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THE KANKAKEE ENGINEBy Glenn KarchR.R. 2, Haubstadt, Indiana 47639 Several years ago I ran into a friend of mine one day and in the conversation I asked if he knew the whereabouts of any old gas engines in the neighborhood. He said that there was one at his place in the junk, and it was a Kankakee. After I got home and looked through Ruben Michelson's list of 1600 gas engine names, there was no Kankakee listed. Whoopee! We had stumbled onto something rare. Several days later I went by his place and he was there working on some farm equipment in front of the shop. He told me to go around behind the shed because the junk pile was back there, and he would be there in a minute. I looked and couldn't see a sign of a gas engine any place. Directly he came back there and showed me where it was. Only the corner of the water hopper and the edge of one flywheel were visible. We dug away the grass, ... 778 of 3959 characters shown.
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