These pictures are from the sparks show at the Old Threshers Reunion in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa during Labor Day weekend 2009. The would hook these old steam tractors up to a belted load and get them chugging up to full steam, then shovel saw dust into the fire box to produce the sparks out of the smoke stack.


The pictures of the tractors in the parade are only an example of the ones they used at night and may not be the actual tractors they used. What looks like a solid flame was how the camera took the shots. It was really more of only an accumulation of the sparks that made it look solid. Sometime in the future I want to go back and re-photograph this and play with my camera to see if I can get better pictures. I was going to go this year but was short of funds for the trip!

The Railroad Museum in Golden Colorado!

To wrap up all the pictures of my trip to Denver, here are the last of the pictures taken at the Railroad Museum in Golden Colorado! This is the third time I've been there. It is a nice place to visit if you are into railroading. Lots of nice vintage locomotives and equipment on display, a small roundhouse and manually operated turntable, a reference and research library, an outdoor garden layout, an indoor layout and displays downstairs in the main building and a nice gift shop.

The last five black and white photos are from pictures hanging inside the museum!