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Columbia Basin Herald
MOSES LAKE, WA - After a decades long visit to Moses Lake, a steam engine once owned by local legend Monte Holm is headed back home.
Locomotive 557 moved slowly across West Broadway Avenue Thursday afternoon, the start of a long journey that ends in Anchorage, Alaska, where it will be restored.
Early next week the 160,000 pound engine will make it's way from private property in Moses Lake to Seattle, where it will be rolled onto a barge for the six day trip north to Whittier, Alaska. There it will be off-loaded to ride the rails 70 miles northwest to Anchorage.
The locomotive was built in 1944 and ended it's service in 1959 as Alaska's last operating steam engine. Like others of its ilk, the engine was destined for the scrap yard when Holm picked it up from an Everett steel dealer in the mid 1960s.

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The cost of restoring the engine could reach as high as $500,000 - mainly for cosmetic repairs - according to Tim Sullivan, the [Alaska Railroad Company's] manager of external affairs, but he said the price tag is well worth bringing a piece of history back to the place of its origin.
After it's in running order, Sullivan says there are several options for what will be done with the Locomotive 557, including pulling a few cars between Anchorage and Portage during the tourism season.
"We think it presents an opportunity for folks who are interested in stepping back in time," he says. "It's great to have it coming home. It's a real legacy to be enjoyed by all Alaskans."

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