ORANGE — The 48th Yankee Engine-uity Show and Flea Market is coming to the Orange Municipal Airport, and for the first time in its nearly half-century history, the event will feature tricycle tractors.

The Central Massachusetts Steam, Gas & Machinery Association has been prepping for the event, set for Saturday, June 28, and Sunday, June 29, and Club Secretary Denise McCartney said any tricycle tractor make is welcome. A tricycle tractor has a wheel in the front and two in the rear.

The event starts at 7 a.m. each day and ends at dusk.

The other unique feature of this year’s show will be vertical gas engines. As always, there will be antique cars, trucks and motorcycles, live demonstrations and food vendors. The tractor parade is set for Saturday at 1 p.m.

“It’s a really fun event,” McCartney said. “People come from all over New England.”

McCartney said she got involved with Yankee Engine-uity in 1984 because her husband, Wayne, is an avid collector, at one point owning at least 250 gas engines and 12 tractors. She said the two used to host their own yearly engine show on their property the day before the Super Bowl.

Club President Matt Barber started attending the event in 2009 and got involved in 2023 when it faced the threat of ending due to a declining number of organizers.

“You never know what you’re going to see there,” he said, adding that it is fascinating to see how people 100 years ago devised ways to make work easier.

Barber mentioned this weekend’s event will feature an operating C.H. Brown and Co. stationary steam engine, built in Fitchburg, for the first time since 2019.

“As long as Mother Nature holds up,” he said, “I think it’s going to be a good show.”

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