Msgr. Patrick S. Brennan |
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Three of Portland’s historic steam engines have a new home: the Oregon Rail Heritage Center. As the brochure for the new center says, “These locomotives are icons of railroad history, returned to life to tell the romantic adventure of how railroads shaped the west through steel and steam.” The three locomotives are the Southern Pacific 4449 (built in 1941), the Spokane Portland & Seattle 700 (built in 1938), and the Oregon Railroad & Navigation 197 (which arrived in Portland in time for the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition). Finally, Portland has a rail museum!