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The above circa 1912 Buffalo Pitts Road Roller postcard
courtesy of Dean Alling from his Personal Collection
We have finished our annual boiler inspection and as usual, everything has passed muster including
our Buffalo-Pitts Road Roller boiler! Our Road Roller now has its official State Number (B024031-08) and
is certified to operate in our Harvest Fair! Our Inspector Bill Rozokat asked me to do the honors and
punch the State Number into the boiler, which I did.
With a little luck we will have the Road Roller
operating for the first time during our October Harvest Fair! The hardest part of the Road Rollers
restoration is now done and we are on the down hill side of it. Everything but the water tanks have been
repaired. A few things are still waiting for clean up and paint so it should not be to long now before we
fire it up for a test run. Many thanks to Al and Ivan Rhynard for making this possible!
For the second time in a year, our Advance traction engine was used in a wedding and another Steam team
member is now married! Robert Richardson and his new wife Kasey had their wedding ceremony over at the
Adobe and used the Advance as the platform on which the priest stood to marry them! That makes for two
weddings of Steam Team members using the Advance within a year’s time! Congratulations to Robert and Kasey
Richardson!
Our June Harvest Fair this year has a bit of competition with the
“Best show on Tracks” (BSOT) being held in Woodland, California.
Both events are being held on the 3rd weekend in June. Some of the Steam Team will be at the BSOT the first weekend
of our show, myself included.
I have been asked to be the Engineer on the rare Best 110 traction engine that is
owned by Fred Heidrick. I will miss being at our show but this is a unique opportunity that I just could not pass up.
If you have not seen this machine it is quit impressive. I will be back at Vista for the second weekend
of our show with pictures!
I received news today that our good friend and long time Steam Team member Jim McEntire lost his wife
Judy, after a long illness, on May 6th. Our wishes and prayers go out to Jim and his family.
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