About every two years my wife wants to visit Frankenmuth, Michigan, about three and a half hours from our home in southwestern Michigan. She of course loves Boonner's Christmas store and eating at Zender's Restaurant. I enjoy perusing a couple of shops that have toys for my three grandsons. Among those toys are 1/64 tractors. Two visits have turned up different types. The first visit yielded a flatcar load of Allis-Chalmers tractors, the second a flatcar load of Farmalls. She wants to go again this year if we can work it in. Who knows what will show up?
Steve, your reference to green tractors brought up a old 16mm film that must have been produced by or at least heavily sponsored by John Deere. It featured a grandmother, her son who farmed, and his son who was a seven oreight-year-old. The scene was set on the D&RGW on the line that ran south from Denver to Colorado Springs and then northwest to Salida and on to the mainline. The film had a somewhat smarmy plot of downhome life and romance, as I recall, but its reall attraction for me was the great photography of John Deere tractors and the D&RGW "Royal Gorge" passenger train. The plot required at least two or three trips to a D&RGW station and there was the "Royal Gorge". It had a PA unit, baggage and mail cars, a coach or two, and that former C&O round-end observation with the diaphragm. I have tried to locate that film but have never been able to find it. It is worth having just for the photography of Colorado scenery, the depot--cannot recall exactly where--the trains, the John Deere stuff, and the old pickup the family had. Until that time I had never seen a film devote so many shots to a railroad and to farm equipment as that one did. Tom ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of stevew970 [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 1:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: Tractors -- us vs. them My experience as a farmer, is you want the brand with the closest and best dealer. By best, I mean parts availability. For me, on the North Fork branch of the D&RGW in 1971, that meant green. I can still get parts from stock, not ordered, for my 1953 "B", and the baler it pulls. I have some other colors of equipment, most of it good, but getting parts is a hassle. S-scale content, I have both red & green flat-car loads. Wouldn't mind finding an orange Allis-Chalmers load. Steve Wolcott --- In [email protected], "ed_loizeaux" <Loizeaux@...> wrote: > > > 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. > > Earl Tuson > > Not being a farmer, I know little about this topic. But I have been told > that whatever is taught and/or recommended by the local Ag College is what > most of the folks in a particular area will use. Which explains why > educational organizations get free equipment. Ed L. > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
