Hillyard Heritage Museum - Spokane, WA
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N 47° 42.261 W 117° 21.852
11T E 472677 N 5283505
The little community of Hillyard, once the town of Hillyard, actually has a museum of their own, dedicated to rail and fire history.
Waymark Code: WMTFMR
Location: Washington, United States
Date Posted: 11/17/2016
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member MikeGolfJ3
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Once known as the Hillyard Fire and Rail Museum, it seems now to be referred to simply as the Hillyard Heritage Museum. Along the old Great Northern tracks on the eastern edge of Hillyard, it is an outdoor museum with indoor displays of railroad and firefighting memorabilia. To date the museum consists of two boxcars, a 1942 Pullman Sleeper Car, a really cool old and tiny diesel switching engine, an ex Great Northern caboose, X 176, and a LaFrance Pumper, circa 1960. The LaFrance doesn't seem to be on display as yet, probably awaiting restoration. There is mention that they also have, stashed away somewhere, a 1959 Pirsch fire engine.

The inside displays are within the caboose and the box cars, consisting of whatever odds and sods the museum has managed to salvage from the extinct railway and the equally extinct Hillyard Fire Department. The museum is operated by the Hillyard Heritage Museum Society, which was established in 2004, its goal to "collect and preserve information and artifacts of historic significance". The museum itself was established in 1995 by the Spokane Fire Station Museum.
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Hillyard Heritage Museum Locomotive
Theme:
Fire and Railway Heritage of Hillyard


Street Address:
3202 East Queen Avenue
Spokane, WA 99217


Food Court: no

Gift Shop: no

Hours of Operation:
Not Posted; they have a Facebook page, but not a website and only a marquee sign at the street.


Cost: 0.00 (listed in local currency)

Museum Size: Small

Relevant Web Site: [Web Link]

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