I hope you've all ordered your 2001 Show Directory by now,
because this colorful, popular book has been moving out of our
warehouse very quickly, and there's always the possibility that
we will run out later in the season! If you ordered yours early,
you ought to have it by now.
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As usual, Judy Whiteside was selling Directories and other books
down at the annual Boiler farm sale held each year in Lancaster
County in late February. Unfortunately the two day sale was
subjected to quite a bit of snow and some very low (for our area)
temperatures. She reports, though, that she heard lots of nice
comments about IMA
Well, we'd better get on to the letters, since there are
again quite a few of them, and some really great pictures to share!
Our first correspondent will be a familiar one:
GARY YAEGER, 146 Reimer Lane, Whitefish, Montana 59937 (e-mail
yaegerg@in-tch.com) writes, 'I'd like to say Happy New Year
to you and your subscribers (although this will be belated wishes).
I found some pictures I thought might be enjoyed by your readers. I
know you will be getting show pictures this time of year, but most
people still like some old pictures.
'I have found around fifty pictures of the Big Forty Reeves
engines in their original elements not counting the dozens I have
of the Smolik Brothers' 40-140 #6867. Friend Melvin Pierce of
Scranton, North Dakota, sent picture #1 to me.' I think it is
one of the finest pictures of the Big Forty I have, because of the
crew. It is an early Canadian Special with the Broderick
Brothers' boiler. Notice how the Ham headlight was placed in
front of the king post for more efficient lighting. Also notice how
they have placed a lantern on the front of the side water tank to
illuminate the furrow, when plowing at night.
'Picture #2 is of a 32 HP Reeves U.S. cross compound in
Montana's Judith Basin. That's my dad, Joe Yaeger, with his
hand on the friction disk guide (power steering) handle. He was
looking at it to buy it, but never bought it. It appears that Dad
carried it around with him for some time, judging from the poor
condition of the picture.'
Picture #3 is a copy of a picture Lance Barnes lent me. It is a
22 HP under-mounted Avery in the Gallatin Valley of Montana. I
don't know how well the picture will print for you, but the
engine has 'Montana Special' painted on the boiler barrel,
above the injector's boiler feed line. My Avery expert-friend,
Don Bradley, tells me that the spring mounting of the bull gears to
the driver wheels is what determined the engine to be a
'Montana Special.' Don's dad owned an engine exactly
like this one.
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