Chicago Great Western Museum in Oelwein Iowa - Model Railroad Adventures with Bill EXTRA
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- Back in Iowa to visit family and stopped up in Oelwein Iowa at the Hub City Heritage Railroad Museum which has Chicago Great Western history and trains. If you are looking for a cool railroad to model and love service facilities and shops this one from yesteryear in Oelwein could be the one for you . Lot of modeling opportunities here.
Awesome video 👏🏻 I’m glad you were able to look around, hopefully they will start restoring some of those historic gems, thanks for posting 👍🏻
The Great Western ran through Elmhurst Illinois the town I grew up in which became the Illinois prairie path I have original railroad ties spikes rails a lot of stuff from that railroad
Younger than you? LOL Thanks for tour, Bill! Was really cool seeing inside the F unit. ...Claude
Thanks for the trip! Woodward Governor, Ft. COLLINS CO, made the PMG, prime mover control for the diesel electric set.
Great to know!! I’m hoping to get back to the museum before winter sets in .
I was wondering what happened to all the equipment from that company thank God somebody saved some of it bless you
I worked the Oelwein shops in the late 70s early 80s the roundhouse was gone but i worked running repair and in the back shop rebuilding locomotives
I am going to drag Laura up there one of these weekends 😊
Thx for the vid. - Ken
good vid thanks lee
Nice tour Bill 👍👍👍 This helps us remember how big the railroad industry was in the past before trucks on interstates.
We enjoyed having you here! Thanks for stopping by!
Very nice!
Dear Bill, such a great video! Definitely will put a visit to the Oelwein Railway Museum on my bucket list. Love the efforts of the museum to keep the heritage of the Chicago Great Western alive. Especially where there has been so much history discarded into oblivion by the proverbial sledgehammer. Definitely am looking forward to seeing your iteration of the flat car modeled. Cheerio
Quite a bit of the yard is left its just all overgrown and hard to see i think theres between 20 and 30 tracks still
Great video, nice captures 👍👍😀
You should retured Dr. Valish.
He has a wooden caboose on rails and otger Oelwein hub items in his home tard...and a train track real scale,1:1.
He lives on South Frederick st. By the city park south of town
I’m a railroad enthusiast. I am not a “buff,” whatever the heck that is.
Bill, Dave in Wisconsin. Is your email still the one listed on your page? I had sent you an email today.
Lionel trains no matter what era NEVER made a Chicago Great Western 6464 type boxcar!!! Why?? I do not know. Go figure?