The museum purchased the land we had leased from the railroad plus some additional land south of the carbarn that will be used to build the engine house to house the Frisco 4003 steam engine. The land adjacent to the museum that our parking lot and several pieces of rail equipment are stored has gone through two owners with tentative agreements to sell that never materialized. The new owner, Neil Lampe, of Fort Biscuit Company has promised to donate the parking lot and the area the cars are parked on in exchange for being released from a contract with the museum to purchase about 3 times as much land from the company. This will finally give ownership to the museum of all the land it occupies. The chief difficulty is that the city abandoned the 4th street access to the museum and we have no direct access to the street without crossing land that doesn't belong to the museum.
Negotiations continue for satisfactory ingress and egress to the museum.
Help has been requested of the city in solving this problem. The sign was over an entrance to the Twin City Bus lines office and shops at 1110 Carnall until the current owners, United Fabricators, Inc. removed it and donated it to the Trolley Museum. In the middle of the sign was originally a 24 inch diameter electric clock. This clock was for the drivers to synchronize their watches but has been missing for years. Now we are looking for the original 24 inch clock or one that can take its place.