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A 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

 
 
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