Used to love watching the giant "Mallards"/"Mallets"? (I believe that's what they were called) with the cabs in the front chug through pulling strings of freight cars in the early to mid '50s. I still have a mild fascination with steam engines & steam driven equipment. I also remember being in my grandfather's field on his farm in Illinois as a really small kid when they were using a giant steam machine to power a hay bailer with a long leather (seemed like) belt. Harvesting and similar events were community things at that time.
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Marv Evans
'69 911E
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