Road Trip - Day 3

Day 3 of the Michigan road trip began with a visit to The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Henry_Ford). The 12 acre museum is primarily a collection of antique machinery, pop culture items, automobiles, locomotives, aircraft, and other items.

Reed standing next to the 1952 Oscar Mayer Wienermobile.

Reed checking out some of the innovated toys and games that his dad and uncles had when they were his age.

Reed and his uncle at displays of large steam engines that powered the Industrial Revolution.

Reed gets a lesson on steam engine speed control.

Reed next to a 200 Kilowatt Edison Dynamo.

Reed generating electricity using his own power.

Reed and his uncle on the second level of one end of the massive 750 ton, 1916 steam-gas engine that powered Ford's Highland Park Plant. This is one of the nine machines that each had a gas engine and a steam engine mounted on either side of a 4,000-kW DC generator. This was an early form of a hybrid engine that could switch the source of power.

1926 Fokker Trimotor used by the Byrd Artic Expedition for the first flight over the North Pole.

1928 Ford Tri-Motor.

On to the car section. Reed checks out the drag racing exhibit.

A classic VW bus. We passed one of these, in the same color, on our drive to Michigan.

Reed said this early Ford T-Bird was nice, but not his dream car.

This was more of Reed's idea of a dream car. The Ford GT40 that won the 1967 24 Hours of Le Mans race.

An exploded view of a 1924 Ford Model T touring car.

A 1907 Ford tractor.

A cut-away view of an early Fordson tractor.

Reed out for a drive.

A 1923 Canadian Pacific snowplow train.

Reed and his uncle next to one of the largest steam locomotives ever built. The 1941 Allegheny Locomotive weighted in at 603 tons.

Reed in front of the Chesapeake and Ohio 1601 train.

The 1858 Rogers steam locomotive known as "Sam Hill".