Chickentown to Bird City

By Mark Corson

|Published on July 1, 1998

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A portable A. B. Farquhar at the fourth annual Chicken town Show in 1997.

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Twentieth Century Manufacturing Co. engine at the Chickentown Show.

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A scale Peerless at Chickentown in 1997.

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Pyramid stunt with a Case engine shows how easily an engine can move over obstacles with a skilled engineer.

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9374 Roosevelt Street, Crown Point, Indiana 46307

Buffalo Springfield roller #1188. Both pictures taken at 1997
Tri-State Antique Engine & Thresher Show in Bird City,
Kansas.

Over one thousand miles apart and forty years difference in
years; good friends, old ones and new ones, can be found seconds

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