[TenTec] Rotatable Sterba

[ac5e at comcast.net]

Chuckle! I don't know anyone who has a rotatable Sterba, but according to one story I heard, back in the 1920's an official with the Burlington had a crew build a perfectly circular 2,000 foot diameter railroad track at the end of a wye. The track had a pair of switches for access to the mainline. 

As the Burlington's old truss rod cars were retired this guy had them parked on his circle track. When he got almost the whole loop filled he had 70 foot poles and 10 Kw generators set up on four flats he had cut into the string equidistant around his race track, and strung a rhombic from the poles. When he'd decide to take a few days to play radio he'd take an engine crew out there to turn his beam antenna, set up in the old caboose, and have at it. 

However, sometime during the Hoover years the Burlington board found out about this misappropriation of property and canned the guy. And sold all the old truss rod cars for scrap. 

73  Pete Allen  AC5E






> I've got a Scout. You know of any rotatable Sterba Curtains I could try it 
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