Everyone needs a teddy bear at least once in their life
EPT #100 has been pulling freight trains for Portland Traction and its successor railroads since 1953 (including chores like pushing SP 4449, SP&S 700, and OR&N 197 into Oaks Park, then extracting them several years later so they could be rebuilt and used for excursion train service (including, in the case of SP4449, the American Freedom Train.)) In the middle of last year, it went out of service and was apparently replaced by a new(er) engine -- EPT #802 -- but sometime this spring it was pulled out of the deadline and put back into service.
Today, we were coming back from the Milwaukie Farmers Market, and, as usual, we went through the Milwaukie Industrial Park to see the Eng!'s. Both working engs were out, but the #100 had a little fuzzy friend watching over the front coupler:
EMD SW-1 w/ teddy bear switchman.