the Amish also came to cheer on the 4014, in Northern Indiana, near Argos, and Ironwood Crossing, june 5th. They were watching a steam train “for the first time in their lives”

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10240634740341931&set=a.1230532759441

name something that does not exist:

 an Amish gas station

amazing... someone in Platteville, Wisconsin has a pair of mules that move a 3 wheel, steel wheel (no pneumatic tires) type of forklift to unload a semi trailer

Looks Amish, so, why the motor that powers the hydraulics? Man, they cheat! 

see the video at https://cdllife.com/2022/video-truck-gets-unloaded-by-a-pair-of-mules/

good article about Amish horse buggies, and how they can incorporate some tech, but only if they first get the church to do a review so it won't affect their "simple" life. Very interesting

 https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/car-technology/a24666/how-the-amish-build-a-buggy/

Police in Ohio had a curious encounter with two Amish men over the weekend, pulling over their buggy to discover it had been rigged with a massive stereo system. (thanks Gary!)

Deputies stopped the buggy around 1 a.m. Sunday and found a 12-pack of Michelob Ultra on top of the vehicle with several open bottles inside.

The men's religion; which fundamentally avoids technology, electricity, engines, cars, drugs and alcohol, bailed out of the buggy so fast that the horse continued pulling the empty coach down the road.

As of June 2018, the Amish population in North America stood at an estimated 330,000, an increase of nearly 4 percent on the previous year, according to the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College.

https://www.wkbn.com/news/local-news/trumbull-co-sheriffs-deputies-pull-over-amish-buggy-with-stereo-system
https://www.10tv.com/article/amish-buggy-stereo-system-beer-pulled-over-ohio-deputy-2019-sep

Religion in vehicles part 2... making the tractor acceptable to the ultra religious, by switching to steel wheels! (getting a 100 year old steel wheel tractor isn't such a useful idea I suppose) Thanks Marc!

The Groffdale Conference Mennonites don't drive automobiles, Nolt said. They travel by horse and buggy. Steel wheels ensure that tractors are not used as transportation, and that, is a reaction to when in the 1930s, tractor makers were trying to appeal to a broader catagory of farmer that might buy a tractor that was also able to drive into town.

you might recall my posts of those types of tractor truck/cars about 10 years ago http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/06/1938-minneapolis-moline-model-udlx.html

or you might have instantly thought of my favorite, the Minneapolis Moline UDLX

Anyway, in Mitchell and Howard counties of Iowa, Mennonite ministers have allowed the practice of placing steel cleats/wheels on tractors and other self-propelled farm machinery, as a religious regulation of the Groffdale Conference Mennonite Church.

They explained it keeps their farms small, and it keeps families at home working together.

http://www.agrinews.com/archives/mennonites-say-there-is-good-reason-for-steel-wheels/article_439bbf98-f83b-58d8-8236-4ba5b1d87595.html

Religion in vehicular use... holy smokes, this is all new to me! The Horning Church of Black-bumper Weaverland Mennonites split from their church in 1927 over the use of cars, but covered up the flashy chrome with black paint.

The Weaverland Old Order Mennonite Conference emerged from the Old Order division, that occurred in 1893 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania over the question of English language preaching. The trigger for the split was the a quarrel about the installation of a pulpit, vs traditional preacher's table.

Those Weaverland Mennonites opposed to cars became known as the Wenger Mennonites, more formally known as the Groffdale Conference Mennonite Church

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaverland_Old_Order_Mennonite_Conference
http://darbyjane.blogspot.com/2014/08/mennonite.html

Weaverland Mennonites are one of three groups in the Old Order groups which permit automobiles, the others are the Wisler Mennonite Conference and the Markham-Waterloo Mennonite Conference.

 Allowing cars and modern farm equipment since 1927 has brought about a major division among the Old Order Mennonites, who still do not drive cars.

The Weaverland group bases bases their doctrine and many church practices on the Dortrecht Confession of Faith, drawn in 1632 in Holland.

And now I finally know what grandma meant by Pennsylvania Dutch!

http://thirdway.com/glossary/weaverland-mennonites-black-bumper/

The church permits a period of exploration of American life known as Rumspringa, it's a rite-of-passage period for Old Order Amish when teens have time away from the religion, to get a good look at the crazy life the rest of the country lives, where they can decide to split from family and religion and head out into the wide world, or head back and join the church and spend the rest of their life committed to their conservative and strict religious life. About 90% stick with their religion

a Rumspringa practice developed by teenagers driving black cars in the 1960s was that when they thought they could get away with it, they installed radios in their cars and turned their white sidewalls out.

As communion approached, they would turn their white sidewalls back to the inside of the car, so only black tires showed. They also would remove their radios, or at least their more visible antennas.

Rumspringa for Amish youth normally begins around the age of 14 to 16 and ends when a youth chooses baptism within the Amish church, or instead leaves the community

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumspringa
http://lancasteronline.com/opinion/black-bumper-mennonites-turn-their-white-sidewalls-out/article_95f9e6ab-d622-5160-bab7-ab2c7ea5b51a.html

Thanks Gary!