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== 1940 ==
From [[New_England_Live_Steamers#1940|New England Live Steamers]]:
: Upper-right: -- 4-4-2 3-1/2" gague. [[Bill Van Brocklin|W. S. Van Brocklin, Jr.]], builder.  [[Al Milburn]] running the engine with Billy as passenger.
[[File:NELS Meet Danvers 1940.jpg|thumb|center|300px]]


== 1949 ==
== 1949 ==

Revision as of 11:02, 28 June 2016

1940

From New England Live Steamers:

Upper-right: -- 4-4-2 3-1/2" gague. W. S. Van Brocklin, Jr., builder. Al Milburn running the engine with Billy as passenger.
NELS Meet Danvers 1940.jpg

1949

Lester Friend's home shop, Danvers, Mass., 1949. Front right to left: Art Wegner, Ray Peck, Lester Friend's daughter. Bending over: Lester Friend. At right behind: Al Milburn. Photo by A.W. Leggett.

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.

From IBLS Journal 1951:

The former speed record of 26 MPH set at Danvers some years ago by Norm Robinson & his 3/4 inch scale Fayette, or our friend Al Milburn's record of 22 MPH on his own former home loop with his 2-1/2 inch gauge Lucy-Ann 4-8-4, would very likely raise the hair on the necks of these California steam boys. These records were watch timed and are actual miles per hour, not scale MPH.