- Northwest Railway Museum
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Snoqualmie Depot
Snoqualmie DepotLocation: 38625 S.E. King St.
Snoqualmie, WashingtonBuilt: 1890 Architectural style: Victorian Governing body: Private NRHP Reference#: 74001963 Added to NRHP: July 24, 1974 The Northwest Railway Museum is a railroad museum in Snoqualmie, King County, Washington.
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Snoqualmie Depot
The museum owns the Snoqualmie Depot built in 1890, 3.5 miles (5.6 km) of railroad right-of-way, and 5.5 miles (8.9 km) of the former Northern Pacific Railway North Bend branch. This railway was built in 1889 as the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway (SLSE) and was Seattle's response to the Northern Pacific's selecting Tacoma as their terminus. The SLSE was later taken over by the Northern Pacific.
The Snoqualmie Depot is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, ID #74001963.
Museum
The Northwest Railway Museum was founded in 1957 as the Puget Sound Railway Historical Association and took its current name in September 1999. The mission of the organization is to develop and operate an outstanding railway museum where the public can see and understand the role of railroads in the development of the Pacific Northwest, and experience the excitement of a working railroad.
The museum's collection also includes a variety of railway cars and locomotives that document that development of the railway in Washington from the 1880s through the 1960s. It also includes a 3,000-volume library and archives that focus on the history of railroads in the Northwest, and on technical and other engineering aspects of railroading.
Heritage railroad
The Northwest Railway Museum also operates a heritage railroad called the Snoqualmie Valley Railroad. This 5-mile (8.0 km) common carrier railroad allows museum visitors to experience a train excursion aboard antique railroad coaches through the Upper Snoqualmie Valley. Trains operate on Saturdays and Sundays from April through October and in December, and carry over 47,000 passengers per year.
Restoration Center
In August 2006 the Museum dedicated the new Conservation and Restoration Center (CRC), phase one of the Railway History Center. The CRC is a place to perform collection care on large rail artifacts including locomotives, coaches, and freight cars. It features 8,200 square feet (760 m2), two full length inspection pits, and is used to perform many functions once conducted in railroad backshops.
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White River Lumber Company Caboose # 001
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US Plywood Corporation 2-6-6-2 Steam Locomotive
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Snoqualmie Depot
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Restored Northern Pacific Railway Boxcar
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Alco RSD-4 locomotive
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Train pulling into the Snoqualmie depot
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Fairbanks Morse H12-44 locomotive
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The Snoqualmie Depot is at the end of the rainbow!
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Replacing cladding on a wooden coach
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Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway coach
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Northern Pacific Rotary 10 steam snowplow with tender
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The excursion train departs from The Snoqualmie Depot
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Northern Pacific Rotary 10 steam snowplow from front end
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Portal:National Register of Historic PlacesCategories:- Railroad museums in Washington (state)
- Heritage railroads in Washington (state)
- History of King County, Washington
- Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington (state)
- National Register of Historic Places listings in King County, Washington
- Northern Pacific Railway stations in Washington (state)
- Victorian architecture in Washington (state)
- Museums in King County, Washington
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