Chicago Northwestern Railroad Steam Engine
Rockford; Chicago Northwestern Railroad Class R-1 steam locomotive #1146 Whyte system 4-6-0 Ten Wheeler, (4 wheel pilot truck, 6 drivers, no trailing truck) The building behind the engine is the C&NW, Rockford Engine House or Roundhouse.
circa 1870s
Midway Village Museum
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Threshing Season
Horse drawn threshing machine, circa 1880s. Being made of wood indicates that it is an early model of a thresher. The development of threshers was reliant on the availablity of power to run the machines. Horses pulled this machine to a field where it remained stationery and grain was put to it. Horses were the early power source to operate the thresher. By 1890 - 1930 horse pulled, portable steam engines became the thresher's power source. Gas powered tractors replaced both horses and the steam engines starting in 1930 and combines replaced the threshers by 1950.
circa 1880s
Midway Village Museum
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Steam Engine Powering a Thresher
Steam engine used to power a threshing machine in the field. Note the large belt at the right. This belt was attached to the thresher machine.
circa 1890 - 1915
Midway Village Museum
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