Hi
Just a little info on this Fair. It is a county fair that has been around for over 125 years ( that's a long time for the Midwest). It is filled with animal competitions, crafts, carnival, surrey races, antique hit -miss engines (where we set up), antique tractors, quilt competition, canning competition, otherwise everything at a county fair. It is in a huge oak grove (lots of shade) runs five days, and typically draws 150,000 to 200,00 people depending on the weather.
Now I also included a picture of one of the finest 15" ga steam locomotives around, a 4-6-4 Burlington Hudson 3000, for the larger modelers among us. It was finished in 1974, and build by a local man by the name of Augie Otto. He did all the patterns, machining, and boiler work ( at the time he built it he was a certified boiler builder). It was his second locomotive the first being a 4-4-4 Wagner built in the early 50's. He also did a 1/2 scale Case 50.
Bob