STARTED IN YOUNG

By Roy Virgin
Published on November 1, 1963
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A Minneapolis Outfit on which Roy Virgin was on the smokey end in the year of 1916-southwest of Fargo, North Dakota. The engine was a 28 HP.
A Minneapolis Outfit on which Roy Virgin was on the smokey end in the year of 1916-southwest of Fargo, North Dakota. The engine was a 28 HP.
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Nichols-Shepard Single Cylinder Straw Burner, equally adapted for wood and coal. 20 H, 25 H and 30 H Power.
Nichols-Shepard Single Cylinder Straw Burner, equally adapted for wood and coal. 20 H, 25 H and 30 H Power.

210 N. Belleville Street, Freeburg, Illinois

I was 12 years old when I started running a steam engine on a
sawmill which belonged to my Dad. He had two Belleville Outfits,
the old style engines with two 36 x 52 inch separators. I stayed
with that kind of livelihood until 1912 when I started to work on
the ICRR as a freight agent and telegraph operator and stayed with

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