Visitors look over vintage military equipment during the Great Oregon Steam-up on Saturday, Aug. 2, at the Powerland Heritage Park near Keizer. (STEVE SCHNURBUSCH/For Keizertimes)
One feature of the annual Great Oregon Steam-Up is a weekend for Military Appreciation Days.
Veterans got in free on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 2 and 3. The special weekend has been going on for about 15 years.
The attention-getter recently was the display of vintage military vehicles.
The Jeeps, personnel carriers, tanks and more are held in private collections by members of the Military Vehicle Collectors Club of Oregon.
They bring them to the Steam-Up, where people can look around and into the vehicles and learn their history.
The event at Powerland Heritage Park included a parade of the vehicles.
The Northwest Civil War Council’s Confederate battalion of the 4th Texas Regiment leads the parade of vintage military vehicles during the Great Oregon Steam-up on Saturday, Aug. 2, at the Powerland Heritage Park near Keizer. (STEVE SCHNURBUSCH/For Keizertimes)Vintage military vehicles go on parade during the Great Oregon Steam-up on Saturday, Aug. 2, at the Powerland Heritage Park near Keizer. (STEVE SCHNURBUSCH/For Keizertimes)Visitors look over vintage military equipment during the Great Oregon Steam-up on Saturday, Aug. 2, at the Powerland Heritage Park near Keizer. (STEVE SCHNURBUSCH/For Keizertimes)Visitors look over vintage military equipment during the Great Oregon Steam-up on Saturday, Aug. 2, at the Powerland Heritage Park near Keizer. (STEVE SCHNURBUSCH/For Keizertimes)Visitors look over vintage military equipment during the Great Oregon Steam-up on Saturday, Aug. 2, at the Powerland Heritage Park near Keizer. (STEVE SCHNURBUSCH/For Keizertimes)Louie White drives a vintage Jeep accompanied by Mike Pomeroy in a parade during the Great Oregon Steam-up on Saturday, Aug. 2, at the Powerland Heritage Park near Keizer. (STEVE SCHNURBUSCH/For Keizertimes)Justin Crosby rides his Cushman Package Kar in a parade during the Great Oregon Steam-up on Saturday, Aug. 2, at the Powerland Heritage Park near Keizer. Only 600 were built for World War II. (STEVE SCHNURBUSCH/For Keizertimes)Vintage military vehicles go on parade during the Great Oregon Steam-up on Saturday, Aug. 2, at the Powerland Heritage Park near Keizer. (STEVE SCHNURBUSCH/For Keizertimes)Jason Sample takes his vintage vehicle out on parade during the Great Oregon Steam-up on Saturday, Aug. 2, at the Powerland Heritage Park near Keizer. (STEVE SCHNURBUSCH/For Keizertimes)Visitors look over vintage military equipment during the Great Oregon Steam-up on Saturday, Aug. 2, at the Powerland Heritage Park near Keizer. (STEVE SCHNURBUSCH/For Keizertimes)
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