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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BLENDON TOWNSHIP — As tractor enthusiast Dave Snyder demonstrated, it takes a bit more effort than turning a key to fire up a vintage 1913 Case 20/40 tractor. After squirting some gas into a couple ...

ONE of the main purposes of a railway is to transport the products of industry from the place where they are produced to the place where they are consumed. In passenger transportation, a service is ...

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 ...