Steam Traction Archive
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January 1975
A Rare Traction Engine
A Rare Traction Engine - 6 HP Westinghouse made in 1897.
He Gets Paid For This!
Art Rah visited Voss Park last Thursday and got a view of a steam engine nobody gets.
8th Butterfield Threshing Bee Coming
The oats is stacked, the logs are piled, the Bud is on ice awaiting your arrival.
Restoration off Baker 501 Completed
The engine was fired up and run for the first time in nearly 20 years just 3 days before the show.
REPORT OF 18th ANNUAL REUNION OF TRI-STATE HISTORICAL STEAM ENGINE ASSN.
The scene was the usual line-up of our machinery and everything ready to go at Hookstown Fair Grounds.
Pioneer Engineer's Hold 26th Reunion & Election of Officers
23 traction engines of all different makes and a large number of tractors and oilpulls.
FAMOUS TRAINS MOVE INTO RAIL MUSEUM AT STRASBURG
The museum buildings, in their last throes of construction.
19th ANNUAL MARYLAND STEAM SHOW A SUCCESS AGAIN!
The thresher was powered by Gilbert Wisner's 50 HP Case traction engine.
HUNDREDS ATTEND HEDTKE'S
The gas engine pulley belted to the wash machine pulley.
The Baker Fan
The normal air pressures at different altitudes are well known.
The Steam Engine ... A Portrait of Her Beauty!
The heat and stench from your boiler will not affend or discourage your admirers.
SOOT IN THE FLUES
The Halloween Season - he wanted to dress as Uncle Sam this year so the sewing machine.
Pioneer Acres Plowmen & Threshermen Club of Langdon, Alberta, Canada 5th Reunion
The trophies were all won by members of our club.
EX FARM BOY'S STORY
The stack of hay was shaped to turn rain and allowed to cure for a few weeks.
The Ladies Page
The two of us, and her husband, drove out to look at this sport's structure.
THE GOLDEN ROLL
The Ohio Valley Antique Machinery Association.
BITS ON BOILERS
The only boiler worth fixing was the 28 hp Case.
The History of the Whitelaw Company of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada
The proud owner of this tractor is John Messner of Sanborn.
Pony Power
The main thing I want to tell you is about how Carl loves animals.
POST CARD
The owner of this nice clean engine is Swede Tronnes of Red Deer.
March 1975
SOOT IN THE FLUES
Nickel Plate Railroad Service
Unique Engine IDENTIFIED Thanks!
Eastern Shore Threshermens and Collectors Association
EAGAN 1974
Show Notes From John
The Scott Carver Old Thresher's Assoc. & Gas & Steam Engine Festival
A parade was held each day with Marvin Boettcher announcing
BUTTERFIELD THRESHERMEN'S ASSOCIATION SHOW
8th Annual Butterfield Steam and Gas Engine Show
Photo Album
I was surprised to see a steamer
1974 Annual Report of the Stumptown Steam Threshers
Thresherman Of The Year Award Mr. Raymond Laizure
North Missouri Show Report
Gas Engine Antique Show and Demonstration
Wheat Centennial Celebration
The Wheat Heritage Engine and Threshing Company
STEAM GAS ENGINES TRACTORS AND ANTIQUE CARS HELP THE ADAMS COUNTY APPLE FESTIVAL
Swift Run Steamers gang
CEDAR VALLEY SHOW
Show Grounds located 7 miles West of Charles City
WHISTLE BLOW
Steam was furnished by the 0-4-0-T Porter locomotive
Stephenson County Show Report
Antique Engine Club held its fifth annual show
Holyoke Centennial
Steamroller reassembled by Chester Petrowsky
The Man Who Collects Steam Rollers
Holyoke's 100th anniversary last Sept. 30
Steam Happening Event In England
Representatives of the National Traction Engine Club
Shenandoah Steam & Gas Engine Association Annual Banquet, Business Meeting and Election WINCHESTER, VA., NOV. 2, 1974
Memorial Park Building in Winchester
Steam Engine Threshing Steam Engine Repairs
Some of the larger threshing rigs had cooks
PERILS OF BIG TRACTORS IN 1974
Future Farmers of America and Antique Equipment Shows
Oklahoma Steam Threshers 1974 Show Report
Our new location Pawnee County Fair Grounds
One of Our Pride and Joys:
Another of our Young Engineers.
Show Report.....Pioneer Steam & Gas Engine Society of Northwestern Pennsylvania
Under guidance of Carl Spring gas engine section expanded many times this year
The Ladies Page
Friends are forever
THE GOLDEN ROLL
Eastern Shore Threshermen and Collectors Association, Inc.
POST CARD
Reeves Works at Columbus, Indiana
May 1975
SOOT IN THE FLUES
The Miami Valley Steam Threshers Show
The Second Annual Old Timers Reunion
The show was then expanded to cover what threshing
Ode To Man, Steam and Time
Dear Lord, We thank you for the instruments of long ago
Port Huron thresher
First engine from a brass tire pump and some sewing machine parts
1974 Annual Report of The Tuscarawas Valley Pioneer Power Show
Steam engine wagon and pony wagon kept young and old riding throughout the show
The St Stephen Show
The Tenth Annual Steam Engine Threshing and Lumber Sawing Show
Dalton Doings
The tractor pulling contest which was so popular last year
My Grist Mill
The farms were small and wheat thrashing was done by gas engines or gas tractors
A Tribute to the Mounted Police
The cylinder is made from a hydraulic brake cylinder
Antique Acres-A Comfortable Place To Be 1974 Show Report of Antique Acres, Cedar Falls, Iowa
Advance Rumely Threshing Engine and 14 bottom plow with 8 bottoms down
The Blue Mountain Antique And Steam Engine Association
A 350 hp Farmall tractor was challenged against our 50 hp Peerless steam engine
STEAM ENGINE COMPENSATING GEARS
The steam engine it is in the one rear wheel and is termed compensating gears
Steam Threshing Days Beldenville Wisconsin
The show site is in a beautiful valley
Photo Album
The 11th Annual Old Time Steam and Gas Engine Festival
One Iron Man of The Month
The first steam tractor he bought was a 1909 Case in awful shape
Insect Armies Made Night of Day
The Lord had visited that plague on Egypt for the sin of holding Israel in bondage
Community Gathering
The tractor so people could see both engine and tractor in operation
The Ladies Page
The gentleman looked like a Bohemian artist with his long scarf wrapped around his neck
Testimonials to the Fordson
The booklet is full of nostalgia and the flavor of Fordson farming in the 1920s
THE GOLDEN ROLL
The little model Rumley Oil-Pull so lovingly constructed by her husband and nephew
Peerless (not perfect)
Since I had been delayed by the broken pipes and grass fire
POST CARD
The 1974 Ozark Steam Engine Association Show
July 1975
SOOT IN THE FLUES
Hunting and working and restoring and painting
The Ladies Page
Lovely deep blue flowers bring back memories of Mabel and our friendship
Gabel's Threshing Bee
Our crowd came from six different states this year
Tuckahoe Steam & Gas Association, Inc History & Show Report
Many hours of hard work and loaned equipment
Thrashing Day at Nelsons
3rd annual Day for Thrashing and Sawmilling
POST CARD
Attraction at the Ozark Reunion
Kirkman Man Has 'Steam In His Blood, Smile Upon His Face
Acquiring parts and getting ready for the day
New Museum at Longview Texas
Historical Society has been busy collecting artifacts
Memories From The Area of The Steam Engine
The mountains of southwest Virginia at Rural Retreat
Memories of Steam and Sweat
The mists and shadows of the past
THE GOLDEN ROLL
The Old Threshers Association of Iowa
September 1975
SOOT IN THE FLUES
Flower to flower gathering honey
Steam Notes
Farm Show Museum celebration
The Ladies Page
The windmill groaned and pumped, groaned and pumped in the August heat.
Some Notes From Michigan
Good old days of steam engines
Homesteaders
An interesting statement
A True Story
The mines in Nevada County
A Miner's Experience True Story
Stories written about Tommie Knockers
Hundred Attend Steam Power Show
The North Central Illinois Steam Power Show
Steam Engine Compensating Gears
The first differential used by automobiles
Iron Man of the Month
Bob Cardwell farms and collects old tractors
A CASE of Love?
John Deere threshing machine
POST CARD
The Hamilton Missouri Steam Show
Pennsylvania's Part in Developing Power Machinery
The Pennsylvania Farmer
Did You Say 8-16 A very?
The possibility of locating an Avery
Show Scenes
The steam shows have been wonderful
THE GOLDEN ROLL
The Iron-Men Album was favorite
November 1975
Soot In The Flues
Collect railroad locomotive black and white photos
Henry Hobart Taylor
An association which endured for a period of nineteen years
Growing Old
The more interesting events and happenings in a person's early years
The Fascination Of Steam Power!
Firing up a steam boiler which generates the steam
Modern Steam Power
The Ozark Steam Engine Association Show
Whopping Good Show
The Decatur County Threshing Show
Tall Tale
The engine was so big and powerful and heavy
Another Successful Year At The Shenandoah Valley Show In 1975
The largest additions were in the gas tractor and engine section
Threshing Along The Stillwater River, Miami County, Ohio
The old crew got together, they could tell some big stories
Centennial Celebration 1876
The great International Centennial Exhibition
1910 Nichols & Shepard
This very same engine is now in the Makoti Museum
Compounds, Yes or No?
Good opinion of compounds, especially for steady work like threshing
Our Beautiful Avery
A sale was made at this time and the big Avery was ours
The Ladies Page
The preparation rallies were so helpful as we looked up Scripture after Scripture
THE GOLDEN ROLL
Rough and Tumble Engineers Historical Association
POST CARD
The Owensville Thresherman Show