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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2017
Train: Daly has big plans for Burning Man and other events
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Known formally as The
Society of Forty Men and Eight
Horses, the group was named
after the boxcars in France that
each carried 40 men or eight
horses to the front .
Ken Rislow, chaplain for
the American Legion’s Clatsop
Post 12 in Astoria and adjutant
for the Forty & Eight since
2006, said the local chapter of
the honor society was formed
around 1920 along with the
American Legion.
The train was originally
built in 1945, used for parades
and other celebrations and
rebuilt several times through-
out its life, Rislow said. On the
side of the train was written
“Clatsop Voiture 547,” denot-
ing the 547th Forty & Eight
chapter established nationally.
“There was a team of peo-
ple that worked on it,” Ris-
low said of the train. “That
was true until 2010. What hap-
pened was all the people that
took care of it passed away.”
Charles Godwin, the sec-
ond vice commander of Amer-
ican Post Legion 99 in Sea-
side, said the train came to
South County about a decade
ago by way of former com-
mander Al Smith.
“I was just a neighbor and
had a shop, and I offered to
help him out with it,” Godwin
said.
He helped fi x and restore
the one last time and said it
ran for several years before
coming to rest at a lot in Sea-
side. The train was eventu-
ally towed north by Clatsop
County Sheriff Tom Bergin,
whose wife owns the Yankee
Trader.
“I just didn’t want to see it
get scrapped,” Bergin said.
After fi nding the train, Daly
said, he came down with his
clown car and towed it north,
fi rst to Hammond and later to
Astoria.
A mannequin stands in as a mock passenger as Jeff Daly
works on his latest project in his studio in Astoria on Tuesday.
Photos by Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Jeff Daly stands in front of his latest project in his studio on Tuesday. Daly is remodeling
an antique train he bought several years ago to travel on an old RV chassis to be used in
local parades and other functions. Find more photos online at DailyAstorian.com
New and improved
Parked in the basement of
Daly’s subterranean work-
shop in downtown Astoria
is a 24-foot motorhome he
acquired in Knappa and had
stripped down to the frame.
Around it is a insulation board
mockup of a seating area and
conductor’s cabin he plans to
install facing backwards from
the motorhome’s cabin.
Daly plans to build a steel
frame, surrounded by a ply-
wood wall sheathed in decora-
tive steel, fake rivets and wood
paneling. A friend in Knappa
is recreating the American
Legion’s original lettering on
panels he can switch out based
on the use. A metalworker
is designing articulated train
wheels with a pulley system to
mimic a steaming train, backlit
by strobes.
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going to be scrapped. I just
hate it, because it’s something
I remember as a child, and I
think many more people are
going to enjoy it.”
While building the train,
Daly has been receiving che-
motherapy for prostate cancer.
Having projects such as the
train provide goals to keep him
from getting complacent.
“It turns out I’m beating
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frame is the original steel train
engine. Daly plans to install
a barbecue — an idea from
Bergin — and machines for
smoke, bubbles and fl ames,
along with a metal cow catcher.
Daly plans to check an item
off his bucket list and drive
the train to Black Rock City,
Nevada, for Burning Man in
August. Once back in Asto-
ria, he plans to again use the
vehicle in parades and char-
ter it for birthdays and other
celebrations. The attraction
will be similar to the Glam
Tram, a custom minibus for
the Los Angeles Zoo Daly said
he saved before destruction
and renovated to an open-air
downtown taxi, with blasting
music and a fake fi replace in
the middle.
“I just love the history of
the area, and that’s why I keep
bringing it back, because peo-
ple are scrapping this stuff,”
he said. “They were going to
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