Portland, OR—August 10, 2020—The Emery Rail Heritage Trust and the Pacific Railroad Preservation Association (PRPA) are pleased to announce the award of a special mid-year grant of $35,000 to complete the boiler inspection and repair for the 4-8-4 SP&S 700. The grant allows the PRPA to come close to reaching its fundraising goals for the […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Greg Kamholz is the senior volunteer locomotive engineer of the SP&S 700, and over the years he has donated both his time and his skills to the operations of this beautiful piece of history..In addition to this, through a very generous and substantial donation to the boiler certification fund, he recently became one of our […]
The SP&S 700 steam locomotive rebuild/inspection project is now supported in part by a grant from the Oregon Cultural Trust. We received a grant of $17,818 that will go towards work done on the SPS 700’s rebuild through to August 2018. Also, the Oregon Cultural Trust has a great state tax credit program for Oregon […]
The Pacific Railroad Preservation Association received your very generous Matching Donation for a donation made to our organization by an Intel employee. We are grateful and appreciate your helping to keep this beautiful piece of history alive for generations to come.
We received a much appreciated and quite generous $20,000 Matching Grant Offer from Al Baker. Who is he and why does he want to help? Al Baker was born and raised in the railroading city of Altoona, Pennsylvania – a town in which over six thousand PRR locomotives were built and maintained. For Sunday afternoon […]
The PRPA has been awarded a Preserving Oregon Grant by Oregon State Parks and Recreation! This grant is dedicated to building 18 (out 0f 51) superheater units. This fabricating the various bends, bifurcates and other components of a superheater unit, and then welding and assembling them, making them ready for installation. The grant award is […]
GREAT NEWS!!! The BNSF RAILWAY FOUNDATION just sent us a generous grant to assist us in the FRA mandated 15 year (1472) overhaul and inspection process! What a wonderful gift. It is through gifts like this (both big and small) that we are able to maintain this beautiful piece of history and to preserve it […]