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Sunday, March 1 1, 2007 OPINION Tax measures, tax relief still under debate Page fiC W. 15 1 A RC KT IJ 1 0 LI IN Established in 1873 THE INSIDE STORY tnjBismarck Tribune vim TO VOLUME 33, NUMBER 70 ISSN 0745-1091. Published daily. 1 I I I ABOUTUS Established in 1873, the Bismarck Tribune is the official newspaper of the state of North Dakota, county of Burleigh and city of Bismarck. Published daily at 707 E.

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to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more information, call the librarian at 250-8242. Rdnrudu rebiurauon experts George aapp, ien, ana joe iNemmer, wno worK at Kaiitown 1897 in Jamestown, will take the lead in restoring the 1891 locomotive Sierra No. 3.

Long an icon, locomotive needs a makeover BILLING QUESTIONS For billing concerns with retail and classified ads, call 223-2500, extension 312 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. returned to the Sierra Railway, with its rustonc railroad snops and roundhouse. The 1929 Wpstern "ThpVrnrin- piaclno an ad To place an ad, please phone ian," which also starred Walter Huston and Mary Bnan, was the first movie made outside a studio setting.

the appropriate number from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday: Classified, 258-6900 or 866-476-5348; Display, 250-8290. "There are a number of publicity pnotos that survive ot the locomouve dressed un for that mnvip. with r.arv ish prince who represented foreign capitalists investing in California mining.

The prince was the brother-in-law of bankerWilliam H. Crocker whose father, Charles, was one of the Big Four of transcontinental railroad fame and the three men got a railroad built into Tuolumne County. The new Sierra Railway was incorporated on Feb. 2, 1897. Sierra Railway No.

3, an oil-burning locomotive converted to coal in 1900, got off to an illustrious start. She is believed to have hauled the first passenger train on the Sierra line, from Oakdale to Cooperstown, in June 1897, and she pulled mainline freight trains until another engine was added to the MANAGEMENT "We as Americans became the most mobile society on Earth a long time back, and it wasn't because of Henry Ford and the Model he says. "We became the most mobile society on Earth in the age of the railroad, and No. 3 stands for that. I think of it as a great icon of California and American history." Railtown 1897 has no record of Sierra No.

3 ever, in her 1 1 6-year existence, undergoing a major overhaul. So, it's time. "In 2000, we spent 1 00,000 to dismantle it and get it ready for restoration," says Daigle. "We hoped to do it all at that time, but there were some changes due to the (state's) budgetary crisis. So we've kept it Cooper posed on horseback next to the Brian Kroshus, publisher locomouve.

cieany piayed a sigruti- 250-8299 Rod Austin, online manager cani roie or some stnpe, says wyatt. CooDer was reunited with Siprra 355-8832 No. 3 the following year, in "The Ron Garcia, production manager 355-8801 Lynae Hanson, marketing manager 250-8201 lexan. inen tne ntue locomotives showbiz career was derailed for some time as the Sierra Railway went through bankruptcy and reorganization, and the company had no money to pay for needed repairs. Between Chad Kourajian, human resources manager 250-8272 Libby Simes, financial services manager 250-8202 Kristin Wilson, advertising director 250-8285 Alan Steenson, circulation manager 250-8203 POSTMASTER Send address changes to: Bismarck Tribune R0.

Box 5516 Bismarck, ND 58506-5516 COIiHECTIONS If you spot an error that lines rolling stock in 1906. It hasn't been all good times for No. 3. She suffered a few embarrassing mishaps over the years: splitting a switch and falling into a ditch in 1898 (her conductor died in the accident), derailing her tender while backing over a trestle in 1899 and toppling over again in 1919, destroying her original wooden cab. She still uses the secondhand Central Pacific steel cab that replaced the origi "Early in my career, I rode Sierra No.

3 on the television series Over 20 years later, I returned to use No. 3 for my own productions 'Pale Rider' and Even in the business of make-believe, you can't beat the real thing." Clint Eastwood dismantled and looked for ways to find funding to put it back together." None other than Clint Eastwood came to the rescue early on. "The Sierra No. 3 is like a treasured old friend," he wrote last April in a letter to the California Cultural and Historical Endowment's board of directors, encouraging the board to award the railroad museum foundation tine $300,000 grant. "Early in my career," Eastwood continued, "I rode By DIXIE REID McClatchy Newspayers JAMESTOWN, Calif.

It's so sadly "Sunset Boulevard," a faded Hollywood legend truly gone to pieces. Here at Railtown 1897 State Historic Park, the far-flung Tuolumne County outpost of Sacramento's California State Railroad Museum, lie the disconnected parts of perhaps the most famous steam locomotive in movie history. In better times, Sierra Railway No. 3 was a star. Her first onscreen appearance was in a 1919 silent-movie serial called "The Red Glove." Her first feature-film role was alongside Gary Cooper in "The Virginian" (1929), the first "talkie" shot on location.

In the 1950s and '60s, the locomotive appeared in a slew of Westerns, from the classic "High Noon" (again starring Cooper) to TV's "Bonanza" and "Death Valley Days." Also among her 72 movie and TV credits are "Gun-smoke," "Petticoat Junction," "Bound for Glory" and "Back to the Future III." But the old girl (locomotives, like ships, have traditionally been considered has been out of commission for the past decade. She needs major work to bring her boiler in line with new Federal Railroad Administration safety standards, and she's due extensive general repairs and a good sprucing-up. The price tag for full restoration, which will make her look like she did for her 1929 big-screen debut, is around $600,000. The nonprofit California State Railroad Museum Foundation has to raise $300,000 to match a grant from the California Cultural and Historical Endowment and recently was still about $20,000 short. "We are determined to go forward with the project, even if we need to borrow from other funds," said Kathy Daigle, associate director.

(Contributions to the restoration project can be made at 916-445-5995 or www.parks.ca.gov.) "It should be restored so it can blow its whistle and demonstrate how America grew into an industrial power," says Bill Withuhn, who often saw No. 3 on the tracks when he was a boy living in Modesto, Calif. 1 le now is the curator of transportation history at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington, DC. significantly changes the meaning of any Tribune news story, call the city editor at 250-8247. ana I9ii, Merra ino.

18 picked up most of the movie work. However, when Cooper returned to the Sierra Railway in 1952 to make "I ligh Noon" (for which he would win an Oscar), Sierra No. 3 again became the toast of Tinseltown, the undisputed gem of Jamestown. She was the go-to locomotive during theheydayofWesterns in the 1950s and '60s, when such stars as Burt Lancaster and lean Peters Claudette Colbert and Alan Ladd Big came to town. She was a regular, along with Michael Landon, during the long run of television's "Little House on the Prairie." "Sierra No.

3 historically has been the asset bringing films to Tuolumne County for 90 years," says Jerry Day, executive director of the Tuolumne County Film Commission. "It's an actual 19th century engine, and only a handful are operating in North America. That's what makes us special. "If you're going to do a movie about tine Old West or the transcontinental railroad or anything from tine era of expansionism in America, that's tine machine you're going to use." The little locomotive made her last movie appearance in the 1 994 Western "Bad Girl." 1 ler last television work was in 1996, for the Western "Shaugh-nessy." She was removed from service later that year. "She is probably the most seen, if not tine most recognized, steann locomotive in the world, because of all tine films she appeared in for these many, many years," says tine railroad museum's Wyatt.

www.ndtottary.org I'OVVLRBALI. Saturday: 14-18-34-42-43 Powerball: 32 Power Play: 5 Jackpot: $142.3 million hot i.o no nal. After serving many years as an unsung railroad workhorse, Sierra No. 3 was brought into the spotlight in 1919 when Australian-bom director J. P.

McGowan arrived to film an episode of "The Red Glove." He stopped it to shoot a train-robbery scene as Sierra No. 3 was pulling a regular westbound passenger train from Sonora, three miles from Jamestown. "That particular segment doesn't seem to have survived, so we can't actually see what it did," says Kyle Wyatt, curator of history and technology at the California State Railroad Museum. "We know of a reference to it in a newspaper article about the Sierra No. 3 on the television series Over 20 years later, I returned to use No.

3 for my own productions 'Pale Rider' and Even in the business of make-believe, you can't beat the real thing." Sierra No. 3 rolled out of the Rogers Locomotive Machine Works in Paterson, N.J., in March 1891 and became the third locomotive (hence the No. 3 designation) on the Prescott Arizona Central Railway. The Arizona company eventually went bank-nipt because of high rates and poor service. So in 1896, the promoter of the defunct came to California to see about building a rail line into the Mother D)de.

One day in Stockton, Thomas S. Bullock met an exiled Pol Saturday: 3-12-17-25-33 Hot Lotto: 10 Jackpot: $3.67 million Will) CARD Saturday: 3-5-10-28-30 Wild Card: Ace of Hearts Jackpot: $1.3 million TA Saturday Red Balls: 13 14 White Balls: 7-26 It was 10 years before Hollywood.