AAA F Gondola Gazette August 2012 Collis P. Huntington Railroad Historical Society, Inc. The Great Book Sale For Members Please see page 6 for details and a list of books. Due to an acquisition of duplicate books, we are offering a sale to Members! u New River Train Sign Up Form Please use the New River Train Sign Up Form on Page 13 in order to work on the 2012 New River Train. Details are on page 13. u Meeting Agenda Information Dear Members, If anyone has any items to be placed on the agenda for either the Board Meeting, or Membership meeting, please call Chris Lockwood at the Office @ 304-523-0364 or email: [email protected]. Please have items in by 5:00 pm the night of the meeting! Thanks, Chris Lockwood, Office Manager u We’re saddened to report that two members of our Rail- Camp staff are recovering from injuries in a motor vehicle accident. The rollover accident took place in Washington state on Saturday, July 28 at 11:30 p.m.; the cause hasn’t yet been determined. Barry Smith , NRHS senior vice president and director of our RailCamp program, is hospitalized at Au- burn Regional Medical Center in Auburn and his injuries are being evaluated. Alex Polimeni , a RailCamp counselor, also suffered injuries and is recovering at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle . A teenage camper was also riding in the vehicle but was not injured and rejoined RailCamp on Sunday, July 29. The staff has bonded together during this difficult time and the program is operating as planned. NRHS is actively working with our insurance agents to ensure that both Barry and Alex are being cared for. RailCamp is a special source of pride to NRHS and the rail preservation community, and our Northwest campers are busy enjoying a week of hands-on railroading adventures. Our hearts go out to Barry and Alex and we hope you’ll join us in wishing them strength and healing. Please direct any questions to [email protected]. Thank you, - Gregory P. Molloy, President The teenage camper mentioned in the above report who was not hospitalized, and who I spoke with on Sunday morning is our CPH Chapter camper Noah Morrison. We wish him well. - Don Maxwell Railcamp in Tacoma, WA Update
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AAAFGondola
GazetteAugust 2012Collis P. Huntington Railroad Historical Society, Inc.
The Great Book Sale For MembersPlease see page 6 for details and a list of books.
Due to an acquisition of duplicate books, we are offering a sale to Members!u
New River Train Sign Up FormPlease use the New River Train Sign Up Form on Page 13 in order to
work on the 2012 New River Train. Details are on page 13. u
Meeting Agenda InformationDear Members,If anyone has any items to be placed on the agenda for either the Board Meeting, or Membership meeting, please call Chris Lockwood at the Office @ 304-523-0364 or email: [email protected] have items in by 5:00 pm the night of the meeting!
Thanks,Chris Lockwood, Office Manager
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We’re saddened to report that two members of our Rail-Camp staff are recovering from injuries in a motor vehicle accident. The rollover accident took place in Washington state on Saturday, July 28 at 11:30 p.m.; the cause hasn’t yet been determined. Barry Smith , NRHS senior vice president and director of our RailCamp program, is hospitalized at Au-burn Regional Medical Center in Auburn and his injuries are being evaluated. Alex Polimeni , a RailCamp counselor, also suffered injuries and is recovering at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle .
A teenage camper was also riding in the vehicle but was not injured and rejoined RailCamp on Sunday, July 29. The staff has bonded together during this difficult time and the program is operating as planned. NRHS is actively working with our insurance agents to ensure that both Barry and Alex
are being cared for.RailCamp is a special source of pride to NRHS and the rail preservation community, and our Northwest campers are busy enjoying a week of hands-on railroading adventures. Our hearts go out to Barry and Alex and we hope you’ll join us in wishing them strength and healing. Please direct any questions to [email protected] you,
- Gregory P. Molloy, President The teenage camper mentioned in the above report who was not hospitalized, and who I spoke with on Sunday morning is our CPH Chapter camper Noah Morrison. We wish him well.
August 201214th ..............Board Meeting .......... 7:30pm CPH Building
24th ......Greenbrier Casino Trip ... All Day Public Trip
27th ........Membership Meeting .... 7:30pm CPH Building
September 201211th ..............Board Meeting .......... 7:30pm CPH Building
25th ........Membership Meeting .... 7:30pm CPH Building
26th ........ Greenbrier Day Trip ..... All Day Public Trip
October 20129th ................Board Meeting .......... 7:30pm CPH Building
20-21..........New River Train ......... All Day NRT
27-28..........New River Train ......... All Day NRT
23rd .......Membership Meeting .... 7:30pm St. Albans Depot
November 201212th ..............Board Meeting ........... 7:30pm CPH Building
26th ........Membership Meeting .... 7:30pm CPH Building
Events
Committies Listed on Page 3
MUSEUM & VILLAGE
FARM
Way Back Weekend 2012 ScheduleJohnstown Road • Huntington, Wv
Engines, tractors, carsStart your engines! Several clubs from the tri-state will display their prized antique collec-tions.
Fall harvest festivalJoin our 2nd annual heritage farm cook off and sample some great mouthwatering meals.
Metal worksBlacksmiths. Tinsmiths. Silversmiths: come see our talented metal workers.
AUGUST 4
SEPTEMBER 1
OCTOBER 13
September 8th, Outdoor Museum Work Party & Chapter Picnic @ The Outdoor Museum.U
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Gondola GazetteInformation Specs! All information sent for publishing in the Gazette, must be submitted on, or before the deadline stated on page 3 of the Gazette each month. ALL ads to be placed in the Gazette, need to follow the specifications below. The editor is happy to make any ads for anyone wish-ing to put something in the Gazette. Any photos sent in, need to be High Resolution according to the specs below, and must have a date the photo was taken, pho-tographer name, location of photo, and a small caption. Everything that is sent in, must be checked for grammar & spelling. Articles sent in that are misspelled and/or have grammatical problems, will be checked to the best of our ability, and after that, will be printed. Mistakes in articles sent in, are the responsibility of the author.
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September Issue Deadline:August 23rd, 2012
TamarackBest of West Virginia
West Virginia’s most talented artists showcase their award-winning art during the 5th annual Best of
West Virginia Juried Exhibition!
Opening Reception and Awards Ceremony: Sunday, June 17 3:00-4:30 p.m.Exhibit Dates: June 17 - August 18, 2012
Best of Show award $1,500Second Place award $1,000
Third place award $500Four Merit Awards $250 each
Major awards are sponsored by Tamarack and Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC and through donor support of the Tamarack Foundation.
LOCATION:David L. Dickirson Fine Arts GalleryOne Tamarack ParkBeckley, West Virginia 25801304-256-6843
By-Laws Change ProposedAt the May meeting a motion was made to change the By-laws pertaining to the office of National Director. It stated that all references to National Director in current By-Laws should be changed to read National Represen-tative in line with the new National By-Laws to take ef-fect this fall. The final vote on the change will be at the August regular meeting.
The details are on page 14
By-Laws CommitteeRequests Your Input
Karol Cavender, Chairperson of the By-Laws Commit-tee has requested that any member with a suggested by-laws change, addition, or deletion should contact her at [email protected] or mail proposal to her at Karol Cavender, 9 Gatewater Road., Cross Lanes, WV. The By-laws review committee is meeting on a periodic basis to review all of the existing By-laws.
Cardinal between CHI and WAS beginning on October 27 through November 16!
Train 50 (eastbound) on Saturdays (same as previous years) Train 51 (westbound) on Fridays (same as previous years)
Amtrak’s Great Dome on Cardinalh
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Steam Freight Photo Specials will run on the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad on Monday, October 22 and Tuesday October 23, 2012. Railfan-photographers will have outstanding video and photographic opportuni-ties along the sixteen miles of track between Cumber-land and Frostburg, Maryland. Extensive brush clear-ing, well-managed photo lines, fall foliage color and a hard-working steam engine have combined to make our past trips very successful. The star performer is engine 734. This 1916, Baldwin-built, 2-8-0 is dressed in a Western Maryland paint scheme complete with a fire-ball emblem. The vintage freight train will consist of ten freight cars and a caboose. Passengers will ride in a coach and a dining car. A Western Maryland GP-30 die-sel will be used to drop the passenger cars out of sight for the 25, or more, photo runbys. Because the line is uphill, westbound, the engine and train will back down from Frostburg to Cumberland to enable up-hill runbys to be made in the afternoon sun which will front-light the engine.
Complimentary warm muffins, tea, hot chocolate and coffee will be served in the dining car. You can have a 20-minute cab ride in the steam locomotive or the die-sel for a $30.00 donation to the railroad crew tip fund. Both trips depart the WM Cumberland station at 7:30 AM and return at 5:15 PM. The cost of the Monday trip (55 to 60 patrons) is $139.00. The Tuesday trip (35 to 40 patrons) is $189.00. Optional hot lunches are available for $11.00. Note: these trips were 70% sold on July 24. For additional information or reservations, please con-tact Carl Franz at: [email protected] or call: 1-240-720-8686. Mailing address: Carl Franz, 16620 Shea Lane, Gaithersburg, MD 20877.
Western Maryland Photo Freight
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Registration Open!C&OHS 43rd Annual Conference: Wednesday August 8 through Sunday August 12, 2012 Call the Society at 800-453-COHS (800-453-2647) or register online at chessieshop.com.
To make your hotel reservations, use the Hilton Hotel Reservation Website with the login information below:
GroupName: ..............C&O Historical Society Meeting GroupCode: ..............ACO Check-in: ....................07-AUG-2012 Check-out: ..................12-AUG-2012 HotelName: ...............Hilton Alexandria Old Town Phone: ........................800-HILTONS (800-445-8667) Address: .....................1767 King Street Alexandria, Virginia 22314
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The Great Book Sale For Members As the result of either duplicate copies, library reductions, or recent acquisitions, we are offering the following books for sale to members first. The books for sale are priced in line with prices looked up on reputible websites. In accordance with a motion passed at the July regular meeting, the sale will begin August 6th following the mailing of the August issue of the Gondola Gazette. The sale will end 30 days later. All unsold books will be taken to Dan Miller, railroad auctioneer in North-ern Kentucky for disposition.
CPH members will receive a 10 per cent discount on listed prices for any books listed over $10.00 each. Members must pay any shipping costs if books are not picked up at the office.
Books may be examined at the office.
**Books will be sold on a first come, first PAID basis.**
To place an order call the office at 304-523-0364 or e-mail [email protected] of call or e-mail will be the official time used when more than one bid is received for
the same book. NO MAIL ORDERS PLEASE. The office is normally open 9-5, M-F or you can leave a voice mail 24 hours per day.
A Locomotive Engineers AlbumA Ride with Huey the EngineerAll AboardAmerican Locomotives (1900-1950)American’s Colorful RailroadsAmerica’s Colorful Railroads (1980 Edition)America’s Fighting RailroadsChesapeake and Ohio Chessie The Railroad KittenChessie’s RoadCivil War RailroadsColorado MidlandDiesel Spotter’s GudieEarly American LocomotivesEarly American Steam LocomotivesEmpire ExpressFaces of RailroadingHear The Train BlowHigh Ball A pageant of TrainsHigh IronHighlinersHistory of the Louisville and Nashville RRHistory of the New York Central SystemInternational LocomotivesIron Horse of The Santa Fe TrailIron Horses (American Locmotives 1829-1900)Iron Road To Empire (History of the Rock Island Lines)Life on the New RiverLocomotives in our LivesLost GloryLouisville & Nashville Steam LocomotivesMonon (The Hoosier Line)Nashville, Chattanooga and St. LouisNew York Central’s Early Power VII (1831-1916)Norfolk and Western RailwayNorth American Locomotives
George B. AbdillJesse StuartGeorge H. DouglasEdwin P. AlexanderDon Ball, Jr.Don Ball, Jr.Don DeNeviThomas W. Dixon, Jr.Thomas W. Dixon, Jr.Charles W. Turner, Thomas W. Dixon, E. HuddlestonGeo B AbdillMorris CafkyJerry A Pinkerpant and Louis D. MarreJohn H. White, Jr.Reed KinertDavid Howard BainCarl A. SwansonLucius Beede and Charles CleggLucius BeedeLucius Beebe Lucius Beebe Maury KleinAaron E. KleinH.M. LeFlemingE.D.WorleyE.P. AlexanderWilliam Edward HayesWilliam E. CoxA. Sheldon OenoyerIan LoganRichard E. PrinceGary W. Dolzall and Stephen F. DolzallDain L. ScmltAlvin F. StaufferRichard E. PrinceBrian Hollingsworth
North American RailwaysPennsy PowerPennsy Power IIPerfecting the American Steam LocomotivePortrait of the RailsRailroadiana Collectors GudieRailroading Coast to CoastRailroading from the rear endRailroading the Modern RailwayRailroads at WarRailroads of the HourRailroads of TodayRails to PittsburghRails WestRailways at the Zenith of SteamRecollectionsSanta FeScalded to Death By The SteamSewell A New River CommunitySouthern Pacific Steam LocomtivesSouthern RailroadsSouthern Railway System (Steam Locomotives and Boats)Starlight on the RailsSteam and Thunder in the Timber Steam LocomotivesSteam Locomotives of the Burlington RouteSteel TrailsThe American Heritage History of Railroads in AmericaThe American Railroad Passenger Car Part 1The atlas of Train TravelThe Central Pacific and Southern Pacific RailroadsThe Collectors Book of RailroadianaThe Country Railroad Station in AmericaThe Georgian Locomtive The Great Trains The Locomotives that Baldwin BuiltThe Locomotives that Baldwin BuiltThe Model Railroader Encyclopedia 1944The Offical Guide of the RailwaysThe Offical Guide Railroad Dining Car ChinaThe Pennsylvania RailroadThe Pictorial Encyclopedia of RailwaysThe Story of American RailroadsThe Virginia RailwayThe Worlds RailwayThis Was RailroadingThis was RailroadingThurmond A New River CommunityTrain WrecksTrains Around the WorldTrains, Tracks and TravelWorld Atlas of RailwaysWorld Atlas of Railways (American Edition)Yonder Comes the Train
Hollingsworth and WhitehouseAlvin F. StauferAlvin F. Stauffer and Bent PennyackerJ. Parker LambDon Ball, Jr.Charles KalamkinSkip Farrington, Jr.S. Kip Farrington, Jr.S. Kip Farrington, Jr.S. Kip Farrington, Jr.S. Kip Farrington, Jr.S. Kip Farrington, Jr.W.A. FeibelmanGeorge B. AbdillO.S.NockHarry FrazierJames MarshallKatie Letcher LyleRonlane and Ted SchnegfDonald Duke
R.E. PrinceJeff BrouwsMichael KochLuciano GreggioBernard G. Corbin-William F. KerkaMartin D. SterersOliver JensenJohn H. White, Jr.J. B. HollingsworthLucius Beebe Stanley L. Baker (Virginia Branaro Kunz)H. Roger Grant and Charles W. BohiH. Stafford Bryant, Je.Edith LausanneFred WestingFred WestingA.C. KalmbachNADoug McIntyreEdwin P. AlexanderHamilton EllisStewart H. HolbrookH. ReidJ.G. PangbornGeorge B. AbdillGeorge B. AbdillKen SullivanRobert C. ReedNAT.W. Van MetreO.S. NockO.S. NockLance Phillips
Amtrak Integrates And UpdatesNec And High-Speed Rail Vision Plans
New and revised information provides input tofederal NEC environmental review and planning process
WASHINGTON – A new report issued today by Amtrak summarizes and updates the ongoing planning efforts to expand ca-pacity on the Northeast Corridor (NEC) rail network to accommodate more trains operating at faster speeds with significant-ly reduced trip-times and improved service reliability while also developing 220 mph (354 kph) next generation high-speed rail (NextGen HSR).The Amtrak Vision for the Northeast Corridor: 2012 Update Report describes the current stage of conceptual develop-ment and planning for the future of the NEC rail network. It details actions taken by Amtrak and other stakeholders since the release of two major NEC planning reports in 2010 and also highlights the key findings of a recently completed NEC business and financial plan. Most impor-tantly, it provides input for a new NEC en-vironmental analysis and planning process led by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA).“The NEC region is America’s economic powerhouse and is facing a severe crisis with an aging and congested multi-modal transportation network that routinely op-erates at or near capacity in key segments. With an expected 30 percent population increase by 2050, we must move beyond mere preservation and rehabilitation of the current system to a new vision for expanded transportation capacity and growth,” said Amtrak President and CEO Joe Boardman.Recent Amtrak studies continue to indi-cate that improvement and expansion of the NEC, including the development of segments of NextGen HSR, is feasible and achievable using an integrated capi-tal investment program and incremental implementation strategy.“On a daily basis, some 2,100 passenger and 50 freight trains use the Northeast Corridor. The FRA is leading a collabora-tive process involving all of our stakehold-ers that will produce a
comprehensive vision necessary to keep pace with demands of a growing popula-
tion,” Joseph C. Szabo, Administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration said. He continued, “the vision we will shape with the Northeast states, Amtrak and all of our stakeholders will outlast the vaga-ries of politics, budgets, and critics. We applaud Amtrak for its planning efforts, which will provide us with useful infor-mation as we move forward with our own environmental review process.”NEC Future – FRA Passenger Rail Cor-ridor Investment Plan (PRCIP)The FRA-led PRCIP will develop a new long-term service plan and related envi-ronmental analysis to create a NEC in-vestment plan for the next 30 years. The PRCIP is a critical step in defining and re-alizing future improvements to the NEC and will provide necessary information to support future FRA investment deci-sions. It is comprised of two compo-nents: a Service Development Plan that articulates the overall scope and approach for future intercity passenger rail service along the NEC and a National Environ-mental Policy Act (NEPA) programmatic environmental impact assessment that ad-dresses the broad environmental impacts for the entire Corridor along the route of proposed service. It is to be completed in 2015.Amtrak NEC Capital Investment Program (Program)Since the release in 2010 of The Northeast Corridor Infrastructure Master Plan and A Vision for High-Speed Rail in the North-east Corridor, Amtrak has continued its work and has now integrated these two plans into a single, coherent $151 billion service and investment program called the NEC Capital Investment Program. It calls for investments to be made over the com-ing several decades to improve and expand the NEC, and affirms the Amtrak com-mitment to implementing critically need-ed near-term Master Plan projects while advancing the long-term development of a 220 mph (354 kph) NextGen HSR network through incremental “Stair-Step” improvements to its current high-speed rail service (see attached chart).
Amtrak received feedback from states, commuter rail agencies and other NEC users and stakeholders, and has made sev-eral changes to its planning since 2010, including: announcement of the Gateway Program to increase track, bridge, station and tunnel capacity from Newark, N.J., to New York Penn Station; a revised align-ment of the proposed NextGen HSR route to travel through Providence, R.I., rather than Woonsocket; and changes to various proposed stations.
Amtrak NEC Business and Financial Plan (B&F Plan)The 2012 Update Report also discusses key findings from the recently completed NEC Business and Financial Plan to guide Amtrak on how to potentially fund and fi-nance its integrated vision for the NEC. Scientifically, the B&F Plan finds greater than anticipated ridership demand for, and associated revenue from, the planned Am-trak services levels supported by the NEC Capital Investment Program, forecast-ing a 25 percent increase in ridership and revenue over 2010 projections. However, the B&F Plan also finds that the sched-ule and large annual capital expenditures in the peak period of planned construc-tion should be modified to strengthen opportunities for public and private sec-tor funding, to take into account resource constraints and to ensure effective man-agement and delivery of the Program.To advance the Program, the B&F Plan concludes that Amtrak should pursue a phased approach and strategically advance specific elements with the biggest impacts on improved reliability, increased capacity and reduced trip-time as quickly as funding allows, while deferring remaining elements to subsequent phases. This approach will help Amtrak achieve early successes that strengthen revenue and financial perfor-mance and create additional capital fund-ing to support other Program elements.For example, the proposed Amtrak Gate-way Program to improve travel to and through New York City via new tunnels under the Hudson River and the expan-
Gondola Gazette 9 August 2012
eTickets Now Accepted OnEvery Amtrak Train
Passengers can skip the line and print eTickets whenever, wherever!WASHINGTON – Today Amtrak is launching its eTicket program to all trains within its national network including on the Northeast Corridor, state-supported routes and long-distance services. eTick-ets provide passengers with the convenience to skip the line at the ticket window and go straight to the gate by printing their tickets whenever, wherever or by using a smartphone to present the eTicket to the conductor. It also allows passengers increased flexibility to make or change reservations.
“eTickets deliver the convenience and flexibility expected by passen-gers and its innovative technology is transforming other aspects of how Amtrak does business,” said President and CEO Joe Boardman.Amtrak piloted eTickets on five routes before today’s national roll-out where it quickly exceeded expectations as rapid adoption by pas-sengers resulted in shorter lines at ticket counters, less tickets sold onboard trains and fewer claims of lost tickets. When a customer makes a reservation, the eTicket will be e-mailed as a printable docu-ment. Passengers using their smartphone or other mobile device can present the eTicket to the conductor by simply opening the docu-ment from their e-mail. A lost or misplaced eTicket can easily be reprinted. eTickets also can be printed at Amtrak ticket offices and
Quik-Trak™ kiosks. Some customers, including those traveling on a group ticket or passengers purchasing Multi-Ride tickets, will con-tinue to receive a conventional paper value ticket.
Amtrak developed eTicket technology to enhance the passenger travel experience, deliver a higher level of safety and customer ser-vice, and improve its business and financial performance. The use of eTickets and mobile technology in the open-boarding environment of intercity passenger rail is a revolutionary advancement for an in-dustry that has relied on paper tickets and the traditional conductor ticket punch since the 1800s. In addition to an improved experience for customers, the eTicket program provides Amtrak with several significant business benefits including: more accurate knowledge in realtime of who is on the train which greatly improves the safety and security of passengers; en route reporting of onboard equipment problems to mechanical crews which may result in faster resolution of the issue; and more efficient financial reporting.
For additional information, visit Amtrak.com, download the free Amtrak mobile app, orview this video.
sion of the Moynihan Station and Penn Station terminal complex is essential to the entire NEC network. Its completion will deliver many key benefits for intercity and commuter rail service and set the stage for future NextGen HSR expansion.The B&F Plan also recommends that a combination of funding, policy decisions and cooperation from federal, state, and local governments, NEC users, regional partners, the private sector and Amtrak are necessary to advance a program of this size and regional and national significance. Further, public sector leadership and fund-ing is essential during the early years.While the B&F Plan finds that current Federal, state, and local transportation investment programs are insufficient to support the Program presently, strategies are available to generate funding, includ-ing enhanced access fees paid by NEC us-ers to support state of good repair other improvement projects to the existing cor-ridor that provide the greatest benefits to their services.
Current Amtrak NEC Improvement Proj-ects
Several major projects are now underway that will improve existing services and support the Amtrak NEC vision, includ-ing $15 million for Gateway Program planning, design and preliminary environ-mental review and utility relocation to sup-port construction of a new Portal Bridge in New Jersey, which itself is currently in the final design stage.Another major ongoing effort is a $450 million project funded by the FRA high-speed and intercity passenger rail program to improve service reliability for intercity and commuter trains, modernize the elec-trical system and boost top speeds from 135 mph (217 kph) to 160 mph (257 kph) along a 24-mile section of the NEC be-tween Trenton and New Brunswick, N.J. — making it the fastest passenger track in North America. It also will reconfigure track switches at the western entrance to New York Penn Station to mitigate con-gestion issues. Major construction work is to begin in 2013 with anticipated project completion in 2017.In addition, Amtrak is nearing the comple-tion of a $140 million project to replace the 104-year old movable Niantic River
Bridge in East Lyme, Conn., to improve reliability, increase speeds on and near the bridge and minimize traffic delays. Rail traffic will begin to shift to the new struc-ture in late summer 2012 with full project completion scheduled for spring 2013.Next StepsWhile initial NEC NextGen HSR studies have been completed, the specific phas-ing plan, schedule, alignment, stations, and other components analyzed by Amtrak represent the range of possible alterna-tives and service configurations that could be developed. These concepts and others will undergo considerable scrutiny as the NEC Capital Investment Program con-tinues to be refined by Amtrak and our partners, is considered through the FRA PRCIP process and is subject to extensive future planning and engineering studies.Boardman stressed “for America to be globally competitive in the coming years, we must be equal to the challenge before us and make the necessary investments to design and implement the NEC improve-ments that will serve the region and the nation for the century ahead.”
Gondola Gazette 10 August 2012
Cincinnati Railway CompanyTrain Ride from Cincinnati, OH to Batesville, INWe are going to the Batesville Apple Festival
8:30 am- Board passengers at Riverside Boat Launch, 3540 Southside Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45204 9:00 am - Depart Cincinnati 11:30am - Arrive Batesville 12:30pm - Depart Batesville (for optional Greensburg side trip) 1:15pm - Arrive Greensburg, IN 1:35pm - Depart Greensburg, IN 2:20pm - Arrive Batesville 3:00pm - Depart Batesville 5:30pm - Arrive Cincinnati 12:30pm – 2:20pm - One hour 40 minute excursion from Batesville to Greensburg and return
Tickets:
Option #1 - Coach Class Seating - Open window coach seats Adults: $50 Seniors (62+): $40 Children (12 & under): $40 Optional Greensburg Side Trip Ticket Adults: $18 Seniors (62+): $15 Children (12 & under): $15 Concessions will be available in the bar car. Restrooms will also be available on the train.
Tickets for Option #2 and Option #3 can only be purchased through the Cincinnati RailwayCompany and the Cincinnati Dinner Train at 513-791-RAIL (7245)
Option #2 - First Class Seating - Climate controlled long distance coach seats $79.95 Sit in our luxury coach car with access to the bar car for the purchase of drinks and pulled
pork sandwiches. First Class Seating Ticket includes the optional Greensburg side trip.
Option #3 - First Class Dining - Two of the Cincinnati Dinner Train Climate controlled dining cars (Milwaukee Road car 201 & New York Central car 447) - $99.95 Passengers will be provided with a Sunday Brunch buffet consisting of Fresh fruit salad,
Muffins, Assorted baked goods, Breakfast casserole with bacon, Breakfast casserole with vegetables, Pork & turkey sausage patties, Au gratin potatoes, and tea/coffee/juice.
First Class Dining Ticket includes the optional Greensburg side trip.
*Note - if children 2 & under occupy a seat they require a ticket.If they sit on a lap and do not occupy their own seat they are free.*
Group Discounts: 10% for groups of 8 or more purchased tickets
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Gondola Gazette 11 August 2012
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Gondola Gazette 12 August 2012
Ike had canceled an appearance at the McLure Hotel to go to the airport, then took his running mate with him to a rally at the Wheeling Island Stadium. Before the Eisenhowers left the station, however, they summoned Road Foreman Fer-rell and thanked him for “such a pleasant ride and handling of his special,” Jack told me years later. Ike gave him a little metal badge spelling IKE, which the officer kept to the day of his death. Railroaders immediately started preparing the train for its outbound move. A yard crew dragged it back to Benwood, turned it on the loop, and returned it to the Wheeling station. There were four passenger runs that had to have track space at the station near or during Ike’s layover – Train 245 to Chicago at 6:20 p.m., Train 72 from Kenova at 8:20 p.m., Train 441/340 to Grafton at 8:25 p.m., Cincinnati-Pittsburgh Train 238 from 8:30 to 8:45 p.m., and Pittsburgh-Kenova Train 77 from 11:35 to 11:45 p.m. So, to leave station tracks 3 and 4 open, the rear eight cars were spotted on No. 1 track, the next eight cars were placed on No. 2 track, and the first two cars were shoved onto the office car spur east of the station. To minimize the logjam between 8:20 and 8:45, a storage mail car normally arriving on Train 72 and continuing to Pittsburgh on Train 238 was canceled. Instead, a storage mail car arriving on Train 72 on the 23rd was held for loading and forwarding on Train 238 on the 25th. A mail car normally moving on the rear of Train 72 and terminating at Wheeling was positioned at the head end of the train on the 24th and forwarded on Train 238 the same night. Once Ike’s train was spotted, soil cans (Re-member them? We used to call ‘em “honey-pots”) were attached to each toilet drain on every car and the cars thoroughly cleaned, ser-viced and resupplied. As soon as the evening’s regular passenger runs were out of the way, the soil cans were removed from the cars and the long train was reassembled. The Monongah Division crew was called for 1 a.m. on the 25th to depart at 1:45, taking the train back down the river to Moundsville and out the Old Main Line to Grafton. While all that was going on, others were pre-paring to head home. The Look Ahead Neigh-bor special’s inbound crew deadheaded back to Parkersburg on Train 77, being relieved on ar-rival at Ann Street Station at 3 a.m. on the 25th,
according to Harry Nixon’s timebook. Birke arranged for a private plane to fly himself and Humphreys to Huntington. Hum-phreys was still on Cloud 9. “It was one of the finest events of my life,” he says. And Humphreys thinks it’s sad that the 1952 campaign was the last to use rail extensively. “When candidates came through on the train, lots of people got a chance to see them, and some got to talk to them and even ride with them,” he says. “You can’t talk to them when they’re up in the air.” (By the way, who will Humphreys vote for in November? “Romney,” he answers without hesitation, then adds a story. “I got a letter from Obama the other day asking for a ‘gener-ous donation,’” he says. “I stomped on it with both feet. I don’t know how they got my name – but they did!”) Ike’s special departed Wheeling at 1:45 a.m. on Sept. 25 as its passengers climbed into their berths, went to the B&O diner offering mid-night snacks or opted for the liquid refresh-ments in the Sun Light. Tommy Thompson noted in one of his meticulously detailed logs that the train was delayed for 10 minutes at Cameron for a sticking brake and about a minute at Fairmont to put off some Western Union messages. When Engineer Hickman pulled into Grafton seven minutes late at 5:17 a.m. for a crew change, Tommy credited him with a smooth if not fast run. He explained that the line had grades as steep as 1.67 percent and several severe curves and also noted that temperatures had cooled into the 50s, then into the 40s, with several pockets of fog shrouding the train throughout the night. Once an F7a-F7b helper (units 365a and 365ax) were coupled to the train (on the head end?) departure from Grafton was at 5:32, still seven minutes late, under the control of engi-neer McIntyre – or his road foreman. Tommy recorded a five-minute stop at the foot of Cranberry Grade east of M&K Junction when a bad-order stop-and-proceed signal went red right in their face. Of course, the train had to run up the hill at restricted speed and lost more time. The train lost two more minutes when the helper was cut off at Terra Alta, and entered Keyser, W.Va., and Cumberland, Md., extremely slowly to spot the train for the speeches – from the rear platform at Keyser and off the train in Cumberland. “Considering the load and delays, a good run was made over the mountains,” Tommy decided.
The Keyser stop took from 7:56 to 8:09 a.m. and the Cumberland stop from 8:41 to 9:18, where engineer Adams took over. The train departed Cumberland very slowly, ran on the eastbound main from Patterson Creek, W.Va., then crossed over and ran on No. 4 main – the Magnolia Cutoff, which was 5.7 miles shorter than the original line – to Orleans Road. “With this advantage, didn’t have to hurry to Martinsburg,” Tommy wrote. Eisenhower got off the train to speak at Martinsburg and hobnobbed with a group of grimy railroaders before “motoring” to speech-es in Hagerstown and Frederick, Md. Mean-while, the train went to Brunswick, Md., for servicing. The train continued to Frederick Junction and backed up the branch to Frederick to pick up the Eisenhowers. Then the train returned to Point of Rocks, presumably backing from Frederick Junction, although Tommy didn’t mention that. A five-minute stop was added at Point of Rocks. “Schedule very slow from Frederick to Silver Spring to permit lunch,” Tommy wrote. “Ran No. 2 track from Frederick Junction to Point of Rocks, and then again to DS Tower (to let 8 [the eastbound Shenandoah] by). Dwaddled along very easily account ample time. After crossing over at DS Tower, had to run at re-strictive speed to next signal. Came into Silver Spring [for a rear-platform speech] so slowly that actually stopped [one minute] late [at 3:26 p.m.] Departure from Silver Spring was at 3:44, 11 minutes early, so the engineer killed time running downhill to QN Tower. The special arrived at Baltimore’s Mount Royal Station on time at 4:55. The Eisenhowers disembarked for a two-hour rest at the Lord Baltimore Hotel and a speech at the Fifth Regiment Armory. They re-joined the train in the Produce Yard at Camden Station. Departure from the Produce Yard was on time at 9:45 p.m., and arrival on the lower level of Washington Union Station was at 10:33 p.m., three minutes late. There, B&O handed over the train to the Southern Railway for Ike’s foray into southern states. Tommy noted that the special made good time until it slowed con-siderably while approaching F Tower, and got down to “nothing more than a walk” from C Tower down through the switches to the lower level. “Easily could have been ahead of time based on time approaching F Tower,” Tommy wrote. “But B&O engineers do not normally run into the low level, so perhaps [Adams] was playing it safe.” Ike’s two days on the B&O were finished – until, that is, after he took office as the 34th president of the United States on Jan. 20, 1953.
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Proposed By-Laws ChangeThe following By-laws change was discussed at the May Board and regular meetings. It is now required to be published in the Gondola Gazette in accordance with the by-laws, and then will be voted on at the August28th,2012 regular meeting.
The purpose of the change is to conform to changes in the NRHS National By-laws which will take effect this fall when the National Board of Directors becomes a twenty-five member board elected by all members of the NRHS. Following that change there will be a new entity known as the National Representatives which will as present represent each Chapter at national meetings a few times per year. This group will make specific recommendations to the National Board of Directors, air concerns and suggest actions for the National Board to consider based on Chapter input.
Therefore, the following local by-laws change has been proposed:
Change Art IV, Sec. 3 and the paragraph dealing with the National Director as follows. “The National Director will henceforth be called the National Representative and all references to the National Director in Art. IV, Sec. 3 shall be changed to read National Representative. Also any refer-ence to The National Board of Directors shall be changed to read “Board of National Representatives of the National Railway Historical Society” All duties and obligations of the Chapter and the National Representative shall remain the same. This change will become effective if it passes on the first day of September, 2012.
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765 Is Back In West Virginia!
The 765 returns to West Virginia, aftermany years. The last time she was
in the state, was back in 1993. Got this shot of 765 after waiting for 3 hours,
but it certainly was worth the wait.
Gondola Gazette 15 August 2012
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