The 47^th Badger Steam and Gas Engine Club’s Annual Show is being held this weekend August 20-22 near Baraboo, WI. The feature this year is International Harvester with over 600 pieces of equipment and tractors. They will also be having many demonstrations, educational displays, and a huge flea market of over 800 vendors on the Grounds.

 

Jim McGee, past president and board member, explained how over the course of this three day event they are expecting between 10 and twenty thousand people to attend. This is a huge attendance, but it wasn’t always this big. It started out as a group of guys who got together to show off how their machinery worked. He says it used to be held at the Sauk County Fairgrounds. Then 12 years ago they moved it to the current grounds. Today they have four museums with many pieces of old machinery, demonstrations, and a special building for women to show off what they have learned from their mothers from back when the club was originally founded. Currently they are building another museum to feature International Harvester.

 

At this show you can check out everything from a flea market, to steam engines, to antique tractors and equipment and much more. A highlight for this year’s show is the 30-60 Titian. This is the only restored and operating tractor like this in the world. This is more than just the average antique tractor.   This is a very special tractor because it was built in our very own Milwaukee, WI. 

 

This is an outdoor event and the show must go on!!! Be sure to come prepared for anything that the weather gives you. McGee and the other members of the Badger Steam and Gas Engine Club have only one goal for the event. They want all of those who come to have a great time, enjoy the beautiful scenery, and go home learning something about the agricultural industry.