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Welcome to the official website for Cascade Rails 2011,
the National Railway Historical Society (NRHS) annual convention. The event was held in Tacoma, Washington,
June 20-26, 2011. Tacoma Chapter NRHS hosted the event.
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ANNOUNCED
AT THE CONVENTIUON: . NRHS at its Board of Directors meeting during the convention
in Tacoma, announced June 24 that $38,500 had been awarded in 2011 NRHS Railway Heritage Grants, including the following three
awards in Northwest Region: Pacific Northwest Chapter NRHS - Portland OR - awarded $3,400 – toward PTRC Alco
S-2 diesel locomotive repainting project.
2. Yaquina Pacific Chapter NRHS - Toledo OR - awarded $1,200 –
toward installation of two interpretative highway signs on Yaquina Bay Road near site of former Yaquina City on route of former
Oregon Pacific/Willamette Valley & Coast/Corvallis & Eastern/SP rail line to Newport from Toledo, Oregon.
3. Pacific Northwest Railroad Archives - Burien WA - awarded $2,000 toward project to preserve and digitize 30 years of
Pacific Coast Railroad train dispatcher's daily Record of Movement of Trains ("train sheets") from Maple Valley
WA. Supporting this
independent multi-organization Archive facility and its development is a major new focus and activity of Tacoma Chapter NRHS.
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