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BEN, DON and OTTO

By Don Irvin

 211 Mcllvaine Drive, Creston, Ohio 44217

First, as an introduction, we are a couple of farm boys, in our 50's, but young at heart, Ben and Don - Ben Romich of Cherokee Farms, Creston, Ohio, and Don Irvin of Irvin's Model Shop, Creston, Ohio. Twenty years ago, or more, we started playing with an old engine or two, and haven't been able to get the grease and rust out of our systems since. This story has to do with the challenge of adding one more old engine to the collection.

I. THE LEAD

In the summer of 1977, Ben Romich's son, Tom, who is employed at New York University in New York City, happened to spot what looked like an old engine on a barge on the Hudson River. He had been sailing with a group of friends and went ashore just to let one member of the group off to catch a train back to the city. The spot they chose to dock was beside an o...

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