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advertise it in the collectors’ magazine “Iron Horse.”
For now the engine sits in the Gentrys’ back yard and Willie has another interest.he’s gone fishing.
But Barbara says he’s proud of the pleasure his engine has brought others. It won the special trophy in last summer’s Flint Hill firemen’s parade when guest judge and grand marshal Miss Virginia Lisa Aliff chose it as her favorite entry. “He didn’t have any idea of getting the trophy,” Barbara says. “He just wanted to take it out where people could see it.”
Barbara jokes that some of the spectators thought the boiler unit was a moonshine still, but she knows how it works and explains that it is too powerful for chopping firewood — it should be used to cut logs and it’s strong enough to attach to a grinder.
The engine itself is stamped by the Erie City Iron Works, Erie, Pa. It’s probably about 60 years old Barbara says.
The whole machine was assembled with parts that Willie gathered together from collectors’ shows here and there. He added injectors, gauges, and seven manhole covers. The boiler was a product of the Lookout Boiler Company of Chattanooga.
For now, it isn’t going anywhere. Early shoppers can get a view of it from the parking lot behind the Flint Hill bank.
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