[Thursday] Bob Lindquist Steam Engines

[Randall Snow]

I've never heard a word about this. My first thought was they had bad
contact info, perhaps Fred's email. But if 3 museums are in the mix and
nothing happened, then I would guess they never actually try to contact
anyone. Let's see if Ken or anyone has knowledge of it and reach back out
to them. The boiler in particular could be of great long-term usage to us.

On Mon, Jan 21, 2019, 4:19 PM Michael Thompson via Thursday <
thursday at newsm.org wrote:

> This just was received through the NEWSM Facebook page.
>
> *In July of 2017 Robert Lindquist of Nescopek, PA, died and willed a few
> stationary steam engines and a boiler to engine groups. His estate was
> instructed to offer them to the Connecticut Antique Machinery Association,
> New England Wireless and Steam Museum, and Rough and Tumble Engineers
> Historical Association. A friend of his asked me if I knew what is
> happening as the engines and boiler are still sitting there at Lindquist's
> former property. I told him I'd ask each museum if they have been offered
> the pieces and if they plan to pursue them. Does any of this sound like
> something NEWSM is involved with? We're worried that nobody wants them and
> the estate's lawyer might then scrap them, etc, but we want to check with
> the three organizations that the equipment was offered to before
> approaching the lawyer. Maybe something is in the works and we don't need
> to talk to him? You'd probably remember if NEWSM was offered these. The two
> big engines are both Fitchburgs. One is a belt drive engine, I'm guessing
> with a ten or twelve foot flywheel, and the other is directly connected to
> a dynamo. The boiler is at least 100 HP and a modern package boiler, oil or
> gas fired, and working when Lindquist died in 2017. Everything is under a
> canopy. I am looking forward to hearing back.  *
>
> Did we ever discuss these engines?
>
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> Michael Thompson
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