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Izaak Walton Inn’s locomotive turned luxury lodging now boarding near Glacier National Park

Outside the Izaak Walton Inn near Essex http://www.izaakwaltoninn.com/ , near the boundary of Glacier National Park, guests can stay overnight in a locomotive converted to luxury lodging.

"It’s never been done before," said Tom Lambrecht, whose day job is general director of locomotives for Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway in Fort Worth, Texas.

Lambrecht stumbled upon the locomotive more than two years ago at the Metro East Industries scrap yard in East St. Louis, Ill., as it awaited destruction. As a personal project, he rescued the locomotive and had the outside and the interior shell restored by craftsmen at RELCO Locomotives in Albia, Iowa.

By RICHARD ECKE • Tribune Staff Writer

Full Story: http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=20102230301

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