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OUR 15 HP HOT TUBE DIESEL

By Charles Bryan

Box 262, Springfield, South Dakota 57062.

It was a pleasant summer afternoon and the family was out for a drive and a visit to Flintstone Village at Custer, South Dakota. We were there on a short visit to my folks who live just outside Pringle, South Dakota, where we first saw the 15 hp hot-tube diesel setting in an old pumphouse. Not being sure what we had seen, we stopped on our way home that evening for a first-hand look and to our excitement we found a 15 hp, two-cycle hot-tube Fairbanks-Morse diesel engine.

After some inquiry in the small town, it was found that the engine was a rail road pumping engine that had been turned over to the town when the steam locomotives were discontinued. The town then used the well and pumping unit for some five years at which time an electric motor was installed on a new well. Alter almost a year the town finally placed the en...

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