Grounded in central Illinois throughout its century-long history, heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar has seemingly been smitten by corporate wanderlust of late, moving its headquarters from ...

With a talent for fixing up tractors, Mark H. Willemin, better known as “Caterpillar man,” became a master of his trade and was the man to visit when a tractor — especially a Caterpillar tractor — was ...

War, in all its horrors, tends to breed innovation and accelerate technological development. There's hardly a better example than the First World War, where the stalemate of trench warfare on the ...

C.L. Best, Caterpillar Inc.'s first and longest-serving chairman, passed on getting into the automotive business back in 1898 when cars were still known as horseless carriages. The California-based ...

Caterpillar Inc. employees marked a major milestone, commemorating the production of 75,000 wheel tractor-scrapers at the Decatur, Ill., facility. The historic machine, an open-bowl, twin-engine 627K, ...

CHARLESTON, W.VA. — Donald Trump told a crowd at his first campaign rally since becoming the presumptive Republican nominee for president that he had better knowledge of equipment produced by ...

CELEBRATES 100 YEARS. THE BIRTHDAY WISHES GO OUT TOT THIS HOLT 75 TRACKER. >> THE HOLT 75 TRACTOR IN PARTICULAR WAS REVOLUTIONARY IN THIS AREA DUE TO THE ACHE TO TRAVEL OVER THE RUGGED TERRAIN DELTA, ...

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In each issue of Diesel Power, the Baselines department will take a look back at the history of diesel-powered vehicles. This peek into the past of diesels will cover powerplants, historic diesel ...

EAST PEORIA — Forty years ago this month, the doors of a new factory just across the Illinois River from Caterpillar Inc. headquarters opened for the first time to reveal a radically updated and ...