Britain once led the world in developing agricultural steam power, with stationary engines arriving on farms in the 1790s, followed later by portable and traction engines as well as cable-operated ...

ANDOVER — The dream either started a decade ago or more than a century ago, depending on how you look at it. “I was just five days old the first time I was on a steam engine,” said Kory Anderson. The ...

It’s one thing to restore classic cars and trucks, but it’s hard to imagine the effort that George Hoffman put into the restoration of his massive 1911 Rumely 36 horsepower steam tractor. The very ...

FARGO-As Bill Forester, of Versailles, Mo., said while he was in the process of getting the large century-old engine started, "It's a real team effort. If it runs, it'll eventually need fixing. Things ...

Ford made tractors from 1917 until 1990, when it agreed to sell its tractor business to Fiat, though its name continued on ...

Advances that helped the introduction of steam-powered cars and that could be adopted for steam tractors included using paraffin instead of coal to heat the water. The liquid fuel needed less space ...