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 […]
Steve Sedaker (the President of the Pacific Railroad Preservation Association) and Mona Nichols (one of our crew members) held their wedding reception at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center last weekend. Steve and Mona had met in January 2018 while riding on the Empire Builder train. A few months later, they made a trip together taking […]
We had an excellent beginning to a collaborative work plan for flue tube installation on the SP&S 700! Members of our crew met up with some of the crew members of the SP 4449 at 9:30am to create plans for the day. We started with taking delivery of the large flue tubes from CH Murphy […]
A lot is happening at the engine house this week and it is quite exciting. The crew is setting up and staging everything to begin installing the flue tubes. This includes cleaning the front flue sheet as shown here in this photo by Mark Siegel. The scaffold is being set up, tubes are being delivered […]
This FREE event has new light displays each year. I can’t wait to see what they do to the SP&S 700 this week. Come on down and bring the family. Oregon Rail Heritage Center February 6th, through February 8th 6pm-11pm https://www.pdxwlf.com/about
We hope you enjoy this 13-minute collection of images documenting much of the work and progress we made in 2019.
Thank you to all who came out to our Annual Meeting today. Here are the newly voted in Board of Directors for 2020. Left to right: Vice President Randy Woehl, George Orme, Secretary Mark Siegel, George Landrock, President Steve Sedaker, Roger Woehl, Treasurer Jim Vanderbeck, Kyle Chappell, Nick Gerba, and Chief Mechanical Officer Matt Baccitich.
We hope to see you there! January 25th at 10am at 7688 S.W. Capitol Highway, Portland Oregon in room #30.
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