Red-Tractors-Book
This is a sneak peak at the images coming for the book Red Tractors 1958–2013 by Lee Klancher, Oscar H. Will III, and more. The 384-page book includes extensive coverage of tractors built worldwide, and features never-before-published images and concept drawings of International Harvester and Case-IH prototype and concept vehicles. More than 30 former and current engineers and managers provided in-depth interviews for the book. You can order the book at https://www.octanepress.com/book/red-tractors
Read MoreThis International McCormick B-450 was photographed in a hangar at Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, Illinois, about 130 miles south of Chicago. Established in 1917, the base closed in 1993, but provided the site of the Half Century of Progress farm show. Darius Harms tractor collection / Lee Klancher photograph
In 2005, several Steiger Quadtracs were used to open an over-ice route between two remote stations at the South Pole. On October 14, one of the machines was transported from Christchurch, New Zealand, to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, on a U.S. Air Force C-17. National Science Foundation / Peter Somers photo