In June 2021 our depot board was offered a major matching donation from former Oregon resident Peter Medins, for the moving costs of the 1947 Twin Cities Zephyr car Silver View. The Silver View car’s previous restoration home was Charles City, Iowa and needed to come to its new home at the Oregon Depot Museum. The following list of donors made this match possible:
Judy Englestad Gambrel
Rich & Mary Ann Rhodes
Tim & Cathy Greenfield
Roberta & Roger Macauley
Roger & Julie Cain
James Hoff
Richard Bunton
Andy Colbert
Wayne Erickson
Dennis Riley
Ann & Chris Martin
David Head
Scott and Joyce Stephens
Blackhawk Art Restoration and Development Group
Chip Mann
Steve & Joanne Pennock
Jimmy & Kris Martinaitis
Brian Steffa
State Farm Insurance
The move is underway as Silver View has completed the first half of the journey and should be in Oregon this week sometime.
It should pass the depot on its way east of Oregon to either Flagg Center or Aurora to be turned around and come back to the depot. It will likely go east one day and then come back west the next. Keep your eye on our Facebook page. We hope to be able to accurately alert everyone of its timing, both eastbound and westbound, so you can grab your cameras.