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Built to last and as big as a dinosaur, it was obsolete before it left the factory in 1920. Nonetheless, with huge wheels and a gay canopy with a red fringe on top, the Huber "steam traction engine" ...

Last month, during a visit to the Ontario Steam Heritage Museum, our group enjoyed a wagon ride behind a 1915 Sawyer Massey, steam traction engine. Volunteer Roger Sales operated the levers on this ...