Pendleton was a haven Saturday for motor enthusiasts.

Two separate machine shows filled Main Street with hot rods and Roy Raley Park with refurbished vehicles and engines.

Hans Stangier hauled his model locomotive and tender from Albany for the Umatilla County Historical Society Old Iron Show. Since 1994 Stangier has been working on the train modeled after one that rode between San Bernardino to Los Angeles in the 1920s and 1930s.

Its not uncommon for guys to start an engine and work on it their whole entire life and never finish it, said Stangier, 61, who plans to finish the project by the end of summer.

Stangier is a maintenance worker at the Linn County Jail, but he dons blue and white striped engineers hat and proudly carries a business card that reads ferroequinologist an old term for someone who studies trains.

The locomotive is about six feet long and three feet wide, and the tender slightly smaller. Stangier estimates he has invested $18,000 in the project and made nearly 5,000 metal parts for it crafting most from wooden molds he had cast in iron or steel.

When its finished, the tender will feed fuel and water through a tube to power the locomotive by steam just like the one after which he designed it. It will carry cars large enough to hold adults on 7 1/2 inch-wide hobbyist tracks, like the Willow Creek Railroad in Brooks. Stangier does not think the train cars will take as long to build because they do not require the complex machinery of a locomotive.

Refurbishing his 1948 Chevrolet pickup was no short task for Andy Morreira, either. The deep purple hot rod glinted in the sun among more than 100 others on Main Street Saturday at the June Cruisin and the British Invasion car show.

But when Morreira found the truck in 1996, it was buried in mud. He bought it for $1,500 from a family in Waitsburg, Wash., but first had to rescue it from a barn that was flooded more than a decade earlier. He and a group of friends dug it out with two tractors and a backhoe but the old truck still needed plenty of love.

It hadnt been driven since 1963. Today Morreira jokes that he put five cars into this one because he refurbished it with parts from several old cars, including Camaro and El Caminos.

June Cruisin is held the first Saturday in June to raise funds for Washington Elementary School. With 119 entrants, the Old Iron Show attracted twice as many entrants as it did last year, said coordinator Jack Remillard.

Contact Chris Rizer at crizer@eastoregonian.com or 541-966-0836.