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What We Did Last Summer Part II

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PureCountry

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Continued.....

Getting the truck hooked up
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Chained up and pulling hard
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Lending a helping hand coming up the hill
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Two hands are better than one
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We think we can, we think we can...
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We think we can get high-centered and bury the axles
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That's all for today. Photo Gallery will only let me download so many at once.
 
Cool!!! It's amazing how they can move things like that in one piece.

When I first bought this farm I had my house moved here . It was a wild ride for sure.
 
Wow, what a great thing you are doing . Bravo to your wife as well.

What are you going to do with it, are you donating it to your town to use as a museum? Whatever you do I am glad you saved it. My Grandpa was an engineer with CP until he retired at 58 yrs old, sadly he died a few months later. We got to travel with him a lot as kids and I have a soft spot for the old stations and trains.

I bet it would make a great guest house ...
 
There ended up being 6 of us investing in the deal. THe wife and I, my folks and my cousin and her husband. We've moved it to a great spot right on the highway as you enter Hardisty, which you'll see when I can post more pics. It's going to have many personalities; a meat shop/local food store, health and wellness center, conference center, and of course all decorated like an old-fashioned general store with dozens of pics and antiques of the community and area. We've already had some wonderful folks donate items that are original to the station. They've had them in a box for decades with nowhere to put them, as there is no museum anywhere in our area.

It was amazing watching them move it in one piece. 2 other movers that gave us quotes wanted to cut it in 2, that was the deciding factor to use Jim McConnell and his crew. 28' x 115', 120 tons, and moved without a hitch.
 
:) I was hoping you'd eventually get around to tellin this story. I love seeing it in place when I hit town,always asking how its coming..GOOD for you guys!! Can't wait to see the inside of it!!!!
 
What an ambitious project :D . Thanks for sharing the pictures, it will be fun to see how it all turns out once you've renovated it. It definitely has a lot of character.
 
Good for you Pure Country. I was wondering why you didn't follow the road and then it hit me that you prefer the "Road Less Travelled". Our train station was turned into a very nice downtown museum complete with some rail and cars and a promenade with gazebo and a statue of a famous cowboy. (I'll have to go back and look because I don't remember who). I hope the venture turns out profitable, let us know when it is up and running. A trip to Hardisty might have to be in the works.
 
That's really awsome Pure,glad to see another historical building saved,and without a hitch.First i thought it might end up like BMR's thread,with all the semi truck stuck axle deep,those guys did a terrific job moving it.Keep us posted.
 
Cool rescure operation. Figuring cost per square foot....or square metric foot :lol: ..... do you know how it compared to building new, even though I realize that wouldn't have been your objective.
 
kolanuraven said:
Cool!!! It's amazing how they can move things like that in one piece.

When I first bought this farm I had my house moved here . It was a wild ride for sure.
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from the pictures I have seen of georgia, that must be the ONE wide road in the state, or you moved in a two room shack with an out door crapper!
 

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