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CONSOLIDATED Returns To Work

By Scott W. Taylor

160 Malabar Drive Westbrook, Connecticut 06498

This is a story about old Consolidated and how I caught him out of work and depressed and how he was rehired to go to work for me. I am younger than some of you and older than others; how ever that doesn't change my love for old iron. When I was only five I remember my folks taking me to see the steam trains in Essex and the rest is a story familiar to many of us. I saw my first hit and miss show when I was about ten, and got a small Stover CT-2 basket case at thirteen. I restored it and went to many events, but soon I graduated and went into submarines in the Navy. I had little time for hobbies and sold the Stover.

I did my time proudly and got out and went to work in various mechanical capacities, always having in the back of my mind that I would someday get another engine.

I have a good friend, John Ne...

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