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Local man gives 1920s-era steamboat new life

August 18, 2020

By Sarah Brown
Lebanon Local

The boat makes a low chug-chug noise as Sam and Nelson move around the boat ramp at Calkins Park.

PHIL NELSON, right corner, tries the whistle from his steam engine as friends, from left, Dean Jones, Jacob Leckie and Rick Mitchell watch.

Nelson squeezes oil into nooks and crannies on the engine to make sure it doesn’t freeze up.

There’s an old Scout song and a movie about Steamboat Bill,…