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in-too-deep

08-15-2007 12:35:44




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I'm driving from N. Illinois to Denver, CO and back again on wednesday next week. I'm looking for something to do on my way back through on thursday. I'll be on I-80 and that other interstate that slopes southwest to Denver. The trip out there is going to be just the straight shot with no stops because we're moving my brother. On the way back I'll be solo and can do what I want. Any ideas for tractor shows, attractions, or personal tractor collections I should see? I'll put in a day of work for you if I can borrow your couch thursday night ; ) Any ideas are welcome and my email's open. Thanks!

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jubilee johnny

08-16-2007 11:34:08




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 Re: Things To Do Between Here and Denver in reply to in-too-deep, 08-15-2007 12:35:44  
I think I would vote for Pioneer Village at Minden, NE. There is such a variety of stuff to see, not just tractors, farm equipment, and cars, but lots of other stuff . Look on the website. It is worth the stop.



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PatMz

08-16-2007 08:05:51




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 Re: Things To Do Between Here and Denver in reply to in-too-deep, 08-15-2007 12:35:44  
L.G. Simmons Conservation Park and Widlife Safari at exit 246 west of Lincoln. My wife and daughter were there a couple of weeks ago. Bison, cranes, whitetails, pronghorns, lots of prairie animals. They even saw a few elk!

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NEsota

08-16-2007 07:01:09




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 Re: Things To Do Between Here and Denver in reply to in-too-deep, 08-15-2007 12:35:44  
Nebraska's capital building,in Lincoln is terrific architecturally, Art Deco. Google may have good info on it.



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Chad Franke

08-16-2007 06:02:30




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 Re: Things To Do Between Here and Denver in reply to in-too-deep, 08-15-2007 12:35:44  
Well, you'll see my house. :-) I'm about 400 feet off of I76 just east of the exit, you'll see my W9's sitting out there.

The Sterling museum is good if you want to see some stuff dealing with homesteading in the area. They have a few dozen tractors, threshers, etc. Not a lot of stuff, but worth spending an hour looking if you are intersted in the homesteading days.



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Vern-MI

08-16-2007 03:43:50




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 Re: Things To Do Between Here and Denver in reply to in-too-deep, 08-15-2007 12:35:44  
Just for kicks see if you can keep up with an 18 wheeler.



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mj

08-15-2007 19:57:58




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 Re: Things To Do Between Here and Denver in reply to old, 08-15-2007 12:35:44  

old said: (quoted from post at 13:48:56 08/15/07) Watch the weather when you start to get close to Lyman CO. every time I ever went out and through that area the weather was always bad there. Fog, wind, snow, rain etc. Never did figure out why but I never drove in that area with out the weather being bad. Back in 1995 I made at least one trip that way a week.
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arthur H

08-15-2007 19:55:09




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 Re: Things To Do Between Here and Denver in reply to in-too-deep, 08-15-2007 12:35:44  
you schuld get home in time for thanksgiving.
look it all over and enjoy your self for once.
they got you a good list of places to see.



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Gene Dotson

08-15-2007 17:33:38




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 Re: Things To Do Between Here and Denver in reply to in-too-deep, 08-15-2007 12:35:44  
Coming through Nebraska, you might consider driving on U.S. 30. It pretty much parallells I-80 and many railroad tracks alongside. It goes through many interesting little towns. I traveled it from Kimball to Grand Island last fall. Was an interesting byway and good road and speed limits... Gene



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marlowe

08-15-2007 17:28:58




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 Re: Things To Do Between Here and Denver in reply to in-too-deep, 08-15-2007 12:35:44  
if you stay the night in Rawlins wyoming DON'T stay at the travel lodge. it's a dump and run by india we found out the hard way



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Allan In NE

08-15-2007 17:16:04




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 Re: Things To Do Between Here and Denver in reply to in-too-deep, 08-15-2007 12:35:44  
Oh,

You must mean after you get done fighting that traffic. What a nightmare! :>)

Allan



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Gerald J.

08-15-2007 16:35:06




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 Re: Things To Do Between Here and Denver in reply to in-too-deep, 08-15-2007 12:35:44  
Between Lincoln and the SAC museum there is a little privately run WW2 museum. All real artifacts there.

In Lincoln there is a good natural history museum. Takes hours to tour it all.

Minden is primo but nothing there is restored. Could take more than a day. The only in Minden motel is owned by the museum. Museum admission is free with a motel room.

Bridge over I-80 at Kearney is mostly fabricated stuff but it seems to fairly accurately show how tough it was going west by wagon and ox. A tourist trap otherwise.

There is a decent art museum in Kearney, NE. And a historical museum that wasn't open when I was there back in March.

Stuhr Museums at Grand Island are worth a visit. A couple miles from where Case-IH combines are built and factory tours can be had there.

The westward expansion museum at the old Union Station in Omaha is good.

The UPRR museum in Council Bluffs is good on RR history.

Living History Farms at Des Moines has a good reputation right next to the Machine Shed restaurant.

The Iowa Historical Society Museum next to the state capital in down Des Moines is good.

The historical museum at the Dallas County Conservation Commission office is intesting. Its just south of Perry Iowa.

The Danish windmill at Elkhorn can be interesting.

There are several museums around the University of Iowa at Iowa City.

You're a week early for Mount Pleasant.

Search Iowa Museums on google and you will find many more. Most of these above, I've seen this year. Minden is still the top, with SAC second.

Cabella's home office is just off I-80 in western Nebraska.

Gerald J.

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Larry in CO

08-15-2007 16:33:21




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 Re: Things To Do Between Here and Denver in reply to in-too-deep, 08-15-2007 12:35:44  
There"s going to be a tractor show just north of Denver on highway 287 August 23rd thru 26th at the Daugherty (sp) museum. Should be 100 to 150 tractors, steam tractors, etc. There will be threshing demonstrations and baling demonstrations using an old stationary hay press. If you have time, check it out. I"ll have my Farmall H out there. Hope this helps. Larry



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JGS

08-15-2007 16:21:22




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 Re: Things To Do Between Here and Denver in reply to in-too-deep, 08-15-2007 12:35:44  
How about the Farmalland Museum in Avoca IA. Jerry Mez has put together one of the finest collections of red power ever imaginable. Jusr my 2 cents. JGS



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Rick(IA)

08-15-2007 16:18:57




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 Re: Things To Do Between Here and Denver in reply to in-too-deep, 08-15-2007 12:35:44  
Call KUNI or one of the other Iowa Public Radio stations and see if you can get them to play "I'd Hate to Wake Up Sober in Nebraska" as you're coming through Iowa on I-80. They used to run that once in awhile in the afternoons on the folk program and I always cracked up listening to it.



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HuskerMedic

08-15-2007 15:46:25




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 Re: Things To Do Between Here and Denver in reply to in-too-deep, 08-15-2007 12:35:44  
Spend a day to remember at the Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer. Just a mile or two off of the interstate at Grand Island, Nebraska.



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Merle Hoppenworth

08-15-2007 15:36:53




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 Re: Things To Do Between Here and Denver in reply to in-too-deep, 08-15-2007 12:35:44  
If you stop in Newton call Bill Zegars (515-792-2230 ) to se a nice JD collection ( used to be the JD dealer there. Shop phone 8:30 to about 4:00.



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DaveH IA

08-15-2007 17:53:26




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 Re: Things To Do Between Here and Denver in reply to Merle Hoppenworth, 08-15-2007 15:36:53  
The area code is 641 for Newton---I worked for Bill and his partner from 72 till 80----the Jasper Co Museum is next to I 80 at Newton -- has lots of Maytag stuff and some old tractors and a steam engine I helped get to town few years back



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iowa_tire_guy

08-15-2007 15:32:56




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 Re: Things To Do Between Here and Denver in reply to in-too-deep, 08-15-2007 12:35:44  
Pioneer Village in Minden NE. is about 10 miles south of 80. Biggest car collection I have ever seen and lots of tractors and farm machinery. You really need more than a day to do it all.



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JDB

08-15-2007 14:57:01




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 Re: Things To Do Between Here and Denver in reply to in-too-deep, 08-15-2007 12:35:44  
If you like airplanes, try the SAC museum near Ashland, Ne



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Dachshund

08-15-2007 13:51:18




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 Re: Things To Do Between Here and Denver in reply to in-too-deep, 08-15-2007 12:35:44  
You could always stop at the Nebraska Tractor Test Lab & Museum in Lincoln..... .



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in-too-deep

08-15-2007 15:34:01




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 Re: Things To Do Between Here and Denver in reply to Dachshund, 08-15-2007 13:51:18  
Heck I forgot all about that!! Thank you!



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ChevCase

08-15-2007 13:36:20




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 Re: Things To Do Between Here and Denver in reply to in-too-deep, 08-15-2007 12:35:44  
One of the neatest things on I-80 is the Bill "Speedy" Smith Speedway Motorsports (long time race/hot rod parts retailer) in Lincoln Ne. Large collection of old race cars, rare old race engines and speed equipment and at one time, toys and pedal cars. They do give tours and info probably found on Google.



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Crem

08-15-2007 15:50:25




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 Re: Things To Do Between Here and Denver in reply to ChevCase, 08-15-2007 13:36:20  
I will second a stop at the Smiths collection. There is a lot of speed equipment for the old engines. You could look and drool all day at that place.



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iowadave1957

08-15-2007 13:21:32




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 Re: Things To Do Between Here and Denver in reply to in-too-deep, 08-15-2007 12:35:44  
In Paxton, NE you must stop at Ole" steakhouse and see his stuffed wildlife while you eat. Great stop right off I-80.



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730virgil

08-15-2007 12:56:31




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 Re: Things To Do Between Here and Denver in reply to in-too-deep, 08-15-2007 12:35:44  
hey in how are ya? at newton ia. you might see if the matag museum also once up on at time was a guy with a john deere collection. ask sloroll if any of this stuff is still there.



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in-too-deep

08-15-2007 13:51:47




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 Re: Things To Do Between Here and Denver in reply to 730virgil, 08-15-2007 12:56:31  
I'm doing good Virgil. You dried out up there yet? Did you mean a Maytag museum? Like the clothes washer? That sounds neat 'cause I love the old engines they put on those. Thanks for the tip.



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730virgil

08-15-2007 14:04:48




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 Re: Things To Do Between Here and Denver in reply to in-too-deep, 08-15-2007 13:51:47  
yep that's the one. i don't know if maytag is still making dryers there or not. maytag had some kind of a race car once i think it had a maytag engine in it. i think tese cars were used to advertise maytag engines. does anyone on here have a picture of one they could post.



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old

08-15-2007 12:48:56




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 Re: Things To Do Between Here and Denver in reply to in-too-deep, 08-15-2007 12:35:44  
Watch the weather when you start to get close to Lyman CO. every time I ever went out and through that area the weather was always bad there. Fog, wind, snow, rain etc. Never did figure out why but I never drove in that area with out the weather being bad. Back in 1995 I made at least one trip that way a week.

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in-too-deep

08-15-2007 12:55:35




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 Re: Things To Do Between Here and Denver in reply to old, 08-15-2007 12:48:56  
Thanks old I'll keep that in mind. I hate driving interstate in the rain. The mist/spray from car wheels and the windshield wipers never do a good job at high speeds cause it's so windy. I'll keep an eye on Lyman. What made you drive out there once a week? If you don't mind me askin'



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gene bender

08-15-2007 19:52:10




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 Re: Things To Do Between Here and Denver in reply to in-too-deep, 08-15-2007 12:55:35  
You wont be going near LIMON as you will go south at the junction of I-80 and i-76 Limon would be way out of the way.



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old

08-15-2007 13:46:13




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 Re: Things To Do Between Here and Denver in reply to in-too-deep, 08-15-2007 12:55:35  
That was back when I pulled mobile homes all over the country as a living. I pull out of a plant that makes them in Boonville MO and pulled them all over the place. Seemed like a good number of them would go out west so I was making that trip once some times twice a week



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