Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

First a walk to the Fargo Visitors Center.


The infamous Fargo Wood chipper.


Northern Lights  Council, Boy Scouts of America


This is a very nice Scout store. Hey Bro, it's a lot different from our Potomac Council building in Cresaptown, Maryland.




Lookout Tower built onsite and donated to the Boy Scout Council.  It's like to the Bridge to nowhere, no one uses it.  We were given a tour to the top.  Great view of the city.


Eagle Scout Amphitheater Project.


Bonanzaville, USA is a history museum complex in West Fargo, North Dakota.  Bonanzaville, the museum of the Cass County Historical Society, is made up of forty-seven buildings on 12 acres, many of them are historic and from the region.  These buildings have been moved to the museum grounds and now form a village setting.  Bonanzaville has several hundred thousand artifacts in their collections and on display.

The Main Museum.


Hey tour guide, we cant reach the pedals or the keys.


Rosemeade Glass.


One street in the Village.


Train Shed.


NP 684 C-1 Northern Pacific Railroad.


Hey tour guide don't they have any seats available?


South Pleasant Church.


Barbershop.


The Houston Mansion.


Bear rug room number one.


Bear rug room number two.


Telephone Office.


Old Telephone line blocks.


No Mrs. tour guide it's not for sale.


Can you hear me now?


Speak up Mrs.Tour guide, I can't hear you.


Checking out old paper phone wiring.


Brass Rail Saloon.


Hey tour guide, CJ, & I will have a sarsaparilla.


1906 Cass County District Courthouse.


Inside the Court House.


Where were you on July 23, 2018?  Wait, that date hasn't even happened yet.  I'm innocent I tell you. Tour guide get me off, I'm being framed.  Say, this DA looks a lot like CJ.


Law Enforcement Museum.

Hey Tour guide, what's that building?  It's the Jailhouse.  What's a Jailhouse?


Hey Tour guide, I thought you were getting me off?  I was framed.  Why is the DA in here with me?  Hey wait come back.  I was framed.  I was at work that night.


Ok KW you're free to go as long as you don't come back to this town.  Oh, don't worry let's blow this town.


Auto Museum.

1959 Studebaker Lark.


1956 T-Bird


1959 T-bird.


1956 Chevy.


Checking out a wall of License plates.


More License plates.


Eagle Air Museum.


Now this is a nice Bell UH-1 Irioquois (Huey).


Douglas C-47 used in WWII during the D-Day invasion.


M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR)


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PS:

The BAR M1918 was designed by John Browning in 1917.  It was issued as a sole automatic fire support ... original role as a portable, shoulder-fired automatic rifle. Because the M1918 was supposed to be used as a support weapon, it did not have a place to put a bayonet. No bayonets were ever used on a BAR.

Between 1918 and 1919, 102,125 BARs were made. Colt made 16,000, Winchester made 47,123 and Marlin-Rockwell made 39,002 BARs.

Effective firing range: 100-1,500 yards.
Action: Gas-operated: rising bolt lock.
Muzzle Velocity: 860 m/s (2,822 ft/s)
Designer: John Browning.

Fargo wood chipper from the Movie Fargo:  Star of the Coen Brothers' hit movie "Fargo."  The famous Wood Chipper is a Yard Shark with an 8-horse power Briggs and Stratton engine.