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)…
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…
Our Thursday crew was short-staffed this week because of work and family commitments, but Gary Pember and I managed to complete a task we’ve been working on for the past couple months. We’ve been organizing several hundred Milwaukee Road timebooks in Cascade Rail Foundation’s Edward Berntsen Collection that document construction…
Several years ago, we installed two Milwaukee Road signals along the trail. The signals face each other, one west of the depot and the other east of it. Our plan is to have them lighted and controlled from the depot. At the July 13 work party, we made…
Gordon H. Russ, retired locomotive engineer of the Milwaukee Road’s Coast Division, died on August 20, 2013 at the age of 94. A memorial service is planned for September 7, 2013 in Tacoma at Narrows Glenn Retirement Home (details below). In lieu of flowers the family is requesting gifts be…
We’re having our annual rail yard work party on Saturday, July 13 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Come join us as we work on vegetation management and also clean up the area around the substation. Bring work gloves and your own water bottle (we can provide…
While Smokey’s Bar-B-Que is open seven days a week, the exhibits in the remainder of the depot are not. This summer, you can see the exhibits on weekends. We’re open Saturday from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. and on Sundays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. These hours are subject…
Good news!!! We are very pleased to announce that food is once again being regularly served in the old ‘beanery ‘of the depot. Smokey’s Barb-B-Que opened in the depot this spring. They are open for lunch and dinner between 11 AM and 8 PM, seven days a week, and also…
We recently opened a non-profit account on eBay. This means that you can directly donate a portion or all of the proceeds from selling an item to Cascade Rail Foundation through eBay. eBay will then reduce the fees they charge the seller by a corresponding amount. For example, if you…
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. The meet was originally scheduled to return…
