The SP&S had only one E unit numbered #750, so how do we have 2 SP&S E-7s numbered the same
in the same photo? That's the conflict Steve Weso brings the the Evergreen club with his two paint versions
depending on the time line. Oh the tangled web we weave!
Amtrak makes a stop at the major station of Cobbleton located at the back of the Evergreen empire.
This early articulated Great Northern steam engine is in need of a good bath of grimy black but perhaps
the owner of the loco likes the bright color of green. Its working a string of iron ore hoppers in the wilds of
Wisconsin or Minnesota.
That SP&S #750 is now on the road and meets up with a younger brother E-8 in Union Pacific yellow.
The real ones would have been on opposite sides of the Columbia in the 1960s and sometimes in the
confines of downtown Spokane at Union Station and GN station that were 100 yards apart.
One of those interloper eastern railroads called Baltimore and Ohio showed up in the form of 3 F units
(baby brothers to the E units mentioned) They must have trackage rights on the Evergreen?
Later in the evening Scotty Smith brought in 3 unit UP passenger train to round out the cab units
for the day's activities.
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