The American Locomotive Company built this “Pacific” type locomotive, a 4-6-2, in 1904 for the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company. It spent most of its years on Union Pacific branch lines in Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho because of its relatively light weight. In 1955 it was donated to the City of Spokane and was trucked to a display site at High Bridge Park. In June 1978, it was deeded to the IERHS and was moved over city streets to the Spokane County Fairgrounds by Dan Gmeiner. It is being restored, as money becomes available.

The F9 locomotive was built in 1956 by the Electro-Motive Division (EMD) of General Motors as N.P. 7010D (builder’s number 21105), part of a 4-unit set for freight service. F9 locomotives first went into service on the NP in 1954, assigned to the tough hill between Livingston and Bozeman. By the mid 1960s, N.P. needed more passenger locomotives, but by then, the F9 was no longer available for purchase as a new locomotive, so the N.P. converted this unit by adding a steam heat boiler for passenger use. Because there was no room for a water tank, piping was added to draw water from other units, or from a tank in the baggage car. Thus the unit was renumbered and became 6703-A. As a passenger unit at the time of the 1970 B.N. merger, it was renumbered again to B.N. 9812. It was again converted to freight service with the removal of the steam boiler and became B.N. 778. It was last used in revenue freight service in 1981 before serving as a power car for a rotary snowplow. The engine has been repainted in its original Northern Pacific color scheme.

Built in June, 191-, by Baldwin-Westinghouse for the Great Falls Smelter Railway, owned by Anaconda, it was one of many locomotives obtained by scrapper Maurice Weissman of Great Falls when the smelter closed. This is a 45 ton, 500 volt DC electric locomotive that drew power from a third rail. Donated by Mr. Weissman, it has been painted to simulate the electric switch engine that saw service on the Inland Empire System in Spokane.

Built in 1956 by Wellman Engineering Company, it was used to unload, deck, reload and move log cars at the Inland Empire Paper Company in Millwood, Wash. It was donated to the IERHS in 1985.

This streetcar was built for the Washington Water Power Co. by J.G. Brill. It became part of the Spokane United Railways system when the street car lines of WWP and Spokane Traction Co. were consolidated. From about 1938, two years after steet car use was discontinued in Spokane, until the 1960s, it served as a restaurant in Chewelah, Wash. It was donated to the IERHS in 1979.

Homestake Mining Company of Lead, South Dakota, #28.

Built in about 1941 by the Great Northern Railway’s St. Cloud shops, it is typical of G.N.’s tongue and groove siding, 30 foot cabooses. Most were made with wood tongue and groove strips; some were made with plywood. The final cars were all steel. IERHS purchase the caboose, at the time painted B.N. green and numbered B.N. 11242, and moved it to the fairgrounds. It is restored to a G.N. 1940′s color scheme.

Built in 1914 by Pullman as a Harriman-Standard full-service diner for the Union Pacific, it was changed to a lunch counter diner after just a few years service. It was last used on the Hinkle, Ore., work train. It was donated to the IERHS by the U.P. in 1986. After some interior restoration work it was moved to the Museum Display Train for the 1998 Spokane Interstate Fair.

Built in 1893 by Barney & Smith as an open-ended wooden passenger car, it was converted to business car A-12 and then rebuilt again by the G.N. shops in 1940 as a metal-sheathed baggage car. It was later used as part of a work train. Now it is a museum car chock-full of artifacts.

Built by Pullman-Standard for Northern Pacific’s North Coast Limited in 1946 as a 56-seat coach. Originally painted in N.P.’s dark green and black, it was the first coach repainted in the Lowey two-ton green scheme. It was a work train bunk car on the B.N. in the 1970s and 1980s. IERHS purchased to from a scrap dealer in 1988. It was a mess – no windows, no lights and lots of rust. It is now partially restored and serves as a display car.

Built by Pullman as a Solarium-Observation car for the Great Northern’s 1929 Empire Builder, it was named to honor G.N. founder Cyrus H. Jenks. It was rebuilt in the G.N. shops in the 1950s as a semi-streamlined baggage car. The upper half was rebuilt to conform to the lines of the 1947 and 1950 Empire Builder trains. The lower half is as it was in 1929 with riveted construction and six-wheel trucks.

This sleeper was built in 1941 by the Pullman Company with 4 double bedrooms, 6 roomettes and 6 Pullman sections. It was last used in work train service as a bunkcar painted in Maintenance-of-way green. It was donated by the Union Pacific Railroad in 1987. It is back in UP colors with a partially restored interior.

This boxcar was built around 1898 for the Spokane Falls & Northern Railroad and became the property of the Great Northern Railway after their takeover of the SF&N. It was apparently assigned to the GN subsidiary, the Spokane, Coeur d’Alene & Palouse before being sold to the Inland Empire Paper Company in 1930. After a number of years of service, the I.E.P. removed the trucks and converted it to a tool shed. The I.E.P. donated it to the IERHS in 1979.

Built by the Great Northern’s St. Cloud Shops in 1949 as Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway 13430, this is a 40 foot steel box car – the main stay of U.S. railroads until the late 1960s. This former SP&S and BN car completes our goal of having equipment from each major railroad that served Spokane.

Milwaukee Road bay window caboose 01907 was acquired by IERHS in 1994 from the St. Maries River Railroad, where it was numbered 995. It had been built by the Milwaukee shops in 1941 and has Nystrom design trucks. D. B. Enterprises of Spirit Lake donated a caboose that went to St. Maries in 995’s place.

Built by Pullman-Standard for the Great Northern Railway, this is one of the few streamlined baggage cars with accommodations for a Railway Express Agency messenger.

Built in 1918 for the Great Northern by American Car & Foundry, this was a Railway Post Office/Baggage car. It was converted to a baggage car, then to a maintenance-of-way car.

Built by Barney & Smith in 1915 as a coach for the Great Northern Railway, this is one of several coaches the railroad modified with a broiler unit for meal services. It remained in service until the late 1960s.

Built in November 1955 for the Union Pacific, this forty-two-and-a-half foot flatcar was last used in work train service before coming to the IERHS collection.

The Western Pacific Railroad originally owned this 1956 built caboose. It was donated to the IERHS and repainted to the Western Pacific color scheme by Western Fruit Express at Yardley, Wash.

Built in 1943 by Industrial Brown Hoist, the wrecking crane weighs 390,000 pounds. Changed from a steam to Caterpillar D-8 industrial engine in 1956. Served as NP #45.