[AT] Stationary engine recordings

[Ron Cook]

Thanks for the link, Ralph.
A mighty fine film that brings back lots of memories.  I worked in and 
then managed a wooden elevator in Iowa in the sixties and seventies.  
All the exact same equipment except the load out scale.  Ours was a trip 
scale with a counter.  Box cars, car jack, paper coopering doors, 
pushing the car by hand, all the same.  Ours was electric powered by the 
time I got there.  The engine was taken out in the fifties.  It was 
steam, fired by corncobs.

Ron Cook
Salix, IA

On 2/1/2011 11:21 PM, Ralph Goff wrote:
> On 2/1/2011 10:50 PM, Paul Waugh wrote:
>> 16 minutes of pure goodness.  Parts are so ... so good. How they can level
>> train tracks so one man can move a box car that easy .... many, many good
>> things without computers.  Credits say 1981
>>
>> Paul
>>
> It was good, but making me feel old because I hauled many thousands of
> bushels of grain to local elevators like that one. Although we had the
> hopper cars here . Also never saw that method of moving cars. At one
> time they kept an old tractor handy for that purpose but mostly they had
> a big winch and rope that did the car moving.
> I doubt theres any wooden grain elevators like that one still in use
> here in Sask. now.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
>
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