Volunteers

Volunteers

Volunteers perform nearly every task at the Northwest Railway Museum and the Museum provides all the necessary "training". Potential volunteers need only enthusiasm and some spare time!

Popular volunteer activities include becoming a brakeman, conductor or engineer and operating trains and engines in the Running Trades Program; working on track repair and construction in the Maintenance of Way Program, and supporting a variety of other Museum Programs including School Train and Santa Train. Volunteers also serve as docents at the Snoqualmie Depot, on board the Snoqualmie Valley Railroad, and (while suitably attired) as kitchen staff in the Army Ambulance Kitchen Car. And Volunteers performed most of the restoration of the Collection including Locomotive #1 and the Kitchen Car.

Volunteers also have the opportunity to participate in social events including summer picnics and an annual banquet. Join in the fun: people of all ages and skill levels are welcome.

To begin your "training", respond by e-mail or call the Volunteer Coordinator in the Museum office at (425) 888-3030 x204.

Above, top: Volunteers from the Fairbanks-Morse engine division of Coltec Industries exchange a piston on Locomotive #1.

Above, lower: A crew of three operates a hand-crank rail drill. The new hole in the rail will be used to bolt one length of rail to the next.

Right, top: Chef Buffum feeds the fire in the coal stove on-board the Museum's restored Army Ambulance Kitchen Car.

Right: A surfacing gang (part of the Maintenance of Way Program) levels and tamps a new railroad crossing using a tamping machine.

Below Right: The train crew takes a break to pose for this portrait.

Below: Fireman Callanan keeps a watchful eye.

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Please call us at (425) 888-3030, or email to info@trainmuseum.org