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Timber Heritage Association volunteer crew did extensive restoration
(over 350 hrs) on the unique AMRR #60 Home Built Motorcar
(Speeder). While at first believed to have been built in the
1960s or 1970s, new information, documented by past interviews with
former AMRR employees by historian Ray Hillman, indicates the AMRR
built the speeder in the late 1930s. The Korbel shops of the
AMRR powered the custom built speeder with a gasoline 6 cylinder
Hudson engine. In the 1950s or 1960s they replaced the Hudson
power with a 6 cylinder Ford Industrial Engine. With working
headlights and new stop lights in the front and rear, a horn,
volunteers did a test run on the Samoa to Manila portion
of the NWP tracks. In 2007, 2008, and 2009 volunteers
spent over 500 hours clearing almost three miles the ten plus
years of overgrown vegetation from the railroad right-of-way.
Currently during July, August, and September, the Timber Heritage
Association is offering the public rides on the historic AMRR
speeder |