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Rare collectible engines were well represented at the 29 th Antique Engine & Tractor show last October as this photo illustrates. Look...

The 1930’s saw most of the developed countries struggling with the worst depression anyone could remember so naturally anything that sugges...

When was the last time a musical made you think?"  proudly proclaimed the ad in the newspaper I was reading. Hmmmm! at nearly two hundr...

There's nothing that sounds like steam through a brass whistle. I bought my ticket and walked through the gate at the Dacusville Farm S...

Here's a short video of a Keck-Gonnerman steam tractor at the Dacusville Farm Show near Easley, SC at  the end of August 2014. We'll...

In the fall of 2007 I was vacationing in western North Carolina when I stumbled upon what has to be one of the largest collections of unrest...

Arthur Briggs Farquhar was one of those fortunate individuals born in the right place at the right time to the right parents. Coupled with ...

Greetings and welcome to the Iron Mule. Like most people I'm fascinated by antiques and history. Some say the course of history is defin...