Soot In The Flues

November/December 1975
Anna Mae 
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Hi Dear Friends! As you know this is the Christmas issue, but since we publish so early on the Iron-Men Album it is really only the 1st of September as I write this - school starts the day after tomorrow - they say the older you get the faster time flies, well I'll tell you as fast as this summer went, I must have aged ten years - I know each day is precious and I enjoy each 24 hours, but they have never gone speeding by more rapidly than this past summer. But from that statement you must know that I 've been busy, for if one is not busy enjoying living, I imagine time goes very slowly. AND I hate to admit this, but I did not even get to a Steam Engine Reunion this year. We usually get to Kinzers and Williams Grove, but not this time. And I even had a shirt printed for the occasion - it has Iron-Men Album Magazine on the front and Gas Engine Magazine on the back. So, guess I'll have to keep it for next season.

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From JAMES L. LEININGER, Box 407, Port Barre, Louisiana, 70577 comes this letter to you all: 'Fellow Steam Enthusiasts! I subscribe to Iron-Men Album and enjoy it very much. I build live steam locomotives in one inch scale, enjoy it very much. I build live steam locomotives in one inch scale, am starting a four inch scale steam traction engine and separator. I belong to fourteen Railroad Historical Societies, one Threshing Association and take numerous magazines. I also collect railroad locomotive black and white photos, water color paintings, and research old time short line railroads.

This photo collecting has led me to writing this letter. I would like to purchase copies of photos of steam traction engines, threshing machines, water wagons and the old Oil Pulls. - Still and action photos. I have wondered why one of your readers has not offered a line of photos of these subjects?? Most railroad photos can be purchased, so why not traction engines? May-be if your magazine pointed this out, some reader would offer these photos for sale. I like one in particular; the 1928 picture of Norman Gervais & Sons Threshing crew in the 1974, November-December Volume 29, No. 2 Iron-Men Album. This would make a perfect wall picture if one had it enlarged. We can interest more young people in these great hobbies if we can show and circulate more photos.

I create quite an interest in the young folks with my locomotive picture collection. I am going to place them all in album form and offer them to schools on a loan basis to show classrooms. I would like to be able to do the same with traction engine and threshing machine photos.

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