The locomotive as 770 circa 1950. Locomotive 125 arrived in Seattle in February, 1940 and entered service for the Northern Pacific Railway doing the same work the Museum’s former NPR 924…
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201 on 3 Nov 2021. Locomotive 201 is an American Locomotive Company (“Alco”) model RSD4 diesel-electric locomotive constructed in 1951. It served Kennecott Copper for more than 30 years and…
Heavy things are about to move at the Northwest Railway Museum! Successful museums constantly work to improve the representation of their collections and how it serves their mission. An art…
Interurban car 523 operated on the Puget Sound Electric Railway (“PSER”) from 1908 until 1928, and represents a fascinating era in the development of King County and the region. The…
This month the Northwest Railway Museum partnered with Savor Snoqualmie Valley and Two Rivers School to conduct PastPerfect collections software training for volunteers from local historical societies. The training was hosted…
The main page of Digital Collections. The Northwest Railway Museum recently completed a 4Culture Collection Care (Heritage) grant: Small Object Cataloging. The project proposed to catalog a selection of small…
Locomotive 108 at the Snoqualmie Depot. Responsibly managing a museum collection means that some artifacts are added to the collection and at other times they are removed. In short, the Collection changes to…
The Northwest Railway Museum was honored to host a Reinforcement Crew event on May 17. The Reinforcement Crew is a team of museum collections professionals from the Registrars Committee of…
A critical responsibility of every museum is the general protection of the Collection. Broadly defined, that could mean protecting it from everything, which is unrealistic. However, prudent steps can be…
In December, Spike reported here on the disposition of an object removed from the collection. A small steam crane was moved to Ballard where it will become part of a…
