Western Railroad Discussion > Inland Northwest Rail museums new home

Today was the Grand Opening of the Inland Northwest Rail Museum just west of Reardan, WA.  The move out of Spokane, WA came yesterday and the remainder of the trip to the new museum grounds went just fine today 8-27-16.

1)  WRIX 8702 switches out the museums cars before they enter the museum grounds.
2)  NP F9A 6703A is part of the museum collection.  The new building is in the background.
2)  And a view from the upstairs window as museum equipment is backed into the museum.

Brian Ambrose
Renton, WA

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Looks great; glad to see all the progress.
Hope opening day went well.

I was in the area in July 2014 for the Railroad Station Historical Society convention, and came across your location while exploring local rail lines; here is what it looked like back then.

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That Northern Pacific cab unit and the one from Mt. Rainier Scenic would make a fine pair.

Ed

Brian, do you happen to know what was on that site previously? Obviously the track was already there, there's
even a runaround out on the "main".

Out

Actually I do not know, but I will try to find out.  Good question.
Brian

callum_out Wrote:
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> Brian, do you happen to know what was on that site
> previously? Obviously the track was already there,
> there's
> even a runaround out on the "main".
>
> Out

This is the reply from the Museum as to what was here before.........

Nothing. It is a fairly rocky site to the east and there are basically flat spots up top and at the bottom near the highway. We dug the well, ran the power, added the switch and crossing, and did all of the improvements to the site that allowed us to open the museum.

Brian Ambrose
Renton, WA

That's interesting considering that the track looks to be forty years old and as I mentioned there's
a runaround adjacent to their site. There's no reason for the runaround and there's already one in
town so I'd think it was there to switch some industry but hey...........

Out

Looking at Google Maps, the site was under construction when the latest photo was taken.

The location is:

47.663229, -117.937213

Bob

Wow!!  What a Satellite view !!.
There is a turntable without a ring, however, a few bucks could restore that !!
Does that  right of way ther ring around that hill?
I have a million questions on he project.
What about the narrow gauge line, a muniature Ry.r ??

JimBaker  OERM 97-L

James R.(Jim) Baker
Whittier, CA

I found all the answere to my questions cove at thrir website...

http://www.spokanejournal.com/local-news/railroad-museum-to-roll-west-with-245-million-project/

James R.(Jim) Baker
Whittier, CA