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‘5 Spot’ lifted onto new rails at Pioneer Park
By Eileen Persike
Editor
Just in time for the summer opening of the Pioneer Park Historical Complex, a large and popular feature was set atop a new foundation.
Engine 5, otherwise known as ‘5 Spot,’ has sat in front of the Railroad Museum Depot building inside the PPHC since 1973. Over the years, the narrow gauge steam engine and its foundation had begun to sink. Last fall a fundraising effort began to pay for the work necessary to get the train back on solid ground.
Early in May a new reinforced concrete foundation was poured and the rails were set last week. This past Thursday a crane service lifted the engine onto its new rails and the remaining train cars into place behind it.
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