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Title: Re: Sad but wonderful history on Weeden Steam Engine
Post by: Jim on November 24, 2022, 10:46:19 pm

Thanks Nick and Arnold.

Title: Re: Sad but wonderful history on Weeden Steam Engine
Post by: tenniV11 on November 23, 2022, 01:13:30 pm

Very nice story Jim - and you had luck to find
the notice before running the burner with meth
Thanks, Arnold

Title: Re: Sad but wonderful history on Weeden Steam Engine
Post by: Nick on November 22, 2022, 08:56:11 pm

Really enjoyed that one Jim

Title: Re: Sad but wonderful history on Weeden Steam Engine
Post by: Jim on November 22, 2022, 04:39:34 pm

I think you're right Paula.
Amazing too know so much, but still so little about this history of this engine.

I wonder what year Alfred wrote that note? He went to the trouble of making that paper disc, he definitely didn't want his brother forgotten.

Title: Re: Sad but wonderful history on Weeden Steam Engine
Post by: Paula on November 22, 2022, 11:26:11 am

Jim, I'm inclined to think that Frank's younger brother Alfred may have penned the note. The signature looks like "anscerbo", as in "A.N. Scerbo". I guess we'll never know for sure.

Thanks for a wonderful and poignant video, Jim. 

Paula

Title: Re: Sad but wonderful history on Weeden Steam Engine
Post by: Jim on November 21, 2022, 06:25:33 pm

Thanks Mike amazing history like this.

I have a mental image of New York in the 1920's from films like the first Godfather. Just amazing to think of this family on Christmas morning and young Frank unwrapping this steam engine and the whole family watching him steam it up for the first time.

Title: Re: Sad but wonderful history on Weeden Steam Engine
Post by: Junkologist on November 21, 2022, 05:52:09 pm

Great story, Jim! If not for that little note, Frank may have been forgotten forever, but here we are talking about him nearly a century after he had passed on.

I find this kind of thing very interesting. One of my favorite pastimes is buying old home movies from the 1930s to the 1970s at the flea market and trying to figure out who the people are in the films and where they lived. I feel like I’m in a time machine when I’m researching these films.

Title: Re: Sad but wonderful history on Weeden Steam Engine
Post by: Jim on November 21, 2022, 04:59:04 pm

I'm amazed and honoured every time I look at this engine.

Title: Re: Sad but wonderful history on Weeden Steam Engine
Post by: Stoker on November 20, 2022, 08:41:08 pm

Weeden stamping read right when looking in through the firebox door Jim!

Wonderful story, though sad as you say, and some wonderful research that you've done to be able to present it so well!!!

Title: Sad but wonderful history on Weeden Steam Engine
Post by: Jim on November 20, 2022, 08:02:19 pm

I thought some may be interested in this story and maybe, just maybe someone with more genealogical sleuthing ability maybe able to advance my quest to find the relatives a reality?

Here's a story, a sad but wonderful story and the history on this nearly Century old Weeden upright Steam Engine -


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdlCkxBfVto