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Builds, Repairs, Show Your Machines! => Collections & Pictures => Topic started by: Nick on February 01, 2020, 10:16:30 am

Title: Re: My Great-great Grandfather c1880's
Post by: Nick on February 02, 2020, 11:45:55 pm
I guess the shirt must be a family heirloom, too....

Amazing how clean it has been kept through the years... you'd think it would be full of oil stains by now...  ;)
Title: Re: My Great-great Grandfather c1880's
Post by: Hero on February 02, 2020, 12:52:46 pm
I guess the shirt must be a family heirloom, too....
Title: Re: My Great-great Grandfather c1880's
Post by: Nick on February 02, 2020, 08:54:00 am
He had very good taste in engines and I am happy to say it is still in the family  ;)

(https://www.officeofsteamforum.com/gallery/officeofsteamforum/0/6-020220085213-453139.jpeg)
Title: Re: My Great-great Grandfather c1880's
Post by: RedRyder on February 02, 2020, 07:37:54 am
That picture is a great creation, Nick!


Your "Great Great Grandfather" has his eyes and his heart set on that 3 legger!


Gil

Title: Re: My Great-great Grandfather c1880's
Post by: Nick on February 01, 2020, 10:50:28 am
The resemblance is amazing!

Google tells me the original rounded-top baseball cap came out in 1860, I'm sure it looked nothing like this one... but I had to go back and edit out the logo as Caterpillar wasn't around for another 40 years and that logo not until 100+ years later  :D
Title: Re: My Great-great Grandfather c1880's
Post by: Nick on February 01, 2020, 10:44:09 am
You're a great practitioner of the arts Nick - well done!

Gives me something to do while sitting on the couch holding a baby  :D
Title: Re: My Great-great Grandfather c1880's
Post by: Junkologist on February 01, 2020, 10:32:17 am
The resemblance is amazing! 😁
Title: Re: My Great-great Grandfather c1880's
Post by: jkbixby on February 01, 2020, 10:19:16 am
You're a great practitioner of the arts Nick - well done!
Title: My Great-great Grandfather c1880's
Post by: Nick on February 01, 2020, 10:16:30 am
Was digging through some old family photo albums and found one of my great-great grandfather eyeing up a toy steam engine in a grocery store back in the 1880's

(https://www.officeofsteamforum.com/gallery/officeofsteamforum/0/6-010220101204-4492438.jpeg)



Funny how much he looks just like my son...

(https://www.officeofsteamforum.com/gallery/officeofsteamforum/0/6-010220101412-4501281.jpeg)