Midwest Electric Railway Museum streetcar 1945 is "Peter Witt" type car from Milan, Italy built in 1927 and acquired in 2002.
Our trolley passed the car barn.
Box Motor 3279 was built by the Boston Elevated Railway about 1910, originally on a pair of early type Boston boxcar trucks. In 1948 it received a pair of Taylor HLB trucks from a scrapped Type 4 car and two GE motors from a Type four as the car was only wired for two motors. The wheels were re-profiled for compromise wheel tread for use on the then being built Blue Line extension to Revere Beach which would use pantographs and overhead wire on the surface portions of the line.
These tracks joined the loop from the car barn.
The Log Village.
The lake.
Campers in the campground at this event.
Another view of the lake.
As we finished the loop. I stayed on board until we had reached my boarding point so I could complete the loop and detrained to set up to catch the other trolleys arriving.
Chicago, Aurora & Elgin Railroad wooden interurban coach 320 built by the Jewett Car Company in 1914 and operated between Chicago, Aurora and Elgin, Illinois from 1914 thru 1961. It has been on display and in service at Old Threshers since 1968.
Midwest Electric Railway Museum interurban car 381, ex. City of Waterloo 381 1958-1972, exx. Waterloo, Cedar Falls and Northern 381 1945-1958, nee Knoxville Power and Light 379 1930-1945, built by Perley Thomas in 1930. It carries 42 passengers and is still considered a modern car by today's standards. This car was the last streetcar to operate in Iowa, August 1, 1958 and was donated to Old Threshers in 1971 by the City of Waterloo.
Rio de Janeiro open-bench car 1718 built in 1911 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and operated there until 1965 when they became part of a group of cars that came to the United States. The design of these cars is called a
Narragansett-style after a type developed by the Brill Company of Philadelphia. The interior woodwork is constructed of a Brazilian hardwood called Peroba de Camp. The cars joined the Old Threshers collection in 1970 and 1973.
They definitely looked out of place in the cool rainy weather!
Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern Railway 381.
Rio de Janeiro open-bench car 1718 built in 1911 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and operated there until 1965 when they became part of a group of cars that came to the United States. The design of these cars is called a
Narragansett-style after a type developed by the Brill Company of Philadelphia. The interior woodwork is constructed of a Brazilian hardwood called Peroba de Camp. The cars joined the Old Threshers collection in 1970 and 1973. They
definitely looked out of place in the cool rainy weather!
The next trolley approaching the station.
Chicago, Aurora & Elgin Railroad wooden interurban coach 320 built by the Jewett Car Company in 1914 and operated between Chicago, Aurora and Elgin, Illinois from 1914 thru 1961. It has been on display and in service at Old Threshers since 1968.
This finished my coverage of this fantastic event here in Mount Pleasant, Iowa and I drove US Highway 218 south to Iowa Highway 2, where I turned right and took it back to US 63, turning left and returning to La Plata.
La Plata Soybean Festival 9/05/2009I parked the van in front of the Silver Rails Event Center and went inside, finding Kelly Marshall, co-owner of the hotel who informed me where Bob Cox was and I walked over there, meeting Bob and his wife Amy, along with Missouri Respresentive Tom Shively. I then decided to get a hamburger and look around this small town's Soybean Festival.
Views of the La Plata Soybean Festival, a long-running community event. I returned to the Depot Inn & Suites but when I saw people at the lookout point, decided to stop and try to catch one more train. I introduced myself to all the guests who were amazed that I was there. Looking at the ATCS monitor, I knew we had a westbound approaching and went out onto the deck to wait.
BNSF 7635 West passing the Chris Guenzler Million Mile Lookout Point. I stopped by Casey's for some Coca-Cola for the trip home starting tonight and back in my room, I worked on today's story.
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