Rob: Danielle said something about mudbogging?
Jersey Jon: Yeah, he's a mudbogger?
Holly: Yeah. Anything with a motor.
Jersey Jon: Oh, wow.
Holly: That man's got it.
Jersey Jon: Sounds like a real interesting guy.
Holly: He's an awesome guy. Jersey Jon: Yeah.
Mike: Man, this is the kind of museum I love!
Mike: Being able to walk through these cars,
touch the walls, it's an experience.
Mike: Oh, wow, I didn't even see all these back here.
Bill: Yeah!
Jersey Jon: He went to auctions, huh?
Chris: Oh yeah.
Holly: Ten dollar, twenty dollar, twenty dollar.
[laughs]
[bell rings]
[guitar music]
[phone ringing]
Mike: Dani D, what's up?
Danielle: Hey, good morning Mr. Wolfe.
Have you made it to Colfax yet?
Mike: I am just entering Colfax.
I am on the main street right now.
Danielle: So, Herb is the one who started the museum
because this man has loved railroads his entire life.
Mike: Ah, he's a romantic?
Danielle: Oh, he is.
But he's not in town,
so you're actually gonna meet his son Bill.
Mike: Okay.
Danielle: Bill helps out a ton
and right now they're trying to go through all their scratch
and dent, get everything extra out of the buildings.
Mike: Alright, well guess what?
Danielle: Yeah, what's up?
Mike: I just pulled up. I think I see Bill right now.
Danielle: Oh, perfect.
Hey, tell him I said hi and I'll just talk to you later.
Mike: Alright, bye.
Mike: Hey, you Bill? Dog walker: Hey. Uh, no.
Mike: How's it going, man? You guys - how's business?
Dog walker: Ah, just waiting on it.
Mike: [laughs] Here you go.
Where's Bill at?
Dog walker: Uh, he is two cars down
in an army green passenger car.
You can't miss it.
Mike: Alright, thank you.
Dog walker: Yep. Mike: Nice to meet you.
Dog walker: Nice to meet you too.
Mike: Anybody that collects transportation,
whether it's cars, motorcycles, airplanes, trains -
you know, you've got to be a romantic
because you're dreaming of different time periods
and you're dreaming of travel cross-country
and what that felt like, the majesty of it all, the views,
and how it connected America, you know,
to all of a sudden be able to travel
so far so quickly, it changed everything.
Mike: Bill!
[power tool running]
[tool powers down]
Bill: Hey! Mike: Hey!
Man, this is the kind of museum I love.
Bill: Don't you love seeing the work in progress?
Mike: Yeah!
What year is this car?
Bill: You're looking at late 1890s.
Mike: Hey, I'm Mike.
Bill: Mike, nice to meet you. I'm Bill.
Mike: Nice to meet you.
So, what was this? What was this car?
Bill: So, this was a coach passenger car.
It's basically a seating car.
Mike: Okay.
Bill: For - you can seat up to 60, 70, 80 people in here
depending on how many seats they put in.
Mike: Okay, and then what area did it service?
Bill: This would've serviced Midwest,
all the way to the Pacific Coast.
You're looking somewhere from Minneapolis, St. Paul,
going out to the West Coast, Oregon, Washington.
Mike: So cool.
Bill: This is from the Northern Pacific.
Mike: Because I'm looking around in here
and I'm looking at the detail with all these windows,
I can imagine that sun coming through there.
Would this have been a car that like,
like this was more of an upscale ticket?
Bill: When it first was put into service, yes.
There was kind of a life cycle to these kinds of cars.
Mike: Okay.
Bill: So, when they first rolled in,
they got all the fine amenities of the era.
Mike: So, would there have been porters in here
like serving people and everything?
Bill: Yes. As well as the conductors, everyone else.
Mike: Okay, because I have found some of the China before.
Bill: Oh, you're in for a treat later.
Mike: Oh, really? Bill: Oh yes.
Mike: You guys got a lot of that?
Bill: The largest collection. Mike: Wow...
Bill: Herb, my dad, was the founder of this museum.
He now serves as treasurer, handles the finances,
and he runs the day-to-day operations.
He's also the master restorer for all the properties
that we have here, master woodworker, all of it.
Mike: It's amazing, man.
I mean, seriously,
I actually kind of like to see it like this
instead of done.
Bill: Mhm.
Mike: Because I'm into preservation
and I can see how these walls were built, you know.
I can see the faded green which is so cool
and the laminate coming down, and the chips in the glass.
I mean, to me, you know,
you don't get to see this very often.
Bill: No.
Mike: You know, when you walk into a museum
like the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago,
you're looking at a polished product.
I mean, they do a great job but still -
like, to see it like this is pretty cool.
Mike: This type of museum is interactive,
it's immersive, without the distraction of technology.
Being able to walk through these cars, touch the walls,
sit on the seats, look out the window -
it's an experience.
It's a small museum but it has a lot to offer.
Mike: What is that, 950?
Bill: Yeah. It was the car number.
Mike: Car 950, people walking in,
immediately you see that vaulted ceiling,
you see the stained glass.
I mean, it was an experience.
Bill: Absolutely.
And if you were in this when this first rode the rails,
you were living high.
Mike: The reason we pick so many smalltown museums over the years
is because at the core of it, these people are collectors,
and they have a lot of things
that they're not necessarily going to display
or they don't fit into the museum's mission statement.
Bill: My dad always had this thing about collecting.
It's even before this museum happened.
It just happened to be the museum ended up
being the space where the collection could collect.
Mike: [laughs] Okay.
Well, that's not unusual
for somebody to start from collecting.
Bill: No, not at all.
Mike: I mean, I don't care
if you've got a museum that's motorcycle related or car,
you know, there's always that connective tissue.
Bill: Yeah. I mean, hell,
we've collected a railroad semi-trailer.
Mike: Oh my gosh!
Bill: Yes. And then we loaded it full of stuff.
Mike: Wow.
What would you guys want for the Pennsylvania Railroad sign?
Bill: My dad grew up loving the Pennsylvania Railroad,
and a lot of the Northeast railroads.
He's got a soft spot in his heart for the New Haven as well.
Bill: Good luck prying that from his cold dead fingers.
Mike: [laughs]
Bill: That's not for sale. Mike: [laughs] Okay.
[rock music]
Rob: You know, the rolling hills of this area man,
it's so beautiful.
Rob: You wouldn't know that
because your eyes are peeled into a gear.
Jersey Jon: These are for a 1903 Royal motorcycle, dude.
[phone rings]
Jersey Jon: It's one of the rarest -
it's the only one known in the world.
Rob: Dani? Please help me.
Jersey Jon: Dani!
Danielle: Hey guys.
So, now, I've been dealing with Holly and her brother Chris
for quite a while.
Their father Ben has been collecting forever.
Rob: Okay. Jersey Jon: Yeah.
Rob: Alright.
Danielle: This guy started out as a racecar driver,
then later on in life, in his 40s,
he got into mudbogging.
Rob: Mudbogging?
Jersey Jon: So, what's he got, Dani?
Danielle: Well, obviously Ben had a bunch of cars
but according to Holly he also just bought everything.
Like, everything and anything.
Rob: Send us the coordinates!
Jersey Jon: Thank you, Dani! Rob: We'll see how it goes.
Danielle: Alright. Bye, boys.
Jersey Jon: Thank you, Dani. Rob: Thanks, Dani!
Jersey Jon: There they are. They're out by the garage.
Rob: What?!
Jersey Jon: Whoa...
Rob: Are you kidding me?
Jersey Jon: They got it packed in there.
[horn honks]
Rob: How are you guys doing? Chris: Hey there.
Rob: Danielle sent us to help you out, I guess, today
Holly: Hi! Holly.
Chris: How's it going?
Jersey Jon: How are you? I'm Jon.
Chris: Fantastic. Jon, nice to meet you.
Holly: My dad collects a little bit of everything.
He's always been interested in things that go fast,
things with a motor, things with an engine.
I mean, he just likes cool things.
Holly: He's a mudbogger.
He did that for years. Sponsored by Pennzoil.
Named his kids after car parts.
Jersey Jon: He was sponsored by Pennzoil?
Holly: Oh yeah.
Rob: Named his kids after car parts?
Holly: Yeah, I'm Holly Carburetor.
My brother's initials are RPM.
Jersey Jon: [laughs] I love that!
Holly: Hey, so do I, now.
Thanks, dad.
Jersey Jon: That's great. Rob: Yeah.
Rob: Mudbogging has been around since a car could get offroad.
And get in the dirt.
But professional mudbogging has been around
since the late '60s, early '70s.
They're not just normal vehicles.
They're extended, really long.
Lightweight on the front end
with 1000 horsepower motor in them.
Holly: Anything with a motor.
Jersey Jon: Oh wow. Holly: That man's got it.
Jersey Jon: Sounds like a real interesting guy.
Holly: He's an awesome guy. Jersey Jon: Yeah.
Holly: Yeah, as long as I can remember,
my father's been racing.
Whether it's legal, illegal, on the street.
True, he's the guy at the red light,
he's counting down the red light as if it's a Christmas tree.
And okay.
Chris: Yeah, so, he hurt his back a few years ago,
and um, we just thought we'd meet you guys down here.
Rob: Yeah. Jersey Jon: Yeah, great.
Rob: So...
Holly: Help us part with some of these things.
Rob: He's ready to sell? Holly: Yes, he is.
Jersey Jon: Wow.
Rob: He's got a ton of stuff in, like, original boxes here.
Jersey Jon: Oh, I see something racing here, Robbie.
What about this racing manifold? Offenhauser?
Rob: Oh yeah.
Jersey Jon: That's cool. Yeah, it's busted, but still.
Rob: You're the right guy for that, Jersey.
You can fix it.
Jersey Jon: Yeah, I can fix it. Holly: It's old school racing.
Jersey Jon: Yeah, it's old school racing stuff.
Jersey Jon: This Offenhauser intake manifold is super cool.
I mean, Offenhauser is like -
that's the speed shop equipment they used in flathead V8s.
This is stuff that made it go quick,
and this is like the vintage piece.
This is a piece from the '40s or '50s.
Jersey Jon: You know, it's an intake manifold.
Rob: Dual carburetor. Jersey Jon: Dual carburetor.
Rob: Same one I have on my '46.
Jersey Jon: I mean, it can be restored
and put back to use, but it's more of a shelf piece.
It's an iconic Offenhauser piece.
It just looks cool hanging on the wall.
Jersey Jon: Hundred and a quarter.
Holly: Would you go 140?
Jersey Jon: Yeah. Holly: It's a classic.
Jersey Jon: Yeah. I'll do 140. That's cool.
Holly: Cheerio. Jersey Jon: That's cool.
Awesome. Thank you! Alright!
Rob: Here you go, Jersey.
Look at that.
Holly: Wow. Jersey Jon: Whoa!
Rob: It's made of wood. It's got reflective paint on it.
It was probably off a billboard or something.
He wasn't sponsored by Sunoco, was he?
Holly: Nah, Pennzoil.
Rob: Pennzoil all the way? Holly: All the way.
Rob: This is a Sunoco painted wooden sign.
It most likely came off a track that he raced at.
Jersey Jon: Because this is very well done.
I mean, it's a painted plywood sign,
it's not porcelain or anything like that, but...
Rob: It's still cool. Jersey Jon: It's cool.
Rob: Sunoco, you know, Sunoco's the racing gasoline.
Jersey Jon: Yep. Holly: Yep.
Rob: Um... is it for sale?
Holly: Everything's for sale.
Rob: Everything's for sale?
Holly: Everything's for sale.
Ship it.
Rob: [laughs]
Chris: We're ready to sell. Holly: My dad's ready.
Chris: Yeah. Holly: My stepmom's ready.
Holly: They're ready. Chris: Yeah.
Rob: 400 bucks.
Holly: How do you feel about 5?
Rob: I think it's probably a $600 sign tops.
Holly: Okay. So, 450?
Rob: 425.
Holly: My man.
Rob: Sold. Jersey Jon: [laughs] Thank you.
Rob: Awesome. Holly: My man.
Jersey Jon: Thank you, thank you.
[rock music]
[train whistle]
Mike: This looks like a lot of parts and pieces
for interiors of cars.
Bill: Yes. Lots of parts and pieces for interiors.
We actually have a couple sleeping car parts in here too.
Mike: I saw that. Over here, right here.
Bill: Yep.
Bill: One of the biggest reasons
why we're looking to sell our collection here
is to fund a structure
to help us preserve the railroad cars that are out on the lot.
Unfortunately, if we can't get it
under cover and protected,
we're gonna lose some significant pieces
of railroad and Midwestern history.
Mike: What about this little sink?
It's copper.
What is this, like a...
what do they call this, like a caboose sink or something?
Bill: That might've been actually
out of a passenger car.
Mike: Okay, so, like a passenger car sink?
Bill: Yep.
Mike: I'm trying to find things that I connect with
like this small sink.
I mean these are things that can be repurposed
into just about any space.
It doesn't have to be a train.
It's copper, the stopper is nickel-plated.
It's beautiful.
Mike: So, this is a water tank and you push this button,
that's how you get water out of it?
Bill: Yes.
Mike: Okay, so there was basically like -
there was no plumbing to this sink,
it was just always kept full?
Bill: Yep, that was the cistern for it.
Mike: So, what I'm thinking on something like this,
like for repurposing, this could go in like a cabin...
Bill: Yeah.
Mike: You know, or somewhere on a property
that you can't get water access to.
Bill: Mhm. Mike: So, what are you thinking?
Bill: 2?
[suspensful music]
Mike: Uh... 150.
Bill: Let's do it. Mike: Alright, man.
Very cool.
I've never seen one with the reservoir.
[rock music]
Holly: Who even knows what you're gonna find back there?
We're as excited as you.
Rob: Yeah?
Rob: I've been in these situations many, many times,
and typically the best stuff in these garages,
in these houses, are in the back far corner.
Rob: There's a lot of empty boxes in here.
Rob: Because that's the oldest stuff.
He put that stuff in there first.
Rob: This thing's kind of cool, Jersey.
Jersey Jon: Nice!
Nice, Robbie. Good.
Rob: It's stripped off.
Yeah.
Porcelain.
Jersey Jon: Yep.
Rob: There's a glass door on the front, so pay attention to it.
Right there.
Jersey Jon: That's cool.
Rob: That killer, dude?
Holly: Really cool. Jersey Jon: Yeah.
Jersey Jon: This cabinet was a medical equipment cabinet.
You know, it was to keep doctor's equipment safe,
and, you know, semi-sterile.
But they make great pieces of furniture with displays
for any kind of collection you've got.
And it's got great paint on it. It's got chippy paint, man.
Put a clear coat on that stuff, man,
it like consolidates the paint, it's safe,
and it makes it really look cool.
Jersey Jon: It's missing something here.
Probably had another porcelain tray here
which we may or may not find back there, Robbie.
Rob: I don't know.
Jersey Jon: So, he went to auctions huh?
Holly: Oh yeah. Chris: Oh yeah.
He lived at auctions.
Jersey Jon: So, he loved this thing.
He had bid on it, brought it back home.
Holly: They know him by name.
Holly: Growing up, we went to a lot of auctions
and we got to hold up the little number,
and he'd nudge us, you know.
And we'd hold up our little number.
With my father being a collector, absolutely,
it fell onto me and my brother -
which has since fallen onto our kids.
Jersey Jon: Well, he's buyer number 20.
Just say I'm buyer number 20, right?
Holly: [laughs]
Ten dollar, twenty dollar, twenty dollar.
Jersey Jon: Hundred and a quarter.
Holly: Hundred and a quarter?
Jersey Jon: It's missing - if we find the tray,
I'll give you another 25 bucks.
I'll give you 150.
Holly: What if we do 130/160?
Jersey Jon: 130/160, hm...
I like how your brain works.
Holly: It's even numbers. Easy math.
Jersey Jon: Yeah, exactly.
You're stepping it up evenly. I like the way you think.
Holly: My man. Ship it.
Holly: This was uh, Carol's mom's house, my grandmother.
Rob: Okay. Holly: They lived here...
Jersey Jon: Whoa. Rob: Wow.
Holly: I want to say 60 years? Rob: Yeah?
Jersey Jon: Oh yeah.
Holly: My dad and stepmom
have been collecting for years.
Holly: When my grandmother passed,
it went to my stepmom.
Slowly but surely, that property got used for storage.
Holly: We used to have Thanksgiving dinners here
and now...
Jersey Jon: Aw. Holly: We have lamps.
Rob: So, you remember it as a kid?
Holly: Yes.
Rob: So how long ago,
like, was the last time somebody lived here in this house?
Holly: Somebody lived here, it's probably been about 20 years.
Holly: This house isn't just my father's, it's my stepmother's.
Actually, the NASCAR is her.
Rob: Junior, Dale Earnhardt Jr.
And that's Dale.
Holly: She's the one that has the NASCAR fascination.
My dad calls them roundy-rounds.
So, they're two peas in a pod.
Jersey Jon: That's kind of cool. And it's got the box.
Holly: Mhm.
Jersey Jon: So, the Marx Electro Shot.
This piece is pristine.
It's a plastic toy
but it's got a clockwork mechanism in the back.
Like, the ducks spin around and you're shooting the ducks.
Jersey Jon: I can just imagine this under the Christmas tree
on Christmas morning, you know?
In 1963 or '65.
Holly: If it wasn't then, it could be now.
Jersey Jon: Yeah. [laughs] Rob: [laughs]
Jersey, we ain't getting any younger.
This stuff is getting more collectible.
Jersey Jon: And it's not broken which is great.
Jersey Jon: It's nice to see something
that was so well preserved.
It's like it was just slid out of that box and never used.
It's a boy's toy and, you know, boys are rough on toys.
I was rough on my toys.
All my plastic toys when I was a kid, man,
I destroyed those things.
Jersey Jon: I'd go 125.
Holly: 125 with the box and directions?
Jersey Jon: Yep.
Holly: You think 130?
Jersey Jon: I'm not gonna argue. 130 is fine.
Holly: Oh wow. Hot dog! Jersey Jon: That's great.
Jersey Jon: Yeah. We're on it. Holly: Thank you.
Rob: You know, honestly, this house reminds me
of going into my grandma's house.
My grandma grew up in Las Vegas
so all these cups and all these glasses
and then the lamps and the dishes and things like that.
There's other good things in the house,
but we got to dig through it.
It's layer by layer by layer.
Jersey Jon: So, I found this thing too.
It's shaped like a TV.
Little radio shaped like a television.
Holly: Mhm.
Jersey Jon: And you see that? That's for slides.
You put them down there
and there's a little viewer in the back.
And you can listen to a tune.
So, you can go over your family vacation you took in California,
and listen to John Denver or something.
I'm thinking 20 bucks.
Holly: I'm thinking 25.
Jersey Jon: 22.
Holly: .50?
Jersey Jon: 22.50...
Rob: She's like...
Jersey Jon: You got it.
Holly: I'm doing my dad proud!
Rob: I love religious stuff.
That's ceramic inside there.
Jersey Jon: It's old, Robbie. 1890s.
Rob: Yeah.
Holly: St. Joseph's Prayer.
Jersey Jon: St. Joseph's.
Rob: Little chipping on the frame.
150.
Holly: 175?
Rob: Did you say a prayer before you said that?
Holly: Oh, I did. And he blessed it.
Rob: 160.
Holly: Done.
Rob: Awesome.
Jersey Jon: You got oak, maple, oak, maple, oak.
Rob: Wow.
Jersey Jon: This would be a store display
that had like little dividers in here,
it had the seed packets in it.
Holly: You can tell just by looking at wood
that it's three different types of wood?
Jersey Jon: I'm a wood guy. Holly: Okay.
Jersey Jon: This is quarter-sewn oak.
That means they take an oak tree,
they split it into a quarter
and then they run it through the mill.
It's the best kind of oak you can get.
Holly: Oh!
Jersey Jon: You want to know about the maple now too?
Holly: [laughs] Do we have the time, gentlemen?
Jersey Jon: I'd go 125 on this.
Holly: Say 130, it's yours.
Jersey Jon: Yeah, I'll do it. Holly: Let's go.
Jersey Jon: I'm on it. That's great.
[tense music]
Mike: Wow, this is cool.
I've always wanted to do one of those,
like, old train scenes where you jump from car to car.
Bill: Oh, they used to have to do that.
When they were doing the braking on steam crates,
before they moved the brake wheels down.
Mike: Really? Bill: Yeah.
Brakemen were one of the uh,
most dangerous jobs on the rails.
Mike: Reminds me of when I was a kid,
we were always down by the railroad tracks, man.
How many train cars do you guys have?
13? Is that right?
Bill: 12, 13, yeah.
Mike: Yeah, 13 of them. Dang.
I love the way you're living, man.
Bill: Yeah.
Mike: It's pretty cool you guys are doing this.
Mike: Out of all the collectors I've ever met,
train guys are a breed of their own.
Mike: Banger and...
Bill: Aroostock. Mike: Aroostock.
Yeah, it just sucks it's got the damage up there.
Mike: I mean, think about it.
They're not putting a toy on a shelf,
they're not parking a car in a garage
or hanging a sign on a wall,
they're moving train cars!
Can you imagine looking at something that large
and saying, "I'll take it."
And then just figuring out how to move it!
These guys are like the superheroes
of the collecting world.
But that's the kind of people it takes to preserve this history
and tell these stories.
Bill: Here is more of the equipment
you might see on a station platform.
We've also got a boatload of railroad lights back here too.
Mike: Okay, what about things like this?
This is shelving.
Bill: Yep. Mike: You know.
So, this is obviously -
it doesn't have to be in a railcar, it can be anywhere.
Bill: Right.
Need a hand with that? There you go.
Mike: No, I got one. I got that busted loose.
Alright, so something like this.
Bill: That'd be somewhere around a hundred and a half.
Mike: See, I think that's cool.
I mean, this is practical,
this is something that somebody can still use
whether - I mean it doesn't have to be in a train car.
So, okay, so I'll buy this for 150.
Bill: Alright.
Mike: Alright, I'm doing it. Bill: Awesome.
Mike: I appreciate that.
And then those green ones kind of match each other.
Then you've got this mustard one.
Bill: We wanted to keep a couple of those shelves
for that car where Mike found me in.
I believe we're gonna put those up along the window
where they would've been installed
for passengers to store their luggage.
Mike: I'd buy the mustard color one for 150.
Bill: I got you.
Mike: Okay, do that? Bill: Yeah.
Mike: Okay. Then we'll keep the green as a pair for you guys.
Bill: Yeah.
Mike: So, you're telling me
this wouldn't be cool like in a kitchen?
Bill: Oh yeah. It's a great pot hanger.
Mike: You know what I mean?
You could do plates on it and stuff on it. Grab that.
Bill: Gotcha. Mike: Very cool.
[rock music]
Jersey Jon: That place was packed, dude.
Rob: It was like Jenga, dude.
I was like, afraid to pull the piece out
because I didn't know it was gonna fall back in there.
Jersey Jon: That's crazy, crazy stuff.
We got some good stuff out of there though.
Holly: Guys, you made it!
And here is the man of the hour.
The myth!
Rob: The man that caused all this chaos!
[laughter]
Holly: The legend! Rob: How are you doing?
Ben: Ben Medina. Glad to meet you.
Rob: Nice to meet you.
Jersey Jon: Ben? Ben: Yep, Ben.
Jersey Jon: Dude, you've been busy.
Ben: Mud racing was just drag racing
and I loved drag racing when I was a kid.
I used to take them to drag racing
and I wanted a cheaper way to drag race.
Holly: As long as I can remember,
he was out there tinkering.
Getting it to go faster, louder, faster, louder.
Ben: I had the first blown hemi in mudbogging in the country.
Rob: In history? Ben: In history.
They all had big block Chevies and big block Fords.
So, I put a hemi in my jeep, broke parts, axles,
you name it, I broke it.
It was on 2000 horsepower, just...
Jersey Jon: That was 2000 horsepower?!
Rob: Wow! Wow. Ben: Just twist those axles.
Jersey Jon: Sounds like you had a lot of fun doing it.
Ben: Oh yeah.
New Mexico, we were all over New Mexico, Utah,
we were in Salt Lake.
Ben: 20, 21 years I raced.
Had a bad accident in Davenport, Iowa.
I took off in the mud and it just didn't sound right to me.
The Jeep just didn't wah, you know,
jump up like it usually does.
And I thought, "What happened?"
Ben: So, I look down like that to see if the shifter -
next thing, I looked up and I'm in-
Rob: Into the wall and tumbling.
Ben: Yep, into the wall, into the JoJo blocks and just...
Rob: Whoa... Holly: Axle...
Ben: Axles were this way,
the rearend was that way.
And me and my motor were laying over here.
Jersey Jon: Whoa!
Ben: Just me, the roll cage, and the motor.
Ben: I wasn't paying attention.
I should've just kept my -
you know, instead of looking down,
and that's when I went into the JoJo blocks.
Holly: The rollbar and 5-point harness, man.
That's why you walked away.
Rob: I'm from Davenport, Iowa basically.
Ben: You are? Rob: Yeah.
So, we had that World's Biggest Antique Motorcycle Meet there?
There'll be early 1900s racers racing on that track.
Holly: At the same track? Rob: Same track.
Holly: Wow!
Jersey Jon: And it's a bumpy track.
And that's where you disintegrated.
Ben: Yep. That's where-
Jersey Jon: Man. You're lucky to be here, dude.
Rob: So, Holly said that you uh, were sponsored by Pennzoil.
Ben: Pennzoil, yeah. Jersey Jon: Wow.
Rob: So, you got a kid named Pennzoil?
Ben: No. Rob: Oh...
Holly: Holly Carburetor, RPM. Yeah.
[laughter]
Holly: That's real. Yeah. Love it.
Jersey Jon: Ben, he's a wrench, man.
I mean, this guy knows how to build a motor,
he knows how to create horsepower.
This was his life, this was his passion,
this was the way he supported his family.
Rob: You got to lift it up even. There you go, Jersey.
Ben: There you go.
Holy, look at this stuff.
Jersey Jon: Wow! Woo.
[bluegrass music]
[train whistle]
Bill: This car was originally built in 1911.
Mike: Wow!
Bill: See, I've got a lot of the porter uniforms
you would've had for somebody that was working in the cars.
Mike: That's super cool that you guys had these.
I've never seen this many of these
in any railroad museum I've been to.
Bill: It's one of the things we try to specialize in over here.
There's a lot of stuff you use on a day-to-day basis.
Mike: Well, and also too, it just personalizes it,
you know what I mean? Bill: Mhm.
Mike: These trains were stacked out like a fine hotel.
There were sleeping cars, there were dining cars,
there were bar cars.
It was obviously important to Bill's father
to drive home the experience of travel back then.
Mike: Oh, wow! I didn't even see all these back here.
Bill: Yeah. Mike: Holy crap! Wow!
Bill: I couldn't tell you the oldest uniform.
We do have a couple of really interesting pieces in here.
Mike: I love vintage clothing.
Especially the stuff that's connected to transportation.
Mike: Like, this looks older.
Look at that embroidery right there.
Bill: Mhm.
Mike: It paints a picture
of the people that worked on the railroad.
The different material, the different buttons,
the embellishments.
I mean, there was so much pride taken in every single job.
Each one of these uniforms represents someone's life.
Mike: What does that stand for?
Bill: Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
Mike: No kidding.
So, like, what time period do you think this is from?
Bill: Venture to guess, it'd be 1890s, early 1900s.
Mike: I think this is one of my favorite things
I've seen so far.
Bill: [laughs] Mike: No, seriously.
I mean it just really - all this room
really personalizes everything, you know what I mean?
Bill: Yeah.
Mike: You can see the stature, the crispness, the fade.
Mike: What about this one?
This one looks like it has some age to it.
This is Iowa, right? Union Pacific.
Bill: Yeah, Union Pacific.
Originally terminated in Council Bluffs.
Mike: Can I pull this off of here?
Bill: Yeah.
Mike: Oh wow, it's got the - oh, it's got the pants and the vest!
Let me see this thing.
Yeah. Here we go.
Little bit big.
Bill: I think it'll look good in a box.
Mike: This guy had some guns on him, man.
Bill: Mhm.
Bill: The Union Pacific before 1984
wasn't running up here in Wisconsin.
It was a railroad that was Iowa going west,
and so it didn't completely fit with our mission.
Mike: So, this is Iowa.
You know, I mean we have a store in Iowa.
This might be something cool.
Especially we're along the railroad tracks, too.
Bill: Mhm.
Mike: So, what are you thinking on something like this?
Bill: [sigh]
Mike: I mean, you've got the pants,
you've got the vest.
Bill: I don't have that value on the top of my head.
We can call Herb.
I mean, he's the one that acquired it.
Mike: That's your dad? Bill: That's my dad, yeah.
Mike: Okay, yeah. Let's call him.
[rock music]
Rob: There's some walking paths.
Ben: I did leave some paths so I can carry something.
Jersey Jon: Oh yeah, okay.
Rob: Holy cow, you weren't kidding Ben.
Jersey Jon: Woo!
Rob: Ben was one of those guys, this was his workshop.
That means he had all the speed equipment in here.
All his tools are in here.
All the catchall was right here.
Jersey Jon: The Pontiac is cool.
Ben: 1940 Pontiac.
It's got a Nova frame and a small block Chevy motor.
Jersey Jon: Yeah, it's got a small block Chevy in it.
I see the motor mounts.
Jersey Jon: This garage is as packed as the house,
it's packed as the other garage we started off with.
Rob: I got a feeling that you don't like to sell anything.
Ben: No, I don't sell too much.
Rob: Yeah.
Ben: You guys are probably the only one
that's really been in this garage.
Rob: I appreciate you letting us get in here.
Jersey Jon: Love this light.
Rob: That's cool.
Jersey Jon: Yeah.
Hey Ben. Want to sell this light?
Ben: Sure.
Jersey Jon: I love these task lights.
It's got the same look and feel
as a nice spotlight on an early motorcycle.
Like, you've got a 1923 Indian.
You can repurpose them, change the way it mounts,
put it on your handlebar,
and you have a period correct spotlight.
Jersey Jon: 75 bucks.
We're good?
Ben: Yep. Shake your hand, yep.
Jersey Jon: Alright. Thank you, thank you.
Holly: I feel like he needs to tag me back in.
Jersey Jon: Alright. Yeah, we need you out there, Holly.
Holly: [laughs] Jersey Jon: Alright, cool.
Rob: I see a remnant over here, Ben, of this Jeep -
is that what you were talking about, this Jeep in the corner?
Ben: Yeah, that Jeep's-
Rob: That's what you were driving?
Ben: Yeah, see the frontend of it?
Rob: There's only one piece of it.
Ben: The other pieces are down below.
Rob: And this is the motor?
Ben: That's the motor right there.
Jersey Jon: That is insane!
[country music]
Herb (phone): Hello? Bill: Hey dad.
I've got the guy here you were calling earlier
to look at some of our stuff that we got here,
some of our excess stuff.
He's looking at the Union Pacific uniform
we've got in the passenger car here.
Mike: Tell him - it's got the vest, it's got the pants,
it's got the conductor hat.
The top of it's ripped.
I've never bought anything like this before
so educate me a little bit on this.
Herb (phone): The uniforms would be two different types.
You would have either summer or winter uniforms.
Summer ones would be linens, winters would be wool.
Mike: Okay.
Herb (phone): Modern times they've gone to an overcoat
also with that so that you know,
they can get out in the foul weather.
Mike: Yeah.
Herb (phone): In the northern regions and such.
Mike: So, if you're familiar
with this uniform that I'm looking at,
what time period is it from?
Do you know?
Herb (phone): That's probably the 1930s, 1940s.
Mike: Okay.
The conductor hat,
I don't think it's the same age as the uniform.
If it's a plastic conductor badge,
what time period is this thing from?
Herb (phone): Plastic conductor's badges,
now is that a flat badge or is that like a celluloid?
Mike: It's kind of like a celluloid curved badge.
Herb (phone): Okay, that's probably 1920s, 1930s.
Mike: No kidding?
Herb (phone): Yeah, they started with them that early.
Mike: I'm a sponge when I talk to other collectors
that are so passionate about what they do.
The fact that he's educating me on the head badge,
the time period of uniform,
that there were winter uniforms and summer uniforms,
all of these simple things add up to so much
when it comes to purchasing something
and these are things that I won't forget.
When I look at something in the future
that's similar to this,
I'll remember talking to him.
Herb (phone): We do get a lot of the visitors
looking at that stuff
because they'll see that,
"That's something my grandfather wore, or my uncle."
Mike: Yes, absolutely.
Herb (phone): A lot of the early families
came over in the 1870s, 1880s as immigrants.
The good paying jobs if they were able to speak English,
the railroad jobs were the ones -
and the conductor's jobs - were kind of the top of the pinnacle.
Mike: Well, I love what you're doing here.
You know, I know it's more than just a collection for you,
I know it's a passion project.
I understand also that a smalltown museum is a business.
You know, you guys got to keep the doors open,
you got to keep things maintained,
you got to keep people interested
and so that's a fulltime job.
Herb (phone): It is.
You know, as a nonprofit museum,
you know, it does not get any funding at all.
And as we get collections donated,
if there's duplicates there,
we tell the folks upfront they may be, you know,
sold to help raise funds
to pay for the operations of the museum.
Mike: Absolutely.
Well, what are you thinking on the full uniform here?
The jacket, the vest, and the pants, and the hat.
Herb (phone): That'd be about 200.
Mike: Le Claire's a railroad town.
We have a store that's close to the tracks.
This is gonna be something that's gonna be really cool
to display in our store.
And it's something that I don't see every day.
Mike: I'll tell you what, I'm going to give you 250.
Herb (phone): Fair enough. Mike: Okay?
Herb (phone): You got a deal.
Mike: Alright. I appreciate you.
Herb (phone): Here's a virtual handshake.
Mike: [laughs] Alright. Bill: Thanks, Mike.
Mike: I'm shaking Bill's hand right now. I appreciate it.
I love it.
It's beautiful and I understand the amount of work it takes
to do something like this, so hats off to you guys.
[rock music]
Rob: This is the one you crashed at Davenport?
Ben: That's the Davenport right there.
That's the one that went head-over-heels with me.
Rob: 2000 horsepower? Ben: Yep.
Rob: One of the first things I see is Ben's racing motor.
It's a hemi,
and it's got a blower the size of King Kong on it!
Rob: What year hemi is that?
Ben: Uh, it'd probably be '60s.
Rob: Yeah. Ben: It's a Milodon.
Holly: Well, they don't run cars like that anymore.
Ben: Nope.
Holly: If we're being real,
you're not gonna go out to a dragstrip
and you turn it on and, "wonk wonk!"
You're getting a "ree ree..."
Compared to - and there's just not really a price on that.
Rob: They had to cut you out of that thing?
Ben: Nope. Rob: No?
Ben: I came out. Rob: You walked away?
Ben: Yep, I walked away.
Jersey Jon: That's crazy. You're a lucky man.
Ben: When I see it more, I think, man...
Jersey Jon: I mean, this motor,
and you're hurtling around space with this motor...
Rob: Strapped.
Holly: Controlled bomb, almost, you know?
Ben: See, that's the thing you got to use
so that the mud won't get into the ejector.
Rob: Right here. Yeah.
Ben: That goes in the front there.
Jersey Jon: It's hard to imagine this thing
being in a mudbogger truck.
The immense power this thing generated,
it twisted his chassis up into nothing
and this guy walked away from that.
Blows you away to even think about it.
Rob: I know you were tearing this thing down
because if you're travelling all over the United States,
you weren't using just this engine.
Ben: I have another one that's identical to that
only it doesn't have a blower, and it's identical to it.
That was our - that's our spare motor.
And it's still in the trailer.
Rob: So, would you sell that?
Mike: Is this your fulltime job? Bill: No.
Actually, I'm an elementary school general music teacher
down in southern Wisconsin.
Mike: No way!
Mike: A lot of these smalltown museums,
these history warriors started with one man's passion.
Then it becomes a family-owned business
where everyone chips in
and where everyone wears a lot of different hats.
Bill: The funny thing is I actually started
a model train club down there for my students.
Mike: Really? Bill: Yeah.
Mike: You just introduced that to the music program?
Bill: Introduced it as an afterschool program
for the kids.
Mike: Okay. So, how many kids do you got involved with it?
Bill: 40 kids. And there's a waitlist.
Mike: So, are they bringing their own trains?
Bill: Oh, some of them have their own trains at home
but this is just for anybody who wants to participate,
get them into the hobby.
Mike: I love that you're doing that, man.
Your dad's got to be proud, man.
Bill: Oh, I believe he is.
Bill: Growing up as my dad was collecting for the museum,
I enjoyed being here and doing stuff with him.
It was, one of my first jobs was being a tour guide here.
Being able to see not only his legacy
but almost a family legacy continue on is important for me.
Mike: Okay, so after you build it
and the train is just running around in circles,
how do you keep them interested?
Bill: Dad jokes about trains, obviously.
Mike: [laughs] Really?
Bill: Yes. Mike: Like what?
Bill: Well, I've always got to keep it at grade.
So, I mean, never gonna cross over.
I mean I could switch topics if I really wanted to
but I just want to keep on track here.
Mike: [laughs] That's really bad. I love it.
I love it though.
Mike: Bill is not only teaching music in another community,
he's teaching railroad history.
Hands on railroad history.
It's amazing. It's beautiful.
Mike: Hot dang, you guys got some stuff.
Bill: Yeah.
Mike: So, what do you guys do when you're -
have you tried to put the brakes on your dad
and get him to switch tracks?
Bill: We've tried but he's got orders
to just go right on through.
Mike: [laughs]
Bill: He's an express train
when it comes to that sort of stuff.
Mike: When it comes to buying, he's an express train?
Bill: Yeah.
Mike: What about something like this?
In what line is this?
Bill: Looks like Chicago, St. Paul,
Milwaukee, and Omaha railroad.
Mike: Ooh.
Bill: So, this was the predecessor
of the Chicago Northwestern.
Mike: Chicago, St. Paul, Milwaukee, and Omaha.
This one piece ties in all of those communities.
It tells a story from all of those separate places.
Bill: That's an oil can.
Mike: Do you have a lot of stuff like this
displayed in the museum?
Bill: We have quite a few on display in the museum,
quite a bit down in the basement down there too.
Mike: Okay. Bill: Three?
Mike: I think that's all the money on it.
How about 200 bucks?
Bill: 250?
Going towards helping us
with the restoration of the rest of the equipment here.
Mike: Alright. 250.
Bill: Alright, sounds like a plan.
Mike: Alright, thanks.
Ben: I have another one.
It's identical to that only it doesn't have a blower.
Rob: I got to ask.
Are they for sale?
Ben: The other one or this one? Rob: Yeah.
Ben: Jeez.
I don't know. I don't think I'd sell it.
I couldn't - I couldn't-
Holly: It would have to be very real to me.
Part of it is sentimental.
Rob: Oh, I know.
Holly: I mean, I grew up on the racetracks.
Holly: Future plans, I have three sons.
Maybe they want a super fast car.
Maybe I want a monster truck. I don't know.
But that is one of the coolest engines
that my dad and my uncle built.
Rob: I appreciate you showing it to us.
Jersey Jon: Yeah, we do appreciate you showing it to us.
It's not for sale. We get it. Totally cool.
Rob: It's family.
Jersey Jon: And I understand why.
Ben: The knowledge of that motor is in here.
Jersey Jon: Absolutely, dude.
Ben: I can probably close my eyes
and put that thing together.
Jersey Jon: Yeah. No doubt. No doubt, man.
Rob: Teach that to your grandson.
Holly: It's definitely a different kind of childhood
playing with Barbies in the mud and - you know?
But a good time.
Rob: Ben seems to want to hold onto this bigger stuff
so I'm gonna have to shift gears here
and start looking through the smalls.
There's cases here that looks like
he was doing flea markets back in the day.
Rob: What do these lights go to? Do you know offhand?
I've never seen these before.
Ben: Boats.
Rob: Lights are one of those things that you buy
because they're an accessory.
They can go on a car, they can go on a boat,
they can go on a motorcycle.
These are intact, they actually got glass inserts in them,
and the nickel is perfect on them.
Rob: What do you got to have for those, Ben?
They're just odd enough for me to buy them.
Ben: Well, I don't know. Throw me a number.
Rob: 75 bucks for the pair.
Ben: What about 40 and 40?
Rob: 80 bucks for the pair?
Ben: Yep. Rob: I'll take them.
Ben: Okay. Rob: Alright, thanks buddy.
Ben: You bet.
Mike: I mean, I love all railroad stuff, man.
I'm like you guys. I'm a romantic.
I've got an 1860s building.
Bill: Yeah?
Mike: In Le Claire, Iowa. And I'm right on the tracks.
Bill: Ah.
Mike: I'm talking from here to the other side of this car.
Bill: Hm.
Mike: So, I love the trains, man.
I mean you learn to love them, know what I mean?
Bill: Yeah.
Mike: [laughs] So, I think everybody, you know,
no matter how old you are, you romanticize about them.
Mike: My brother and I were fortunate enough to grow up
in a factory town that was right along the Mississippi River.
And when we went down by the river,
that's where the junkyards were.
That's where the railroad was.
Mike: Has there been a ripple effect,
like, economically for the town, the museum?
I mean, I noticed when I drove through town,
there's a couple antique shops.
You got gas stations, I mean, restaurants.
Bill: Yeah, we actually have had a power of ten study done,
we are a primary economic driver for the village of Colfax.
Mike: That's awesome.
So, there's no like county money or anything, huh?
There's no tourism dollars,
no pillow tax dollars that you guys can grab?
Bill: We've been trying.
Mike: Well, I'll tell you what.
I mean, you're doing everything right.
Mike: This museum falls under the category
of what they call heritage tourism.
I hope they eventually get some help in funding
so they can continue what they're doing.
Mike: I mean, these are the major pieces man.
This is the stuff that's hard to find,
and the big money stuff.
Bill: Yeah, steam locomotives when they were scrapped -
they scrapped all of it,
unless you had a buddy that was working the scrapyard
and grabbed it for you.
Good luck to you. Not much here is for sale.
We've got a couple of bells and stuff.
But this is one of our best displays,
just being able to see the size
because when you look at trains from the safe 25-foot distance
you're supposed to be watching them from,
it looks a lot smaller.
Mike: Yeah.
Bill: And so just being able to recognize
the size of these lights,
these carjacks, the bells, realizing that oh,
this outweighs me by a couple times.
[laughs]
Mike: [laughs] Yeah, exactly.
Mike: The great thing about this room
is that everything in it, you can touch.
You can experience it.
There are some things in glass display cases
but like 90% of the things on display in this room,
they're right there at your fingertips.
How many museums are like that anymore?
Mike: This is the kind of place that helps Americans
fall in love with America again.
You know what I mean?
Because they're connecting with an industry
that built this country.
Like you said, they have relatives.
You know.
And then there's just the romance of it, you know?
Bill: Yeah.
Mike: And I love your downtown on main street,
just driving into town, the old buildings,
the weathered stone, and the - it's -
you guys got it going.
You got a lot to be proud of, man.
Bill: This area has a lot to be proud of,
for its history and its preservation of it.
Mike: Absolutely. You guys are really nailing it.
Bill: Thanks, Mike.
[rock music]
Rob: Hey Ben, you got a -
these look like they were hood ornaments.
One's a Mustang.
Ben: Right.
Rob: Probably after - you know...
Ben: Right.
Rob: Uh... and then you got a goose.
Ben: Yep.
Rob: Any time I find hood ornaments, I buy them.
These are early aftermarket ones,
the nickel on them is absolutely perfect.
They could've gone on a bicycle
to a motorcycle to a car to a truck.
Rob: The goose would look good on a bike, Jersey.
Ben: That's a good one, yeah. Jersey Jon: Pretty cool piece.
Rob: Yeah.
Ben: I'm thinking at least a hundred and a quarter,
you can have both of them.
Rob: I'm doing it.
Ben: Alright. Rob: Alright, thanks buddy.
Ben: I've just accumulated so much
and I really can't use my garages
to do what they were supposed to do.
[laughs]
Jersey Jon: This is cool.
Ben: Oh, that little steering wheel for a boat, like?
Jersey Jon: Yeah. From a boat. That's an old one.
Ben: Yeah. That's oldy oldy.
Jersey Jon: We're near the Mississippi.
This could very well have come off a steamboat.
You know, a paddle wheeler. This is an early wheel.
This is like an 1890s wheel. It's bronze construction.
It's got wooden handles on it.
Jersey Jon: I think that's - yeah, for a shoe shine.
When you're shining your shoes, get your shoes shined,
you got to put your foot somewhere.
Ben: Yep, and that's the bracket to hold it.
Jersey Jon: That's a bracket that would go onto a bench,
you know, in front of a shoe shine bench.
Ben: Right. Jersey Jon: It's cast iron.
It's got some decoration on it,
it's got some advertising on it from whoever made it.
Jersey Jon: I mean, the guy's making money
with this thing at a shoe shine stand.
It evokes a time, where, you know,
you can start off small and grow big, you know,
shining shoes on a street corner,
and then you're selling newspapers,
then you've got a food stand.
Then you owned a hotel.
Jersey Jon: Look at these. These are great.
These bulb horns.
Ben: Yep.
[honk, honk]
Ben: Oh, that's what the clowns use.
Jersey Jon: Yeah, old cars.
Jersey Jon: These bulb horns, these are the kind of horns
that would sound a signal on a brass car.
What I mean brass car, like, I'm talking 1914 and earlier.
So, these are the horns they would use. Honk, honk.
They would make you a path.
They would warn a pedestrian on a car or a carriage even.
Jersey Jon: I'd go 125 bucks for all the horns.
[honk, honk]
Ben: Okay, let's do it. Jersey Jon: Alright.
The boat wheel is cool.
50 bucks.
Ben: 75 for that thing.
Jersey Jon: Alright, I'm not gonna argue with that.
I'll take it for 75.
What about this?
Ben: 30 bucks, I'll let it go for that.
Jersey Jon: 30? Holly: 30.
Ben: That's the cheapest I'll go.
Jersey Jon: So, $230. Right? Good?
Ben: Yep.
We're good to go.
Jersey Jon: Good to go, brother. Thank you.
Rob: Ben has got a heck of a collection here.
Any time I can hear a guy
that was racing back in the '60s and '70s
tell me the stories of that,
I feel like I'm in the presence of a legend.
Jersey Jon: You're a badass.
Holly: [laughs] Jersey Jon: Dude, thank you.
Ben: Thank you guys for coming out.
Jersey Jon: Thank you so much, man.
Ben: Thank you, thank you.
Holly: It's been really awesome watching, you know,
in this experience, watching my 70-year-old dad
get that same giddiness in showing off
his toys and his treasures,
and then to have two other grown men
come in and share that same excitement,
it's just... I'll remember it forever.
[honk, honk]
Jersey Jon: See you! Ben: See you!
Holly: Bye guys! Jersey Jon: Thank you!
Ben: Thank you! Holly: Bye!
Bill: This was a third depot here in Colfax.
Uh, they used local sandstone
from a quarry about 8 miles down the track.
Mike: So cool. I love the way this stuff ages, man.
Bill: Yeah. If you look carefully,
you can see some of the guys that worked here stopped here,
they'd etch their names into the stone itself.
Mike: Oh wow.
Bill: The stone tells a lot of stories.
Mike: What better place to have a railroad museum
than literally right on the tracks?
This depot is very elaborate, it's in great shape,
and if you think about it,
this was the gateway to the community.
This is the first place that people would stop.
They were state of the art facilities
celebrating rail travel.
Mike: So, you guys sell a lot of these little trains and stuff?
Bill: Yeah. Easy price for kids and folks to get into the hobby.
Mike: Yeah, yeah. Absolutely.
Bill: Most people don't go down to the basement from the tours.
A lot of that is just our excess items
or stuff that we haven't used yet in restoration.
Mike: What's this thing?
Bill: That's an old tennis trophy
from the Baltimore in Ohio.
Mike: Really, tennis? Bill: Yes.
Mike: There's a lot of people out there that collect trophies.
Whether it's sports or transportation-related,
aviation, you know, boating, whatever it is,
there's someone that collects that type of trophy
and they collect them because trophies tell a story.
Mike: Baltimore, Ohio Railroad Girls-singles tennis trophy.
Bill: Mhm. Mike: Ethel Miller, 1927.
Mike: This is very cool, the cloisonne, the silver.
I mean it's large, it's just - it's a work of art.
Mike: So, here's the person. Bill: Mhm.
Mike: Here's the girl for the top.
So, here's a leg.
So, the racket - so you've got girl...
and then her leg...
what are you thinking on this?
It's bent and she's busted up.
But still, overall, I mean look at that thing.
Bill: Yeah.
Neighborhood of 450?
Mike: I mean, I don't think you're crazy on it
but I mean...
there's gonna have to be some backend
and it would be nice to try to get her fixed.
Bill: Mhm.
Mike: 300 bucks.
Bill: Uh...
Mike: Just because of the condition.
And I mean, I know there's railroad in there,
but at the end of the day, it's still a tennis trophy.
It's different though.
I mean, I've never seen a trophy like that.
Bill: 375?
Mike: [sighs] Three and a quarter.
Bill: 350? For a good cause?
Mike: 350. Bill: Alright.
Mike: Alright, I appreciate it.
Mike: Smalltown museums are something
the whole community takes pride in.
And if you think about it, a lot of times,
it's people's first experience going to a museum.
This is where the seeds get planted
for them to love and appreciate history.
Mike: I love your dad's passion.
And I love that you're involved with it too.
I'm gonna spread the word.
Bill: Appreciate it, Mike.
Bill: We have hundreds of years of history
that should be preserved,
and so being able to save that for others
to connect with is important for us.
[horn honks]
Mike: See you later! Bill: See you, Mike!
Mike: See you down the tracks!
Bill: Yep. Keep it rolling!
High ball!