Gary Cortright with the Western Illinois Model Train Club located in Viola, Illinois.

Jared Bridges, owner of Bridges Antiques near Macon, will host an antique tractor drive on July 6. While he is an avid collector of John Deere lettered tractors and JD memorabilia, the tractor drive is open to all makes and models.

This weekend on Vintage Country Cory Jobe, President & CEO of Great Rivers & Routes Tourism Bureau talks with RFD Radio’s Rita Frazer about the largest drive through shield in America at Country Classic Cars in Staunton, IL along Route 66.

Quintin Wuethrich of Roanoake and his John Deere A that’s been in the family for almost 80 years.

Bill McCleary in Macon County, he has a variety of tractors from the 1950s, John Deere, Allis Chalmers, Minneapolis Moline. He had them on display at Farming in the 50s event in Argenta this month.

Lee Johnson, near Elkhart. He has an Oliver Tractor that was built to go to Vietnam, but it never went there. Turns out Lee was expecting to go to Vietnam too, but he was sent to Alaska instead.

Owner Brandy Renshaw with an adaptive reuse project for an 1800’s property in Anna that is now home to eight businesses.

Most everyone who lived in the country spent hours on a school bus during their younger years, and if they were lucky, they had a bus driver who knew their name and cared about their safety and wellbeing. Betty Duggan drove a bus in Jersey county for years and even though she ran a tight ship her riders were motivated to be well behaved, and were rewarded with the radio playing a piece of bubble gum at the end of a good week.