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.
Ja,viele Knaben hatten diesen Wunsch ,aber wenn man arm ist kann man nur im Sand spielen gehen.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.wilesco.de/
ReplyDeleteYes, 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.
ReplyDeleteThe poor kids played with construction trucks in the sand, in my case Tonka trucks:-)
ReplyDeleteOddly, I don't think I've posted any cutaway steam engine pictures.
Takes me back....
ReplyDeleteMy 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.