A cardboard box sits in the cab of one of the Museum's diesel-electric locomotives.
Visitor Services staff will sometimes take advantage of the train already traveling between the Museum's three different stops along the railway line. This saves Museum staff from having to use their personal vehicles to shuttle product and supplies between locations as often. Usually it happens over the weekend when we run passenger service so we get to make proper use of SP&S combination baggage-coach 272!
Today there happened to be standstill traffic on SR-202 and a switching operation going on; it was the perfect opportunity to deliver the order of new shirts to Snoqualmie Depot the old-fashioned way. :)
As it turned out, Snoqualmie Depot had its own shipment of product to send back via rail for the Train Shed Exhibit Hall's gift shop!
Historically, the SLS&E railway ran both passenger and freight service. Today, the NRM runs passenger service.
Every so often we still do a little of our own "freight service" if there are already operations planned. More in alt text.
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