During our August RV trip we spent some time in central Washington state. We decided to visit a place called the Cashmere Museum and Pioneer Village. The interior of the building was full exhibits about the history of the area of the native people that had lived there.
The outdoor area had a collection of original pioneer buildings that had been relocated from various locations around the area to create something of a village.
A part of the outdoor portion of the museum was a nicely done exhibit dedicated to Great Northern Railroad artifacts. Like the Pioneer Village, all of these artifacts had been relocated here from various locations. The Great Northern line, now operated by BNSF is only a few hundred feet from the museum site across the Wenatchee River. A short section of track had been laid along one side of the museum stie. The center piece of this exhibit was Great Northern caboose X494.
Visitors could enter the interior of the caboose. As seen in this photo, it was bare bones but well preserved.
Next to the track near the caboose is the original 1900 flag stop station for Mission, which was the town's name until 1940.
At one end of the track was this Great Northern section house. This section house was relocated to the museum site from the town of Leavenworth, which is about 10 miles to the west and is where our camp site was.
This was another one of those pleasant surprises that we found in our travels.
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