The poor kids played with construction trucks in the sand, in my case Tonka trucks:-) Oddly, I don't think I've posted any cutaway steam engine pictures.
Takes me back.... My first paid work was in Fall 1966, my father and grandfather paid me to driver their tractors, a JD 4020, and an IH 706, plowing their Minnesota farmland. I was nine years old. I think I was paid $0.35/hour.
In any case I saved up my earnings from that and it was just enough to purchase what I believe to be the brand of engine in the pictures. Except I believe that mine was newer and not as upscale in its details. For example, I clearly remember the governor on mine, it had flat pieces of stamped iron, not cast balls on its arms. The red wood handle on the whistle looks the same as I remember. And I also know that the cylinder on mine didn't have the ribbed exterior, mine was smooth.
I purchased it from the Montgomery Wards catalog. I think might have a picture of that engine, it was taken on my 10th birthday, I'm sitting with 4 friends with the engine in front of me. I'm still sporadically in touch with one of the friends.
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Ja,viele Knaben hatten diesen Wunsch ,aber wenn man arm ist kann man nur im Sand spielen gehen.
https://www.wilesco.de/
Yes, it's a vintage Wilesco unit, made in Germany. Probably the most popular and common brand although mine is a Marklin.
I'm not gonna google image "cutaway steam engines" but I WILL go to the trouble of commenting that it crossed my mind.
The poor kids played with construction trucks in the sand, in my case Tonka trucks:-)
Oddly, I don't think I've posted any cutaway steam engine pictures.
Takes me back....
My first paid work was in Fall 1966, my father and grandfather paid me to driver their tractors, a JD 4020, and an IH 706, plowing their Minnesota farmland. I was nine years old. I think I was paid $0.35/hour.
In any case I saved up my earnings from that and it was just enough to purchase what I believe to be the brand of engine in the pictures. Except I believe that mine was newer and not as upscale in its details. For example, I clearly remember the governor on mine, it had flat pieces of stamped iron, not cast balls on its arms. The red wood handle on the whistle looks the same as I remember. And I also know that the cylinder on mine didn't have the ribbed exterior, mine was smooth.
I purchased it from the Montgomery Wards catalog. I think might have a picture of that engine, it was taken on my 10th birthday, I'm sitting with 4 friends with the engine in front of me. I'm still sporadically in touch with one of the friends.
Thanks for the memories.
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