Portland Traction #100 at Portland Union Station on May 11, 1996
Locomotive #100 is a 600-horsepower SW1 built by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors in February 1952.
Portland Traction #100 at Oaks Park on July 13, 2007
Portland Traction #100 at Oaks Park on July 13, 2007
Portland Traction #100 at Oaks Park on July 13, 2007
It was originally owned by the Portland Railroad & Terminal Division of the Portland Traction Company and has worked on the East Portland branch for nearly its entire existence.
Portland Traction #100 at Oaks Park on July 13, 2007
Portland Traction #100 at Oaks Park on July 13, 2007
It was joined in March 1953 by another SW1: #200.
Portland Traction #100 at East Portland on July 13, 2007
In the mid-1980s, #100 was sold to Watco Companies and used at a paper mill in Wallua, Washington, while #200 was sold and ended up serving a grain elevator in Superior, WI.
Portland Traction #100 at East Portland on July 13, 2007
Portland Traction #100 at East Portland on July 13, 2007
#100 was purchased by Dick Samuels in 1987 for use on its original line, which would become the East Portland Traction Company, and was repainted back to its original orange paint scheme, which it retains today.
Portland Traction #100 in Milwaukie on September 6, 2007
#100 was also used for a time on the Molalla Western in 1993 just after Dick Samuels took over that line, but is typically used on the East Portland line and calls the Milwaukie shops home.
Portland Traction #100 in Milwaukie on January 24, 2009
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