They were awesome then, and the memories are something wonderful. My 
uncle Irv was there narrating the whole thing the first time. They came 
by every day.  There was a lot of wheat flowing from Montana and ND at 
that time.  Saw the last of the threshing rigs running, a few steamers 
left, mostly big Rumely's.  That is one thumping big tractor to run the 
big threshing rigs.  My grandpa still had some teams left then, the 
early fifties.  He traded a lot of horses in his time.  That's where I 
first handled a team, learned to shoe and very certainly to clinch every 
nail as soon as driven. To have a Belgian horse take it's foot back when 
you mid direct a nail and hit a nerve, and have a few unclinched nails 
sticking your way.....well, it's very bloody.  Makes you a fast learner!

God bless.

On 10/9/2017 8:00 PM, Ed Minch wrote:
> GGG
>
> Mike - you are very lucky to have seen that.  Eighth picture down - 
> Holy Crap
>
> https://oldmachinepress.com/2016/12/20/union-pacific-4-8-8-4-big-boy-
locomotive/">https://oldmachinepress.com/2016/12/20/union-pacific-4-8-8-4-big-
boy-locomotive/
>
>
> serious horsepower.  In the 1950’s my dad took us down to the tracks 
> in Berea, Ohio (a town so small it did not have a square, but rather a 
> triangle) at 7:15 after dinner to watch the Twentieth Century Limited 
> go by on its way to Chicago - real fast.
>
>> On Oct 9, 2017, at 8:38 PM, Mike Rock > <mailto:mikerock@m...>> wrote:
>>
>> Two of them on each train.
>
> Ed Minch



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