It’s one thing to restore classic cars and trucks, but it’s hard to imagine the effort that George Hoffman put into the restoration of his massive 1911 Rumely 36 horsepower steam tractor. The very ...

Loose tractors roll through the crowd, their drivers standing tall atop the living mechanical relics. Visitors can also enjoy a flea market, a mini tractor pull, antique tractor showcase, and walk ...

Perched on a wagon at the heart of Vista’s Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum sits Rube Nelson’s 1895 Russell steam tractor. With its broken boiler and dust-caked wheels, it may look like a worn-out ...

When the first tractors arrived on farms in the 1890s, they were equipped with steel wheels, and it took 40 years for inflatable rubber tyres to arrive. Steel wheels were already standard equipment on ...

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 ...

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) — ...

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" ...