Steam Traction Archive
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January 1960
EARLENE
The Early American Steam Engine Club of Stoverstown""
SOOT IN THE FLUES
Grand Canyon in Arizona is beyond verbal description.""
Fifty-Eight Years a Thresherman
Shrill toot when the largest of the two Negroes apparently the engineer""
CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA STEAM ENGINE REUNION
Elmer Larson scale model Oil Pull really attracted a lot of attention""
Firing With Green Slabs, Etc.
Firing With Green Slabs""
Letters
20-70 Nichols & Shepard engine just finishing a job of threshing""
Letters
Steamed from Gyp Water which part the cause of gray hair to a steam engineer""
THE LADIES PAGE
Aunt Maggie made the most delicious sugar cookies ""
Christmas Spirit
A real Santa Claus was a part of the program to hand out the candy""
MODEL BUILDERS SECTION--
Einer H. Tostenson""
Dairyland Driftings
Wichita Falls Texas. He is now a diesel instruction engineer""
Cleat Tracks In The Sands Of Time
Reeves then a Rumely and finally a Baker 21 hp. for power""
A LEGEND OF SUWANEE
A Legend Of Suwanee""
Postcards
President of the National Threshers Association""
Postcards
1956. The engine on the mill is Forest Williamson 23-90 Baker""
Postcards
Threshing scene of my 25 hp Buffalo-Pitts steam engine""
Postcards
Huber new in 1924. Stack removed for clearance in transport""
March 1960
EARLENE
Old Santa was on the job and he knew his business.""
SOOT IN THE FLUES
The East Pennsboro High School football team fellows are a grand bunch of guys.""
FRICK ENGINE
The Treadmill developed considerably less than one horsepower continuously.""
The Grand Old Steam Engines
The Grand Old Men had given their lives to the cause of their nation.""
FROM THE FAR WEST -
The Ranch is situated in a most beautiful but very rugged section.""
The Story of WoodMan
O. W. Bowen, known as Ori, is an original Steam Thresher man.""
WALTER P. CHRYSLER
Chrysler's earlier years were spent in the Union Pacific Roundhouse at Ellis.""
THE OLD STEAMERS CAME BACK TO THE NEW YORK STATE FAIR
New York State is the birthplace of the great Farm Machinery Industry.""
TENTH REUNION AT MT. PLEASANT, IOWA
Tenth annual Midwest Old Settlers & Threshers Association reunion.""
Cartoon
A Museum in Michigan loaned a 15 hp Westinghouse steam engine.""
The Ladies Page
Country Echoes.""
PAUSE FOR PRAYER
When all the world seems dark.""
PIONEERING THE WEST
A 32 horse-power Reeves steam traction engine with full plowing equipment.""
Steam Power
The atomic power has only been utilized by Steam Engines.""
REUNION REPORT
The Miami Valley Steam Threshers Association, Inc.""
EARL ESTIMATES
Earl says that he receives many letters from fellow hobbyists.""
Dairyland Driftings
All most every town in Buncker Hill had a cider mill.""
Third Annual Reunion
Tri-State Historical Steam Engine Association, Inc.""
MORE OPINIONS
LeRoy is right in every way about the Marsh and the Case Wolf valve gear.""
POEM FOR MR. BUCKMASTER
Harry pent 15 years behind the throttle from 1910 through 25 years.""
""AS THE PILE DRIVER TOLD IT""
Steam engines comes the nearest to being like flesh and blood.""
History
The Wind stacker Story.""
THE SONG OF THE STEAM ENGINEER
Mrs Margith's favorite is the Avery Undermounted Engine.""
Post Card
A Century Model Baker 20-80 was built in 1915.""
May 1960
A LITTLE STRONG! --
The Radio, TV, and Advertising all use superlatives""
EARLENE
Many fine comments on Mrs. Mae Baber's ""Country Echoes""
SOOT IN THE FLUES
Everyone is anxiously waiting the spring time""
CALAMITY OF OLD BLACK BILL
Finishing up another years crop of thrashing""
OH! THE LIFE OF AN ENGINEER
Book of poems off the press called Fireside Poems""
FOND MEMORIES -
Memories of more than forty years ago.""
Five Men From Five States
Example of how the Grand Old Steam Engines can be Friendship Builders""
EXPLOSION!
Two steam engines at the County Fair in Grantsburg""
MILLER WRITES OF CAROLINA
Earlier system of dragging log and saw-milling in North Carolina""
PIONEER ENGINEERS CLUB REPORT
11th Annual Reunion on the grounds of the Rush Co. Conservation Club""
TOO MUCH PRESSURE
Wrecking a perfectly good engine without going over the limit""
DARKE COUNTY STEAM THRESHER'S ASSOCIATION
1959 Steam Engine Show held at Greenville""
DROVE TRACTOR DOWN THE TRACK
George A. Findley in critical condition at a Mankato hospital""
DALTON STEAM ENGINE SHOW Dalton, Minnesota
Lake Region Pioneer Thresherman's Association Show""
CAPE THRESHER
Cape thresher equipped with a gearless type wind stacker and Ruth feeder""
44 YEARS A STEAM THRESHERMAN
Russell separator with a blower and weigher""
WHAT IS IT?
A tie that binds, mutual love for a steam engine""
A NEW SUBSCRIBER
Rumley oil pull, never was like the old steamer""
The Ladies Page
White striped spring flowers which grow from bulbs and spread readily""
STARTED SOMETHING!
Gil always wanted to stop by Antique Shops""
Dairyland Driftings
Art Meisner of Stillwater, Minnesota, brought up his copies of Iron-Men Album""
THE WICHITA SHOW
Lyman Knapps participation did a great deal to make the show a success""
Buying an Engine
Old Advance Engine was worn out""
REPORT
Threshing Party on the Elmer Egbert farm""
Obituaries
Roy Edward Kite was a member of the I.O.O.F Lodge 430""
Post Card
Wallis and Steevens Originally built as a tractor for road haulage work""
July 1960
EARLENE
Class of First Graders in the Enola Schools""
SOOT IN THE FLUES
Traction Engine Troubles makes a nice companion to the Steam Engine Guide""
Edaville Railroad Museum
Wonders of Auto and Kentucky Rifle Museums""
FROM OKLAHOMA
1912 European 2 Cylinder Steam Engine used on Carousel in Amsterdam""
Tracing History
Miniature Locomotive Engine used with a Threshing Machine""
THE TRAILER
Outfit Mounted on a 1935 Chevrolet Chassis""
OUR MODEL OIL PULL
1926 International Harvester 1 hp Gasoline Engine with Throttling Governor""
MIRACLE ENGINEER AND MECHANIC LOUDOUN RYAN
Mr. Pouche completed constructing a Miniature Steam Traction Engine""
The Ladies Page
Little Cindy Lous Arrival came Via a Pink and Blue Card""
WILL MY DREAM COME TRUE?
In Indiana Lived a Small Boy with a Big Dream""
TEEN-AGE LETTER
Steam Engine and Thresher Man Reunions of 1960""
Obituaries
Ernest P. Stegemoller died in his home at Napoleon, Indiana""
Dairy land Driftings
Early Day Gas Engine and Tractor Association""
ILLIANA SPRING POP-OFF
Illiana Steam and Hobby Club held their Fifth Spring Pop-Off""
Midwest Central Railroad
Progress Report of the Midwest Central Railroad""
ABOUT THE CAPE SEPARATOR
Arndt of Noel, has an Article on the Cape Separator""
Post Card
Second Annual Steam Threshing Demonstration on the Westergard""
September 1960
Earlene
Elmer has lived long enough to know that when women get together""
SOOT IN THE FLUES
The poorest man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream""
Past Operators
The 25 hp single engine built by M. Rumely Co.""
THE BIG CHANGE-OVER FROM STEAM TO GAS ENGINES AND SMALL THRESHERS
Steam Engines, that were good for another 10 or 15 years and easily worth $1000.00""
Tippy Hydro Gets A New Face
Tippy Dam was known as Junction Dam after its construction in 1918 ""
STEAM SHOVELS
Shovel itself is mounted on four, four-wheeled chain driven bogies""
Case for The Corn Husker and Silo Filler
The Illinois College of Agriculture had run some tests on dry fodder silage""
COMMENTS BY LeROY BLAKER Alvordton, Ohio
The wrecked engine was left in the farm yard a few years and made a good advertisement""
The Engine Wasn't There!
The remainder of the engine continued on and in landing plowed a big furrow""
The Ladies Page
The beeswax was cleverly wound to make the candle""
THE LADIES AT ILLIANA
The ladies at the Illiana Steam Pop-Off showed very unusual articles""
WHAT ARE THEY RUNNING THEM ON?
If an engine smokes all the time, it denotes a poor fireman""
The Advance Engine
All Advance Engines tested up to three times their rated horsepower at the factory""
Threshing in the Corn Belt
Historical sketch of threshing in the ""Corn Belt""""
STEAM MEMORIES
The Troy HS engine was used to operate a special rotary pump""
Letters
Lumber at the yard costs between $160 and $190 per thousand for just general farm use""
Postcards
The Paxton Traction Engine made in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania""
November 1960
EARLENE
The ""Old Nick"" just sticks out of his big blue eyes.""
SOOT IN THE FLUES
Williams Grove Reunion, held for the second year, was an outstanding event.""
The Ritzman's Take A Trip
On the 20th day of July 1960 Elmer started on a trip into North Carolina.""
THE LAST FRICK TRACTION
The last Frick steam traction Engine was built in 1929.""
STORY OF HARRY BAHEL
Harry Bahel was a Sawyer, tending the great white cork pine logs.""
LETTERS
Marsh is the worst valve gear.""
THE WILLIAMS GROVE STEAM ENGINE ASSOCIATION SHOW
45,000 persons were present in Williams Grove Steam Engine Association show.""
GRANDAD'S STEAM ENGINE OFFERS FASCINATING HOBBY
When Jacqueline was a child, she claimed the most exciting thing in the world.""
Taps for ""BB""
F. Hal Higgins was the greatest living Agricultural Historian of Davis.""
Dairyland Driftings
Haying is hampered, grain looks good.""
TEAM OF SAWYERS DOES FARMERS' CUSTOM WORK
Lester and Otis Baughman have been active many years in operating a sawmill using steam.""
THE N T A REUNION AT MONTPELIER, OHIO
The 16th Annual Reunion of the National Threshers Association, Inc.""
The Ladies, Page
Water at the Old Fort Garland Old Times Day.""
THE LADIES OF THE EARLY AMERICAN STEAM ENGINE CLUB
The Early American Steam Engine and Old Equipment Society's third reunion.""
MEMORIES OF THE STEAM DAYS
The old time threshing and allied experiences were galloping.""
SOME REUNIONS
Rough & Tumble Reunion was commonly called as Kinzers.""
Christmas Chimes
The meals for the hungry and dusty lot were almost banquets.""
Meet Uncle Abe
Uncle Abe had a most unusual and outstanding personality.""
POST CARDS
Frick Engine was being driven in the Thanksgiving Parade at Harmony.""