Caring for large artifacts

This facility is where the Museum's full time and volunteer staff performs collection care on large objects. The Conservation and Restoration Center ("CRC") allows all types of collection care to be performed inside a heated building, including preservation, rehabilitation, restoration, and reconstruction. 

The Museum identifies large objects - or artifacts - as those weighing more than 1 ton and examples include steam and diesel-electric locomotives, passenger coaches, freight cars and maintenance of way vehicles such as cranes and snow plows.

The CRC is a purpose-built structure. Construction began October 5, 2005 and the building was dedicated on August 5,  2006. The facility was placed in service in January 2007 and incorporates 8,200 sq.ft.

Phase one of the Railway History Center is the Conservation and Restoration Center, a facility to perform collection care to the standards prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior.

Using the CRC

Rehabilitation of caboose 001 was performed in the CRC. OO1 was built at Enumclaw in 1944. 

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