RANTOUL, Ill. — The smell of the smoke expelled from the chugging steam engines, the giant American flag waving above acres of antique green, orange, red and yellow tractors, and the excitement of people watching machines in action is something you only experience once every two years here.
Joe Repking of Effingham, Ill., unloads one of the 30 Allis-Chalmers tractors he and family members own.
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The Half Century of Progress Show in Rantoul, Ill., is a working show with threshing done as it would have been years ago — with sweat and hard work.
Phyllis Johnson of Sycamore, Ill., operates her 1923 sewing machine in a converted farm trailer that looks like a 1930s parlor. Other machines at the show, including steam engines, are much older than her sewing machine.
