Re: ET&S RR Co.?

Well the way the story goes is that traffic picked up during the war and most of the equipent had to be pressed into use. Then the railroad slowly died out. The equipment was just shut up in the roundhouse when it was in need of repairs. The #4 and 5 were kept because they were asigned to the Smith brach and worked it till the end. The #10 worked the Morgan branch until the end. It was always thought that the coal traffic would pick up again but it never did. The larger locomotives were not used and the older smaller locos came out. Then finaly in 1958 the railroad just closed. It wasn't sold to a scrap dealer however. It was though that it was. The people of East Tigard swore all the locomotives were cut up. The saw trucks of scarp leave the rail yards downtown. This however was the equipment of the Pennsylvaina Coal Co wich was brought into the ET&S yard and cut up. A fence was put up around the property and it was locked up. So the property sat slowly being tacken over by nature holding its secret. In the 1970s however a man died in East Tigard. When his will was read it was found that he had been the owner of the ET&S property and in his will he left all of the property and equipment to his son. No one could figure what "equipment he was talking about until they found the keys and walked into the roundhouse!
-Eric Bolton