We stopped at a rest area on the way down to stretch our legs. I was snapping some photos and a passerby offered to take one of the both of us. Nice gesture I thought since I am not in many of the kids photos. There is a nice Oregon State History "Beaver Board" at this location detailing the history of the Cow Creek Indians.
We were soon on the road and hooked up with Sam at the fairgrounds. Near where we parked is the county museum and part of their collection is the old train depot from the nearby town of Dillard. The Dillard depot is a beautiful old structure and we spent some time photographing it's new home.After the show we all loaded up and headed over to the Rodeo Steakhouse. The Bean Himself really loved this place because of the large containers of peanuts that were at each table.
It wasn't so much the peanuts but the fact that the restaurant
allowed and even encouraged you to throw the shells on the floor. We had some problems while paying. They made a mistake running a card and they gave me a card for a free entree at one of their locations. Nice that.While we were eating I had mentioned that I thought there was an old locomotive somewhere around and that I would like to visit it with The Bean. Sam knew right where it was even though he hadn't been there for decades. Sam grew up in the area and played on the locomotive when it was first donated and installed in the park 50 years ago.
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We drove on over and The Bean Himself played for awhile. He really enjoyed
getting up close and personal with the engine (Southern Pacific 1229). Afterwords I grabbed a few photos of a rare benchmark. An intersection station using an airway beacon. Most airway beacons are long gone but this one is still standing tall. Next we checked out the old Southern Pacific Depot that is now a McMennamins Restaurant and found a benchmark on it's wall then we bummed around downtown a bit.On the way out of town I saw a vintage neon sign in action and did a u-turn to capture photos of it before heading home.
