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The Bellingham Railway Museum was a nonprofit museum located in downtown
Bellingham, Washington Bellingham ( ) is the county seat of Whatcom County, Washington, Whatcom County in the U.S. state of Washington (state), Washington. It lies south of the Canada–United States border, U.S.–Canada border, between Vancouver, British Columbia, ...
, USA, that displayed a pictorial and text history of
railroad Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...
traffic in Whatcom and Skagit Counties, as well as a large electric
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, an exhibit of
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s, and a
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based on
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software. A research library was also hosted. It opened in 2003 and was volunteer-operated until its permanent closure in June 2020 during the
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