Model Railroad April 25, 2009

Don your conductors cap and climb aboard the History Museum's own model railroad. Watch history being made as the Puget Sound Model Railroad Engineers club continues construction on the 1,800 square foot permanent layout depicting the rail lines from Tacoma's Point Defiance Park to the Stampede Pass tunnel in the Cascades. Steam and diesel engines travel past the ASARCO tunnel and tower, the Sperry Flour Mill and Sperry Ocean Terminal, the Seybold-Miller shake mill, and of course, Tacoma's own Union Station as it appeared in the 1950s during the golden age of railroads.