The first passengers since the 1940s and the first five-coach train since 1988! On July 13, 2013, coach 218 was marshaled into the passenger train in Snoqualmie creating the Museum’s first five-coach passenger…
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Clerestory windows are a distinguishing feature of early 20th Century coaches. Obviously, these windows let light in but their primary function was – and is – to provide ventilation in an…
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…
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”…
Coach 218 was built in 1912 and is now being prepared for its second century of service. Historic rehabilitation of this former Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway coach has been…
Chapel car 5 Messenger of Peace has wheels again! Messenger of Peace was married with a pair of passenger car trucks in a lengthy ceremony held on the much-coveted 12…
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something . . . carbon black! Later this month inside the Conservation and Restoration Center, the chapel car 5 Messenger of Peace will be…
Thanks to dozens of donors and local corporate sponsors, the Bad to Beautiful initiative has been successfully completed! The Museum participated in the Seattle Foundation’s Give BIG event last…
A distinguishing feature of many 19th Century railroad cars is an open platform or vestibule on one or both ends. For chapel car 5 Messenger of Peace, this platform was…
Documenting an historic structure is an essential element in any rehabilitation, and is a concomitant of the Secretary of the Interior Standards for the Treatment of Historic Structures. This allows…
