Yes, the vehicle shown is indeed a steam-roller, as opposed to a steam traction-engine which is a different beast altogether. Traction is the key word, as the smooth-wheeled 'roller' couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding  It was very effective at compacting infilled bomb-craters though.
Steam-powered vehicles were still common in this era. Steam traction engines were used to power threshing machines at harvest times - and usually towed these threshers from farm to farm. When I was young it was still possible to find signs where road-bridges crossed railways, warning of the maximum speed for 'locomotives' crossing the bridge. I think they were limited to 4 miles per hour.
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Another home-built rig:
AMD FX 8350, liquid-cooled. Asus Sabretooth 990FX Rev 2.0 , 16 GB Mushkin Redline (DDR3-PC12800), Enermax 1000W PSU, MSI R9-280X 3GB GDDR5
2 X 128GB OCZ Vertex SSD, 1 x64GB Corsair SSD, 1x 500GB WD HDD.
CH Franken-Tripehound stick and throttle merged, CH Pro pedals. TrackIR 5 and Pro-clip. Windows 7 64bit Home Premium.
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