ARGENTA, Ill. (WCIA) — The sounds of motors running filled downtown Argenta on Saturday for the “Farming in the 50’s” antique tractor show.

People could take a ride down memory lane on farming machines from a different age. Some of them over 100 years old… And a model that’s one of eight left in the world.

But it wasn’t just tractors — the show featured tools and other combustion-engines from before the 50’s. For organizers the good memories this event brings is a large part of why they do it.

“My father is 90 years old and he used to plow behind two horses,” Director Martin Bayless said. “And he saw all this come about. He got to see all the old steam engines and the old tractors. Many of these gentlemen out here, they’re in their sixties and seventies and eighties and even nineties and they’re just, they’re farmers and they’ve had these tractors in their family for years.”

Organizer said this year they’ve seen the biggest turnout in the show’s history.