Get your costumes ready to hop aboard the train this October. Every weekend starting October 12th through October 27th will be Halloween Train! Halloween Train is our normal 2-hour round-trip…
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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…
Happy Anniversary! The Northwest Railway Museum was incorporated on March 14, 1957, 60 years ago today. This Washington State nonprofit organization has come along way from its humble beginnings, and…
Saturday January 23, 2015, was an historic day for the Northwest Railway Museum and the Depot Bookstore. A state-of-the-art Point of Sale (POS) system was launched for retail sales! The…
2014 is a big year for the Snoqualmie Valley! This summer is the 125th anniversary of passenger train service to the valley. On July 4, 1889, the inaugural run was…
Thomas the Tank Engine has returned to the Snoqualmie Valley for Day Out With Thomas 2013! The really useful engine arrived at the North Bend depot today for a visit…
No, not Blue’s Clues or the Smurfs, but you’re getting warmer. He is big and blue. That’s right. Thomas the Tank Engine, the No. 1, the cheeky little fellow with…
That’s right. We’ve made the list. Feliks Banel’s list of Seattle’s Least Endangered Historic Spots, that is. Composed of such Seattle icons as the Paramount Theatre, Space Needle and Sorrento…
Are you familiar with Sister Cities International, a program that originated with the Eisenhower administration? “It is a non-profit citizen diplomacy network which seeks stronger economic and cultural ties at…
Walking by the bay window at the Northwest Railway Museum, I spied some activity inside at the desk. Clarence, our telegrapher of many years, has taken up a new hobby….
