Hello out there,
Does anyone have information about the Trolleyland Electric Railway? Another name given was Prairie Park Railway Museum. I had heard of it perhaps 20 years ago, then recently this post came up on RYPN:
There is a fair bit more in those article clips than I ever saw before. It was located in Grand Mound, near the Milwaukee Road tracks and Pacific Highway, north of Centralia.
They had built at least 3/4 mile of track, several switches, and placed overhead poles. A mile and a half of ROW or existing line was available to them for running. Roster included three recently retired BCE cars, flatcar, boxcar, wooden Great Northern caboose, a 4-wheel diesel locomotive from St Regis, and a Seattle trolleycoach .
It was a project of Richard Hansen, Bob Chamberlain, Don Dietrich, and 10 other people on 15 acres of grassland probably around 1963 through perhaps 1967 or later.
What happened? There must be more to the story, and perhaps all these pieces of equipment still exist. The three interurban cars have moved back up to Canada and are preserved there.
