43rd Annual Steam Festival

Name: 43rd Annual Steam Festival
Start: 2025-09-06T10:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-09-07T16:00:00-07:00
Location: Roots of Motive Power

Schedule

Sat, 06 Sep, 2025 at 10:00 am to Sun, 07 Sep, 2025 at 04:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Roots of Motive Power | Willits, CA

Roots of motive power is proud to present it's 43rd Annual Steam Festival! This event takes place Saturday September 6th 10am to 4pm and Sunday September 7th 10am to 4pm. This year we hope Roots of Motive Power Festival will be our best event ever. The weekend AFTER Labor Day, expect to hear whistles tooting and bells ringing as Roots steams up for the 43rd year in a row. Historic train rides and old logging equipment demonstrations will be going on throughout the Festival featuring: steam locomotives, a steam shovel, steam rollers, stationary engines, Cat & Allis-Chalmers tractors, Mack AC truck, the Keystone steam powered Well Diller and more.
On Saturday, Sept. 6th our Annual Appreciation Barbecue begins at 4:00 p.m. Look forward to our world famous BBQ and live music, a raffle, silent, and live auction will fill the afternoon with cheers. Don’t miss the Early Day Gas Engine and Tractor Association, our guests in Recreation Grove Park.
This year Saturday the 6th ONLY, we will have Steam Roller Street Printing. One of our Buffalo Springfield Steam Rollers will be making linoleum prints with the help of talented artists from around the state. You can try your hand at print-making and say you did it with an antique steam roller!
All in all, it’s a unique show you won’t want to miss! Save the date: Sept. 6th and 7th, 2024 for the Roots of Motive Power Festival. Directions: Take Willits Main Street and turn on East Commercial Street – you’ll find Roots at 420 East Commercial St. Willits, CA