enjineerbill
Avid People Watcher
The big news on the MadCow Route has been that the Circus World Museum has acquired some old railway equipment from a private owner in Florida. I got the news that two special trains would deliver said cars yesterday. So I grabbed my camera and headed into the canyon at Ablemann to spend a day crawling around the rocks to get some shots as they passed through on their way to their new home.
Still painted in CNW freight colors, 4083 leads the first set of cars from the James A. Strates carnival. This is some older equipment that had been saved when the show upgraded.
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Most of these cars were heavyweight coaches but a nice surprise were these two heavyweight observation cars in really great shape!! Of course the Madison Central of Wisconsin requires a caboose on all it's trains.
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I couldn't believe my eyes at what showed up about an hour later! Five turn of the century cars from the Miller Bros. Wild West Show! Cars like this were thought to be completely extinct, but due to storage in a special building in Florida they have survived. I hear the guy who had them passed on and his estate dictated they be given to the museum.
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Seeing these old cars made me think about how much times have changed since we depended on the railroads to bring the outside wonders of the world to our towns.
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More to follow,
Johnny
Still painted in CNW freight colors, 4083 leads the first set of cars from the James A. Strates carnival. This is some older equipment that had been saved when the show upgraded.
View attachment 3206
Most of these cars were heavyweight coaches but a nice surprise were these two heavyweight observation cars in really great shape!! Of course the Madison Central of Wisconsin requires a caboose on all it's trains.
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I couldn't believe my eyes at what showed up about an hour later! Five turn of the century cars from the Miller Bros. Wild West Show! Cars like this were thought to be completely extinct, but due to storage in a special building in Florida they have survived. I hear the guy who had them passed on and his estate dictated they be given to the museum.
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Seeing these old cars made me think about how much times have changed since we depended on the railroads to bring the outside wonders of the world to our towns.
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More to follow,
Johnny