The return of Kennecott Copper RSD4 No. 201 to its former home at the Nevada Northern Railway has begun. On Nov. 4, the diesel was lifted onto heavy-duty transport equipment to begin the 900-mile, three-week journey from its longtime home at the Northwest Railway Museum in Snoqualmie, Wash. The locomotive is scheduled to depart Snoqualmie on Saturday Nov. 6. NessCampbell Crane & Rigging executed the lift, with Intermountain Rigging & HeavyHaul performing the move. The locomotive is one of two diesels the Nevada Northern is working to return to Ely [see “Nevada Northern to reacquire two early diesels,” Trains News Wire, Oct. 12, 2021]. The team and equipment also moved an Alco HH660 owned by the Northwest museum, Northern Pacific 125 / Walla Walla Valley Railway 770, from the Port of Longview to Snoqualmie on Nov. 2-3.
