Official publication of the £§' Pacific Southwest Railway Museum Assoc., Inc. v^

J U L Y 1 9 7 5 NUMBER 114

ALL STEAM PROGRAM JULY 25th

PSR11A is pleased to announceanother outstanding program for itsthird quarterly general meeting jFriday, July 25th. This meeting,

also be our nominationsagain be held in the La

w^ich wil]meeting, vSala Room of the House of Hospitality,Palboa Park.

Mr. Ace T;.rishstadt, an active mem-ber of the Chula Vista Live Steamers,will bring with him an operating steamlocomotive built to a scale of I%" tothe foot (l/8th full size). Ace willprovide an insight into the pleasuresas well as the frustrations of build-ing and operating a live-steam loco-motive. Live steamer clubs flourishthroughout the U.S., Europe and othercountries. Most have a track layoutfor members to operate their eouip-ment on. The Chula Vista group "rain-tains a track at Rohr Park, adjacentto the Bonita golf course.

Join us for an interesting eve-ning of steam, companionship andgoodies. Plenty of parking is availableeither in the l?ine Arts Gallerv lot orbehind the I.'odel Railroad Club" buil-ding. Mark the date; Friday evening,

7:30 p.m.July 25th.

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IIOMINATIOHS DUE JULY 25th

If you haven't already nailed inyour nominating ballot for 1976 offi-cers, please do so or bring it withyou to the meeting on " r i ay evening.,

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th. If you are having troubleraking your selection because youdon't "know anyone in the Museum, trytaking a more active role in PSRMAaffairs . It 's the only sure way tofind out who's doing what and how well,Also, we Imow there are members outthere who are eminently qualified tohandle many of the executive and ad-

ministrative tasks in the Iluseun.Curs is not a closed"inner circle".If you have the desire to help outand the talent to back it up, youare encouraged to become involved inthe PSPJ-IA "machinery". We not onlywant you, we need you to help usgrow and prosper.

I1ESPOITSE TO 1509 LCAIT QRATITiTTG

The Museum's appeal for col-lateral to assume Jack Stodelle'sloan on car 1509 has been met witha generous outpouring of loans frommembers. To date, the followingmembers have expressed a Desire toparticipate, with more expected tofollow shortly:

TI. Albert VartanianJack StodelleW. Vernon CcokRichard L. Ha theway, 5r.Hugh T. SmithMildred J. WoodyDaniel J. I-'arnell

Thank you each and everyone. V.relove you alii San Diego Trust C: Sav-ings Tank has recommended that theMuseum set up a special savings ac-count in its own name, receive anddeposit all loans in this account.Members will receive a letter in re-turn for their loan, stating theamount loaned and the length of timeloaned, if applicable. Additionalloans and/or financial statementsare needed to assume the existingloan, so please give Dick Pennicka call (̂ 63-2276) for more details.

GET IN THE PSRMA HABIT]

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FSPJ1A IIAS BOCTH AT SoCal EXPO

For the third straight year, PS-PiKA has enjoyed the manifold benefitsof a public relations booth in theTrade I'art section of the SouthernCalifornia Exposition at Del i:ar,which cor.pleted its two wee1: run onJuly 6th.

Tear-in- up to assemble our boothin tir.e for the _'rir were ?.on Milot,Steve nosefeld, and Rob £ i:ickie Sides.A complete list of the hardworkingmembers who staffed the booth duringthe Fair v;ill appear in the Augustissue. A brand new ruseun brochurew?s prepared, to tell the PSRMA storyin words snd pictures. If you shouldhave a need for a quantity of these,give Dick Pennick a call.

EDITOR: Dick Pennick, 95P1* Upland Street, Sprlnr Valley, CA C'63-2276)CISCULATIONl Ron Zelss

REPCRT Is published r-onthly by the Pacific Southwest Railway lluseumAssociation, Inc., P.O. Box 12096, San Diego, CA 92112. The associationis a chartered California non-profit organization of persons, young andold, who share an interest in railroad operations, travel, and history.An IRS exemption certificate allows tax-deductible contributions to theassociation. MEMBERSHIP; voting nenber (18 or over), $10. Contributingmember (non-voting, any age). J3. rerabershlp Includes subscription toREPCRT. Contributions of articles and news itens fron the nembershipare encouraged.

PSRMA. Inc. OFFICERS * DIRECTORS

President; Richard E. Pennick (U63-2276)

Vice President: W. George Ceyer (23"t-0555)

Secretary; Frieda R. Butler (22>*-W*67)

Treasurer; David c. Hobson (M»2-l>*16)

Directors; H. Chalmers Kerr, Jr. (ch)(291-l*7E7)John B. StodelleRonald L. MllotHerbert 0. Kehr

Association telephone; 280-1781

BACK ISSUES; A limited supply of back issues is available at 25 cents acopy. Send a stamped, self-addressed envelope for a list of all backIssues available.

VA3TAITIAIT KAITS GROSS! 1C ITT BOOTH

.".1 Yartanian, one of our hard-working I'irariar tour hosts, felt hewasn't cloinr enough for the group. Sowhen George Geyer called hin: recentlyto as1: if he would like to hand outbrochures June 28th at our once-a-month booth ,?t Grossnont ShoppingCenter, he willingly accepted, A.Ireported that, even though it was sale•"'ay at the Froadway, traffic was slowbut he still managed to hand out anuriber of brochures and added somevaluable new nnr.es t^ our nailing list.A special attraction at the booth wasan old ntear:. locomotive bell from theMuseum's collection.

PSPJ:A thanks /,! for his continuedcontribution to the I'useun effort.

STEAM-POV.'ERSD FREEDCM TRAIN ON ITS WAY

The American Freedom Train ison its way! This steam-powered rol-ling extravaganza left Delaware April1st and is scheduled to arrive in Cal-ifornia this iTovember. It should benoted here that the primary idea behindthe train was that it be steam powered.Your editor toured the original free-dom train, a diesel-powered version,when it visited San Diego's MarineCorps Recruit Depot in 19Lt-9. The steamversion, using ex-Southern PacificLines "Daylight" engine Wf9, willvery likely occupy the same track atI.'CRD when it visits San Diego nextJanuary. Your editor also had the goodfortune of taking part in a very mem-orable, historic occasion when, veryearly on the morning of October 17,195*f, Wf9 and Wf7 double-headed asteam special out of L.A. Union Stat-ion bound for the S.P. narrow-gaugeline in Owens Valley. Ch, what sweetmemories! The event marked the lastofficial steam operation on the narr-ow gauge with old Baldwin ten-wheelerHo. 9 carrying excursionists on thetops of boxcars and in an ancientcaboose from Cwenyo to the remotemining town of Keeler. The 9-spot isnow displayed at Laws, near Bishop,and sister >+-6-0 "o. 18 is ensconcedat Independence.

Local Santa ?e officials wererecently quizzed on whether or notthe train would be Cowered by steaminto San Diego. Their answer: "As faras we know now, yes." As San Diego'sturn draws nearer, firmer schedulingwill be available and you will beapprised of any changes as they occur.1'any PSRI-JA members will plan to followthe train down the coast from the L.A.area or further. The ruseum may evenconsider chartering a special "motor-cade" bus for those who don't wish todrive their own car. Word is the trainwill not leave San Diego via the SD &AE and Carrizo Gorge on its way toPhoenix. Rather, it is to backtrackvia Santa ?e to L.A., then East. SoSan Diego fans will have a dual oppor-tunity to see the grand old lady inaction. A live steam engine has notrolled over the mainline rails of anySan Diego railroad for 23 years (Santa

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Fe was the last to use steam here in1953. PSRMA's Shay was used dead asa "dummy" on the head-end of a spec-ial train from the San Diego depotto national City to help that Citycommemorate its centennial in 19^9 •The special was pushed by a diesel.National City Mayor Kyle Morgan wasthe "fireman" and Dick Pennick actedas "engineer"). It's interesting tonote also that the first stop of thetrain in the bicentennial year of1976 will be San Diego, and that, Ithink, is a singular honor and shouldqualify it as a very special ocassion.Too. there is the question on every-one's lips what will become of theex-Daylight engine once the celebrat-ion is over. The fact is, at the endof 1976. W+9 will still have threeyears of flue time left. The word isdame W+9 will be repainted in heroriginal red, orange, and black "Day-light" livery and teamed up with someS.P. commuter coaches for fan tripsin the '.Test, as U.P. does with itselephant-eared 8Wf. If you like tri-via, have you noticed what would hap-pen if the «8« in 8Wf was a '9'?Visualize a doubleheader if you will,featuring steamers W+9 and 9W+J Somuch for trivia.

The freedom Train is a well-organized, well-financed private en-deavor, and all stops are being pul-led out; to make the Bicentennial anoccasion to remember. America's rail-roads, including the usually anti-railfan Southern Pacific, ore layingout the red carpet all along the tra-infe route. It is said that an S.P.Vice President wore a big sr.ile whenW+9 left Portland on its way to Al-bany, TTew York via the "Overland"route, and he was still beaming asthe steamer passed through Sacramentodays later. 1'aybe something like thisFreedom Train business will help toconvince S.P. and other anti-railbuffrailroad upper-management people thatthere are genuine commercial possibil-ities in merchandising stearr. excur-sions throughout their systems. TheTrain's promoters are now trying totalk S.P. into allowing them to res-tore to operation cab-forward No. *+2-9^ at Sacramento. After the FreedomTrain, I would soy anything's possible]

Be that as it may, herewith the tent-ative schedule, courtesy of the NorthAlabama Railroad Club's Hay, 1975newsletter "White Flags and Full Ste-am":

"The 1975-76 Bicentennial train,sponsored by the American FreedomTrain Foundation, will tour *f8 states.Train consist will be approximately23 cars—10 exhibit cars containinga moveable walkway, two showcase carsfor large item display, three trailertrain-type flat cars, two generatorpower cars, one tool shop car, fourex-Preamble Express cars and a staffdormitory car.

"The American Freedom Train Foun-dation is a private, non-commercial,apolitical, non-profit orginazitionnot under the control of any otherorganization. Four companies, namelyGeneral Motors, Kraft Foods, PepsiCoInc., and Prudential Insurance Co.of America gave donations of £l mill-ion each to serve as seed r.oney forgetting AFTF operations underway.There are no restrictions for operat-ing policies, routing, equipment, etc.beyond the basic concept that AFTFconduct its operations in a respon-sible manner.

"Primary motive power for thetrain will be Southern Pacific ^-8-^Ho. Wf9, an oil-burning locomotivewhich has been on display at OaksPark in Portland for almost two dec-ades. She was built by Lima in 19LfO.The oil-burner is being used becauseof problems in securing suitable coalin some areas.

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:3-T>rasiIIP NEV:s by HerbertDir. of Records £ Personnel (̂ 63-3269)

A cordial welcome is extended, toI'r. Virgil Yelton, the newestof PSRMA. Mr. Yelton brings the totalvoting membership to 10*+. Cur Contrib-uting membership now numbers 7?.

LA MESA RAILWAY STATIC!1 NEEDSTEMPORARY 110! IE

La Mesa , CalifPSRIIfi recently purchased the old

railway depot for Ol.OObut must move theby the end of thewas built by the San Diego, Cuyam.aca

historic structureyear. The station

Eastern lly. alon~ their trad: .lustvd.. It was laterresident who used

south of La Mesa Bsold to a Lai: e sideit as a nuseurn until her death sever-al years ago.

PSSMA. intends to use the depotas the nucleus of its public operat-ing railway museum, presently in theplanning stages. I;ut for the timebeing, temporary storage must be pro-vided for it. If you have a vacantlot or en unused piece of your prop-erty, and you would be willing to loanit to us for a couple of years, letPresident Did: Pennick know irmcdiate-ly ('1-63-2276).

MORE Oil LAI-ID

The Museum's efforts to lease theCampo property are still progressingand we hope to have all of the invest-igation completed shortly.

In the meantime, PSRMAhrs been

-5-offered an opportunity to participatein a rail museum-oriented commercialdevelopment now in the planning stag-es. This proposed development will bein a high-traffic area of the Countyand would allow the Museum to deriveconsiderable revenue from admissions.It would also allow almost all of ourexisting rail equipment to be display-ed in one place for a change and every-thing restored to "show" condition.The Museum looks on this new proposalas an interim step? not a permanentanswer to our public operating museumplans. It is felt that the revenuederived from the one can be used tofinance development of the other.More developments vail be forthcomingsoon.

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18 TACKLE CAR 1509 IN JUNE

It seems to be feast or faminewhen it comes to Museum restorationprojects, and the car 1?09 Bicenten-nial project is no exception. Onemonth we scratch to get three membersout to the car. Another time we're sooverwhelmed with bodies we're flabber-gasted] Such was the case on Saturday,June 21st, when 6 members, reinforcedby 2 guests, 9 girl scouts and oneEagle scout, showed up at the old San-ta Fe heavyweight Cafe Observationcar we are restoring for display withthe Coos Bay Timber Co. 2-8-2T at thefoot of Broadway as our contributionto the Bicentennial celebration in1976. The fine old car, along with an.old wooden refrigerator car, is storedon an usused track along Pacific High-way, courtesy of the Commanding Offi-cer of the Marine Corps Recruit Depot.

Despite the fact that the butaneburner we use to loosen old paint fromthe car's roof ran out of gas withina half hour, much was accomplished,thanks to the volunteer labors of JackLinn, Ken Helm, Larry Hose, Cass Wit-kowski, John Houston, Warren Pennick,Dick Pennick, and a giggling gaggle of

hard-working girl scouts and theiradult leaders from Troop 513? La Mesa.All of the scouts managed to cram intothe tiny galley on board the car andapplied several cans of "Brasso" tothe dingy surfaces of countertop andsink. Another group of girls is cluefor our next work date in July. Thegirls earn points toward a specialBicentennial patch through involve-ment with a bonafide Bicentennialproject, Member Colen Flagg stoppedby to see how things were comingalong. Special thanks go to LarryRose, who donated the cost of rentalof a portable generator and severalgallons of gasoline.

CIRCLE JULY DATE FOR 1509

Please set aside one Saturday inJuly—July 26th—to help get car 1509ready for the Bicentennial. We havelots of projects on tap: restoring theobservation platform railing; strip-ping roof paint; installing new plat-form deck; fibreglassing body panels;prir.ing, etc., etc. Iring your lunch,your tools, and your enthusiasm, andjoin us for a fun day at 1-Iarine CorpsRecruit Depot. Enter from PacificHighway. Turn left immediately afterpassing guard shack and go down pastthe base service station. Then veerover toward the Pacific Highway fenceand suddenly you are there] We lookforward to seeing you.

POT STILL IIBSDS FILLING

Again attached to this issue ofREPORT is a pledge sheet for "ProjectBootstrap", a continuing effort toimprove the Museum's fiscal situationfrom within. Please fill out the form,checking the plan that suits you andyour situation best, and mail withyour check to.: Eric Sanders, Control-ler, 7861 liormal Ave., La Mesa, CA920!t-l. All contributions are, of coursefully tax-deductible.

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SCHEDULES

July 12; Bicentennial preparation, car 1509, KCRD, 9 a.m.- lf p.m. (^-67-2276)

July 15: PSR1IA hosts tour of Miramar railway equipment (cub scouts) (^r'0-17fl)

July IS; PSR1A hosts tour of Miramar railway equipment (visually hancicamed)(280-1781).

July 25; Quarterly general meeting, House of Hospitality. La Sala7:30 p.m.

July 26; bicentennial preparation, car 1509, L'CRD, 9 p.n.-^ r>.r.i. (1+63-2276)PSR1A booth at Grossr.ont Center, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. (273-107^)

AuKUst 5; Directors' meeting, SDT C: 5 rank, San Die.pjo, 7:30 p.n. (291-^7)

LET'S REFILLTHE POT!

PROJECT BOOTSTRAPPacific Southwest Railway MuseumAssociation, Inc.P.O. Box 12096, San Diego, CA 92112

Gentlemen:

I'm tired of waiting. Let's put PSRMA on the map, once and for all.I have selected one of the contribution plans listed oelow as the mostsuitable for my situation, and I am aware that all such contributions arefully tax-deductible.

A. Here's $~B

Use it for whatever project you feel appropriate.Enclosed is my check for the project listed below. I understand Ican split up the donation among several diferent projects if I choose,I wish to contribute $ per year for years, be-ginningPlease bill me.I wish to contribute $_ginning

in equal installments of $

per year forin a lump sum payable on

years be-

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of each year. Please bill me.I would like to save the Museum the expense of billing me. I wouldbe interested in automatic withdrawals from my checking account.I wish to contribute 1% of my annual gross income in quarterlyinstallments (March, June, September, December). Please bill me.I wish to contribute the interest I earn on my savings account.I have decided to give up one pack of cigarettes a day for a yearand contribute the savings to the Museum (approx. $150).I wish to make a memorial contribution of $ in memoryof .I would like to discuss the possibility of including the Museum asa benefactor in my will.I would like to discuss the establishment of a Life Estate, withthe Museum as the sole benefactor or as one of the benefactors.Please send me a copy of your Federal exemption certificate.

PLEASE SEE OTHER SIDEFOR LIST OF PROJECTS

MYPROJECT CONTRIBUTION

Land and museum development:

Rental of property $

Installation of track switch on railroad $

Installation of chain link fence around Museum site $

Movement of railway cars and locomotives to Museum site $

Drilling a well for water service $

Bicentennial exhibit (through 1976). Includes restorationof car 1509 and Coos Bay Timber Co. steam locomotive 11 $_

French National Railways Baldwin-built "Liberation " Mikado.(Locomotive is fully restored. Only shipping costs remain)$_

Army kitchen car No. G-10 (restoration) $_

Army 45-ton diesel switcher (shipping and restoration) $_

Observation car "Victoria" (new batteries, couplers, rentalof storage space, etc.) $

Union Pacific chair car No. 576 (repainting, window replace-ment, etc.) $_

Tank cars (repainting) $_

Refrigerator car (painting, structural repairs, etc.) $_

Other: $

I understand that all contributions will be acknowledged by mail andin the newsletter REPORT, unless instructed otherwise, and should be sentto: PROJECT BOOTSTRAP, c/o Eric Sanders, controller, 7861 Normal Ave.,La Mesa, Calif. 92041.

I am aware that PSRMA will grow and prosper only as fast as we, themembers, allow it to. May the next ten years be our most prosperous ever'

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