You can tell we live in a logger’s country
When you can drive down country roads and come across the remains of a steam donkey engine, still attached to the log sled (made up of a couple of logs that, if the wood was still any good, would be nice old-growth timber) just sitting by the side of the road.
This one probably is not restorable; it looks like when the donkey was dumped someone stripped off not just the boiler, but the cylinders as well (and being abandoned by the side of the road means that the carcass of the winding gear has been pretty well picked over by antiquers.)
To verify that it wasn't easily restorable, we brought in an expert mechanic to look over the wreck, and were assured that it would be more trouble that it was worth to load 2 tons of metal into our Prius and take it home so we could start logging the Westmoreland hills.
Dust Mite's professional opinion is that we can't repair it and make it better.