Photos from the 2004 CAMA Fall Festival
September 25-26, 2004
Our 2004 Fall Festival was the best yet. Picture perfect weather on both days made for an extremely enjoyable outing for the thousands of attending spectators.
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Photo Essay Page One: Photos from the 2004 CAMA Fall Festival September 25-26, 2004 Our 2004 Fall Festival was the best yet. Picture perfect weather on both days made for an extremely enjoyable outing for the thousands of attending spectators. |
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| ABOVE: On a beautiful Saturday afternoon, John Masse and Bill Lyon demonstrate the operation of an early 1900's dragsaw. |
ABOVE: CAMA has plans to construct a permanent blacksmith exhibit building. In the meantime, a very fine open air demonstration will suffice for Fall Festival spectators. |
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| ABOVE: At dawn's early light (augmented by my F-150 headlights), the Lookout boiler is fired up to provide steam to cook our "Engineer's Vegetable Beef Soup", a mainstay at each Fall Festival. |
ABOVE: Jim Anderson magically appears in a cloud of steam! Feeding the Lookout boiler wood and water is a full-time job. Steam pressure is maintained at between 40 and 50 psi with most going to the jacketed soup kettle. Excess steam was used to run a couple of small antique vertical steam engines. |
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| ABOVE: Conrad Milster's informative talks on the history and applications of steam power were a popular destination for festival-goers. |
ABOVE: Conrad Milster explains the operation of the Noble T. Greene steam engine in CAMA's Industrial Hall at the 2004 Fall Festival. |
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| ABOVE: CAMA provided steam and steam tables for exhibitors to run their own engines. In the background is Conrad Milster's steam caliope. |
ABOVE: Some of the exhibitors with their steam engines in operation. |