But traction engines can take the highway, or the by-way, or the open field, and ford small streams, ... The steam-engine, however, can work twelve or fifteen of the other sixteen hours.

Despite such accidents, by 1900 some 5,000 large steam traction engines a year were being made. But the steady improvement of internal-combustion engines threatened their existence.

This Huber Steam Traction Engine is of a moderate size at twelve tons and 16 feet long-many of its contemporaries weighed as much as 20 tons. It has an 18 horsepower engine. The water tank in the ...

John Pohlpeter next to his father’s 1914 Aultman & Taylor steam traction engine. BROOKS, Ore. — The air was thick with the exotic scents of burning fuel and fried foods as thousands of ...

OSAGE | After a seven-year absence from its home, the 1913 Case 110 Steam Engine made a grand return during the 20th anniversary of the Power Show at Cedar Valley New life brought back to old ...

This Weeden Toy Steam Traction Engine was manufactured by the Weeden Manufacturing Company of New Bedford, Massachusetts from around 1926-1935. The steam traction engine consists of a black firebox, ...

He said farmers used to use steam traction engines to pull plows. “It was basically like a big steam tractor you could use to pull up to 24 plows at a time instead of pulling your plows with horses.

15 February 2012. Steam traction engine school a “first” Driving a steam traction engine on busy modern roads is not for the faint hearted but ten steam enthusiasts have just qualified to take ...

We could have up to 22 steam traction engines. We have a steam-powered sawmill. We have a steam powered crane. They all operate so you could see all of this movement going on.

A collection of 600 rare steam and traction engines has sold at auction for £1.5m. Many of the Keeley collection of engines, dating back to the 17th Century, were sold to private buyers in the UK ...

Traction Engines for Military Purposes. Share full article. June 10, 1861. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from June 10, 1861, Page 2 Buy Reprints.