The OPRD’s State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) offers matching grants for rehabilitation work that supports the preservation of historic resources listed in the National Register of Historic Places or for significant work contributing toward identifying, preserving and/or interpreting archaeological sites. We were once again awarded their Preserving Oregon Grant for the purpose of rebuilding the […]
April 2001 – RITZVILLE, WASHINGTON: The SP&S 700 smoked it up for a photo run-by on day three of a four-day round trip from Portland, Oregon to Spokane, Washington and back. This stunning photo was taken by, and used with permission from: Steve Barry / www.RailroadPhotographer.com
Many thanks to the Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association for their most generous grant! Each year, the NPRHA awards a limited number of grants in the areas of railway history and the preservation of railway heritage including structures, publications, research and educational projects. This year they are helping us with the SP&S 700’s boiler rebuild. […]
Today we started welding on repairs to the firebox!!! The decision was made to start on the largest repair area. Our technical department had an issue with this, but it was resolved. Todd took about 4 hours to position and align the patch. Randy Woehl assisted him as this was a heavy repair. It took […]
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 […]
The crew removed the sand dome this week. Prior ultrasound inspections were done by testing from inside the boiler with the sand dome in place. However, since our larger reason for removing it completely today was to replace and reinstall the new plumbing, steam supply lines, it was an added bonus that we will be […]
We got a lot of ultrasounding done on the left (fireman’s) side. The readings were good….even excellent. We even got readings done back in behind the air pumps.
Jim Vanderbeck smoothing out the areas where stay bolt covers had been removed. This is to remove the slag that remained after they were taken off.
Upon reviewing some of our ultrasound results, we hired a local Industrial and Mechanical Contracting company (CH Murphy) to assist us in the removal of sections that need repaired and/or replaced. In this image, a CH Murphy employee is cutting out some of the throat sheet. As you can see in the image, the floor […]
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