A 1948 E27N in lovely original condition belonging to collector Ross Bartlett. This tractor features a period lighting set. Henry Ford’s first successful tractor was what we now know as the Fordson ...

The sign announces the annual Fall-Der-All, the last full weekend in September. I was recently at a farm auction. Farmers were bidding on a Farmall 560 Diesel. A little girl asked, “Daddy, who ...

Ervin related that the previous owner of this hand-carved sandstone trough claimed it originated in either Germany or Switzerland. As reported, it was located in front of a castle to water livestock.

Countless contraptions that revolutionized farming in the 19th and early 20th centuries have become contemporary curiosities or even mysteries. Here are six sent in by readers. Do you know what they ...

Lafayette Truman was a praying engineer. I knew him as a veteran Erie Railroad passenger engineer during the years of 1907 to 1921. At that time engines and engineers rated very high with me. Almost ...

2hp steam traction that Mr. Frank Riese of Monticello, Wis., bull; for his son Edward. He drives it around the neighborhood. It has an Advance type of re-verse and runs about three miles per hour and ...

Salina, Kansas Straw racks in Red River Special steel separators with 15 bar cylinders, built prior to 1925, consisted of five shakers. The first four shakers were carried and driven by the Brady ...

BACK TO MY BOYHOOD days when I carried a Russell catalog while heading cows to the field and school, I read the pages with intense interest. The 6hp. intrigued me most and I longed for the chance to ...

THERE WAS AT LEAST one incident, brought about by a somewhat peculiar, if not a comic cicumstance whereby, back in the oncoming era of gas power, that gas tractors gave way, for a time to steam. This ...

About 400 steam engine enthusiasts and curious people gathered at the Pete Johnson farm Sunday to watch a threshing demonstration using Pete’s old steam traction engines for power. Pictured is Pete’s ...