No I don't refer to those mediocre actors that you see on TV from time to time but the steam engine
builder that could not continue their success in the diesel market. Baldwin Locomotive Co. had a number
of switchers here in Spokane when I arrived here in 1967.
I never could get the model designations of the Baldwin locos down so we just say it's a switch
engine moving a few loads from one yard to another. Our new friend and member Doug Neighswonger
is the owner of this model. The flatcar is my creation.
Here she pulls into the Blue Main yard with its catch and out of the way of the mainline freights.
NP #415 passes through the Port District on its way to delivery point.
Two competitors race for the finish line before they both disappear from the railroad scene, the
SP&S in merger as a BN unit in 1970 and the Milwaukee Road in a sad end in 1980 as a bankrupt railroad.
Another fallen flag was the New York Central in a disaster move as a merger partner with the Pennsy.
Somebody should have gone to jail on that one. Doug Neighswonger owns these beauties.
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