10, 8mm. color film, about 50-feet, pp-3c..... $3.99

STEAM on the

MAGMA ARIZONA

Some highlights in the steam operation of this little Arizona
short line the star of which is the beautifully maintained
2-8-0 No. 5. Our film pictures sequences from one day's run
of No. 5 and its train from Magma to Superior, Arizona,
where it connects with the Southern Pacific, and its change
of consist and return to Magma. Some very effective action
shots are included.
$3.99

820-9, 8mm. color film, about 50-feet, pp-3c.....

LOGGING RAILROADS OF THE WEST

WEST SIDE LUMBER

This 8mm. color film incorporates a substantial amount of the original material dealing with West Side Lumber of Tuolumne, Calif., that is included in our 2-reel black and white fim, "Logging Railroads of the West." The West Side Lumber operation has, just this past year, transferred from railroad to highway trucks, and the picutresque logging road is no more. But you'll see the narrow gauge and standard power the Shays and the Heislers the line's sharp curves and high trestles its long trains of logs rocking and rolling along through cuts and gashes in the forestjust as they did for so many years in California's High Sierra

country.

825-3, 8mm. color film, about 100-feet, pp-18c.... $8.99 Note: Write for Blackhawk's big free catalog of 8mm. and 16mm. movies and 2"x2" color slides!

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dled 45 per cent of the freight business
while the railways had to be content with
a mere 39 per cent. Truckers handled 15
per cent of the market. Passengerwise the
JNR has more than enough commuters
but is watching the long distance first-
class trade with an eagle eye. Domestic
airlines are just beginning to feel their
oats. In 1960 they carried less than 1 per
cent of Japan's passengers, but by 1970
they will tote an estimated 2 per cent. In
the same span of time auto traffic will
climb from the 5 per cent level to 10 per
cent. Bus traffic will rise from 18 per cent
to 28 per cent. And the railroads? In 1960
they accommodated 77 per cent of the na-
tion's passengers. In 1970 that figure will
- unless
slide to an estimated 60 per cent-
tariff inequalities are corrected by govern-
ment. Sound familiar?

STANDARD-GAUGE COMPLETION: The cry
"All change at Albury" is a thing of the
past. Two of Australia's most important
centers, Sydney and Melbourne, are now
connected by standard-gauge rails [page
8]. The first through train left Sydney at
3:25 p.m. January 2, 1962. At Junee Con-
ductor Frank Blackwell boarded the his-
toric train and, at Albury, became the first
"guard" to hand a through consist over to
a Victorian Railways crew. Remarks Mr.
Blackwell on the new service, "[It] seems
to be going pretty smoothly."

INDIAN RAILWAY EXPANSION: The Central Railway, an operating territory of the Indian Railways, has completed more than two-thirds of its new 187-mile metergauge line between Khandwa and Hingali. Another new link-60 miles - is planned between Diva and Dasgaon near Bombay. On the Western Railway 120 miles of new trackage was opened to traffic in 1960. Construction is proceeding apace on some additional 144 miles of broad-gauge and 133 miles of meter-gauge rights of way. The South Eastern Railway, not to be outdone, has completed 186 miles of new construction, is busy with another 100-mile link, and has surveying teams lining up still another 310-mile broad-gauge route. India's railway future looks bright from here.

FIRST COMMERCIAL MONORAIL: The Nagoya Railway Company, a Japanese interurban system, has built that nation's first common-carrier monorail line. Ninetenths of a mile in length, the route connects Rhine Park and Inuyama Zoo. Service was inaugurated in March 1962 and patronage has been excellent. The builder: Hitachi-Alweg.

Branch in Oregon. Like most other
ber companies, it now uses railroads
to haul the logs from truck rela
points to the mills. The McGiffert will
donated to the Klamath County Museu
... Also recently retired at Klamath Fa
was Weyerhaeuser's last active steam
comotive, 2-6-6-2 No. 6, which will go
display at the mill. The Mallet last ran
1960. Weyerhaeuser also has 2-6-6-2T N
108 on display at Longview, Wash.,
recently donated 2-6-2 No. 100 to the c
of Sutherlin, Ore. . . . Newly arrived d
sels for Grays Harbor Tree Farm railro
of Rayonier Incorporated, on Washington
Olympic Peninsula, have been number
45 and 90 after two of the steam engine
they replaced: 2-6-2 No. 45 (now a
display at Hoquiam, Wash.) and 2-8-2 M
90. The diesels were formerly Southen
Pacific 5273 and 5275. . . . The Milw
kee Road has received I.C.C. permission
to acquire control of Washington, Idaho &
Montana Railway, lumber-hauling com
mon carrier owned by Potlatch Fores
Inc. A Milwaukee subsidiary, Milwauke
Land Company, will pay $460,000 for the
50-mile Idaho short line. . . . Klickit
Log & Lumber Company's two Shays d
Klickitat, Wash., may remain active despi
reports that the logging road would b
abandoned.

NEW POWER FOR THE SQUEAK: New Jersey's ailing New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad has obtained a Federally guaranteed loan to buy three new EMD diesels which will replace several of its aging, first-of-the-breed Alco road switchers.

FOLLOW THAT ENGINE!: Georgia's Stone Mountain Scenic Railroad [page 10 April 1962 TRAINS], on which ex-Central of Georgia 4-4-0 No. 349, as the Texas will pursue ex-Louisiana Eastern 440 No. 1, as the General, has been formally opened for locomotive chases.

NEW WADLEY SOUTHERN: Swainsboro (Ga.) businessmen have purchased Wadley Southern Railway from the Central of Georgia for $79,000. The new company Wadley Southern Railroad, expects to operate five or six days a week with s diesel rented from CofG. Service will be freight only. The road hauls mostly pulpwood and other raw materials.

STEAM ROAD: Rockton & Rion Railway 12-mile South Carolina quarry line which operates for intrastate traffic only, has added another engine to its roster of steam. No. 31, a 2-8-2 purchased from Woodward Iron Company of Birmingham, Ala., joins an identical Woodward engine, No. 19, which has been on the R&R for a number of years.

TOGETHERNESS: Atlantic & Western Railway, which recently trimmed its line from 24 to 3.4 miles, has scrapped its last steamers- two disused 2-8-0's. The North Carolina road's No. 10 and No. 12 bore

ORT LINES adjacent Baldwin construction numbers

WILLIAM S. YOUNG

NORTHWEST LOGGERS: Weyerhaeuser Company has retired its last McGiffert log loader and no longer loads cars directly at the cutting site on its Klamath Falls

from the year 1911 and were of identical design. No. 10, however, was originally built for the Elkin & Alleghany in western North Carolina and later was owned by a lumber company; No. 12 was built for the Raleigh & Southport, which became part of the Norfolk Southern. They were brought together again some time after ward on the Atlantic & Western-and were scrapped together. I

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