Checks can be sent to:  R. Donald Ross, 3821 Crater Lake Ct, Irving, TX 75062-4015

109 was rebuilt in April 1958, #24681, FN 8052-2, as Midland Valley RR 153, GP7, February 1953, #17849, FN 6493-3.  It was wrecked at Bokosle, OK, on February 1, 1958, and the remains went to EMD.  It was renumbered 109 in 1962 and became T&P 109 in 1967.  It became Missouri Pacific 1696 in 1974 and traded back to EMD.

At each step we can admire the grandeur, the power, the goodness of God.  How bountifully He provides for all our wants --- I would even say for our pleasures.

---St. Theodore Guerin