[Steam-engine] Pawnee-Rollag

[Jeff Detwiler]

Andy, Lawrence, Colin, Kory and countless other ATIS and Stackers~

My hat is off to each of you and all those who travelled the hundreds of $3.00/gallon miles to descend upon Pawnee for a great show, one of my favorites in recent memory.  Despite the rain, we ALL had lots of help and fun getting everything pulled off, and the rain couldn't dampen spirits at all.  For those of you who were around Mike McKnight's 18 horse double Gaar, you all got a lesson in what it takes to do a major repair during the first day of a show, and I'm nothing but impressed at the team that tackled that seemingly insurmountable job.  Note to self:  I won't be sending a Christmas card to the descendants of Gaar-Scott for their brain surgeon design of the dry steam line to the cylinders.  I'm sure some new words were crafted and uttered during the re-making of the wagon top seal/gasket for that steam line casting. 

One of my committee chairs is steam games and spark show.  I apologize for the steam games not happening Saturday night before the BBQ, but I hope everyone can relate to the downpour we had and the mass exodus of yellow tracked machinery that was RIGHT in the way of our steam games grounds.  Anyway, I hope the spark shows made up for it.  The little Gaar did a great job as well, not to take all the credit for the Keck's performance Saturday night.....


Again my thanks for all of you who showed up from all corners of the US and Canada to make this show one of the greatest in the central states.  I enjoyed getting to talk AND WORK with each of you.

Hope to see everyone at Rollag or Pinckneyville....

Recovering but still steamed up~
Jeff Detwiler
Keck #1786
The Joyland 65

--- LSwanz at superioriron.com wrote:

From: "Lawrence Swanz" <LSwanz at superioriron.com>
To: "Steam-engine mailing list" <steam-engine at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Subject: Re: [Steam-engine] Pawnee-Rollag
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 13:34:08 -0500

Andy,

It was sure nice meeting you and I enjoyed our many visits.  I told you a while back that you would enjoy yourself at Pawnee...well how could one not, there was STEAM there!  I am glad to hear that you enjoyed yourself...despite the "mud fest 2007".  But it could have been a lot worse.  At least all we saw was rain, we didn't get the nasty weather that plagued Kansas on north.  I too would like to thank everyone again associated with the Pawnee show for making my second time at the show as pleasant as the first.  Thanks!  However, after my "attempt" at singing, I doubt that there is an invitation being sent to my house for next year.  For those that don't know...well count yourselves lucky.  However, I think that Dalene Deck will be more careful in the future when asking me to do something that she figured I would never do.  Oh well, it kept the night interesting.  At least the "coal pile urchin" was there to assist his ol' man in chirping with the birds.

The "Minnesota Mocking bird"
Lawrence

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:steam-engine-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com]On Behalf Of
Andy glines
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 1:02 PM
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Subject: Re: [Steam-engine] Pawnee-Rollag


I have to thank Jeff, Jeff, & Lawrence for yanking my
chain a little to get me moving.  The final straw was
when I mapquested Lawrence's trip vs mine.  When I saw
the he was going 300+mi farther than me I had no
excuses.  It was a long drive but it was worth every
mile.  Although the place was nearly overrun with
"Racine Water Heaters" I got to see some pretty neat
stuff.  Before you Case folks get sensitive I like
them as much as any and have often thought that a 50hp
would be a nice size to have.  There were a few
engines that I had never gotten to see in person and,
of course, (2) of my favorite Keck-Gonnermans.  Iwas
really great to get to lay eyes on some of the folks
that I write to about steam.  I even fired the
stationary boiler on Sunday morning for awhile and,
yes, it was me who allowed it to pop-off (doh!)  It
was my first time around a Prony Brake and I really
enjoyed watch the engines show there stuff.  I can
also tell you that Detwiler's Keck can hand with the
best of them at putting on a spark show.... Good job
Jeff and thanks for your hospitality.

> Come on Andy, that is nothing!  Get in the car and
> go!
>  I love to take road trips for steam engines and the
> last one I did was to Cumming, GA and that was about
> 14 hours each way.  Drove up on friday, went to show
> on saturday and left saturday night to head back
> home
> and got home sunday.
> 
> I hope to fly the entire family to Rollag this year
> and that will be flying from 5:00 am until around
> midnight that night with a wife and two kids!
> 
> I thought about flying by myself to Pawnee for a day
> or two but I forgot that I have a Cub Scout
> Mega-show
> with my boys so I can't make it to the show.
> 
> Jeff Smith


Andy Glines
Evansville, IN


       
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