The Great Oregon Steam-Up....

[Smj]

The next two weekends in Brooks Oregon (Just a bit North of Salem).

If you into old and new machinery/tractors, with all the sites and smells of an old time country fair, this is the place to be.

Were else can you see things like this:

Is that FOUR generations??

Or this:


There's actually many better more interesting things to see, it's just that these two pics made me laugh.



There's a giant flea market with all kinds of "STUFF", and a building filled antiques and collectables. There's all the old food booths, like the Kiwanas (sp) and Lions Club, I bet they're using the same grills they were back in the '60s too! The scale model railroad people have a fantastic set-up, with live steam locomotives and rides for the public. A tractor pull (even a kid tractor pull with a peddle tractor), and all the machinery parades around the grounds at noon. Lots of history here folks.

This has been a must do for the wife and I for 10 years or so, and it seem to get better and better every year. There is a website I believe that you could google for more of the particulars.

See you there next Saturday!

Smj

[Gus Orviston]

Cool.. my grandfathers old steam trackers and mill are there.. last name is lorenzen on the plaque. he was still running his steam tractor on his farm in dundee when I was a boy.

gus