9/17/23

 It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog!  I usually share trains but I am making an exception here for today.  This is a drone capture of our 20HP Minneapolis Steam Traction Engine at the Western Minnesota Steam Thresher's reunion.  It was threshing wheat when I took this image.

I have a video up on YouTube that is about 7.5 minutes long where I tried to show different aspects of the process if you care to watch.  I shot it with the drone and it can be found HERE.

7/17/21

 Today's post could have been for Steamy Sunday but trains are more my thing.  This Minneapolis steam tractor was parked by the horse barn for a while while I was up in Minnesota this past Father's Day weekend.  It made for a nice rural photo.  

6/28/20

Steamy Sunday has rolled around again!  I don't share steam traction engines very often but I liked how this one turned out and this is a bit of a special occasion.  So in the past I have always referred to this 20 HP Minneapolis as "the engine my husband gets to work on".  Now I get to refer to it as the engine we own.  The owner decided to sell it this year and gave us the opportunity to buy it and we did.  It will remain in Minnesota for now.  In this image it is working on a saw mill at Rollag along with a return flu Minneapolis that the same previous owner used to own but has now also sold.

5/17/20

Today's Steamy Sunday is a bit different.  I usually don't post steam traction engines because I am not that interested in them like steam trains.  LOL  This is the one the hubster works with though and I thought I might try out the new technique I have been playing with and I liked the result. This a 20 Minneapolis.

2/22/18

I have a day off today due to Icy conditions.  This is an image from a much warmer day in Minnesota this past September.  I took this shot at the Western Minnesota Steam Thresher's reunion.  The newly and beautifully restored Cook Shack was being hauled out to the threshing area by one of the steam traction engines.  

6/21/15

Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there!  
This image is of the 2 steam traction engines that were putting on the ride last night during the lovely evening that my photo from yesterday came from.  The engine on the left is a 20HP Minneapolis that the hubster gets to run and the one on the right is a huge Rumley with a great sounding whistle.  :-)  They pulled us around the large pond that is on the showgrounds of the Western Minnesota Steam Thresher's Reunion in Rollag, MN.

12/28/14

Those of you who only visit my Blog may notice a trend on Sundays.  I post a lot of trains and such mainly because over on Google + I co-curate a theme called Steamy Sunday and we encourage others to post photos of steam.  They can be anything steamy, even the steam off a coffee cup, I just happen to enjoy trains as does the other curator who is from Australia.  Anyway, this is a bit different, it's a steam traction engine that some friends of ours own and operate at the Steam Threshers Reunion up in Rollag, Minnesota.  I was trying out a new B&W style, with a copper tone to it and thought I would share it today.  This is a 28 HP Minneapolis.