After steam tractor runs thresher, it hauls grain to the depot

Tod Riebow posted six photos with the comment:

Huge Steam Tractors hauled trackless wagon trains loaded with Lumber or grain to Railroad Freight Depots and Grain Elevators where the products were reloaded onto Railroad Trains and shipping to market.(Photo Credits: Gary Yaeger)

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Gary Yaeger posted
Friend Ted Murray posted this photo of his family's Z-Z Geiser-Peerless hauling grain wagons near Hobson, Montana on his grandfather's farm. There were several Z-Z Peerless engines in the Hobson, Moccasin Montana area.

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Gary Yaeger posted four photos with the comment: "Four photos of Frank Strouf's Reeves steam engines hauling grain crops to Stanford Montana from his farm on Wolf Creek, north of there."

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Note the horse and buggy at the end. Is the driver looking for bags that fell off? All those bags piled up is a reminder that all grain was shipped in bags during the steamboat and canal era. The need to efficiently load and unload trains forced the invention of the lag elevator and the bulk storage of grain.

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Gary Yaeger posted three photos with the comment:

Thomas Longshore, I couldn't tell you much about Frank Strouf's water wagon's on his trips to market. This is a completely different engine and outfit. This outfit belonged to Len Chapin of Geraldine, Montana. He pulled a water wagon on the rear of his grain wagon train. Notice in the first photo, at the top of the hill is the second water wagon. Len shipped his grain to Fort Benton, and I'd imagine he shipped aboard the Great Northern Railway?

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Gary Yaeger posted
Three 110 hp Best steam engines freighting.

I came across a photo album by Gary Yaeger that included pictures of old tractors pulling houses.