After the smoke, the thousands of visitors and the rhythmic thumping sounds of the massive century-old steam engines have vanished from the grounds of the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion in ...

NEW ROCKFORD, N.D. -- The 52nd annual Central Dakota Steam Threshers Reunion is all about nostalgia. But don't look for this to be a gathering or reunion of men who operated the big steam engines to ...

PINCKEYVILLE – The 55th annual American Thresherman Association's Steam, Gas and Threshing Show is set for Wednesday through Sunday, Aug. 13 to 17, at Perry County Fairgrounds. One of the longest ...

The town of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, sits in Iowa’s southeast corner, in the middle of gently rolling fields of corn and soybeans. Over the recent Labor Day weekend, its normal population of about 9,000 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ROLLAG, Minn. -- The first official Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion opened its doors to the public in 1954. But it's actually been 70 years since the tradition started. According to the ...

ROLLAG, Minn. — The 240 rolling acres north of Rollag became a must-see stop during the Labor Day weekend for hundreds of antique machinery enthusiasts. The Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion ...

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, ...