Steam-Up

Tom S.

Tom S.

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On Saturday of last weekend, I went up to Rainer, Wash., for the motorcycle races there, got home again in the middle of the night, then hopped up early Sunday morning to go down to Antique Powerland in Brooks, Ore., for their Steam-Up event. What a time that was. We saw all sorts of great power equipment, from giant old steam tractors to vintage lawnmowers and everything in between. They had a steam-driven ice cream machine! There was a miniature railway that we rode on and a miniature logging operation. It was too much to see in a single day. We'll plan better for the next visit. I could live at this place.

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chatten63

chatten63

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Nice pics. I like the Nichols and Sheppard twin cylinder. Steam engines have always amazed me of the power. There are a bunch of shows coming up here in Wisconsin
 
YOOP

YOOP

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it's cool watching all those engines running with most of the moving parts visible
been to a few shows down in florida
nice pics tom,digging the belly tanker
 
jdogg

jdogg

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Tom S. said:
On Saturday of last weekend, I went up to Rainer, Wash., for the motorcycle races there, got home again in the middle of the night, then hopped up early Sunday morning to go down to Antique Powerland in Brooks, Ore., for their Steam-Up event. What a time that was. We saw all sorts of great power equipment, from giant old steam tractors to vintage lawnmowers and everything in between. They had a steam-driven ice cream machine! There was a miniature railway that we rode on and a miniature logging operation. It was too much to see in a single day. We'll plan better for the next visit. I could live at this place.

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Very cool Tom!! Any more picts of this bad boy?!!
 
Tom S.

Tom S.

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jdogg said:
Very cool Tom!! Any more picts of this bad boy?!!
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Thanks. I wish I had more photos of this one. The guy who owns it (far right, arm on roll bar), said it has a scratch-built frame, no real suspension, and the body is made from an actual aircraft belly tank. It has the type of open water jacket engine that you might see on an old power washing machine.
 
jdogg

jdogg

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Tom S. said:
Thanks. I wish I had more photos of this one. The guy who owns it (far right, arm on roll bar), said it has a scratch-built frame, no real suspension, and the body is made from an actual aircraft belly tank. It has the type of open water jacket engine that you might see on an old power washing machine.
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Too bad! Thanks though Tom!!
 
Tom S.

Tom S.

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My buddy and I walked past a row of old lawnmowers and this Lawn-Boy Quietflite looked really familiar. When I got home I flipped through the stack of old magazines in my bathroom and found an ad for it in the May, 1959 issue of Popular Mechanics. I really dig old lawnmowers.





 
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bilbo

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Awesome photos. I love thresher shows like this! For anyone in or near NW Minnesota, there is one of these shows there in a small town called Rollag. It is near Hawley and runs every Labor Day weekend. They have all sorts of traction and stationary steam engines on display with most of them running. Tons of hit and miss engines, old tractors and farm equipment, and old time crafts like soapmaking. They have a few fields nearby that are plowed, harvested, and threshed with steam tractors. Very easy to spend a couple days there wandering around and looking at things. Check it out here.
 
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