- FGPC-TR
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- 1907-1986
Photographs of various forms of transportation, including buggies, trains, airplanes, buses, etc. Collected by Frank Glass.
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Photographs of various forms of transportation, including buggies, trains, airplanes, buses, etc. Collected by Frank Glass.
Getting the Powell house onto a semi trailer for transport.
The tires of the semi trailer carrying the Powell house sinking into dirt under the 225 ton weight of the house.
Two Rosetown Hotel Bus & Dray automobiles and a (Taxi) in front of the building that later became the Service Garage on 1st Ave. east.
The Powell house atop the semi trailer, ready to move to its new location 2.5 miles south of Rosetown. The house was moved by W. Ross Thompson, basement and all.
Side view of the Powell house as it sits on the semi trailer ready to move.
Rear view of the Powell house as it sits lifted ready to move.
Rear view of the Powell house as it sits lifted ready to move.
Front view of the Powell house as it sits lifted up and ready to move.
Moving the Powell farm house, basement and all, a feat which had never been done here before.
Two men in a four wheeled buggy driving a mule in harness. The men are wearing overcoats and have a lap robe over their knees. The caption, written in ink, reads "Yours truly 'The Three Mules'".
Kunkel Collection
Transporting the Powell farm house across Eagle Creek. When W. Ross Thompson bought the farm home of Bill Powell (located 1 mile north of Eagle Creek) following the sale of the Powell land to the Hutterite colony, he moved it to his own farm, two miles south of town. The whole structure weighed 225 tons.
Moving the Powell farm house through the Eagle Creek valley from its original location about 8 miles north of Eagle Creek to its present position, 2.5 miles south of Rosetown.
The Powell house mid-move with some of the equipment that made it possible in the forefront of the photo.
The Powell house mid-move with some of the equipment that made it possible in the forefront of the photo.