As a kid, I rode quite a bit with my grandfather on one of those steel lugged farm tractors, that ran on kerosene and gasoline... (that would horrify the safety weenies, as would our riding in the bed of the pickup...no child seats or seat belts back there) I was there when a flatbed truck brought in a shiny new orange Case on rubber tires, and hauled away the lugged one, which brand name I cannot pull up. (seems it was lettered for kerosene and gasoline but said nothing about distillate, and may have been the brand that became "Farmall) It was one noisy tractor.
A stack of old "Model Train" bound magazines I am looking at has a big "picture" (not a photo, may be a drawing or etching) of Baldwin's #5000, P&R's (Reading's) #507, a 4-2-2 built in 1880 with powered levers to press all the weight on the many (two) drivers starting up, and then transfer part of it to the trailing truck. P&R ordered it because they were breaking side rods and wanted to eliminate side rods. Baldwin built only the one.
