Adjacent to the main room on the lower level is the museum’s Train Room. The railroad played an important role in the settlement of Edmonds. To celebrate that, the museum has installed and restored a large model train layout that is now on permanent display downstairs. The layout was constructed by Donald Drew, owner of the Pacific Fast Mail Company, in 1965-66. He built the layout into his conference room and it remained in his Edmonds office until it was moved in January 2011; Sean and Donald Drew, Jr., heirs to Donald Drew’s estate, donated it to the museum. Sound was installed in 1970, and various landscape features have been added over time. A team of specialists from Hikel O Gauge Layouts & Trains restored it for its grand debut in June. The layout is not meant to reflect Edmonds specifically, but rather any town along the coast where logging industries and populations were booming at the turn of the century. The museum’s train room was made possible by gifts from Sean and Donald Drew, Jr., the BNSF Foundation, and donations from members and the general public.