Orange Spectacular will take over the McLeod County Fairgrounds in Hutchinson this weekend and could be the biggest show ever put on by the Upper Midwest Allis-Chalmers Club.

Case in point: The Allis Chalmers Model U tractors that set land-speed records in the 1930s. That’s right, racing tractors. Allis Chalmers built just about anything at the turn of the 20th century.

Long lines of orange tractors rumbling down the streets are nothing new to Hutchinson residents. They’ve seen it every summer for the past three decades when members of the Upper Midwest ...