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Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
« Reply #15 on: July 20, 2019, 11:22:37 pm »
Fantastic that all these haven't been scrapped.
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Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
« Reply #16 on: July 21, 2019, 07:03:47 am »
About the only action at the show with the heat


Great video Nick, you had a good vantage point,  I especially liked watching the "Dozers" maneuver through the turn.
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Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
« Reply #17 on: July 22, 2019, 12:23:09 am »
Fantastic that all these haven't been scrapped.

An older friend of mine tells me all the time how many steam engines he used to scrap  :'(
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Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
« Reply #18 on: July 22, 2019, 12:26:21 am »
Great video Nick, you had a good vantage point,  I especially liked watching the "Dozers" maneuver through the turn.

We watched a few of them load up on trailers at the end of today, would have made some good video footage, but I'm sure it was bad enough for them having an audience (a few of them telling them how they should be doing it), so I kept the camera off them.
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Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
« Reply #19 on: July 22, 2019, 12:35:44 am »
MTM tractor crushing rock

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Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
« Reply #20 on: July 22, 2019, 11:19:02 am »
Loud .... but wonderful!!!

Some real work being done there for certain and for sure!
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Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
« Reply #21 on: October 04, 2019, 01:58:25 am »
Finally had a chance to get some more video clips put together...

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Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
« Reply #22 on: January 21, 2020, 09:34:28 pm »
I was looking at the "forum stats" and couldn't believe the number of views that this thread has, so I dug up some more pictures from the shows previous years...

Here's some of the models that were there in '08, unfortunately I have not seen these at the show for quite some time...







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Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
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Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
« Reply #24 on: January 22, 2020, 09:00:23 am »
Found this one on a bus full of toys. Pictures are not the best as it was in a case, but then I spotted the tag... engine built by my grandpa's cousin  8)









I believe this guy displays at the Baraboo show every year





And the last two, note the tiny boiler/engine next to the air line... world's smallest MEC1?  :D



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Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
« Reply #25 on: January 23, 2020, 09:01:48 am »
Allis Chalmers was the feature tractor in '08











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Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
« Reply #26 on: January 23, 2020, 09:19:16 am »
The IH/Farmall and Oliver lineups





and the John Deere lineup



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Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
« Reply #27 on: January 23, 2020, 11:13:25 pm »
Twin City







MTM





and a Minneapolis



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Re: Root River - Antique Power Show - Racine, MN
« Reply #28 on: January 24, 2020, 12:25:50 am »
I saw the field of orange. AC was so innovative. For gas tractors, if I was going to get one, I would get an Allis Chalmers. The WD45 is an amazing tractor.