> Todays Red Team vs. The Green Team debate is about Farm Tractors! Who knew?
Perhaps it is human nature, but apparently, I am color blind. My place sports
both red and green, and I even picked
up an orange one a couple weeks ago.
>(:->) All I know is they make very nice flat car loads!
FWIW, like many other goods, all of the ag equipment was made at a relatively
few factories across the country.
Specific railroads served those facilities and acquired the rolling stock that
that traffic demanded. This is not
something I have done any particular study on, but the topic comes up from time
to time on places like the STMFC
yahoo group if anyone wants to learn more. Furthermore, the different
equipment manufacturers did put more or less
emphasis on some of the more outlying agricultural areas, which then impacted
what one would likely see in the field
and on the flat cars. In Northern New England where I am, for example, the two
cylinder Deere's are actually fairly
uncommon (although I am not sure if or how Aroostook County would impact that
observation.) This area was
dominated by Farmall. I strongly suspect similar patterns existed elsewhere as
well. Furthermore, even different
models would have had regional use differences. The biggest Internationals
weren't seen up my way often, because
those were sold as Wheatland tractors. On the other hand, Farmall continued to
sell 140's down south to small
tobacco farmers well after all of that model's contemporaries were gone from
the marketplace.
Earl Tuson
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