Sentence examples for steam tractor from inspiring English sources

Stationed outside the 224-room property is the Old Dinah, a 1894 steam tractor, and ore wagons that replaced mule teams used by the early miners searching for gold and borax.

Investigators believe a splash of water that suddenly touched a boiler plate may have caused the explosion of a vintage steam tractor that killed four people on Sunday at the Medina County Fair.

During this period, one Swakopmund landmark in particular came to symbolise my enforced sojourn on the coast: the "Martin Luther" – the unluckiest steam tractor in history, abandoned just outside town.

Her husband, Dr. Lonnie Hammargren, built Big Bertha, a black 10-foot-tall model locomotive, in their backyard from a disparate collection of parts: a rail car believed to have brought Howard Hughes to Las Vegas, part of a road girder, a piece of an 1890 steam tractor, a boiler "from something entirely different, I can't remember what," Dr. Hammargren said.

Steeped in midsummer heat, they approached the annual county fair as it opened today with much the same anticipation as ever, but then had to wander past the 4-H barns to the place where the antique steam tractor blew up last night and killed four people.

The story receded and the bent remains of the 1918 steam tractor were hauled away with onlookers, puzzled and fascinated, noting that it had been used for spring plowing only this year as a lark by the two owners who died aboard the antique, Cliff Kovacic, 45, and his son, William, 27.

A celebration of steam tractors and other vehicles, plus classic car rally, 'a great spring day out for boys (and girls) who love super-size toys'.

Like ancient steam-tractors or Vincent motorcycles, they can be painstakingly restored from virtually any stage of ruin".

Then came children in a clearing with a steam-driven tractor, beside the family sawmill.

Low water levels caused last month's explosion of an antique steam-powered tractor that killed five people at a county fair in Medina, investigators said.

The fourth fatality was Alan Kimble, 46, who had been enjoying the sight of the tractor steaming through the fair's side entry gate.