Industries

January 29, 2025
Post by Kiley Neil, Visitor Services & Collections Assistant of the Northwest Railway Museum
After the Civil War, the roots of the civil rights movement began to take shape within the Pullman Sleeping Car Company, the pioneer of luxury sleeping cars. In 1867, George Mortimer Pullman, the company’s founder, introduced ‘The President’—a luxurious sleeping coach equipped with an attached kitchen and dining car that offered personal service to...

March 21, 2018
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Although mostly gone today, railroads completely changed the face of the Snoqualmie Valley during the early 1900s. They quickly became the primary transportation network in the region, not only connecting the cities, but in a number of cases actually helping create them. So why were the railways built, and where did they go? In...

August 3, 2017
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Long before California adopted their slogan of “The Home of Happy Cows,” the Snoqualmie Valley’s Carnation Farm was internationally known as “The Home of the Contented Cows.” Carnation Farms built their dairy operations around the concept of contented cows. It all began in 1908, when founder E.A. Stuart purchased the original 360 acres of...

October 11, 2013
Guest blog written by local historian John W. Lundin
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The Mountains to Sound Greenway encompasses part of the historic route of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (the Milwaukee Road) over Snoqualmie Pass. The Milwaukee Road was once billed as the longest electrified railway in the country, and played a key role in shaping transportation routes in the Northwest.