The First Unit of the Globe-Democrat Modern Presses, formerly used by the Star-Times, was removed from the KXOK building yesterday and installed in the press room. The mammoth moving operation, requiring removal and installation of eight 14-ton units, will continue next week. Foundation preparations have been under way at the Globe-Democrat for several weeks. The two Goss Multi-Color headlines
Greenbrier's Bill Furman presenting a check for $13,500 per railcar to Norm Feren, SPRR Mechanical and Bob Yates SPRR Intermodal for the purchase of obsolete multi-level railcars and their conversion into Twin 45' trailer flatcars. Work will be performed at SPRR's RAMAC facility in Roseville, CA under a $6 million contract where SPRR Mechanical at RAMAC will perform the work and be paid by
A photograph of the Southern Pacific wooden cupola caboose SP 690 in Burlingame, California. The photograph shows the newly painted caboose with orange ends.
Two SPSLC trains meet on trackage owned by the Belt Railway of Chicago (BRC) in Bedford Park, Illinois on July 31, 1992. As Southern Pacific owned less than 2,000 feet of trackage in the greater Chicago area, it elected to use the BRC as its terminal in Chicago. The BRC also provided a number of services for Southern Pacific such as cleaning and servicing locomotives and performing air brake
The Globe-Democrat's high school athletes of 1974-75 gathered recently to swap stories and talk of future plans. They are (from left) Jerome Heavens of Assumption (football), Hazelwood East's Al Olmstead (baseball), Triad's Brad Droy (basketball) and Sumner's Oscar Harvey (track).