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HCEA Canada’s Wheels & Tracks event returns

Canada’s first, oldest and largest vintage construction equipment show and demonstration is returning to Minesing, Ontario. HCEA Canada’s Wheels & Tracks is...
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Our Top 5 Vintage equipment stories of 2024

Every issue of Equipment Journal includes a Looking Back column that highlights the now vintage machines that helped build Canada,...
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Barber-Greene Model 879 asphalt spreader

Pictured here in 1951 is a Barber-Greene Model 879 asphalt spreader in action on the main street of Sarnia, Ontario, under...
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Franceschini Bros. plant in Caledon Ontario

Pictured here in the late 1950s is a portable crusher/screening plant operated by Franceschini Bros. Construction  based in the aggregate-rich area...
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Case Model 320 backhoe loader

Pictured here in a 1957 sales brochure is a Case Model 320 backhoe loader.  Although many manufacturers had offered backhoe attachments for...
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A 1960s WABCO Haulpak

Pictured here in the 1960s is a 32 tonne (Model 35) capacity WABCO Haulpak rock truck being loaded by a Bucyrus...
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International TD 35 crawler tractor circa 1937

Pictured here is a new International TD 35 crawler tractor at work in the Fort Frances region of North Western Ontario...
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Wehr One-Man Power Grader

Pictured here in the winter of 1919 is a Wehr “One-Man Power Grader” on snow plow duty clearing Richmond Road near...
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Lorain Model 50 cable shovel

Pictured here in the spring of 1952, is a Lorain Model 50 cable shovel owned by Swansea Construction Co. in Toronto,...
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GM Diesel Quad 6-71 from the Oshawa Water Plant

Pictured here at HCEA Canada’s Wheel & Tracks event in June, is a GM Diesel Quad (four 6-71 engines) back-up power...
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Koehring Dumptor

Pictured here in the mid-1930s is a Koehring Dumptor and crawler cable shovel on a Dufferin Paving Ltd. contract in Northern...
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Allis-Chalmers HD-5 crawler loader

Pictured here in the winter of 1948 is an Allis-Chalmers HD-5 crawler loader working at a Northern Ontario logging operation.  Equipped with...
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