I was especially fortunate to be able to purchase a 10 car Joe Fisher built heavyweight Empire Builder In 1994 Larry Muir, a close friend and fellow O scaler, passed away.. When I put it on the layout, none of my locomotives could pull it up the steep grade from the holding yard. 
Thus, the second version was planned. I had purchased four Z-1 electrics at OSW a few years earlier and developed quite an interest in Electrics. Thus the name for this pike was the Electric Division.
In 1995, a rebuilding project was begun with a longer mainline and easier grades. The revised track plan had a 60" minimum radius and a maximum grade of 1-1/2%. Never really satisfied with the track plan revisions, this pike did not actually progress much beyond the benchwork and basic track phase.
In late 2002, after several years of inactivity, I finally scrapped this version. No worthwhile pictures of this pike exist.
