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Museum Display Train, headed by the U.P. 3206, a 4-6-2 "Pacific" steam locomotive.

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1. Caboose X-237

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.

2. Diner 4057

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, Oregon, work train. It was donated to the IERHS by the U.P. in 1986. After some interior restoration work (still in progress), it was moved to the Museum Display Train for the 1998 Spokane Interstate Fair.

3. Baggage Car 429

Built in 1893 by Barney & Smith as an open-ended wooden passenger car, it was coverted 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.

4. Coach 589

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.

5. Baggage 319

Built by Pullman as a Solarium-Observation car for the Great Northern's 1929 Empire Builder, it was named "C. O. Jenks" to honor a long-time G.N. official. 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 1029 with riveted construction and six-wheel trucks.

Other Equipment

6. Spokane Falls & Northern box car

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.

7. Spokane, Portland & Seattle box car

Built by the Great Northern’s St. Cloud Shops in 1949as 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.

8. Milwaukee caboose

Milwaukee Road bay window caboose 01907 was acquired by IERHS in l994 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.

9. Baggage car 270

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.

10. RPO 60

Built in 1918 the Great Northern by American Car & Foundary, this was a Railway Post Office/Baggage. It was converted to a baggage car, then to a maintenance of way car. It is now used by the IERHS to house the library.

11. Coach-Dinette 974

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.

12. Flat car 51789

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.

13. Caboose 428