July 2024

What’s new with the 5057? In terms of progress, not much has changed. We are still waiting for an opening to get the locomotive into the Pend Oreille Valley Railroad (POVA) shop at Usk, WA to continue the restoration work and we have an updated cost estimate to complete it.

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September 2018

The 5057 was mentioned twice in the latest issue of Locomotive magazine! It was mentioned once in an article by Greg McDonnell listing surviving U25B locomotives and also in Blair Kooistra’s article about Milwaukee Road GE locomotives in Washington during the last days of the Pacific Coast Extension. The magazine…

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August 2018

Thanks to an anonymous donation, we have passed our current fundraising milestone for completing the restoration work. We expect the 5057 to be cosmetically restored by June 2019. To set our next fundraising milestone, we are proceeding full speed with detailed planning for the move to South Cle Elum. This…

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Work Session Report – June 2014

Feather River Rail Society (FRRS) and Cascade Rail Foundation (CRF) volunteers spent Monday, June 9 through Thursday, June 12, 2014 working to finish the preparatory work on General Electric U25B Milwaukee Road 5057. The work during this session was performed at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum Shop (WPRM) in Portola,…

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