Covered Bridge Tour Pictures

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Doug Money - Braidwood, IL on Sunday, September 29, 2013 - 02:14 am:

Here are some pictures so far of this years covered bridge in Rockville In.




Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Doug Money - Braidwood, IL on Sunday, September 29, 2013 - 02:33 am:




Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dick Lodge - St Louis MO on Sunday, September 29, 2013 - 09:28 am:

Doug, thanks for the pictures. Hope to see more as the tour goes on. Anja and I did the Covered Bridge Tour twice. Lots of fun both times.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dave Hjortnaes, Men Falls, WI on Sunday, September 29, 2013 - 11:08 am:

I don't see any bridges.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dick Lodge - St Louis MO on Sunday, September 29, 2013 - 11:24 am:

Dave, that's because they're covered.....


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Doug Money - Braidwood, IL on Monday, September 30, 2013 - 05:07 am:

This is a weather vane that was being silent auctioned. Very good workmanship.

And another one.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Doug Money - Braidwood, IL on Monday, September 30, 2013 - 05:09 am:

The food of course was awesome.



But meeting new people from the tour was the overall highlight so far.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Doug Money - Braidwood, IL on Monday, September 30, 2013 - 05:11 am:

The attendees came from all over.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Doug Money - Braidwood, IL on Monday, September 30, 2013 - 05:14 am:

Yesterday, nature's car wash cleaned the dirt for us. My car has dirt in places it has never been before.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Doug Money - Braidwood, IL on Monday, September 30, 2013 - 05:17 am:

Then the day cleared up. It was fun having so many Ts on the road without any modern traffic to take away from the view.





Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Doug Money - Braidwood, IL on Monday, September 30, 2013 - 05:25 am:

Dave, I mostly have video of the bridges, I will try to get pictures from the video. Here is one.




Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Doug Money - Braidwood, IL on Monday, September 30, 2013 - 05:36 am:

Here are a few more.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Doug Money - Braidwood, IL on Monday, September 30, 2013 - 05:43 am:

This stop was special in that the gentleman who had invited us to stop here was killed in an explosion in May. His wife asked if we could still stop by and visit. They provided pastries and hot chocolate for us. We proudly wore red ribbons on our radiator caps for her late husband. We tied these in various places around the farm as a memorial.






Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Doug Money - Braidwood, IL on Monday, September 30, 2013 - 05:49 am:

This is a panoramic shot I did from the farm. I hope it looks ok.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Doug Money - Braidwood, IL on Monday, September 30, 2013 - 05:54 am:

This is was a brick factory that we stopped to look at. It still is functioning and was when we took this picture.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Kenny Edmondson, Indianapolis on Monday, September 30, 2013 - 06:50 am:

I was there Saturday for the tour and had a lot of fun. Ran the speedster on it's maiden voyage. Took it to Newport Friday and ran the hill with it. Made it up in high gear with 2 of us in the car.



Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By David Kriegel on Monday, September 30, 2013 - 11:45 am:

More pictures


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steve Jelf, Parkerfield KS on Monday, September 30, 2013 - 11:56 am:

I love the old mills with several stories of machinery running off a single power source by belts and pulleys. This looks like one of those that was modernized a hundred years ago with a turbine to power a single electric motor.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By David Kriegel on Monday, September 30, 2013 - 02:19 pm:

Steve amazing history on the mills which I did not know. They were built in the 1830's. The water wheel you see is inefficient and can not be used when the river freezes. They fitted them with water turbines mounted to a vertical drive shaft. Most have 2 races for the turbines which put out 65 and 85 horsepower to run all the internal mull machinery, including hundreds of small one cup tin scoops mounted to a leather belt which delivers the raw corn and wheat to the top of the mill. Gravity then allows the grain to be automatically crushed cleaned and processed. Genius.
Great places to visit and have a picture of your Model T with them in the background


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Harold Schwendeman - Sumner,WA on Monday, September 30, 2013 - 02:56 pm:

David - You reminded me of a little piece of history that I found to be interesting. Back in the days of the early pioneers in Oregon, long chutes (tubular I think) were built to drop the grain down from the top edge of the high and nearly vertical cliffs above the Columbia River for river vessel loading below. Sounded like a brilliant idea, right? Well, it instantly proved to be a total failure, because the long drop of the grain produced flour by the time it came out of the chutes at river level. "Automatic" milling might seem like a good idea, but not a good way to ship grain I guess!

To get back more on topic Doug, Kenny & David; I love the way you showed where all the "attendees" came from on the map Doug,.....thanks all for the great photos,.......harold


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Doug Money - Braidwood, IL on Thursday, October 03, 2013 - 02:17 am:

I want one of these when I grow up.




Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Doug Money - Braidwood, IL on Thursday, October 03, 2013 - 02:18 am:

We thought this was cute.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Doug Money - Braidwood, IL on Thursday, October 03, 2013 - 02:27 am:

This was one of the stops along the way on Tuesday. My memory isn't too well, hopefully someone who remembers can chime in on this one.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Roger Karlsson, southern Sweden on Thursday, October 03, 2013 - 02:29 am:

Odd style steel spoked wheels on #80, any idea if they were a period accessory or homemade?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Peter Kable on Thursday, October 03, 2013 - 02:44 am:

Number 80 or "Colorado Ugly" was built by the late Bob Plegge former Secretary Treasurer of the MTFCA. It's not only shortened but the axles are offset. The wheels are accessory ones.

Terry and Dorothy Ryan from Pacific MO now own the car.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dan Schultz_Sheboygan,WI on Thursday, October 03, 2013 - 09:53 am:

Hey Doug, looks like you made it home ok. Thanks for posting all of the pictures, great tour. The black and white looks pretty good, I think that was the Mansfield bridge place.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Aaron Griffey, Hayward Ca. on Thursday, October 03, 2013 - 11:59 am:

Thanks for posting Doug & Dave.
How about a picture of your speedster Bud?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Tom Moorehead on Saturday, October 05, 2013 - 09:08 am:

I was looking at the photos and noted the brickyard and thought I would comment on the operation.
It is owned by an 84 year old man named Dan Schultz, who is also the plant manager. He works every day at the plant and is a truly an interesting man.
This is the only 100% coal fired brick plant in the US, operating beehive or periodic kilns. Most operators choose a more modern tunnel kiln.
He employs roughly 40+ dedicated people. Back several years ago, before the brick industry went south when the economy tanked, Dan was building a new office. Instead of using money complete the office, he chose to use the money to keep his folks working. The office has yet to be completed but the employees still have a job.
The state of Indiana is working on forcing him to change to natural gas to comply with pollution requirements in the best interest in public health. Depending on how it all shakes out, he will either spend a million dollars or so to upgrade or potentially shut the plant down.
Another fine example of small towns loosing jobs and without jobs to replace these, locals have to go away to find work.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By David Kriegel on Saturday, October 05, 2013 - 10:12 am:

More pictures. Great time letting non =T drivers try driving slowly on the back gravel roads. They really enjoyed it.


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