...This could have been the one. This sure looks like an oil field engine and it runs well for having sat for fifty or more years. The Stephenson Link reverse gear is easy to see and understand, and I bet some collector now has this in an engine shed. I thought that all the collectible engines in the wild were gone forty years ago, but I think I should plan some expeditions and look for treasure once more.
There are still a handful of these in the abandoned oilfield of western PA. Along with a traction engine or two, just rusting away. If you could only track down a living owner, maybe you could get one of them out of the woods....
ReplyDeleteMerle
Watching a little more closely this time, I noticed the "Titusville" casting. I didn't see for sure, but I wonder if it was from PA? Titusville isn't very far from my home, and pretty well located in the original oil fields.
ReplyDeleteMerle
Here's an article about the Titusville Iron Works from Gas Engine Magazine, 2007: http://www.gasenginemagazine.com/company-history/history-of-the-titusville-iron-works.aspx
ReplyDeleteI need to go back to Eastern Kentucky and spend a week or two driving up and down the hollows while the leaves are down. There are probably a few relics hiding there as well.
Thank you. I thought I saw PA on the casting, but wasn't too sure. Sadly enough, I had never heard of them before this.
ReplyDeleteMerle
With the name of ACME on their engines, they should have been World famous!
ReplyDeleteWell, at least the Road Runner copied a well used name!!! :)
ReplyDeleteMerle