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Gallery 860: Around the World in Trams - Midwest Electric Railway, Iowa


The Midwest Old Threshers use this piece of rolling stock as a portable generator. It was acquired around 1996 from the Trans Mississippi Trolley project in Keokuk, Iowa. It appears to be an attempt to create a standard gauged four wheeled diesel mechanical locomotive using a truck from a PCC car.

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