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: [[Al Milburn]]'s cut from the solid Atlantic a beautiful job to see.
: [[Al Milburn]]'s cut from the solid Atlantic a beautiful job to see.


[[File:Danvers50 billy leggett layout watercolour.jpgthumb|center|300px|Bill Leggett admiring [[Al Milburn]]'s Atlantic (top) at BLS Meet at Danvers, MA, 1950. Photo by A.W. Leggett, provided by Jim Leggett.]]
[[File:Danvers50 billy leggett layout watercolour.jpg|thumb|center|300px|Bill Leggett admiring [[Al Milburn]]'s Atlantic (top) at BLS Meet at Danvers, MA, 1950. Photo by A.W. Leggett, provided by Jim Leggett.]]


== 1951 ==
== 1951 ==

Revision as of 10:37, 28 June 2016

1949

1950

From IBLS Journal 1950:

Al Milburn's cut from the solid Atlantic a beautiful job to see.
Bill Leggett admiring Al Milburn's Atlantic (top) at BLS Meet at Danvers, MA, 1950. Photo by A.W. Leggett, provided by Jim Leggett.

1951

From Youd Better Not Call Them Toys:

AC Milburn Atlantic Progress May 1951.jpg
Many men who didn't know a drill press from a grape press until they started their first loco have found that the thousands of hours of trial-and-error shop work have made them competent machinists. One such is A. C. Milburn of Milford, Connecticut. Ten years ago he started work on a 1/2-inch scale freight engine in his spare time from a 4,000-foot coal shaft where he was a digger, today Milburn is a well-paid toolmaker-thanks to live steam.