The earth shook. Passers-by plugged their ears. And a 104-year Kansas University tradition was resurrected. After three months of silence, a steam whistle’s booming signal again echoed across campus ...
Pratt Institute’s chief engineer blew off some steam for the last time on New Year’s Eve. Conrad Milster has been tooting in the new year with his collection of antique steam whistles since 1965, but ...
HOLLAND TOWNSHIP -- Pete LaBelle does not farm an inch of land with his nine-and-a-half ton, 1912 Buffalo Pitts steam engine, but it can cook one mean ear of corn. The 48-year-old Holland Township man ...
Bob Nesselroad, a volunteer at Living History Farms in Des Moines, Iowa, stands on an antique steam tractor during a threshing demonstration in August 2022. (Rox Laird/Courthouse News) (CN) — ...
Perhaps no one said it, but the mournful blast of an antique tractor's steam whistle on a rainy day in the Yuba County foothills could have been a tribute to the machine's former owner. Godfrey Humann ...
It’s half the size of steam-engine tractors used almost a century earlier, but Tony Benda’s replica of a 65-horsepower 1915 model gathered lots of attention Saturday at The Enid An-tique Power and Gas ...