The Great Northern Railway is one of the Northwest’s greatest railways and the Northwest Railway Museum is delighted to have baggage car 485 in its collection. The 485 was built…
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The New Year is off to a blazing start at the Northwest Railway Museum! Already, significant progress has been achieved on Northern Pacific Railway steam locomotive 924 with substantial completion…
2015 was a year of significant accomplishment at the Northwest Railway Museum. Read on to learn about some of the highlights! This 2015 continued a major multiyear effort to improve…
Snoqualmie Landmarks Commission, key Landmarks staff, and Museum Executive Director Richard Anderson pose for a post-vote photo in the Snoqualmie council chambers. The Northern Pacific Railway steam locomotive 924 has…
Douglas fir. Almost every stick of wood that was used to build the Snoqualmie Depot (the shingles are red cedar) was cut from Douglas fir, a species of softwood native…
In September 2015 another major milestone was passed in the rehabilitation to service of Northern Pacific Railway steam locomotive 924. In November 2014, the boiler tubes were removed from the…
Locomotive 924 is a six-coupled, former Northern Pacific locomotive. It is held in the collection of the Northwest Railway Museum and beginning in November 2014 rehabilitation work has been underway. …
A major milestone was achieved on the Northern Pacific Railway steam locomotive 924 last week: substantial completion of the new cistern (tank) for the tender. For more than five months, a replacement tender tank…
The tender tank rehabilitation and restoration work for Northern Pacific Railway 0-6-0 steam locomotive 924 is drawing to a close! The 19th Century Rogers-built locomotive is the subject of a major collections…
Historically, steam locomotives consumed large quantities of water and fuel. The nature of the technology – the state-of-the-art in its day – was essentially a giant tea kettle that boiled…
