Working at the Archive – September 19

This week Fred High and I spent most of the evening continuing to repack unprocessed material from odd size boxes into standard size storage boxes.  Our focus this time was on the last few unprocessed boxes of the extensive Doug Nighswonger collection.  Much of the Nighswonger Collection is Traffic Department…

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What’s next for the 5057?

With our purchase of the 5057 completed earlier this year, our next step is to move it back to Washington and get to work on the cosmetic restoration of the locomotive.     We plan to send the 5057 to the locomotive shop of the Pend Oreille Valley Railroad (POVA)…

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Working at the Archive – September 5

The Thursday work crew had a team of four at the archive this time.  Rick Beaber, Fred High, and Aaron Schwarz joined us and we spent most of the evening repacking unprocessed material from odd size boxes into standard size  storage boxes.  We were doing this so they can go…

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