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Popcorn Wagon in Forest City, IA
« on: June 07, 2019, 09:29:52 pm »
Located inside the Transportation Museum. Was roped off so couldn't get a better picture of the engine





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Re: Popcorn Wagon in Forest City, IA
« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2019, 09:40:54 pm »
What a nice machine...!!!


Looks like it may be a Model D horse drawn wagon.


Excellent restoration and preservation.


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« Reply #2 on: June 08, 2019, 01:42:10 am »
Amazing wagon

Thanks for sharing Nick !
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« Reply #3 on: June 08, 2019, 10:38:34 am »
Would love to have such a lovely piece in my collection .... though just where I'd put it remains a mystery!?!?
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Re: Popcorn Wagon in Forest City, IA
« Reply #4 on: June 08, 2019, 05:02:59 pm »
Nick,
Please post more pictures! My brother got more time on a Minneapolis!

I was hoping to be there today and tomorrow with my son to meet my brother there but I had to turn around 1/2 way since my 3 year old son keep saying/chanting/bellowing he wanted to go home. That's after an hour and an half driving.

He was happy for a while when we got back home but then he said, I want to see choo choos (his term for TEs and locomotives)... I want to go camping... I want to go to the tractor show. I had to explain to him, it's too late to go back. Hopefully next time he'll think a little more, before he makes such a stink...

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Re: Popcorn Wagon in Forest City, IA
« Reply #5 on: June 08, 2019, 07:28:37 pm »
I was there Friday from 9am-2:30pm, had to be back in the evening and went to an auction today. To be honest I was very disappointed with the show from previous years... I don't know if it was the date change or that it was Friday, but there were very few people there and not much of anything was going on... I had my dad, wife and two kids along so I didn't attempt to join in and the only other pictures I have are of my son meeting his new cell-mate in the old time jail. Mark Corson posted 150 or so pictures on the Heritage Park of North Iowa facebook page.



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« Reply #6 on: June 08, 2019, 08:33:01 pm »
Whats this nice looking thing that has what looks like a governor ?

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Re: Popcorn Wagon in Forest City, IA
« Reply #7 on: June 08, 2019, 11:28:25 pm »
Nick,
I haven't gotten a reply from my brother yet when I asked about attendence but looking at the Saturday pictures, it appears like a ghost town. :(

I like the June date as the August/September has so many shows.

I was hoping the date change would be more of a success. Maybe more advertisements needed? Some shows have grown a lot (Hastings MN Little Log Cabin show, Le Sueur MN) but others like Jordan MN haven't at all. I always wonder if the date for the Jordan one is at fault or some other factors? Jordan show actually has surveys every year, so they must be researching it.

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« Reply #8 on: June 09, 2019, 01:51:39 am »
I also liked the early June date, but Friday was like a ghost town. So bad that I went and re-checked to make sure Friday was included in the show dates. The most action I seen was 2 or 3 logs at the sawmill, one engine plowing and one tractor testing its horsepower. The rest of the steam engines were all parked in a group doing nothing more than boiling water. It was also a very hot day for what is mainly an older crowd of people... I hope Saturday brought in more people as I know that show has been hurting in the past. They have plenty to see (large collection), but by the sounds of it not enough people to do the work. And Sundays are never good at steam/threshing shows, by the time the parade is over, everyone packs up and heads home after having spent 2 or 3 days at the showgrounds.

Last year was my first year at Jordan (Scott-Carver) and the first day we went was pretty much cancelled from a storm and when we went back on Sunday, it was only the volunteers left by afternoon and they were pitching as fast as they could to get the racks emptied and put away in storage.
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Re: Popcorn Wagon in Forest City, IA
« Reply #9 on: June 09, 2019, 02:06:00 am »
For those of you interested in the pictures Mark Corson took of the show, here is his Facebook album. I hope the link works

https://www.facebook.com/mark.a.corson/media_set?set=a.10216878093978201&type=3
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Re: Popcorn Wagon in Forest City, IA
« Reply #10 on: June 09, 2019, 02:11:40 am »
The first Twin City in this lineup (closest), a 21-32 is my dad's cousins tractor. We missed the show today for his dad's auction.


(photo belongs to Mark A Corson)
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