Everyone love the Willamette Locomotive #7!

We are in Phase #2 of the restoration of our #7 and we want to get it beautiful for its birthday next year!

How can you help?

 

• Give to the Save Our Train fund :  Thank you so much to everyone who donated to our Match this July!  Donations are still welcome and will help restore this wonderful piece of history!
• Volunteer!  We will be hosting volunteer workdays on Saturdays starting at 10am throughout the summer.  Check out our Facebook page for more information or email anacondalumber.7@gmail.com

Why is Missoula’s Engine #7 Unique?

• Oldest known surviving Willamette Locomotive in the Nation.
• Spent its life in our mountains and valleys, never traveling more than 80 miles from Missoula.
• Hollywood Movie Star when it played a leading role in the 1954 Timber Jack!
• Only Willamette originally built to burn coal as a fuel.
• The ONLY locomotive left from Western Lumber Co.
• One of two surviving locomotives from Anaconda Lumber Co. and the only one in Montana.
• This Engine represents a once bustling industry that shaped Missoula and Western Montana.
• Check out a more in-depth look at Engine #7’s history here.

 

Please, make a gift to return this Montana Icon to its former glory.

See Engine #7’s air brakes in action for the first time since 1954!

 

Want to know all about Engine #7?

Here are the Nuts and Bolts of this great train!

• Work Party Reports
  • #1
  • #2
  • #3
  • #4
  • #5
  • #6
  • #7
  • #8,9, & 10
• Tune into our YOUTUBE channel for “What’s That Thingy?” Episodes.
• Heron Lumber Co Article by Tall Timber Short Lines: Published 2005
• Brief History of Engine #7
• NBC Montana News Story
• KPAX SAVE THE TRAIN STORY!
• Missoulian Clipping from 1992
• A Message from the Director
• Willamette Iron & Steel Engineering Plans 
• The Lumberman’s Library Car Article by Tall Timber Short Lines: Published 2003
  • Engine #7 very likely pulled the Lumberman’s Library Car to its Logging Camp Locations throughout Western Montana.
  • This Library car it the ONLY one to have ever existed in the Nation
• Join the Steam Engine #7 Facebook Group
• See Engine #7 TURN OVER FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1954! And another view!
• Missoulian Article: March,2019
• Missouliian Article: April, 2019
• This restoration project is funded in part through the Cultural and Aesthetics Projects Trust Fund that was created through coal severance taxes paid based on coal mining in Montana.