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Amtrak Exhibit Train Continues to Tour the Nation
ENTERING ITS FOURTH YEAR OF SERVICE, Amtrak’s 40th An- niversary Exhibit Train continues to tour the country. On February 28, 2014, it crossed the Gila River north of Coolidge, Ariz., en route to dis- play at the Arizona Railway Museum in Chandler. In April it will visit
er lagging and jacketing, and other tasks. During the current rebuild the locomotive has been equipped with a new copy of the original Hodges trailing truck equipped with roller bearings, driving axle oil cellars and SP spring pad lubricators , a new firebox, a stok- er taken from a Canadian National 4-6-2, and a Chinese copy of a Worthington model SA feedwater heater. Most of No. 4501’s Ms-1 siblings were given stokers and feedwater heaters by the railroad.
Wabush Lake Railway
HIGH COSTS SHUTTER IRON MINE: The Wabush Lake Railway in Newfoundland and Labrador has shut down after Cliffs Natural Resources closed its Wabush Scully Mine near Labrador City due to “unsustainably high” production costs and low prices for ore. In a re- lated move, the Pointe Noire pellet plant in Sept-Îles, Québec, served by the affiliated Ar- naud Railway, was shut down in June 2013, putting Arnaud’s and Wabush Lake’s 11 MLW RS18s out of business (WLRY Nos. 908-911 were sent to a short line in Saskatchewan in January 2014). The Bloom Lake Railway, opened in 2010 and operated by Genesee & Wyoming’s Western Labrador Rail Services to serve the new Bloom Lake Mine west of Scul- ly, will continue to operate since Bloom Lake ore costs about $85.00 per ton, compared to $143.00 per ton at Scully. Loss of the Scully traffic will affect the Québec, North Shore & Labrador, which moved Wabush ore from Emeril Junction, Newfoundland and Labrador, to Kemat Junction, near Sept-Îles Québec, where Arnaud took over for the move to the Pointe Noire pellet plant and dock. QNSL continues to move Bloom Lake ore from Wabush Lake Junction (Labrador City) to the Pointe Noire dock using the same routing.
Topeka, Kan., and Lincoln, Neb., while in May Los Angeles, Calif., Longview, Texas, Cheyenne, Wyo., and Spencer, N.C. (Streamliners at Spencer), are on the agenda. In June it will visit Springdale, Ark., in conjuction with the National Railway Historical Society convention.
NS Restores Wabash E8 for Virginia Museum
NORFOLK SOUTHERN HAS COSMETICALLY RESTORED WABASH E8 NO. 1009 for the Virginia Museum of Transportation; In June 1951 the handsome passenger unit was desig- nated EMD’s 10,000th locomotive. It languished for several years “out back” at VMT in primer and without side panels until it entered the NS East End Shop in Roanoke, Va., for a cosmetic restoration in 2012. No. 1009 finally emerged from the Chattanooga, Tenn., paint shop in March 2014. NS already had the required EMD painting and lettering diagrams since SD70ACe No. 1070 was painted by EMD in Wabash colors as part of the heritage fleet in June 2012. No. 1009 will join the Monticello (Ill.) Railway Museum’s Wabash F7 No. 1189 and many other classic cab units at the North Carolina Transportation Museum’s Streamliners at Spencer event on May 29- June 1. At press time 20 engines, including the Virginia Museum of Transportation’s Norfolk & Western 4-8-4 No. 611, were to visit along with a New Haven FL9 from the Railroad Museum of New England, a Pan Am Railway executive FP9, Lackawanna F3s from the Tri-State Railway Historical Society and the Anthracite Railroads Historical Society, and a Soo Line FP7 from the Minnesota Transportation Museum. For tickets and more information, visit
www.nctrans.org.
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CASEY THOMASON
MATT MARTIN
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