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Trains Magazine 1951 October Trains & Travel Kettle Valley Line Epson Salts CA
Trains Magazine 1951 October Kettle Valley Line
58 Pages
Railroad news and editorial comment. By the editors6
Kettle Valley Line. Photos by W. Gibson Kennedy. --14
This is a Canadian Pacific division that the diesels haven't penetrated. Steam locomotives-medium-size ones at that-still hold down the fort.
Is passenger service really in the red? By Raymond Hannon.18
A passenger researchist takes a long and soul-searching look at the "passenger deficit" and gives an answer which might startle you.
A monorail to nowhere. By Richard H. Jahns. ---24
A bumpy single-rail line used to haul Epsom salts in the middle of a desolate California wasteland.
Photo section. Railroading in pictures. -27
Southern Pacific at night, 27; C&O coal train, 28; Chicago's Central Station, 28; SAL's Silver Comet, 29; 1884-built 4-4-0, 29; GN's Cas-cadian, 30-31; Central City, then and now, 32; B&M railcar, 33; Pioneer Zephyr, 34; Houston Belt & Terminal No. 1, 34; British Southern Region train, 35; new British electrics, 35.
Over the Alleghenies by daylight. By E. John Long.-36
Here is a train ride that'll show you some wonderful, seldom-seen mountain scenery.
Grass grows on the Westchester. By Herbert H. Harwood Jr.42
A New York City suburban area once had a high-capacity electric railroad. The area needs the line now, but the tracks have been torn up.
Is too much diesel fuel going up in smoke?
THERE are probably as many expert opinions on how much crude oil reserve we have as there are fuel economists and geologists. The longevity of our known supply ranges, depending on whom you're talking to, from "gone in a few years" to "it'll last indefinitely."
As the railroads continue to dieselize by leaps and bounds, the question of oil reserves becomes more and more important. Last year U. S. diesels burned 1.855 billion gallons of diesel distillate; this year it'll be an estimated 2.3 billion. Business Week pointed out not long ago that total diesel fuel sales in 1950 went above 100 million barrels - five times what it was 15 years ago. Because of an upcoming shortage of diesel fuel and higher prices and lower quality of what supply there is, Business Week predicts a leveling-off in the trend toward diesel-ization, on the railroads and off.
The article points out that diesel fuel is but one of a number of products that come from what the industry calls the "middle of the barrel." Others are kerosene, stove oil, heating oil, the stock for catalytically cracked gasoline - and jet engine fuel. At present diesel fuel is taking about a fifth of the middle distillates, while diesel fuel and home-heating oil use up almost a fifth of the crude oil production.
As Business Week sees it, if we'd get into a major war, Air Force jets and Navy ships would get more of the diesel fuel, and the railroads and other commercial customers would get less - much less. Even with new methods for increasing the proportion of middle distillate in each barrel, and a great increase in the amount of crude taken from the ground, the price of diesel fuel is bound to go up, the magazine says, and the quality is bound to go down.
Late in July Rio Grande diesel switcher No. 100 puttered around the Denver yards in the final shifts of a five-week test that may have a great deal to do with the future of railroad dieselization beyond its present hyperthyroid stage. In the tanks of the 1000 h.p. diesel was a healthy slug of fuel gleaned from oil shale - of which there's an a b un dance- in the Interior Department's Bureau of Mines demonstration plant at Rifle, Colo. The Rio
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