Meet the hardworking teams behind the Northwest Railway Museum programs you know and love.
Visitor Services Team
Ken Cummings
Visitor Services Assistant
Contact me about tickets, visiting the Museum, questions about your upcoming visit, and questions about your ticketing orders.
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Ken’s favorite artifacts are the recordings of steam trains because of the love and dedication that went into getting those sounds onto a vinyl record in the days before digital audio recording.
Kacy Hardin
Retail & Visitor Services Manager
Contact me about product development, visitor information, ticketing issues, program questions, and website information.
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Kacy’s favorite artifact is NP Rotary Snowplow 10 because it is such a visually interesting and unique piece of historic equipment.
Amy Laing
Visitor Services Assistant
Contact me about tickets, visiting the Museum, questions about your upcoming visit, and questions about your ticketing orders.
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Amy’s favorite artifact is the Northern Pacific stewardess-nurse uniform display because she loves the look and expression.
Annie Munyayev
Visitor Services Assistant & Member Services
Contact me about tickets, visiting the Museum, questions about your upcoming visit, and questions about your ticketing orders.
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Annie’s favorite artifact is Locomotive 1 because it used to be displayed at the Snoqualmie Depot where she spent a lot of her time growing up and is now a constant vibrant and imposingly high presence next to the desk in the Exhibit Hall.
Eli Price
Visitor Services & Collections Assistant, Social Media Manager
Contact me about birthday parties, social media, auction requests, tickets, visiting the Museum, questions about your upcoming visits, and questions about your ticketing orders.
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Eli’s favorite artifact is this pamphlet of 50 Recipes for Apple Dishes from the Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation Company because he loves vintage recipes and small railway ephemera.
Traci Smith
Visitor Services Assistant & Depot Mom
Contact me about tickets, visiting the Museum, questions about your upcoming visit, and questions about your ticketing orders.
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Traci’s favorite object is the “Do Not Touch Historic Artifact” sign, because she feels it perfectly sums herself up.
Programs & Education Team
Michael Hughes
Educator
Contact me about School Train, Field Trips, and Tours.
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Michael’s favorite artifact is the Snoqualmie Depot because he grew up with the Museum back when the Depot was the only Museum building.
Matt McDonnal
Volunteer & Program Coordinator
Contact me about volunteer or internship opportunities. Do you enjoy sharing history; want to give back to your community; have a desire to learn how to operate a train; build a skillset or learn a new skill? Let’s chat.
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Matt’s favorite artifact is Locomotive 125 because he enjoys the simplistic, bold style of the original black with white stripes paint scheme.
Caitlin Wright
Educator
Contact me about School Train, Field Trips, and Tours.
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Caitlin’s favorite artifact is the Kitchen Car because it is a wartime artifact focused on feeding and caring for people. It is also a rare example of a kitchen car that was never converted to a baggage car.
Collections Care Team
Emily Boersma
Collections Registrar
Contact me about our research library and archives, archival digitization, small artifacts, publications, including donations, circulation, and preservation.
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Emily’s favorite artifact is the 001 Caboose because it is like a tiny office on wheels
Laura Caldwell
Collections Assistant
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Ty Hammerstrom
Collections Care Assistant
Ty’s favorite artifact is Locomotive 4012 because it got to travel overseas and spent time in West Germany. As a fan of European locomotives, it’s novel to see historic photos of 4012 with European couplings. It would be like seeing the Flying Scotsman with knuckle couplers.
Gary James
Shipwright
Glenn Warmack
Lead Collection Technician
Administrative Team
Richard Anderson
Executive Director
Contact me about policy, budgeting, railway equipment donations, and governance.
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VJ Kopacki
Museum Administrative Officer
Contact me about grants and administrative questions.
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VJ’s favorite artifact is the Bistro car because of Cesar Vergara’s incredible design work.
