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Coach Cabbage & Caboose Santa Fe By John McCall DJ
Coach Cabbage And Caboose Santa Fe By John McCall
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket ( back has been taped along the lower edge in one small area.
Copyright 1979
A one hundred year history of Santa Fe mixed train service from 1869-1971 in words, photographs, equipment rosters and timetable schedules. 256 Pages
Contents
Acknowledgement 9
Foreword 11
Introduction to Mixed Train Service 13
Introduction to Mixed Train Equipment 19
Passenger Equipment Prior to 1902 25
Coach & Waycars ... The First Generation 37
Second Generation of Mixed Train Combines: 70-72 Foot
Wooden Cars 70
Third Generation Combines: All-Steel Construction119
Drover's Cars 154
Miner's Transfer Cars 170
Branch Line Pictorial173
Branch Line Motive Power193
Afterword 211
Appendix:
System Map213
Mixed Train Schedule Evolution 214
Equipment Diagrams241
Mixed trains were aptly-named. The cargo was a mixture of passengers and miscellaneous freight that was hauled by equipment of varied, and sometimes uncertain, parentage along a route that often went from nowhere to oblivion. Although schedules for these trains were usually published in the company timetables, they were typically placed among the back pages - carefully away from the deluxe name-train schedules of the day and, in reality, the actual operation of these mixed trains coincided with their published schedules only as a matter of chance. Occasionally the public timetables formalized this disparity with the cryptic statement, "Service Irregular, Consult Agent." If the brave traveler had any other way to go, he was well-advised to do so as the mixed train was only a cut above riding the rods.
The obvious question then looms . . . . "why write a book on the subject?" The answer to this question is not a brief one . . . . it is a justification composed of several parts . . . and, in a fashion, serves as an outline for the book that follows.
First of all, much of the early passenger-carrying operations of the Santa Fe's first few decades was in the form of mixed train service. Examination of this early period is both a good point at which to begin this book and an excellent framework within which to discuss the early passenger equipment of the railroad.
Second, from the turn of the century forward, discussion of Santa Fe's mixed train "combines" allows the reader to trace the further use and ultimate disposition of cars initially assigned to first-class service. Within a complete Santa Fe passenger equipment roster, this section is - by far - the messiest of all and its presentation in a comprehensive manner has not been previously attempted. Once this part of the Santa Fe passenger equipment roster has been "dealt with" the rosters of equipment assigned to first-class service can be developed and published subsequently in a simple straightforward manner.
A third reason for publication of a Santa Fe mixed train volume is related to the nature of publications on this railroad available to date. For the most part, the Santa Fe has been chronicled along its heavily-trafficed main lines: the Chicago to California "High Iron" with its six thousand horsepower northerns, its ponderous 210-4s, its famed passenger trains from the Nelly lily Flyer to the Super Chief, its diesel-powered "super" freights. There has not been a comprehensive exploration of the branch-line operations, the "feeders," that generated much of the traffic in past times. Here one sees a Santa Fe with a quieter nature . . . . leisurely and informal production of gross-ton-miles that was once as much a part of local Americana as were the local newspaper, sand-lot baseball, country rodeos and the wood-slat swing on the front porch.
Along these meandering branch lines, the reader has a chance to explore the operation of small steam power, to note the occasional use of main-line diesel power out "in the weeds" and to ponder scenes of long-gone depots and other rural exotica . . . . a "gentler" Santa Fe.
Finally a mixed train book just "needed to be done."
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