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Above photo from
http://steampunkvehicles.tumblr.com/ ![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgADKUka9ing6c2F6zUF15_OonUhkxd2oCcQ0Kt5hE7sOrR4dPbnLfb6VYf9mUAAkuZLDEuKxazyMxnD-nTPAZArLf3Y8ap-rtec5LLFySl86JKnZXDFZkIoKDcg7FCIRH8bUn-ZtD5lG8/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/AVvXsEgBSAKWBPdbuPqEwjD7U0jE-LuD3xsOQiQV9AR-SW1eHJTzOdnYdrdiep0vkaKrJhr7ktZeqg_zfIuWJBrOGv0nbXJyrH6LlMK-dlsF2bUKIoSGWYn3OXO_0RtvDyulqcMYceodZrFAxSc/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