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Hit-and-Miss

By Richard Backus

Fifty miles from our office, in an inconspicuous metal building just off Interstate 35, sit seven 1927 Cooper-Bessemer horizontal, twin-cylinder compound engines. Fifty-two-feet long, 19-feet wide, 12-feet tall, 14-foot flywheels, 16-inch crankshaft, bore and stroke of 22 x 36-inches, 80 tons each and rated at 1,250 HP at 125 RPM. Until just last year, these industrial giants had been anonymously working away pumping natural gas throughout Kansas. Out of sight, out of mind - until now.

Ever since engine collector and GEM reader Tim Christoff, Basehor, Kan., found out about these engines, the "Bessie 7" as he's come to call them, he's been on a crusade to retrieve and preserve at least one of these units. And there's the rub, because to preserve one, he might have to take all seven. Williams Pipeline, owner of the engines, wants them all to disappear at once, whether to coll...

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