Steam

[TC Chris]

It's time for the local Old Engine Show, a small event for steam traction engines and small gas engines that blossomed. Now they have their own small railroad with a steam locomotive.

https://www.interlochenpublicradio.org/ ... ngine-show

In Michigan we also have Crossroads Village, a county park near Flint with its own steam railroad (I went two'38 Buick gatherings there).

https://geneseecountyparks.org/crossroa ... ilroad-1a/

Chris Campbell

[electra225]

There is an old thresher's club in Boonville Missouri my brother and I used to attend their shows. The star of the show was a Case 50 horsepower steam engine. They would use it to power a Case thresher, then use the straw from the threshing machine in the Case steam engine. Threshing was incredibly dangerous work by modern standards. Tending a steam engine was a hot job in the summer time, typically when you threshed wheat. Fire was a constant threat. The steam engine would throw sparks. There was a guy whose job it was to make sure the straw pile didn't catch fire until it could be used in the steam engine. When my grandpa was a "good big kid in long pants" his job was to tend a steam engine. He had a friend killed in a thresher fire. The straw pile got on fire, the threshing machine was made of wood.

[hermitcrab]

For a second there I thought you were talking about the gaming platform... we have a yearly tractor and steam engine show in Midland , and the guys demonstrating them are crazy.. to get within inches of those spinning flywheels is insane...a dozen years ago a old timer was demonstrating the big steam engine at the Henry Ford museum In front of a class room full of kids on a field trip... the guy made the wrong move and was killed instantly in front of all those kids...I can't imagine the Trauma they witnessed ...

[William]

That would not be good, and the parents and potential lawsuits because of it and the loss to his family. It is sad when something like that happens, I guess Osha is a good thing.

Bill