South Dakota
Next to the SD Dept of Agriculture Building Across from the Dakotaland Museum
895 3rd St SW
Huron, SD 57350
Louise Van Poll, Executive Director of Museums
The Dakotaland Museum - Museum open from Memorial Day to Labor Day
930 3rd St SW
Huron, SD 57350
Email
605-252-2528 (Please leave a message)
Approximately 2 dozen items, some pictured below, located at the SDHS museum.
Here's a link to a PDF file of an article that appeared in the Daily Plainsman Newspaper on Sept. 1, 2015, submitted by Daniel Liedtke, Operations Manager/Curator of Collections, at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
The photo below is a model of one of the 40 & 8's that was the property of Charlie Horine, a WW1 veteran; it is currently owned by his daughter, Mary Jane Thompson, of Huron, SD. She is also the owner of the toy dog and children's book in the picture below. The toy dog and the book were purchased at an auction of some of the S.D. Merci Train artifacts, circa 1949. The proceeds of the auction were used to help purchase a whirlpool bath for polio patients. Click on the image below to view full size.
Photo above taken by Patricia Connors. Currently stored in the archives at the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History in Kennesaw, GA. Thanks to Daniel Pete for scanning the photo and sending it to us.
Photos below taken by Daniel Liedtke, Operations Manager/Curator of Collections,
National Railroad Museum
2285 South Broadway
Green Bay, Wisconsin.
