By Railfan & Railroad Staff

SNOQUALMIE, Wash. — A newly-restored Northern Pacific 0-6-0 will lead its first public excursion in western Washington on Sunday, Nov. 1. The Northwest Railway Museum completed its restoration of NP 924 earlier this year and will be using it on excursions out of Snoqualmie and North Bend. 

The locomotive will make one round trip out of Snoqualmie at noon and then two trips out of North Bend at 1:30 and 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $24 per person. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, masks are required to ride. 

Locomotive 924 was built by the Rogers Locomotive Works in 1899. It worked for the NP until the mid-1920s when it was sold to the Inland Empire Paper Company near Spokane. The paper company donated the locomotive to the Northwest Railway Museum in 1969. The museum was founded in 1957 as the Puget Sound Railway Historical Association. The museum began restoring 924 in 2014 and it moved under its own power for the first time on May 18. 

Tickets are available online at TrainMuseum.org.