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Here's all of the liveries for the Evergreen Pacific & Eastern Railroad, my entry in the Fantasy Livery Jam. Watch for updates to this collection at some point. I've got plans for when the new modding system comes out.

If you use these in a layout or a video or what-have-you, cool! Just give me a bit of credit, mention me in the description or link back to my workshop or some such.

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From 1893 to 1975, the EP&E ran between Bellingham, Sumas, Sedro, and Glacier in Whatcom County, Washington. Most of the stock in this pack represent the railroad's boom years in the 1910s and '20s.

It was a time of change. The Great War was over. Traffic was picking up. People were traveling more. Some of the railroaders were coming home. Others weren't.

The railroad was in a unique position. Its main rival, the Bellingham Bay & British Columbia, had been picked up by the Milwaukee Road in 1918. The Great Northern had claimed the Seattle & Montana at the turn of the century. As the only small railroad left in its neck of the woods, the EP&E's workers were determined to keep their railroad going strong against the big dogs.

Late-1800s steam mixed it up with new USRA Standards. Wood boxcars painted up like rolling billboards, state-of-the-art all-steel gondolas, tankers full of oil and gas for the newfangled internal combustion engines chugging all over the hills. High mountains, roaring waterfalls, towering pines, the railroad forging a trail through the wilderness.

This was the Tall Pine Line.
Items (13)
Evergreen Pacific & Eastern No. 7
Created by Dark Derby
Been saving the best for last! Here's the first of four EP&E locomotive liveries to cap off my livery jam series. Watch for the others later today! Built in 1909 by Baldwin, No. 7 arrived to handle the EP&E’s passenger trains, especially the new Cascades C...
Evergreen Pacific & Eastern No. 7 Tender
Created by Dark Derby
The tender for EP&E No. 7....
Evergreen Pacific & Eastern F7A
Created by Dark Derby
In 1953, the EP&E bought a set of F7s in hopes of resurrecting their named passenger trains, which had been dropped in 1938. After a strong first year, ridership dropped as car ownership rose--a crunch the rest of American railroading felt, but one the EP&...
Evergreen Pacific & Eastern F7B
Created by Dark Derby
The B unit for the EP&E F7....
Evergreen Pacific & Eastern Pullman
Created by Dark Derby
While chiefly a freight railroad, the EP&E also ran two named passenger trains for much of its life. The first, the Lake Whatcom Limited, began in 1895 and ran between Bellingham and Sedro. It was followed by the Cascades Cannonball in 1911, connecting Bel...
Evergreen Pacific & Eastern Observation
Created by Dark Derby
While the EP&E had been running named passenger trains for years, it wasn't until 1919 that they acquired observation cars to cap them off. Two arrived from the Pullman Co., one for each train, and proved almost instantly popular. Little surprise, given th...
Evergreen Pacific & Eastern Boxcar
Created by Dark Derby
Finally throwing my hat in the ring for the fantasy livery jam! Introducing the Evergreen Pacific & Eastern, a short line which ran in Whatcom County, Washington from 1893 to 1975. It spans an east-west route from Bellingham to Glacier, with a southern rou...
Evergreen Pacific & Eastern Gondola
Created by Dark Derby
The next piece of rolling stock for the EP&E, one of the forty-five steel gondolas the line ordered in 1920 to handle a boom in coal and lumber traffic. These replaced twenty wood-side gondolas that had been in service since the 1890s. One of these gondola...
Mt. Baker Oil & Gas Co. Tanker
Created by Dark Derby
A fairly common sight on the EP&E, tank cars from the Mount Baker Oil & Gas Co. rolled out of Bellingham to supply gas for lighting and fuel in the rural towns along the line. Demand ramped up in the 1910s as gas-powered machinery came to the farms and log...
Klondyke Refrigerated Boxcar
Created by Dark Derby
The Klondyke Refrigerated Car Co. ran out of Seattle, part of the boom that the city experienced during the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897. The founder, noted adventurer Harold Parkhurst, had made a modest fortune running fishing boats out of Skagway, Alaska, ...
Evergreen Pacific & Eastern Switcher
Created by Dark Derby
The first diesel on the EP&E, this GE 44-tonner arrived in 1948. Bought secondhand from the Army in 1947, a second example, numbered 11, arrived from a Seattle industrial railroad a few months later. In switcher and transfer duty, they hopped from yard to ...
Evergreen Pacific & Eastern Tool Car
Created by Dark Derby
This boxcar, built 1902, was reassigned to the EP&E's maintenance service in 1915. As well as a storage car for hand tools and spare parts, the car was specially outfitted with several machine tools for basic repairs at a work site. Like the rest of the EP...
Evergreen Pacific & Eastern Water Tanker
Created by Dark Derby
One of the EP&E's few dedicated maintenance of way cars, this 1899-vintage tanker was kept in MOW service as a water supply from 1912 to 1949. In this capacity, the EP&E used it to restock water towers along the Sumas-Glacier route, as well as emergency fi...