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Truck and tractor pulling, also known as power pulling, is a form of a motorsport competition in which antique or modified tractors pull a heavy drag or sled along an 11-meter-wide (35 ft), 100-meter-long (330 ft) track, with the winner being the tractor that pulls the drag the farthest.
The Twin Cities Zephyr, a high-speed inter-city passenger train, struck a tractor that had fallen from a freight train only seconds before. Three died and over thirty were injured in the wreck. The Twin Cities Zephyr [a] had left Minneapolis at 5:10 PM with EMD E5 #9914A [1] pulling a seven car trainset called "The Train of the Goddesses" [b].
The 1972 Bean Station bus-truck collision was a head-on collision involving a double-decker Greyhound bus and a tractor-trailer on U.S. Route 11W in Grainger County, Tennessee, that occurred near the town of Bean Station on the morning of May 13, 1972.
Antique tractor pulls. Watch antique tractor pulls this summer at the Iowa State Fair. Kick off the Iowa State Fair on Thursday, Aug. 8, with free antique tractor pulls at 10 a.m. Gates open at 9 a.m.
The Washington County Tractor Pull will be held Saturday, May 25, at 6 p.m. at the Washington County Agriculture Education Center, 7313 Sharpsburg Pike, Boonsboro. Washington County Tractor Pull ...
CHIPPEWA COUNTY, Wis. — A tractor accident at a Chippewa County apple orchard sent 25 people to the hospital on Wednesday morning. According to Chippewa Fire District Deputy Chief Cory Jeffers ...
TNT Motorsports was a popular promoter of monster truck races, tractor pulls, and occasionally mud racing in the 1980s. TNT was an acronym for “Trucks n Tractors” founded by the late Billy Joe Miles of Owensboro, Kentucky. Events were shown on Powertrax on ESPN, Trucks and Tractor Power on TNN, and the syndicated Tuff Trax. [1]
June 6 – United States – An early morning collision occurred 7 mi (11 km) north of Fayetteville, North Carolina, where a flat bed truck packed with migrant workers pulled in front of a tractor-trailer hauling potatoes. It killed 21 people. At the time, it is the worst traffic fatality accident in U.S. history. [19]