| Pack up your family and do a little time-travel in | | | | Later, the White Motor Company of Cleveland |
| Yellowstone this summer! | | | | manufactured the majority of motorized vehicles |
| What, you say, time travel? | | | | operating in early Yellowstone with offerings like the |
| Yup. Last summer, Yellowstone refurbished and | | | | 1917 eleven-passenger TEB open touring bus, Y.P.T. |
| reintroduced eight White Motor Company model 706 | | | | Co. 1. with a 4-cylinder engine, Prest-o-Lite acetylene |
| touring vehicles to the park after an absence of more | | | | lighting system, and eight doors. |
| than 40 years. Visitors can now book a full or partial | | | | Yellowstone historic vehicle collection now includes |
| day guided tour and experience Yellowstone National | | | | thirty horse-drawn and motorized vehicles and is |
| park just like people did in the past. | | | | located at The Heritage and Research Center, 200 |
| And the park's past simmers with adventure. In 1880 | | | | Old Yellowstone Trail in historic Gardiner, Montana. |
| and lasting until 1916 you could take a five day tour of | | | | Tours in the model 706 bus are Tuesdays and |
| some of the most pristine back country in the world, | | | | Thursdays at 10am, May through September: Call |
| complete with a trained guide, overnight camping and | | | | (307) 344-2664 to confirm. |
| prepared meals for just $40.00. | | | | Yellowstone eventually became a park where most |
| During those years, 307,000 visitors to Yellowstone | | | | of us drive our own vehicles from Tower Falls to Old |
| National Park were escorted by one hundred sixty five | | | | Faithful to Grant Village checking out hydrothermal |
| Yellowstone Wagons pulled by teams of four or six | | | | features along the way and enjoying the park from |
| horses. For example, the 4-Horse Yellowstone | | | | the seclusion of our cars. This year, why not do things |
| Observation Wagon, Yellowstone Park Company "39" | | | | a little differently? Camp, for reasonable money, in one |
| featured a wooden body with a passenger | | | | of the most beautiful settings in the world ~ then hop |
| compartment for three forward facing passengers | | | | on an old touring bus ~ and spend an afternoon |
| and a driver's box in front with a seat for the driver on | | | | dabbling in the past. |
| the right side. | | | | |