Britain once led the world in developing agricultural steam power, with stationary engines arriving on farms in the 1790s, followed later by portable and traction engines as well as cable-operated ...
November 24, 2014, marked an important day in the Track-Type Tractor’s history - and Caterpillar’s for that matter. On this day in 1904 in Stockton, CA, Benjamin Holt tested his steam-powered ...
One of the staples every year of the Williams Grove Historical Steam Engine Association’s summer show is the tractor parade. At 6 p.m. most nights of the show in Monroe Township, which ended on Labor ...
Dec. 29—Smoke billows from the stack of the steam-powered tractor as it chugs along, sounding like a train locomotive. At a top speed of just under 6 mph, the 150 Case Road Locomotive moves ...
FARGO-As Bill Forester, of Versailles, Mo., said while he was in the process of getting the large century-old engine started, "It's a real team effort. If it runs, it'll eventually need fixing. Things ...
Tony Haupt is known as Mr Patience after working his way through boxes of parts to fully restore a steam-powered tractor without its manual. The Mackay man, who has spent 14 years reconstructing the ...
Advances that helped the introduction of steam-powered cars and that could be adopted for steam tractors included using paraffin instead of coal to heat the water. The liquid fuel needed less space ...
Smoke billows from the stack of the steam-powered tractor as it chugs along, sounding like a train locomotive. At a top speed of just under 6 mph, the 150 Case Road Locomotive moves methodically but ...