• Preparing Little Toot for a new stack
• Fitting the new Little Toot stack
• Little Toot is ready to go
• Little Toot makes a practice run with its new stack
• A Rumely Oil Pull out for an early spin
• The Minneapolis Moline gets its tubes cleaned
• Last minute adjustments to this Frick while it builds fire
• The Baker warms up...
• and later loads up some coal
• An old road grader on a trailer, looking for a tractor
• Butch Biesecker lines up his Keck-Gonnerman for saw mill duty
• The Keck-Gonnerman's gear train is a thing of beauty
• Jim Martin on a rubber tired Rumely hauls a portable steam engine onto the show grounds
• Tiny Tim, the vertical two cylinder steam roller
• Another view of Tiny Tim
• The steam valve on a beautiful Frick
• The shingle maker is opening up for business
• The rubber tired Rumely lines up for making shingles
• Jim Martin cutting shingles
• The view from the Rumely powering the shingle maker
• The spec plate on the Rumely
• Arvid Hamilton loads up the coal bin on his two-cylinder Frick
• A Foote Mfg. Co. steam powered cement mixer
• The Foote from the other side...
• And the Foote nameplate
• The Shay making an early run
• The Shay does a blow-down during one of its early runs
• The Shay makes a dramatic exit from the Brubaker Building overhang
• Aaron Stauffer built this 1/4 scale Case steam
  traction engine from a rough kit, in the 40's.
• Aaron stokes the little Case's fire
• To establish a draft while building pressure,
  Aaron uses this battery powered fan
• It's hard to believe this beautiful machine started as rough
  castings and required many parts be made by hand
• Four Allis Chalmers and a couple of Farmalls await visitors
• A big AC ready for work or show
• The big AC's controls

• Ross Miller's 1935 Bucyrus-Erie Steam Crane at its
  new location at the southwest corner of the grounds
• The rear mounted vertical boiler of the steam crane
• Some of the crane's pumps and valves
• Ross looks over the shovel bucket
• The crane's large winch pulley gear
• A view from the operator's seat
• It must take a while before using these levers
  (and the crane's foot pedals) becomes automatic
• Another view of the winch and cable brake
• Ross lubricates some gears before the day's demos begin
• While Ross has prepared his crane,
  Roy Herr has fueled his Herr-Bilt steam tractor at the nearby coal bin

• Ivan Zimmerman makes the first cut of a log in the Saw Mill
• A second cut quickly follows....
• And a third
• Three sides done......
• And one to go
• Ready to cut some fine lumber

• A giant Rumely waits for the parade
• The driver's end of the big Rumely
• Anyone need a clevis?
• We've all seen many John Deeres, but a "Deere John"?
• John McCarter's creation from the rear
• Driver's view of Deere John
• The answers to your questions about the Deere John
• In addition to the Deere John, John McCarter exhibited
  his replica 1890 Horseless Carriage
• Fresh Cider anyone?
• The vertical "Famous" made by International Harvester
• The Famous' nameplate
• A portable hit-and-miss pumps some water to have something to do

• Rough and Tumble's famous Otto & Langen Free Piston Atmospheric Engine
• The Otto Langen's timing gears
• The Otto Langen's "piston rod" (vertical gear w/two teeth visible)
  and drive shaft and pully
• The Otto Langen's constant flame and valve door, open for ignition
• Part of the literature explaining the operation of the Otto Langen
• A cut-away view of the Otto Langen
• Bill Hazzard's 15 hp Witte once used to pump water on an estate in Massachusetts
• Kevin Hujber's 6 hp Otto electric lighting engine
• Roger Kriebel showed us around the small engine section
  of the Stationary Steam Engine Building
• 4" and 10" inch Improved Rider Compression Hot Air
  Pumping Engines manufactured by Delamater Iron Works
  were once used to pump domestic water supplies
• The burner for the 10" Hot Air Pumping Engine
• A circa 1908 8" Hot Air Pumping Engine
  manufactured by The American Machine Company
• Roger Kriebel's 10 hp Springfield manufactured by the
  Springfield Gas Engine Company, Springfield, Ohio
• Roger's Springfield once powered a saw mill in Berks County, PA.
• Another view of the Springfield
• Peter Knight's 1/2 Nominal HP Crossley manufactured in
  Manchester, England by Crossley Brothers
• Roger Kriebel's 17 hp Otto, manufactured by
  Schleicher, Schumm & Co, Philadelphia
  and once used to power a grist mill in York County, PA.
• Nate Lillibridge's 1893 11 hp White & Middleton
  manufactured in Baltimore, MD and once used
  in a sheet metal factory
• The immaculate circa 1888 4 hp Otto which is accompanied
  by a photo story showing this engine in productive use
• The 4 hp Otto looks "better than new"
• The 4 hp Otto's history is fascinating
• The beautifully restored radiator-cooled 5 hp Abenaque
  gas engine powered B. L. Bragg pumper.
• The long slender radiators provide plenty of cooling surface
• The Abenaque engine plate
• Clyde Burkholder's 8 hp Robertsonvillee, manufactured in Quebec, Canada
• Another beautiful engine of unknown manufacturer
• The pre-1893 Crown Non-Compression Engine once used
  to pump water to the upper floors of buildings
• Another view of the Crown

• Aaron Stauffer aligns his 1/4 scale Case Steam Traction Engine to grind corn
• Aaron and his scale model Case are ready to go
• Phares Stauffer' IH Titan 10-20 waits to harvest corn
• Phares Stauffer starts his 1918 Titan 10-20
• The crank end of Phares' Titan
• Phares' Titan and the harvester are ready to go
• The demonstrations started with hand husking,
  with many visitors lending a hand
• Norman Gay drives his hoodless 1918 IH 8-16 to the shredder
• Norman aligns his IH 8-16 with the shredder
• The IH 8-16 at work. Looks like a beautiful restoration is in progress
• The Titan 10-20 finally gets some work to do
• Visitors crowd around the demonstration
• Feeding the harvester
• One of the hand cranked corn shellers in action
• Several hand cranked shellers were demonstrated
• Shelling corn with power supplied by Aaron Stauffer's 1/4 scale Case
• Aaron's view of the shelling
• R&T's 1923 Ford Model "T" with belt drive apparatus, ready to grind some corn
• The "T" and Letz Mfg. Co grinder are ready to go
• The 1923 Ford Model "T" powered Letz grinder in action

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