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 <center>Locomotive #12 The City of Two Trees Honored By Richard "Scoop" Carails- Two Trees Times</center> <center>[img]http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/CaptCarrales/cityoftwotrees1.jpg[/img] The City of Two Trees leaved Ian's Curve for the Cut</center> Two Trees, Texas- The City of Two Trees was fired up Wednesday and dispatched to the Cut to make prepartations for the coming of Hurricane Rita, but more than that it has been honored. Company treasurer E.N. Velopes announced that he began research into the origins of this locomotive last July. He was able to verify a conjecture he had harbored on the matter for a long time. "I looked through about seventy boxes of records at the Sow's Ear Locomotive and Car Works, " began Velopes, "and I discovered that this locomotive is the sister locomotive of the one that over turned on Poor Vic's Curve. It seems, and its is a stroy we all heard as kids, that in 1901 Viktor Schmitt jumped a locomotive on the Two Trees Tramline. The City of Two Trees originally rolled out on the same day!" Velopes made several historial points on the matter and outlined the the history of this alternate train. While original Two Tree Tramline #17 was destroyed at what would be called Poor Vic's Curve, its sister locomotive was purchased by the J.P. Moreno Ironworks in San Diego, Texas. It severed there until it was retired in 1945. From there is was dormant until 1956, when it was repaired and modernized for use on a tourist railroad in East Texas. That came to an end in 1970 where it was scrapped. The locomotive was salvaged from the scrapheap, and possibly from the furnace, by Milhaus Bern, of Norma, Texas. He intended to use it as a static display on a section of the Two Trees Tramline in 1990. It's exterior was restored and it remained there until it was purchased by Sampson Betts of Two Trees, Texas who spent a considerable amount of funds to return it to functioning condition. He then sold it for a considerable profit to the Two Trees Railroad Society which modernized it and donated it to the Norma & Micaela Railroad. <center>[img]http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/CaptCarrales/ballastcars.jpg[/img] The City of Two Trees pulling ballast cars to SAVE THE LINE</center> N&MRR President J.E. Carrales honored it as the "SAVIOR OF THE LINE" and authorized the name City of Two Trees to adorn its cab instead of the more traditional "No. 12." "This is a travesty!" said Sampson Betts of Two Trees, "He turns it into a MOW locomotive and calls it an honor! What a shrewed idiot!"
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