In life it's not where you go but who you are with……Charles Shultz
Vagabond Tales- Visit Railroad Town
May 11, 2021 Des Moines, Iowa Travel Day
***Prize winner video included in this blog!
Before I get to today, I must document adding another state to our map. I told Harry I wanted him to make it look fun…guess we will have to settle for cheesy.
This will be our last new state that we add to our map for this trip!
If we can work it out, on our drive days, we like to stop along the way to stretch our legs. If we get to see something new that is a bonus! Today we stopped at the Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer in Grand Island, Nebraska. We had heard it was one of the top living history museums in the country. On over 200 acres with over 100 hundred structures, this museum was remarkable. The structures in Railroad Town were so very authentic! They have moved most of the stores and buildings in from other places around Nebraska so they are all from the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s. It is here we found someone to draw our final prize winner!
The main Stuhr building was very impressive, they have a small museum in it but primarily they hold art shows. Unfortunately, they were between shows.Wish “The Wings Over the Platte” (wildlife art) had been showing today.Anyone need your hair curled? The bottom contraption and picture show just how fun it could be to have curly hair!
Railroad Town
They have quite a long Main Street!The middle picture on the top row, The Wood Planing Shop, is where we met Mr. Dudley, who did our contest drawing today!Congratulations to the winner!The backs of the shops were equally as interesting! They had garages just like I remember my grandparents having!Harry whined until I dug a quarter out of my purse so he could feed the ducks!We loved our time here! If you don’t mind heights…I bet this is a good paying job! Yes, there is a guy at the end of the boom repairing the wind turbine.This park has the largest forest of walnut trees in the state of Iowa, according to Harry!
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I’ve never won before!!! Happy Dance!!
Congratulations!🙂
Great pics – what a great museum. Doesn’t look crowded at all.
And who doesn’t like to feed the ducks! 🙂