The rehabilitation and restoration of chapel car 5 Messenger of Peace was substantially complete in 2013, but a number of restorative details have been ongoing, long-term projects. Often it is…
The Museum’s key staff represent a very diverse group of qualifications that sup- port many mission-critical functions. From left to right, Gary James, ship- wright; Richard Anderson, executive director; Cristy Lake,…
Late last month the Northwest Railway Museum was pleased to welcome the Art Hodgins Family to the Train Shed exhibit building for a tour of Chapel Car 5 Messenger of Peace. …
The chapel car 5 Messenger of Peace achieved substantial completion in April. This 1898-built mobile church has been under rehabilitation in the Museum’s Conservation and Restoration Center (“CRC”) beginning…
In March Spike reported on the acquisition of an organ for the chapel car 5 Messenger of Peace. In April Brian Tate and Wes Spore offered to rehabilitate the “new” organ…
Well, not quite, but at a price that felt like a donation! A “new” Estey organ arrived at the Conservation and Restoration Center on a warm March 27, 2013. “One…
Messenge of Peace trucks and car body married again! Chapel car 5 Messenger of Peace has wheels again! Messenger of Peace was married with a pair of passenger car…
6 wheel wood, steel reinforced passenger truck Something old, something new, something borrowed, something . . . carbon black! Later this month inside the Conservation and Restoration Center, the chapel…
Landscaping at the Train Shed. Every year in September, United Way of King County organizes Day of Caring where thousands of volunteers all take the day off from work and…
Chapel car 5 Messenger of Peace with its distinctive open vestibules or plat- forms. A distinguishing feature of many 19thCentury railroad cars is an open platform or vestibule on one…