New floor for the 276 installed in 1998 Coach 276 is unremarkable yet at the same time it is remarkable. Built in 1915 by the Barney and Smith Car Company,…
Consider this: every tool or machine was made by a tool or machine. So there are factories full of tools and machines that do nothing but make tools or machines. …
Main entrance to America’s Car Museum in Tacoma. On Saturday, February 28, 2015, the Northwest Railway Museum’s Board and Staff took a trip to Tacoma, the City of Destiny. There,…
Posing with locomotive 1 are (L to R) Don Gerend (Sammamish Councilmember, SCA Treasurer), Matt Larson (Snoqualmie Mayor & SCA President), Amy Walen (Kirkland Mayor, SCA Board Member), Dennis Higgins…
This Miller|Hull illustration superimposes the new Railway Education Center design rendering adjacent to the existing Train Shed and main track at the Railway History Center. (Click on the illustration to…
The Museum’s curator cuts out around the stay bolts that secure the inside sheet to the outside sheet. During operation, water between the sheets is heated by combustion in the…
Saturday January 23, 2015 was an historic day for the Northwest Railway Museum and the Depot Bookstore. A state-of-the-art Point of Sale (POS) system was launched for retail sales! The…
The Bookstore in the Snoqualmie Depot will be closed to the public this Friday 1/23/15. The reason? The Northwest Railway Museum is moving our Point of Sale system. The…
(L to R) Nathan I., Mark S., Zeb D., Karl., Stathi P., Mike, Al, and CJ V. (center) are just a select few of the many people working on the…
The Northwest Railway Museum is located in the urban flood plain. That really isn’t something the Museum has any choice about because it is built on and around a 19th Century railroad,…