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.

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 ...

Steam engines haven't been the primary method of travel for decades, ... (Advanced Steam Traction Trust), pursuing their former goal of improving the performance of steam locomotives, ...

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.

The 75th anniversary of a major event in the steam preservation movement was celebrated in Appleford at the weekend. The event on Saturday and Sunday, June 21 and 22, marked three quarters of a ...

Also present at the Hunton Steam Gathering in Lower Wensleydale will be traction engines that bear the inventor’s name – “John Fowler”, they say on their famous front roundel – although ...

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.