Rollag!

Harold's Navy brother, Kevin, who encouraged us to come to Potato Days, also told us to stick around for Rollag. The Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion is held over Labor Day in nearby Rollag. For those interested in steam engines, hit and miss engines, and antique machinery, Rollag should be on their bucket list. 

We bought the season pass and attended the show two days and one evening. Yes, there is that much to see. The parade alone took around one and half hours with a double line of antique tractors. With tractors breaking down or sounding as if they weren't going to make it, you cheered them on as they climbed steam hill. 

Then there are the buildings of hit and miss engines, stationery steam engines, models of steam engines, and printing presses to see. Steam trains, speedsters, and trolleys convey visitors from one section to another, from the "sandbox" with steam shovels to the tractor pulls and to the onsite campgrounds.

After two full days we opted to return in the evening on the third day for the spark show. That was a great way to end our Rollag visit. 

Dump cart ride --- not comfortable

Kerosene Annie -- a prototype

Parade time

Hillside combine leaning to the side

Making shoelaces

Model engines

Nessie and baby made it across the Atlantic

One of three sawmills

Sandbox fun for adults

Conveyor belts galore

353 Engine

Speedster ride

Building of Otto engines

End of the day

Spark show!

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