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, ...

What powered the world through the majority of the 19th Century is now a source of education and community for thousands of event attendees expected to attend a July 30 event in Mason. The last Friday ...

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. Paul resident worked at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW CENTERVILLE ― The Somerset County community is gearing up for the 72nd annual Farmers and Threshermens Jubilee, Sept. 4-8. Sponsored by the New Centerville and Rural Volunteer Fire Co., the event ...

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 ...

MOUNT PLEASANT — Just in time for the holiday weekend, the Midwest Old Threshers Reunion returns to Mount Pleasant for five days of tractors, food, camping, music and other fun and activities. The ...

ROLLAG, Minn. (Valley News Live) - The steam engine is rolling in Rollag, Minnesota for the annual Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion. The annual tradition has been happening over the Labor Day ...

STURGIS - They like doing things the old-fashioned way at the Black Hills Steam & Threshing Bee. They seem to like the loud way, too. Old engines were rumbling and popping and crackling and whistling ...

A tractor slowly moves along the grounds of the 48th annual Wheat Threshing, Steam & Gas Engine Show Sunday afternoon as a gospel group performs for the crowd off camera.