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Each year, the National Threshers Association reunion/show features approximately 50 steam engines - all operating - in addition to hundreds of gas tractors and gas engines. Daily demonstrations include wheat threshing , straw baling , sawmill , a shingle mill, farm plowing , and machinery parades with covered grandstand seating for spectators.
Buckley Old Engine Show - Annual show in Buckley, Michigan [33] K&O Steam and Gas Engine Show, Windfield Kansas. Central North Dakota Steam Thresher's Reunion – (1958- ) [34] The Dover Steam Show – (1964- ) Annual show hosted by Tuscarawas Valley Pioneer Power Association [35]
S-4 14 engines built 1953; RS-2 2 engines built 1949, and later sold to Lehigh Valley Railroad; RSD-5 26 engines built 1952; RS-1 2 engines built 1953; RS-3 2 engines built 1955; RSD-12 10 engines built 1956; RSD-7 12 engines built 1956, retired and traded to GE 1969; C-630 4 engines built 1967, and later sold to Robe River Mining of Australia
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway's K-4 class were a group of ninety 2-8-4 steam locomotives purchased during and shortly after World War II. [1] Unlike many other railroads in the United States, the C&O chose to nickname this class "Kanawha", after the river in West Virginia, rather than "Berkshire", after the region in New England.
Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad No. 643 is the sole survivor of the class H-1 2-10-4 "Texas type" steam locomotives built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1944 for the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad, primarily used for hauling heavy mainline freight trains in Pennsylvania and Ohio, until retirement in 1952.
The remaining steam engine is scheduled to run July 19-20 and Aug. 9-10, 15-18, 23-24, and 30-31. There will also be September and October dates announced at a later date.
Aug. 9—Since being built in 1932, the Collinwood Alumni Engine 999 has toured in parades at various locations throughout the United States, including at the Lake County Fair and Last Stop ...
These were used as yard engines in areas where smoke abatement led to restrictions or bans on the use of steam. In 1935 a single unit mainline diesel-electric engine (#50) was constructed; this was eventually transferred to the Chicago and Alton Railroad, an affiliated line.