Jeff Moore Wrote:
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> A major part of the reason it was cut up while the
> others were not is ownership. The #70 was one of
> only two locomotives the North Coast Railroad
> owned, the other being the former Arcata & Mad
> River #104...NCRA bought both of them when they
> purchased the Eureka Southern from the bankruptcy
> court in 1992. The railroad leased all of the
> other power. Thus, when the City of Eureka issues
> its nuisance abatement order, the owner of the
> other geeps stored there decided he wanted to try
> moving them out. NCRA had no place to move the
> #70, and after 15 years of rusting to the rails in
> the same place there wasn't much left to save
> anyway, so it went to razorblades.
>
> Jeff Moore
> Elko, NV

Thanks for your input...always enjoy your "no bs to the point" answers as I never fully understood who owned what there in Eureka or what's still there.

Dick Samuels