PARKERSBURG — A familiar fixture left Parkersburg City Park this week, temporarily. The 1908 Colean steam tractor donated to the city in 1972 by local businessman and philanthropist Spencer Creel has ...
PARKERSBURG — A tractor displayed for decades in City Park is back in its familiar parking space. The 1908 Colean steam tractor donated to the city in 1972 by local businessman and philanthropist ...
MIDDLE RIDGE — From where it sits alongside Hwy. 33, the Middle Ridge History Park’s nearly 100-year-old Keck-Gonnerman steam tractor could be easily confused for a train engine. But when 23-year-old ...
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 ...
FARGO-As Bill Forester, of Versailles, Mo., said while he was in the process of getting the large century-old engine started, "It's a real team effort. If it runs, it'll eventually need fixing. Things ...
WACO, Texas - Lou Buice is helping preserve examples of early 20th-century farm technology through his family's hobby of restoring and maintaining some of the oldest farm tractors ever built. In a ...
It’s one thing to restore classic cars and trucks, but it’s hard to imagine the effort that George Hoffman put into the restoration of his massive 1911 Rumely 36 horsepower steam tractor. The very ...
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 ...
From where it sits alongside Hwy. 33, the Middle Ridge History Park’s nearly 100-year-old Keck-Gonnerman steam tractor could be easily confused for a train engine.