Walking by the steam engines, the pressure relief valve popper off this Northwest Return Flu Steam Engine as they were getting ready to thrash at the Midwest Old Threshers Reunion in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, Sept. 1-5, 2011.
Photo by Janet Healy
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Plowing at the Belmond, Iowa show
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Harold Stier of Petersburg, Ill., "fires up" the 1/4-scale of a 60 hp Case traction engine that he and his son Kevin own, at the Mark Twain Old Threshers, Paris, Mo., July 7-9, 2011.
Photo by Janet Healy
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Bill Bond, Ann Arbor, Mich., founder of Spark Plug Collectors of America, and Jim Welty, Fairborn, Ohio, a member of SPCOA check out a Globe motorcycle plug as Bill gave a short history of the plug at the SPCOA meeting in Portland, Ind., on Aug. 24-28, 2011 at the Tri-State Gas Engine & Tractor show.
Photo by Janet Healy
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Ryan Hembrough of Knob Noster, Mo., runs a disk blade sharpener with his Empire gas engine at the Missouri River Valley Steam Engine Assn. show in Boonville, Mo., Sept 9-12, 2011.
Photo by Janet Healy
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For 47 years, H. Koenig & K. Rieves Molasses Co. has been making sorgum molasses at the Missouri River Valley Steam Engine Assn. show in Boonville, Mo. Herbert Koenig (hub) was one of the founding fathers of the show. Left to right: Making sorgum molasses are Brandon Johnson of Boonville (Hub Koenig's great-grandson), Ray Johnson of Boonville (Hub Koenig's grandson), Ray Rieves of Pilot Grove, Mo. (Kenny Rieve's son) feeding the sorgum into the press, and Jeff Burvis of New Franklin, Mo.
Photo by Janet Healy
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Daniel Mulderig enjoying his model of a Foster traction engine at the Jacksonville, Ill., show.
Photo by Susan Eddy
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Kevin Hembrough and his cousin Christopher enjoy checking out the 1-1/2 hp Monitor Pump Jack engine restored by their dads and owned by their great-grandpa.
Photo by Janet Healy
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George Martin and James Eddy with George's engine at the Midwest Old Threshers Reunion in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.
Photo by Susan Eddy
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Another engine getting ready to be started at the Midwest Old Threshers Reunion.
Photo by Susan Eddy
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Frank Bogden returning home with his 1947 Farmall Model M and the first place trophy he won at the Sugar Grove Car, Truck and Tractor Show July 30, 2011.
Photo by Margaret Bogden
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1st Cavalry Division Horse Cavalry Detachment, Fort Hood, Texas, lead the parade at the Buckholts Cotton Festival.
Photo by M.J. Hall
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1st Cavalry Division Horse Cavalry Detachment, Fort Hood, Texas, in the parade at the Buckholts Cotton Festival, Buckholts, Texas, June 4, 2011.
Photo by M.J. Hall
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Cotton gin at the Buckholts Cotton Festival.
Photo by M.J. Hall
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Photo by Judy Anderson
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Charles Burlingame brought his Bulls Eye gas engine to the Missouri River Valley Steam Engine Assn. show in Boonville, Mo., Sept. 9-12, 2011.
Photo by Janet Healy
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Charles Atkinson, Centralia, Mo., and Richard Sorrels, Columbia, Mo., getting a 300 hp Fairbanks-Morse engine ready to run at the Missouri River Valley Steam Engine Assn. show. The engine belongs to the club in Boonville, Mo.
Photo by Janet Healy
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Charles Wise at an engine auction in Missouri.
Photo by Susan Eddy
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Charles Buche, Madrid, Iowa, volunteers to help shell corn with a Model D corn sheller at the Midwest Old Threshers Reunion.
Photo by Janet Healy
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Chris Eddy running the big Reid at the Midwest Old Threshers Reunion.
Photo by Susan Eddy
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Charlie and George Martin and James Eddy discuss engines at the Midwest Old Threshers Reunion.
Photo by Susan Eddy
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Ed Minneart of Muckateen, Iowa, runs the Champion Thrashing Machine powered by a 2 HP treadmill at the Midwest Old Threshers Reunion.
Photo by Janet Healy
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Dave Janecek and his Monitor at a Ceresco, Neb., show.
Photo by Susan Eddy
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Fred Fleming does laundry at the Midwest Old Threshers Reunion.
Photo by Susan Eddy
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Harold Stiers, Petersburg, Ill., takes a ride on the 1/4-scale of a 60 hp Case traction engine that he and his son, Kevin, own. He had fun driving around the grounds at the Mark Twain Old Threshers, Paris, Mo.
Photo by Janet Healy
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"I've been working on the railroad" might be the theme son gas these workers figured out a way to get the engine back on track at the Midwest Old Threshers Reunion. They did get the engine running again.
Photo by Janet Healy
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At the Humboldt, S.D., Threshing Show in August. FFA helpers are feeding corn bundles into an OK stationary cutter. It was made at Algoma Steel & Imp. Co., St. Paul, Minn.
Photo by Steve Schroeder
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Left to right: Glen Burlingame gets help from his son David to work on his Termatt & Monahan engine at the Macon, Mo., Old time Flywheel Reunion, July 28-30, 2011. Both are from California, Mo.
Photo by Janet Healy
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Line of engines at the Jacksonville, Ill., show.
Photo by Susan Eddy
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Maurice Turnbull oiling a steam engine at a show in Shelbina, Mo.
Photo by Susan Eddy
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Robert Massey and Clarence Reed at the Denmark, Iowa, show.
Photo by Susan Eddy
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At the Midwest Old Threshers Reunion, Scott Folta and Tiffany Tice work on the Briggs & Stratton engine that belongs to Scott's grandpa, Jack Folta, all of Laddonia, Mo.
Photo by Janet Healy
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Richard Thacker, 84 years old, of Winfield, Iowa, has been nicknamed "Pickle Man" at the Country Store at the Midwest Old Threshers Reunion. Richard, his daughter and grandchildren all work in the store.
Photo by Janet Healy
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Photo by Robert Thorson
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At the Steam Show & Fall Festival in South Jacksonville, Ill., Sept. 23-25, 2011, four generations of Hembroughs keep the gas engine hobby going strong.
Photo by Janet Healy
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