The Northwest Railway Museum

Collection care - the conservation and restoration workshop is a facility used to perform collection care on large artifacts including locomotives, coaches, and freight cars. It incorporates 8,200 sq. Ft., features two tracks, and a diversity of specialty tools including planers, lathes, milling machines, saws, tenoners, drills, and jacks. The principle projects in 2024 were continuing rehabilitation of an 84-year-old alco diesel electric locomotive, restoration of a 1901 pullman-built parlor car, and improvements to steam locomotive 924.

Train shed exhibit hall - the semi-conditioned space incorporates more than 24,000 sq. Ft. And offers a stable environment for the museum's most vulnerable and representative artifacts including chapel car 5 messenger of peace, white river lumber caboose 001, northern pacific railway steam locomotive 924, weyerhaeuser timber locomotive 1, and great northern caboose x-101. The train shed was open all year with seasonally-adjusted hours. In 2024 several new exhibits were installed including the asa whitney transcontinental exhibit and the dan cookrailway art exhibit.

Other program services offered by the northwest railway museum include operation of the snoqualmie depot, an 1890-built train station listed on the national register of historic places an interpretive signage program along the centennial trail in historic downtown snoqualmie railroad history outreach into k-12 public school classrooms operation of an annual rail themed town festival called snoqualmie days and operation of web sites including trainmuseum.org, messengerofpeace.org, wellingtonremembered.org, and snoqualmiedays.com. The museum also offered railroad history books, reproductions, and other northwest rail-history related materials through its depot bookstore.