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Buffalo’s Big Steam

Summer 1998 | Volume 14 |  Issue 1

I WAS ASTOUNDED BY THE PHOTO graph of the Buffalo pumping engines (“They’re Still There: Hidden Treasure,” by Frederick Allen, Summer 1999). I have never before seen a photo of any engine so large. I sure hope the Industrial Heritage Committee can get these things on display, and I also hope they are interviewing anyone who still knows anything about the operation of the engines. I haven’t run across many stationary engineers lately.

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