Thankfully for local history buffs, Tacoma resident David Burns likes old trains. Three years ago, he rescued an abandoned 1910…
!["The nice thing about a [passenger] train is you can see what the country looks like -- you can look right out into people's backyards," says historian, author, and retired railroad employee Jim Fredrickson, who has amassed a collection of passenger train memorabilia. (PHOTO BY TODD MATTHEWS)](https://www.tacomadailyindex.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/070208_passenger_train1_web.jpg)
In the early-1940s, as a teenager at Stadium High School, Jim Fredrickson was a common fixture near Union Station in…
When will Tacoma’s old dining car find a permanent home? That question has been on Dave Burns’s mind for awhile….
