Two railroad history groups are collaborating and their conferences are actually overlapping at a hotel in Everett.
They were two different groups, each with a deep and abiding interest in the history of one of two 19century railroads that made an impact from the Midwest to the Puget Sound. But those days are past, and the two groups are collaborating, and their 2024 conferences are actually overlapping and sharing programs this week for a few hundred attendees at a hotel in Everett.
in the same location. For the first time in their history, the groups are intentionally overlapping and offering a free public program this weekend. Stepping back a bit, Northern Pacific fan Kent Sullivan says it’s not really a surprise that each of these two history groups is only about 40 years old.Railroads have been an industry around here for 150 years, but the notion of the study of their history as a serious pursuit is much newer – and the timing of the founding of groups focused on the Northern Pacific and Great Northern might have something to do with that merger in 1970.
“We try to be the first best place for resources, and we try to help people narrow their searches and make good use of their time,” Sullivan said. “But we’re not in the business of directing what they do with the material.”
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