CORRYTON, Tenn. — Deep in the woods near House Mountain State Natural Area, you’ll find an agricultural relic that looks more like an old train than a tractor. The Russell brand steam-engine tractor ...

66 — This is no ordinary bodywork project. This is specialty stuff. It requires an 1,800-plus-mile journey to the Upper Midwest. The fixes could take about a year and run about $50,000. But this ...

Perched on a wagon at the heart of Vista’s Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum sits Rube Nelson’s 1895 Russell steam tractor. With its broken boiler and dust-caked wheels, it may look like a worn-out ...

Smoke billows from the stack of the steam-powered tractor as it chugs along, sounding like a train locomotive. At a top speed ...

Passing on a two-lane road can be a harrowing experience, even without oncoming traffic. Passing in a 21-ton machine that only makes an estimated 16 horsepower is another matter entirely, but ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Spectators watch steam tractors going around during the 73rd Annual Reunion of the National Threshers Association at the Fulton County Fairgrounds in Wauseon, Ohio, June 22. The Blade/Kurt Steiss Buy ...

A Volkswagen has crashed into a steam traction engine in Suffolk. The front of the family car was left crumpled after the incident in Great Barton on Saturday. The silver five-door Volkswagen Touran ...