first two weekends of December, raising almost $75,000. However, the heavy weight and rigid wheelbases of both No. 700 and No. 4449 cause damage to the Oaks Park trackage. In 2022, a different, smaller and lighter-weight locomotive was used instead. Members The ORHF consists of the following groups: Friends of SP 4449 Inc. Friends of OR&N 197 Pacific Railroad Preservation Association (dedicated to SP&S 700) Northwest Rail Museum Pacific Northwest Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society City of Portland Parks & Recreation Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Development (HAND) Retired SP/UP locomotive engineer Doyle McCormack serves as the ORHF's president; he has been the engineer and chief mechanical officer of the SP 4449 since its restoration in 1975. Former State of Oregon rail planner Ed Immel, who founded the Northwest Rail Museum in 1986, serves as vice-president. The volunteer members of the restoration groups spend several hundred hours each week doing mechanical or cosmetic work on the locomotives and rolling stock. The estimated value and quantity of volunteer labor comes to $2.5 million over 115,000 hours since 1975, and it has been often stated that every hour of operation is the result of 100 volunteer hours of work. About 150 people volunteer for the ORHF itself every year, mainly with the Holiday Express, National Train Day celebrations, and mainline excursion trains. While the ORHF on its own has no active part in equipment maintenance, it serves as a single point of contact with the City of Portland regarding the steam locomotives. Other partners supportive of ORHF's mission are Union Pacific and its Foundation, the Oregon Pacific Railroad, the Portland & Western Railroad, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, the Oregon Cultural Trust, the City of Portland, TriMet, M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, Collins Foundation, BNSF Foundation, Candelaria Fund, Fred Meyer Corporation, Swindells Charitable Trust, Lamb Baldwin Foundation, and individual donors who have contributed over $1.23 million to date. History The ORHF was formed in 1998 as the "Roundhouse Task Force" following UP's desire to expand its recently acquired Portland intermodal facilities, putting the future of the Brooklyn Roundhouse and its tenants at stake. Faced with the grim possibility of the locomotives being returned to non-operational outdoor display exposed to weather and vandalism, the foundation set about searching for a new piece of property upon which to construct a new engine house and visitors' center. The ORHF was granted 501(c)3 status in 2002