Photos

During 2001 and early 2002, we ran weekends from Issaquah's Depot to Gilman Blvd, using a beautiful Brill trolley leased from the City of Yakima.

May 19, 2001 photo by Magda England
Motorman Craig Thorpe, Denny Croston, Barb Justice and Ken Johnsen pose with the "Trolleyettes" at the trolley's public debut May 19th, 2001

July 4, 2001 photo by David Bangs
Craig Thorpe punches tickets as riders enjoy the Trolley at Issaquah's Fourth of July celebration.

April 30, 2001 photo by Vali Eberhardt
The Trolley waits for passengers at the Issaquah's Depot.  Inaugural Fundraising Gala, April 30, 2001.

July 18, 2001 photo by Vali Eberhardt
Candidates for King and Queen Sammamish dressed up in vintage clothing for an evening on the Trolley July 18th, 2001.  The event was Mystery on the Issaquah Valley Trolley: When Salmon Go Bad!

April 30, 2001 by Vali Eberhardt
Members of the Quartet Synergy and Vivaće have made beautiful music at several festive trolley events.

April 30, 2001 photo by David Bangs
Inaugural Run guests (minus those in the front few rows!) enjoy the trolley.

May 19th, 2001 photo by David Bangs
Kayleigh Bangs and Michael Struble (age 3), hold their tickets and eagerly await a ride on the trolley!

April 14, 2001 photo submitted by Barb Justice
The trolley when it first arrived at Issaquah's Depot.  From left:  Ken Johnsen, Bill Conley, Fred Kempe, Greg Spranger, Barb Justice, and Craig Thorpe.

October 19, 2000 photo by David Bangs
On October 19th, 2000, Yakima trolley #1976 operated in Yakima for the last time in a while.  It performed flawlessly on a round-trip test and demonstration run from Yakima to Selah.  Here motorman Ken Johnsen moves the power pole forward to reverse the trolley's sense of direction for the return trip to Yakima.  The destination reads "Issaquah" - because this trolley was shipped here the following day!

October 1999 photo by David Bangs
Transportation artist J. Craig Thorpe works on a painting depicting trolley cars arriving at Issaquah's Historic Railroad Depot. This picture was taken at the Depot during the 1999 Salmon Days celebration. Craig is now a member of our trolley committee.

This rendering shows the "display building" which is currently under construction at the depot to store a single trolley and power car. The 50' building is designed to look like a mini-depot, but with large viewing windows, garage doors on both ends, and a colored-metal roof.

February 2000 architectural rendering by Darrell Swanson
This is a depiction of a what the trolley stop at Gilman Blvd could eventually look like after a proposed expansion of the Visitor's Center (Chamber of Commerce) being designed by Issaquah's Swanson Architectural Group.  The structure shown would stand between the train tracks and Rainier Blvd - and could double as a metro bus stop on one side and a trolley stop on the other.

A watercolor by transportation artist J. Craig Thorpe. Click for more detail
Though the track north of Gilman Blvd. has been removed, we hope that the trolley or other rail transportation can still eventually run north along E. Lake Sammamish Parkway to serve this growing corridor of office and commercial buildings. We have purchased iron materials from the recently removed tracks, and the various railroad crossings and gates along the route are being preserved in-place while co-existence of rail and trail is considered as part of the East Lake Sammamish Trail planning process.  This watercolor depicts a possible trolley stop at the Lake Sammamish State Park boat launch.