Coming home!
Great Northern Railway's old number 1246 was moved to the Woodland Park Zoo, via Aurora Avenue, in June 1953; after 43 years in Oregon, it's now coming home to the Northwest Railway Museum in Snoqualmie. A beloved, giant artifact that was displayed at the Woodland Park Zoo for nearly 30 years – before it was unceremoniously sold off and shipped out of state decades ago – is on its way home to the Seattle area.
Old number 1246 was a popular visual icon and sometimes play structure at the zoo for nearly 30 years. And though no cash changed hands, it is pretty expensive for all the cranes and trucks required to move something that big and that heavy. Old number 1246 weighs a whopping 140 tons. “Steam locomotives disappeared in the 40s and 50s with the conversion to the diesel locomotives, and they’re gone [and] few exist,” Melonas told KIRO Newsradio. “So to bring it back is really exciting.
“It was a tender that was used for a brief period of time following an accident and was not historically what operated with this particular locomotive,” Anderson said. “With this deal with Oregon Coast, we were able to locate a correct tender, and we will be moving that at a separate time to reunite with the locomotive.”
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