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Article: Historic Steam Engine Will Head to Scenic Railroad in Elbe, Wash.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- October 28, 2002
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By Debbie Cafazzo, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 28--She's the last of her breed.
The steam engine that's been demurely concealed in Jim Gertz' Port Angeles shed for more than three decades was the last geared locomotive ever built by the Willamette Iron and Steel Works.
When she rolled off the assembly line in Portland in 1929, she was destined for a rugged outdoor life in the forests of the Northwest.
But after years of working in the logging industry, then slumbering in storage, the engine is finally getting a new home in Pierce County.
Gertz is donating the engine to the Mount ...