The Mid-Continent Railway Museum - Part 2

Here are more of the rolling stock seen at the Mid-Continent Railway Museum near North Freedom, Wisconsin.  This is the Kewanee, Green Bay & Western locomotive number 49, which has a 2-8-0 configuration, and its coal tender.

This machine is the steam-powered Oregon Short Line rotary snow plow number 762, which has its own coal tender.  Some openings have been boarded up and its number has been removed or maybe painted over.  Since its power goes into the plow, it would need to be pushed by a regular locomotive.

The Copper Range locomotive number 29 served the copper mining industry in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and later pulled passenger trains.  It now stands in front of the museum's Coach House #1.  This one is thus for all the Yoopers out there.

This canteen tender, which now bears the museum's name, was originally Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul tender number 8190.  It was at first a coal tender, but later converted to carry diesel fuel or water.  I certainly hope that no one ever got the two liquids mixed up.  The museum's water tower is on the left.

The museum offers train rides.  If you take one, it might be on this train, which is pulled by Mid-Continent Railway locomotive number 1256, which is diesel-electric.  It was originally made for the U.S. Army.  The first coach is Delaware Lackawanna & Western number 595, one of four DL&W coaches at the museum.  From this picture, I can't make out the number of the second coach.

Great Northern steam heater car number 6 was originally mail car number 90.  A steam heater car contains a boiler  and would send steam through connecting pipes to the passenger cars within a train.  Next to number 6 is Mid-Continent Railway diesel-electric locomotive number 4, which was originally Milwaukee Road number 988.

For information on the rolling stock shown here and in Part 1, go the museum's "Equipment Roster" page.

After leaving the museum, I stopped at a spring just north of Rock Springs, which is about 4 miles from North Freedom.  The spring is also about 2000 feet south of the Van Hise Rock, shown in Monday's post.  A pipe brings the water to the surface just off state route 136, as seen here.

If you're ever in the area, stop first for some genuine spring water, and again for some geology.