I used to go to the Steam Show in Barlow Ohio as a youngster, thinking back to the 70's. There were almost twelve distinct models of the Case Foothold steam motors there. It was astounding to see these survivors from a by-gone period actually doing the positions they did almost 100 years prior. I recollect a feed baler that was worked at the show and it created the heaviest bunches of roughage or straw I've at any point seen, they weighed above and beyond 100 pounds. The steam push on the baler applied such a lot of strain, it really compacted the roughage into a parcel that was so thick you could scarcely move it. Such genuinely astonishing machines with truly many-sided outfitting that delivered mind boggling measures of force. They took care of business. Incredible to see you're keeping this intriguing piece of America's past alive.

In the 1970s, when I was a young child, I used to visit the Steam Show in Barlow, Ohio. There were about a dozen distinct Case Traction steam engines on display. It was incredible to witness these holdovers from a bygone period continuing to do the duties they did almost a century before. The largest bales of hay or straw I have ever seen were made by a hay baler that was used at the show; they were well over 100 pounds in weight. The steam press on the baler exerted so intense pressure that the hay was really compressed into a bale so dense you could hardly move it. Such amazingly complex gearing was used in these incredibly extraordinary machines, which generated immense torque. 

This ONE CYLINDER steam engine is producing an incredible amount of power! This is the outcome of a double-sided, 14-inch piston with a 14-inch stroke being subjected to 180 lbs. of steam pressure. 2 forward speeds—slow and even slower! (in actuality, 2.6 mph in low gear and around 5.7 mph in high gear) The quantity of gearing, however, results in almost 8000 ft-lbs of torque being produced at the wheels! The output of 8 2021 Dodge/Cummins turbo diesels operating at full power and 1800 rpm is this. At crank speed, this tractor operates at 200 revolutions per minute, perhaps with far less noise.

Man, only the plow operators are pulling nearly 4 tons with that machine! Really a land locomotive. At Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, I once seen a dynamometer truck, which is essentially a diesel railway locomotive converted into a truck. vehicle testing for the Army. It emerged towing six M60 MBTs, or roughly 300 tons.