Learn how Edward P. Ellis and Scottish immigrant Thomas Chalmers merged companies in 1901 to form Ellis-Chalmers, a steam engine manufacturer ...

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 ...

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) — ...

Smoke billows from the stack of the steam-powered tractor as it chugs along, sounding like a train locomotive. At a top speed of just under 6 mph, the 150 Case Road Locomotive moves methodically but ...

An Andover man is hoping to break a world record by pulling a 50-bottom plow using a rebuilt 150-horsepower Case steam-powered tractor at the James Valley Threshing Show in Andover this weekend. That ...

ROLLAG, Minn. — Under a glassy-blue Minnesota sky, a billow of smoke comes from a steam-powered tractor, hurking itself across the landscape as it pulls ink-black earth to the sun. The land is being ...

Just curious: This occasional feature in the Des Moines Register aims to answer your questions about Iowa. Is there some place, event, lore, history or cultural quirk you're just curious about? Email ...

When Dallastown’s Wilfred F. Markey Jr. died at age 89 in 2016, his obituary told about the well-known trucking company that he built starting in the 1950s. But a good chunk of the obituary told of ...