THE OVERLAND ROUTE
Union Pacific Railroad by Ross Grenard and John Krause
Shirley Burman was inducted into the Winterail Hall of Fame on March 9, 2013. Winterail producer Vic Neves (left) and Dick Dorn performed the honors. Shirley joins late husband Richard Steinheimer in the hall, which honors people who have made a lasting mark on western railroad photography. A few minutes later, Dick Dorn surprised Vic Neves, as Vic was also inducted into the Hall of Fame,
and yours truly. In addition, NRHS presi- dent Gregory Molloy enticed folks to come to Alaska for the society’s convention with a brief presentation. Saturday was the big day of shows, kick- ing off promptly at noon when producer Vic Neves gave his welcoming remarks. The first show covered a topic east of the Missis- sippi with Steve Sloan’s The Great East Coast Alco Show. Steve mixed stills and video as he covered railroads like the West- ern New York & Pennsylvania and others. Following Steve was a PBS-style video pres- entation from Bill George, Hidden Wonder of the World. Bill’s program went looking for traces of the original Central Pacific route through the California foothills and into the Sierra Nevada. Much of the original route is
still used by Union Pacific, but there are places where the line has been relocated. More video was up next, this time in the form of converted 8mm movies from the camera of the late Elwood White taken on Vancouver Island. Tom Moungovan pro- duced Rails Through the Big Woods which included oddities like a diesel mounted on a Shay frame. It certainly showed that logging railroads were a different breed. Then it was off to Utah for a look at the D&RGW Marysville Branch by Keith Ardinger. This line was isolated from the Rio Grande’s main line by the slide at Thistle in the early 1980s and never reopened. Yet more video was on tap, as the next presentation was The Amazing Story of San- ta Fe’s RDC Cars by Ed Saalig. The story in-
Travel back to the glory years of steam on the Union Pacific, as seen through the beautiful black & white action photography of Ross Grenard, Richard Kindig, Robert Collins, John Krause and others. From Sherman Hill to Weber Canyon to Cajon Pass, you’ll witness FEF-class 4-8-4s, 2-10-2 and 4-10-2 helpers, 4-12-2s, Challengers and other locomotives battling the grades with everything from 100-car PFE trains to long-haul passenger schedules. There are diesels and turbines too: E1s and E6s, A-B-A sets of PAs and Fs, veranda scenes, complete with highly-descriptive photo captions and map. 82 pages,
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A little bit of fill flash gave some pop to an Altamont Commuter Express train as it headed from San Jose to Stockton, crossing over the abandoned Southern Pacific on Altamont Pass on March 7, 2013. ACE uses the former Western Pacific route over the pass.
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PHOTOGRAPHY: STEVE BARRY
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