HOW IT WAS DONE -- AGAIN
Karl Friedrich of 2039 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, 19, Pa., send us this I" scale Dinky he completed in the Spring of '51. It weighs 100 lbs., and will easily haul four adults and perhaps more, four people happens to be the limit of seating capacity. Here are some of the dimensions: Truck gauge 3 1/2" cyl. Bore 1 3/8"; stroke 1 3/4". wheel diameter 3 3/4"; boiler diameter 5"; 29 tubes 3/8"x11"; grates 4 1/2"x6 1/2"; overall length 27"; overall height 12 1/4" and the operating pressure is 90 pounds.
Dear Editor: On page two of the May-June ALBUM Lyman Knapp tells about pulling the Illinois engine out of the mud at Wichita, Kansas. Knapp's 25-75 Russell was coupled close to the Illinois, drawbar, to drawbar, so the Russell would pull up on the Illinois. Then a chain run under the Russell and coupled to Herbert and Harold Ottaway's 50 Case No. 33635, handled by Chaddy Atteberry of Blackwell, Okla. The Illinois, handled by Allen Trego of Newton, Kansas, doing what it. could. The Russell was handled by Lyman Knapp.
The Case with a few loud blasts and blowing cinders over the hedge and tearing up the ground with its drivers, a few blasts from the Russell and the Illinois was pulled out backward.
Here is a nice model case outfit built to one-sixth scale of a 15 hp engine and a 32x54 separator. We would like a model taken this way. When a man or child is standing beside the Model you get an idea of the size. Notice the scrap in the background. 120 tons were sold during the last war.
Unfortunately the complete address was not on the picture. As best we can make out it is from August Smolegus. Will the owner please send his complete name and address that we may give credit next issue.
FROM OREGON
I have been interested in the steam traction engine all my life. I would have been a tall man if I had not worn off so much of my logs when was a boy following an old steam outfit going alone the road.
I kept at the old steam engine until 1906 when I went to the first steam traction cuisine school that I had ever heard of. It was at St. Paul, Minn., and was sponsored by B. B. Clark, Editor and Publisher of the American Thresherman. I met and sot acquainted with him personally.
I still have my diploma and my steam engine License for Minnesota and I am quite proud of them. That was in June 1906. The school could never have been a reality had it not been for the American Thresherman and its Editor. There wore 189 students. The Thresher Companies furnished u« with engines to work on. There were Case (my favorite); Nichols and Shepard; Baker (another favorite); Advance; Minneapolis and if I remember right a. Gaar-Scott. We visited all the Branch Houses in Minneapolis and the Northwest Line at Still-water. We had one gas tractor, Hart-Parr. "Those were the good old days." I was 23 years old. Now about all I can do is think about it. I will be (69) this August. If I figure right it is 46 years since the school experience.
I took the American Thresherman for years and just now run across the IRON MEN ALBUM. A neighbor loaned me a couple of them to read and that is how you get another subscriber.
W. E. Walston, Willamette, Oregon.
16 hp. Huber No. 11536 pulling a 28x48 Huber Supreme thresher at the Miami Valley Reunion in 1951. Gilbert Enders on the platform. This is the property of A. L. Heiland, of Anna, Ohio.
The kickers in a community are also the sitters, they have their feet spread out for others to walk over, so that they are always in the way.
Here is a picture of a 10x13 Case that the junkies won't get This is about the last one in this part of Oregon- As near as we can ascertain, this engine has stood in this spot for over 10 years but is in fair condition for all of that. Was so far from the beaten track that junkies and vandals did not find it. It was about 10 miles back in the Cascade foothills.
I find that my son 19 and my daughter 13 take as much interest in this engine as I do. They have never seen one operate. I have a country machine shop and we expect to put this engine in as near new condition as possible. Will send you a colored picture when she is in shape and painted.
M. J. OSWALT Willamette, Oregon
(Ed. Note: We want the colored picture but send a black and white so we can use it in the ALBUM. We cannot print a good picture from a colored print.
ASSOCIATION SUGGESTION
I have been thinking that it would be a great thing if the threshing Machinery Collectors of the U. S. and Canada would arrange an association and meet some place, say once a year. We could talk catalog and exchange views, etc. I believe good friends Fred Kiser, L. K. Wood, Lucius Sweet, Hans J. Andersen. Yoder of Kansas and E. R. Potter of Canada, and many others I cannot recall just now would agree with me on the plan. So please put this in your great magazine as it will reach 95 per cent of the collectors, and see what reaction we get on this plan.
I live in southern Illinois, where the Belleville line of machinery was used for about 80 years. I am not far from Mt. Vernon, Indiana, where the Keck Gonnerman have their home. I have visited both factories many times and have seen the machines built.
Gus Marie, R. D. 4, Murphysboro, Illinois