A very old photo of a rare Climax class ‘A’ logging
locomotive. Many of these had wheels for operation over wood track
or peeled poles; and to the best of our knowledge, no Climax A
engines are in existence today. There were at one time hundreds of
these little engines, not really much bigger than a traction
engine, in the woods at work. The engine is a vertical 2-cylinder
engineer; and is geared to the wheels. These locomotives had a
2-speed gearshift.
‘2’ scale English Type Merry Go Round with 2′ scale
Burrell Showmans engine alongside. Picture taken at the Kinzer
Show, August 1967.
Both the engine and carousel were run on ‘piped’ steam
from the models boiler at the Kinzers show. The most comments were
received on the Friday evening after sunset when all the small
lights were lit, there being over 100 in all.
Here we are, E, R. Dugan and my Father, Michael R. Dugan, set
and threshing wheat up on top of Hell’s Half Acre. You can see
the left hand side of the 14 h.p. Jumbo; the band wheel was on the
left side also. Oh, the rhythm was sweet and hard to beat from this
little engine as you can see. My father was a thresherman for many
years before my timeonly he didn’t follow them all over the
country as I did. He stayed at home.
To all my old steam buddies I say, see you at Mt. Pleasant,
Iowa. These pictures were taken about 1917.
E. R. Dugan and his Father, Michael Dugan, now deceased,
threshing wheat down in Southern Illinois, south of St. Louis in
the hills. You can see by the picture that we have a little 14 h.p.
Jumbo Engine all hot and bothered ready to go hooked onto a 32′
Belleville Separator. That’s my father standing on the
separator tongue while I took the picture. We had a long, hard
rocky hill to climb up to a place called Hell’s Half Acre. I
hope Father is on that beautiful isle of somewhere running a 14
h.p. Jumbo. See you at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.
Getting Ready For The Show W. J. Coonrod is furnishing steam
from his engine to steam clean an Advance Rumley owned by Jarvis
Appliance Company of Washington, Iowa. The Advance is an 18 HP and
was built in 1922. This picture shows in a small way the tremendous
amount of work necessary to get all the engines and machinery
cleaned and ready for the exhibition. Mt. Pleasant, Iowa
Association Show.