ENCOUNTERS WITH STEAM

By Lester L. Lehman
Published on March 1, 1973
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Double Uniflow ice machines I helped to build at York Manufacturing Company. Courtesy of Lester L. Lehman, R. D. 2, Red Lion, Penrsylvania 17356.
Double Uniflow ice machines I helped to build at York Manufacturing Company. Courtesy of Lester L. Lehman, R. D. 2, Red Lion, Penrsylvania 17356.
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Two boilers ready to go. Courtesy of Lester L. Lehman, R. D. 2, Red Lion, Pennsylvania 17356
Two boilers ready to go. Courtesy of Lester L. Lehman, R. D. 2, Red Lion, Pennsylvania 17356

R. D. 2, Red Lion, Pennsylvania 17356.

My first encounter with steam began in 1903 at age fourteen. I
helped fire a vertical boilered steam traction engine threshing
wheat on my father’s farm. I don’t recall the name of the
engine.

A little later I had the pleasure of riding in the cab of a

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