Great Oregon Steam-up - Antique Steam and Gas Tractors at Antiques Powerland
We are looking at antique steam and gas tractors at Antiques Powerland and the Great Oregon Steam-up in Brooks Oregon.
Check out dozens of steam tractors dating from 1880 to 1910 and super early petrol tractors with huge single cylinder internal combustion engines also known as hit and miss engines
The Great Oregon Steam-Up is the largest event at Powerland Heritage Park during the year and it involves all of the museums and many other participants. One of the unique aspects of the event is that most of the equipment is operating.
Trolley and train rides at Antique Powerland - Great Oregon Steam up 2018
We are back to the Great Oregon Steamup to ride the trolley and 7 1/2 inch gauge railroad. Antiques Powerland is a collection of small museums including a great trolley museum.
The museum is the Oregon Electric Railway Museum featuring historic trolleys from Oregon, Australia, Portugal, England, Brussels, and more. You can ride a restored 1913 trolley which ran in Sydney, Australia over about one mile of track with electrfied overhead wire around the Antiques Powerland area.
The group also operates a historic rail line dating from the late 1800s in nearby Portland. At one time electrified interurbans ran on this line from Portland to Oswego and on to Hillsboro, McMinnville and Corvallis. The Vintage Trolley itself is a replica trolley in the style of Portland’s own Council Crest cars. Two of the original cars can be found at our museum in Brooks. The Vintage Trolleys did run on the MAX Line and Portland Streetcar before coming to Willamette Shore Trolley.
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Antiques Powerland is also home to a live steam group with a large 7 1/2 gauge railroad called the Willow Creek Railroad Museum. They give train rides as part of the Great Oregon Steam Up. The ride is about 15 minutes long with one and a half miles of track meandering through the trees and grassy meadows.
From their web site:
Willow Creek Railroad Museum is located at the Antique Powerland in Brooks, Oregon. We are approximately 45 minutes south of Portland and 10 minutes north of Salem.
WCRR was founded in 1975 as a place where live steamers could gather to share their interests in trains and enjoy outdoor miniature railroading.
We are dedicated to providing a historical account of what early steam and diesel railroading was like – the smells, sights and sounds – only on a smaller scale.
Our steam and diesel powered trains are 1:8 scale replicas - large enough for the whole family to ride!
Steam Powered Saw Mill at Antiques Powerland. - Great Oregon Steamup 2018
Back to Antiques Powerland to watch their 100 year old steam powered sawmill turn logs into lumber. The Pacific Northwest Logging Museum is part of the collection at Powerland Heritage Park
The crew runs the saw mill during the Great Oregon Steamup cutting large logs into lumber while also creating enough scrap wood to not only run the sawmill, but the entire show! All the tractors and steam engines help themselves to leftover wood.
There is still one steam powered sawmill in nearby Monroe, Oregon.Hull-Oakes Lumber Company, which is a Douglas-fir cutting mill.
The family-owned operation, founded in 1937 by Ralph Hull, specializes in cutting big timbers up to 85 feet long. There are parts of the mill that still run on steam, making it one of the last commercial steam-powered sawmills in the United States.
Hum... sounds like a future show....
Oregon Electric Railway Museum
Powerland Heritage Park, Brooks, Oregon.
Recorded during the Great Oregon Steamup, 2019
I finally visited the Great Oregon Steamup this year. The Oreogn Electric Railway Museum is one of about seven industrial history museums located on the grounds of Powerland Heritage Park (formerly known as Antique Powerland). I toured the carbarn, and rode an open air tram from Sydney, Australia.
Civil War Reenactment - July 4, 2017
A portion of the 11:00 am Battle at Powerland Heritage Park, Brooks, Oregon. Filmed on an Apple iPhone 7.
Pacific NW Logging Museum
Pacific Northwest Logging Museum at Antique Powerland
High Elegance in Portland Oregon - Great Oregon Steam Up Part 1
Arriving in Portland we check into The Benson Hotel and visit the Pittock Home to experience the elegance that was and still is Portland. And a quick look at the upcoming shows on the Great Oregon Steam up, SP 4449 and the Oregon Coast Railroad.
From the web:
The Benson Hotel is a 287-room historic hotel building in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. It is owned and operated by Coast Hotels & Resorts. It was originally known as the New Oregon Hotel and is commonly known as The Benson. It has a reputation as one of Portland's finest hotels. The hotel is named after notable businessman and philanthropist Simon Benson. The Benson is the seventh largest hotel in Portland based on the number of rooms
The Pittock Mansion is a French Renaissance-style château in the West Hills of Portland, Oregon, USA. The mansion was originally built in 1909 as a private home for London-born Oregonian publisher Henry Pittock and his wife, Georgiana. It is a 46-room estate built of Tenino Sandstone situated on 46 acres (190,000 m2) that is now owned by the city's Bureau of Parks and Recreation and open for touring.
Modeled after Victorian and French Renaissance architecture, the forty-six room house is situated on an expanse in the West Hills that provides panoramic views of Downtown Portland. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
Civil War Reenactment Artillery Battle at Antique Powerland
Civil War Reenactment Artillery Battle at Antique Powerland - July 2, 2016
Kohr at The Great Oregon Steam Up
Steam powered sawmill at the Oregon Steam Up -- typical of the type of mill you'd have seen in the 1920's in the Northwest.
Oregon Electric Railway Museum | Wikipedia audio article
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00:05:13 See also
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The Oregon Electric Railway Museum is the largest streetcar/trolley museum in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. It is owned and operated by the Oregon Electric Railway Historical Society and is located in Brooks, Oregon, on the grounds of Powerland Heritage Park (formerly known as Antique Powerland).
The original museum opened in Glenwood, about 40 miles (64 km) west of Portland, in 1959, with the first operation of streetcars taking place in 1963 and regular operation in 1966. It was named Trolley Park or, more commonly, the Trolley Park, but its formal name in later years was the same as that of the present museum. The Glenwood museum was built on the site of a former steam logging railroad, and OERHS re-equipped the former sawmill building of the Consolidated Timber Company as a four-track carbarn. The museum property occupied about 26 acres (11 ha), and trolley cars were able to operate on a 1.7-mile (2.7 km) line.Operation at the Glenwood site ended in autumn 1995.The current museum opened in Brooks in 1996. The museum consists of about one mile of mainline track with overhead wire. There is a four-track carbarn to store the international collection of streetcars.
The collection includes:
Two Portland 1904 Brill streetcars (nicknamed Council Crest type), Nos. 503 and 506
Portland 1932 Brill Master Unit, No. 813
Portland-built interurban, No. 1067
Blackpool, England, double-decker tram, No. 48, built in 1928. Acquired by OERHS in 1964.
Sydney, Australia, O-class tram No. 1187, built in 1912
Porto, Portugal single-truck streetcar, No. 210
Los Angeles Railway car No. 1318
Two San Francisco PCC streetcars, Nos. 1118 and 1159
San Francisco Boeing LRV, No. 1213
Hong Kong double-decker tram, No. 12
Portland snow sweeper, No. 1455, built in 1899 by McGuire
Oregon Electric Railway locomotive 21, an electric steeple-cab locomotive built in 1912; acquired in 2017
Three other electric steeple-cab locomotives, from Montana, all of which were last used by the Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Three types of trolley buses: a Twin Coach and a Pullman-Standard from Seattle and a CCF-Brill from Vancouver
Nine ex-Brussels, Belgium, cars all moved to the museum from storage in Port Mellon, British Columbia in 2015, all but one of which are single-truck cars:Six work cars that are former passenger cars (Nos. 19, 25, 26, 31, 34 and 1247) built in the mid-1930s and converted for work service in the 1970s
One passenger car (No. 1048) that was built in 1937 (as #1608). Retired in 1975, it was sold in 1984 to the Grand Cypress Resort, a then-new 930-acre (380 ha) resort near Orlando, Florida, where a streetcar line opened in 1985 to carry guests around the vast property. The 3.5-mile (5.6 km) streetcar line closed in the mid-1990s, and two of its cars were eventually moved to B.C. after being acquired by the owner of the other ex-Brussels streetcars now at OERM.
One passenger trailer (No. 2190), built in 1931 and which otherwise has a history similar to that of No. 1048, having been used for service on the Grand Cypress Resort line in Florida, until that line's closure in the 1990s
Brussels car 7020, a 1952 PCC streetcar built by La Brugeoise and retired from service in the 2000s
Milan, Italy, interurban car 96, built in 1930; acquired from Issaquah Valley Trolley and moved to the museum in December 2016.
One of the two Portland Council Crest Brill cars, No. 503, was loaned to San Francisco in 1983, and again in 1985, for operation in the San Francisco Historic Trolley Festival, predecessor of the F Market & Wharves heritage streetcar line. In the late 1980s, Portland's transit agency, Tri-Met, used cars 503 and 506 as the models for new repl ...
Anacortes Machinery Show By Don Williams
See the Machinery Show at Anacortes, Washington. Ride an old railroad pump car and see antiqque cars and tractors. Recorded by Don Williams.
The Great Oregon Steam up 2018
Taken 8/5/2018. I am a displayer.
Great Oregon Steam-up Blacksmith
Full functional Blacksmith Shop. Antique Powerland Museum located at 3995 Brooklake Road NE Brooks, OR. 97303 (antiquepowerland.com)
2015 Great Oregon Steam-Up at Antique Powerland
A few clips from the Great Oregon Steam-Up at Antique Powerland in Brooks, Oregon on July 25, 2015.
Great Oregon Steam Up 2016
Just some of the things I found interesting at the Great Oregon Steam Up 2016.
Testing Loop Trolley 112017
Testing Loop Trolley
model train operating, 4k
This is a small model railroad at Antique Powerland Museum.
Oregon Electric Railway Historical Society | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:00:22 1 History
00:01:02 2 Operations
00:01:29 3 Collection
00:02:59 4 See also
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
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Speaking Rate: 0.9575885443048938
Voice name: en-US-Wavenet-D
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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The Oregon Electric Railway Historical Society (OERHS) is a non-profit organization in the U.S. state of Oregon, founded in 1957. It owns and operates a railroad museum for electric streetcar and railway enthusiasts, and also operates a separate heritage streetcar line, the Willamette Shore Trolley.
steam powered water pump, 4k
This is a steam engine pumping water at Antique Powerland.
Oregon Steam up '08 Tractor Pull! 4of17
Filmed on August 3rd 2008 (just like all the rest of theses related videos this year)
Be sure to watch in high Quality!