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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A period has been acceptable for erstwhile the bid wrong Fresno's Roeding Park volition permission a determination it has been successful for astir 70 years.
According to Kingsburg's Mayor Brandon Pursell, Southern Pacific 1238 volition beryllium moved successful May from Fresno to Kingsburg, wherever they anticipation to person the bid connected a imperishable show successful Kingsburg's downtown area. Plans to determination the bid from Roeding Park have been successful the works since 2019.
"Most radical cognize the big, steam motor that's astatine Roeding Park," Pursell said. "So we're fortunate capable to get that moved down, done our historical bid depot society."
A societal media station by Kingsburg Depot besides confirms May is the period the bid volition beryllium moved to Kingsburg. An update connected Facebook connected April 11 states that the 1238 Steam Engine Project volition spot the bid moved from Roeding Park successful Fresno to the historical Kingsburg Depot successful May, adding "a circumstantial day volition beryllium announced soon."
"That large achromatic steam motor that's been successful Roeding Park, it's going to beryllium successful our downtown country to truly accent our historical bid depot," Pursell said.
Pursell says determination are a fig of radical progressive successful the task to determination the train, including respective metropolis and railroad officials.
"You can't precisely propulsion it connected the furniture of a truck," Pursell said. "We've had to make bid tracks and worldly conscionable to get it down there. It'll beryllium connected a imperishable show down there, and we're ace excited to person that successful our downtown."
The Southern Pacific motor was primitively donated to the City of Fresno successful 1956. According to the Kingsburg Depot, Southern Pacific 1238 was built successful 1918 astatine the Baldwin Locomotive Works successful Philadelphia.
