When the Evergreen club visited Havre by Amtrak last month the highlight was seeing this impressive
Great Northern 4-8-4 passenger locomotive on display. The number was 2581.
Jim Bowden has a smaller copy of it numbered 2584 and almost as impressive. As you can see Jim's is not as weathered as the Havre version but in its day the big one would have had this dark green boiler as well. Smoke and steam provided by Quinn.
Jim also ran these two CN models with a factory inspired paint scheme.
Union Pacific was represented by these 2 GP9s but I can't remember which member was running them?
The mighty Weso has these two sets of power and train providing the scenery this past Thursday.
the 3 BN units were special paint and the blue and white units are Oakway lease units that ran at
BNs behest.
Sometimes I even forget that we have a dock for overseas deliveries to justify a tugboat donated to the
Evergreen club by Mike Walcker, a prior member from Wenatchee, Washington 200 miles away
Speaking of priors, we had Robert Case, Phil Pesek visit us this past week, and Mike Applegate
promises to stop by Tuesday on his way back to Portland where he he working these days. We are blessed
with such friends.
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