I had visited this place myself a month prior, and really enjoyed my visit with my family. 111 was also the engine that powered/pulled the train I rode.
Coolest thing of all was to see the steam shovel operating and working I believe it's the first time I ever seen a steam shovel shovel working and I wish you would have taken more time and gone up and showing us the inside workings of that machine because that was a very rare thing thought there was a steam shovel out in a gravel pit still operable that the owner of the Gravel Pit sold just about 15 years ago very reasonably there was another dismantled one sitting by a lake a gravel pit filled with water and growing up in the trees and around Knowlton Wisconsin by the Wisconsin River Lake d u b a y
The Denton Farm Park (Brown Loflin) acquired his first steam shovel back in the 70s. I believe they got it from Panama where it was used in the building of the Panama Canal at the time, it was the only operating steam shovel in North America. Later he got another.
