点评:The Iron Horse Inn B&B was converted over 30 years ago from a long-empty lodging house for railroad workers into a bed and breakfast, one I frequented over half a dozen times over the years. In late 2019 a chimney fire spread to the whole structure, luckily when there were no guests present, and the inn burned to the ground. Others might have walked away, but the owners didn't, they rebuilt it better than ever.
The new Inn has four spacious bedrooms on the main floor, plus an expansive common room where one can lounge on sofas by the gas fireplace, make a cup of tea, chat with other guests. It also has tables for breakfast, which featured delicious egg dishes with eggs the owners let our granddaughter "harvest" from the chicken coop nearby when we arrived. The new inn is quite a change from "before the fire" when the original room configuration was small rooms and common bathrooms down the hallway, just the way the railway workers had it. But there's something to be said for spacious rooms and private bathrooms, as it is now.
Over the years the inn also acquired four cabooses. These have been open while the inn itself was rebuilt, but without breakfast as there was no common room or kitchen for that. Breakfast in the main inn building is now part of the deal for the cabooses. Our adult son and his wife and two kids (7& 11) were over the moon over the experience of sleeping in a caboose! They all shared one of the two cabooses that have child-sized beds in the former cupula sitting area atop the caboose. The adults had the queen bed on the main level of the caboose and the kids were up high, similar to the top bunk of a bunk bed, with windows giving them a 360 view when the curtains were pulled back.
We are SO happy to see the Iron Horse Inn B&B back at "full steam" again. Our room, the common room and the caboose were spanking clean, the breakfast tasty and filling, the coffee endless, the hosts some of the friendliest b&b owners we've encountered over the years. The Inn is also connected by a short path to the former rail yard of the Milwaukee Road train line that closed up shop in the 1970s. Train buffs will want to spend a bit of time walking around a self-guided tour of the train yard, where the station is still there in fading glory, and remains of the former roundhouse and other structures may be examined like archeological ruins.
This is also a great area for biking, and many years ago I led a bike club trip from the inn. Quiet country roads parallel I-90 for many miles in both directions and also off to Roslyn and Lake Cle Elum, and the path of the Milwaukee Road train line is now a bike path that runs from the Seattle suburbs to points east of the Columbia River.
翻译:Iron Horse Inn B&B 在 30 多年前从一间长期空置的铁路工人宿舍改建为一家住宿加早餐旅馆,这些年来我经常光顾六次以上。 2019 年底,一场烟囱大火蔓延到整个建筑,幸运的是当时没有客人在场,客栈被烧毁了。其他人可能已经走开了,但业主没有,他们比以往任何时候都更好地重建了它。
新旅馆的主楼层有四间宽敞的卧室,还有一间宽敞的公共休息室,客人可以在燃气壁炉旁的沙发上休息,泡杯茶,与其他客人聊天。它也有早餐桌,特色是美味的鸡蛋菜肴,当我们到达时,业主让我们的孙女从附近的鸡舍“收获”鸡蛋。新客栈与“火灾前”相比有了很大的变化,当时原来的房间配置是小房间和走廊上的公共浴室,就像铁路工人那样。但对于宽敞的房间和私人浴室来说,还有一些值得一提的地方,就像现在一样。
多年来,旅馆还获得了四个守车。这些在客栈本身重建时已经开放,但没有早餐,因为没有公共休息室或厨房。客栈主楼的早餐现在是守车服务的一部分。我们成年的儿子和他的妻子以及两个孩子(7 岁和 11 岁)对于睡在守车里的经历欣喜若狂!他们都共享两个守车之一,在守车顶部的前 cupula 休息区有儿童床。大人在守车的主层有大床,孩子们在高处,类似于双层床的上铺,当窗帘拉开时,窗户可以让他们看到 360 度全景。
我们很高兴看到 Iron Horse Inn B&B 再次“全速前进”。我们的房间、公共休息室和守车非常干净,早餐美味可口,咖啡无穷无尽,接待了我们多年来遇到的一些最友好的民宿老板。旅馆还通过一条短路径与 1970 年代关闭的密尔沃基路火车线的前铁路站相连。火车迷们会想花点时间在火车场自导游走走,那里的车站仍然在褪色的辉煌中,并且可以像考古遗址一样检查前圆屋和其他结构的遗迹。
这也是骑自行车的好地方,很多年前,我从旅馆带领了一个自行车俱乐部之旅。安静的乡村道路与 I-90 平行,双向延伸数英里,还通往罗斯林和克莱埃卢姆湖,密尔沃基公路火车线路现在是一条从西雅图郊区到哥伦比亚河以东的自行车道.