Re: End of the line for NWP 70 (2015 video)
Author: Jeff Moore
Date: 09-19-2019 - 07:36
The only thing I can add to OPRRMS is that CCT sold it to Jim Bruggere and Great Western Tours along with RS-1 #80 and S-1 #42, the intent was that the three would be used to power the North Coast Daylight passenger trains which never happened. Bruggere sold it to Eureka Southern around 1988, and it ended up being one of two EUKA locomotives North Coast Railroad Authority bought along with EUKA’s assets, the former Arcata & Mad River 44-tonner #104 was the other. It was thus owned by North Coast Railroad, which then became the second iteration of the NWP after the public agencies bought the name along with the south end of the railroad. And by my count there should be four NWP companies, the original, NCR/NWP, John Darling’s NWPY, and then the current company?
Jeff Moore
Elko, NV