Thomas the Tank Engine smiles, above, as cousins Caleb, 5, and Harrison, 2, with Lacinda Opsata-Gibbs, Andrea Opsata and Lauren Opsata, get a family photo on Friday, July 18, during the 2014 “Day Out With Thomas” excursion, held over two weekends at Northwest Railway Museum in Snoqualmie. Thomas draws thousands of visitors, babies to grandparents, to downtown Snoqualmie annually.
Dawn Brightwell with the Puget Sound Garden Railroad Society cleans clinkers from a coal-fired model locomotive.
Eyeballing fast-moving model trains, Wilson, 3, right, and sister Pietra, left, visit from Pittsburg with grandparents Tom and Ruth Odell of Sammamish.
Kody Dennerline, 2, of Snohomish, wonders whether he likes Sir Topham Hat.
Sasha, 8, of Spanaway, bounces happily into the net at the bounce house.
Eli Nease, 2, of Kirkland, plays in the toy adventure area.