Dark wood frames were chosen to blend with the existing wood work. The Museum has just completed and installed the “Depot RE-Interpretation project” in the Snoqualmie Depot’s men’s waiting…
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Chapel car 5 Messenger of Peace has continued to receive a variety of restorative efforts, and beginning last summer lettering was added. Original lettering was gold leaf applied in a…
If you are a King County voter, you may have heard about Access for All! This initiative appears on the Primary ballot as Proposition 1. With your support Proposition 1…
The Museum’s primary locomotives are Baldwin-built RS4-TC switchers built for the Army Transportation Corp and the Air Force in 1953. Their original cooling systems consisted of a large radiator cooled…
The Northwest Railway Museum’s annual Day Out With Thomas 2017 is underway! Thomas the Tank Engine is visiting the Museum this week and next, and more than 16,000 people will…
The Northwest Railway Museum operates a railroad with 13 public railroad crossings. Some crossings see just a few hundred cars per day while others see thousands, which includes trucks and…
Rehabilitation of former the Northern Pacific Railway steam locomotive 924 has been underway in the Conservation and Restoration Center for the past year and a half. One of the remaining…
In honor of Washington State’s neighbor nation’s 150th Anniversary of Confederation, Spike is pleased to highlight a little-known object in the Northwest Railway Museum‘s large object collection: former Canadian Pacific…
Last call for cunningly clever quotes and punny pontifications: James Sackey has announced his retirement as Depot Book Store Clerk! James joined the Northwest Railway Museum staff in February 1997,…
Chapel car 5 Messenger of Peace has been an exhibit in the Train Shed for several years now. However only with this year’s opening of the Railway Education Center has…
