Returned to the family after three-quarters of a century Delbert Miller learned that his wife’s great-grandfather had built a ...

HARWOOD, N.D. — Before diesel became the fuel of choice for farm equipment, manufacturers experimented with other sources to fuel internal combustion engines. According to the Boise, Idaho, JUMP ...

Meinrad Rumely started with a blacksmith shop in LaPorte, Indiana, in 1853 and soon expanded into building threshing machines and steam engines. By 1882, the operation was known as the M. Rumely ...

It was a weekend of going back in time to rural America at the Heritage Park Steam Threshing Festival Aug. 4-6. This year’s 40th annual festival featured the International Harvester line of tractors ...

Tom Runty of Illinois stokes up a 1919 Rumely steam engine as he prepares to run a sawmill demonstration as the 19th Annual Antique Power and Steam Show rolled into the Lake County Fairgrounds on ...

LAPORTE | Jerry Erickson drove in from Iowa and Nick Feltis from Minnesota, which speaks to the lasting legacy of the Rumely Co. farm machinery that rolled out of LaPorte starting in the 1850s. They ...