Augie Otto's train celebrates 60 years at the fair
She isn’t an Otto by birth, but Bette Otto has been in the family long enough to appreciate her father-in-law’s train and what it means to her family and the Sandwich Fair.
“He always was a train person. He loved trains and he would have had a full-sized train if he could have,” Bette said about Augie.
His train that runs around the fairgrounds is one-quarter scale. He built it in his shop at Otto Machine Co., an excavating business in Sandwich. The train running now made its debut in 1974.
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