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The top floor is also home to the state's largest permanent model train layout, which covers 1,700 sq ft (160 m 2) and recreates scenes from Tacoma's Union Station (which is located next to the museum) and other regional railroads. The museum hosts an annual Model Train Festival in December. [5]
Camp 6 Logging Museum, Tacoma, closed in 2011; Castle Rock Exhibit Hall, Castle Rock, closed in 2014 [31] Children's Activity Museum, Ellensburg, closed in 2014 [32] Columbia River Exhibition of History, Science, and Technology, Richland, closed in 2014; Consolidated Works - Seattle; Fairchild Heritage Museum & Air Park, closed in 2002 [33] [34]
This 5-mile (8 km) route allows museum visitors to experience a train excursion aboard antique railroad coaches dating to 1915 and earlier. Trains are scheduled either Saturday, or Saturday and Sunday depending on the time of year, with chartered or special trains on various days. The railroad typically carries over 60,000 passengers per year.
The volunteer-operated Stillaguamish Valley Pioneer Museum, southwest of downtown Arlington, opened in 1997. [153] The museum overlooks the Stillaguamish River and features preserved household items, logging equipment, and vehicles, historic newspapers and images from the Arlington area, and a model railroad. [154] [155]
Tacoma Eastern Railroad: MILW: 1890 1918 Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway: Tacoma Eastern Railway: TE 1995 1998 Tacoma Rail: Tacoma Municipal Belt Line Railway: TMBL 1998 Tacoma Rail: Tacoma, Olympia and Chehalis Valley Railroad: NP: 1889 1890 Tacoma, Olympia and Grays Harbor Railroad: Tacoma, Olympia and Grays Harbor Railroad: NP: 1890 1892
Parkade Hobbies, the a popular downtown Kennewick destination for model railroaders for more than 20 years, is closing at the end of July. Owner Bob Jekel is selling inventory and furnishings and ...
Puget Sound Electric Railway, the Interurban Line near Tacoma Hoops were used to deliver orders to passing trains [2]. The PSE began operations on September 25, 1902 [3] with a line that started in downtown Tacoma, ran along Pacific and Puyallup Avenues, followed the course of present-day Pacific Highway through Fife and to Milton, turned southeast towards Puyallup and paralleled the path of ...
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