Rail Yard Work Party – Saturday, May 3

We’re having our annual rail yard work party on Saturday, May 3rd from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.  We’ll be focusing on the interpretive trail and also plan to clean-up the area around the substation so we can move the fence closer to the building.   Bring work gloves and your…

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2014 Milwaukee Road Meet, March 29, Burien, WA

    The March Milwaukee Road Meet (formerly the “Milwaukee Kent Meet”) is a gathering for slides, movies and discussion and socializing. All are welcome!  As in the past, this is a free event.  Bring your photos, artifacts, models, memorabilia and other items for display.   Cascade Rail Foundation is…

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Volunteer Retirements

Some our most stalwart volunteers retired from their work with Cascade Rail Foundation this year.  If you’ve visited the depot in South Cle Elum, you’ve probably met them.   Lorna and Fulton Toub have been volunteering at depot since 2008.  The Toubs had a big impact from the start, receiving…

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Archive Report – new web site!

We now have a web site for our archive materials!    When people want to learn something about anything, they increasingly turn to the internet.   Having a web site for our archive is an important way for us to make the history of the Milwaukee Road more accessible for people to…

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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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