Do you remember the old Oscar Meyer commercial where one of the kids sighs in raptures and says, "A big parade is so inspiring!"?
The above inspiring footage is from the tractor parade at the Badger Steam and Gas Show two years ago. Please watch the entire 3+ minutes. Tom, John and I went to the show yesterday. It was all just as exciting as that. The parade took an hour and a quarter. We all came home exhausted from the excitement. Actually, there were some very interesting antique and steam-driven tractors. Tom and John, both former farmboys, kept up enough chatter about things to keep me from dozing off.
Norm Sandley and Reuben Thundercloud, at what is now the little railroad where Tom volunteers and where I used to work, built one steam car in 1972. The owners had that on display, and I had never seen it. (Tom took this photo of John with the steam wagon back in 2009 when they first tracked it down.)
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