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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.
The firm was the successor to the firm of Owens, Ebert & Dyer (founded in 1845 by Job E. Owens) which went into receivership in 1876. [1]In 1882, George A. Rentschler, J. C. Hooven, Henry C. Sohn, George H. Helvey, and James E. Campbell merged the firm with the iron works of Sohn and Rentschler, [1] [2] and adopted the name Hooven, Owens, Rentschler Co.
Norfolk and Western 578 is a preserved 4-6-2 "Pacific" type steam locomotive.Built by ALCO's Richmond Works in 1910, No. 578 was assigned to pull premiere passenger trains for the Norfolk and Western Railway before it was downgraded to secondary passenger service.
"Old Maude" from a Baltimore and Ohio postcard. Another innovation was the introduction of Mallet locomotives. Economies in haulage could be achieved by reducing the number of locomotives and trains needed, so ever more powerful locomotives were always sought. In 1904 [3] [4] #2400 (renumbered #7000 in 1915), a 0-6-6-0 design, was introduced ...
A replica of the New York Central Empire Express 999, the Collinwood engine was built on a 1930 Hudson truck frame under the leadership of Peter P. Ducosky, who began a 32-year career as a pipe ...
Middlefield is a village in Geauga County, Ohio, United States.The population was 2,748 at the 2020 census.It is part of the Cleveland metropolitan area.Middlefield is known for being the center of the world's fourth largest Amish settlement, [4] and its significant manufacturing base, which includes Gold Key Processing, Inc., Duncan Toys and KraftMaid.
By 1884, they had become one of the largest producers of steam traction engines, plus building industrial, railroad and agricultural equipment. [2] By 1909, the 21 acre plant had produced 18,000 farm, traction and stationary engines, plus 22,000 threshing machines. They also made sawmills, pneumatic stackers, feeders and road rollers. [3]
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.