November/December 1975
Anna Mae
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.
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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