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WP 705 had an eventful career following the end of the Western Pacific.  Sold to a company that owned and operated several shortlines in the western US, she saw service in Arizona and Colorado over the next 15 years.  The 705 was eventually transferred to a leasing company affiliated with the shortline operator, which decided that the locomotive was surplus to its needs and slated it for scrapping.

A group of FRRS members banded together and donated the money to save the 705 and preserve it in Portola, where she joins sister engines 707, 708 and Sacramento Northern 712.  Work is slowly progressing to return 705 to operation, after which she will be repainted in the Western Pacific's later dark green and orange paint scheme and join our famous Run-A-Locomotive program.

GP7

GM Electro-Motive Division

October 1952

17029

$170,992.00

567B - 16 cylinder

1500

251,700 lbs.

56 ft. 2 in.

65 MPH