• John Geib instructs the class on the first morning of the 2005 school
• The students mantra is water, water, water in the boiler!
• John Geib completes the formal instruction and hands
  the students to the instructors
• It doesn't take long for the fun of driving a steam engine to begin
• Uragami Maki holds on while enjoying the day
• Instructor Dave Kroa (left) with students from the Hagley Museum
• That's Fred and Kathleen Bencivenga from New Hyde Park, NY
  on the left, with engine owner A. J. Hamilton in the coveralls,
  enjoying a spin on AJ's two-cylinder Frick.
• Another group tours the grounds on Dave Kroa's Frick
• Joshua Capp, age 13, opens the injector to replenish water in the boiler
• In between driving steam traction engines, students learn
  about R&T's Little Toot steam engine
• Instructor Pete Downs (green shirt) discusses steam engines with students
• Steam school students gather for the second Saturday, reviewing instructions
• Every engine is cleaned, oiled and fired with wood before switching to coal
• Whoever thought shoveling coal could be fun?
• Smiles are contagious as the sun finally breaks out
• Steam games begin, backing around cones and touching
  a post with out knocking it over
• A Frick is on its way to Strasburg. R&T's members take
  engines to many events during the year
• Instructor Butch Biesecker holds a 4x4 to the pulley
  to put a load on a portable engine
• Three of the four lovely ladies taking steam school this year -
  Kathleen Bencivenga, Carol Griffin and Meg Glenn.
• Instructor AJ Hamilton on his two-cylinder Frick
• Students take turns making an engine work on the baker fan
• AJ Hamilton's students also hooked up to the baker fan.
  Belting up to a piece of equipment is one of the tricky parts of
  operating a steam engine.
• The view from the baker fan
• Dave Kroa prepares to take his Frick to an event
• The 2005 class poses with their diplomas

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