Always take the back roads

[Bernhard]

A nice find from my vacation, at Hallamore Lake near Clearwater, Canada.





   
The mechanic must have taken a few liberties. Especially the mounting of the fan is quite bizarre.

Bernhard

[Hauk]

A nice find from my vacation, at Hallamore Lake near Clearwater, Canada.





   
The mechanic must have taken a few liberties. Especially the mounting of the fan is quite bizarre.

Bernhard

Great find!
Always nice to see pictures of old tractors.

[Barney]

Very Nice - Some more for my library
Barney   

[Bill Gill]

Quite a tractor find, Bernhard.
Two thoughts about the "fan"
1. Could the vehicle be a very early prototype design for Ian Fleming's"Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang"?
B. Could the fan be mounted there to keep the exhaust from blinding and choking the driver?
III. Could the spinning blades be a simple whirligig to amuse the operator during long boring sessions of tending the fields? 

[Hydrostat]

Doesn't it take a lot of pressure to inflate those tires?

[Scratchman]

Here's ten photos from the state of Nevada.





















Gordon Birrell

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gordonbirrell/

[Les Tindall]

This is a great thread and series of photos. Gordon what is the truck in the second pic for? Is it a mobile drill?  Another that inspires a model.
Les Tindall 

[Les Tindall]

We have "back roads" here on the Isle of Wight, a couple of examples attached.
Les Rindall

[Bernhard]

Another find from my vacations: a H.K. Porter B-P-O compressed air locomotive.



It is exhibited in the Bankhead ghost town near Banff, Canada. However, it did its service at the Canamore Mine nearby.

I have wanted to build a model of a Porter locomotive for some time, as a comparison piece to the EIMCO 401 (see here), which is powered by a 5 cylinder radial piston air motor. Now I think it's definitely time for me to go to the drawing board for it.

Bernhard