• Professor Butch Biesecker instructs the students in the
  classroom in the R&T Model Building.
• Barry Scheinin (left) and A. J. Hamilton (standing in the back)
  were two of several assistant instructors.
• Butch Biesecker explains the smoke box and other boiler
  components to the students.
• Instructor John Geib has the class's attention as he ...
• ... explains the internal components and functions of the boiler.
• Students clean flues before firing the engines used by the class.
• Students begin building fires in the engines.
  Note the two young students Andrea and James in the right engine.
  They represent the future of live steam engines at Rough and Tumble.
• Scrap wood kindling from R&T's saw mill is used to
  get the fires started, before switching to coal.
• During a break, some of the instructors hold a "faculty meeting".
• A group of students get underway on a Frick.
• Dave Adams, in sunglasses, watches over students learning how to
  drive an engine, including youngsters Andrea Glenn and James Kroa
• Pete Downs in white shirt watches over another group of students.
• A. J. Hamilton, holding the hose at left, watches students
  get acquainted with his two-cylinder Frick.
• Dave Adams in red shirt, helps Andrea Glenn watch over
  an engine powering the saw mill.
• Other students try to stop their engine touching a block of wood,
  without knocking it over.
• Another group belts up to the Baker Fan.
• The class lines up for a class photo prior to receiving their certificates.
• A final view of the class of 2004.

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