2008 Steam Show

Throughout these web pages, you will see blue links connecting to some of our many video streams showing our various equipment demonstrations. Windows Media WILL NOT play these videos. You will need Quick Time or Nero Show Time video players in your computer to view these video streams. FREE Downloads of these video players are available for home computers from the Internet. Depending on the length of the video, it may take a few minutes to download the video stream. However, watching and seeing these antique and vintage machines in operation is well worth the wait for the download. You will also need High-Speed Internet Service for these downloads.

	Welcome to our 2008 Steam Photo Page! If you visited our show this year, we hope these photos bring back memories for you and your family. If you have yet to visit one of our annual shows, it is our hope you will enjoy these photo pages enough to make plans to visit our 2009 "Pageant of Steam" show next year! Don't want to wait until next July, make plans to visit our annual Toy Show held the last Sunday in March -- our 2009 Toy Show will be held March 29, 2009!





	Each year, the SVSGEA "Pageant of Steam" show features a number of vendors and exhibitors who display hand-made crafts as well as featuring many displays of hard-to-find books, magazines, scale model toys, leather goods, fabric and cloth items -- well, you will be able to see from these photos, just way to many items to mention in one space so you need to make plans to visit next year and see for yourself!










During our 3-day Steam Show, you will see a wide variety of antique and vintage steam-powered as well as gas powered tractors, some small in size while others are very large in size, slowly rolling through the show park grounds.








	As our Club name implies, The Shenandoah Valley Steam and Gas Engine Association, we ALWAYS have plenty of vintage working steam engines and steam-powered tractors on hand every year for demonstrations. Shown in the photo at left and below, long-time member Charles Gray, Sr. is preparing his 1915 Taylor and Aultman portable steam engine for a demonstration with the Club's belt-driven shingle mill. Click on the links below to watch video streams of Mr. Gray's Steam Engine and other belt-driven equipment demonstrations.

	Cutting Cedar Blocks for Shingle Mill Shingle Mill and Portable Steam Engine Video

	SVSGEA Steam Show Director Jerry Ullery (in blue shirt) heads the Steam Show's Saw Mill Demonstration crew. The Saw Mill is belt-driven and is usually powered by one of the steam-powered tractors. From time to time, Jerry and the crew will "belt-up" the saw mill to one of the many antique gas-powered farm tractors for their demonstrations. Our Saw Mill Crew will usually cut several truck loads of logs during our 3-day show.




	Shown at left, SVSGEA Vice President Steve Giles assisting with the "belting-up" of the Saw Mill to one of the many antique McCormick gas-powered tractors for a demonstration. Saw Mill Demonstration


Getting hungry yet? We always have a variety of food booths to choose from including a Bean Soup tent where one can sit down and enjoy a cup of White Beans cooked in a steam-fired kettle. Yep --- Steam-fired and boiled to perfection with ham hock, along with some cornbread, onions and drinks! It just can't get any better than that!



	And the sun starts to set in the west and tractors start heading for the covered shed where the scales are located and everyone knows it is getting close to time for the annual Friday night Antique Tractor Pull. Steam Show Directors Larry Lloyd (left) and Mike Lanham (right) officiate the Friday Night Tractor Pull Weigh-In. SVSGEA Tractor Pull Rules



	SVSGEA President Rick Custer (shown left) does the announcing during the annual tractor pull. Not only is our antique tractor pull fun to watch, but Rick adds to the fun with short informative "historical bits" of information about many of the different brands of tractors pulling in this event.




As you watch these Tractor Pull Videos, listen closely and you will hear SVSGEA President Rick Custer giving statistical data and information about the tractors in the pull. Steam Tractor Pull McCormick Tractor Pull IHC Tractor Pull



Saturday Morning at our Steam Show begins promptly at 9:00 AM with our annual Equipment Auction.

	Steam Show Director Calvin Ritter, shown at left, heads up the SVSGEA's Saturday Auction Crew. 2008 Auction Video Stream











	At "High Noon", everyone who has anything powered on the show grounds fires up their machines and heads for the tractor pull track. It is time for our annual "Parade of Power" Steam Show Parade! This parade features anything antique, vintage, and powered -- from farm equipment, both steam-powered and gas-powered to construction equipment to Over-The-Road Trucks and Trailers! Steve Giles Steam Tractor - 2008 Parade










Dodge Straight Truck GMC Cabover Truck with Mason-Dixon Trailer 2008 Parade Video - 1 2008 Parade Video 2

	Each year, the SVSGEA Steam Show is please have an antique and vintage truck display. Mr. Fred Craig, shown in the photo at left, sitting on the right, along with Mel Fair, in the middle, and many of their club members and friends are kind enough to bring a nice collection of vintage trucks and trailers to our show. We thank Fred and his many friends for their support and for their time to bring their trucks to our shows. www.tri-state-antiquetruckshow.com














Saturday Afternoon at the Steam Show -- The Auction is long since over with, the Parade of Power has finished. You took a break and grabbed a bowl of the steaming hot white beans with some onions and cornbread, or perhaps just grabbed a burger and some fries and a drink? Now it's back to those equipment demonstrations -- this time the Club's Threshing Machine and then the antique belt-driven Hay Baler. Threshing Machine Video Hay Baler Video















Sunday Mornings at our Steam Show begin with a non-denominational devotional with some gospel music. Later in the day we have a Junior Tractor Pull for the kids! Kid's Barrel Ride Video

Thanks for visiting our 2008 Steam Show Photo Album. We hope you will make plans to bring your family and friends to our annual SVSGEA Toy Show, held the last Sunday in March, 2009. We also hope you will make plans to visit our 2009 "Parade of Power" Steam Show next July 24th, 25th, and 26th!

AND ---- Please take a moment to sign our Guest Book to let us know where you are from and what you enjoy most about our Shows. Thanks for stopping by!