The old traction engines are still around. Back when these things became obsolete they were worthless junk and nobody gave a second thought to "preserving our heritage."
Heck, we even had two good old fashioned "the side the hurls the most iron at the enemy wins" wars between then and now.
Now we're a nation of PACK RATS, on a quest to preserve EVERYTHING.
Somehow I don't think the old tractors will ever completely go away. There may not be tens of thousands of them out there but there will always be some.
Regardless, we've got books and pictures and websites and all sorts of records that these machines existed. Even if they all go away the memory will be preserved, and isn't that what's really important?
I've said this many many times; if we hung on to everything ever made, we would literally be up to our EYEBALLS in junk, and it would all just be sitting around rusting away for no good reason.
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