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Santa Fe 1940-1971 In Color Vol 3: Albuquerque-Los Angeles Lloyd Stagner Morning
Santa Fe 1940-1971 In Color Vol 3: Albuquerque-Los Angeles by Lloyd E Stagner Morning Sun Books
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket The table of contents and facing blank page have damage along the edge.
28 pages
Copyright 1993
CONTENTS
Belen
Albuquerque Division First District
Gallup
Albuquerque Division Second District
Winslow
Albuquerque Division Third District
Grand canyon Branch
The Santa Fe is the only Railway to Grand Canyon National Park
Kingman District
Ash Fork
Phoenix
Barstow
Los Angeles Division First District
Frost
Lugo
Summit
Pine Lodge
Alray
Cajon Pass
Devore
Ono
San Bernardino
Los Angeles Division Second District
Los Angeles Terminal
High Hood Alcos
Alco S-Series Switchers
Gp-7
GP-9
Los Angeles Division Fourth District Surf LineRivera
La Mirada
San Onofre
San Clemente
San Juan Capistrano
Oceanside
Encintas
Carlsbad
Del Mar
San Diego
Aerotrain
Valley Division Mojave District
Tehachapi
Cliff
Woodford
Valley Division First, Second and Third Districts
Bakersfield
Calwa
Fresno
Pinole
Rheem
Richmond
SANTA FE 1940-1974 IN COLOR Vol 3: Albequerque-Los Angeles
We will take the last portion of our trip from Chicago to California over the Coast Lines Grand Division, which encompassed the most difficult operating conditions on the vast Santa Fe System. With desert and heavy mountain grades of a maximum of 2.2% east and 1.6% west, and elevations varying from sea level to 7,313 feet at the Arizona Divide, extremes in weather conditions were encountered. From the 200 miles from the crossing of the Colorado River at Topock, AZ at 463 feet to the Arizona Divide at Supai, eastbound trains had to be lifted 6,850 feet. The Needles-Yam pai, AZ helper district of 126.3 miles was the longest in the U.S.A. Frequently it was 80 degrees at Needles and 10 below zero with heavy snow at Flagstaff. A General Manager and Assistant General Manager ran the Coast Lines from their Los Angeles headquarters, which was in charge of 2,541 miles of railroad, double-tracked from Belen to San Bernardino and with alternate routes onto Los Angeles. On the east end, Belen was the freight terminal; passenger trains from Albuquerque entered the Coast Lines at Isleta, 12.6 miles south of Albuquerque.
The Albuquerque Division, headquartered at Winslow, AZ did not enter Albuquerque, but its 1,033.6 miles extended from Isleta and Belen to Needles with branch lines to Phoenix and Grand Canyon, and the Parker "Cut-Off' from Matthie, AZ to Parker, AZ. The Los Angeles Division covered the territory Needles to Los Angeles and all branches in Southern California and the Parker "Cut-Off' between Cadiz-Parker. Division headquarters were at San Bernardino, site of one of the four steam locomotive general repair shops, plus an important freight car repair facility. The Valley Division had its headquarters at Fresno, CA and had responsibility for all trackage north of Barstow to Oakland, and several branches in the San Joaquin Valley. AT&SF trains used Southern Pacific trackage between Mojave-Bakersfield, 70 miles, which included 2.5% eastbound and 2.2% westbound ruling grades. The balance of the Valley Division was comparatively level, except for grades of 1.1 percent, approaching the 5,556 foot tunnel at Glen Frazer, near Richmond, CA. The San Francisco Terminal Division operated the terminal facilities in San Francisco which were connected to Richmond by car floats handled by tug boats. Passengers used buses which connected with Santa Fe trains at Oakland. Valley Division mileage increased to 691 miles in August 1949 when the Arizona Division was combined with the remaining three divisions.
Most Coast Lines trackage was constructed between 1880 and 1883 by the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad, a property 50% owned by the Santa Fe and 50% by the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad, the Santa Fe assuming complete control in 1896. Meanwhile, the Southern Pacific had built from Mojave to Needles in 1883, but the connection meant little to the A&P since Southern Pacific routed most of its traffic over its own lines to El Paso or Ogden. An agreement was worked out with Collis P. Huntington for the Atlantic & Pacific to purchase the line from Needles to Mojave, with trackage rights into Bakersfield. During 18821883, the Southern California Railroad had completed a line from National City to San Bernardino, which was extended over Cajon Pass to Barstow, and connection with the A&P on November 15, 1885. A significant purchase was made in 1898; the San Francisco & San Joaquin Valley Railway, which had been completed from Oakland to Bakersfield in 1897. With the SP trackage rights, Santa Fe began running trains through to the shores of San Francisco Bay on May 1, 1990. In 1901, Santa Fe purchased the Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix
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