I read with interest Matt Winters article about steam donkeys (Steam donkeys have romance that computers lack, The Daily Astorian, Jan. 7) and have some oberservations to offer: 1. You can never know ...

There are guys you know who you are who know infinitely more than anybody probably needs to about steam donkeys. Im not one of you, though God knows I have my own obscure boyish obsessions. I recently ...

Hundreds of North State school children did battle last week with a 12,000-pound hissing, clacking, fire eating piece of ancient machinery — and of course they lost. But since it was only a tug-of-war ...

Look out. Doug Moody is in town. Buffalo,Aeos favorite cosmic cowboys, our very own sweathogs of the rodeo, The Steam Donkeys, return to Allentown for the annual Halloween Nightmare On Allen show at 9 ...

FRITZ: I DON’T KNOW WHETHER OR NOT YOU OWKN THIS, BUT A GUY FROM THIS TOWN NAMED JOHN THGHOU ERBE INVENTED THE STEAM DONKEY. IMPRESSED? YOU SHOULD BE, BECAUSE THIS INVENTION REVOLUTIONIZED LOGGING IN ...

Once up on a time, way back in the ’80s, it might rightly have been said that the only two types of music I didn’t like were country and polka. Fortunately for me, the Steam Donkeys changed all that. ...

We imagine loggers as burly men in calk boots, wool shirts and pants trimmed nearly to their boot tops to keep them from snagging on the brush and leftover bramble of their work. We don’t think of ...

A turn of the century, hulking piece of machinery that helped quicken the pace of logging in the Pacific Northwest was dedicated to a Amboy museum Saturday, concluding a project nearly two decades in ...

Two of the oldest operating steam-powered locomotives, both used for logging on the North Coast will be in operation for Dolbeer Donkey Days, taking place Saturday and Sunday at Fort Humboldt State ...

To make way for moving the historic locomotive on display in Scotia — which is scheduled to take place Tuesday — a large steam donkey, known as the Washington 12 x 17 Duplex Flyer, was partially ...