I originally posted this on my old website on February 13, 2010.
…Continued from ORHF Holiday Express 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Spokane, Portland & Seattle 4-8-4 #700 on December 5, 2009
Spokane, Portland & Seattle 4-8-4 #700 on December 5, 2009
Spokane, Portland & Seattle 4-8-4 #700 on December 5, 2009
Spokane, Portland & Seattle 4-8-4 #700 on December 5, 2009
Spokane, Portland & Seattle 4-8-4 #700 on December 5, 2009
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