Long Ago And Far Away

We were digging through some old photos recently and found this nice shot of Mrs. True Blue Sam, our Skips, Merky and Cracker, and an abandoned Pattin Brothers Spence oilfield engine somewhere near Oil Springs, Kentucky. One of our Eastern Kentucky friends revisited this engine, and it had been buried during road maintenance. Oh Well, that makes the remaining engines more valuable, I guess.

UPDATE! ASM826 of Random Acts Of Patriotism took pity on my faded photograph, fixed it up and e-mailed it back. Looks just like 1978! Many thanks!

The video below is Tom Geier's Spence engine, courtesy of PileOfIron.