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> > Winter 1994. Was living in Sellwood at the
> time,
> > very cool to have this in the back yard!
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> Whoa! That pic illustrates all that was going on
> in the mid-90's on the newly acquired operation
> known then as East Portland Traction now the East
> Portland Division of the Oregon Pacific.
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> On the far left we find the recently refurbished
> SW-1 #100...to her right is the original PTC GMC
> flatbed #16 that came as part of the "package".
> This truck was retired several years ago and sold
> to a farmer whose operation is adjacent to OPR's
> Molalla Division who still uses it regularly. When
> acquired in 1991 the 1980 truck was eleven years
> old yet had less than 15,000 miles on the
> odometer! Talk about a low mileage one owner
> vehicle.
>
> To the right we have the original "SamTrak" train
> with the GE 25-tonner #2501 and to the right of
> that is the former Chelatchie Prairie #007 GE 45
> tonner which would be refurbished as SamTrak 4501
> and replace the 25 tonner.
>
> In the background rising out of the dirt is the
> masonry wall of the future EPTC/OPR
> headquarters/diesel shop building which was
> completed in 1996 and replaced the temporary
> caboose office.
>
> Thanks for a look back to the "roots" of the
> present Oregon Pacific operation.
>
> Dick Samuels

Also pictured is the still-under-construction SamTrak ex-Simpson Timber caboose #900 and to the far right behind the 45-tonner is the"World Headquarters" caboose which served as the yard office.

Sammie