![]() People want to frame their record, which sounds like a really neat thing to do. By the time I get the whole line photographed, I also have about 1/3 of the page. Each engine is typically on one line in the book. From 1903 to 1911, the books are fairly small. The bad news is we get a lot of extra information in each photo. ![]() The good news is we can get a clear picture of the information on the page. I have a digital camera with macro and super macro (close-up capability), so I took the camera on the next trip to the records. We hadn’t really thought about it but in this modern digital age it was worth looking into. It turns out that some folks would like a reproduction of the record that shows their engine. In the past, shipping information was copied from the book with no effort made to visually reproduce the actual record. People have a real interest in when and where their engines were shipped. There were a few technical questions, but most of the queries were aimed at the shipping records. This is our second installment of Stover Stuff and there has been a lot of response to the department. The high price of fuel didn’t seem to hurt attendance, and the quality and variety of engines just seems to get better and better. We had good weather, fine friends and good shows. Well, 2008 was a great year for engine shows.
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