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Model trains, talks, tours on tap
Z-Scale Club, and Dean
and Donna Mead’s fantastic
Lego train, among others.
Kids will love the Kids Craft
Caboose.
Train Talks, a series of
historic railroad lectures,
will be presented by local
railroad historians. Harry
Bell will give the talk “The
Car Builders Art: Uncov-
ering a Pullman Treasure”
at 11 a.m. Saturday. Mark
Clemmens will give the talk
“The Railroad that Ran by
the Tides” at 2 p.m. Satur-
day.
Sunday’s Train Talk by
Gary Kobes, “Jetty Rail-
roads” will take place at 1
p.m.
The railcar Nahcotta
Clamshell Railroad
Days set in Ilwaco
ILWACO, Wash. — Join the
fun as the Columbia Pacifi c
Heritage Museum celebrates
Clamshell Railroad Days on
Saturday and Sunday, July
16 and 17 with expanded
events and old favorites.
The $5 admission fee
includes a souvenir pin and
museum entrance for two
days; kids under 12 are free.
On Saturday, doors
open at 10 a.m. with model
train layouts hosted by the
Peninsula Model Railroad
Club. Guests will include
the Mount Rainer N-Scale
Club, the Portland Cascade
coast
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Learn about the Ilwaco warf collapse at Clamshell Railroad Days.
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The railcar Nahcotta will be open for touring both Saturday
and Sunday of the Clamshell Railroad Days.
will be open for touring
both days. Members of
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Judith Niland poses for a
portrait last week at her
home in Astoria. Niland is re-
tiring from the Astor Street
Opry Company this summer
after over 30 years of in-
volvement with the theater.
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the Nahcotta Preservation
Committee will be onsite to
talk about new fi ndings and
the ongoing preservation of
the railcar.
The Columbia Pacifi c
Heritage Museum is located
at 115 Lake St. S.E. For
more information, call 360-
642-3446 or visit colum-
biapacifi cheritagemuseum.
org