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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]
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.
In 1909 the Milwaukee Road opened the "Puget Sound extension" from South Dakota to Seattle and Tacoma, completing the last line from Chicago to the coast. The Milwaukee Road ordered cars for two new all-steel luxury trains to run Chicago–Milwaukee–St. Paul–Seattle–Tacoma. The two new trains debuted on May 28, 1911.
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]
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 ...
Due to poor ticket sales after the move to Tacoma, the owners decided to pull the pilot project and close the train down. It was stored in Clark County, Washington.The owners have suggested they would like to see a dinner train go between Vancouver, Washington, and Mount St. Helens, or to go between Woodinville and Snohomish again. [3]
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]
Logo of the Seattle and North Coast Railroad SNC boxcar with CRANDIC markings at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The Seattle and North Coast Railroad (SNCT) was a short-line railroad that operated on the northern part of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State from Port Angeles to Port Townsend. The line was unique in that it was a "rail island" with no ...