Posted by JL2510 on April 17, 2021 at 06:16:16 from (206.83.250.93):
Some of my family gets together at the home farm every Saturday morning for coffee. I've posted before some history and farming pictures from my Grandfather's side of the family. This morning at the farm I heard some of my Grandmother's side I thought was interesting. My great-great- grandfather, Alonzo Barnhart, bought this steam engine brand new in 1923. It was built in Greencastle, Pennsylvania and he drove it home to Warfordsburg, Pennsylvania. About 40 miles today by I70, not sure how it would have been back then. Some of my extended family still have the steam whistle off of her.
Also was told the story that my great- grandfather, (son-in-law of the guy with the steam engine) had a threshing machine and later had one of the first combines around. He did custom work with it. He got tired of guys not being ready when he got to their farm so he started just emptying the combine on a pile in the field so he could keep moving. Word got around and he soon stopped having to wait on wagons. Not sure I would have done that but it made me laugh looking back on it.
Ill try to attach pictures of the whistle and steam engine.
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