Steam Traction Archive
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January 1964
SOOT IN THE FLUES
Branyan household busy as ever anticipating the coming season""
The Haunted Engine
Trace of smoke coming from the old engine""
REUNION REPORTS
Flandreau, South Dakota""
THE OLD STEAM AND GAS CLUB, INC
Old Steam and Gas club was organized primarily to satisfy the interests of a small group""
MIDWEST OLD SETTLERS AND THRESHERS ASSOCIATION
14th Annual Reunion, called by far the most successful to date""
NEW THRESHER CLUB FORMED IN MIDWEST
Meeting held in Decatur for the purpose of forming a Steam Engine and Thresher club""
EARLY DAY GAS ENGINE AND TRACTOR ASSOCIATION
Crowd of approximately 6,000 turned out to watch the old time equipment at work""
PIONEER GAS ENGINE ASSOCIATION
Meetings held the first Sunday afternoon of each month at the Museum""
MIAMI VALLEY
Miami Valley Steam Threshers opened the gates of their 14th annual show""
MARYLAND STEAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY
8th Annual Steam Show of the Maryland Steam Historical Society""
NORTH CAROLINA STEAM HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
Reunion of the North Carolina Steam Historical Association was practically rained out""
WILLIAMS GROVE REUNION
Annual Granger's Picnic, attracted more viewers this year than ever before""
LETTER
22 HP Sawyer-Massey with the John Goodison Co""
The Ladies page
County Homemakers are using the theme Holidays in Other Lands at their Holiday Fair""
THE BAKER FAN
The Baker fan was a very clever piece of showmanship""
Dairyland Driftings
Sleeping in basements too is a common thing during Old Threshers""
MILFORD REES PASSES
Mt. Pleasant Reunion on Saturday morning Sept. 7""
WOODBUZZING EXPERIENCE
Busy buzzing wood all through the winter""
THE WOOLF COMPOUND STEAM ENGINE
The Woolf compound valve and cylinders were the best designed""
THE BALLAD OF OLD NUMBER 6
Hero engine No. 6 known through Georgia as the one that braved the forest fire""
IDAHO CENTENNIAL
School Wagons were the latest thing in student transportation""
A 50 YEAR ANNIVERSARY
Most vivid memory of the trip was the boiler room""
A TRIP TO THE NEAR EAST
Thirty-two farm people in all made the trip, sponsored by the Indiana Farm Bureau""
THRESHING MACHINES WERE ""DANG BRIDGE BUSTERS""
The bridges of those days were not the product of a corps of engineers""
THE GOOD OLD FARM
The old gray team and wagon moved slowly along the road""
GOSSIP FROM THE BACK SHOP
Mr. Christopherson had built the Christopherson Machine Shop in Amherst""
EARLENE The School Marm Says
As the Holiday Season approaches the children are becoming restless""
Post Card
Frick Portable turned into a Traction engine""
March 1964
EARLENE
Mr. Byer's Good Canned Hominy and Tomatoes Straight from their Cannery""
-SOOT IN THE FLUES-
American Tractor sold by the Waterloo Threshing Machine Company""
STEAM- But definitely
Abner Doble is trying to Build a Reheating Steam Power Plant""
LETTER
Replica of Southern Pacific's Shasta Division""
STEAM PAGEANT IN EAST
Eastern Steam Reunions held by the New York Steam Engine Association""
ROUGH & TUMBLE BANQUET
Banquet held by Rough and Tumble Engineers Historical Association""
TRI-STATE REUNION
Seventh Annual Exhibition Tri-State Historical Steam Engine Association""
FLANDREAU, SOUTH DAKOTA
Flandreau Pioneer Threshing & Antique Show""
THIS IS MY LIFE
12 HP Rumely Engine built in 1863 by Rumely Company""
Dairyland Driftings
Twin Ports Area, Certainly a Fascinating Tourist Region""
The Ladies' Page
20 Choir and Bible Class members for a ""Down on The Farm Party""""
IT'S FUN TO PLAY WITH GRANDPA'S TOY!
Threshing Machines were Powered by Engines""
THRESHING IN THE EARLY 1900'S
Three Different Types of Threshing Rigs""
AMONG ELMERS SOUVENIRS
Gaar & Company Threshing Outfit Taken from Catalog of 1870""
THREE NYC LOCOMOTIVES TO TRANSPORT MUSEUM
Display of 3 Historic Locomotives for the National Museum""
STORIES FROM STEAM MEN
Memories of Steam Go Back to Watertown Portable Blew Up about 1882""
TRACTOR VETERAN OF 46 YEARS EXPERIENCE
Happy Farmer Tractor built by LaCrosse Tractor Company of LaCrosse""
Death Takes The Senior A. J. Rumely
A. J. Rumely of 1410 Indiana Avenue was a Prominent Industrialist""
GOSSIP FROM THE BACK SHOP
The Camel of Camelot""
POST CARD
Central States Thresherman's Reunion""
May 1964
SOOT IN THE FLUES
Spring and Easter always seem like a new beginning.""
ENGINEERS - WELL ALMOST
Donald's first job was handling the blower on the separator.""
WEST COAST SHOW REPORTS
Jack K. Williams steamed up Mr. Miller's Aultman-Taylor engine.""
WESTERN MINNESOTA STEAM THRESHERS
Greetings to all members & friends of the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers.""
EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA Holds First Annual Reunion
In the spring of 1963 the minds of 7 men were threshing again.""
MASON-DIXON HISTORICAL SOCIETY
The Mason-Dixon Historical Society held its first steam engine show in September.""
MIAMI VALLEY HAS MADE A CHANGE
Miami Valley show is to be held at the Champaign County Fair Grounds.""
The Ladies Page
The moment spent writing a note means so much to the one who receives it.""
REEVES' MEN NOTICE
All Reeves men will rally around Syd's proposal.""
Letters
The little 13 hp Gaar Scott bark like a grey squirrel.""
Dairyland Driftings
Ninth Winter Olympics at Innsbruck""
AMONG ELMER'S SOUVENIRS
The Eagle Machine Works of Indianapolis, is absolutely new to Elmer.""
CLEAT TRACKS IN THE SANDS OF TIME
Karl C. McManus was the victim of a two pronged accident.""
""LET'S TALK STEAM""
The crankshaft on the Star has 4 bearings and was never broken for heavy use.""
THE COUNTRY DEPOT
The station master with impressive cap, Picks up the worn mail sack.""
STORY OF AN OLD RUSSELL
Russell Traction Engine was originally owned by a man named Silas Paddock.""
OBITUARY
Walt was a member of the National Threshers Association of Montpelier, Ohio.""
OBITUARY
Jesse O. Murphy was a traveling salesman for the Port Huron Machinery Co.""
GOSSIP FROM THE BACK SHOP
Hank Walford was waiting for delivery of mysterious sideshow piece.""
Post Card
Frick engine was owned by Mr. Robert Marshall of East Bloomfield.""
July 1964
SOOT IN THE FLUES
Rival wheat threshers indulge in a novel battle""
FROM SOUTH AFRICA
Early tractors were also mostly American.""
Letter
There were very few Port Huron or Baker engines in North Dakota""
AMONG ELMER'S SOUVENIRS
An engine with several unusual features is the one that was made by The Birdsall Company""
PIONEER GAS ENGINE ASSOCIATION, INC.
The third meeting of the Pioneer Gas Engine Association, was held on February 2, 1964,""
THE RUMELY THAT SCARED THE CALF AND REFUSED TO RAISE STEAM PRESSURE
A number of the silo owners had purchased an M. Rumely 11 Hp. single simple""
Ladies Page
Elmer was invited to replace the Supreme Tall Cedar Chaplain for the church service""
GOSSIP FROM THE BACK SHOP The Case of the Mysterious Valves
Corliss engines which were direct-connected to positive displacements pump""
The 13th Annual OLD TIME THRESHERS AND SAW MILL OPERATORS EXHIBITION held on Aug. 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th, 1964
Old Time Thresher Show', several added attractions were seen this year""
POST CARDS
Amer Cook's Case Tractor at the Pontiac Reunion""
September 1964
EARLENE
The Steam Engine Show at Montlelier, Ohio is just another memory again.""
-SOOT IN THE FLUES-
Time again to renew friendships and to check the workings of all the steam engines""
Thats the way I heard it
The plant engineers waited for zero weather, blocked up solidly underneath with ice""
COUNTRY ECHOES
The high metal seat makes an excellent perch""
DAIRYLAND DRIFTINGS
There was 'Abner' parked by the big barn, smoke rolling from the stack""
A SLEEPING GIANT COMES UP TO STRETCH
The 45-HP International Titan roamed the hills and valleys near Emerson, Iowa""
MEMORYS OF A BYGONE AGE
About 1880 came the traction steamer and along about 1895 the wind stacker and feeder""
Story by Ralph Hussong
Ralph Hussong a retired steam engineer of Camp Point, Illinois""
SOME EXPERIENCES IN SASKATCHEWAN
Buffalo Pitts separator seemed to go pretty good with the Port Huron""
THE BIG FOUR
The Big 4 had evidently blown out a mouse nest and some sparks.""
LETTER
The process is also out of control whenever the engine speed is higher""
ABANDONED CANALS
The canal itself ran from Utica to Binghamton""
AMONG ELMER'S SOUVENIRS
Southern Mountaineer Women Threshing By Hand""
THE HOVLAND TRAVELLING THRESHER
Travelling harvester that was towed behind the enormous tractor""
A LOOK AT IOWA STEAM ENGINE SHOWS
Fifteen steam engines of several makes were under steam""
POST CARD
The Williams Grove Steam Engine Assn. Inc. beautiful Number 5""
November 1964
Earlene
William and Mary College who were dressed in knee breeches.""
Pioneer Christmas
children and they hurried back to tell their mother""
REUNION REPORTS
Reunion Report The 1964 Nta Reunion""
REUNION REPORT
Reunion reports three day celebration Mississippi Valley Steam Engine Show""
ABANDONED CANALS
Snubbing Posts he includes a map of the canal as far as Booneville.""
CANADIAN STEAM
The C.N.R. put on a display at the station including a demonstration car showing""
IRON MAN OF THE MONTH
Clown of the Threshermen's Reunion, Clint Bloom""
STEAM ENGINES BY THE WAGON LOAD
The Wagon pictured with steam engines, is one of the first Baggage""
LETTERS
The smoke box carries a brass ring as per English style""
MEMORYS
A separator came into existence called a band cutter and self feeder""
DAIRYLAND DRIFTINGS
Drifted over into Minnesota: had lead on several gas engines""
SHOW REPORT
Threshing and baling of straw was done each day of the show""
SHOW REPORT
Otto Van Doren display of antique house and farm tools""
MT. PLEASANT, IOWA HOLDS I4TH REUNION
A pioneer village is under way and now consists of the railroad depot""
CALORIC ENGINE
Built from scratch during the winter 1963-64 by Myrl Hix""
1963 REUNION REPORT
The engine a 25-40 Oilpull, recently purchased from Harold ""
OBITUARY
Mr. Leonard was 21 years old he became a member of the Old Fellows ""
The Ladies Page
The Wilmington Bridge. Then there were just a few more miles""
HIGH WATER
Gossip From The Back Shop""
SOOT IN THE FLUES
My column will be short this time as there was a more important""
POST CARD
Gonnerman engine I found on my vacation at Fredericktown, Missouri""