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I attended my second MPHS annual meet in 1987. It was held in Kansas City. On my return I drove down to Paris, Arkansas to see if there was still a reported MP steam engine there. It took a while to find it but MP 2522 was sitting there in a park next to a school and it was in the clear with no fence or other obstacles in the way. I spent a whole day climbing all over it and shooting photos of everything. I had two cameras with me, a Canon AT-1 loaded with Kodachrome 64 slide film and the other my daughters Nikon loaded with 400 Kodacolor print film. I shot 49 color slides, 151 color prints and after I used up all of my color print film I stopped and found a store and bought a few rolls of B X W and shot all of them. I don’t think I missed a single rivet on that dude. No one said a word about me climbing all over the thing and I still think that was one of the best days I ever had around a steam engine. I spent so much time there that I had to spend the night in Paris as it got too late to get back on the road.
Bill Herbert
