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Palmer Coking Coal Company is a producer, supplier, and retailer of a wide selection of sand, gravel, topsoil, beauty bark, red cinder, lava rock, and other construction and landscaping products. It is a family-owned and operated business incorporated in Durham, Washington on August 14, 1933. The company no longer mines coal, In the company name, �Palmer� comes from the generally forgotten town of Palmer-Kanaskat, Washington (near Durham), located in east King County. Coking refers to a type of coal which could be partially �cooked� to extract impurities. Coal was the mineral mined during the Great Depression, when thirty or more companies competing for market share in a declining industry around Seattle. During the 1950s Palmer acquired a land base which allowed expanded mining opportunities in Black Diamond, Ravensdale and�Franklin, Washington. Diversification into other extractive products soon followed: red cinders, clay, silica, timber, sand, gravel, and topsoil.

The National Railway Historical Society was formed in 1935 to preserve and document railroad history. The Pacific Northwest chapter was formed in 1955 in Portland, Oregon, and is one of more than 170 local chapters of the NRHS.