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Jun/Jul 2008Subscribe NowEngine videos online! Check out the GEM video index on YouTube, the quickest way to find gas engine videos on the Internet. We’ve done the searching, all you have to do is the watching! Click below for GEM engine video index. |
Ode to An Artillery TractorBy Elaine BaseP.O. Box 870646, Wasilla, Alaska 99687 Elaine Base wrote this poem about the above tractor, which is now in the permanent collection of the Museum of Alaska Transportation & Industry in Wasilla. This model was licensed by the Holt Tractor Co. and built by Reo. It was brought to Alaska in the 1920s where it was used to construct roads by the Bureau of Public Roads. In 1935 it was sold to a homesteader for $50.00. A tired old war horse sits on Row J. Who knows maybe she'll run again some day. It was about 1917 she was cast. Back in those days they were built to last. Once strong and clean she hauled each shell That shattered the earth and blew man to hell. Our cause was just; God was on our side; She seemed to know it and performed with pride. An Alaskan homesteader tested his luck When at the auction she was sold for 50 buck... 788 of 1153 characters shown.
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