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Northwestern Pacific Pictorial By Wesley Fox Soft Cover SIGNED
Northwestern Pacific Pictorial By Wesley Fox NOTICE the upper right corner of the cover has 2 areas that are a little different color and you can see a crease mark across the engine.
Soft Cover
Copyright 1983
80 Pages
This is not a history book on the North-Western Pacific Railroad, nor is it a pictorial roster of its motive power over the past seventy-five years. These subjects have been covered in previously published books. What this book does cover, is the present day operations on the NWP in pictorial form. Originally, this book was going to be part of another book on present day railroading, similar to my first book, "Golden State Rails". What changed my mind was the mystery of its operation. Driving alongside of its tracks, you never saw a train.
So why waste your time on a railroad that runs one train a day, three times a week in both directions?
Well, as one person put it, "because its there, the challenge, a railroad safari". The NorthWestern Pacific is a tough little railroad. It has to be, to survive. With a little major surgery, it has survived two floods and two tunnel fires. It has also survived environmentalists, conservationists and tough logging laws that have picked their way into the profit sheets.
The railroad today, is facing its greatest test of endurance due to the crippling effect of a recessionary economy. Carloadings have shrunk to all time low levels, and half the employees are either working part time or are laid off. To show how carloadings have declined in favor of motor transportation, ten years ago, over 800 cars a week were handled on the NWP, consisting of lumber products, wine, perishables, sand and gravel plus miscellaneous commodities. In 1981, the figure was around 450 cars and at this writing, even lower. Not a busy railroad, nor a ghost railroad either. Executives at One Market Plaza in San Francisco, California can barely look at the NWP's balance sheet as the mother company, the Southern Pacific Railroad, has pumped nearly twenty million dollars to keep it running after all its disasters. Recently, in a move to show its profitability, the SP has given the NWP its own budget and profit guidelines, which the SP expects the NWP to hold to.
With this introduction, I present to you, the reader, "North-Western Pacific Pictorial".
Before I conclude, many I thank all those who have travelled along the NWP and have reported back on their experiences through the many railfan magazines and to those especially, who took time to recount their experiences with the NWP, both past and present, with me personally.
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