Cascade Rail Foundation is working to bring Milwaukee Road U25B 5057 from the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, CA to the South Cle Elum Rail Yard Interpretive Center for display.

Having a Milwaukee Road locomotive at South Cle Elum is important step in the development of the rail yard as an interpretive center about the history of the Milwaukee Road in Washington. The 5057 has strong ties to Washington and is well-suited to telling the story of the railroad here. It operated all over the state during the 1970s and helped pull one of the very last trains out of the state in 1980. Currently, no Milwaukee Road locomotives are on display in Washington.

We are raising money to purchase the locomotive, prepare it for display, and move it to the Interpretive Center. Our goal is to raise $125,000 in time to have the 5057 in South Cle Elum by 2015, the 50th birthday of the locomotive. We are just kicking off our formal fundraising effort and our first task is a quick push to raise the rest of the first $10,000 payment for purchasing the locomotive by April 7.

If you'd like to contribute to this project or just learn more about it, you can visit our web site at: www.milwelectric.org/5057project/.

Thanks,
Paul

Paul Krueger
Secretary
Cascade Rail Foundation
"Remembering the Milwaukee Road in Washington"
www.milwelectric.org