On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 12:54:32 -0500, Anonymous wrote:
On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 17:23:50 +0000 (UTC), Cydrome Leader wrote:
Have any folks here been to the Sycamore Steam Show in Sycamore, Illinois
before?

http://www.threshingbee.org/

It's not clear from the site if they actually fire anything up of if it's
just a picnic with lots of tractors in display.

In years past they have had a saw mill running and a daily parade of
antique tractors, usually including at least a few steam traction
engines, plus displays of stationary engines from models up to full
size (=100 HP), many of which are running during the show. It's well
worth a few hours and the weather this weekend looks pretty decent so
far as temperature is concerned.

If you are in the Geneseo IL area, this is another good show:
http://ae-ta.com/

The Oblong, IL steam show is on this weekend, 9 Aug - 11 Aug 2013
http://www.eventcrazy.com/Oblong-IL/events/details/4532-Antique-Tractor-and-Engine-Show
(http://www.theonlyoblong.com/antique_engine/ shows last year's dates)

Oblong's in eastern IL, about an hour away from Effingham,
Terre Haute, and Vincennes.

Watching the large engines (100 hp Fairbanks-Morse, 75 hp Superior,
60 hp Muncie) start up is pretty interesting. There are a lot of
small engines, models, antique cars, and steam tractors as well.

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jiw