Wednesday, August 12, 2015

SP&S #700 at ORHF Holiday Express 2009

I originally posted this on my old website on February 13, 2010.

…Continued from ORHF Holiday Express 2009.

IMG_0969 Spokane, Portland & Seattle A-1 4-8-4 #700 in Portland, Oregon on December 4, 2009
Spokane, Portland & Seattle 4-8-4 #700 on December 4, 2009

Spokane, Portland & Seattle Baldwin E-1 Class 4-8-4 #700 is one of three 4-8-4s built for the SP&S in 1938 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

IMG_0970 Spokane, Portland & Seattle A-1 4-8-4 #700 in Portland, Oregon on December 4, 2009
Spokane, Portland & Seattle 4-8-4 #700 on December 4, 2009

These locomotives were identical to A-3 class locomotives then being delivered to SP&S's parent, the Northern Pacific Railway, except that the SP&S locomotives burned oil instead of coal.

IMG_0971 Spokane, Portland & Seattle A-1 4-8-4 #700 in Portland, Oregon on December 4, 2009
Spokane, Portland & Seattle 4-8-4 #700 on December 4, 2009

By 1955, the SP&S had completed dieselization and was ready to retire the last of its steam locomotives.

IMG_0983 Spokane, Portland & Seattle A-1 4-8-4 #700 at Oaks Park in Portland, Oregon on December 5, 2009
Spokane, Portland & Seattle 4-8-4 #700 on December 5, 2009

After pulling 1,400 passengers on a 21-car Farewell to Steam Excursion between Portland and Wishram, Washington on May 20, 1956, #700 joined the rest of SP&S's steam locomotives in a scrap line.

IMG_0984 Spokane, Portland & Seattle A-1 4-8-4 #700 at Oaks Park in Portland, Oregon on December 5, 2009
Spokane, Portland & Seattle 4-8-4 #700 on December 5, 2009

SP&S donated #700 to the City of Portland on January 13, 1958, and it was put on static display at Oaks Amusement Park.

IMG_0985 Spokane, Portland & Seattle A-1 4-8-4 #700 at Oaks Park in Portland, Oregon on December 5, 2009
Spokane, Portland & Seattle 4-8-4 #700 on December 5, 2009

It is the only SP&S or NP Northern and one of only two SP&S steam locomotives to survive.

IMG_1010 Spokane, Portland & Seattle A-1 4-8-4 #700 at Oaks Park in Portland, Oregon on December 5, 2009
Spokane, Portland & Seattle 4-8-4 #700 on December 5, 2009

15-year-old Chris McLarney founded the Pacific Railroad Preservation Association in 1977 to restore #700, which came to Brooklyn in 1986 & returned to operation in 1990.

IMG_1011 Spokane, Portland & Seattle A-1 4-8-4 #700 at Oaks Park in Portland, Oregon on December 5, 2009
Spokane, Portland & Seattle 4-8-4 #700 on December 5, 2009

IMG_1017 Spokane, Portland & Seattle A-1 4-8-4 #700 in Portland, Oregon on December 5, 2009
Spokane, Portland & Seattle 4-8-4 #700 on December 5, 2009

IMG_1018 Spokane, Portland & Seattle A-1 4-8-4 #700 in Portland, Oregon on December 5, 2009
Spokane, Portland & Seattle 4-8-4 #700 on December 5, 2009

IMG_1019 Spokane, Portland & Seattle A-1 4-8-4 #700 in Portland, Oregon on December 5, 2009
Spokane, Portland & Seattle 4-8-4 #700 on December 5, 2009

IMG_1020 Spokane, Portland & Seattle A-1 4-8-4 #700 in Portland, Oregon on December 5, 2009
Spokane, Portland & Seattle 4-8-4 #700 on December 5, 2009

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