Steam Traction Archive
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January 1957
ENGINES, ENGINES, AND MORE ENGINES
Aultman-Taylor outfit""
Letters
Steam on our chests""
THE LADIES PAGE
Sacred Heart Church at Dimmick""
FIRST STEAM ENGINE SHOW AT THE HOOKSTOWN GRANGE FAIR
Patterson Construction Co.""
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ANTIQUE ENGINE & THRESHER ASSOCIATION
I HAVE MANY ANTIQUES""
MODEL BUILDERS SECTION--
Western Steam Fiends Association""
A Trip To The Fall Festival
Greatest attraction of the fair""
TRACTOR PAGE
REUNION REPORT""
""H.P."" STARTED IN COAL MINES
ESPECIALLY THE HISTORIES""
FINDING A 6 HP. RUSSELL TRACTION ENGINE
BACK TO MY BOYHOOD""
Minnesota's First
Union Depot St. Paul Co.""
FROM NORTH DAKOTA
Case in Saskatchewan""
MORE SAWMILL PICTURES
Bill Chambers farm""
Ed. Vogel Speaks
Aultman Taylors""
FROM CANADA
Western Development Museum""
Earlene
Elmer says that is the way it has to be done""
POSTCARD
National Threshers Association""
The Frick Company
Mickey in the picture""
March 1957
Earlene
The school marm""
Canada
The Regina Golden Jubilee Exhibition""
MODEL BUILDERS SECTION
Steam Boats""
C. C. CAMPBELL ASKS SOME QUESTIONS
Series of similar Company names and engines""
THE LADIES PAGE
The Pontiac Reunion last Fall""
Pioneer
The Lawrence Porter farm""
A LONG TIME AGO
Chris Busch and in his collection of engines""
Economy
Economy run far excelled the former""
Letters
I was misinformed""
ENGINES, ENGINES, AND MORE ENGINES
Several old steam threshing engines""
Old time county
An acknowledged member of society""
A DECEMBER 1955 LETTER
An Advance catalog for 1911""
PRINT OF AN OLD PICTURE
The Turtle Mountains in southern""
THE OLDWIND POWEREDGRIST MILL
The old Dutch style wind mill""
POSTCARD
The Mt. Pleasant Reunion""
May 1957
Ed. L. Halle Recalls THE DAYS GONE BY
The flywheel was fairly large and had curved spokes""
Letters
Stem Threshing Bee Stages Old-Time Harvest""
THE LADIES PAGE
The vitamin E which is discarded with the germ in the milling of white flour""
The Big Spark Arrester
The engines were fired with straw and the sharp exhaust""
THE TWO BLOWER THRESHER
The single blower as a three inch shaft would operate the blower""
MR. E. R. BRIEN WRITES
The 22 N & S was a dandy and was easy on fuel""
ISAIAH'S PROPHECY COMES TO LIGHT
The old chime whistle the smoke and steam, and see the headlight by night""
ENGINES, ENGINES, AND MORE ENGINES
The Rollag Reunion had stack threshing""
REUNION CENTER AT BILLINGS
Farm Engines and How to Run Them""
Information Please
The chain broke and made the engine go into free-wheeling.""
Steam Engines
A ratchet clutch was installed in each drive wheel""
POST CARDS
Monel tubing hand rails on the rear platform and cat walk on the engine side""
July 1957
Development Of The Traction Engine in America
The traction engine industry more or less intimately, for the past forty years.""
PORT HURON DOUBLE STEAM ENGINES
The remarkable part of this engine is the 90 in. high and .24 in. wide driving wheels.""
POSTCARD
The Model Builders Section of the May-June issue of a model double cylinder stationary engine.""
FROM MODESTO, CALIFORNIA
The engine burned straw and the machine had a 20-bar cylinder.""
POSTCARD
The 50 Case engine was bought from the Case Company.""
Lettters
It' Not a Portable.""
""HAS ALL THE EAR MARKS""
The drive wheels were cast rims, 10"" face with no brace from hub.""
A NEW ASSOCIATION
The Early Tractors have claimed the attention of many.""
Earlene
The children are restless and anxious about their report card.""
CLIPPING FROM THE PRESS
The sight of an old steam thresher one of those huge steel-wheeled tractors.""
STORY OF A TRACTION ENGINE
The old traction engine seemed to know what was happening.""
LETTER
The Ladies Club is just new this year.""
POSTCARD
The burner is a very powerful gun type atomizing oil burner with blower.""
STRAW STACK BUILDER
The days when the threshing rig came along without the blower.""
ENGINES, ENGINES, AND MORE ENGINES
A Worthington Ingersol Rand cooler engine.""
September 1957
""JAUNTS WITH JAMIE""
Arnott Creamery""
I RECKON LIKEWISE-
IRON-MEN ALBUM""
Letters
11-Year-Old Operator-""
Earlene-
Mt. Pleasant is the very first week of school""
MODEL BUILDERS SECTION-
SMASHED A FINGER-""
CRYING ON YOUR SHOULDER-
FIRING A BOILER""
EVOLUTION OF THE NICHOLS & SHEPARD STRAW RACK
Minneapolis for Northwest Thresher Co.""
SO MANY MAKES-
Garden City""
ATOM POWERED LOCOMOTIVES-
Question and answer""
MORE ON BLOWERS
FROM A. E. RIXMANN-""
BURDETTE J. POTTER WRITES-
Cady & Gless-brook engine""
My Trip To The West Central Minnesota Steam Engine Club Reunion
Minneapolis threshing""
TRACTOR PAGE
ORGANIZATION OF NEW STEAM ENGINE ASSOCIATION""
OWNER WAS JOHN MacLEAN-
O. S. Kelly Company""
FROM MT. HOPE, W. VA.-
Garden Ground section""
Wasting Grain
Kernels""
POSTCARD
Jaclede Christy Clay Products Company""
November 1957
THE OLD AND THE NEW
The mill cut accurate lumber right from the start""
Letters
The Saginaw Valley Live Steam Association""
""Johnson's Pot Luck Roundup'
The editors wife reunion""
POSTCARD
The railroad disposes of their old steamers""
RAIN, RAIN GO AWAY
The 14th annual NTA Reunion""
LOTS OF STEAM LOCOMOTIVES-
Collection of steam engines and antiques""
Earlene--
The women folks at the Reunions""
MODEL BUILDERS SECTION--
Wonderful, unforgotten old days of threshing time""
Reunion Report
The seventh annual Old Time Threshers and Saw Mill Operators Reunion""
THE LADIES PAGE
Thank god for your eyes""
GET A HORSE
A band of antelope scamper away from the track""
ANTICIPATION AND JOY-
The Mt. Pleasant Old Threshers Reunion""
SHOCK LOADERS
Two threshing machine operators near Rock Valley""
Midwest Group Holds Eighth Reunion
The repeated return of visitors reunion after reunion""
POSTCARD
The Somerset (Penna.) Sesquicentennial Parade""