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Vintage railroad lanterns decorate the main research room at the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive in Burien. (Feliks Banel/KIRO Radio) The Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive is located in an old plumbing supply building in Burien that the group purchased a decade ago. (Feliks Banel/KIRO Radio) Board president Bob Kelly shows off some of the holdings on “compact storage” shelves at the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive in Burien. (Feliks Banel/KIRO Radio) Director emeritus Gary Tarbox accesses one of the thousands of items digitized and made available online by the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive. (Feliks Banel/KIRO) Ancient ledgers in the collection of the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive. (Feliks Banel/KIRO Radio) Bob Kelly examines a recently acquired “Track Record” from the old Northern Pacific Railway. (Feliks Banel/KIRO Radio) Maps are critical to nearly all history, but even more so when it comes to railroads and railroad rights-of-way; the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive has countless one-of-a-kind maps in its collection. (Feliks Banel/KIRO Radio) An original copy of an old newspaper timetable for trains and steamboats printed in 1890. (Feliks Banel/KIRO Radio) Also part of the consortium is the Boeing Employees Model Railroad Club, who maintain a huge layout on-site at the archive. (Feliks Banel/KIRO Radio)
Northwest train archives