The area around the racecouse had many 'non-engine' stalls which we had a look through. One of the delights of having a free (albeit tight) schedule is that you can wander along at your own speed and have a good dig through the bric-a-brac on sale. Rita in particular wanted to spend a bit of time in the non-engine stalls to see what goodies she could come up with.
Some of the engines that we saw and photographed were really superb in their restoration and presentation, two of these were the keystone hopper York engine on its trolley (cart) and the Fay & Bowen marine engine and sterngear. Both were superbly restored and finished and were a real delight to see. There were others as well, the Stewart family display being another very high standard display.
Engines for sale ranged from little air-cooled Maytags up to pretty serious sized stuff, and even a large steam pump had been dragged onto the field in the Trading Post area. A lot of these were new to our eyes, so we tried to take as much info down as we could, but failed. There was simply too much to see and photograph, so we left out the notes and carried on photographing everything that we saw of interest.
Most of the vendors were happy to let us take pictures, a few were a bit diffident but came through once they knew we were from the UK. Most were pretty friendly, something that I have mentioned before, and it was a recurrent theme all through the show, we never saw an argument or heard a cross word while we were there.
