Coach 218 will be 102 years old this summer. This Barney and Smith coach is one of the last wood coaches built for service on an American railroad. It served…
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Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway coach 218 has been undergoing rehabilitation and restoration in the Museum’s Conservation and Restoration Center. Reports detailing this work have appeared in this blog for…
Many skilled professionals will agree: having the right tool for the task is worth at least half the effort. And so it applies to railroad cars and locomotives, but the…
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…
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…
Well, not quite, but at a price that felt like a donation! “One (1) Estey reed organ, cottage or schoolhouse model, mahogany, circa 1885. Fully functional but missing one knob. …
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…
The chapel car 5 Messenger of Peace’s rehabilitation has begun in earnest. The Museum has been fundraising for this long-planned project for over three years. On January 31, 2011 a…
Fall 2010 was an eventful season inside the Museum’s Conservation and Restoration Center. The center of attention has been a first generation diesel-electric locomotive with ties to the local forest…
