Monticello Museum Dedicates Tower to Long-time Member
THE MONTICELLO (ILL.) RAILWAY MUSEUM dedicated its new interlocking tower in September to Richard P. Stair, a former Illinois Central tower operator and founding member of the museum who passed away in 2001. The structure is a replica of IC's Gibson City
BNSF Railway
LANDSLIDE MITIGATION PROJECT: BNSF Railway has finished the first two of six slope stabilization projects along Puget Sound between Seattle and Everett, Wash. One com- pleted site is just south of Mukilteo, and the other is about five miles north of there. Dur- ing the rainy winter of November 2012 through January 2013, the BNSF route along the Sound was hit by 200 landslides, one of which derailed a moving freight train. 95 per cent of the trouble occurred between Seattle and Everett, and engineers were able to iden- tify and target the six most troublesome loca- tions for remediation. In addition to BNSF freights, Sounder commuter trains and Am- trak’s Cascades Service and Empire Builder long-distance trains are affected by slides. Passenger operations must be suspended for 48 hours after a slide to insure that the ground has stabilized. The project will cost $26 million, with $16 million in high speed rail grants from the federal government.
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tower and incorporates part of Gibson City's interlocking machine, which guarded the crossing of the IC, Wabash, and Nickel Plate Road. MRM's Southern Railway Consolidation No. 401 passed the new struc- ture (above) on September 21, 2013 with an excursion train.
Cadiz Southeastern Railway
MOJAVE DESERT STEAM TO RUN? On September 20, Cadiz Inc., announced that it has entered into a trackage rights agreement with the Arizona & California Railroad (ARZC) that will allow it to run regularly scheduled steam train excursions through the Mojave Desert between Cadiz, Calif., and Parker, Ariz. The Cadiz Southeastern Rail- way (CSER) plans to operate along an 85-mile portion of the ARZC between Parker, Ariz., and Cadiz, Calif., with water stops at Milli- gan, Chubbuck, Rice and Vidal. CSER will use water from the Cadiz Valley Water Conserva- tion, Recovery & Storage Project and plans to build a museum and cultural center at the Cadiz Ranch property dedicated to the promo- tion of local desert and railroad history. Rob Mangels, a veteran of the steam loco-
motive industry is Senior Manager of the Cadiz Southeastern Railway. CSER says it will use historic steam locomotives and mod- ernized vintage passenger cars. CSER say it
intends to work with the San Bernardino Railroad Historical Society, which maintains 1927-built Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 4-8-4 No. 3751, to occasionally operate the big Bald- win. CSER will also operate and maintain its own steam locomotives, passenger cars and terminals.
Canadian National
CN TAKES OVER KELOWNA PACIFIC: Canadian National has taken over approximate- ly 75 per cent of the rail network formerly operat- ed by the bankrupt short line Kelowna Pacific Railway (KPR) in southern British Columbia. KPR leased its route from CN in 1999 and sus- pended operations on July 5, 2013, when it en- tered receivership. In late September, CN reached an agreement with KPR’s trustee to take the company out of bankruptcy. Tolko Industries Ltd., is the line’s main customer. CN will resume operations on 97 miles of former KPR track, from Campbell Creek, British Columbia (about ten miles east of Kamloops,) to Vernon, Lumby Junc-
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