by RailVet
News story:
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/o ... -loan-win/
Excerpt: "Plans call for removing abandoned track from Fairchild Air Force Base and rebuilding a 2.3-mile section of badly deteriorated track."
The two-mile base railway was abandoned many years ago and had been served by a GE 80-ton centercab locomotive numbered USAF 1669.
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/o ... -loan-win/
Excerpt: "Plans call for removing abandoned track from Fairchild Air Force Base and rebuilding a 2.3-mile section of badly deteriorated track."
The two-mile base railway was abandoned many years ago and had been served by a GE 80-ton centercab locomotive numbered USAF 1669.