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Building Plan View Overview Funding

The Museum has been developing a plan to build this new museum facility for over seven years. Named the Conservation and Restoration Center (CRC), it will be a specialized building for performing collection care on historic railway transportation artifacts including steam and diesel-electric locomotives, passenger coaches, freight cars and maintenance of way vehicles such as cranes and snow plows. The CRC will allow all types of collection care to be performed inside a heated building, including preservation, restoration, reconstruction and maintenance. One or more steam locomotive will be restored to operation in this facility. At present nearly all collection care is performed outdoors usually only during summer-like weather. Completion of the CRC will allow expansion of museum programs and facilitate improved collection care practices.

Project Overview

The CRC will be an 8,400 square foot facility constructed adjacent to the main track, approximately 1.5 miles east of downtown Snoqualmie. The project will include approximately 1,400 feet of additional track to access the building and to store cars and locomotives. A volunteer parking area will also be built. The development will include a visitor gallery. Visitors will travel by train to this facility.

Project Site

The site is mostly cleared but surrounded by forest. Plans require the removal of just 6 significant trees, and the proposal includes a plan to plant many native-species seedlings adjacent to the new building and new tracks.

Computer-generated view of the Conservation and Restoration Center interior.

Track-side elevation view of the CRC.

Funding

The total cost of the CRC stands at $1.9 million. Over $500,000 of funding has been contributed and volunteers have pledged in-kind labor valued at over $250,000. In addition over $200,000 has been invested in design and permitting. Major committed funders include Heritage Capital Projects for Washington, 4-Culture, The Boeing Company, the Seattle Foundation, the Quest for Truth Foundation and hundreds of individuals like you.

The Museum plans to begin construction of the new CRC in the winter of 2004/ 2005 and your help is needed. Additional funding must be secured to allow construction of the facility through to completion. Contributions to the Northwest Railway Museum are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. For more information, please contact Executive Director Richard R. Anderson by email at rra@trainmuseum.org or by telephone at (425) 888-3030 x201.

You can make a difference by donating today! Click here to display a contribution page in Portable Document Format (PDF) that you can print and mail to the museum.

So you want to build a museum?

To build the CRC, the Northwest Railway Museum needs an impressive list of permits and approvals:

-SEPA Review (State Environmental Policy)

-Sensitive Areas Review

-Drainage Review

-Design Review

-Shoreline Substantial Development Permit

-Excavation (or Grading) Permit

-Zoning Conditional Use Permit

-Buffer Variance

-Flood Improvement Permit

-Building Setback Variance

-Civil Review (utilities and drainage design)

-Certificate of water availability

-Building Permit

Locomotive 4024

The Northwest Railway Museum's locomotive 4024 inside the Umatilla Army Depot locomotive shop in Oregon, circa 1983. The new Conservation and Restoration Center will be very similar to this facility.

Note the depression between the rails. This area is called the inspection pit and allows workers to get under a car or locomotive. It is a feature essential for restoration, operation, and maintenance of a steam locomotive. It is also important for maintenance of diesel-electric locomotives and for passenger cars.

Operation of a steam locomotive is just one of many things the Conservation and Restoration Center will allow the Northwest Railway Museum to do that cannot do now.

Conservation and Restoration Center site plan.

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