The John H. Emery Rail Heritage Trust has awarded a $7,500 grant to the Northwest Railway Museum in Snoqualmie in support of the Northern Pacific Railway parlor car 1049 restoration. The award will support fabrication and base coat painting of replacement ceiling panels for all non-original interior ceilings. The completed car will be used to allow the public to experience travel in a historically significant artifact on a historic Northern Pacific branch line.
Parlor car 1049 is an all-wood car constructed in 1901 by Pullman for the Northern Pacific Railway and intended for service on the Lake Superior Limited, a train that operated in the very competitive Twin Cities-Duluth corridor.
By 1912, it was moved to Seattle for use as a first class (extra fare) day-use car on the North Coast Limited between Seattle and either Yakima or Spokane, depending on variations in the train schedule. The car was retired in 1939 from this service…