• Butch Biesecker on his Keck-Gonnerman gets help from
  Norman Gay in the timed "belting up" games.
• Menno Hoover takes his turn at the timed belting up game
• Jeff Doucette clowns around during the Steam Games
• Norman Gay guides Mike Knaub in the
  threshing machine "back-up" game
• Pete is getting close to parking the thresher
• Norman Gay (nicely) telling Pete where to go
• Allen Samuelsen, left on his 1913 16hp Aultman Taylor,
  and Ellen Martin on the Peerless
  take off in a race to the finish line
• It takes a lot of arm strength to quickly back
  a steam engine through the slalom
• Maynard Shirk navigates his Frick through the course
• Young Ben Goss was very quick on his half-scale Case
• They really tightened up the course for this 1/4 scale Case
• Allen Samuelsen gets sideways navigating the slalom
• Maynard Shirk (left) and Ben Bireley get underway
• The special "Pick up the kindling and take it
  to the end of the track" race drew a wide
  variety of participants.
  Butch Biesecker "cheated" by using R&T's loader,
  Norman Gay's Jeep is hidden by Mike Knaub' Int'l truck,
  while Willard Adams goes in style on a golf cart.
• Butch is already on his way as the others load their wood
• Willard figures he can get to the finish line
  faster on two wheels
• Mike Knaub leans into the wind on his International truck
• John Geib arrived on the scene with the East Hampton
  Fire Department's 1919 American Lefrance truck
  with 1903 Nott steamer powered pump
• Two Fricks try to drive while keeping a weight
  on a string connecting their engines from
  touching the ground
• Ellen Martin tries to stop the Peerless on a line, blind folded.
• Dave Kroa heads back from the games with the lights on.
  (There will be a feature on Dave installing tires
  on this engine in the Fall Harvest Album)

• Little Toot looked great after its recent overhaul.
• The Shay leaves the station with another load of visitors
• The Shay emerges from the Brubaker Building overhang
• Dennis Hornberger, engineer, and David Supers,
  fireman, took me along for a fireman's view
  of a trip on the Shay
• Dennis blows the whistle to signal we are leaving the station
• We approach the shed where the Shay engine and tender park
• We pass AJ Hamilton topping up the coal box on his Frick
• And we pass Ross Miller working on his
  Buffalo Springfield roller
• We almost have a full load of passengers on this trip
• We pass by the equipment gate on the west end of the grounds
• Dave Supers feeds the fire before we begin
  the climb back to the station
• Dennis looks back as we enter the turn at the
  end of the track. At this point, it looks as though
  we are going to go straight while the track turns right.
• We swing around and start the climb along the
  north side of the track
• With the Brubaker overhang looming ahead, we pass
  by the small gas engine exhibit area
• We approach the crossing just before the Brubaker Building
• We pass through the Brubaker Building overhang
• Rounding the turn before the East Gate
• Note the two-way radio above Dennis' head, keeping
  him in constant contact with the station master.
• Nick Merriwether and Sarah and Ella Merriwether
  were surprised to see their granddaddy riding on the engine
• We pass behind the R&T kitchen
• With the station again in sight, Dennis slows down
  to pick up a new group of lucky visitors

• A visitor takes a close-up look at the stationary baler
  fed by one of the threshers
• A crowd gathers to get a good look at Friday's
  threshing demonstration
• Both the engine and baler ends of the process are fascinating
• A view from the Peerless that powered one of the threshers
• It takes a large crew to run a thresher
• Glenn Hess, who was in charge of the Cockshutt exhibit,
  did the honors with his 1954 Model 50 powering one of the threshers
• The view from Glen's Cockshutt 50
• The crowd watches the Cockshutt powered thresher and baler
• Bagging grain and baling straw from the
  Cockshutt powered Frick thresher

• R&T President Louie Frantz and his wife Joy,
  who heads the Admissions and Banquet Committee,
  lead the Parade of Power with their 1925 Huber "Super 4"
• Allen Samuelsen on his circa 1925 home-built tractor
  powered by a Galloway hit and miss engine.
• Allen was followed in the parade by his own
  Aultman Taylor steam engine, operator unknown.
• Dave Kroa's 1909 Frick 8x10 was driven by son James, age 11
• Butch Biesecker is in this photo somewhere,
  pulling the ropes to blow one or more whistles
  on his Keck-Gonnerman.
• Ben, Rebecca and Barbara Bireley on their 1915 50 hp Case
• This immaculate CO-OP E-5 leads the featured tractor
  contingent in the Parade of Power
• Another CO-OP parades in the sun
• Gary Ravert has a lofty view from the custom
  Ford on "stilts" sprayer
• Bob Goezel parades his still active 1939 Farmall F-14,
  complete with planter
• Don Miller pulls R&T's beautiful 1902 Studebaker Tank Wagon
  (that Don restored) with his 1935 Farmall F-12.
  
• A young man on a small Silver King leads a rare
  Plymouth tractor down the track
• Brian Mann stands for his ride on a John Deere GP
• The Hines' huge Rumely is guided by barely
  visible Tyler, age 8
• Clyde Burkholder's very original 1921 Case 10-18
  with cross-mounted engine
• Leonard Horning on his beautiful 1956 Ferguson Model 40
• Nevin Brubaker's custom V8 powered Ford
  is always a crowd favorite
• A young Zimmerman shows the crowd Landis Zimmerman's
  1939 Cletrac EG-42
• Paul Stoltzfoos on his beautiful kit-built
  Otto powered tractor
• Nathan Bundy on Amos Zimmerman's 1/2 scale Case.
  13 year old Nathan completed the 2003 Steam School course
• R&T's 1908 Avery is always a favorite with its
  twin cylinder engine mounted under the boiler
• Ben Goss on another 1/2 scale Case
• The 1/4 scale Case with tender in tow
• The vertical boiler Westinghouse appears to be
  driving itself
• Another huge Rumely Oil Pull followed closely
  by much smaller kin
• A very nice Rumely with fenders and "solid" wheels
• Three young'ns parade with Dad on their 1928
  20-30 Rumely Model W
• Robert Lefever and Paul Stoltzfoos own this 1913 IHC Model B
• A very clean Oliver Hart-Parr
• Harry Wilson's 1953 Oliver Model OC-6
• Dave Grace and his daughter Della Bozeman with Phil the monkey
  show their 1928/29 Model A "Ford & More Monkey Tractor"
• Part of the large garden tractor contingent parades
• A beautiful Farmall F-20 heads down the track
• A young man drives a 1951 Oliver 66 in the parade
• Another young man follows with his Ferguson
• Phares Stauffer on his immaculate John Deere 630
• Aaron Stauffer's 1937 John Deere B is the first
  John Deere with six forward speeds
• Paul Stoltzfoos with his rare 1912 15/25 Fairbanks Morse
• Matt Sheaffer's 1943 Farmall H pulls an
  IH two-bottom plow
• An unusual 1972 12hp Oliver "Kitty Kat"
• This Cockshutt Model 50 was typical of the many fine
  Cockshutts featured at the Reunion
• Harold Stauffer's 1955 Deutz Model D15

• One of the many small-fries who struggled to reach
  the finish line in the pedal pull
• You can alway tell a steam traction engine guy,
  even when he's riding a pedal tractor.
  Nate Bundy left his 1/2 hp Case steam engine long enough
  to make a great pedal pull
• A Wheelhorse converted to a pedal tractor was
  used for the older contestents.
  These two lads struggle for the finish line
• Two more young men are obviously doing their best
• This young man is pulling a fully weighted sled
• Another contest gives his best effort for a full pull

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