Operations Santa Fe by Merle Armitage AT&SF w dust jacket

RailroadTreasures offers the following item: 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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