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Pacific Northwest Truck Museum. An organization which preserves trucking history and vintage trucks, emphasizing trucking in the Pacific Northwest . Operates a 26,300 square feet (2,440 m 2 ) indoor museum, with 75 restored trucks on display, divided into three buildings—two containing small trucks such as pickups and delivery vans, the other ...
The Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad or MRSR, formerly the Mt. Rainier Railroad and Logging museum (MRRR), is a steam-powered heritage railroad operating in the U.S. state of Washington between Elbe and Mineral. The railroad travels on trackage that passes through thick forest just south of Mount Rainier. The depot, gift shop and ticket office are ...
Columbia County Museum, St. Helens, As of March 2007, closed due to litigation [92] Horner Museum, at Gill Coliseum in Corvallis, Oregon, closed 1995 [93] Jacksonville Museum, closed in 2009 [94] Sage Museum, Shaniko [95] Pacific Northwest Museum of Natural History, Ashland [96] [97] Working Wonders Children's Museum, Bend, closed in 2009 [98]
On June 30, 2005, after a $7 million (~$10.5 million in 2023), 6-month renovation, the 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m 2) museum reopened with new interactive exhibits about the sustainability of forests and trees of the Pacific Northwest and the world. [4]
Polson Logging Company 2 is a 2-8-2 “Mikado” steam locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works. It was originally built for the Saginaw Timber Company to pull logging trains. After that, it went through several ownership changes throughout both the steam era and the preservation era, before it was purchased by caretaker Skip Lichter in ...
Experience Music Project. This list of museums in Washington state encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The Spruce Production Division established approximately 60 military logging camps throughout the Pacific Northwest, usually near existing sawmills. While privately owned, these mills were operated under the direction of the army. On 20 December 1917, Disque reported that the division was only meeting 40 percent of the demand for spruce.
The Oregon Electric Railway Museum is the largest streetcar/trolley museum in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. [1] It is owned and operated by the Oregon Electric Railway Historical Society and is located in Brooks, Oregon , on the grounds of Powerland Heritage Park [ 2 ] (formerly known as Antique Powerland).