The IH Farmall Plant was in Rock Island, and served by all three railroads, the
DRI Line, the CB&Q, and the CRI&P. IH had their combine plant in East Moline.
Case had a large plant in Bettendorf that was the old Bettendorf Company works
that built railroad trucks before WWII. That site was mostly purchased by the
Alter Company. The administrative building is the Alter Company headquarters
and the Isle of Capri Casino and hotel complex was built where part of the
factory stood, just to the east of the I-74 Twin Bridges. It was served
exclusively by the DRI Line and its co-owners on DRI line trackage. The CRI&P
had trackage rights to Clinton on the DRI Line after the RI abandoned their
line (old BCR&N)through Dixon and McCausland to Clinton, in late 30's or early
40's, but the RI did not have any local traffic rights along the way through
Bettendorf, Riverdale, Pleasant Valley, LeClaire, Princeton, etc.
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, William Ewinger <b_ewinger@...> wrote:
>
> dave the bridge you mention in ottumwa is or was the walbash as that is how
> they got into ottumwa from moulton were the branch off the line going to des
> moines
> bill ewinger
> burlington iowa
>
> estcbq@... wrote:
> Farmall tractor plant was in Rock Island--JY
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Lotz <Dave_Lotz@...>
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:06 pm
> Subject: RE: [CBQ] Implement/tractor plant waybill info.
>
> Leo,
>
> Off the top of my head:
>
> Case was in Burlington, IA - Combines in the 50's; backhoes early 60's on;
> "crawlers"(bulldozers) 60's - "uni-loaders" (skid steers) 60's & early 70's
> Served by CRI&P & CB&Q
> (My Dad worked at this plant)
>
> Case was also in Bettendorf, IA along the river,
> so would it have been served by the DRI&NW?
>
> Deere also has an implement plant in Ottumwa south of the Des Moines River
> opposite of the Q, but there was a RR bridge across the river servicing the
> plant, so I'm not sure who the originating RR would have been.
>
> Dave Lotz
> Pooler, GA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of
> qutlx1@...
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 1:52 PM
> To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [CBQ] Implement/tractor plant waybill info.
>
> Can anyone help me?
> I continue working on my goal of making layout waybills as prototypical as
> possible.
> Can anyone point me to a source so I can learn where the major
> implement/tractor plants were located and what each produced?
> I have a base understanding that Deere was at Moline,E Moline and
> Waterloo,Ia.
> Harvester/Farmall was somewhere in the Quad Cities and Case was at
> Racine,WI.
> I'd like to know what was produced and which RRs served each plant.
> Anybody know where New Idea(other than Plano,IL),Minneapolis
> Moline,Oliver,Ford,etc were located ?
>
> Leo Phillipp
>
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