Orange County, Virginia
Here are a few more photos from the Somerset Steam and Gas Pasture Party which took place September 13, 14 and 15, 2013.
This old gasoline tractor looks like it has had a long and useful life. It bears the marks of its age, and seems to me more evocative of an earlier time than a meticulously restored antique that looks like brand new.
While a steam powered tractor plows the field, this John Deere model A sits on the sidelines. Steam power did not last long. Gasoline tractors were cheaper, smaller, easier to operate and had the additional advantage of being able to cultivate row crops. By 1920, steam power on the farm was obsolete. John Deere model A tractors were produced from 1934 to 1952.
During the steam tractor plowing demonstration, a spectator watches from a perfect ringside seat—the driver's seat of a 1930 Model A Ford!
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