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Video
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Train # 765 lives in Fort Wayne Indiana but will be here in Owosso to
accompany the “1225’ on their October 3rd, 2009 excursion.
Enjoy the video and feel free to pass it around. Be sure to turn up the
volume.
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Click
here to view the train video. Video was taken in Carland, Michigan on
Sunday July 26, 2009 by me.
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Other web sites for the
2009 Train Festival
Official Train Festival Site
The Pennyrail Online
Edition
Fort Wayne Railroad
Historical Society Home of the 765
locomotive
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Trains ? I thought we were
into farm tractors not 400 ton work horses. Well, Owosso Michigan
did host the 2009 International Train Festival. So it’s only fitting
that we honor the iron horses of the past by bringing them alive again
and to your home.
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Welcome back to Bob’s Corner. I will be the first
to tell you that I like trains but I am not in love with them.
Trains are the biggest moving piece of machinery on earth but when I grew
up we lived beside a train track in 1969 and we lived in town where
trains were common in the 1960’s. When I got married we had a train
track right in our back yard. It was only about 150 feet from my house
and it was used by a lot of trains until they tore it up. They say
the property is going to Rails to Trails or something like that.
My daughter Rebecca and I watched the trains go by when she
was little and I always told her never to go near the tracks. In
the winter they would park extra train cars right behind my house.
An extra set of tracks were in Shepardsville for loading and
unloading of goods about 100 years ago. They even had a depot and
post office here.
Machines that size need respect and keep your
distance. So when I heard about the train festival they were
talking about 30,000 plus people coming to a 15,000 resident town.
They came alright. From all 50 states and 14 countries as stated by
the local newspaper. A state policeman told me that he heard the
actual number was more like 70,000 and I believe it traveling through
town on Saturday.
That’s why I am posting the train information for all
of you to see. Some of you, like me, never heard of an
“International Train Show” but you have now. Owosso wants to make
the Owosso Train Festival a yearly event and I hope it goes well for
them. They even have a train museum. Train number Pierre Marquette
# “1225” which they made the movie “Polar Express” from has its
home right here in Owosso. By the way the “1225” means it was built
December 25th. Really! It was.
So, if you are in Owosso, Michigan check out the
train museum downtown and on October 3rd, 2009 I heard they
are having the “1225” and its sister train “765” which is in the video on
this page running the tracks with passengers for fall tours.
I hope those who enjoy trains as much as I do
tractors and snowmobiling will keep the tradition of days gone by
going. It reminds me of the antique tractors but on a much, much larger
scale.
www.owossotractorparts.com
I hope you enjoy the new items on this site and come back
often to see what’s new.
Thank you for visiting.
Sincerely
Bob Baumgras
bobscorner@owossotractorparts.com
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Crossing M21 in Owosso
all photos
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