HOLLAND TOWNSHIP -- Pete LaBelle does not farm an inch of land with his nine-and-a-half ton, 1912 Buffalo Pitts steam engine, but it can cook one mean ear of corn. The 48-year-old Holland Township man ...

Bob Nesselroad, a volunteer at Living History Farms in Des Moines, Iowa, stands on an antique steam tractor during a threshing demonstration in August 2022. (Rox Laird/Courthouse News) (CN) — ...

CULLOWHEE – A steam whistle that had collected dust at Western Carolina University’s steam plant is now back in working order, thanks to a summer internship team with the WCU Rapid Center. The whistle ...

POWELL — Steam-engine tractors had a relatively short lifespan in terms of the length of time they were in use on American farms. But steam engines still live on in farm lore and in the hearts of many ...

It’s half the size of steam-engine tractors used almost a century earlier, but Tony Benda’s replica of a 65-horsepower 1915 model gathered lots of attention Saturday at The Enid An-tique Power and Gas ...

At the sound of the steam engine whistles Thursday morning, the 2022 Threshermen’s Reunion officially got underway north of Pontiac. The 74 th annual reunion, which is one of the oldest of its kind in ...

OWOSSO, Michigan-- A familiar sound is returning. For months, a guest whistle has been announcing the presence of the Steam Railroading Institute's Pere Marquette No. 1225 steam locomotive. The guest ...

Built to last and as big as a dinosaur, it was obsolete before it left the factory in 1920. Nonetheless, with huge wheels and a gay canopy with a red fringe on top, the Huber "steam traction engine" ...

Editor’s note: This column first ran Aug. 9, 2012, in the Times-News and on Magicvalley.com, and has been edited to reflect George Paxton’s current age. If you float the Snake River when the water is ...

SNAKE RIVER CANYON • If you float the Snake River when the water is low, you might get a glimpse of a steam-engine tractor lying on its side in the river east of the Perrine Memorial Bridge. But the ...