The two that worked looked good and I hope you get the others working. I grew up in farm country, southeastern Washington which is not so different from the mid-west except the Bible thumpers were considered the town wackos. I've seen those old steam tractors in the local museums, county fairs, parades and rusting away in farm fields. I have pictures of my great grandfather's wheat harvest where they used them.
On 09/27/2011 09:08 PM, raunchydog wrote: > One of the charms of living in Iowa is time traveling in farmer consciousness > to The Old Threshers Reunion in Mt. Pleasant. Every year the whole town > pitches in to host over 100,000 visitors. Out-of-towners bring buggies and > babies, tractors and trailers, camping out through Labor Day to experience > the rich agricultural heritage of the Midwest. If you're not wearing bibs and > boots, you're just a tourist. > > Old Threshers is a slice of Americana's forgotten steam engines, > putt-putt-popping, sputtering engines small enough to churn your butter and > wash your clothes or large enough to harvest grain. Gigantic screeching, > clanging trains and threshing machines let off steam, toot-toot tooting > ear-piercing whistles, coming alive as rusty ghosts, newly painted and oiled. > > Old Thresher Reunion videos, edited with a Flip camera: > > Steam Engines > https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/RcNoaJ34olFNmVfUU0wDaQ?feat=directlink > > Train Robbery > https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Tj2v-n7gF976OrrzaeiK1A?feat=directlink > > Rainy Day > https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/yPz2KgbKoz6vrdFmwBaUqQ?feat=directlink > > After the Rain with Kids > https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/huF8laUCgNDfHSUOKQ2WuA?feat=directlink > > >
