Projects by North Bank Line

The North Bank Line has announced it's planned production of the SP&S Pullmans. They will be offering both the Mount Jefferson and Mount Adams as well as RPO #41 in factory finished HO Scale Brass.

HISTORY - In March 1949 the SP&S purchased two Pullman 8-Section Buffet Lounge Cars, one each from parents GN and NP. Both had been built in August 1929 to Pullman Plan P3989A and originally assigned to the CRI&P. The GN and NP had purchased the cars in November 1940 for service between Portland and Spokane on the SP&S. Named Omaha Club and Des Moines Club respectively by the GN and NP, the cars were renamed Mount Jefferson and Mount Adams by the SP&S in May 1949. In November 1961 the Mount Jefferson was rebuilt to RPO #41 and the Mount Adams was dismantled in January 1963.

The Great Northern owned 145 O-1 Class 2-8-2's built in several groups between 1911 and 1919. Photos confirm they roamed system wide on the GN from Minnesota to California. The last 4 were not stricken from the roster until 1958. During their many years of service, the O-1s underwent innumerable individual modifications rendering each locomotive unique. In keeping with The North Bank Line's policy, we are planning 4 versions of these work horse GN freight haulers each representing a specific locomotive in a specific time period. All will be produced by Boo-Rim Precision and Factory Painted.

The Spokane, Portland & Seattle acquired 13 second hand O-1 class 2-8-2s from parent Great Northern between 1925 and 1944. The O-1s worked the SP&S mainline between Portland and Spokane as well as the Oregon Trunk Line between Wishram and Bend where they also frequently worked in helper service. Having been received over a 19-year time span the former GN O-1s had already undergone various modifications prior to arriving on the SP&S. After a few years on "The Northwest's Own Railway" each locomotive inevitably became even more unique. The O-1 class is the last class of SP&S 2-8-2s that has not been produced in state of the art brass and The North Bank Line is planning to rectify this shortcoming with the 3 versions announced in this project. All will be produced by Boo-Rim Precision.

The Southern Pacific acquired their ten P-12 class locomotives with the acquisition of the EP&SW in 1924. They had been built as coal burners by Alco in Dunkirk, NY in 1917,but all ten were converted to burn oil by their new owner. Photos confirm the P-12's roamed over much of the Southern Pacific system so these handsome 4-6-2's are at home from Oregon to Arizona. The North Bank Line is planning 5 versions of these never before produced 4-6-2's, all built by Boo Rim Precision in factory finished brass.

With completion of its mainline in 1883 the Northern Pacific found itself in need of much more powerful locomotives to deal with ruling grades on Bozeman, Mullen and Stampede Passes. The result was 32, 2-8-0's delivered by Baldwin in four groups between 1888 and 1891. Although diminutive by later standards, with 34,500 pounds tractive effort and a 4.15 factor of adhesion, they were the most powerful 2-8-0's in the world when delivered. Around the turn of the century the N.P. assigned the 32 locomotives to the F-1 class, but to railroaders they were known simply as "Hogs"

The F-1 class "Hogs" had lengthy careers during which they underwent numerous modifications. Seven were sold to the SP&S in 1925 and attrition claimed the others until only 8 remained on the NP roster in 1940, by which time all were assigned to the Tacoma Division. Six were still active in April 1945.

Among the seven Northern Pacific F-1 Class 2-8-0's the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway purchased in 1925, one was unique. So unique in fact that she was assigned to be the only member of the N-5 class as SP&S #315. Number 315's unique features stemmed from her difficult years as Northern Pacific #79. Her troubles began in 1903 when #79 had the misfortune to be on the Wallace Branch 'S' trestle when a section of the trestle was taken out by a snow slide. After surviving a 80ft plunge into deep snow she was returned to service. In 1907 her boiler exploded near Mace, Idaho. Yet once again she returned to service but with a new tapered boiler unlike any of her sister F-1s.

In 1925 the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway purchased 7 Northern Pacific F-1 class 2-8-0's assigning 6 of them to the SP&S N-4 class.The old 'Hogs' had been on the SP&S for over a year and had already been converted to burn oil. Although initially intended for log traffic on SP&S subsidiaries, United Railway and Gales Creek & Wilson River Railway photos confirm the old girls ranged all over the SP&S system. They finished their days in switching service with two surviving until 1945.