Paul’s Blog – February 14, 2026 – Pueblo Railway Museum
On Saturday, February 14, volunteers Dwight, Bruce, Jerod, Ben, Dannis and Paul worked down the list of issues we had planned. Bruce and Dannis continued work reassembling windows into our C&S Caboose, and completed the installation, which picked up the pieces left from previous volunteers, and closed the holes on the walls of the car. […]
Paul’s Blog – February 7, 2026 – Pueblo Railway Museum
On Saturday, February 7, volunteers Dwight, Bruce, Colin, Jerod, Chris T., Ben, Dannis, and Paul enjoyed a very nice day and stayed busy, first retrieving a switch stand that Museum member/volunteer Petar had stored and wanted the Museum to use. The crew then split up, with Bruce and Dannis doing some interior work on the […]
Paul’s Blog – January 17, 2026 – Pueblo Railway Museum
The Museum held it’s 2nd Rail Fan photo event this past Saturday, January 17. This event consisted of only one train, a freight that featured engines 103 and 104, and seven of the freight cars in the Museum collection, along with our Rio Grande caboose. Volunteers Dwight, Reid, Kendall, Ben, Dannis, Nick, Abel, Henry, Jerod, […]
Northwest Railway Museum Blog: Restoring a truss
Pullman builder’s photo, courtesy of theCalifornia State Railroad Museum library. Parlor car 1799 is a Pullman Company product constructed almost entirely of wood, and completed in 1901. The car was built for extra fare (first class, similar to business class today) service on the Northern Pacific Railway’s Lake Superior Limited serving between Minneapolis/St Paul and […]
Out with the new, in with the old
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 museum may want to better represent notable local artists. A flight museum might want the aircraft a local astronaut once flew. A railway museum may […]
Locomotive 201 departs the Museum
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 was subsequently donated to the Northwest Railway Museum in Snoqualmie, WA in 1985. Although an outstanding example of a first generation road switcher, after the […]
High hood Alco arrives in Snoqualmie
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 steam locomotive performed years earlier. At that time nearly every train in Washington was pulled by either a steam locomotive or an electric locomotive. Diesel […]
Northwest Railway Museum Blog: Lake Recognized
The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust has recognized Northwest Railway Museum Registrar Cristy Lake for her contributions to the Greenway. Lake was awarded the prestigious Jim Ellis Spirit Award at the Greenway’s annual dinner (click to watch a video of the presentation), which recognizes her tireless dedication to the preservation of Snoqualmie Valley and Regional Heritage. […]
Northwest Railway Museum Blog: Big wheels rolling
Cutting heads in position. The Museum’s high hood Alco model HH660 locomotive received its first restorative work this week when Scott Hutton – with able assistance from Josh Kiavo – was on hand to turn the wheels. The last operating assignment for the 125 was switching grain cars at the Port of Longview. In this intensive use, the tapered […]
Northwest Railway Museum Blog: An infamous anniversary
It began 80 years ago today. March 30, 1942 was the first day of forced relocation and incarceration of individuals of Japanese ancestry in Washington State. The first affected were the 200 children, women, and men living on Bainbridge Island. By May 22, 1941, employees of the Snoqualmie Falls Lumber Company logging railroad – who built […]