ROLLAG, Minn. — Hundreds of tractors took to the dirt roads of the township of Rollag, Minn., northeast of Barnesville, during the annual Western Minnesota Steam Threshers' Reunion in Rollag, ...

KONNER METZ kmetz@chespub.com Aug 5, 2025 Aug 5, 2025 0 FEDERALSBURG — In 1961, Jim Layton and some neighbors gathered off of Route 313 to thresh wheat using one steam engine. That modest ...

ROLLAG, Minn. - When self-described city girl Kelsey Bjornson tells people she loves steam engines, they say she's "crazy." But that's the reason the 26-year-old St ...

NEW ROCKFORD, N.D. -- The 52nd annual Central Dakota Steam Threshers Reunion is all about nostalgia. But don't look for this to be a gathering or reunion of men who operated the big steam engines to ...

HARWOOD, N.D. — Before diesel became the fuel of choice for farm equipment, manufacturers experimented with other sources to fuel internal combustion engines. According to the Boise, Idaho, JUMP ...

Manning the steam engine’s threshing demonstration, while other enthusiasts volunteered with pitch forks on the flat rack, were Mike Rohde of Boone and Brandon Salmen of Sioux Falls. Salmen’s young ...

FOREST CITY | North Iowa residents may be used to seeing large tractors moving through farm fields, even they don't live on a farm. What's not as familiar is a big steel-wheel steam engine powering a ...

CHARLES CITY, Iowa --- Jason Skillen of Greene pointed to a huge configuration of iron wheel, cylinders and pistons housed in a metal building on the grounds of the Cedar Valley Engine Club west of ...