That old number 1246 might someday steam up and down the rails of the Northwest Railway Museum is an exciting prospect, and even just preparing it for static display is going to be an expensive proposition. “With this deal with Oregon Coast, we were able to locate a correct tender, and we will be moving that at a separate time to reunite with the locomotive.” “It was a tender that was used for a brief period of time following an accident and was not historically what operated with this particular locomotive,” Anderson said. The tender which was displayed at Woodland Park Zoo was not historically accurate, Anderson told KIRO Newsradio. “We will also look at whether it’s feasible to exhibit this in a building,” Anderson said, “or to even consider operating it at some point in the future.”Īlso in the works by Northwest Railway Museum is the acquisition of the correct “tender” – the railcar behind the locomotive which carries fuel – to match with the old number 1246. Then, the beloved old steam locomotive might take one of two possible routes. Melonas is from an old railroad family, and he’s a retired former spokesman for BNSF Railway who is now doing work for them as a consultant. Meanwhile, another local railroad expert and history enthusiast who’s pretty excited about these developments is Gus Melonas. Old number 1246 weighs a whopping 140 tons. Instead, Anderson traded one of his museum’s locomotives which spent its working life primarily in Oregon – so now, each locomotive will have returned to a more historically appropriate location.Īnd though no cash changed hands, it is pretty expensive for all the cranes and trucks required to move something that big and that heavy. Now, it’s on its way via truck to the Northwest Railway Museum Snoqualmie, and no cash was exchanged. They had legal possession, but they didn’t move it – it was still sitting in Merrill, Ore. But Kepner passed away, and the locomotive was acquired by the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad in Garibaldi, Ore.
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