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
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.
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 public is welcome to join us for the Annual Members meeting. We hope to see you there! The doors will open at 9:00am. The address: 7688 SW Capitol Hwy, Room #7, in Portland, Oregon.
Making a clean finish for ultrasounding. Kyle C and Mark S during yesterday’s workday. All the readings on both flue sheets came in good and within limits.
Kyle Chappell and Randy Woehl taking aim with the sledge in the combustion chamber to drive the flues out after the tubes were cut.
The crew spent 8 hrs cleaning the boiler flues yesterday. They had to make a special tool to adapt the vacuum equipment to the locomotive. Both a professional vacuum service and the shop vac were used. It’s a dirty job – but someone’s got to do it. Our volunteers are awesome! MORE PHOTOS BY RANDY […]
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 […]