This photo was taken at the Pawnee, Oklahoma show last May.
Pictured are the oldest and youngest engineers present. Ted
‘Pappy’ Cracker (aged 85) has operated steam engines all
his life from boyhood. Steven Vordesl and wehr (age 12), grandson
of Kenneth Fiegel, is learning. He attended the school on steam
taught by Chaddy Atterbury at Pawnee last winter.
Hauling flax seed to market in Montana in the early part of this
century. Photo courtesy of the Montana Historical Society.