Aubrey Green and the mystery of Engine Number 9

Aubrey Green of Portland, Oregon, is trying to track down an old mystery from his childhood in Havre, the town he left in 1943 and has recently returned to on his quest.

Green is 88 years old, the child of rail worker Theodore R. Green, better known as Red, and Phyllis Green, formerly Phyllis Williams, and his search is for a mysterious locomotive that used to be stored in Havre’s old roundhouse, now long gone.

He said he remembers always noticing little Engine Number 9 stored in the northeast corner of the building, and even as a child wondered why the lonely little engine sat back there, nev...