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Trains Magazine 1951 September Summit Second Trick NYCs New England States KC
Trains Magazine 1951 September Summit Second Trick
58 Pages
Cover photo. By Bruce Owen Nett.--1
All aboard! Passengers prepare to board the Lackawanna 's gray, maroon and yellow Phoebe Snow at Hoboken, N. J.
Railroad news and editorial comment. By the editors.6
Summit, second trick. Photos by Robert Hale.--14
Come up to Summit, Calif., where Chard Walker shepherds Santa Fe and Union Pacific trains over the top of Cajon Pass.
NYC's New England States. By Wallace W. Abbey.-20
Boston and Chicago are connected by only one fully streamlined train. Come along for a ride on it.
Kennebec Central. By Richard Andrews.--24
This little Maine two-foot-gauge railroad was more like a toy than a real pike. But for its size it did a lot of business.
Photo section. A pictorial panorama of railroading.-27
C&O 4-8-4 at Brookville Tunnel, 27; Ann Arbor 4-4-2, 28; Camas Prairie, 28; Great Northern oil train, 29; Pennsylvania diesel freight, 29; Barre & Chelsea mixed train, 30-31; Mineral Range at Houghton, Mich., 32; California Zephyr at Grand Junction, Colo., 32; Lehigh Valley No. 24, 33; Central of Georgia's Nancy Hanks II, 33; Erie 2-8-4 in Hornell Shops, 34; Chicago, Aurora & Elgin, 35; British Columbia Electric, 35.
Dining car blues. By Freeman H. Hubbard.--36
What'll it be - cut out eating facilities on trains, or find a way to reduce the tremendous losses of the dining car department? Here's the way the railroads feel.
The thrifty compound. By S. R. Wood and David P. Morgan.44
Two experts on railroad motive power team up and present the story of the attempt to use steam twice.
MAYOR KENNETT, will you turn the first spadeful of earth for the new railroad?" Maybe the master of ceremonies didn't say it exactly that way, but when Mayor Luther M. Kennett of St. Louis, acting for the governor of Missouri, broke ground on July 4, 1851, for the Pacific Railroad, it appeared to be pretty certain that construction of the first railroad west of the Mississippi River was actually under way.
It had been a hard fight. St. Louisans, their eye on the hulking wagons carrying settlers west to new land and California gold, had visualized as early as 1849 a railroad starting on the river at their city and extending to the Pacific Ocean. In fact, the charter of their Pacific Railroad, granted on March 12 of that year, envisioned the line as extending "from St.
Louis via Jefferson City to the western boundary of Missouri and thence to the Pacific Ocean."
But that same year cholera killed a tenth of the city's population, and a fire destroyed its waterfront and the heart of its business district. People just weren't in the mood to talk about a new railroad. But St. Louis didn't give up. A Government land grant and a stock-selling campaign gave the railroad boosters something to work with, and James P. Kirkwood was employed as chief engineer.
Kirkwood didn't know anything about the geography of Missouri; and he and his staff made five tries at surveying a line westward across the state before they found a suitable one. He also figured that the Mississippi would never be bridged, and that the new railroad therefore
would never be called upon to connect with an east-bank line. So he chose the out-size gauge of 5' feet.
The first train to operate west of the Mississippi River chugged haltingly from the Pacific's 14th Street depot to Cheltenham, a station near what is now the Kingshighway, on a cold day in December 1852. The hearts' desires of St. Louisans present at the ground-breaking celebration a year and a half before were beginning to be transformed into steam and steel.
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