Case Steam Engine No. 1. Traction steam engines were made about 1876. These early models required a team hitched in front for steering. By 1885 this was changed by the use of steering chains wound ...

In the 1800’s at the town of Ketchum, Idaho, the Fast Freight Line, owned and operated by Horace Lewis – was in operation. Many freight outfits were in operation. Horace Lewis, ran one of the biggest ...

Threshing in the early 1900’s was a big deal. Wheat fields were large with an abundance of wheat, when the year yielded a good crop. Ernest Fette, Sr. (my father) owned three different types of ...

Picture taken at Miami Valley Steam Threshers Reunion at Mechanicsburg, Ohio, in July 1962. The 20 hp Minneapolis engine is owned by Paul Tustin, Columbus, Ohio. The 1915 Kelly Springfield Roller in ...

The Association held its second annual Reunion on August 20-23, 1953 at the Hooks town Grange Fair, Beaver County, Pennsylvania. This year, a greater number of engines was shown than at previous ...

A Case push-bar hay loader behind a typical hay wagon. The hinged unloading gate of the loader is in the lowered position. Everyday farm chores required a lot of muscle, but the loose hay loader eased ...

This New Holland Model 320 is representative of later, more streamlined hay balers that used an in-line plunger. The New Holland Model 66, introduced in 1953, was the industry's first PTO-powered ...

An early 1900s postcard view of Henry Burden’s water wheel that was, by that time, derelict, having been abandoned in the 1890s. Henry Burden was a prolific inventor, but it was his horseshoe machine ...

Shely fiber breaker. More than 120,000 pounds of hemp fiber was needed to rig the 44-gun USS Constitution, America’s oldest Navy ship affectionately called “Old Ironsides.” Nearly 55 tons of fiber was ...

This issue of the Iron-Men Album brings us to the 10th installment of Dr. Bixler’s history of the Aultman & Taylor Company, as edited by Dr. Robert T. Rhode. The Album is serializing Dr. Bixler’s book ...

Tracks for the first transcontinental railroad met inPromontory, Utah Territory, in 1869. Two family names – Holt and Best – are inexorably linked to the great name of Caterpillar, the Caterpillar ...

Edward Rumely, the man who brought the company into the modern age, encouraged development of the popular OilPull tractor line. A mighty Rumely 30-60 Oilpull Tractor gains fame for the company as it ...