One of Our Pride and Joys:

By William E. Hall
Published on March 1, 1975
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Rudy Clemmensen
75 HP Russell at Annual Steam Engine Days in August 1974. Engine owned by Art Andersen. Courtesy of Rudy Clemmensen, 833 Grand Avenue, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55105

15700 Santini Road, Burtonsville, Md. 20730

As I have said in the past, we need our young engineers, and
this is a story about one of our best ones, His full name is Thomas
Taylor Ackerman, but he is known to all of us here as Tom. He lives
in Waretown, N.J., just a few miles from the Atlantic Ocean. His
first attempt at operating a steam traction engine was a few years

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