Greenfield Village

We got up early today, ate a quick breakfast and took Indy to Club Pet. From there we drove to Greenfield Village which is part of the Henry Ford campus. Les was thinking about gointg to the Museum of American Innovation, also on the Ford campus, but Jill wanted to be outside. The village covers 80 acres and contains a huge collection of American buildings and equipment with important historical significants, We started with a ride on a steam powered train that travels around the outside edge of the village. We got off at the train area. Les pushed the locomotive turn table half way arround. It weighs 40 tons. Inside the engine house, the largest engine is Engine 45. This is a huge Atlantic style 4-4-2 engine designed to pull passengers. The drive wheels are just over 6' in diameter.
We also visitred glass plowing, print shop, weaving shop, the Write Brothers Bicycle shop where they built their airplane. We visited too many interesting places to recount and we didn't see everything there was to see. We ate lunch at the Eagle Tavern and finally took a ride in a 1914 Model T through the town. By 3pm, we were pretty much warn out, so we retrieved Indy and returned to camp.Læs mere