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Here's hoping our (h) models are as well designed as these old thrashers of nearly 130 years ago. Watching, smelling, and hearing these go by today was a notch off my 'Bucket' list .

This annual event has grown so large, there were over 50 of these beasts snorting and thrashing down the road this morning.

Note, our horns are a little better tuned than these whistles

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Great pictures Jim!!

Were these antiques or were they hobbyist versions built with today's materials?

Some of these look like the steam catapults used on the cable channel that shows Pumkin Chunkin. I am only about 2.5 hours away from that annual event and hope to scratch that off my bucket list this fall!!!

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The vast majority were restored classics. I saw one that was an old boiler and engine mounted onto a frame and truck tires with a worm drive and I'm pretty sure the 'pint' size was a family project. But the others were conceived with genes long before ours.

Pumkin Chunkin sound like a lot of fun