Steam tractors were a major step in the evolution of mechanical engineering, bringing the power of steam engines onto land. These machines were capable of heavy work long before modern engines existed ...

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" ...

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 ...

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 ...