What powered the world through the majority of the 19th Century is now a source of education and community for thousands of event attendees expected to attend a July 30 event in Mason. The last Friday ...

ROLLAG, Minn. — Hundreds of tractors took to the dirt roads of the township of Rollag, Minn., northeast of Barnesville, during the annual Western Minnesota Steam Threshers' Reunion in Rollag, ...

ROLLAG, Minn. - When self-described city girl Kelsey Bjornson tells people she loves steam engines, they say she's "crazy." But that's the reason the 26-year-old St ...

ROLLAG, Minn. (Valley News Live) - The steam engine is rolling in Rollag, Minnesota for the annual Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion. The annual tradition has been happening over the Labor Day ...

The Sycamore Steam Show & Threshing Bee, now in its 64th year, returns Thursday to Sunday, Aug. 12-15, to the Taylor Marshall Farm, 27707 Lukens Road in Sycamore. This event is sponsored by The ...

KONNER METZ kmetz@chespub.com Aug 5, 2025 Aug 5, 2025 0 FEDERALSBURG — In 1961, Jim Layton and some neighbors gathered off of Route 313 to thresh wheat using one steam engine. That modest ...

FOREST CITY | North Iowa residents may be used to seeing large tractors moving through farm fields, even they don't live on a farm. What's not as familiar is a big steel-wheel steam engine powering a ...

HARWOOD, N.D. — Before diesel became the fuel of choice for farm equipment, manufacturers experimented with other sources to fuel internal combustion engines. According to the Boise, Idaho, JUMP ...

Manning the steam engine’s threshing demonstration, while other enthusiasts volunteered with pitch forks on the flat rack, were Mike Rohde of Boone and Brandon Salmen of Sioux Falls. Salmen’s young ...

CHARLES CITY, Iowa --- Jason Skillen of Greene pointed to a huge configuration of iron wheel, cylinders and pistons housed in a metal building on the grounds of the Cedar Valley Engine Club west of ...