CRAIG, Iowa (KTIV) - Seeing, and even been stuck behind a tractor driving down the road isn’t an uncommon thing in Iowa.

The 10th Annual Memorial Tractor Ride in Craig, Iowa Sunday afternoon, however, was quite the spectacle with over 80 tractors and other farming vehicles driving down the road.

The ride started in honor of Jim Vander Molen, a tractor enthusiast who died in December 2014 of pancreatic cancer.

“He went on tractor drives all the time,” said his sister, Peggy Vander Molen. “We never realized how much he enjoyed it. So, we tried it and everyone in this community, Craig and Brunsville, came together and we have done it every year since.”

Peggy along with Jim’s other sisters, Susy Kessenich and Kris Westhoff, organize the ride each year in honor of someone in the community w

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