A Visitor to the Quonset
Here are some of my take-aways from a visit to the PCHS storage quonset by a knowledgeable Nebraska friend who identified the following: A lever-activated water pump used to deliver water from a tank wagon to steam engines used to power threshing machines.
When we reached the horsedrawn tank wagon further back, it revealed that it was for petroleum, not water, which was a cu…