The National Railway Historical Society supports train, railway and station preservation projects with hundreds of thousands of dollars awarded in Heritage Grants, as well as education, photographic archives, events, publishing, standards definition and shared resources.

This year, they awarded us with a grant of $8,000 to rebuild the two air pumps used in the locomotive braking system of the SP&S 700.

In addition to that, they also awarded a grant of $8,000 to the Oregon Rail Heritage Foundation for the refurbishment and installation at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center (our home!) of a 102’ continuous turntable, the last remaining historic element of the former Southern Pacific Brooklyn roundhouse. It will be one of only a handful of powered operating turntables accessible to the public in the West.