In the mid 1960s, a full restoration effort began on the locomotive with the promise of heading up Utah's first tourist railroad in Heber City after the state donated the engine to the National Railway Historical Society.

[1] The engine currently is out of service in Heber City, Utah undergoing its FRA inspection and some major restoration work back to operating condition.

[1] The 2-8-0 was part of a three locomotive order from the Oregon Short Line Railroad built that month by Baldwin and numbered 1066-1068.

[1] After the donation, the group started conversations with the state to use the locomotive in a brand new tourist railroad based out of Heber City, Utah on the Wasatch Railway Museum.

[2] Several locals and businessmen fought to keep the tracks in order to start a potential tourist operation.

When the Wasatch Mountain Railway moved their equipment onto the branch, Utah told them to leave.

618 to its new home in Heber City from Provo on December 7, 1970, with four U.S. Army hospital cars and a diver caboose.

In November, the state decided to rescind their eviction and granted the Wasatch Railway Museum a 25 year lease on the former branch.

[1] For two years, the engine sat on display until 1993 when it was moved into the shops for restoration back to operating condition.

[1] The restoration was completed on May 8, 1995 and it pulled its first train of the 1995 season to Deer Creek Dam and back on May 13, 1995.

618 hauled its last trains during Memorial Day weekends for photo charters before its boiler ticket expired.

After the event, it was indefinitely taken out of service in June 2010 and put on static display in front of the railroad depot were it was previously awaiting its 1,472-day inspection.

618 was removed from its display track and moved into the shops for its FRA inspection and some major restoration work to return it to operating condition again.