22-year-old rail worker Tristan Scott in South Dakota recently purchased a 1909 passenger train car from Prairie Village Museum and built an 1/8th mile of train tracks to install the rail car on

Scott, who has volunteered at Prairie Village for a few years and visited the site frequently as a child, said the site was looking to downsize the number of train pieces to a more manageable number. So Prairie Village was willing to

Originally, it started out as a commuter train in Chicago. Then it became a regular passenger service between Huron and Aberdeen, and then it went to Prairie Village in 1991

Scott spent all summer installing the roughly 550 feet worth of track onto his property that runs straight north and south, and perpendicular to Highway 42.

To keep the rail and train car historically accurate, Scott installed used ties and also installed speeders — which were used to inspect rail lines until about the 1980s — tie carts he acquired from Mitchell and Ethan, and a railroad crossing that he got from Mount Vernon to go along with the passenger car

Scott hired Robinson Housemoving to transport the car 70 miles

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