Steam Traction Archive
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January 1954
FROM GRAFTON, ILLINOIS
Nichols & Shepard Company merged with Oliver Farm Equipment Co""
""FIENDS"" MEET AT BUSCH ANNUAL DAY
Attendance of Fiends was noted from six different states""
THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT AN ENGINE
Indescribable something about a steam engine""
A STEAM MOBILE
W.A.Laird was born with a Buffalo Pitts steam engine.""
FIRST PRIZE WINNER
September 7th, 1953, Labor Day Parade ""
Wasting Grain
Any amount may be wasted by the harvester or in the handling of the grain""
REPORT OF THE 3rd Annual Reunion ANTIQUE ENGINE & THRESHERS ASSOCIATION
Different events were scheduled every 15 minutes for the remainder of the day""
First Annual Reunion OF THE Northeastern Wisconsin Steam Club
First threshermen's reunion was held at the Kewaunee County Fair Grounds in Luxemburg""
ASSUMPTION CENTENNIAL
centennial celebration started September 24th and lasted three days""
Second Reunion OF THE PIONEER ENGINEER CLUB
Pioneer Engineer Club of Indiana was held at the Rush County Fair Grounds""
REPORT OF ROUGH & TUMBLE ENGINEERS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION REUNION
The threshing demonstration began with real old time flailing""
WE DON'T PLEASE THEM ALL
Fricks and a lot of that antique stuff ""
""KIND FRIENDS""
Bascome B. Clark, who edited the well-liked American Threshermen""
LIVE STEAM CLUB STEAMED UP OVER HOBBY
The Live Steam Club is an organization of guys who are just plain nuts about steam engines""
PLOWING BUFFALO GRASS SOD IN THOMAS COUNTY KANSAS IN 1906
County Seat of Thomas County, located on the Rock Island Railroad""
FROM STEAM ENGINE JOE
Sunflower Wooden Wheels Aultman & Taylor Steam Engine""
WOULDN'T BE WITHOUT IT
Birdsell clover huller and a 12 roll Safety Fodder Shredder""
SONG of the IRON MEN
Hunt up the old cream pitcher and spare me out a dime""
Post Cards
The Heider Tractor at the Mt. Pleasant Reunion""
March 1954
THE McCLURE-WADDILL REUNION
The McClure-Waddill Threshermen's Reunion was held at Colchester.""
A Sawmill Poem
One hay-wire sawmill.""
A Brief Bit of CASE ENGINE & THRESHER HISTORY
Jerome Increase Case is the founder of J. I. Case Co.""
Report of the PONTIAC REUNION -1953
Pontiac Town has a number of pleasant parks, well-kept residential sections.""
THE COMING OF THE HART PARRS
The Hart Parr 60 tractor was built for plowing and heavy drawbar work.""
A NEW BOOK ABOUT THE GRAND OLD STEAM TRACTION ENGINE
Doctor Reynold M. Wik's new book covers steam power from the beginning.""
LET'S GET GOING
Russel Gay owns an engine and boiler out of an old Mobile steam car.""
A Message From Fred
Mr. Steve was the separator foreman in Harrison Machine Works.""
History of an Engine
D. W. Batterman purchased the twin-cylinder Frick traction engine.""
MODEL BUILDERS PAGE
A model oscillating steam engine is designed by William Graham.""
Forty Years a Mill Man
William Wallingford's first engine was a 12 hp Aultman chain drive traction.""
FROM BALDWIN CITY, KAN.
An Idea that man conceived in the development of modern machinery.""
FIREMAN AND ENGINEER
The Great Northern Railroad locomotive fireman and engineer.""
A BOYS FANCY TURNS TO STEAM ENGINES
Russell threshing wheat was the first threshing with steam engine power.""
HERE IN RED RIVER VALLEY
Wigdahl was interested in seeing this outfit at work.""
Dimensions for the 150hp Case Engine
The dimensions for 150 hp Case engine.""
THRESHING SIXTY YEARS AGO
The machine that did a large amount of work was a small Chalfant thresher.""
SONG OF THE IRON MEN
The Braggart.""
POST CARDS
The 1907 Ford Tractors were one of Henry Ford's early experimental tractors.""
July 1954
EXPERIENCES OF ONE-TIME RUMLEY SERVICE MAN
Model F Oil Pull and a five gang Oliver plow and deliver to a local farmer""
FROM CORDOVA, ILLINOIS
Toledo Steam Car and the water was pumped by another small engine""
JUST A FEW LINES
Article giving the history on the complete Nichols Shepard line""
STEAM PLOWING 45 YEARS AGO
32 hp double simple Reeves and this engine was a honey""
PRESIDENT OF FARM EQUIPMENT COMPANY DIES
Banting member of Collingwood Presbyterian Church Rotary Club""
HAS HAD 36 STEAM ENGINES
It is 6x8 and shows the complete rig and crew""
CAN'T WAIT FOR NEXT ISSUE
farmers got rich using steam and went broke using combines""
ACCOUNT
Western Steam Fiends Association with copy of program""
HUBER THRESHING ENGINE
1953 while the engine was threshing wheat""
THE OLD RAIL FENCE
To guard a crop of corn or flax to spin""
A PERSONAL NOTE
My resistance to cold is no greater than to heat""
A HISTORY of the BAKER COMPANY
American Steam Traction and to A. D. Baker""
A HISTORY of the BAKER COMPANY
The great improvements made in threshing machines at the turn of the century""
SONG OF THE IRON MEN
Cows to pail for cream to pay the mortgage""
MODEL MAKING
Making models of the old familiar makes of steam traction engines""
""POP READY TO BLOW""
Engine and boiler out of an old Mobile steam car""
FROM COSBOY, MISSOURI
The Russell separator was also hard to beat""
POST CARD
Steam threshermen in England and the very last one in these parts""
September 1954
MRS. B. EARLENE RITZMAN
Mrs. Ritzman is a Teacher and teaches third grade class in Enola Schools""
A HISTORY of the BAKER COMPANY
World War I with their Lessons on Fuel Economies""
ACCOUNT OF THE NATIONAL THRESHERS 1954 REUNION
Report of the Tenth Annual Reunion of the National Threshers Association""
AN EXCELLENT ARTICLE
Threshing Demonstration with the Case Horse Power Machine""
MICHIGAN LIVE STEAM CLUB MEETS
3-Day Reunion of the Michigan Live Steam Club""
CAN'T TAKE PART
Eyes of the News-Herald""
THE ADVANCE CROSS COMPOUND ENGINE
Cylinders of the Advance Tandem Compound Advance Engine""
""GREW UP"" WITH THE STEAM TRACTION ENGINE
Cooper-Bessemer Corporation, present-day Builders of Diesel, Natural Gas Engines""
FROM BAXTER, IOWA
Congregational Church Mens Club is Renting 200 Acres""
YOUNGEST SUBSCRIBER
Dandy Freehand Drawing of an 18 HP Altman Taylor""
LIKED HOLT MATERIAL
Articles Picturing and Describing the Holt Tractors""
NOW IT CAN BE TOLD
History of the Largest Steam Traction Engines""
FAVORITE MAGAZINE
Wood Bros. Historical and Commemorative Book""
""EXHAUST ECHOES""
Days of the Steam Plowing Age""
SONG OF THE IRON MEN
Travel Slower than a S-W-I-S-H, this Pokey Farmer""
LIKES MODEL PAGE
Floyd Clymers Album of Historical Steam Traction Engines""
Post card
The Begining of the 1953 Pontiac Parade""
November 1954
""EXHAUST ECHOES""
From the Days of the Steam Plowing Age""
BUILDS STEAM ENGINE FROM BLUEPRINT IN HIS HEAD
Sturdy little engine modeled after the old Nichols and Shepard steam engine""
CONDENSED REPORT OF THE ROUGH & TUMBLE ENGINEERS HISTORICAL REUNION
Cafeteria kept running full blast throughout the rain""
A Trip TO THE Fall Festival
Pageant was given depicting the history of Holt County""
RECEIVES FIRST COPY
Articles of interest in the letters of Old Timers""
FROM AN ENGLISH FRIEND
Collection enhanced by fine books as ""American Horse Drawn Vehicles""""
THE REAL THING
Operating a six head block saw mill with a 25 hp. Huber engine""
MISSED THE SCRAP PILE
Engine that missed the scrap pile""
STEAM OPERATOR FOR 50 YEARS
Running a Peerless engine on a sawmill""
THROUGH THE CHANGES
Threshing Day with a blackened engine man arriving at daybreak to get up steam""
""KEEP IT UNDER CONTROL""
Frank like Old diagrams and articles on old reverse gears""
GORDON LEE WRITES
ALBUM a source of more real pleasure than any other similar and comparable source""
The Change Over FROM STEAM TO GAS ENGINES AND SMALL THRESHERS
J. I. Case seems to be the only one that survived the change from steam to gas""
AND THE MEALS WE GOT
Meal time at one of the shift-less places""
OPERATES TWO MACHINES
Every year threshing about 25 or 30 thousand bushels of grain""
YOUNGER STEAM FAN
Russell, 16 hp., in use at a sorghum mill for grinding cane""
The Barefooted Boy
Threshing engine used to come A-rambling down the road""
STEAM ENGINES OF UNIQUE CONSTRUCTION
Matthias Baldwin built a 5 hp. vertical engine""
Threshing Crew
Men will lose a place where ;friendship grew""
FROM BUTLER, OHIO
Old Cooper steam engine, built in Mt. Vernon, Ohio""
SONG OF THE IRON MEN
Teams and drivers idly waiting for the signal that meant ""go""""
POST CARDS
1880 Robert L. George engine made at New Lisbon, New York""
POST CARDS
1880 Robert L.George engine made at New Lisbon, New York""