Progress is fine, but it's gone on for too long.

with apologies to Ogden Nash...

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Log marking hammer

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  This unusual hammer is a log marking hammer. Back when there was a logging industry, the logging company and sawmills had to keep track of...

Air Pictorial magazine

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 This British aviation magazine featured modern developments and current events as well as historical subjects over the years. It went throu...

First 100 mph car in America, Flying Dutchman

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   Herbert L Bowden achieved 109.65 mph on the Daytona beach course in 1905 in this special twin-engined Mercedes named the Flying Dutchman....
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Monday, January 26, 2026

Monday Mystery, another plier-type thing

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  Looks like die cast metal of some type, no sharp or grippy edges... possibly some opening or spreading feature in front to the pivot. No i...
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Sunday, January 25, 2026

Snow day

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Joe G Collias, The Search for Steam , Heimburger House, 1972   Seemed appropriate... Above, Freight traveling north, Little Rock, Arkansas, ...
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Sidecar Sunday

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Goldwing with Hannigan fairing and a large ungainly and unattractive sidecar.  
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Chainsaws, 1975

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 From the Eaton's catalog (Canada's Sears-type department store) with their Viking tool line. They sold saws under their banner and ...
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Saturday, January 24, 2026

Papec machinery company arbour

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 Papec. apparently stands for Pneumatic and Propeller Ensilage Cutter. The company started in Lima in the Finger Lakes region of New York ar...
Friday, January 23, 2026

Trial by fire... CMA news October, 1947

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 A little cross-border tension, perhaps?

Early motoring

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The car is a 1903 Packard, the problem seems to be a flat tire compounded by a hot cloudless day. Just another day for an early motorist.   ...
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