R&T's Baker Plows at Spring Steam-Up

• A Rumely looks out the Rumely Building door Friday morning to see a steady rain
• Harvey Bashore and Louie Frantz decide to keep many tractors inside Friday
• Dave Adams' Caterpillar grader won't be used to prepare the track today
• Little Toot's station area is a big puddle, and...
• The rain keeps coming
• Wrenches sit idle, as do...
• Oil cans
• There are plenty of things to do on rainy days, one of the best is
  to hang out in the Model Building
• A large collection of antique pocket watches in the Model Building
• Saturday dawned a much better day, and the Central Pennsylvania
  Blood Bank was on hand to draw blood in support of R&T
  member Joy Frantz. Here, Megan Glenn donates blood.
• Megan's dad (who provided all photos for this show) uses his Cat D2
  to pull a McCormick Deering out the shed
• Bill Glenn pulls the McCormick Deering to the display area
• Bill's CAT has plenty of foot and hand controls
• Allen Samuelsen appears to be telling a whopper of a fish story
• The antiques are always old, be they machines or men,
  but youngsters enjoy R&T just as much
• A massive IH Mogul waits for its owner
• R&T's Graham Bradley makes an appearance
• A huge Rumely emerges from the Rumely Building
• A line-up of garden tractors, some wondering if Friday's rain
  will bring cancellation of the garden tractor pull
• A few John Deere and an Allis-Chalmers wait for some spectators
• A flat head four in a Jeep.
• The R&T dining room serves great food at great prices.
• Sausage about to be cooked in the R&T kitchen
• Visitors pass the gas engine buildings
• The Lillibridge Building's complement of engines and other antiques continues to grow
• Some vendors were set up opposite the train station
• Bill Glenn's view from his Cat D2
• An unusual little van
• Bill's Cat faces west from the earth movers "play ground" later Saturday afternoon
• Even when their engines' fires are dying out, steam engine people
  always seem to have another started
• Bill Glenn's D2 in the setting sun
• Bill Glenn's D2 is loaded for the ride home
• The Blacksmith Shop was busy both days, rain or shine
• The blacksmiths demonstrate many different techniques during R&T events
• The fire heats the iron very quickly
• It's amazing what delicate shapes can result from the use of a hammer
• Paul Stoltzfus's Baker sits out Friday's rain.
• Engines wait in Friday's rain
• These engines require many complete turns from lock to lock
• This intriguing little device shifts belt power 90 degrees
• A steam powered pump
• Here's our steam engine group again, warming up by another fire
• A Farmall "A" pulls Menno Hoover's home built vertical boiler steam tractor
• Randall Zimmerman has the little engine fired up and heads to the coal bin
• Andrea Glenn takes some folks for a ride on a Frick
• Randall Zimmerman fills the coal box on Menno Hoover's home built
• Andrea Glenn fills the oil reservoir for the Frick's steam valves
• Everyone is relaxed until...
• The noon hour whistle blow starts
• Saturday morning had more promising weather for these engines
• Two Bakers flank a Case
• The late afternoon sun falls on a line of engines. That's R&T's
  boiler-over-engine Avery in the foreground.
• The sawmill gets set up with Butch Biesecker's Keck Gonnarman for power
• Visitors are as intrigued by the power end of the sawmill as much as the cutting end
• Ivan Zimmerman operates the sled carrying the log past the large blade
• The log is rotated for the first four cuts to get to a rectangular cross-section
• The cut boards are loaded on a wagon....
• while the scrap is taken for building fires in steam engines, ...
• and the sawdust is hauled off by a local farmer
• The very popular Shay RR was running on Saturday
• The Shay circles a large part of the grounds and here approaches
  the dining room on its way back to the station
• Little Toot builds steam, waiting for some riders
• The Little Toot crew enjoys some fine dining. Being steam people,
  they of course have their own fire going.
• Little Toot received some late Friday night "surgery"
• In spite of Friday's heavy rain, some folks managed to do
  some plowing on Saturday
• An Aultman Taylor and a Frick work together to pull the plow
• Simon Johnson gets ready to plow with the Cat D2 he owns with Gary Risk.
• Ahhh, men and their toys. Simon Johnson plows with his D2.
• Bill Glenn gets in the act with his D2.
• Bill's view with Simon in front
• The two Cats handled the wet sod with ease
• A worm's eye view
• Steve Koser's John Deere G on the right waits its turn
• Simon Johnson's Cat has more aggressive tracks than does Bill Glenn's dozer
• John Stauffer's air-cooled Deutz D-65 waits its turn with a plow
• Steve Koser's John Deere G prepares for a go with the plow
• Steve finishes up with his Model G
• Seth Bich from nearby New Holland, PA gets ready to plow
  with his 1938 Allis-Chalmers B
• Seth heads out with his one bottom integral plow
• After the plowing was over, the 8 bottom plow gets a cleaning, and...
• Grease is applied to protect surfaces that would otherwise rust
• Out in the east end of the grounds where the earth moving equipment plays,
  a variety of equipment is lined up on the road
• Jim Powell, on the left on his Cat D6, and Bill Glenn on his D2\fill in the holes dug over the weekend
• Ray Fleetwood tends to his Mack dump truck (which actually runs,moves and dumps)
• Ray has done such a good job restoring this 1924 Mack coal delivery truck that...
• a bird has built a cozy nest on the bed-raising mechanism, and...
• even stocked the nest with eggs.
• While the wet ground nixed the use of the main track for parades
  and the antique tractor pull, the garden tractor pull still took place in another area
• This Wheel Horse is set up for some serious pulling
• Another Wheel Horse with regular turf tires has a go at the sled
• A small Kiddie Pull also took place on Saturday

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