Bonazaville, Part 2

 On our recent visit to Bonazaville in West Fargo ND Hubby and I entered only 3 of the HUGE buildings housing vehicles and machinery. This post is about some of the more interesting wheeled ones.

twelve acres of 36 buildings

one of two depots

passenger train car

and a caboose

I always wondered what was inside the caboose

both cars were open for walk through

a horse-drawn school bus

in the Horse-Drawn Museum

Remember: Click on any photo to enlarge

kid hack

benches along the perimeter

kids entered and exited from the back so as not to spook the horses

I thought the two school buses were so interesting

a very fancy mail wagon!

a very simple mail wagon

an ice wagon

although not 'invented in ND'

tractors built by father and sons in the late 1950s on their farm

the Steigers built about 120 tractors before moving the 

manufacturing to a plant in Fargo

a race car driver ordered the pink Steiger tractor!

my dad had a combine much like this

no fancy cab, small header

and another ND family of inventors

invented as a 3 wheeled self-propelled loader to clean turkey barns

now, 4 wheeled loaders

Although certainly outdated, the information on the poster comparing farming in 1889 and 1989 caught my eye.

100 minutes of labor in 1889 to produce a bushel of corn

1.5 minutes of labor in 1989 for the same amount of corn

4.5 million farms in 1889

2.1 million in 1989 

42 minutes to produce a bushel of wheat in 1889

In 1989 it took 0.5 minutes to produce a bushel of wheat

There is also an air museum, a car museum, the Melroe tractor building, pioneer fire equipment building, early agriculture museum, and the steam museum. LOTS to see even if you are not a geocacher! Well worth a visit if you are in the Fargo-Moorhead area.