This switcher 4420 operated for 43 years, until 1957, when it was retired. They're going to try and restore it now, as it once saved Evanston from being cut out of the Union Pacific's train route

The switcher saved jobs in Evanston when Union Pacific decided in the late 1920s that it no longer needed to stop in Evanston anymore. Technology had improved, and trains could make it all the way to Ogden without that stop.

Knowing how this would devastate their community, Evanston residents went to Union Pacific offices in Omaha to plead with the company to change its mind.

That led Union Pacific to change Evanston’s railroad service facility into a reclamation center. They would send cars full of broken parts to the railyard for repair work. The switcher would take the cars to different areas of the yard, depending on the work required.

“That little locomotive is what provided the jobs here, and saved this town,” Ewing said. “Without that, this building wouldn’t be here, and this would be a ghost town. It was the savior of the city.”

The overall restoration project is going to cost around $300,000

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/05/25/engine-4420-helped-save-evanston-wyoming-100-years-ago-now-its-4420s-turn/

Thank you George!