Northern Pacific Railway Museum

The below info is from the very first session. Unfortunately later data was not available.

This work party was a joint venture between volunteers from both the NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION & the NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY MUSEUM. Workers showed up from Seattle to Spokane, and everywhere in between, to put in many man hours into the following tasks:

• The "Scott Brodie collection" was inventoried: builders plates, china and dining car silver as well as numerous artifacts
• Approx. ± 250' of steel fence was welded and painted with primer coat
• Our Drop Bottom Gondola car was completely numbered and lettered
• 2" x 10" planking applied to NP #1364's tender deck before tank goes on
• Square tubing was recovered from left over end pieces of fence
• A lot of cutting, grinding and sanding was done on NP coach #588
• A lot of finish welding was done to complete the 250' steel fence
• New 30" x 40" posters were acquired and hung in the depot
• The gift shop was completely cleaned and re-stocked for 2007 season
• Work was on done on the donated shorty signal to make it operate
• General clean up was done both upstairs and downstairs in the depot

Work was followed by a great catered dinner that was enjoyed by all workers

The Joe Caron collection of Stampede pass slides were previewed with commentary by Dave Sprau

• A SPECIAL THANK YOU should go to Dave Sprau for his slide presentation and we hope he will do that again.
• A SPECIAL THANK YOU should go to ALL who showed up, from BOTH organizations, and contributed to ALL our projects
• US, out of town workers, SALUTE the LOCAL museum voluntary workers who do the DAILY WORK at the museum, even those who were unavailable for this weekend!
LINKS:
Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association
NP Museum at Toppenish, WA.
Phil's Live Steam NP 1364 Jr.
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