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Hundreds of cords of wood had to be cut to keep up full heads of steam in varous old time farm tractors and machinery that buffed and puffed nostalgic(...)
Hundreds of cords of wood had to be cut to keep up full heads of steam in varous old time farm tractors and machinery that buffed and puffed nostalgic(...)

Hundreds of cords of wood had to be cut to keep up full heads of steam in varous old time farm tractors and machinery that buffed and puffed nostalgic(...)

Date8/5/1974
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Original Toronto Star caption: Hundreds of cords of wood had to be cut to keep up full heads of steam in varous old time farm tractors and machinery that buffed and puffed nostalgically at 9th annual steam show put on by Georgian Bay Steam; Automotive; Gas and Antique Inc. Club for three days at Cookstown. Mingled with hissing steam were eye-stinging fumes from hundred's of kerosene-powered tractors and farm-machinery engines; snorting through their paces in fairgrounds.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0006125F
Old but they can still cut it. The sawdust was flying during the weekend when Roy Botterill (left) cranked up this 1906 Massey-Sawyer steam engine and(...)
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Ed Cooper, 71, and his model 1915 tractor
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Model steam engine, "Little Wonder," operated at Scarboro Beach Park, 1907-1925, Toronto, Ontario.
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1975 circa
Fire chief Jim Cannon lets his 6-year-old son, Scott, try out the department's new $26,000 fire truck. Caledon East, Ontario
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