Kory Anderson's 150 HP J.I. Case steam engine pulling 4 engines at WMSTR Rollag, Mn

This is the world's largest steam engine, originally only nine were made and all were destroyed. Kory recreated this one and completed it in September 2018. The hill climb recreates a 1907 photo of a prototype 150 pulling 4 steam engines up a hill outside of the Case plant in Racine WI.

On 8/31/19 in Rollag, MN, it was measured at 164 HP on the Prony Brake.

https://anderson-industries.com/150-case-part-1-realizing-the-dream/

https://www.jamesvalleythreshers.com/project/150-hp-case-project-kory-anderson/

Narration before the hill climb:
"The J.I. Case Threshing Machine Company came up with a design and they thought that they needed to build the largest steam traction engine in the world to compete with any competitor in that arena/space at that time.
What they came up with was this engine. They built 9 150 horse Cases and for many reasons to do with manufacturing and dissatisfaction with different parts they decided to bring the engine back to the factory.
Well, the decided to instead build the 32 horse Case witch then became the 110. But the 150 lived on in the memories in all those involved in it especially a man name Kory Anderson.

In 1907 when they built the prototype engine, they took the engine behind the case factories, and there was a 15 percent grade up a street there and they said well hey let's break this engine in here, we've got 4 60 horse Case steam engines that are in the back getting ready to ship to Oklahoma,
let's put'em on behind the 150 and just break'er in a little bit. And so they took a picture of that event in 1907 and that picture went into the folklore and magazines and thresherman albums for years to come and outlived everybody that had every
been associated with the 150.

Well, that picture was an inspiration to Kory Anderson whenever he was a young boy in his teens and he was working on 65 horse Case and restoring his first steam engine, and he though, he dreamed that he needed to
be the one to bring the 150 horse back to life. And so over the course of the next 15 years of his life, he dreamed, he had a vision, he executed a plan, he became a pattern maker, he was a master machinist and he single handily with he
help of many friends, put together this engine from nothing but the designs that the Case factory had that they found in the back room of the Case plant on a visit, many, many years ago. So all these pieces came all together over the last 111 years
And last fall, at September 7, in Andover, South Dakota they unveiled this engine to a very impressed crowd that most people never thought that this engine would ever be seen again, that it would ever be built.

But Kory defied the odds, and put a plan into action and what you see here today in this demonstration was done 112 years ago at the Case factory in Racine, Wisconsin"

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