The town of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, sits in Iowa’s southeast corner, in the middle of gently rolling fields of corn and soybeans. Over the recent Labor Day weekend, its normal population of about 9,000 ...

The average person likely doesn’t think about tractors much, and most have never paused to watch one work. That’s a shame, as tractors are among the most fascinating engine-powered machines, without ...

POWELL — Steam-engine tractors had a relatively short lifespan in terms of the length of time they were in use on American farms. But steam engines still live on in farm lore and in the hearts of many ...

If you float the Snake River when the water is low, you might get a glimpse of a steam-engine tractor lying on its side in the river east of the Perrine Memorial Bridge. But the details of how the ...

Built to last and as big as a dinosaur, it was obsolete before it left the factory in 1920. Nonetheless, with huge wheels and a gay canopy with a red fringe on top, the Huber "steam traction engine" ...

Tim Dezotell's shiny green 1930s Hart-Parr Tractor with bright, red wheels has passed from generation to generation in the Dezotell family. It's part of a legacy patriarch Percy, who died in the early ...

Allendale’s Antique Tractor and Steam Engine Show is one of those events that evolved gradually. “It all started when several guys got together on a private farm one weekend to do some wheat threshing ...