... an old friend
Here I am last Thursday morning at the Rough & Tumble Engineers 65th annual reunion show at Kinzer, Pa. I'm posing with a Buffalo-Springfield road roller built in 1901. You'll note that I'm wearing my WW&F T-shirt. Anyway, in 1968, I operated this very roller for a week during the Williams Grove Steam Engine Association's annual Labor Day week show. At the time it was owned by Abe Warner of Washington Boro, Pa. It has since gone through several owners and is now the property of R&T. It's currently not in service, in need of boiler work, but it was great to see the old thing again.
This show at Kinzer has something for everyone and lots of steam action, from traction engines and road rollers to a sawmill to a number of very large stationary engines and two narrow gauge steam railroads. The 2014 show is Aug. 13-16, so mark your calendars now! By the way, the Strasburg Rail Road and the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania are less than 10 miles away.
As for my T-shirt, two people stopped me and said they had visited Sheepscot and asked what was new, and one fellow (who was running a small vertical boiler Buffalo-Springfield) engaged me in a lengthy conversation about the WW&F. He said he'd only vaguely heard about us but remembered a piece in Trains about it. He was pretty surprised when I told him I'd written the article. He promised to visit sometime this fall.