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Hudson-Mohawk chapter of the Pioneer Gas Engine Assoc. Sixth Annual Gas Up.

By Frank P. Pflegl.

The Sixth Annual Gas-Up of the Hudson Mohawk Chapter of the Pioneer Gas Engine Assoc. was held June 9-10 and 16-17, 1973 at the Rolfe home in northern Schoharie County. The weather could not have been better, not only  for the show but for the week or more of preparation.

After passing the buildings, down on the show grounds one of the first engines on display was the Burgett. This engine, the symbol of the Hudson Mohawk Chapter, was manufactured around 1900 in the Schoharie county village of Middleburg only a few miles from the site of the gas-up. This engine was on display along with several others from the collection of Charles Dygert, on down the line nicknamed "corn row" by our very capable announcer, Norman Mullings, because all of the shelters and grinders seemed to be in this area.

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