0-4-0 Porter Locomotive at Snoqualmie

Walk-around a 105 year-old Steam Locomotive. Text from the Snoqualmie Railway Museum website: Steam locomotive #7 was built in November 1918 by the H.K. Porter Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as builder’s number 6361. Initially owned by the US Navy, it operated in Norfolk, Virginia, and later in Bremerton, Washington. In 1952 the #7 was purchased by the Olympic Portland Cement Company for use at the cement plant in Bellingham. In June 1956 that operation was purchased by the Permanente Cement Company who in July 1960 donated the locomotive to the City of Bellingham. Bellingham placed the locomotive on a plinth in the Bloedel Donovan Park at the north end of Lake Whatcom where it has remained on exhibit until 2017. Changing priorities for Bellingham Parks resulting in the 7’s donation (technically, purchased for $1) to the Northwest Railway Museum.