The Threshing Machine King

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March 2000
Paul F. Long 
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Years later one old timer recalled the wonder of it all. “I estimated the train was more than a mile long,” he said, “and it was loaded with shiny threshing machines and steam traction engines.”

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But by the end of the 20th century, steam traction engines were beginning to lose the battle for supremacy on the American farm to implements powered by internal combustion engines. J.I. Case was already gone, as he died in 1891. By the early 1920s the Golden Age of the steam traction engine was coming to an end. The great smoke-belching behemoths, the threshing machines, and the huge crew of laborers necessary for the threshing operation were soon to become a part of the nostalgic remembrances of a lost and distant past. FC

Paul Long, a retired teacher and coach, is a newspaper columnist and a regular contributor to The Territorial, The Farmer, Persimmon Hill, Kanhistique, Animal World, Texas Farmer-Stockman, Kansas Farmer, the Horseman, Western Horseman and Rural Heritage.
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