The Iron Mule

 Patrick J. Shouvlin learned his trade working as an apprentice in a railroad maintenance shop in his hometown of Springfield, Ohio. After c...

 Ride-A-Matic! Ya got to love a name like that. What does it mean? I don’t have any idea but it sounds like progress. Of course the fact tha...

 Visit any antique power show and you are sure to find row after row of pristine green and yellow tractors gleaming in sunlight. You might w...

 What did Mobey Dick, John D. Rockefeller and the Pattin brothers have in common? They all benefited from the Pennsylvania oil boom.  The oi...

  I was passing through Gainesville, Georgia on my way to the Steam Expo. when I spotted this engine. Steam locomotives are my favorite so i...

 How big is a garden anyway? At what square footage does it stop being a garden and become a farm field? That was the question posed by Shaw...

 This post is about the known and the unknown. While what is commonly known can be interesting, the unknown usually holds a greater fascinat...