Hopefully someone does something with it soon. It's in really sad shape, and it would be a shame to loose so many pieces of historic equipment.
> The equipment at PDC is owned by Blair
> Dillman
> of Prairie Sand and Gravel. He had planned
> on
> using the cabooses for a motel. Several of
> the
> passenger cars were used as a bar just north
> of
> the US 18 bridge along the Mississippi
> River.
> The cars got moved into storage a few years
> ago
> after he moved the bar into the old MILW PDC
> depot just east of where the cars were.


ddg14@msn.com

Hopefully someone will do something with it soon. It's in really sorry shape, and it would be a shame to loose so much historic equipment.
> That stuff has been there for years (minimum
> 10.) Unfortunately, I don't know what the
> purpose of it is. It may just be somebody's
> collection.


ddg14@msn.com

Hopefully someone will do something with it soon. It's in really sorry shape, and it would be a shame to loose so much historic equipment.
> That stuff has been there for years (minimum
> 10.) Unfortunately, I don't know what the
> purpose of it is. It may just be somebody's
> collection.


ddg14@msn.com

I hope something better comes of it that most old things that Mr. Dillman acquires. He has been "collecting" church steeples from all over the area, and then just letting them rot away at various locations. He also "collected" a very old log cabin, and it's now falling apart on the moving dolly that it was moved on. At least use as a motel would save the cabooses from just rusting/rotting away. I wonder if the passenger cars are to be part of the motel too? As for the wrecker and wood boxcars, I guess displays at the motel maybe?
> The equipment at PDC is owned by Blair
> Dillman
> of Prairie Sand and Gravel. He had planned
> on
> using the cabooses for a motel. Several of
> the
> passenger cars were used as a bar just north
> of
> the US 18 bridge along the Mississippi
> River.
> The cars got moved into storage a few years
> ago
> after he moved the bar into the old MILW PDC
> depot just east of where the cars were.


ddg14@msn.com