Steam Traction Archive
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January 2004
LETTING OFF STEAM
Jagger sent the valves to the National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors for testing
PAST AND PRESENT
Steam Engines & Threshing Machines
Pig's Threshing Days
Memories of an Old-time Thresherman
Spalding's Corner
Looking for Clues to Mystery Engines
Big Steam and Blue Skies
1925 Skinner Universal Industrial Steam Engine Gets a New Lease on Life
Plowing Preview
An Insider's Look at Rollag's 2003 OilPull Plowing Demonstration
They're Still out There
A Rare S. W. Wood & Son Portable Hits the Auction Block
Morgan Motor Co.
Information Comes to Light on the History of an Early American Steam-Powered Wagon Manufacturer
THE GOLDEN ROLL
Carl T. Howell liked to work on small engines, repairing garden tractors and lawnmowers
STEAM SCHOOLS 2004
A Listing of Steam Schools for 2004
Auction Offerings
Steam Traction Engines on the Block in Kansas
POST CARD
1891 Groton 10 HP, serial no. 2076
March 2004
LETTING OFF STEAM
About the equipment
Old Bet
A 10 HP 1897 Geiser Peerless Model Q is Back in the Fold After Decades Spent in Static Display
Memories from the Area of the Steam Engine
The machinery had to be backed off
SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
Thanks to a Barn, a 20 HP 1904 Advance Eludes the Scrap Drives of WW II
BOILER SHOPPING 101
Useful Tips and Hints when Shopping for a New Boiler
SOUTHERN COMFORT
Rising from the Burning Embers of the Civil War
THE JOY OF STEAMING
Reflections on Harold Ottaway and the Early Steam Engine Shows at Joyland Park in Wichita, Kansas
A CIVIL MEETING
Case Engines and Civil War
May 2004
LETTING OFF STEAM
J.I. Case Collectors' Association is in the process of securing a rare straw-burning 12 HP return-flue Case
THE GREAT RACE OF 1878
Early Steam Traction Engines Vied for Supremacy in America's First Road Race
A CASE FOR THE 120
Original Documents Suggest Case Considered Building a 120 HP Traction Engine
PRESERVATION ACT
J.I. Case Collectors' Association Secures the Future for a Rare 12 HP Return-flue Case
STEAM ENGINE JOE RYNDA
The Legendary Steam Engine Joe Rynda's Collection is Slated for the Auction Block: Paging Through the Past for a Glimpse of His Passion for Steam
THE GOLDEN ROLL
Gerald loved antique farm machinery and steam threshing
July 2004
LETTING OFF STEAM
A celebration of America's rich agricultural past, the early collector's reunions harkened back to simpler time
The Under-mounted Aultman
History of The Aultman Co.'s Under-mounted Engine is Still Being Written Despite Obscurity and Failure
The Aultman Companies -A Short History
The Aultman Co. manufactured portable and traction steam engines
DOUBLE STAR DESTINY
After Years of Searching, Indiana Collector Finally gets His Aultman Under-mounted Double Star
STUDER STEAM TRACTOR
Werner Studer's One-of-a-Kind Engine is a Wonder of the Plains
THE THRESHERS ARE COMING
Memories of Steam and Threshing on the Farms of Michigan
Steam Fiends
Oregon's Steam Fiends and Antique Powerland's Shared History Stretches over 50 Years
110 HP Best No. 175
MANUFACTURED BY THE BEST MANUFACTURING CO., SAN LEANDRO, CALIFORNIA, 1906
The Story of the Wonderful Avery Undermounted Engine
Seven Years of Success and Hundreds of Users
September 2004
LETTING OFF STEAM
Morris Snow, chairman of the Board's historic boiler committee, was titled Potential for Disaster Historic Boilers.
Last Rites for Rynda
Steam Engine Joe's Collection is Auctioned as a Large Crowd Turns out to Remember a Pioneer
THE GOLDEN ROLL
Lewis was a master machinist, working for BS&B for a number of years and for KimRay, Inc.
Austrian Mountain Steamer
A 45 HP Case Makes its Way in Austria
Sixth Generation of Steam
Six Generations on, one Family is Still Steaming in Missouri
Third Generation of Steam
Excerpted from the May/June 1978 Iron-Men Album
Lavosier Spence
An Overlooked Manufacturer of Steam Traction Engines in Martins Ferry, Ohio
Plowing Pals
25 HP Gaar-Scott plowing a field is probably one of Bob Anderson's greatest pleasures
November 2004
LETTING OFF STEAM
A steam traction boiler explosion that took place in 1984, resulting in the loss of two lives
SOLE SURVIVOR 50 HP ROAD LOCOMOTIVE
A 50 HP Buffalo Pitts Road Locomotive Survives in Australia Are There Others?
The Little Engine that Could
Practical Jokes with a Half-scale Keck and Other Stories
CANADIAN BAKER
MacDonald Thresher Co. Borrowed from A.D. Baker to Build its Decker Line of Engines
THE GOLDEN ROLL
A memorial service was held at Bernie's sawmill with family
Jacob Price: 1895
Original 1895 Catalog for the Legendary Jacob Price Field Locomotive
WEST COAST WESTINGHOUSE
Rare 15 HP Steams up Antique Powerland
STEAM SCHOOLS
A Listing of Steam Schools for 2005
8 HP 1880 Case
The Case still has its original, 150 psi-rated boiler