Engine 702 back in service

A piece of lore from the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railroad, now the Columbia Plateau Trail, has returned to the scene. Cheney Boy Scout Phillip Kaplan developed the sign board with SP&S information for his Eagle Scout project. The sign is posted at a rest site on the west side of the trail about one-half mile north of the trailhead on the Cheney Spangle Road.

Engine 702 was made in 1938 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works. The photos are laser etched on cedar boards. The SP&S line, started in 1905, was closed down in 1987 by the Burlington Northern and acquired by the state in 1991....