Rick Bacon

Camp 6 has been sold to Chris Baldo, of the Roots of Motive Power Museum in Willits, CA. It is not yet known what is going where, only that all equipment will be out of the Point Defiance Park within one year. Dismantling 700 tons of hardware while preserving it takes lots of effort, as does cleaning up the site after operating a railroad there for 47 years. As sad as it will be to see the logging and rail equipment leave the Northwest, at least it is not going to a scrap yard. Who knows, maybe Pacific Coast Shay No.7 may have a better chance of being returned to service. Monthly updates will be posted at www.camp-6-museum.org. And I will post pictures when things start to roll.

UP Caboose 25722, that left Camp 6 in 2001 for Fife, WA, has received a frame-up rebuild and is now on public display at the Fife Historical Museum, 2820 54th Avenue E in Fife. It is a prototype of UP’s CA series of wood cabooses. The UP Museum in Omaha, Nebraska, shows this as ex-OWR&N 3564, built in July 1910, renumbered by UP to 25722 in 1964 and later donated to Camp 6. It is on a display track shared with ALCO C415 locomotive CWWR 684.