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Operations Santa Fe by Merle Armitage AT&SF w dust jacket
Operations Santa Fe by Merle Armitage
Hard Cover w/Dust jacket
263 pages
First published 1948. reprinted 1984
CONTENTS
Table of IllustrationsXVII
1 Foreword1
2 Violent History5
3 Policy19
4 Operations23
5 Power43
Notes on Steam Power53
Mechanical Department60
The Locomotive63
Notes on Diesel Power64
6 Laboratory75
7 Communication85
8 Traffic91
Freight Traffic95
Passenger Traffic106
9 Advertising111
10 Symbol117
11 Trains121
12 Track127
13 Cars141
14 Food and Fred Harvey147
15 Engineering155
16 Control167
17 Centralized Traffic Control 177
18 Departments187
Purchasing Department188
Stores Department189
Express and Mail190
Law Department191
Live Stock Department194
Agricultural Department196
Valuation Department200
Land Commissioner203
Retirement Bureau205
Tax Department206
The Comptroller208
Accounting Department209 Treasury Department212
19 Functions217
Timber Treating217
Ice Department219
Refrigerator Department222
Air Brake Department223
20 Executive 227
21 Public Relations 235
22 Automotive239
23 Santa Fe Skyway, Inc.243
24 Bibliography251
25 Index253
Colophon261
ILLUSTRATIONS
During the months of preparation for this book Mr. Armitage, the author, and Mr. Napolitano, the illustrator, made a leisurely and studied trip over certain sections of the Santa Fe main line for the purpose of inspecting all facilities. Mr. Napolitano made many sketches and took action photographs from which his completed drawings were made. The Indian symbols, designs, and wall paintings are from sources indicated below and all are authentic. Edwin Corle
3780 Class 4-8-4 in action near Gallup, N. M. (P.G.N.)1
Primitive map of the Old Santa Fe Trail (P.G.N.)5
"Rain Bird" pottery design (Laboratory of Anthropology)17
Design from Tesuque Pueblo (L. of A.) 19
Conductor and Engineer compare watches (P.G.N.) from sketch made at Needles, California 23
Map of Santa Fe System Lines (P.G.N.)34-35
Engineer at controls of Santa Fe Diesel from sketch made near Cadiz, California (P.G.N.)43
Santa Fe 4-Unit 5,400 H.P. GM Diesel near Flagstaff, Arizona (P.G.N.)47
Two units of Santa Fe 3-Unit, 6,000 H.P. Alco Diesel, from sketch made at Barstow, California (P.G.N.) 50-51
5001 Class 2-10-4 near Belen, New Mexico (P.G.N.) 54
5001 and 2900 Class steam locomotives, with a 4-Unit GM Diesel at Albuquerque, New Mexico shops (P.G.N.) 62
2900 Class 4-8-4 enroute near Seligman, Arizona (P.G.N.)70
Blue print type drawing of drive wheels of 4-8-2 (P.G.N.)75
Santa Fe telegraph and telephone lines on the Mojave Desert (P.G.N.) 85
Santa Fe 3-Unit 6,000 H.P. Alco Diesel in flight near Bagdad, California (P.G.N.)91
Pottery design from San Ildefonso Pueblo (L. of A.) 111
Design from Painted Tusayan Vase (Bureau of Ethnology)117
Tail signs of famous Santa Fe trains (Santa Fe Advertising Department)121
Drawing, profile of the Santa Fe main lines from Chicago to the Pacific Coast (P.G.N.)122-123
Main Line of the Santa Fe near Laguna, N. M. (P.G.N.)127
Navajo Sand Painting, drawn from Sand Painting (Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art)141
Hopi pottery design (Bureau of Ethnology)147
Katchina Pueblo Indian Ceremonial Doll (Santa Fe Advertising Department)150
Zuni ketoh (gato) or bow-guard. Silver design over leather wristlet. (Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths, by John Adair : University of Oklahoma Press) 153
Engineer's Compass, drawn by P.G.N.155
Ensemble of Signals, Santa Fe Main Line (P.G.N.)167
C.T.C. Control Panel (P.G.N.)176-177
Marine Compass of type used by Spanish Conquerors in the Southwest (P.G.N.)187
Design for a Cotton Manta. Pueblo of Acoma (L. of A.)205
Design from Basket Maker pottery (L. of A.)217
Santa Fe Symbol (P.G.N.)227
Pottery design from Tesuque Pueblo (L. of A.)235
Wheel of Santa Fe Highway Vehicle (P.G.N.)239
Bird from Santo Domingo Pottery Design, with Santa Fe symbol imposed243
Bird from Pueblo pottery design (P.G.N.)251
Design taken from a wall painting in the ceremonial room of the abandoned Pueblo of Awatovi (L. of A.) 253
San Ildefonso pottery design, with marks of the designer and printer, respectively, imposed261
On End Papers, front
Decoration from Ogapoge polychrome 011a (Upper left)
Bird from pottery decoration, Santo Domingo Pueblo (Lower right)
Pueblo pottery design (P.G.N.) (Center)
End Papers, rear
Santa Fe 4-Unit 5,400 H.P. GM Diesel (P.G.N.)
Hand Lettering, and Santa Fe symbol on title-page (P.G.N.)
Designs from Pueblo Indian Embroidery (L. of A.) On dust-jacket, cover and Contents page
FOREWORD
With millions of other Americans, I am a confirmed railroad aficionado. Pioneer commercial flying and four years' service in the Army Air Forces has not dimmed this enthusiasm: there is something perpetually insistent about engines and trains.
This interest undoubtedly stems from the early identification of railroads with the adventurous developments of our continent, its Indians, cowboys, gold discoveries, roaring cities and the allure of unexplored places and spaces. Europeans have felt it too. Edgar Varese, the composer, tells of lying awake at night in his ancestral home in Burgundy and hearing in imagination the deep, stirring whistles of locomotives on the lonely American prairies.
Each of us has experienced pulse-quickening moments: a great freight hauler blasting up a grade, a sleek express humming on a straightaway, or possibly an articulated Diesel drumming in the desert. For railways are one with this good earth-racing across our prairies, exploring canyons, tunneling through forests, conquering deserts, mesas, mountains, and plunging down to the sea.
At the age of nine I accompanied my father from our cattle ranch to the town of Lawrence on The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe main line. As we entered the city over the bridge which spans the Kaw, a Santa Fe passenger train approached, pulled by the largest and most imposing locomotive I had ever seen. Its stubby stack emitted rhythmically staccato exhausts and its drivers and rods formed exciting movement patterns. Here was style and power and I was fascinated.
Later that day, I begged my father to drive by the Santa Fe station on the chance that I might examine in detail a similar mechanical marvel. Fortunately, we encountered a celebrated Prairie, or 1100 class, locomotive, a machine that made history on the Santa Fe. I recall being very distressed when a gentleman waiting for a train told my father ominously that the Santa Fe had gone a little too far in building ponderous locomotives. "No track will support such a great weight," he sagely concluded.
During the next few years, I was to learn other interesting and gratifying things about this railroad. There were early Atlantic and Prairie type engines remarkably streamlined and sleek for their time. In a day of red plush and garish decorations, Santa Fe chair cars and coaches were very comfortable, comparatively simple and in excellent taste. Santa Fe stations were inevitably the best designed and the most appropriate buildings in town. Throughout the prairie states the stations and hotels, antedating the influence of Frank Lloyd Wright, were constructed on a horizontal motif. In the far Southwest, they reflected the indigenous Indian pueblo; while in Texas and California, the early Spanish missions motivated their design.
When I was approximately seventeen our family took an extended trip which gave me an opportunity to inspect equipment on far-flung Santa Fe divisions, and I encountered the Harvey Hotels. One hot after, noon our train pulled into a station and as it came to a stop, we heard the low, musical sound of a gong. A moment later we were ushered into a cool high-ceilinged room and waved to a table. Never shall I forget that delicious meal, served by a most attractive and courteous girl.
Other amenities became apparent on subsequent trips. To my surprise I discovered that the pictures hanging in Harvey hotels and restaurants-views of the Grand Canyon, the Petrified Forest, the Painted Desert, or the cliff-dwellings of the ancients-were painted by distinguished artists who had been brought to the Santa Fe Southwest by the alert officers of this railway.
For many years my profession kept me traveling almost continuously, and as an interesting avocation, I studied railroads. All of America's trunk lines are known to me, and most of the branches. Railroading has reached its highest development in this country, and our major systems are superb. But the knowledge of other lines only increased my respect for the completeness of the Santa Fe's operations.
Written first as an essay to broaden my own information concerning the operation of a modern rail transportation system, this book has been expanded to include all major departments, and will serve as an introduction to this almost inexhaustible subject. It may act as a stimulus to a more comprehensive examination of the business statesmanship, administrative ability, engineering skill and uncommon cooperation required in operating and maintaining one of America's most admirable and important industries.
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