Re: End of the line for NWP 70 (2015 video)
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 09-19-2019 - 13:11
Jeff Moore Wrote:
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> 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
Thanks, Jeff. Too many NWP's to keep track of.
Do you know what's currently going on with the 80? Is that group still trying to get it to Portola?