{"id":51,"date":"2009-07-01T15:55:42","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T22:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2011-06-17T17:57:30","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T00:57:30","slug":"steam-powered-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/01\/steam-powered-toys\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam Powered Toys"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steam Powered Toys\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday afternoon, during a recent high school reunion weekend in PA,\u00a0 <\/span>we drove to Auburn Heights, Delaware to check out Stanley Steamer Cars and \u201cSteamin\u201d Trains in a beautiful preserve that was the ancestral home of Tom Marshall.\u00a0 He has donated the property and his \u201ctoy collection\u201d to the Delaware Parks Department.\u00a0 Louie Mandich was the host for this really unique and fascinating experience.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>A volunteer named Dan gave us a lift up the hill in his little jitney and RoseAnne was our tour guide.\u00a0 She literally let down the barriers so I could feel everything from the really cool 1910 Stanley Steamer car from bumper to steam whistle, to brakes, to pistons, to water tanks, and kerosene lanterns.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>In the parlor display, I\u00a0 touched the top-of-the-line coal\/wood stove with nickel high-lights, dough box and\u00a0 fire-box.\u00a0 I learned the difference<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

between a flat iron and a round iron, a milk pail and lunch pail, and even checked-out the cherry pitter.\u00a0 I also have a certificate to prove I conducted<\/span><\/p>\n

the steam-powered orchestra.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Mr. Marshall did a demonstration on how to fire up a steam powered car with it\u2019s intricate valves, fuel tank, water reservoir,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

levers, and burners to heat the water.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>There were opportunities for young and old to ride a steam powered bus, model train, and electric car.\u00a0 The steam powered popcorn popper was complete with a little clown<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cpulling\u201d the lever to make the whole thing work.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>There were several antique cars on display and I was chagrinned to find that a 1952 Chevy was among them.\u00a0 My first car was a brown and tan 1954 Chevy\u00a0 we called Charlie!\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Unfortunately, it rained the whole time we were touring in and out of the buildings and grounds, but we had a lot of fun and really appreciated<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

how accommodating Dan, RoseAnne and all the volunteers were.\u00a0 I heartily recommend a visit to the Steam Museum the next time you\u2019d like a special trip with or without your<\/span><\/p>\n

children\/grand-children.\u00a0\u00a0 For more information, contact: <\/span><\/p>\n

www.auburnheights.org. <\/span><\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2009 by Kate Chamberlin<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steam Powered Toys\u00a0 Saturday afternoon, during a recent high school reunion weekend in PA,\u00a0 we drove to Auburn Heights, Delaware to check out Stanley Steamer Cars and \u201cSteamin\u201d Trains in a beautiful preserve that was the ancestral home of Tom Marshall.\u00a0 He has donated the property and his \u201ctoy collection\u201d to the Delaware Parks Department.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}