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Above photo from
http://steampunkvehicles.tumblr.com/ ![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHIw3DjJVZI9RCwxmi0jOukkywWQzIedC0Nk-pZ-9kn-GzCnQHNyCrl2eycWJNmw5p7hG2qYQlQLc1FDV4Xe2hrQLryJLvIahqRcvHgZ9TfAp2w4_iy1_2In2EXMdE2gZ5yC9Fe00iNds/s400/_11_Scanned_Photo-41_edited.jpg)
Walter Christie was involved in the engineering of many other vehicles, steamships, submarines, aircraft and fire engines coincidentally, and this past weekend I and Justacargal were examining the one at the Nethercutt museum just North of Los Angeles in the San Fernando valley:
http://justacargal-s.blogspot.com/2011/03/1913-christie-fire-engine.html ![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK_qXwjX563sLDjIYWnM0Tutoluh9lus9azovepvmmbEgeZxzCSycst65D7pJmD1Qd2m6c3duj-Yam7NNqLSMJuOn76ULC5xnSYpekdsloJgqStOswZICqIQnBHtVP4lmGfXZgBdPD2yo/s400/tumblr_liobg4AeBt1qgvvn1o1_1280.jpg)
the 3 some of race cars at the 1908 Minnesota state fair is from
http://steampunkvehicles.tumblr.com/
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At one time, it had a second engine on the rear wheels, in the same transverse powering it's own axle
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