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ChooChooMike:
--- Quote from: usn ret on May 14, 2009, 01:02:30 AM ---There is a similar event that takes place near Moorpark, Ca the last weekend of Oct on a pumpkin farm and the general public is invited. I went with grandsons last yr. Many ancient tractors, farm implements, some steam and some hit n miss engines. And of course pumpkins and other items for sale. They have a parade of 20 to 30 tractors that is impressive. CAL-OSHA would have a coronary if they showed up. :thumbup:
Cliff :beer:
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I'm a little late to this parade, so to speak ... :) Cedge posted this same very neat story on HMEM too, think that's where I 1st encountered it.
There's another museum here in So California :
Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum
in Vista, California, just north of San Diego. It's a working museum with an impressive collection of bulldozers, tractors, at least 5 working steam traction engines (1 or 2 more in restoration), machine shop, gas engine row containing a slew of large hit 'n miss engines, Fairbanks-Morse diesel tied to a generator, steam engine row - with 2 running Corliss engines and a raft of running smaller steam (horizontal, vertical, simplex, duplex, couple new boilers from a hospital and an old vertical boiler) and LOTS more agriculture-related equipment. There's a whole building full of hit 'n miss and other engines.
Each spring and fall, they have their Harvest Festival, now called Tractor show. This fall's dates :
http://www.agsem.com/calendar-of-events.php
Oct. 17, 18, 24 & 25, 2009
Folks bring out their old refurbished and restored tractors, dozers, ALL kinds of hit 'n miss engines, old washing machines, ice cream makers, there's usually a bunch of model engines, Sherline has been showing there the last couple of years since their factory is in the neighborhood. They have a parade of vehicles (dozers, tractors, car, steam traction, etc.), fire up much of the steam engine row (both Corliss engines' running), many of the large gas engines too. Lots of eye candy !!
Definitely worth a look-see if you're in the area :) I usually go once a year to whet my appetite :)
Mike
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