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SANTA FE: Two EMD GP-30 diesel units were damaged in a runaway near Topeka, Kansas. One of the units was the 1274. The units were deliberately derailed after running up to 90 mph.....The much publicized Super C still only has one car on the average and often doesn't run westward at all. (The California Southern Express)..........

The fourth district local ran several days during the past week loaded down with empty potash hoppers, probably to get them out of San Diego and to get the tonnage over Sorrento hill........

SOUTHERN PACIFIC: Although the SP has applied to discontinue the San Joaquin Daylight and the Sunset Limited, no dates have been set for the train offs to our Knowledge......

SACRAMENTO MUSEUM: This information which, appearred in the California Southern Express originally came from the R&LHS Pacific Coast Chapter News, April, 1968. The Chapter's collection of historic rolling stock is about to get a new home. After years of effort toward locating the collection in the Haslett Warehouse in San Francisco, the state Division of Parks and Beaches has decided to consolidate the railroad collections at "Old Sacramento" at the spot from which the first train in California departed in 1855. A steam operated train is being considered and it has been agreed that "C. P. Huntington and cab-forward SP 4294 will join the chapter equipment there. Included in the collection are V&T #13 "Empire", CP #1 "Governor Stanford," V&T "Genoa," Beebe's "Gold Coast" and engines simulating those that met at Promontory Point in 1869. (California Southern Express)

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STOP THE PRESS

Coos Bay Timber Division of Georgia-Pacific locomotive No. 11, 2-0-2T, will leave Powers, Oregon, on July 17 with a Georgia-Pacific rider aboard. Arrival in San Diego is expected after approximately two weeks of travel. PSRMA's newest locomotive will come south via the Southern Pacific and the San Diego & Arizona Eastern Railway Co. Board Chairman Terry Durkin and your president, Eric Sanders, will endeavor to be informed of the arrival date. PSRMA and SDAE's Chick Kent reminds us that Train 451's arrival will probably be at night.