Steam Traction Archive
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January 1963
EARLENE
The Seasons Greetings""
SOOT IN THE FLUES
A short course in Steam Engineering""
The Girl Boss of a threshing crew
Great injury is done to the machine""
OLD STEAM WHISTLE WILL TOOT AGAIN
Old time steam engines""
LETTER
Air compressors and jetted water""
Reunion Reports
The 1962 Old Time Thresher and Saw Mill Operator Show""
AN OLD HUBER
Huber records is a 12 HP engine""
JACKSON ""LUMBER HARVESTER"" TO BE SHOWN IN POLAND
Demonstrated at a great many steam engine shows""
HISTORY OF THE GOODISON THRESHER COMPANY
The Goodison Thresher Co""
THRESHERMENS RE-UNION DRAWS BIGGEST CROWD
The annual Threshermen's Reunion""
POPCORN, ANY ONE?
Easter until Labor Day""
Lugtrout Lion
A metaphorical shook at the other animals""
The Ladies Page
Country Echoes""
Dairyland Driftings
The Old Threshers' Reunion""
SPARKS FROM OLD PLUGS
The Black Hawk Steam Engine Show""
To the Pioneer Mother's and Father's
Faith in God Love of Country""
GOSSIP FROM THE BACK SHOP
The case of the hollow bolts""
STEAM ENGINES
The time of threshing days""
POST CARDS
Central Pennsylvania Reunions""
March 1963
Steam Engine
Road Contractor of Strasburg""
EARLENE
Happy Xmas""
SOOT IN THE FLUES
Steam Associations""
'Them Were the Days'
Old Homestead""
LETTERS
IRON-MEN ALBUM""
Reunion Reports
SIXTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION""
STEAM THRESHERS ELECT
Goshen Memorial Park""
NEW YORK MEET DRAWS CAPACITY CROWD
George VanNattaall Board Members""
13th ANNUAL REUNION AT MT. PLEASANT, IOWA
Threshers Association""
STUMPTOWN REUNION
Universal Moline Tractor""
THRESHING MACHINES RECALL OLDEN TIMES ON ILLINOIS FARMS
Power Progress Show""
The Ladies Page
STONE-GROUND""
Letter
American-Ables Co.""
LETTER
North Clark Street""
OPEN CYLINDER THRESHING MACHINE - 1856
Goderich Museum""
LETTER
Hand fed machine""
A CHRISTMAS GIFT - TOO BIG TO WRAP!
Steam Locomotive""
TIED UP
Great Northern""
Dairyland Driftings
MYRON GLEITER""
SPARKS FROM OLD PLUGS
LETTER""
Hoboes
Threshing crew""
GOSSIP FROM THE BACK SHOP
Lon Arnold's Star blew""
POST CARD
North Central Missouri State Fair""
May 1963
EARLENE
The Elmer Shaffers stopped for a short visit last week""
-SOOT IN THE FLUES-
A little paper to communicate with thirty some other men who shared the same interest""
The Montana Prairies
The rear of the engine dropped the length of the plow tow chains and stopped""
Reunion Reports
Pioneer Harvest Fiesta Inc. Fort Scott, Kansas""
ILLIANA STEAM AND HOBBY SHOW
The steam engines were all busy doing something all the time""
THE ELWOOD HISTORICAL CLUB INC.
4th annual threshing and saw-milling show""
WEST COAST REUNION REPORT
The engines lined up for the parade by the public address car""
PIONEER GAS ENGINE REUNION
Clarence Stillson was in charge of the model exhibit""
Dairyland Driftings
The more ardent anglers have a 4X6 collapsible shack for wind breaks""
THRESHING?IT'S FOR THE BIRDS AND FARMERS
The chaff and the dust from the blower back over the wagon""
M. E. Timmons writes. . . . . . . . . . .
A steam engine as most amateur steam engine builders know""
Headers
The end of the pole on the front axle of the tractor""
MODEL TRACTION ENGINE
The boiler is the dry bottom type and riveted construction""
MENDON, UTAH
The grind of the wheels and the rumble of heavy gears was silent""
Lynn L. Langsworthy writes. . . . . . . .
The engines were very economical but not too good as tractions""
Raleigh W. Creek writes. . . . . . . . .
Nichols-Shepard side mounted single engine pulling a Russell Separator""
GOSSIP FROM THE BACK SHOP
A layout of plumbing tools and a small collection of odd pieces of piping and valves""
'STEAMIN' ALONG FOR FIFTY MILES
The John-Deere plow and the water tank behind the plow""
THRESHING CAREER OF MY FATHER, ADAM J. HABEL
The Leader Separator was replaced by a Russell with Swing Straw Carrier""
SOUTH SHASTA LINES
The Steam Traction Shows big attraction is hay rides""
MY FIRST EXPERIENCES WITH STEAM ENGINES
The whole township was covered with heavy hardwood timber""
Reminiscing with Arthur J. Holen . .
The blue stem wheat straw had good heating qualities""
A THRESHER MAN FROM TEXAS
The 17-30 Tractor had plenty of power for the 28-46 machine""
THE GASOLINE ENGINE
In the farm papers engine manufacturers were beginning to advertise""
OBITUARY
Bill ran the engine in the latter years of the steam threshing era""
Let's Look Ahead
The most part the men running the engines are of a rather high average age""
Wendel L. Johnson writes . . . . . . .
A fellow being there looking over our saw-mill and the 16 H.P""
LETTER
The locomotive was built to 1 to foot scale 7"" track gauge""
POST CARD
The Halverson Steam Threshing Demonstration at Egan""
July 1963
EARLENE
A little heart ache to accompany""
SOOT IN THE FLUES
Iron-Men Album and in some of the magazines""
My Memoirs
Since those Memoirs appeared in the Album""
OBITUARY
A frequent contributor to the Album""
Letters
The steam shovel for many years""
Dairyland Driftings
The current feed grain program""
THE SHEFFIELD ""FENCERIDER""
A part of the machinery""
Our Junior Steamers
Steam up the old engines again""
SPARKS FROM OLD PLUGS
Oats threshing for 21 seasons""
A THRESHERMAN FROM TEXAS
The Garden City off the Minneapolis""
Photos
Prairie Queen Separator""
September 1963
EARLENE
The Enders is an annual affair for us""
SOOT IN THE FLUES
The winters are long and you dream many a day about the forthcoming events""
Halloween Holocaust
None of the help stayed very long or completed the season""
I THRESHED WITH APRON or great belt separator (as it was called)
The first serious experience in the fall was when all the prairie grass was dry""
REUNION REPORTS
A Report Of The National Threshers Reunion""
AMONG ELMER'S SOUVENIRS
The steam goes down through the boiler and fire tube and then to the engine""
The Ladies Page
The baking temperature should be about 375 to 400 and the time around 20 minutes""
HEISE GAGES
The need arises for new types of pressure gages.""
OBITUARY
The Central North Dakota Steam Threshers""
ANNOUNCEMENT
A batting range and drive-in restaurant on the same tract of ground""
Benny West writes......
The last traction engine I worked on was a 90 HP Baker""
A TRIP TO THE BUSH
The syrup season is short and the hours long""
MODERN COAL BURNING STEAM LOCOMOTIVES
The enormous amount of automobiles, trucks, planes and tractors using gasoline""
THE HEADER BARGE
The story with this picture said that it was not easy to handle that little guide wheel in the back.""
A THRESHER MAN FROM TEXAS
The ignition system was Bosch high tension Magneto""
SPARKS FROM OLD PLUGS
The racks have one side with hinges that fold down and they just dump the bundles over the side""
LETTERS
A real magnito because it has no magnets but it has places to hook battery wires""
GOSSIP FROM THE BACK SHOP
Betwixt Tricks there is many a Pitfall""
Dairyland Driftings
The American Ball engines""
THE GENERAL
The Western & Atlantic Railroad""
COVER PICTURE
Betty steered while Ray tooted three steam whistles""
POST CARDS
The Maryland Historical Society Reunion""
November 1963
EARLENE
The Antique Shows""
SOOT IN THE FLUES
The Antique Engine & Threshers Association""
Thanksgiving on the Farm
The fields lay bare after yielding their harvest""
Jesse Barber writes......
The first steam engine Dad had""
Roy Keller writes.........
Last steam threshing was done in Kansas""
Arthur Weller writes........
The first steam engine that ever came to this Washington County""
Reunion Reports
Cottonwood, Minnesota""
ONTARIO STEAM & ANTIQUE PRESERVERS ASSOCIATION
The largest steam engine of the show""
THE PIONEER GAS ENGINE ASSOCIATION
The Eastern Montana Threshing Bee""
THRESHING IN THE NORTHWEST IN 1915
Small jobs of oats and barley""
LETTERS
The first threshing engine""
Dairyland Driftings
Steam Power Club""
THE FAIRGROUND DEMONSTRATIONS
The dirt track for the entertainment of the crowd""
MACHINERY DISPLAY OFFERS CONTRAST
The Lorain co Fair and steam engine men's reunions""
STARTED IN YOUNG
Freight agent and telegraph operator""
CLARKSVILLE, IOWA THRESHERMAN RELATES HIS STORY!
Blustery snow storm came with a strong northwest wind""
MANY YEARS AGO
The Minneapolis Moline Tractor Company""
SPARKS FROM OLD PLUGS
Pull some pretty good sized hedge stumps""
REEVES RECOVERED
The collection of H. Robins Hollyday of Easton""
GOSSIP FROM THE BACK SHOP
The reformation of cy bridger""
POST CARD
The 1960 Central States Thresher man's Reunion""