Steam Traction Archive
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January 1967
COBS FROM ELMER'S
Compliment about Mr. Waters Historical article
EARLENE
Nice evening at the Kinzers Banquet
COFFEE BREAK WITH KITTY
Note from William Lamb of Washington D. C.
SOOT IN THE FLUES
RECIPE FOR A HAPPY NEW YEAR
A PRAYING ENGINEER
One Engineer's Experience - Killed Twenty-two Persons
SAVED BY GRACE
Halloween Halocust story in the Album
51Years Experiences
COME AT ONCE THE JOB IS YOURS
Threshing In November
The shows here at Rollag and Dalton had bad weather
THRESHING RIGS AND ANTIQUES
I have good Port Huron pictures in Port Huron Catalogues
NARRATIVE ON BOWEN.
Star manufactured by the C. Aultman Co. of Canton
Charley's Engines
Auction of construction equipment at Cheyenne
SPEAKING OF WAGGONS
Sentinal steam wagons picture in a recent Iron-Men Album
Engine Heaven
Trip to Boone and Blowing Rock country of North Carolina
Innocents Abroad Or In England It's Corn
Rode into London back of steam locomotive
RED RIVER VALLEY KERNELS
Hand powered threshing machine in Northern Norway
REUNION REPORTS
REUNION REPORT THE 1966 NTA REUNION
SHOW REPORT
Annual Steam and Gas Engine Show at Bridgeport
Iron Man Of The Month
Engineer at the National Biscuit Company
THE GOLDEN ROLL
Owner of the Blakley Implement Company
POST CARD
Third Annual Gathering on July 21st and 22nd, 1956
March 1967
THE STEAM SHOVEL
Steam Engine was the most nearly human of all machines
SOOT IN THE FLUES
Roberts Patent Marine boiler
These Cool Mornings Remind Us
The old-time Southerner's dream
Report From The West
Annual report of steam comings and goings
The Ladies Page
Country Echoes
LETTER
South of the junction U. S. Route
Iron Man Of The Month
A golden plaque placed thereon
A TALE OF TWO THRESHERS
A farm in south central Illinois
THE OLD WORM OR ZIG ZAG STYLE RAIL FENCE
Splitting with iron wedges and a maul
REUNION REPORTS
The tenth annual reunion tri-state historical steam engine association, inc.
A NICE COLLECTION
A collection of exact replica of old steam engines
The Shepherd of the Hills
The Shepherd of the Hills
Boiler Talk
A lot of traction engine boilers
MEETING REPORT
The Pioneer Engineer Club
Threshing In North Dakota In The Early Twenties With The I. W. W. 's
Reeves straw burning engine
AS I SEE IT
The various Engine Meets
HELP WANTED
The process of purchasing an old 1920 Bucyrus
AMERICAN RAIL ROAD
The transportation wheels turning
South Dakota Threshermen Building History-Town
Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce
A Terrible Accident
Minneapolis Return Flue Engine blew up
DICKEY'S SHANYTOWN
Dickey's Old General Store Museum
Steam mobile
Still interested in steam
THE GOLDEN ROLL
Sam's machine shop in Sioux Falls
COBS FROM ELMER'S CORN CRIB
Making the Magazine in his articles
Post Card
The 1965 National Threshers Reunion
COFFEE BREAK WITH KITTY
A secret ambition to attend the Mt. Pleasant reunion
May 1967
SIXTY YEARS WITH STEAM
I was Chief Engineer at the Public Service Plant in New Castle
BOOK REVIEW
DOBLE STEAM CARS
IRON MEN CARTOONS
Iron-Men Album and the Gas Engine Magazine
BOILER EXPLOSION
Recalling the article in the Iron-Men Album Magazine
Iron Man of The Month
OF DAYTON DAILY NEWS AND RADIO'S JOE'S JOURNAL
DAIRYLAND DRIFTINGS
Annual trek to Lakehead Threshers meet
Taylor Dry Portable Steam Engine
Carroll County Farm Museum at Westminster
RED RIVER VALLEY
U. S. Springfield muzzle loader Civil War gun
SHOW REPORT
ROCK RIVER THRESHREE INC. JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN
ELWOOD HISTORICAL CLUB GROUP TO ATTEND STEAM SHOW IN ENGLAND
Scottish Royal Highland Fair at Ingleston
STRUM STEAM ENGINE DAYS REPORT
Grande Parade with its Century of Change theme
SHOW REPORT
Stump-town Steam Threshers Club of Cadiz
PIONEER ENGINEERS SHOW
The daily parade is also a great attraction
EARLENE
The School Marm says
THE GOLDEN ROLL
Member of the Midwest Fife and Drum Corps
Noted Thresher Pioneer, 79, Dies
Consultant at museum of Man and his Bread at Utah State University
COBS FROM ELMER'S CORD CRIB FREE
Tribute to Old Steam Engineer was entered by Mr. Mattix
COFFEE BREAK WITH KITTY
Mr. Berlin Bogard, Merom, Indiana found an old Gaar Scott Steam Portable Engine
HOBO GETS HIS OWN RAILROAD
Interstate Commerce Commission standards
SOOT IN THE FLUES
Article on a Taylor Dry Portable Steam Engine
THE WAY I HEARD IT!
The article Tragedy on page 41 of the March-April 1966 issue
Day Dreams
I got the wild idea of going to Canada and plowing prairie sod
POST CARD
The Antique Engine and Thresher's Association Show held in Bird City
July 1967
COBS FROM ELMER'S CORN CRIB FREE
The announcement of the C. Aultman History
EARLENE THE SCHOOL MARM SAYS
Hi Ladies
COFFEE BREAK WITH KITTY
Steam and Electrical Engines
SOOT IN THE FLUES
The magazines and the deadlines
SIXTY YEARS WITH STEAM
Electric power from the Public Service Co
A RARE POSSESSION
Many modifications have been made
Iron Man Of The Month
The International Orchid Show
THE FIREMAN WAS A LADY
Particular type of power production
A BIT OF HISTORY
The first 20th Century Traction Engine
BOOK REVIEW
Double steam cars
Steamer
The lower peninsula and highways
SOME UNUSUAL PAINTINGS
Harris pony tractor with garden work
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE C.S. & ST. L. RAILROAD
The brief history of the C.S. & St. L. Railroad
POST CARD
Reserve for firing the steam engine
September 1967
EARLENE THE SCHOOL MARM SAYS
Wauseon Show was as enjoyable as ever
COBS FROM ELMER'S CORN CRIB FREE
New York Gas Engine Show
COFFEE BREAK WITH KITTY
Construction of a 32 Reeves Cross Compound scale
SOOT IN THE FLUES
A wonderful time at the Reunions
THE SHAY- COUSIN OF THE TRACTION ENGINE
Obed Hussey, inventor of the Reaper and Ephraim Shay
RED RIVER VALLEY KERNELS
The Oak Park town hall was built in 1901
AN AMUSING INCIDENT
He felt as if the Gulf Stream had been shot through him from front to back
The Ladies Page
Meeting of the National Fellowship of State Poetry Societies
HARPER'S HANDSOME HELPER
Mr. Harper is the proud owner of a handsome Peerless
OCTOBER'S STEAMING
Joe Rynda's Steam Engine Joe steam threshing bee
RELEASE
Mason-Dixon Steam Historical Society will be held at Carroll County Farm Museum
MODEL STEAM ENGINES
New York Steam Engine Meet last year at Canandaigua
GEARS AND GEAR SCALES
The Brown and Sharpe Company also perfected a 12 rule
LET'S TALK
Our present day Diesel Locomotives
Steam Calliope
Replica of Capt. Bill Bryant's show boat days on the Ohio River years ago
THE GOLDEN ROLL
Mr. Caldwell was a member of the Franklin Methodist church
Iron Man Of The Month
Elmer Ritzman swapped me a Floyd Clymer Steam Engine Album
Making Boilers
Everyone had their eyes on Charlie's hammer
THE CHARM OF STEAM
Kitten Engine is beautiful but when you see it in a Reunion parade
Old Buggies For Use Here
One-Horse Shays Cross Oceans
Boiler Explosion
20-Horse-Power engine owned and used by Henry Troyer and George Stutzman
DISASTER AVERTED!
Bill Davisson was at the controls of the threshing rig
THRESHING NORTH OF CEDAR FALLS, IOWA 1880-85
John Ford is the gentleman standing on the engine
DOCTOR STEAM ENGINE
59 deceased steam engine-men
The 1966 Old Time Thresher & Saw Mill Operator Show
This exhibit was a display of early American antique farm machinery
FROM HAY TO SPACE
This was during the first stages of World War Number One
PRAIRIE VILLAGE PROGRESSES
East River Electric Power Cooperative has already started building a museum
MY STEAM ENGINE
I'm a steam engine thresherman
Still Farms With Horses!
Member of the Kendall County Farm Bureau
AS I REMEMBER
I worked as a yard foreman for the Willamette National Lumber Company
COMMENTS ON THE PAST
My father traveled for Arbuckle & Ryan Toledo selling threshing rigs
WHY DISGRACE THE TRACTION ENGINE?
HE FORGOT TO CLOSE THE THROTTLE!
FUND DRIVE LAUNCHED FOR STEAM MUSEUM
Transformation of the Threshermen into the Prairie Historical Association
SUMMARY OF MY STEAM ENGINEERING
Album readers have seen it at Chris Busch's threshing bee
POST CARD
Old steam is fast leaving the world, even in Spain
November 1967
COBS FROM ELMER'S CORN CRIB FREE
A large display of steam and gas engines
COFFEE BREAK WITH KITTY
The Fort Allen Historical Association
SOOT IN THE FLUES
Readers are interested in tracing any old engines
The Durango - Silverton Railroad
A real steam ride from Durango
STEAM BOAT DAYS
Our Nations early development.
PREFACE BY DENIS McCORMACK
The great engineering developments
IN THE EARLY TWENTIES
The Union Pacific Railroad
Iron Man of the Month
Altmann-Taylor Gas Tractor
RAIL FENCES
The National Park Service
THE GOLDEN ROLL
The steam engine circle
MY ENGINE
A little something for the Album for several years
BOY TOSSED INTO THRESHING MACHINE
The various steam reunions and gatherings
A SHORT HISTORY OF SPUR, INC.
The railroad was serious in wanting
MY FAVORITE ENGINE
New Huber straw-burning steam traction engine
BURSTING OF A LAUNDRY BOILER
The best dairy farms in Lenawee County
FOUR BEE'S AND A BOAT TRIP IN 66
Stanley Steamers in the parade
A BIT OF HISTORY
The local representative of the Huber Company
A STORY OF ORIN E. SWEARINGEN AND THE COLEAN STEAM ENGINE
The same as today with a few improvements
MIRED
The water tank mounted on a wagon
MY EARLY DAYS
The experiences of men of threshing and engines
TOUR TO BRITAIN
The Elwood Historical Club
CANADA'S THRESHERMEN'S REUNION
Agricultural Museum of Manitoba
A LETTER TO LORINE BIXLER
Straw Burner Return Flue Phoenix
THE FLYING ENGINEER
The American Thresher Magazine
THE MUSEUM FARTHEST NORTH.
Canada celebrates its one hundredth birthday
POST CARD
Art Hudchek's threshing show