years of the Circus Parade Limited, hauled first by Burlington 2-8-2 No. 4960 and later by Dick Jensen’s ill-fated Grand Trunk West- ern 4-6-2 No. 5629, and another covers the train after it was dubbed the Old Milwaukee Special under Schlitz Beer sponsorship. The circus special ran over other railroads in- cluding the Milwaukee Road and Soo Line, and was pulled by a variety of steam and diesel power such as Southern Railway 2-8-2 No. 4501, new MILW U23B’s, C&NW Execu- tive F’s, the Mid-Continent Railway Muse- um’s C&NW 4-6-0 No. 1385, Canadian Pacif- ic Geeps, and various Wisconsin & Southern power, including its E units. Steam took its last turn when Soo Line Mikado No. 1003 pulled the consist in 2002, and two WSOR SD20s did the honors on the last run in 2003. The circus train stopped running in 1973
after Schlitz pulled its support and did not resume until 1985, when it was sponsored by Quad Graphics and Mid-Continent’s No. 1385 and a C&NW diesel led the train. (In 1981 and 1982 the museum’s wagons rode to Chicago on 18 TTX flatcars behind North Western F units for parades.) Between 1986 and 2003 the circus trains were sponsored by Strong Capital Management. The second to last chapter discusses the slim likelihood of future Great Circus Trains (which would use ex-Trailer Train 89-foot piggyback flats) and the conflict between preserving museum artifacts versus operat- ing those artifacts. The final chapter pro- vides a detailed rundown of the museum’s holdings, including an illustrated roster of the cars that had been in the active fleet and tabular data on the inactive cars and static display cars. There’s also an index. The book is nicely laid out in a square for- mat on good, heavy, glossy paper and is pro- fusely illustrated. Most of the photos and il- lustrations are in color, but a few vintage views of long-gone circus equipment in reg- ular service are necessarily in b&w. Photo reproduction is good, and while the color im- ages don’t exhibit any color shift, they tend to be a bit dense. Anyone who has an inter- est in the circus or circus railroading will want this book. — WALT LANKENAU
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some cab rides as well as access to various mine pits, processing plants, and in-plant railroad operations; this program shows both what the normal railfan could witness as well as the inside scoop.
The mines and their rail operations range
Little known to many of us today are the once extensive copper mining operations and their associated railroads in our rugged Southwest. Here is comprehensive coverage of the dozen or so lines and mines shot on Su- per-8 sound film, mostly in 1986 and again circa 1991. The cinematographer obtained
from relatively modest and short to exten- sive and long haul. Some facilities use rail- roads of several gauges to handle various commodities and products intra-plant. Trains move ore from the mines to the smelters, and product from the smelters to the main lines, in this case almost univer- sally the Southern Pacific. Numerous mines at the end of purpose-built SP branch lines. Mine motive power ranges from war- weary first generation Geeps, Alcos, and Baldwins to ancient and odd critters to smartly painted second generation EMD and Alco products, most with four axles. SP branch power is matched sets of SSW or Rio Grande units. Heavy main line GE electric power is seen pulling unit coal trains on dedicated lines as an aside to the main cop- per coverage. For most of the mines visited we chase round trips of both mine trains as well as the SP main line or branch line trains to and from the interchanges. We also see various SP and a few Santa Fe main line freights while hanging around on the then- single tracked Sunset Route. Today, some of the mine related operations are closed, while others remain. Volume I begins at the Phelps Dodge Morenci Mine in Arizona, where we visit the huge open pit, watch push-pull ore trains, visit the mill, crushers, and so on prior to watching ore in hopper cars being swapped with empties at the SP interchange at Clifton, Ariz. (Fortunately, the loads are mostly downhill to the interchanges, while the empties are lugged uphill on one- to four-per cent grades). The Phelps Dodge plant at El Paso, Texas, is next, with its ex- tensive 30-inch gauge trackage. We then see an American Smelting and Refining (ASAR- CO) facility switched by a Watco CF7. Inspi- ration Consolidated Copper (ICCG) and its GE 70-tonners and EMD SW1200s are at the end of a 135-mile SP branch powered by GP35s. Magma Arizona uses two Baldwin S8s which pass some cacti and haul old hop- per cars and a caboose (cabooses are fre- quently seen on these programs). Baldwin DRS6-6-1500 No. 10 sits outside but is not shown running in this volume. The Ken- necott Copper operation at Hayden, Ariz., showcases GP39s and both KCC and the SP operate five shuttles per day. Shorter cover- age is given to the Apache Railway near Snowflake, Ariz. with three C420s and an RS36 in an attractive paint scheme. We also ride and see runbys of the 15-inch gauge 4-6-0 at the well-rated McCormick Railroad Park in Scottsdale and watch three-foot gauge Plymouths switching the Apache Powder Co. plant (five square miles of dis- persed buildings with 50 miles of track), and a weird tourist operation is seen at the Cop- per Queen Mine in Arizona. This volume ends with GE 25- and 100-ton locomotives switching and dumping slag at the Phelps Dodge smelter in Douglas, Ariz. Volume II visits some additional opera- tions and updates others covered in Volume I. Visited first is the Arizona Eastern with its GP20s in an attractive blue and grey scheme. Revisiting Phelps Dodge at Clifton a new paint scheme is showcased as they drop into town and swap empties and loads
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