It is owned by the Crow family of Charleroi, Pa. The Christopher
and Paul Whaley, of Indianapolis, Ind.
For a heart-warming new generation story that typifies what is
happening among engine collectors today, see the story inside this
issue.
(Photo courtesy of the boys’ great grandfather, Paul F.
We think this logo is very clever and attractive and thought our
readers might enjoy seeing it. Phil Crowell of the Bozeman Hobby
Supply in Bozeman, Montana kindly agreed to let us reprint it.
This steam engine is a 1910 Peerless G. It has 9-13 horsepower.
The steam engine was made in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania and was
pulled by horses to and from different jobs.
The engine is owned by Ralph Castle, Jr. of Keymar, Maryland,
and is used to make applebutter, and it is the only portable
cooking set-up operating at the gas and steam engine shows in this
area.
The applebutter is made in a wooden barrel. The apples and the
easoning are placed in the barrel. Live steam is drawn from the
steam dome and run through a copper coil. The coil is placed in the
barrel and the heat from the steam boils the applebutter. A valve
on the coil controls the heat. This method requires no
stirring.
Cooking with this method dates back to the early days of steam
power. The steam itself does not touch the applebutter. As the
steam condenses back to hot water, it is fed through a steam
injector back to the boiler, therefore, making it easier to keep
steam pressure up in the boiler. Courtesy of Mrs. Richard Houck,
secretary of Johnsville, Maryland Ruritan Club.
Victor Gallagher of 2064 Sun home Street, Sarasota, Florida
33581, (also of Shelbyville, IN) sent us this picture of which he
says, ‘Most people were farming without horses by 1948, so
since there were only three of us to thresh we hired two buck rakes
to bring the bundles to the thresher, which was mine on our farm.
Worked fine, but lots of wheat scattered out on the ground it
couldn’t be helped. It was a hard job to pitch bundles into the
feeder.’
Roy Kite’s 65 HP Case pulling a 32 x 54 Case separator.
Threshing wheat August 6,1953 at the Roy Kite farm at Bird City,
Kansas. Chady Atteberry of Blackwell, Oklahoma is the engineer.
While visiting the museum, we stopped in at the print shop where
Ralph operates an ancient proof press and chats with visitors. We
asked whether there were any traction engine cuts in his stock, and
he came up with this.
