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In 2023, the railroad began offering a rail cycle experience from New Reliance between Elbe and Eatonville. On August 1, 2023, following a deal to run excursions on the Chehalis–Centralia Railroad falling through due to the latters' financial difficulties, it was announced that the Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad would resume service. [9]
The Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad leased the portion of track from Eatonville to Morton for passenger excursion service. MRSR ceased operating, but is soft reopening in late 2023 or early 2024. Due to dwindling customer base (one as of 2023), Tacoma Rail sold the Mountain Division to WRL, which is now Rainier Rail, with RNIR reporting marks.
In May 2023, a bench on the trail was dedicated to Bronka Sundstrom (Czyzyk), a survivor of the Holocaust who became the oldest person, at age 77 in 2002, to climb Mt. Rainier. Given the moniker "The Lady of the Mountain" for her history at Mount Rainier National Park , she was an avid hiker of the Chehalis Western after she had retired to a ...
The museum reopened in 2023 and made repairs to the tracks and the train engine. That same year, a partnership contract with the Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad to begin joint operations on the CCRM rail lines did not materialize, but CCRM reached a joint operating agreement with Goose Lake Railway. [8] [9] Train rides began again in April 2024. [10]
Between 2013 and 2023, the park’s number of annual visitors jumped from 1.7 million to 2.5 million, an increase of roughly 47%. ... Mount Rainier’s 1.7 million annual recreational visitors ...
Shay locomotive No. 11 laying partially dismantled in the "House of Gears" at the Mount Rainier Railroad and Logging Museum. Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad is a heritage railway that runs from Elbe to Mineral and is operated with steam locomotives and historic cars. The route leads through forests, crosses the Nisqually River and ends at the Mt ...
The Nisqually Entrance Historic District comprises the first public entrance to Mount Rainier National Park.The district incorporates the log entrance arch typical of all Mount Rainier entrances, a log frame ranger station and checking station, a comfort station and miscellaneous service structures, all built around 1926, as well as the 1915 Superintendent's Residence and the 1908 Oscar Brown ...
Placerville & Sacramento Valley Railroad, oldest railroad west of the Mississippi [1] Port of LA Waterfront Red Car, a rebuilt part of the original Pacific Electric Railway system (Closed in 2015) Poway–Midland Railroad; Sierra Railway - Railtown 1897 State Historic Park; Red Car Trolley; Redwood Valley Railway; Roaring Camp & Big Trees ...